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Where do things stand at Guantánamo? Six basic questions answered.
President Obama this week pledged to “reengage” with Congress to find a way to close the terror detention camp at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, naval base. The renewed focus comes as 100 of the 166 detainees are reported to be engaged in a hunger strike. Here is a brief look at where things stand now.
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Pakistan elections: Who's running?
This election will mark the first transfer of power from one government to another without any military interference. Here is a look at the main candidates for prime minister.
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George H. W. Bush in his own words: 10 stories from the updated 'All the Best, George Bush'
"All the Best, George Bush" is a collection of the personal correspondence of George H. W. Bush from his first years in the Navy in 1942 all the way to 2011. Here are 10 excerpts from the book.
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Top 3 threats to the United States: the good and bad news
The annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community is out this week, a widely-anticipated report compiled by the nation’s intelligence agencies. Here is the good and bad news about the top three threats facing the United States, according to an unclassified version of the report.
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3 questions to ask about US drone policy
White House spokesman Jay Carney has defended the Obama administration's controversial drone policy, asserting: “These strikes are legal, they are ethical, and they are wise.” But rather than closing the debate, that statement frames the three essential questions Americans should be asking about US drone policy.
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CIA targets Al-Qaeda No. 2 with drone strike
US officials are not sure if Abu Yahia al-Libi was killed in the strike in Pakistan.
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Pakistan jails CIA informant: US Senate panel votes to cut aid to Pakistan
A Senate committee voted on Thursday to cut Pakistan aid by $33 million – one million dollars for each year of a 33-year sentence Pakistan gave a doctor for helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden.
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Is State Dept. hacking Al Qaeda? Not quite, but propaganda war is fierce.
Despite early reports, a State Department program to shoot down Al Qaeda propaganda online is not a hack. But the efforts are having an impact, Secretary Clinton says.
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Senate committee cuts Pakistan aid over doctor's conviction
After a Pakistani court sentenced the doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden to 33 years for treason, a US Senate panel voted Thursday to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million.
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Global News Blog Report: Russian intelligence suspects US hand in SuperJet crash
Although aviation experts dismissed Russian intelligence's suspicions of a US hand in the May 9 plane crash in Indonesia, the many unanswered questions about the crash fuel conspiracy theories.
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Terrorism & Security Pakistan to US: Respect our decision to sentence CIA informant
After a Pakistani doctor was sentenced to 33 years in prison on treason charges for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the US protested, saying he was acting against Al Qaeda, not Pakistan.
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Obama under fire for giving Hollywood access to Bin Laden SEALs
Rep. Peter King is criticizing the President's administration for sharing too much information with Kathryn Bigelow, the director of the Hurt Locker and the force behind a movie intended to depict the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year.
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Global News Blog Pakistan jails doctor who helped find bin Laden: why the US may not intervene
The doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in jail. But perhaps US-Pakistan relations have fallen so low that the US doesn't care anymore.
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Pakistani doctor who helped US find Bin Laden is jailed
Physician Shakil Afridi was accused of operating a fake vaccination effort which aided US intelligence in tracking the late Al Qaeda leader.
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Opinion: Iran talks in Baghdad: Western naiveté
As world powers head into nuclear talks with Iran in Baghdad on Wednesday, is Obama so naive as to hang on to a fake fatwa promising no nukes? With enough enriched uranium to eventually make six nuclear bombs, Tehran is simply stalling for time. Recent chronology bears this out.
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Pakistan's price: US to pay $365 million more a year to reopen supply lines
A US-Pakistan deal to reopen a key NATO supply route through Pakistan, closed for nearly six months, would raise the cost of the war effort in Afghanistan by about $365 million annually.
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Backchannels Saudi's Al Qaeda intelligence coup and the perils of too much disclosure
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's second underwear bomb plot went nowhere thanks to great intelligence work. But this is a case where too much disclosure is a problem.
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Secret CIA informant volunteered to be al-Qaeda bomber (+video)
The intelligence agency had planted a spy in the al-Qaeda organization behind the latest attempt at an underwear bomb; the informant's inside information was what allowed the CIA to bring down the plot and kill its organizer.
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'Undetectable' bomb reveals how Al Qaeda threat to US is evolving (+video)
The foiled plot to plant another 'underwear bomb' on a US airliner shows that as the core of Al Qaeda declines, affiliates like Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are taking the lead.
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Could airport scanners detect latest Al Qaeda non-metal bomb? (+video)
A covert CIA operation in Yemen intercepted an 'undetectable' bomb intended to blow up an airplane. Authorities suspect it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Al-Asiri, who built the first underwear bomb.
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CIA: We stopped "undetectable" bomb
Officials said the plot, timed to occur about a year after the death of Osama bin Laden, involved a more advanced version of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate on a plane over Detroit in December 2009.
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Opinion: François Hollande – no more 'Mr. Pudding'?
Style – more than policy differences on austerity – separated Socialist winner François Hollande from Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential elections. France may have simply preferred Hollande, dubbed 'Mr. Pudding,' over bombastic Sarkozy. But Hollande may not be so soft.
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World watches as 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others go on trial
The military trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants could become the most important US war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg. But at their arraignment Saturday, the five men staged a protest.
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9/11 mastermind arraigned: Can the US deliver real, lasting justice?
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Al Qaeda's former No. 3 man, is being arraigned Saturday on 2,976 counts of murder. It's being called a modern-day Nuremberg trial that will test the fairness of US military commissions.
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Bin Laden letters paint picture of al-Qaeda at its worst
The seventeen documents released by the Obama administration are calculated to highlight the President's foreign-policy successes.
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Osama bin Laden raid documents available online today
Documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound will show bin Laden's strategy for overthrowing Afghanistan.
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In Gear My Nissan Leaf life: Why I bought a Nissan Leaf
Nissan Leaf will save $1,000 a year in fuel bills. But the real reason I bought one? 9/11.
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Briefing
Top 3 reasons why Al Qaeda is more dangerous than ever
On the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, defense analysts say that there are plenty of reasons to think that a resurgence of the perniciously resourceful Al Qaeda is not out of the question.
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Arab Spring: now begins the education of Islamist politicians
In Tunisia and Egypt, Islamists are being elected into office to take on the daunting policy problems of their neglected societies. But Islamists, too, will be chucked out of office if they can’t deliver the goods. And they know it.
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Chapter & Verse In 'Hard Measures,' former CIA official Jose Rodriquez defends waterboarding
'Hard Measures' by former CIA official Jose Rodriguez also accuses Pakistan, Washington's current ally, of assisting terrorists.
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