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Attorney General Holder: I made decision to charge Christmas terror suspect
2:41 PM on 02/03/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he made the decision to charge the Christmas Day terror suspect in civilian court rather than the military system...
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Christmas plane attack case will test defense
10:41 AM on 01/08/2010
DETROIT (AP) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as flames shot from his clothes...
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NSC chief of staff: Obama got people's attention
9:15 AM on 01/06/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Security Council's chief of staff says the Obama administration will "follow through" on all intelligence leads as they seek to avert any further terrorist attacks...
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Sen. DeMint standing firm against TSA nominee
9:48 AM on 01/04/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Republican senator is blocking confirmation of President Barack Obama's choice to head the Transportation Security Administration...
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Obama: security system failed to connect the dots
8:43 AM on 12/30/2009
HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama says the intelligence community had information that it should have been pieced together before the Christmas Day attempted terror attack...
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Lawmaker wants military trial for alleged airplane bomber
9:14 AM on 12/29/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leading Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee says the Nigerian man accused of attacking an airliner should be tried by a military tribunal...
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Obama orders review of airline safety, officials acknowledge failures
8:23 AM on 12/29/2009
HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama has ordered a review of how U.S. intelligence organizations keep the skies safe...
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Terror suspect's family sought, got no help
3:00 PM on 12/28/2009
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner cut off contact with his family and disappeared from their lives until they awoke to news of the attempted Christmas Day attack, his family said Monday...
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Terror plot is bad news for Nigerians
10:04 AM on 12/28/2009
OPINION - Hearing that a terrorist suspect had been found attempting to detonate a device on a plane was bad news. Finding out that the suspect was Nigerian was, for me and many other Nigerians, even worse...
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Napolitano says airline security system failed in case of Nigerian man
7:56 AM on 12/28/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watch list with a U.S. visa in his pocket...
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Muslims should be more vocal in denouncing extremism
11:00 AM on 11/10/2009
OPINION - As a society, we are rapidly approaching a tipping point that will determine whether Muslims and non-Muslims can peacefully coexist.
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Muslim convert pleads not guilty to murder of soldier
12:33 PM on 06/02/2009
NOAH TRISTER Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- A Muslim convert who already was under federal investigation pleaded not guilty Tuesday in what police called a likely "political and religious" attack that killed a young soldier at a military recruiting center. Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, was charged in Monday's...
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Harlem weighs in on the question of torture (video)
8:57 AM on 05/29/2009
The question about whether or not to torture suspected terrorists has been a controversial issue in the news lately. President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Dick Cheney have debated this publicly in recent weeks. In simultaneous speeches on May 21st, Cheney weighed in on the side of condoning waterboarding while...
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