Lebanon's Hariri keen on improving ties with Syria
AFP - Tue Dec 8, 9:58 am ETLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday his government was keen on improving its ties with Syria, strained since the killing of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
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Iraq bombers backed by foreign groups: police
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 6:30 am ETThe attackers who carried out a series of co-ordinated bombings in Baghdad that killed 127 people were backed by groups based in Syria or Saudi Arabia, a senior Iraqi policeman said on Wednesday.
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Christian leader in Syria for talks with Assad
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 9, 6:16 am ETBeirut - Michel Aoun, leader of the Christian Free Patriotic Movement, arrived in Damascus on Wednesday for talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, a source close to Aoun said. Aoun, whose movement has close links with the fundamentalist Hezbollah ...
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No Bail For Alleged Hezbollah Member
OfficialWire - Wed Dec 9, 5:42 am ETA Lebanese man who allegedly told U.S. agents he is a member of Hezbollah has been ordered held without bail by a federal judge in Philadelphia. Dani Nemar Tarraf, 38, was arrested in Philadelphia after a two-year undercover investigation, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.
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Strategy Page - Wed Dec 9, 5:17 am ETDecember 9, 2009: Negotiations to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas captivity continue to be stalled. Hamas wants fifty hard core terrorists with, as Israel calls it, "blood on their hands" freed in exchange for Shalit.
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Israel parliament to vote on land-for-peace law
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 3:03 am ETThe Israeli parliament was set to vote Wednesday on a bill requiring a referendum to approve a pullout from annexed east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights as part of any peace deal, officials said.
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Russia Wants More Israeli Spy Drones
OfficialWire - Wed Dec 9, 2:12 am ETRussia is seeking to acquire more Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles under a $100 million deal that has more to do with bribing Moscow not to supply Iran with state-of-the-art air-defense missiles that could skewer any Israeli air assault than it has with dollars and cents.
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Police: Bomb hidden in trash kills 2 in Baghdad
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 2:05 am ETAn Iraqi police official says a bomb hidden in a garbage heap has killed two people in northern Baghdad.
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Sensitive air security info pops up on Net
Detroit News - Wed Dec 9, 1:02 am ETWashington -- The U.S. Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets regarding airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency said.
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Iran levels kidnapping charges against U.S., Saudis
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Wed Dec 9, 12:26 am ETBEIRUT -- Iran's top diplomat yesterday accused the United States and Saudi Arabia of having kidnapped one of its nuclear scientists.
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Militants strike Baghdad govt targets, 127 dead
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TSA accidentally reveals airport security secrets
Washington Post - Wed Dec 9, 12:00 am ETThe Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related to airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
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Iraq: More bombings to come as polls near
Space War - Tue Dec 8, 11:35 pm ETBaghdad (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 - Tuesday's surge of spectacular car bombings across Baghdad that killed more than 100 people, the third such wave since August, underlines the inadequacies of Iraq's security apparatus and the deep-rooted opposition to the recent shift toward Iranian-friendly Shiite politics.
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Turkish leader says Iran censure 'very rushed'
Space War - Tue Dec 8, 11:34 pm ETWashington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the West Monday for being too quick to censure Iran's nuclear program but told President Barack Obama that Ankara was prepared to mediate with Tehran.
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Massive TSA Security Breach As Agency Gives Away Its Secrets
KSPR Springfield - Tue Dec 8, 9:07 pm ETIn a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.
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127 dead in Baghdad car bombings
The Pitt News - Tue Dec 8, 7:42 pm ETBAGHDAD — At least five car bombs ripped through neighborhoods across Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing 127 Iraqis and prompting urgent questions about Iraq's security forces just as the country gears up for national elections early next year.
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Syria's Assad: Israel not 'ready' for peace
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