Spin of Wheel May Determine Judge in 9/11 Case
New York Times - Fri Nov 27, 5:16 pm ETThe judge who will preside at the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects may be randomly assigned.
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U.S. Somalis being trained by insurgents
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tue Nov 24, 12:26 am ETFederal authorities yesterday unsealed terrorism-related charges against eight men, accusing them of recruiting at least 20 young Somali Americans from Minnesota to join an extremist Islamic insurgency in Somalia.
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Feds Ready to Charge 8 inAl Qaeda Recruitment Case
Fox News - Mon Nov 23, 2:33 pm ETLIVESHOTS: Authorities plan charges in long-running probe of Minnesota-to-Somalia Al Qaeda recruitment
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Obama's Second Term Hinges On Afghanistan-Pakistan: Riedel
INO News - Tue Nov 24, 12:25 am ET(RTTNews) - Bruce Riedel, adviser to the U.S. President, said Barack Obama's next term in office depends on how he tackles the situation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and on preventing Pakistan from becoming a "jihadist" state.
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Trial Is Key Test for Other Cases Involving Terror
New York Times - Sun Nov 22, 9:31 pm ETAhmed Khalfan Ghailani’s case in Manhattan could be important in a future trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the professed planner of 9/11.
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Feds charge eight in Minn. terror probe
The Washington Times - Mon Nov 23, 5:30 pm ETThe Justice Department announced Monday terrorism charges against eight people accused of recruiting young men in Minneapolis to fight for an al Qaeda-inspired organization in Somalia. For the past two years, authorities say, about 20 young men, all but one of whom are of Somali decent, have left their homes in Minnesota to go fight with al-Shabaab, which has pledged allegiance to Osama Bin ...
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Krauthammer: Terror trial for NYC a travesty in the making
The Record and Herald News - Mon Nov 23, 5:04 pm ETCharles Krauthammer writes for The Washington Post Writers Group. Send comments about this article to Peter Grad, Op-Ed Page editor, at grad@northjersey.com.
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Fort Hood: terror's 'third wave'
New York Post - Mon Nov 23, 7:06 am ETThe Fort Hood killings were no isolated incident, but part of al Qaeda's "third wave." The 9/11 terrorists were the first wave: Their attacks culminated years of direct attacks on America and the West by al Qaeda operators -- a core group of Saud...
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Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards
consortiumnews.com - Mon Nov 23, 3:09 pm ETEd itor’s Note: Many Americans – and especially U.S. media pundits – view the world through a self-absorbed nearsightedness, acting as if the histories of countries only began when they did something that attracted U.S. attention.
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Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
CommonDreams.org - Mon Nov 23, 7:29 pm ETby Jeremy Scahill At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and ...
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Press & Media
Heritage Foundation - Mon Nov 23, 10:48 pm ETEric Holder's stumbling performance before Congress on Wednesday exposed the administration's scattershot approach to detention and prosecution of terrorists.
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Talking with the Taliban.
Time.com via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 22, 10:40 am ETTalking with the Taliban
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'Super Size Me' filmmaker to speak in Topeka
49 ABC News Topeka - Mon Nov 23, 8:57 am ETThe filmmaker best known for his documentary "Super Size Me" is headed to Topeka.
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Military's tactics criticized in lead-up to Afghanistan attack
Honolulu Advertiser - Mon Nov 23, 7:12 am ETTwo months before he died in eastern Afghanistan, 1st Lt. Jonathan P. Brostrom made a surprise Mother's Day visit to his parents' home in Aiea. "Some friends of his were over and made me dinner," his mother, Mary Jo, recalled. "At about 10 at night there was a knock on the door. One of the girls said, 'Mary Jo, there's a soldier with a bouquet of flowers at the door for you.' I thought she was ...
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Growing up Bin Laden
New York Post - Sun Nov 22, 7:21 am ETHe enjoys growing sunflowers, has daddy issues, and suffers from disabling blindness in his right eye. But this man is no sympathy figure — he’s the world’s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden. “Growing up Bin Laden” follows the intimate inside st...
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Charles Krauthammer: Holder delivers 9/11 architect to grand stage
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Sun Nov 22, 3:04 pm ETWASHINGTON -- For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has ...
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