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Nidal Hasan Tried To Contact Al Qaida, US Officials Knew Months Ago

Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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ABC News is reporting that U.S. agencies were aware months ago that Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sought to contact people associa...

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Pakistan Suicide Bomb Kills 12: Mayor Targeted In Attack On Peshawar Suburb

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, ...

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The Taliban's Ties to Al-Qaeda

Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al-Qaida, Taliban, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News
Will Marshall

How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.

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Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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Robert Scheer

The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.

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Hillary Clinton Has Intense Exchange With Students In Pakistan

news.aol.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan squandered opportunities over the years to kill or capture leaders of the a...

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Omar Bin Laden, Osama's Son: I Don't Know Where Dad Is

TIME | Andrew Lee Butters Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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For Omar Bin Laden, the fourth eldest of Osama bin Laden's 20 known children, the awful realization that his own father was a terrorist mastermind plo...

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Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

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Najibullah Zazi Terror Case: Suspect Had Contact With Al Qaeda Founder, Osama Bin Laden's Leader In Afghanistan

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York

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Pakistani Gunmen Attack Federal Building In Pakistan (IMAGES, VIDEO)

AP | BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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LAHORE, Pakistan -- "AP"; Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore...

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Pro-Afghan War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaida Ties: Analysis

Inter Press Service | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...

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French Charge 'Big Bang' Scientist

AP | NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

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PARIS — A French investigating judge has filed preliminary charges against a physicist at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of a...

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French Arrest Physicist At "Big Bang" Lab Because Of Al-Qaida Link

AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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GENEVA — A physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, adding to the woes of the ...

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Al-Qaeda's New Tactics Leaves Saudi Scared

washingtonpost.com | Sudarsan Raghavan | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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The bomb was hidden inside the al-Qaeda assassin's body, and he arrived on his target's personal plane. ...

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A War of Absurdity

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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Robert Scheer

It's time to declare victory and begin to get out of Afghanistan rather than descend deeper into an intractable civil war that we neither comprehend nor in the end will care much about.

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791 U.S. Military Deaths In Afghanistan Since Start Of War

The Associated Press | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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As of Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at least 791 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasi...

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Al-Qaida Showing Smaller Presence In Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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KABUL — Al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war. Gone is the once-formidable network of camps and safe houses where O...

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Terry Holdbrooks: Guantanamo Bay Prison Guard Converted To Islam; Detainee Was Mentor

The Guardian | Sarfraz Manzoor | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guant�namo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless 19-year-old with a love of drinking, hard rock music and ta...

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Najibullah Zazi's Contact With Senior Al-Qaeda Officers Drew CIA's Attention

AP | LOLITA BALDOR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

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WASHINGTON — An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a s...

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Billions In U.S. Aid To Pakistan Never Reached Army, Generals Say

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has bee...

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Najibullah Zazi Case Illustrates Al Qaida On Its Way Out: Analysis

Global Post | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

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By C.M. Sennott NEW YORK -- The image of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born bus driver from Denver and now a terror suspect, embodies the ...

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