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Twitter/X Provides Premium Perks to Hezbollah, Other U.S.-Sanctioned Groups
The U.S. imposes sanctions on individuals, groups, and countries deemed to be a threat to national security. Elon Musk’s X appears to be selling premium service to some of them.
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Mathematics in Movies: The Warmachine
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Why isn't 9/11 a national holiday?
It's one of the most infamous dates in U.S. history. But it isn't a federal holiday.
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Al-Qaeda Car Bombs And Suicide Attacks Are Tearing Iraq Apart
First came the fireball, then the screams of the victims. The suicide bombing just outside a Baghdad graveyard knocked Nasser Waleed Ali over and peppered his back with shrapnel. Ali was one of the lucky ones. At least 51 died in the Oct. 5 attack, many of them Shiite pilgrims walking by on their way to a shrine.
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Internal TSA Documents: Body Scanners, Pat Downs Not For Terrorists
The TSA has quietly admitted there is no actual “threat-addressing” basis for employing nude body scanners or invasive pat down procedures at airports, a notion many travelers who are weary of the federal agency’s borderline sexual molestation have long suspected but were hard-pressed to prove.
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Al Qaeda Returns: The new face of terror
The West thought it was winning the battle against jihadist terrorism. It should think again.
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Doctor who helped trace Osama bin Laden to face fresh trial
The 33-year jail term given to Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Osama Bin Laden, was on Thursday overturned by an official who ordered a fresh trial. Frontier crimes regulation commissioner Sahibzada Mohammad Anees ruled that a judge in the tribal belt had exceeded his authority when he handed down the sentence last year and ordered a fresh trial.
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Infographic: Is Closing Gitmo a Security Risk or Wise Move?
As Al Qaeda suspect Abu Anas Al-Libi, who was captured recently in Libya, awaits trial before a New York federal court, military commissions for five of the U.S. military’s most high-value detainees drag on at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been plagued by hunger strikes and allegations that officials ignored torture complaints. Given this, should a prison that President Obama said is “no longer necessary to keep America safe” remain open?
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President Putin signs law requiring terrorists’ relatives to pay for damages
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that forces relatives of terrorists to pay for damages caused by their attacks. It also boosts penalties for launching, participating, or financing militant or terrorist groups.
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CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds
Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes.
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'Bin Laden has won, they confiscated my honey': Outspoken academic Richard Dawkins
World famous English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and unrelenting critic of religion and the religious, Richard Dawkins, has turned his anger on airport security rules after he had a jar of honey confiscated.
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UK says to 'learn lessons' after male terror suspect escapes in burqa
A Somali-born man who escaped from special police surveillance by disguising himself in a burqa has exposed shortcomings in the way Britain handles some terrorism suspects, prompting an embarrassed government to announce a review.
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The Frightening New Definition of Terrorism
A few weeks ago Glenn Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, was detained at London Heathrow airport under schedule 7 of the UK’s 2000 Terrorism Act.
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Al-Qaeda in Syria raids wedding party, warns against music and singing
Al-Qaeda’s main branch in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has raided a wedding party in the suburb of Aleppo and ordered stopping music and singing, the Asharq al-Awsat reported, quoting Syrian activists
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Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels Say Sorry After Decapitating Wrong Person
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels have said sorry for decapitating a fellow extremist by accident. Militant Islamist rebels in Syria linked to al-Qaeda have asked for "understanding and forgiveness" for cutting off and putting on display the wrong man's head, The Telegraph has reported.
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NSA chief says Edward Snowden leaks increase the probability of a terrorist attack
NSA Director General Keith Alexander was asked what steps U.S. authorities were taking to stop Snowden from leaking additional information to journalists at a Q&A session in Baltimore October 31. 'I wish there was a way to prevent it. Snowden has shared somewhere between 50 (thousand) and 200,000 documents with reporters. These will continue to come out,' Alexander said. He also warned that these leaks made a terrorist attack more likely.
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Pakistani doctor who helped find bin Laden charged with murder
A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been charged with murder over a 2006 surgery he performed, his lawyer said Friday, raising new doubts whether the physician will regain his freedom.
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Saudi Arabia sentences US consulate attacker to death
A Saudi court has sentenced one man to death and 19 others to up to 25 years in prison in connection with an attack on the US consulate in Jeddah in 2004.
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Terrorism offences 'may have been committed' over Miranda material
It appears "possible that some people may have committed offences" Scotland Yard's head of counter-terrorism told MPs when she updated them on the state of the investigation into the material seized from David Miranda in August.
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Watching the Watch List: Landmark Case Goes to Trial over Massive U.S. Terrorism "No-Fly" Database
With hundreds of thousands of people now on the government’s terrorist watch lists, a closely watched trial begins today in San Francisco. Stanford University Ph.D. student Rahinah Ibrahim is suing the U.S. government after she was barred from flying from Malaysia back to the United States in 2005 to complete her studies at Stanford after her name was placed on the list.
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