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Libya Rebels Raise Concern About Islamic Extremism

AJDABIYA, Libya - Abdel-Moneim Mokhtar was ambushed and killed by Moammar Gadhafi's troops last week on a dusty road in eastern Libya - the end of a journey that saw him fight as a jihadi in Afghanistan and then return home where he died alongside NATO-backed rebels trying to oust the longtime authoritarian leader. In...

Unsealed NY Indictment Reveals Case Against 5 Men

NEW YORK -- The details of the criminal charges against the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other defendants became moot for a civilian jury when they were finally made public Monday, just as Attorney General Eric Holder was announcing the men will be prosecuted at a military tribunal instead of...

Six Decades Later, FBI's Ten Most Wanted List Still Tough to Crack

WASHINGTON -- In the film "Take the Money and Run," Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. "You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list," Starkwell's wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. "It's very unfair voting. It's who you know." As Allen's fictitious character...

For al-Qaida, Detroit Was Just the Cheapest Flight

WASHINGTON -- When an admitted al-Qaida operative planned his itinerary for a Christmas 2009 airline bombing, he considered launching the strike in the skies above Houston or Chicago, The Associated Press has learned. But tickets were too expensive, so he refocused the mission on a cheaper destination: Detroit. The...

Yemeni President Says US and Israel Behind Unrest

SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster. Hundreds of thousands rallied in cities across Yemen against the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in the largest...

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President Obama Does a bin Laden End-Zone Dance

Last year I praised President Obama for not wanting to "spike the football" by releasing gruesome death photos of Osama bin Laden.

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05/28/12 Pak establishment has learnt no lessons from past... Source: Vietnam Tribune An editorial in a Pakistan daily has said the establishment has learnt no lessons even after an attack as brazen as the one on Pakistan Naval Station (PNS) Mehran.
05/26/12 Osama bin Laden admired Che Guevara Source: Zee News A Pakistani intelligence agent who interrogated Osama bin Laden's three wives said that the al Qaeda's slain chief and his youngest wife liked Che Guevara.
05/23/12 Pak doctor, who helped find Osama, jailed Source: Zee News Pakistani Dr Shakil Afridi, who helped the US authorities in tracing slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, on Wednesday, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison.
05/22/12 Osama bin Laden's goal to bankrupt America is working Source: Press and Guide - Dearborn MI One year ago American forces killed Osama bin Laden the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack against the United States.
05/21/12 Osama bin Laden's goal to bankrupt America is wortking Source: Press and Guide - Dearborn MI One year ago American forces killed Osama bin Laden the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack against the United States.

Background on Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (; , '; March 10, 1957May 2, 2011), was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.

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