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CQPolitics.com via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 2:27 pm ET
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 2:19 pm ET
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on Sunday to ink billions of dollars of weapons deals and for talks on a landmark nuclear deal that could significantly widen atomic fuel imports from Russia.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 1:04 pm ET
National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."
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The Washington Times - 43 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may periodically slip back into Afghanistan from his remote hideout in neighboring Pakistan, a senior White House official says, adding a new twist to the mystery of the elusive terrorist's whereabouts. President Barack Obama's national security adviser, James Jones, said bin Laden, believed hiding mainly in a rugged area of western Pakistan ...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 51 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is looking for help in Afghanistan from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan even as tensions simmer between the two NATO allies on Iran and the Middle East.
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Baltimore Sun - 59 minutes ago
Homegrown extremists alarm White House The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country is confronting a rising threat from homegrown extremism.
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CBS News - Sun Dec 6, 12:41 pm ET
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates discuss the war in Afghanistan with Bob Schieffer. Plus; Schieffer weighs in on the Tiger Woods saga.
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Denver Post - Mon Dec 7, 3:36 am ET
The Obama administration sent a forceful public message Sunday that American military forces would remain in Afghanistan for a long time.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 12:01 pm ET
President Barack Obama's order to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan presents the US military with a giant logistical challenge as it faces some of the most forbidding terrain in the world.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 11:59 am ET
When US Captain Andy Gray and his specialist rescue team heard a helicopter was missing in the Afghan mountains, adrenaline kicked in and the pilots raced into action.
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Detroit Free Press - Mon Dec 7, 3:31 am ET
While memories of 9/11 are vivid to most Americans, Pearl Harbor veterans are concerned about their place in history being forgotten.
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Fox News - Sun Dec 6, 11:47 am ET
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. hasn't had intelligence on Usama bin Laden in years, but National Security Adviser Jim Jones speculates he is in North Waziristan and freely crossing the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 12:32 am ET
The United States does not know where Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is and has lacked reliable information on his whereabouts for years, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News on Sunday.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 11:30 am ET
President Barack Obama's July 2011 date for beginning to pull U.S. forces from Afghanistan is not a "drop-dead deadline" but a message to Kabul about the urgency of fielding an army to defend the country, senior U.S. officials said on Sunday.
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New York Daily News - Mon Dec 7, 3:01 am ET
The politicians always make them sound like wars of abstraction so nobody has to talk about the blood of young American soldiers. It was like that on the Sunday news shows as this country prepares to send even more soldiers to Afghanistan .
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 11:58 pm ET
The United States does not know where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding and has not had any good intelligence on his whereabouts in years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday.
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Bloomberg - Sun Dec 6, 10:54 am ET
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan policy, as laid out in his West Point address last week, evokes Winston Churchill’s description of democracy as “the worst form of government except for all those others.”
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New York Times - Sun Dec 6, 10:20 am ET
Policy makers could balance the budget by taxing indirectly harmful activities like financial speculation, as we do with sulfur dioxide emissions.
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The Toledo Blade - Mon Dec 7, 6:08 am ET
ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. - Two Navy SEALs, one from northwest Ohio, are scheduled to be arraigned today in military court on charges that they mistreated an Iraqi suspect in the slayings of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah. One of the SEALs is accused of punching the detainee after his September arrest, while the other is accused of lying to investigators. A third SEAL is accused of lying ...
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Jefferson City News Tribune - Mon Dec 7, 3:54 am ET
The submarine crew makes its way Saturday on to the USS Missouri at the General Dynamics Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Conn. The fifth warship to carry the name of the state of Missouri was christened by the ship's sponsor, Rebecca Gates, wife of Defense Secretary Robert Gates.