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Al Qaeda Kills 20, Captures 25 In Attack On Yemen Army Base

AP | BY AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.07.2012

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SANAA, Yemen — Al-Qaida militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 22 soldiers and capturing 25 just ...

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How This Miami Holocaust Survivor Is Working To Fight Terror

The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.09.2012

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Writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel once said, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation...

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Andrea Stone

Lippold Book Seeks to Put 'Forgotten' USS Cole Bombing Back On 'Front Burner'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, suicide bombers sent by Osama bin Laden blew a huge hole in a U.S. Navy destroyer that had stoppe...

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Lawyers For U.S.S. Cole Attack Suspect Ask To Unshackle Prisoner

AP | Posted 02.21.2012

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of orchestrating the attacks on the USS Cole should be permitted to be unshackled wh...

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Al-Nashiri Military Commission Case Presents Moral and Legal Dilemmas

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 01.10.2012

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Daphne Eviatar

The Obama administration will mark the 10-year anniversary of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay with the trial of a man locked up for a decade without trial and accused of "war crimes" committed long before the United States was even at war.

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Alleged USS Cole Bomber To Face Judge At Guantanamo

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 01.09.2012

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A Saudi charged in the attacks on the USS Cole and a French oil tanker will face a judge after nearly a decade...

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Suspect In USS Cole Trial Could Get Death Penalty

AP | Posted 11.28.2011

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Pentagon legal official has approved charges that carry a possible death penalty for a Guantanamo prisoner accused of ...

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Michael McAuliff

Pain Will Live On For Victims Of Osama Bin Laden

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 07.02.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden shattered the lives of untold thousands, and while the survivors and relatives of the victims killed in the terrorist at...

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If Only Bin Laden Had Been Killed 13 Years Ago

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.01.2011

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Firas Al-Atraqchi

Bin Laden evaded capture and lived on as an embodiment of what the "War on Terror" was all about. Tonight, I remember the thousands who died anywhere al Qaeda practiced his rituals of fear.

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Amidst Success, Obama's Glaring Failure

Matt Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Kane

As President Obama's approval numbers begin to climb, there is one glaring failure that has taken a back seat to the Giffords shooting and the symboli...

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Probe Into Destruction Of CIA Interrogation Tapes Is Winding Down

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson and Julie Tate | Posted 05.25.2011

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An investigation into the destruction of CIA videotapes that depicted harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects appears to be nearing a close, ending...

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Thwarted Plane Bombing Shows Continuing Threat and Diversity of Jihadist Radicalism

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Levin, J.D.

A worldwide struggle by a transnational movement aided by the Internet and social media enables would-be "lone" fanatics anywhere to market themselves to terror groups as recruits.

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Obama Bombing Yemen in Secret War

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Hayden

Will we soon be hearing that our government took its eye off the threat in Yemen to invade Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?

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Yale Chickens Out On Academic Freedom

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sandy Goodman

A book entitled The Cartoons That Shook The World is being published without any of the cartoons in the book. It's the latest in a long series of Western reactions to violent threats to freedom of expression.

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They Kept Us Safe -- or Did They?

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harry Shearer

So, a question for conservatives: did the Clinton administration, like the Bush administration, do a fine job of protecting the country once it had undergone one al-Qaeda attack?

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Unitarian Church Shooting is Terrorism

Joe Lauria | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe Lauria

Adkisson must be tried on terrorism charges and our leaders must speak out against this form of domestic terrorism too, not just the inflated threat from Islamic extremists.

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USS Cole Bombing Charges Filed Against Saudi Arabian, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Monday it is charging a Saudi Arabian with "organizing and directing" the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole _ and will...

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