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A Chronicle of Gaza, in Kitsch Form

New York Times - Tue Nov 10, 7:33 am ET

At the Chairman Arafat Shop, one of Gaza's oddest commercial outlets, a battery-powered, dancing Osama bin Laden doll occupies a shelf above Barack Obama coffee mugs.

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Commentary: A Lesson From the Uighurs
Law.com - Mon Nov 9, 10:40 pm ET
Almost immediately after taking office, the Obama administration set an arbitrary deadline for closing the secure terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That was the easy part. The hard part is deciding what to do with the hundreds of foreign terrorists detained at Guantanamo who, thus far, have been kept safely away from American communities, argues Senate Minority Leader Mitch ...
Pakistan starts critical offensive against Taliban
Park Hills Daily Journal - 2 hours 37 minutes ago
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Saturday as the nuclear-armed country launched its most critical offensive yet against insurgents threatening its stability.
Terror training camps smaller, harder to target
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 6:30 am ET
Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts.
For Taliban Fighters, a Fading Memorial
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tue Nov 10, 2:26 am ET
TARAKHEL, Afghanistan -- The locals call the place "The Taliban Cemetery," a weed-clotted memorial to the men who died for the movement during its fiercest campaigns in the years before 9/11.
Philippines enraged as Islamists behead hostage
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 6:15 am ET
The Philippine government on Monday vowed to take revenge against Al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants after they dumped the severed head of a kidnapped school principal at a petrol station.
Flushing super held as Hezbollah gun runner
Queens Courier - Tue Nov 10, 10:31 am ET
A Flushing father of two sits in a federal lockup – held without bail as an alleged terrorist gunrunner – and faces up to 80 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Chicago man had al-Qaida video
Boston Herald - Mon Nov 9, 1:38 pm ET
CHICAGO - Federal prosecutors say a video produced by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network was found in the home of a Chicago man charged with plotting an attack...
New Book Reveals the Range of Islamist Thought for Western Readers
Newswise - Tue Nov 10, 9:21 am ET
Wellesley College political scientist Roxanne L. Euben has published a new book designed to expand the understanding of Islamic thought in the Western world. "Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden" is an anthology of key writings from the early 20th century to the present.
Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 4:01 am ET
The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included several people who shared the same profession as the alleged shooter, a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a ...
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Bluffton Today - Tue Nov 10, 8:10 am ET
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Fort Hood Victim List
Tulsa World - Tue Nov 10, 3:39 am ET
The 13 people killed Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas:
AP sources: US troops likely for Afghanistan in January
The Record and Herald News - Mon Nov 9, 11:03 pm ET
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though likely not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there, as Pentagon planners work to ready bases and provide equipment the troops would need in a country with scant resources.
Feds: Al-Qaida video found at home of terror suspect
Chicago Tribune - Mon Nov 9, 1:35 pm ET
Federal prosecutors have stepped up efforts to keep in custody a Chicago businessman linked to a international terrorist plot, saying in their latest filing that DVDs linked to al-Qaida were found in his home. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, was charged last month with conspiring to take revenge on a Danish newspaper for publishing unflattering cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad that outraged the ...
Profiles of those who were slain
USA Today - Mon Nov 9, 12:14 am ET
Victims of the Fort Hood shooting came from different paths but shared a patriotism that led them to their deaths at the hands of a comrade.
The Lives Lost at Fort Hood -- Who Were They?
ABC News - Mon Nov 9, 11:19 am ET
Sadly we are learning more and more about the 13 lives lost at Fort Hood. Take a moment and read through what the Associated Press has compiled on each life lost. Michael Grant Cahill Cahill, a 62-year-old physician assistant, suffered...