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Bloggers Consider Deliberate-Dud Theory

(Jan. 6) – Among the many "what-ifs" being batted around online in the wake of the Christmas plane bombing attempt is one that got its start on Andrew Sullivan's blog. What if, a reader asked, the so-called "underwear bomber" wasn't out to actually bring down Northwest Flight 253? What if the goal was simply to...

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 –...

Failure to Connect Dots Recalls 9/11 Shortfalls

WASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- The headlines were sickeningly familiar. "Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror," concluded The New York Times. "U.S. Intel Lapses Helped Abdulmutallab," CBS News reported on the Nigerian suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. "What the CIA Did and Didn't Know About Alleged Underpants...

Poll: Waterboard the Terror Suspect, Americans Say

(Dec. 31) -- The U.S. government no longer uses the interrogation technique known as waterboarding on suspected terrorists. But don't tell that to the American public. According to a new poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports, 58 percent of those surveyed said that they want the federal government to waterboard terror...

Should Obama Be in Washington?

(Dec. 31) -- At a morning story conference for Politics Daily, our colleague Lynn Sweet mentioned that in the wake of the abortive terrorist attack aboard Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, President Obama has been on the receiving end of criticism for remaining on holiday in Hawaii while details of this crisis...

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Anwar Al Awlaki Role In Prepping Underwear Bomber Revealed By Feds

The United States on Friday submitted a memorandum to a Michigan federal judge revealing that terrorist leader Anwar al Awlaki had more direct involvement that previously known in the so-called underwear bomber's preparations to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009.

POLITICS DAILY

Immigration, Terrorism, Health Care: Hot Issues Pack Fall Court Docket

As the vacations of August give way to the business of September, the legal beat this week is beginning to heat up.

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10/12/11 Trial of accused Christmas "underwear" bomber continues Source: CBS - WTVR 6 - Richmond VA The trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner in midair on Christmas Day 2009, enters its second day on Wednesday with more testimony expected from a passenger who witnessed the alleged botched suicide attack.