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Yemen to Get Limited Attention at London Conference

SAN'A, Yemen (Jan. 26) – The international community had better work fast. The portion of this week's conference in London meant to address Yemen's multitude of problems is scheduled to last only two hours. For this Yemen power-session, tacked on Wednesday to a full-day conference on Afghanistan the next day, the...

What Intelligence Analysts Didn't Do in Airliner Plot

(Jan. 7) -- It's not that intelligence analysts couldn't connect the dots in the failed Christmas bombing plot. It's that they didn't try hard enough to do so. That, in essence, was the conclusion of a White House review of why the attack wasn't discovered and stopped before it fizzled in the skies above Detroit. The...

Obama Says Security System Failed

WASHINGTON (Jan. 5) - President Barack Obama asserted on Tuesday that the U.S. government had enough information to foil the attempted bombing on a Christmas Day airline flight but intelligence agencies "failed to connect the dots." Obama called that unacceptable and said, "I will not tolerate it." The accused attacker, a...

How Young Muslims Get Radicalized

(Dec. 31) -- Two big questions are driving the coverage of failed Christmas Day bomber suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and they are these: How was it that the warning signs were missed and he was allowed to board the airplane he allegedly intended to destroy? And just what is it that drives young men like him –...

Cartoonist Hid in 'Panic Room' During Attack

COPENHAGEN (Jan. 2) - An ax-wielding Somali man with suspected al-Qaida links was charged Saturday with two counts of attempted murder after breaking into the home of a Danish artist whose Prophet Muhammad cartoon outraged the Muslim world three years ago. The suspect, who was shot twice by a police officer responding to...