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1 hr ago | Bloomberg

Accused Sept. 11 Terror Attack Plotters Return to Court

Five men facing trial for 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon returned to a military courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the first time since February, to hear a U.S. vice admiral testify he wasn't pressured to bring charges against them.

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Related Topix: Guantanamo Bay, US Army, US Military

5 hrs ago | WCTI

Snowden claims online Obama fell short

A series of blog posts on Monday purportedly by Edward Snowden said he leaked classified details about U.S. surveillance programs because President Barack Obama worsened "abusive" practices instead of curtailing them as he promised as a candidate.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

9 hrs ago | Canada.com

Egypt's Morsi's appointment of ex-militant group member as a governor of Luxor, causes uproar

In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a tourist visits Hatshepsut's Temple in Luxor, Egypt.

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Related Topix: World News, Egypt, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak

13 hrs ago | Seattle Times

A look at who is still held at Guantanamo

President Barack Obama has appointed a new envoy to lead a renewed effort to close the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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

16 hrs ago | Daily Press & Argus

Drill tests response to anthrax outbreak

Emergency responders will test their skills this week in a regional disaster drill.

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Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Detroit, MI, Brighton, MI

20 hrs ago | Fermanagh Today

Cameron concerned about extremists in Syria

David Cameron said today that he is "as worried as anyone" about terrorist and extremist elements among opposition forces fighting to oust Bashar Assad in Syria.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin

21 hrs ago | The Orlando Sentinel

State Department to name lawyer Cliff Sloan to close Guantanamo

The State Department on Monday is expected to announce the appointment of Washington lawyer Cliff Sloan to oversee the closure of the controversial Guantanamo detention camp, sources familiar with the decision said on Sunday.

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

Sun Jun 16, 2013

KMIZ

New report: Britain spied on G-20 delegates

Britain's electronic intelligence agency monitored delegates' phones and tried to capture their passwords during an economic summit held there in 2009, the Guardian newspaper reported Sunday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Udall

NHK World

In Iraq terrorist attacks leave 23 people dead

A wave of car bombings and shootings left 23 people dead across Iraq on Sunday. In the southern Iraqi city of Basra, two car bombs exploded at almost the same time on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Iraq, World News

Anchorage Daily News

Series of attacks kill 40 people across Iraq

Violence has spiked sharply in Iraq in recent months, with the death toll rising to levels not seen since 2008.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East,

Free Republic

Watch the Good Guys and Leave the Terrorists Alone

Barack Obama alleges that snooping is in the nation's best interest because it is a powerful tool needed to keep Americans safe from dangerous terrorists.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Fitness, Yoga

Daily Star

Terror spooks bugging prisons

MI5 and anti-terror police have bugged Britain's high-security jails to stop them being used to launch Islamist attacks.

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NEWS.com.au

Violent Extremist Content 'Still Rife' On Web

A former minister says more must be done to tackle extremist online material ahead of Government talks with Facebook and Google.

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Related Topix: Startups, Widevine Technologies, Facebook, Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law

Sat Jun 15, 2013

WPTV Local News

NSA programs broke plots in 20 nations

Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries.

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Related Topix: The National, Entertainment, Television

CNN

Intelligence community provides fuller justification for data collection

The intelligence community has provided Congress additional counterterrorism justification for the government's controversial stockpiles of telephone and Internet records.

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Related Topix: US News, Patriot Act, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Social Software, US Politics

Derry Today

Couple remanded in custody on terrorism charges

A DERRY couple charged with a number of offences under terrorism legislation, including possession of explosives, have been remanded in custody following a special sitting of Derry's Magistrates Court.

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Bellingham Herald

By arming Syria rebels, US drawn into proxy war

In this citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network , anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a placard with a caricature during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria, June 14, 2013.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Syria, World News, Journalism

WTOP-FM Washington

Al-Qaida's Iraq head defies boss over Syria fight

The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purportedly from him that was posted online Saturday.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Iraq, World News,

National Public Radio

High-Tech Surveillance Targets Evolving Terrorist Tactics

Since public revelations that the National Security Agency is collecting telephone records and reviewing Internet communications in the U.S. and abroad, officials have been making the case that the programs are vital.

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Related Topix: Robert Mueller, Social Software

The Guardian

Shaker Aamer: My fight for justice in Guantanamo | Shaker Aamer

Killing innocent people for an idea, whether on London's streets or from the skies of Pakistan, is always wrong A protest against GuantA namo Bay, where Shaker Aamer is being held, in front of the US supreme court in Washington.

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