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1 hr ago | Common Dreams

Islamophobia is America's Real Enemy

A report released this week has at last confirmed what we Muslim Americans have long known to be true: the threat posed to US national security by the radicalization of its Muslim community is minuscule.

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Related Topix: US News, Liberal Political News

5 hrs ago | WPTF-AM Raleigh

Blasts Rock Syria's 2nd Largest City, Aleppo

An image from Syrian State-TV shows residents and workers amid the rubble of a large explosion in Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, Feb.

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6 hrs ago | The State

Dad of NYC subway bomb plotter faces prison time

The father of an admitted terrorist faced up to 40 years in prison at sentencing Friday after his conviction on charges that he destroyed evidence and lied to investigators to cover up his son's plot to attack the New York City subways in 2009 as one of a trio of suicide bombers.

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Thu Feb 09, 2012

KBOI-AM Boise

African Jihadi Group Al-Shabaab Joins Al Qaeda

"The entire world attests that America's days are over and her rule has gone and her minions in the land of Muslims -- their end has come," the man identified as However there was little cringing to be found among U.S. officials who said Zawahiri's message was old news.

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Star Tribune

Uzbek man accused of threatening the life of US president faces new terror charge in Ala.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An Uzbekistan national charged with threatening the life of President Barack Obama was also charged Thursday with providing material aid to terrorism.

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Related Topix: Birmingham, AL, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

York Dispatch

Man pleads guilty over online 'South Park' threat

A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.

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Related Topix: Animated TV, South Park, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Matt Stone, Trey Parker

York Dispatch

UK's Cameron calls Jordan's king over extremist

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Thursday agreed to cooperate over thus-far unsuccessful attempts to deport extremist cleric Abu Qatada from London to Amman, the U.K. leader's office said.

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Related Topix: Jordan, World News, Middle East, Sweden,

The State

9 sentenced for London Stock Exchange terror plot

A British judge on Thursday sent nine men to prison for al-Qaida inspired plots to bomb the London Stock Exchange and set up a terrorist training camp.

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Related Topix: World News, Cheshire County, England, Staffordshire County, England, United Kingdom

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Pardoned Moroccan clerics call for new investigation into Casablanca terrorist attack

Three conservative clerics whose arrests nine years ago heralded the beginning of Morocco's crackdown on Islamists called on Thursday for a new investigation into their country's worst terrorist attack.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

The Daily Star

US drone strike kills 4 in Pakistan

A US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghanistan border killed four suspected militants Thursday, intelligence officials said, the second such attack in two days.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News

York Dispatch

Trial of accused Bali bomber to start next week

A trial on terrorism charges has been scheduled to start Monday for an Indonesian man accused of making the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings.

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WHDH

Palestinian prisoner on 55th day of hunger strike

In a high-stakes gamble, an imprisoned member of a Palestinian militant group has waged a hunger strike for almost two months, trying to draw attention to Israel's military justice system and its treatment of detainees who can be held without charge for lengthy periods.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Prison,

Wed Feb 08, 2012

WLTI-FM Syracuse

Osama Bin Laden Zombie Film Coming This Summer

A Utah production company announced on Wednesday that it has shot a movie based on the premise that Osama bin Laden rises from his watery grave and leads an army of zombie terrorists in a violent jihad of the undead.

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York Dispatch

Canadian in NY admits trying to help Tamil Tigers

A Canadian man in a New York court has admitted attempting to buy sophisticated technology for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger insurgents in Sri Lanka.

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Click Orlando

Vendor who alerted cops to NYC bomb to run for Congress

One of the street vendors who alerted police to a smoking vehicle in Times Square that was later found to be carrying explosives says he's planning to run for Congress.

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Related Topix: US News, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Nan Hayworth, J. Hayworth

The Daily Star

Dozens killed as Syria regime pounds Homs

Syrian forces pressed a relentless assault on the protest city of Homs yesterday, with dozens of civilians reported killed, hours after President Bashar al-Assad said he was committed to ending the bloodshed.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Syria, World News

OfficialWire

Judge: Secret Evidence OK In Iraqi In Terror Case

Secret documents suggest an Iraqi man facing charges of trying to funnel weapons and cash to al-Qaida operatives in his home country was "an agent of a foreign power," and his lawyers may not see or suppress those documents, a judge ruled Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Examiner.com

Ohio man who supported al-Shabbab pleads guilty to terrorism charges

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 27, pleaded guilty yesterday in Minnesota to federal charges of helping to raise money for the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Mahamud is from Westerville Ohio and formerly lived in Minnesota.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, Westerville, OH, Prison, Michael Davis, Instrumental

National Public Radio

Case In Britain Echoes Dilemma At Guantanamo

Omar Othman, better known as Abu Qatada, is seen at his North London home in October 2001.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Kings College

American Reporter

On Native GroundTHE Right and Wrong Way to Deal with Terrorism

There is much about the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of attempting to explode a plastic device aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, that doesn't add up.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Jim DeMint

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