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Internet Governance in an Age of Cyber Insecurity
www.cfr.org-September 04, 2010
The Internet, since its debut in 1989, has revolutionized commerce, communication, military action, and governance. Much of the modern world is simply inconceivable without it. This revolution, however, has not come without a price. The annual cost of cyber crime has now climbed to more than $1 trillion, while coordinated cyberattacks have crippled Estonia, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan and compromised critical infrastructure in countries around the world.
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Sentenced To Death -- Without Trial
www.washingtonpost.com-September 03, 2010
Since 2001, the United States has been carrying out "targeted killings" in connection with what the Bush administration called the "war on terror" and the Obama administration calls the "war against al-Qaeda." While many of these killings have been carried out on battlefields in Afghanistan or Iraq, our government has increasingly been employing lethal force in places far removed from any zone of armed conflict, effectively carrying out executions without trial or conviction. Some of the individuals on the government's kill lists are U.S. citizens.
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Khadr Terror Trial To Resume Oct. 18 At Guantanamo
www.miamihearld.com-September 01, 2010
Accused teen terrorist Omar Khadr's Guantánamo murder trial will resume Oct. 18, more than two months after the Canadian captive's lone defense attorney collapsed in court.
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Appeals Court Backs Away From War Powers Ruling
www.nytimes.com-September 01, 2010
A federal appeals court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the detention of a Guantánamo prisoner from Yemen. But lurking just beneath the surface of its ruling was a sharp disagreement among the judges over the scope and limits of presidential power.
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“Bring It On” Worked
http://smallwarsjournal.com-September 01, 2010
Through accident or design, mostly through accident and blunt trauma, the war in Iraq was brutal, costly in lives and money, and heavy-handed, but dealt al-Qa’ida a severe blow -- hopefully a fatal one and even better, a self-inflicted blow. By creating such a rallying cry for the West’s alleged ‘war against Islam,’ thousands of al-Qa’ida fighters were directed to Iraq where they trained and committed terrorist acts. These acts killed the perpetrators, of course, and killed thousands of innocent Muslims and many American, and Coalition soldiers and civilians. But the attacks revealed al-Qa’ida’s brutish nature, its willingness to kill Muslims, and its goal of achieving chaos and totalitarian rule in pursuit of deposing ‘apostate regimes’ and restoring a new Caliphate (under al-Qa’ida rule, of course) – all of which undermined its legitimacy.
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Civil liberties groups challenge constitutionality of secret U.S. program to target terror suspects for killing
www.washingtonpost.com-August 31, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. government's authority to target and kill U.S. citizens outside of war zones when they are suspected of involvement in terrorism.
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The Amsterdam Arrests: Would-Be Terror or Badly Wrapped Gifts?
www.time.com-August 31, 2010
Were the two U.S. residents of Yemeni origin who were arrested upon landing in Amsterdam on Monday tripped up amid a trial run for a terrorism attack? Or was their apprehension a belated reaction by airline and airport authorities to behavior in Chicago and Alabama that, while strange, was ultimately innocent?
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‘Western Hypocrisy’
www.newsweek.com-August 31, 2010
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, widely considered the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, has kept a low profile since his unprecedented 2004 television address accepting sole responsibility for providing nuclear know-how to Iran, Libya, and North Korea. President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan the following day, but after a period under house arrest, he remains closely watched by authorities.
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Will Prez Go Wobbly On Drone Attacks?
www.nypost.com-August 30, 2010
As this thing Team Obama won't call the War on Terror spreads to the Horn of Africa, we're increasingly going to need drones to send Islamists to their 72 virgins. Trouble is, President Obama may yet go wobbly about the legality and morality of remote-controlled killings, which some in his inner circles have long opposed. That would be a dangerous mistake.
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Somali militants grow more brazen in attack
www.washingtonpost.com-August 29, 2010
Somali militants linked to al-Qaeda briefly asserted control over Mogadishu's most strategic road Saturday, escalating their efforts to overthrow the U.S.-backed transitional government in a region where Islamic radicalism is gaining strength.
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Example Set by First Military Tribunal Case Has U.S. Wary
www.nytimes.com-August 28, 2010
After working for a year to redeem the international reputation of military commissions, Obama administration officials are alarmed by the first case to go to trial under revamped rules: the prosecution of a former child soldier whom an American interrogator implicitly threatened with gang rape.
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Pakistan Denies Militant Group Is Global Terror Threat
www.washingtontimes.com-August 26, 2010
The Pakistani-based militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiba is being viewed increasingly by U.S. political and military leaders as a global terrorist threat. But most Pakistanis remain unaware of the group's activities and agenda and continue to give it significant support.
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A Cold War Cyberchill
www.washingtonpost.com-August 26, 2010
With little fanfare, the Pentagon is putting the finishing touches on a new strategy that will treat cyberspace as a domain of potential warfare -- and apply instant "active defense" to counterattacks that, in theory, could shut down the nation's transportation and commerce.
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Administration Halts Prosecution Of Alleged USS Cole Bomber
www.washingtonpost.com-August 26, 2010
The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
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CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen
www.washingtonpost.com-August 25, 2010
For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said.
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U.S. Weighs Expanded Strikes In Yemen
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 25, 2010
U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen.
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Cleric al-Awlaki dubbed 'bin Laden of the Internet'
www.usatoday.com-August 25, 2010
As a student at Colorado State, Yusuf Siddiqui remembered fellow student Anwar al-Awlaki as someone concerned mostly about the "simple-minded clichés" that characterized the way Muslims were depicted in American television and movies. He didn't express extremist views, and his criticisms of the United States were fairly benign, said Siddiqui, also a Muslim.
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Ramadan At Guantanamo Bay Includes Nightly Force-Feedings
www.miamihearld.com-August 24, 2010
At Guantánamo during Ramadan, the guards strap hunger striker detainees into the force-feeding chair at night.
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At Least 33 People Killed in Attack on Somali Hotel
www.nytimes.com-August 24, 2010
Somali insurgents disguised in government military uniforms stormed a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and killed at least 30 people, including 6 lawmakers, laying bare how vulnerable the Somali government is, even in an area it claims to control.
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Defense official discloses cyberattack
www.washingtonpost.com-August 24, 2010
Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008.
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Detainee Still Held 6 Years After Release Order
www.miamihearld.com-August 18, 2010
A judge ordered a Guantánamo captive to be freed in 2004, but he is still being held as the government decides whether to appeal.
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CIA tapes of 9/11 plotter's interrogation don't show torture, official says
www.washingtonpost.com-August 17, 2010
The interrogation of Ramzi Binalshibh, a key figure in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was recorded several times while he was being questioned in Morocco by local intelligence officers, according to a U.S. official. The disclosure resolves a mystery over what are believed to be the only existing recordings from the CIA's secret detention program.
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Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents
www.nytimes.com-August 15, 2010
At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba.
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Awlaki Vs. Predator
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 13, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) recently launched a legal challenge against the president's right to kill al Qaeda operatives. If the suit is successful, it will undermine the Constitution's separation of powers and make it virtually impossible for the United States to successfully defend itself with military force in the future.
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Gitmo Trial Revisits Days Following Capture
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 13, 2010
Prosecutors sought to use a Guantanamo defendant's own words against him Thursday, citing a statement in which he allegedly called himself a terrorist, while the defense suggested the altering of a witness report casts doubt on the prosecution's story.
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Khadr Trial Suspended After Army Defender Collapses At War Court
www.miamihearld.com-August 12, 2010
Omar Khadr's lone defense attorney, an Army lieutenant colonel, collapsed in court Thursday and was taken away to a base hospital on a stretcher, halting the first day of the Canadian's war crimes trial.
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Tour of Guantánamo Offers a Look, but Little Else
www.nytimes.com-August 12, 2010
Welcome to Guantánamo Bay, where your tour guide will never leave your side but may not be able to answer any of your questions.
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U.S. Works With Sudan On Gitmo
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 12, 2010
The U.S. has been working with the Sudanese government to repatriate detainees from Guantanamo Bay, according to evidence presented Wednesday in the case of a Sudanese prisoner.
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A Sentence, And Mystery Deal, At Guantanamo
www.philly-August 12, 2010
A military jury handed down a 14-year war-crimes sentence against an al-Qaeda cook and driver Wednesday, unaware that prosecutors have made a secret deal that will reportedly send him home much earlier.
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Judge Finalizes Jury For War-Crimes Case
www.miamihearld.com-August 12, 2010
An Army judge impaneled a seven-member military commission Wednesday to hear terror suspect Omar Khadr's war-crimes case, including a Marine colonel with a Purple Heart from Iraq and a Navy captain who called Guantánamo a ``no-win situation.'
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WikiLeaks Asked To Remove Names Of Afghans Aiding U.S.
www.washingtontimes.com-August 12, 2010
A Guantanamo jury recommended a 14-year sentence Wednesday for an al Qaeda cook, though its decision may be overruled by a plea bargain that will limit the time he spends in prison.
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Gitmo Controversy: The Queasy Case of Omar Khadr
www.time.com-August 12, 2010
President Obama's promise to shut the Guantánamo Bay detention facility has come back to haunt him. Not only is the facility still open long past the January 2010 deadline that Obama set for closing it, but this week saw the first steps in the trial of its youngest and most controversial inmate. Omar Khadr, who has been held at the facility for seven years, faces a maximum life sentence for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier during a battle in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old.
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The Real Tragedy of Gitmo
www.newsweek.com-August 12, 2010
When Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. announced last fall that he planned to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in New York, he was met with a firestorm of criticism. Despite the fact that hundreds of terror suspects have been tried and convicted in U.S. courts, Republican opponents spun out a thousand reasons for treating Mohammed differently: his trial would create a target in New York City that would demand millions of dollars in security measures; he would use the proceedings as a means of spreading jihadist propaganda; he shouldn’t be entitled to the constitutional rights and protections afforded U.S. citizens. In short, KSM became the poster boy for a man too dangerous for the law. In March the White House indicated that a decision on Mohammed’s trial was weeks away. Months later the administration is still mulling.
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Military delays sentencing of al-Qaeda cook
www.washingtonpost.com-August 11, 2010
The sentencing of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who pleaded guilty to war crimes charges as part of a plea agreement stalled Tuesday because of an inter-military dispute over where he can serve time, according to military officials.
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Terror Suspect Greets Prospective Jurors
www.miamihearld.com-August 11, 2010
Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr came to court Tuesday in a mismatched suit and tie, stood and said ``hello' to a jury of American military officers brought to this base from around the world to sit in judgment at his war-crimes tribunal.
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DOD lacks policy on housing convicted Gitmo detainees, judge says
www.washingtonpost.com-August 11, 2010
The Department of Defense has no written policy on how detainees convicted in military commissions should be housed after they are sentenced despite a 2008 Pentagon directive to create a plan for such prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a military judge said Wednesday.
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Teen Captive's Confessions Can Air At Guantanamo Trial
www.miamihearld.com-August 10, 2010
All of Canadian captive Omar Khadr's confessions to U.S. military interrogators can be used at the accused teen terrorist's trial, including one that followed a tawdry tale of rape, a war court judge ruled Monday to set the stage for the first full war crimes tribunal of the Obama administration.
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Taliban X: The Next Generation Of Terrorists
www.sfexaminer.com-August 10, 2010
Early last month, Taliban suicide bombers, all believed to be in their early 20s, raided a compound of an American contractor in a northern province of Afghanistan, killing four security officers and themselves.
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Waht We Stand For
www.aclu.org-August 10, 2010
Yesterday was a stark reminder that instead of closing the book on the Bush-era military commissions, President Obama is adding another sad chapter to that history. Although President Obama promised transparency and sharp limits on the use of tortured and coerced statements against the accused, at Guantánamo today one military judge ordered that a sentence be kept secret from the public and another military judge allowed statements obtained by abuse and coercion of a 15-year-old to be used at trial.
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Status Check on the Struggle against Global Terrorism
www.washingtoninstitute.org-August 10, 2010
The State Department's recently released Country Reports on Terrorism 2010 (CRT 2010) reveals several important trends in the evolution of global terrorism. The good news is that al-Qaeda is facing significant pressure, even as the organization and its affiliates and followers retain the intent and capability to carry out attacks.
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Former Cook For Bin Laden Reaches Deal With U.S. On Sentence
www.washingtonpost.com-August 09, 2010
A former cook for Osama bin Laden's entourage in Afghanistan has reached a agreement with the U.S. government that will allow him to serve any sentence at a minimum-security facility at Guantanamo Bay, according to statements by lawyers at a military commission on Monday.
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Jurors Set To Hear First Gitmo Cases Under Obama
www.washingtontimes.com-August 08, 2010
American military officers were flying to Guantanamo Bay from bases around the world Sunday to serve as jurors for war-crimes suspects as the offshore tribunal system gears up for one of its busiest weeks under President Obama.
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Pentagon Works To Safeguard Secrets
www.reuters.com-August 08, 2010
The Defense Department has relented and said journalists could report the name of a former Army interrogator testifying in a war crimes trial that begins this week for a Canadian held at Guantanamo.
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New Al-Qaida Leader Knows US Well
www.associatedpress.com-August 06, 2010
A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network's global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.
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U.S. Links Suspects To Somalia
htttp://online.wsj.com-August 06, 2010
Federal prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges against 14 U.S. residents and citizens, accusing them of providing money, recruits and other support to the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab.
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Justice Department Indictes 14 on Terror Charges
www.kfbk.com-August 05, 2010
Radio Talk Show host Kitty O'Neal of Sacramento's KFBK News Talk radio interview's John Ubaldi of Military Briefing Book regarding the Justice Departments indictments of 14 terror suspects.
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Pentagon may change rules for covering Guantanamo trials
http://news.yahoo.com-August 05, 2010
Faced with protests from a number of news organizations, the Pentagon is considering revising the rules it invoked in May to ban four reporters from covering the trials of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .
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Al Shabaab's First "News" Video: An Effort to Recruit Westerners and Expel Peacekeepers
www.aei.org-August 05, 2010
The Somali terror group al Shabaab announced the establishment of the al Kata’ib News Channel in a statement posted on jihadist web forums on July 26. The statement acknowledged that “the media war waged by the mujahideen [i.e. militants] is now amidst one of the fiercest battles and most important in [the] war against the infidel Zio-Crusade” and described the objective of the news channel as aiming “to teach, to inform, and to incite.”
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Justice Dept.: 14 charged with aiding radical Somali group
www.washingtonpost.com-August 05, 2010
Federal indictments unsealed Thursday in Minnesota, Alabama and California charge 14 people with terrorism offenses for allegedly aiding the radical Islamist al-Shabab organization in Somalia.
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14 U.S. citizens charged with trying to join Somali terror group
www.msnbc.com-August 05, 2010
The government charged 14 people Thursday with supporting "a deadly pipeline" routing money and fighters to the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia.
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14 U.S. citizens charged in Somali terror plot
www.usatoday.com-August 05, 2010
Fourteen U.S. citizens were charged with trying to join a Somalia-based terror group linked to al-Qaeda, MSNBC is reporting.
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Lawyers Win Right to Aid U.S. Target
www.nytimes.com-August 04, 2010
The Treasury Department on Wednesday granted permission to a group of human rights lawyers who want to file a lawsuit on behalf of a radical Muslim cleric thought to be hiding in Yemen. The Obama administration has authorized killing the cleric as a terrorist despite his American citizenship.
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Terrorism or Insurgency: America’s Flawed Approach to the Global War on Terror
http://smallwarsjournal.com-August 03, 2010
America is not fighting a global war on terror; rather, it is engaged in a global insurgency whose participants are intent on destroying western culture and replacing it with an Islamic Caliph – or Islamic government.
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Al Qaeda Still Wants A Dirty Bomb
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 22, 2010
Denying terrorists access to radiological materials that can be used in a dirty bomb attack—one that could bring our economy to a standstill and render areas uninhabitable for decades—is a major security challenge.
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Whereabouts Of Former U.S. Detainee Unknown: Lawyers
http://news.yahoo.com-July 21, 2010
A man who the Obama administration transferred against his will from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to his native Algeria has gone missing, a U.S.-based rights group involved in the case said on Wednesday.
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Guantanamo is no venue for a civilian jury trial
www.washingtonpost.com-July 20, 2010
There were fatal flaws in the recent suggestion that Congress should designate Guantanamo Bay part of an existing federal district court or as a separate federal district court so that those accused of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks can be tried there ["Try them in federal court -- at Gitmo," Washington Forum, July 16].
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U.S. Sponsors Trial For Four Detainees In Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com-July 18, 2010
The chief judge asked God’s forgiveness if he had reached the wrong decision, and then he sentenced four members of an Afghan family charged with making bombs: two brothers to 10 years in prison and two other family members to time already served.
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15 nations agree to start working together to reduce cyberwarfare threat
www.washingtonpost.com-July 17, 2010
A group of nations -- including the United States, China and Russia -- have for the first time signaled a willingness to engage in reducing the threat of attacks on each others' computer networks.
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U.S. Pledges More Support To Battle Somali Rebels
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 16, 2010
The Obama administration on Thursday said it would bolster its support to the African Union troops providing much of the firepower in Somalia's battle against al Shabaab, the Somali militant group that has claimed responsibility for Sunday's deadly blasts in Uganda.
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Bush Aide Calls Some C.I.A. Methods Unauthorized
www.nytimes.com-July 16, 2010
A former Bush Justice Department official who approved brutal interrogation methods by the C.I.A. has told Congress that he never authorized several other rough tactics reportedly inflicted on terrorism suspects — including prolonged shackling to a ceiling and repeated beatings.
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Al Qaeda Goes Viral
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 16, 2010
Earlier this month, the full version of Inspire, a new English language journal, surfaced on the Internet. It's publisher? The Yemen-based terrorist organization, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
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Try Them In Federal Court -- At Gitmo
www.washingtonpost.com-July 16, 2010
Having committed -- correctly, in our view -- to hold the trial of the principal defendants charged with carrying out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks before an Article III federal court, the White House and Congress appear stymied about which American venue these accused mass murderers should be taken to for trial.
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Guantanamo As Haven?
www.washingtonpost.com-July 16, 2010
IT IS NOT EVERY day that detainees attempt to block their own release from the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But that is what six Algerians who have been held at the prison for some eight years are trying to do.
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Somalia's Shabab fighters go international with Uganda blasts
www.latimes.com-July 15, 2010
The Shabab militant group widens its reach beyond Somalia, taking responsibility for two bombings in Uganda that killed 76 people.
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Disrupting the Flow of Funds to Terrorist Groups and Their Supporters
www.washingtoninstitute.org-July 14, 2010
Beyond punishing terrorists and their supporters, and beyond providing victims of terrorism and their families a sense of justice, holding people financially responsible for their illicit actions by targeting the finances can also effectively stem the flow of funds available for future terrorist activity.
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Judge Refuses To Dismiss Terror Suspect’s Case
www.nytimes.com-July 14, 2010
At the heart of the debate about where and how to prosecute the men accused of being terrorists who have been held at Guantánamo Bay has been the fear among many that the suspects, tried in a civilian court, would benefit from rights and protections they did not deserve.
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Reversal Upholds Detention Of Yemeni At Guantanamo
www.nytimes.com-July 14, 2010
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the detention of a Yemeni man at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reversing a District Court judge who had ordered the prisoner freed on the grounds that there was “no reliable evidence” that he was a member of Al Qaeda.
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U.S. Sends Yemeni Detainee Home
www.miamihearld.com-July 14, 2010
The Pentagon sent a Yemeni home from Guantánamo, the first since the Obama the administration imposed a moratorium after the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing.
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Triborder Zone A Haven For Terror Funding
www.washingtontimes.com-July 14, 2010
The capture of a key member of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah in Paraguay last month and intensified leftist activity in the Triborder zone of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina highlight renewed threats in a region long considered a hub for terrorists.
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Deadly Uganda bombings could indicate new roles for al-Qaeda affiliates
www.washingtonpost.com-July 13, 2010
The bombings orchestrated by Somalia's al-Shabab militia that killed at least 74 people watching the World Cup finals on television Sunday night are the latest sign of the growing ambitions of al-Qaeda's regional affiliates outside the traditional theaters of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
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U.S. Lawmaker Warns Of Al-Qaeda Magazine
www.washingtonpost.com-July 13, 2010
An al-Qaeda magazine aims to recruit Americans to launch attacks in the United States with such articles as "make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom," a senior U.S. lawmaker said Monday.
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Young Detainee Declined U.S. Plea Deal
www.miamihearld.com-July 13, 2010
A Canadian facing a life sentence wouldn't trade five more years at Guantánamo for a guilty plea in war crimes case.
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In Attack, Al Qaeda-Linked Somali Group Expands Reach
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 13, 2010
In claiming responsibility for Sunday's deadly bombings in Uganda, the Somali group al Shabaab appeared to raise its sights from running large swaths of one of Africa's most lawless countries to embracing al Qaeda's call for global jihad.
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Al Qaeda In Africa
htttp://online.wsj.com-July 13, 2010
Three bombs tore through Uganda's capital of Kampala on Sunday, killing at least 74 people gathered to watch the World Cup championship, including a U.S. aid worker from Delaware. Six missionaries from a Pennsylvania church group were among the hundreds wounded. The Somali terror group al Shabab claimed responsibility yesterday, and the simultaneous attacks reveal the growing security threat of this al Qaeda franchise both to East Africa and the world.
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Twin blasts kill scores of World Cup watchers in Uganda
www.washingtonpost.com-July 12, 2010
Two explosions, minutes apart, tore through two venues in the Ugandan capital where crowds were watching television broadcasts of the World Cup final late Sunday, killing at least 64 and wounding scores, Ugandan police said. At least one American was killed and several wounded, according to the U.S. Embassy in Kampala.
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Bombers Kill More Than 60 in Attacks in Uganda Capital
www.nytimes.com-July 12, 2010
At least 64 people were killed when bombs exploded Sunday in a synchronized attack on large gatherings of World Cup soccer fans watching the televised final on outdoor screens in this normally peaceful capital, police officials said on Monday.
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Young Captive Could Defend Himself
www.miamihearld.com-July 12, 2010
Can a terror suspect who was captured as a teen and has spent a third of his life at Guantánamo be his own attorney? The war court will decide.
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White House On Closing Gitmo This Year: 'We'll See'
www.washingtonpost.com-July 12, 2010
As Obama administration officials fanned out across the Sunday talk shows to push White House talking points on the economy, the gulf oil spill, and the Arizona immigration lawsuit, one topic that has fallen off the radar lately made a comeback: the closure of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Are Somali Militants Behind the Uganda Blasts?
www.time.com-July 12, 2010
If, as expected, it turns out to have been Somali Islamic militants who carried out a twin suicide bombing in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Sunday night — killing 64, many as they watched the World Cup final — that will be lethal confirmation of the group's long-threatened ambitions to spread their terror beyond Somalia's borders.
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Rulings Raise Doubts On Policy On Transfer Of Yemenis
www.nytimes.com-July 09, 2010
Six months after President Obama halted all transfers of Guantánamo Bay detainees to Yemen, the moratorium is coming under escalating pressure from federal judges — raising doubts about its sustainability
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Norway Arrests 3 in Terror Plot Linked to U.S. and Britain
www.nytimes.com-July 08, 2010
Police officials in Norway said Thursday that they had arrested three men suspected of having links to Al Qaeda in a terrorism conspiracy tied to plots in the United States and Britain.
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Alleged Al Qaeda operatives indicted in New York plot
www.latimes.com-July 08, 2010
An unsuccessful plan to detonate homemade bombs in the New York subway system last year was orchestrated by senior Al Qaeda leaders who were also plotting a comparable attack in Britain, according to a terrorism indictment unsealed Wednesday.
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Guantanamo Detainee Pleads Guilty In Terror Case
www.nytimes.com-July 08, 2010
A Guantánamo Bay detainee on Wednesday pleaded guilty to conspiring with Al Qaeda and to providing material support for terrorism, setting up the first conviction before a military commission under the Obama administration.
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Bin Laden Driver To War-Court Convict
www.miamihearld.com-July 08, 2010
A driver for Osama bin Laden pleaded guilty at the military commission at Guantánamo Bay, making it the first conviction under President Barack Obama.
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Ban On Guantanamo Reporters Is Illegal, News Companies Say
www.miamihearld.com-July 02, 2010
A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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New Estimate Of Strength Of Al Qaeda Is Offered
www.nytimes.com-July 01, 2010
Michael E. Leiter, one of the country’s top counterterrorism officials, said Wednesday that American intelligence officials now estimated that there were somewhat “more than 300” Qaeda leaders and fighters hiding in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a rare public assessment of the strength of the terrorist group that is the central target of President Obama’s war strategy.
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Muslim Cleric Tied To Bomb Attempt
www.washingtonpost.com-July 01, 2010
A radical Muslim cleric who was born in the United States and resides in Yemen "had a direct operational role" in the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Wednesday.
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Man In New York Subway Plot Tied To Senior Qaeda Figure
www.washingtonpost.com-July 01, 2010
The central figure in a failed suicide plot to bomb three New York City subways lines last year had contact with an elusive and feared senior Qaeda operative who spent his youth in Brooklyn and has eluded American authorities for at least seven years, a counterterrorism official said on Wednesday.
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We Must Crush The Taliban And Al Qaeda In A 'Long War' In Afghanistan
www.latimes.com-July 01, 2010
Our policy chaos over Afghanistan shows that counter-terrorism's objectives are too limited to keep Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in safe hands, and its resources too inadequate to destroy the Taliban.
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Obama, Saudi King Discuss Guantanamo, Mideast Peace Process
www.washingtonpost.com-June 30, 2010
Broaching a sensitive subject, President Obama assured the visiting king of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that he remains committed to closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a continuing source of friction between their governments.
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Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong
www.nytimes.com-June 29, 2010
In an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in mainland China, Google plans to stop automatically redirecting Chinese users to its Hong Kong site.
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U.S. to repatriate Guantanamo detainee to Yemen after judge orders him to be released
www.washingtonpost.com-June 26, 2010
The Obama administration has decided to repatriate to Yemen a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after he was ordered released by a federal judge who cited overwhelming evidence that the detainee had been held illegally for more than eight years by the United States, administration officials said.
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Closing Guantánamo Fades as a Priority
www.nytimes.com-June 25, 2010
Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013.
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Pakistani court sentences 5 N.Va. men to at least 10 years in prison
www.washingtonpost.com-June 24, 2010
Five Northern Virginia men were convicted on terror charges Thursday by a Pakistani court and sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that focused U.S. concern about its citizens linking up with extremist groups in Pakistan and elsewhere.
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Times Square suspect pleads guilty in NYC
www.washingtonpost.com-June 21, 2010
The U.S. citizen charged in the attempted bombing of Times Square pleaded guilty Monday and issued a warning that Americans will face more terrorist attacks if the government does not leave Muslim lands.
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A Politically Correct War
www.newsweek.com-June 17, 2010
The Obama administration is deeply concerned with stopping the next Faisal Shahzad—the man who, but for another lesson or two on bomb making, might have blown up Times Square on May 1. But in an administration also eager to ingratiate itself with the Muslim world, how far are Obama and his advisers willing to go to confront the radical Islamism that drives men like Shahzad?
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Who's The Enemy In The War On Terror?
htttp://online.wsj.com-June 15, 2010
In the new National Security Strategy released by the White House last month, the Obama administration rightly reaffirms that America remains a nation at war. Unfortunately, it refuses to identify our enemy in this war as what it is: violent Islamist extremism.
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U.S. Aims To Share Afghan Prison
www.latimes.com-June 09, 2010
The plan would give the Obama administration a place to interrogate terrorism suspects from other countries even after control of the Bagram prison is transferred to Afghanistan next year.
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At least $500 million has been spent since 9/11 on renovating Guantanamo Bay
www.washingtonpost.com-June 07, 2010
At the U.S. naval station here, a handsome electronic sign hangs between two concrete pillars. In yellow enamel against a blue metal backdrop is a map of Cuba, the "Pearl of the Antilles," above flashing time and temperature readings.
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Rhetoric and Reality: Countering Terrorism in the Age of Obama
www.cnas.org-June 05, 2010
President Barack Obama shifted away from the rhetorical framework of former President George W. Bush’s “Global War on Terror” because he believed this would allow America to more effectively combat the challenge posed by violent extremists such as al-Qaeda.
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U.S. 'Secret War' Expands Globally
www.washingtonpost.com-June 04, 2010
Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials.
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New Cyber Command Chief Warns Of Possible Attacks
www.washingtonpost.com-June 04, 2010
The U.S. government is seeing "hints" that adversaries are targeting military networks for "remote" sabotage, the head of the Pentagon's recently launched Cyber Command said in his first public remarks since being confirmed last month.
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U.S. Backs Talks On Cyber Warfare
htttp://online.wsj.com-June 04, 2010
The chief of the Pentagon's new cyber-security command on Thursday endorsed talks with Russia over a proposal to limit military attacks in cyberspace, representing a significant shift in U.S. policy.
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2008 Intrusion Of Networks Spurred Combined Units
www.washingtontimes.com-June 04, 2010
A foreign computer intrusion two years ago reached classified Pentagon computer networks, prompting a reorganization of offensive and defensive cyberwarfare efforts, the commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command said Thursday.
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Introducing U.S. Cyber Command
htttp://online.wsj.com-June 03, 2010
More than 100 foreign intelligence agencies and militaries threaten U.S. defense networks.
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Al-Qaeda Likely To Replace Leader
www.washingtonpost.com-June 02, 2010
The death of al-Qaeda's third-ranking leader in a drone strike was portrayed by U.S. officials Tuesday as a severe setback to the terrorist organization. But if history is any guide, the network will have no problem replacing him.
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Al-Qaeda No. 3 Yazid reported killed by U.S. drone
www.washingtonpost.com-June 01, 2010
Al-Qaeda's third-ranking operative, an Egyptian who was a founding member of the terrorist network and a key conduit to Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan, according to a statement Monday from al-Qaeda that U.S. intelligence officials believe is accurate.
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Strike Is Said to Kill a Top Qaeda Leader
www.nytimes.com-June 01, 2010
The operational leader for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was killed in an American missile strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas in the last two weeks, according to a statement the group issued late Monday that American officials believe is correct.
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Reflecting On Who Should Be Called Soldier, And Who Shouldn't
www.nytimes.com-June 01, 2010
On yet another Memorial Day, hundreds of people made their way Monday to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, the colonnaded memorial built more than a century ago at Riverside Drive and 89th Street to honor New York’s Civil War dead.
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Backward At Bagram
www.nytimes.com-June 01, 2010
One of the most vital jobs of the federal courts is to check excessive claims of presidential power. The courts have stepped up to the task at important times since President George W. Bush embarked on a campaign after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to create an imperial presidency. Sadly, a recent ruling by a federal appeals court on the American military prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan was not one of those times.
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Cyber War and Competition in the China - U.S. Relationship
www.csis.org-June 01, 2010
The U.S. and China are in the process of redefining their bilateral relationship, as China’s new strengths means it has a new position and new responsibilities in the world. Cyber conflict could become a significant and damaging factor in this process of bilateral redefinition, as it involves and exacerbates both economic and military competition.
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Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike
www.washingtonpost.com-May 29, 2010
The U.S. military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country's tribal areas, according to senior military officials.
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Most Guantanamo Detainees Low-Level Fighters
www.washingtonpost.com-May 29, 2010
About 10 percent of the 240 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when President Obama took office were "leaders, operatives and facilitators involved in plots against the United States," but the majority were low-level fighters, according to a previously undisclosed government report. About 5 percent of the detainees could not be categorized at all.
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The Cybersecurity Changes We Need
www.washingtonpost.com-May 29, 2010
The news is filled with scary stories about the insecurity of the computer and telecommunication systems on which our nation's prosperity depends: malicious software planted in electricity-grid computers; rampant state-sponsored and criminal cyber-espionage and theft; and the possibility of cyberattacks on banking and transportation systems. Exactly one year ago, President Obama declared our "digital infrastructure" to be a "national security asset" and pledged to make it "secure, trustworthy and resilient."
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Trial Marks Change At Prison For Afghan Detainees
www.nytimes.com-May 27, 2010
The new American-run prison outside the capital will hold its first trial of an Afghan detainee next week, American officers said Wednesday.
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Judge Orders Yemeni Freed, Guantanamo Tally 14-36
www.miamihearld.com-May 27, 2010
A federal judge Wednesday ordered the Obama administration to free a Yemeni man at Guantánamo who has long claimed he was captured in Pakistan studying Koran and had no ties to al Qaeda.
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The Guantanamo Delay
www.washingtonpost.com-May 27, 2010
IN JANUARY 2009, president-elect Barack Obama told Post editors and reporters that he would consider it a failure if the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was still operating at the end of his first term.
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Bill Puts Scrutiny On Detainees’ Lawyers
www.nytimes.com-May 26, 2010
A provision tucked into a defense bill before Congress would direct the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate any suspected misconduct by lawyers for Guantánamo Bay detainees, opening a new chapter in a recurrent political controversy over legal ethics and the representation of terrorism suspects.
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Bagram: A Legal Black Hole?
www.latimes.com-May 26, 2010
A federal appeals court has ruled that, unlike inmates at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some 800 prisoners held at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan may not challenge their confinement by seeking writs of habeas corpus. The decision may be a fair reading of Supreme Court precedents, but it shouldn't be taken as a blank check for treating the Bagram airfield as the sort of legal black hole Guantanamo was before the courts intervened.
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We Need A Terror Court
www.usatoday.com-May 26, 2010
The arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of driving a car bomb into Times Square, has generated a lot of high-fives from both the public and our public authorities. Rightfully so. The collective power of public vigilance, response and investigatory work led to the swift identification and capture of Shahzad as if it had been dramatically written into an episode of 24.
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Al Qaeda Reaps Recruits From Somali Refugees In Yemen
www.washingtonexaminer.com-May 25, 2010
Al Qaeda's robust terror organization in Yemen is recruiting from a pool of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees who have fled war in their homeland, according to U.S. and Yemeni intelligence officials.
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U.S.-Born Cleric Justifies The Killing Of Civilians
www.nytimes.com-May 24, 2010
In a newly released video, Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim cleric believed to be an inspiration for a series of recent terrorism plots, justifies the mass killing of American civilians and taunts the authorities to come find him in Yemen.
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Tainted Justice
www.nytimes.com-May 24, 2010
If the Obama administration wants to demonstrate that it is practical and just to try some terrorism suspects in military tribunals instead of federal courts, it is off to a very poor start.
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Battles Brew Over Fort Hood Shooting Suspect's Past
www.latimes.com-May 23, 2010
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is paralyzed from the chest down. He waits in a small Texas county jail and has not been seen publicly in the six months since he was shot and charged with killing 13 people and wounding nearly three dozen others at the nearby Ft. Hood Army post.
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Evidence Mounts That Pakistani Major Spoke To Times Square Suspect
www.latimes.com-May 23, 2010
Pakistani and U.S. investigators cited growing evidence Saturday that a Pakistani army major had been in cellphone contact with a man who allegedly attempted to bomb Times Square in New York, including the possibility that they spoke shortly before the failed bombing.
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Detainees Barred From Access to U.S. Courts
www.nytimes.com-May 22, 2010
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that three men who had been detained by the United States military for years without trial in Afghanistan had no recourse to American courts. The decision was a broad victory for the Obama administration in its efforts to hold terrorism suspects overseas for indefinite periods without judicial oversight.
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DoD Cyber Command Is Officially Online
www.navytimes.com-May 22, 2010
The nascent command charged with operating the nation’s military computer networks is now a reality, the Pentagon has confirmed.
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Confronting a Resilient al-Qaeda: The U.S. Strategic Response
www.washingtoninstitute.org-May 21, 2010
The evolving threat and increasing resilience of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations have been brought into stark relief by a number of recent events, including the attempted car bombing in Times Square and the December 2009 airline bomb plot. In what ways can the U.S. government refine its existing strategy to counter this evolution in dynamic threats?
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White House Moving Ahead With Plan To Buy Thomson Prison
www.chicagotribune.com-May 21, 2010
Despite resistance in Congress to the Obama administration strategy for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, White House officials said Friday they are moving forward with a plan to buy an underused state prison in northwestern Illinois as a possible location for detainees.
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House Panel Rejects A Plan To Shift Detainees To Illinois
www.nytimes.com-May 21, 2010
The House Armed Services Committee has dealt a blow to President Obama’s hopes to shutter the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by unanimously approving legislation that would prohibit creating a detention center inside the United States.
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House Panel OKs Probe Of Gitmo Attorneys
www.washingtontimes.com-May 21, 2010
The House Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday that would require the Pentagon's inspector general to conduct an investigation into whether defense attorneys for detainees at the detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, acted improperly.
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Visiting U.S. Officials Discuss New York Case
www.washingtonpost.com-May 20, 2010
Top U.S. and Pakistani officials held what they called "productive discussions" Wednesday on joint security concerns, including the May 1 Times Square bombing attempt. National security adviser James L. Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta were the first senior U.S. officials to travel to Islamabad since the incident, in which a Pakistani American has been charged with trying to blow up a car in New York.
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Move An Omen Of Switch On 9/11 Mastermind
www.washingtontimes.com-May 18, 2010
The appointment of a well-respected ex-Navy lawyer to oversee war-crime trials is being seen in military legal circles as a sign the Obama administration might reverse its decision to bring Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to New York for a civilian trial.
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For Car Bomb Suspect, a Long Path to Times Square
www.nytimes.com-May 16, 2010
Just after midnight on Feb. 25, 2006, Faisal Shahzad sent a lengthy e-mail message to a group of friends. The trials of his fellow Muslims weighed on him — the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the plight of Palestinians, the publication in Denmark of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
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Pakistan arrests man with militant ties who says he aided Times Square bomb suspect
www.washingtonpost.com-May 14, 2010
The Pakistani government has arrested a suspect with connections to a Pakistani militant group who said he acted as an accomplice to the man accused of trying to bomb Times Square, U.S. officials said.
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U.S. Decision To Approve Killing Of Cleric Causes Unease
www.nytimes.com-May 14, 2010
The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism.
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Pakistan And Times Sq.
www.nytimes.com-May 13, 2010
If we want Times Square to be safer from terrorists, we need to start by helping make Pakistan safer as well.
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Yemen refuses to let U.S. try cleric
www.washingtontimes.com-May 12, 2010
Yemen's government has announced it will not extradite Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born jihadist cleric who is credited with inspiring the recent wave of anti-American terrorist plots by al Qaeda recruits.
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Senators Demand Tighter Rules on No-Fly List and Addition to Terror Group List
www.nytimes.com-May 12, 2010
After a briefing on the Times Square bombing attempt, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee called Tuesday for improvements in the no-fly list and the addition of the Pakistani Taliban to the government’s official list of terrorist organizations.
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Pentagon Says Military Response To Cyber Attack Possible
http://news.yahoo.com-May 12, 2010
The Pentagon would consider a military response in the case of a cyber attack against the United States, a US defense official said on Wednesday.
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NSA Director Confirmed To Head Cyber-Command
www.washingtonpost.com-May 11, 2010
Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, has been confirmed to head a new military command that will be capable of launching attacks against enemy computer networks.
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No Dismissal In Terror Case On Claim Of Torture In Jail
www.nytimes.com-May 11, 2010
A federal judge in Manhattan declined on Monday to dismiss charges against a man accused in a terrorism case whose lawyers claimed his rights were violated when he was tortured in secret jails run by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Pakistani Taliban Linked To Times Square Bomb
www.washingtonpost.com-May 10, 2010
Senior Obama administration officials on Sunday blamed the Pakistani Taliban for the attempted car bombing in Times Square, saying in the most definitive terms to date that the militant group was responsible for planning and financing the botched attack.
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Holder Backs A Miranda Limit For Terror Suspects
www.nytimes.com-May 10, 2010
The Obama administration said Sunday it would seek a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects without informing them of their rights, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. flatly asserted that the defendant in the Times Square bombing attempt was trained by the Taliban in Pakistan.
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Pakistani Militants Spreading Roots
www.washingtonpost.com-May 10, 2010
Terrorism suspect Faisal Shahzad's alleged path to Times Square reflects what experts say is a militant support network that spans Pakistan and is eager to shepherd aspiring terrorists from around the globe.
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Why Pakistan keeps exporting jihad
www.washingtonpost.com-May 10, 2010
Faisal Shahzad, the would-be terrorist of Times Square, seems to have followed a familiar path. Like many recruits to jihad, he was middle-class, educated, seemingly assimilated -- and then something happened that radicalized him. We may never be sure what made him want to kill innocent men, women and children. But his story shares another important detail with those of many of his predecessors: a connection to Pakistan.
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Pakistani Taliban behind attempted Times Square car bombing, attorney general says
www.washingtonpost.com-May 09, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that there is now conclusive evidence the Pakistani Taliban is to blame for last weekend's attempted car bombing in Times Square.
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Overseas, an Enemy That May Mutate and Grow
www.nytimes.com-May 07, 2010
When President Obama decided last year to narrow the scope of the nine-year war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he and his aides settled on a formulation that sounded simple: Eviscerate Al Qaeda, but just “degrade” the Taliban, reversing that movement’s momentum.
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Possible role of Kashmir-focused groups may hinder Times Square terrorism probe
www.washingtonpost.com-May 07, 2010
Faisal Shahzad's path from suburban Connecticut to bombmaking training in Pakistan's mountains may have wound through a mosque on a ragged corner of this metropolis, Pakistani officials say. The suggestion highlights the nation's complex militant web -- but could also form an obstacle to a terrorism investigation spanning two continents.
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Suspect Cites Radical Imam's Writings
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 07, 2010
Shahzad Says He Was Influenced by Anti-West Exhortations of Cleric Who Communicated With Alleged Fort Hood Shooter.
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Times Sq. Bomb Suspect Is Linked To Militant Cleric
www.nytimes.com-May 07, 2010
The Pakistani-American man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square has told investigators that he drew inspiration from Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric whose militant online lectures have been a catalyst for several recent attacks and plots, an American official said Thursday.
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Few Legal Tools To Track Citizens
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 07, 2010
The attempted Times Square bombing has underscored the challenge of managing security threats from citizens with clean records, but U.S. authorities are limited in the tools they can employ to legally monitor travel and other behavior of Americans who haven't otherwise aroused suspicion.
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Pakistan Assures Cooperation In Times Square Bomb Case
www.latimes.com-May 07, 2010
The country says it will help bring to justice any collaborators, and four suspected members of a banned militant organization have been arrested and are being questioned there.
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Pakistani Taliban Are Said To Expand Alliances
www.nytimes.com-May 07, 2010
The Pakistani Taliban, which American investigators suspect were behind the attempt to bomb Times Square, have in recent years combined forces with Al Qaeda and other groups, threatening to extend their reach and ambitions, Western diplomats, intelligence officials and experts say.
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Interrogator: I Used False Rape Claim On Khadr
www.miamihearld.com-May 07, 2010
To get teen terror suspect Omar Khadr to cooperate, a former U.S. Army interrogator testified Thursday, he told the wounded Canadian a ``fictitious' tale of an Afghan youth who was gang-raped in an American prison and died.
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SEAL Found Not Guilty Of Assaulting Suspected Iraqi Terrorist
http://hamptonroad.com-May 07, 2010
Sometime next week, Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe will fly west and rejoin a group of his fellow SEALs training in Nevada’s harsh high desert.
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Pakistan Is Fighting Terror
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 07, 2010
Once again a terrorist attack, albeit a failed one, has brought Pakistan under the microscope. Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American arrested in connection with the Times Square bomb plot, is less American than he is Pakistani so the focus on Pakistan is not unwarranted. But caricaturing my country as the epicenter of global terrorism is not just misleading, but dangerous
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How to modernize Miranda for the Age of Terror
www.washingtonpost.com-May 07, 2010
All well and good. But what if Faisal Shahzad, the confessed Times Square bomber, had stopped talking? When you tell someone he has the right to remain silent, there is a distinct possibility that he will remain silent, is there not? And then what?
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In Times Square, the blue line held
www.washingtonpost.com-May 07, 2010
The system worked. Authorities responded to the attempted Times Square bombing about as well as anyone possibly could -- proving, once again, that viewing terrorism exclusively in a military context is wrong. It's a police matter, too.
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Catching bomb suspect was rare moment for Holder to celebrate
www.washingtonpost.com-May 06, 2010
When Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. stepped up to the lectern at 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it was more than an unusual middle-of-the-night appearance trumpeting the swift arrest of an alleged terrorist. It also marked a rare moment of glory for the attorney general.
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U.S. to send Pakistan detailed request for help in Times Square bomb probe
www.washingtonpost.com-May 06, 2010
As investigators continued questioning Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad on Wednesday, the Obama administration was preparing to deliver to Pakistan a detailed request for urgent and specific assistance on the case.
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Evidence Mounts for Taliban Role in Car Bomb Plot
www.nytimes.com-May 06, 2010
American officials said Wednesday that it was very likely that a radical group once thought unable to attack the United States had played a role in the bombing attempt in Times Square, elevating concerns about whether other militant groups could deliver at least a glancing blow on American soil.
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Money Woes, Long Silences and a Zeal for Islam
www.nytimes.com-May 06, 2010
Theirs was an arranged marriage: two well-educated children of prominent Pakistani families set up through a mutual friend. He was the quiet one; she was the one who laughed at parties.
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U.S. Spies Rethink Tactics
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 06, 2010
The Times Square bombing attempt has re-energized a debate between spies and domestic-security officials within the Obama administration over how to handle ideologically driven violence in the U.S.
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For Obama, Weekly Tutorials In Terrorism
www.washingtonpost.com-May 06, 2010
After a car bomb nearly detonated in Times Square on Saturday night, White House officials convened a series of impromptu briefings to keep President Obama updated as the suspect was identified, located and caught trying to flee the country.
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Lessons Of Gulf Wars Aid Security At Home
www.washingtontimes.com-May 06, 2010
Lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan have equipped law enforcement officers to handle the threat of car-bomb attacks like last weekend's failed attempt in New York's Times Square, U.S. officials say.
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Jihadists and Times Square
www.cfr.org-May 06, 2010
Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed car bomb attack in Times Square, reportedly received training in the North Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan, and Pakistani authorities have arrested numerous Pakistani citizens in connection to the plot. The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility, though some within the Pakistani military doubt such claims (AP). But Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism expert at the New American Foundation in Washington, DC, says even more important is what the attack's aftermath says about the Pakistan Taliban: After focusing exclusively on the Pakistani state, the group is demonstrating broader, al-Qaeda-like ambitions.
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Pakistan Taliban Source: Times Square Bombing Attempt Was 'Revenge Against America'
www.newsweek.com-May 06, 2010
A top Afghan Taliban planner and organizer tells NEWSWEEK he wasn't surprised by the attempted car bombing in Times Square. "We were expecting this," says the source, who operates on both sides of the porous Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He says the Pakistani Taliban—formally known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban—was hellbent on revenge after the Predator drone attack that killed its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, last August and the more recent strikes that nearly killed Baitullah's successor, Hakimullah Mehsud, this January.
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AG defends decision to Mirandize NYC suspect
www.msnbc.com-May 06, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder rejected on Thursday the notion that the investigation into the Times Square bombing case was hindered when authorities informed suspect Faisal Shahzad that he could not be forced to incriminate himself and he has a right to a lawyer. Holder told Congress that Shahzad's cooperation is continuing, and he has provided useful information.
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U.S. tightens no-fly rules after suspect in failed Times Square attack succeeds in boarding plane
www.washingtonpost.com-May 05, 2010
The U.S. government on Wednesday began requiring airlines to check no-fly lists much more quickly as a way to screen out terror suspects, officials said, after revelations that the man suspected of trying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square was able to board an international flight even though his name was put on a watch list.
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Times Square suspect's movements raise questions about holes in antiterror system
www.washingtonpost.com-May 05, 2010
The Obama administration Tuesday praised law enforcement officials who responded to and dismantled a car bomb in New York City last weekend and arrested a suspect late Monday. But the fact remained that Faisal Shahzad was allegedly able to train with terrorists in Pakistan, return to the United States to assemble a car bomb in Connecticut and park it in Times Square without anyone in the nation's vast counterterrorism apparatus knowing anything about it.
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Lapses Allowed Suspect to Board Plane
www.nytimes.com-May 05, 2010
Why was Faisal Shahzad permitted to board a flight for Dubai some 24 hours after investigators of the Times Square terrorism case learned he might be connected to the attempted bombing?
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Smoking Car to an Arrest in 53 Hours
www.nytimes.com-May 05, 2010
The keys found in the ignition of the sport utility vehicle that was left to explode in Times Square on Saturday evening did more than just start cars: one opened the front door to Faisal Shahzad’s home.
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Times Square bomb suspect admits involvement in failed attack
www.latimes.com-May 05, 2010
Officials say Faisal Shahzad admitted to explosives training and driving the car used in the attempted attack. Related arrests are reported in Pakistan.
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Taliban Lackey's Twisted Mission
www.nypost.com-May 05, 2010
It was payback.
The Connecticut man charged yesterday with the botched Times Square car bombing confessed to trying to slaughter innocent people in retaliation for US drone attacks that wiped out the leadership of his beloved Taliban, The Post has learned.
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Probe's Focus Shifts To Pakistani Taliban
www.washingtonpost.com-May 05, 2010
Federal investigators focused Tuesday on the possible involvement of the Pakistani Taliban in the failed Times Square bombing as they pieced together clues and charged a suspect who was pulled off an airplane as he headed to his native Pakistan, according to court documents and law enforcement sources.
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Pakistan Retains Its Allure For Terror Trainees
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 05, 2010
The man who allegedly confessed to the Times Square bomb plot said he received terror training in Pakistan's tribal areas, suggesting the region remained a threat despite intensive military assaults.
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In wake of bomb scare, U.S. may lean on Pakistan to hit harder against militants
www.washingtonpost.com-May 05, 2010
The arrest of a Pakistani American in connection with the failed Times Square bombing again put a spotlight on Pakistan as a global terrorist training hub, raising the prospect of intensified U.S. pressure to break up militant networks.
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Obama administration owes answers on how it handled Times Square suspect
www.washingtonpost.com-May 05, 2010
IN THE PAST two days, the Obama administration has released significant amounts of information about its arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square. The most significant assertions: Mr. Shahzad, a Pakistani-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, received bomb training in Waziristan when he traveled to Pakistan late last year and has confessed to being responsible for making and trying to detonate the makeshift bomb.
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From Peshawar to Times Square
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 05, 2010
Monday night's arrest of suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is both disconcerting and reassuring—proof that the world's jihadists are still targeting the U.S. homeland, yet also evidence that our antiterror fighters are getting better.
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Times Square Bomb Arrest Raises U.S. Security Questions
www.time.com-May 05, 2010
The Times Square car bomb failed to detonate, but it could yet cause political reverberations around two questions: Should the government have known about the plot and its alleged perpetrator? And does using the rules of the criminal-justice system against a man accused of plotting a terrorism attack against America leave the country more vulnerable?
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FBI Surveillance of Times Square Suspect ‘Broke Down’
www.newsweek.com-May 04, 2010
Accused Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad spent more than three hours at New York's JFK airport unwatched by authorities while he waited to board a plane out of the country because FBI surveillance of him "broke down," says an administration official familiar with the matter. The FBI is not denying that the surveillance encountered problems.
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NYC bomb suspect seized aboard Dubai-bound plane
www.breitbart.com-May 04, 2010
A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was hauled off a plane about to fly to the Middle East and arrested in the failed attempt to explode a bomb-laden SUV in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday. One official said he claimed to have acted alone.
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Bomb suspect lost Conn. home to foreclosure
www.msnbc.com-May 04, 2010
The suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt defaulted on a $200,000 mortgage on his Connecticut home and the Shelton property is now in foreclosure, according to court records.
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Security slip let suspect on plane, near takeoff
http://apnews.myway.com-May 04, 2010
The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane.
Faisal Shahzad boarded a jetliner bound for the United Arab Emirates Monday night before federal authorities pulled him back. Although under surveillance since midafternoon, he had managed to elude investigators and head to the airport.
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U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested in Times Square bomb case
www.washingtonpost.com-May 04, 2010
A 30-year-old American immigrant from Pakistan was taken off a plane bound for Dubai late Monday at John F. Kennedy International Airport and arrested in connection with a failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced.
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The Times Square arrest and the politics of national security
www.washingtonpost.com-May 04, 2010
The arrest in the wee hours of the morning of Faisal Shazad in connection with the attempted bombing of Times Square will re-awaken the issue of terrorism -- although perhaps only briefly -- for most Americans with the 2010 midterm elections less than six months away.
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Arrest Made in Times Square Bomb Case
www.nytimes.com-May 04, 2010
A naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan who lives in Connecticut was pulled off a jet bound for Dubai at Kennedy Airport just before midnight on Monday and arrested for driving a car bomb into Times Square, in what turned out to be an unsuccessful attack, Justice Department officials announced.
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Unexploded Car Bomb Left Trove of Evidence
www.nytimes.com-May 04, 2010
Among the enduring images left by car bombings, overseas or in the United States, is investigators on their hands and knees, crawling through the wreckage searching for clues: a blasting cap or a timing device, a piece of the explosive’s casing or a trace of the chemicals used.
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Arrest made in N.Y. bomb case
www.latimes.com-May 04, 2010
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder identifies the suspect as Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent. He had been trying to board a plane to Dubai.
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Pakistani Taliban Chief Vows U.S. Attack
www.washingtonpost.com-May 04, 2010
Videos released Monday of a Pakistani Taliban chief thought to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike in January reveal that he not only is alive but also has apparently expanded his group's ambitions.
In the videos, Hakimullah Mehsud vows attacks on U.S. cities, which he says his suicide bombers have penetrated. T
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Combating simple, yet deadly, forms of terrorism
www.washingtonpost.com-May 04, 2010
While it is not yet certain who organized the attempted car-bombing in Times Square this weekend, the incident marks the domestic introduction of familiar terrorist techniques that may be harder to thwart than those to which the U.S. homeland security apparatus became attuned after Sept. 11.
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The Times Square Bomb Plot: A Taliban Connection?
www.time.com-May 04, 2010
Investigators are now poring over every facet of Faisal Shahzad's life to see if the Pakistani-American arrested in the Times Square car bombing plot acted alone — as he reportedly claims — or was part of a terrorist cell
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Attempted Bombing Was Poorly Plotted, Experts Say
www.time.com-May 04, 2010
The failed effort to blow up Times Square with a homemade bomb Saturday night makes clear that we have entered a new age of terror. Even as the investigation moved quickly, with the arrest Monday night of a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, the evidence increasingly suggests the plot was amateurish, crude — and small-scale.
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Times Square Suspect Nabbed Trying to Leave U.S., Likely for Pakistan
www.newsweek.com-May 04, 2010
FBI search a house in Bridgeport, Conn. where Faisal Shahzad lived.
Federal and local authorities arrested Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old American citizen of Pakistani origin, shortly after midnight Tuesday in connection with the attempted car bombing Saturday night in New York's Times Square. Attorney General Eric Holder, in an early morning news conference, said Shahzad was nabbed as he attempted to board a flight out of the country at New York's JFK airport.
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Luck and Vigilance
www.nytimes.com-May 04, 2010
New York City was lucky this time. The bomb-laden vehicle that pulled into Times Square Saturday night smoldered but didn’t ignite. Two nearby vendors warned a policeman. Officers quickly cleared the area and alerted bomb-squad specialists and investigators.
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Al Qaeda Has Us in Its Gun Sights
www.brookings.edu-May 03, 2010
It is far too soon to make any judgments about the car bomb that was placed in Times Square Saturday night. It is also too soon to dismiss or accept the Pakistani Taliban’s posted claim of credit for the car bomb—which said the attempted attack was in retaliation for the recent killing of two al Qaeda leaders in Iraq.
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How to Improve Terrorist Watchlist
www.aclu.org-May 03, 2010
We quickly learned that the would-be bomber who sought to bring down Flight 253 just before landing in Detroit on Christmas Day was in a terrorist database, but still allowed to board the plane. As a result, President Barack Obama has called for a much needed review of our terrorist watch list system, and members of Congress are floating ideas about how to keep alleged terrorists like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab off our planes and out of the country.
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Enough is Enough
www.aclu.org-May 03, 2010
Hearings continued Friday and Saturday in the case of Canadian Omar Khadr, who again was absent from the proceedings. Accused of throwing a grenade that killed an American medic and participating in a terrorist conspiracy beginning when he was only 10 years old, Khadr literally has grown up at Guantánamo.
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Police probing bomb attempt search for man seen in Times Square video
www.washingtonpost.com-May 03, 2010
Police and federal investigators are searching for a man who was videotaped changing his shirt in an alley near Times Square Saturday evening, and another person seen running from the area, as part of their probe into a car bomb that could have killed or maimed many people had it been detonated, officials said.
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Times Square bomb's ordinary ingredients posed a deadly threat
www.washingtonpost.com-May 03, 2010
The would-be bomber who left his smoldering SUV in the heart of Midtown Manhattan used the simplest of ingredients: gasoline cans, propane tanks, the kind of ordinary black powder found in cheap roadside fireworks.
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A Dread Revived: Terror in the Trunk
www.nytimes.com-May 03, 2010
For years it has been a weapon of choice in hot spots across the globe, from Iraq to Sri Lanka to Colombia: Cars or trucks loaded with explosives, detonated in busy markets, public squares and government buildings.
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N.Y. police search for suspect in Times Square bomb scare
www.latimes.com-May 03, 2010
A car bomb left in Times Square made of easily purchased items, including alarm clocks and gasoline, could have sent a "significant fireball" hurtling through one of the world's busiest tourist spots, police said Sunday as they searched for a man caught on film who might be linked to the failed attempt.
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Attempts Suggest Shift To Small-Scale Strikes
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 03, 2010
Terrorism Investigators See Rash of Schemes by Small Groups or Individuals That Are Often Harder to Detect in Advance.
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Times Square Bomb Scare: Foreign Militants, or Homegrown Terror?
www.time.com-May 03, 2010
Just about 24 hours after an abortive attack on New York City, its gritty, crowded target, Times Square, was flooded with tourists who were almost unmindful of the muggy spring weather and the TV trucks and cop cars parked along the sidewalks and large pedestrian triangles. On the corner where an SUV loaded with timers, propane tanks and fireworks smoked and then gave off an explosion, all that remained was the shattered Plexiglas that overlaid a poster of Michael J. Fox promoting Values.com. On the opposite corner was one of the area's perennial apocalyptic evangelists wearing a sign on his head that warned "The end is at hand."
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Officials increasingly see international link in Times Square bomb attempt
www.washingtonpost.com-May 03, 2010
The failed car bombing in Times Square increasingly appears to have been coordinated by more than one person in a plot with international links, Obama administration officials said Tuesday.
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Authorities piece together clues in N.Y. car bomb plot
www.washingtonpost.com-May 02, 2010
U.S. officials were racing Sunday to determine whether the attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square was connected to international terrorism, as a Taliban group issued a statement claiming responsibility for the plot.
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Car bomb in Times Square started to detonate, would've caused 'sizeable' deaths
www.washingtonpost.com-May 02, 2010
Authorities reopened Times Square Sunday morning but urged vigilance after an apparently "amateurish" but potentially dangerous car bomb failed to detonate. New York police said that bomb would have caused a "sizeable" number of deaths and injuries if it had gone off.
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U.S. Joins Search for Times Sq. Suspect
www.nytimes.com-May 02, 2010
Police and federal agents on Sunday were reviewing surveillance footage that shows a possible suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing, describing him as a white man in his 40s who was walking away from the area where the vehicle was parked, looking furtively over his shoulder and removing a layer of clothing, officials said.
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Pakistani Taliban Claim Credit For Failed NYC Times Square Car Bombing
www.longwarjournal.org-May 02, 2010
A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City.
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Getting Lucky in Times Square
htttp://online.wsj.com-May 02, 2010
Amid a close-miss this weekend in Times Square, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said, "We are very lucky." True enough. Whether it is New York City or any of the other open and vulnerable urban areas in the world now targeted by terrorists, luck has something to do with not getting hit. It is equally or more important, however, to understand that an aggressive, well-executed offense against this threat is more likely to protect us than dumb luck.
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U.S. Seeking Plea Agreement In Case Of Guantanamo Detainee
www.washingtonpost.com-May 01, 2010
The Obama administration is actively seeking a plea agreement in the case of Canadian detainee Omar Khadr to avoid trying someone on war crimes charges who was detained as a juvenile, according to senior officials.
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Female interrogator: Treats made terror suspect talk
www.miamihearld.com-May 01, 2010
An anonymous woman testified Friday that, as a young Navy interrogator, she treated Canadian captive Omar Khadr with fig newtons and M&Ms -- and that he came to sessions happily and confessed to throwing a grenade at U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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Changes To Key Guantanamo Evidence Innocent, Officer Says
www.mcclatchynews.com-May 01, 2010
An Army Special Forces officer testified Saturday that he altered a field report to directly implicate a Canadian detainee now being held at Guantanamo in a fatal grenade attack in Afghanistan years later because he realized that he got it wrong and wanted to fix the historical record.
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War Court Closed, Shows 'Secret' YouTube Video
www.miamihearld.com-May 01, 2010
Officers on Saturday morning cleared the public from a war court hearing on whether Canadian captive Omar Khadr was tortured in U.S. custody to screen a 2003 era interrogation video just days after a prosecutor pledged "no secret evidence.'
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Video Shows Detainee Building Roadside Bombs
www.washingtonpost.com-April 30, 2010
During a pretrial hearing here Thursday, military prosecutors played a 25-minute video that showed Canadian detainee Omar Khadr building roadside bombs in Afghanistan with several reputed al-Qaeda operatives.
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Showdown At Guantanamo: Khadr Won't Come To Court
www.miamihearld.com-April 29, 2010
Accused Canadian war criminal Omar Khadr refused to come to his hearing Thursday, complaining that guards were ``trying to humiliate' him by clamping blinders over his eyes.
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Military Tribunal Opens Hearings On Youngest Guantanamo Bay Detainee
www.washingtonpost.com-April 29, 2010
The first major hearing of a military tribunal on the Obama administration's watch opened here Wednesday afternoon with a case that has inflamed international human rights activists and prompted some unease among U.S. officials about the wisdom of putting on trial a detainee who was 15 when he was captured.
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New War Court Manual Reaches Guantanamo
www.miamihearld.com-April 28, 2010
The long awaited new rule book for the Obama-era war court does not resolve a key issue that bedeviled its predecessor: Whether an accused war criminal can plead guilty to a crime carrying the death penalty directly to a judge rather than to a military jury.
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Al-Qaeda Leaders Said To Have Ordered Attack On New York Subway System
www.washingtonpost.com-April 24, 2010
Two top al-Qaeda leaders ordered an attack on the New York subway system, in what authorities call one of the most serious terrorism plots on American soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, before they were apparently killed in U.S. missile strikes, a criminal defendant in the plot and law enforcement officials said Friday.
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Military Commissions: The Right Venue For KSM
htttp://online.wsj.com-April 19, 2010
Last week Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 conspirators may still be tried in a federal court in New York City. Why try these men in a major American city where they would require extraordinary security precautions and have a platform from which to spread their message? For that matter why should they but not other detainees be accorded the rights to a civilian trial at all?
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New rules on terror custody being drafted
www.latimes.com-April 16, 2010
The Obama administration guidelines aim to help decide whether captured suspects are tried or face indefinite detention, U.S. officials say.
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C.I.A. Document Details Destruction Of Tapes
www.nytimes.com-April 16, 2010
Porter J. Goss, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2005 approved of the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogation of two detainees, according to an internal C.I.A. document released Thursday.
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Petraeus Says Commando Raids On Afghan Taliban Leaders Rising
www.businessweek.com-April 16, 2010
The U.S. is deploying more counter- terrorism teams in Afghanistan designed to kill Taliban leaders as the Afghan government works to lure away their supporters, said General David Petraeus, the top commander in the region.
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Mexico Drug Cartels Migrate To Caribbean: Leaders
www.reuters.com-April 16, 2010
Caribbean leaders told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday that Mexico's U.S.-backed crackdown on drugs was pushing cartels to step up smuggling through their island nations.
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Cyberwar Nominee Sees Gaps In Law
www.nytimes.com-April 15, 2010
The Army intelligence officer nominated to lead the Pentagon’s new command devoted to warfare in cyberspace has warned Congress that policy directives and legal controls over digital combat are outdated and have failed to keep pace with the military’s technical capabilities.
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NSA director to testify at Senate hearing on cyber command unit
www.washingtonpost.com-April 14, 2010
In an effort to protect the military's computer networks, the Obama administration is planning to put the leader of the nation's largest electronic spying agency in charge of a new military organization capable of launching attacks against enemy networks and power grids.
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For Obama, Vexing Detainee Decisions Loom
www.cfr.org-April 14, 2010
The Obama administration entered office with high hopes of closing the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison facility, releasing or transferring most of the detainees, and detaining and prosecuting the rest under federal criminal laws. Fifteen months later, President Barack Obama has made incremental progress toward these goals, but has mostly become mired in the same detainee quicksand as his predecessor.
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U.S. Tries To Keep Summit Nuclear
http://online.wsj.com-April 10, 2010
Leaders from 47 countries are descending on Washington for a two-day summit the Obama administration hopes will kick-start efforts to make all nuclear materials secure from smugglers and terrorists within four years.
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Not all terrorism: Obama tries to change subject
http://apnews.myway.com-April 07, 2010
President Barack Obama's advisers plan to remove terms such as "Islamic radicalism" from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the U.S. does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terrorism, counterterrorism officials say.
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Researchers Trace Data Theft To China
www.nytimes.com-April 06, 2010
Turning the tables on a China-based computer espionage gang, Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored a spying operation for the past eight months, observing while the intruders pilfered classified and restricted documents from the highest levels of the Indian Defense Ministry.
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Gang Formed In Texas Prison Tied To Contract Killings
www.washingtonpost.com-April 04, 2010
A cross-border drug gang born in the prison cells of Texas has evolved into a sophisticated paramilitary killing machine that U.S. and Mexican officials suspect is responsible for thousands of assassinations here, including the recent ambush and slaying of three people linked to the U.S. consulate.
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Now Is The Time To Prepare For Cyberwar
http://online.wsj.com-April 02, 2010
'If the nation went to war today in a cyberwar, we would lose. We're the most vulnerable. We're the most connected. We have the most to lose." Former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell delivered that bracing statement at a recent Senate hearing on cybersecurity.
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Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal
www.nytimes.com-April 01, 2010
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.
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Civilian Courts Can Prosecute Terrorists
http://online.wsj.com-March 31, 2010
Military commissions are basically untried. The Justice Department has all the experience.
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Chinese Users Report New Google Disruptions
http://online.wsj.com-March 30, 2010
China's government appeared to block almost all searches by Chinese users on Google Inc. sites Tuesday, sharply escalating the battle with the U.S. Internet giant a week after it stopped obeying Beijing's censorship rules.
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Obama Team Is Divided On Tactics Against Terrorism
www.nytimes.com-March 29, 2010
Senior lawyers in the Obama administration are deeply divided over some of the counterterrorism powers they inherited from former President George W. Bush, according to interviews and a review of legal briefs.
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Bin Laden threatens to kill Americans if Khalid Sheik Mohammed is executed
www.washingtonpost.com-March 26, 2010
Osama bin Laden has threatened that al-Qaeda will kill American captives if the United States executes self-avowed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed or other members of the terrorist network in U.S. custody.
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American Terror Suspect Traveled Unimpeded
www.nytimes.com-March 25, 2010
An American charged with helping plan the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, moved effortlessly between the United States, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years, training at a militant camp in Pakistan on five occasions, according to a plea agreement released by the Justice Department last week.
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The Trouble with China
www.newsweek.com-March 25, 2010
Google couldn't find a way to work within Beijing's limits, and employees of mining giant Rio Tinto wound up behind bars. What's the key to succeeding in the world's largest marketplace?
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China's instructions on reporting on Google
www.washingtonpost.com-March 25, 2010
Google has officially announced its withdrawal from the China market. This is a high-impact incident. It has triggered netizens' discussions which are not limited to a commercial level. Therefore please pay strict attention to the following content requirements during this period:
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Google finds few allies in China battle
www.rueters.com-March 25, 2010
But the deafening silence from the U.S. corporate arena underscores how Google (GOOG.O) looks increasingly isolated in its hope of rewriting the rules in the world's largest Internet market by users.
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Bin Laden threatens US over alleged 9/11 plotter
www.washingtonpost.com-March 25, 2010
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatened in a new audio recording released Thursday to kill any captured Americans if the U.S. executes the self-professed mastermind of the Sept.11 attacks or any other al-Qaida suspects.
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For two detainees who told what they knew, Guantanamo becomes a gilded cage
www.washingtonpost.com-March 25, 2010
By the time Tariq al-Sawah, a veteran of the wars in Bosnia and Afghanistan, reached Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in May 2002, there was no fight left in him. Injured by a cluster bomb in the mountains of Afghanistan, the middle-aged Egyptian was still recovering from wounds to his hands, back, thighs and buttocks when the Americans grabbed him.
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In response to new rules, GoDaddy to stop registering domain names in China
www.washingtonpost.com-March 25, 2010
GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registration company, told lawmakers Wednesday that it will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves.
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Google's China Plans Grow More Complicated
http://online.wsj.com-March 25, 2010
Google Inc.'s plan to keep some of its China business while avoiding censorship is looking increasingly complicated as more Chinese partners turn away from the U.S. Internet giant and it becomes apparent that some remaining operations will continue to be censored.
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Cyber-attack on U.S. firms, Google traced to Chinese
www.washingtontimes.com-March 24, 2010
The cyber-attack on Google and other U.S. companies was part of a suspected Chinese government operation launched last year that used human intelligence techniques and high-technology to steal corporate secrets, according to U.S. government and private-sector cybersecurity specialists.
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China state media says Google 'is not god'
www.breibart.com-March 24, 2010
China's state media on Wednesday slammed Google after it effectively shut down its Chinese search engine, saying the US Internet giant was "not god" and accusing it of working with US intelligence
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Pentagon to Name New Chief for Military Commissions in Sign That Gitmo Trials May Move Forward
www.newsweek.com-March 24, 2010
The White House may yet be several weeks away from announcing whether it plans to overrule Attorney General Eric Holder and order that the 9/11 conspirators be tried before military commissions rather than in civilian courts. But it's not hard to figure out which way the wind is blowing.
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Google Stands Up
http://online.wsj.com-March 24, 2010
Google's decision to stop censoring searches on its China-based servers, rerouting search requests instead to its uncensored Hong Kong facilities, is historic. Google has shown itself unwilling simply to be on the receiving end of whatever Beijing dishes out—and highlighted the growing importance of Hong Kong and Taiwan in shaping the decisions that foreign businesses in China must make.
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America Needs an Internet Agenda
www.cnas.org-March 24, 2010
Google's announcement that it has stopped censoring results from its Chinese search engine has captured global attention, but developments on the Internet freedom front are coming fast and furious. In recent months, the U.S. administration removed sanctions on Internet-related exports to Iran, Sudan, and Cuba; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave an important speech on cyberfreedom; and Congress gave funding assistance to cyberdissidents in Iran and China. This week the Senate will launch a Global Internet Freedom Caucus, and more such efforts are likely in coming months. All this is premised on the hypothesis that more Internet freedom leads to more political freedom. Does it?
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In Google-China Fight, an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object
www.newsweek.com-March 23, 2010
China's decision today to block access to Google's search sites represents a dramatic, but perhaps inevitable, escalation in the conflict between the open search service and the closed government.
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Google and China
www.csis.org-March 23, 2010
China is feeling on top of the world these days. Peoples Daily recently ran an article with the headline “Collective Decision-making Eclipses Rowdy Democracy.” It is not hard to guess to whom “rowdy democracy” refers. There is more to this than China’s own growth. It is the perception of European and Russian senility and American incompetence - another article is entitled, “US Arrogance Replaced by Strategic Contraction.”
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U.S. judge orders release of Guantanamo detainee
www.reuters.com-March 23, 2010
A federal judge ordered on Monday that a man accused of having ties to some of the hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks, be released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Navy Warns Ships About Al Qaeda Risk Near Yemen
www.washingtontimes.com-March 22, 2010
The Navy is warning ships sailing in waters near Yemen that al Qaeda is planning seaborne attacks similar to the 2000 suicide boat bombing of the USS Cole.
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The Electrical Grid as a Target for Cyber Attack
www.csis.org-March 22, 2010
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U.S. May Expand Use Of Its Prison In Afghanistan
www.latimes.com-March 21, 2010
The White House is considering whether to detain international terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, senior U.S. officials said, an option that would lead to another prison with the same purpose as Guantanamo Bay, which it has promised to close.
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Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in U.S.
www.nytimes.com-March 20, 2010
A Chinese student, Wang Jianwei, above, and his professor, wrote an academic paper on the vulnerability of the American power grid to a computer attack. Scientists said the paper was merely a technical exercise.
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ACLU Urges Obama Administration To Stand By Decision To Try 9/11 Suspects In Federal Criminal Courts
www.aclu.org-March 19, 2010
In light of news reports today indicating that some White House staff could be trying to reverse Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try the 9/11 suspects in federal criminal courts rather than in the discredited military commissions system, the American Civil Liberties Union renewed its call for the Obama administration to stand by its original decision.
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Deal Near On Gitmo, Trials For Detainees
http://online.wsj.com-March 19, 2010
The White House is nearing a deal with a bipartisan group of senators to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and pave the way for more detainees to be tried before military commissions, a move that would reverse a signature Obama administration security policy.
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Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies
www.washingtonpost.com-March 19, 2010
By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.
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Sept. 11 Suspects At Gitmo Allowed Laptops
www.washingtontimes.com-March 19, 2010
The Pentagon allowed five captured al Qaeda members currently held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to use laptop computers in detention, raising concerns among security officials that the terrorism suspects could pass sensitive data to terrorists in the future, according to U.S. officials.
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Al Qaeda's New Tactic Is To Seize Shortcuts
www.latimes.com-March 19, 2010
U.S. officials believe Al Qaeda and affiliates now favor opportunity over complex, multilayered mass casualty attacks. And that makes prevention tougher.
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Pakistan indicts 5 Americans on terrorism charges
www.latimes.com-March 18, 2010
Five young American Muslims who last fall left their suburban Virginia homes and families with what Pakistani police say was a desire to wage holy war against American forces in Afghanistan were indicted Wednesday on charges of plotting terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil.
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New Reports on International Cooperation in Counterterrorism
www.csis.org-March 17, 2010
No nation can deal the threat of terrorism without cooperation from other states and international organizations. NATO is hold an International Symposium of Counterterrorism in Ankara on March 15th-16th, and the Burke Chair at CSIS has developed several papers and presentations for this conference.
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The Cyber War Has Not Begun
www.csis.org-March 11, 2010
Expanded attention to cybersecurity is a good thing, but it seems that it is difficult to discuss this topic without exaggeration. We are not in a ‘cyber war’. War is the use of military force to attack another nation and damage or destroy its capability and will to resist. Cyber war would involve an effort by another nation or a politically motivated group to use cyber attacks to attain political ends. No nation has launched a cyber attack or cyber war against the United States.
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'JihadJane' indictment alleges threat from within U.S.
www.latimes.com-March 10, 2010
American Colleen R. LaRose, 46, is accused of using the Internet to recruit and assist Muslim terrorist operations in Europe and Asia.
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Police say suspect in terror plot attempted suicide in 2005
www.cnn.com-March 10, 2010
Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted to commit suicide in 2005, according to a police report filed at the time.
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Experts Urge Keeping Two Options for Terror Trials
www.nytimes.com-March 09, 2010
Leading Congressional Republicans are arguing that getting tough on terrorism means trying all foreign terrorism suspects before military commissions. But national security officials who served in the Bush administration say that taking away the criminal justice option would weaken the government’s hand.
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Qaeda Operative Arrested In Pakistan
www.nytimes.com-March 08, 2010
An operative of Al Qaeda believed to be an American was arrested in the sprawling southern city of Karachi in recent days by Pakistani security officials, Pakistani officials said Sunday.
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Suspect Arrested In Pakistan Not Gadahn: Officials
www.reuters.com-March 08, 2010
Pakistani security agents denied on Monday that an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason had been arrested, saying there had been confusion over the identity of a detained suspect.
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Obama Urged To Shift 9/11 Trials
www.washingtontimes.com-March 08, 2010
A Republican senator is offering the White House a deal on terror trials.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says that if President Obama agrees to try Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused henchmen in military tribunals, he will press fellow Republicans to vote to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Cyberwar Declared As China Hunts For The West's Intelligence Secrets
www.timesonline.co.uk-March 08, 2010
Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China.
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A Growing Terrorist Threat?
www.csis.org-March 08, 2010
Five events during the fall of 2009 thrust concerns over “homegrown” terrorism—or extremist violence perpetrated by U.S. legal residents and citizens1 —into public view:
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Sources: U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman caught
www.msnbc.com-March 07, 2010
Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida, has been captured in Pakistan, government sources said Sunday.
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U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital
www.nytimes.com-March 06, 2010
The Somali government is preparing a major offensive to take back this capital block by crumbling block, and it takes just a listen to the low growl of a small surveillance plane circling in the night sky overhead to know who is surreptitiously backing that effort.
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Obama Aides Near Reversal On 9/11 Trial
www.washingtonpost.com-March 05, 2010
President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.
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Administration close to 9/11 trials' reversal
www.msnbc.com-March 05, 2010
In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.
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Trying 9/11 Suspects in Military Court Could Pave Way to Closing Gitmo
www.foxnews.com-March 05, 2010
Moving the trial of suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of criminal court and into a military tribunal could finally enable President Obama to close the terrorist detainee center at Guantanamo Bay.
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WH considering military trials for 9/11 suspects
www.realclearpolitics.com-March 05, 2010
In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.
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Obama aides seek change of course on 9/11 trials
www.latimes.com-March 05, 2010
Key presidential advisors are pushing to move the trial of the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks to a military commission, abandoning plans to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others in federal courts, according to current and former officials.
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