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As Siblings Again Unite To Unleash Terror, Experts Ask What Drives Them
The identification of Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui as suicide bombers in the deadly Brussels attacks is confronting investigators and counterterrorism experts with a disturbingly recurrent question: Why do so many terrorists turn out to be brothers?
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Clinton, 'Smart Power' And A Dictator's Fall
By the time Mahmoud Jibril cleared customs at Le Bourget airport and sped into Paris, the U.S. secretary of state had been waiting for hours. But this was not a meeting Hillary Clinton could cancel. Their encounter could decide whether America was again going to war.
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Following a Trail of Extremism on Twitter, Guided by Appeal of Militants
The onslaught of recruitment propaganda has multiplied the number of online enthusiasts for the Islamic State in the United States.
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NSA able to foil basic safeguards of privacy on Web
NSA has cracked the encryption, that guards sensitive data like trade secrets, medical records, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls.
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In din over Iran, rattling sabers echo
The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ultimate costs estimated at $3 trillion. Both wars lasted far longer than predicted.
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Iran nuclear standoff: Aggressive acts signal pressure on leadership, say observers
A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week -- assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of economic retaliation -- suggest that Iranian leaders are responding frantically, and with increasing unpredictability, to the tightening of sanctions by...
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Radical US Muslims of little threat, says study
A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialised, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or atta...
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In Afghan war, officer becomes a whistle-blower
On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis travelled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not levelled with the American public.
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Group in US hoped for big payday in offer to help Gaddafi
To a colourful group of Americans - the Washington terrorism expert, the veteran C.I.A. officer, the Republican operative, the Kansas City lawyer - the Libyan gambit last March looked like a rare business opportunity.
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WikiLeaks names sources in cables, even those marked "Strictly Protect"
In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly 134,000 leaked diplomatic cables in recent days, more than six times the total disclosed publicly since the posting of the leaked State Department documents began last November.
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As Siblings Again Unite To Unleash Terror, Experts Ask What Drives Them
The identification of Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui as suicide bombers in the deadly Brussels attacks is confronting investigators and counterterrorism experts with a disturbingly recurrent question: Why do so many terrorists turn out to be brothers?
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Clinton, 'Smart Power' And A Dictator's Fall
By the time Mahmoud Jibril cleared customs at Le Bourget airport and sped into Paris, the U.S. secretary of state had been waiting for hours. But this was not a meeting Hillary Clinton could cancel. Their encounter could decide whether America was again going to war.
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Following a Trail of Extremism on Twitter, Guided by Appeal of Militants
The onslaught of recruitment propaganda has multiplied the number of online enthusiasts for the Islamic State in the United States.
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NSA able to foil basic safeguards of privacy on Web
NSA has cracked the encryption, that guards sensitive data like trade secrets, medical records, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls.
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In din over Iran, rattling sabers echo
The United States has now endured what by some measures is the longest period of war in its history, with more than 6,300 American troops killed and 46,000 wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ultimate costs estimated at $3 trillion. Both wars lasted far longer than predicted.
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Iran nuclear standoff: Aggressive acts signal pressure on leadership, say observers
A string of aggressive gestures by Iran this week -- assassination attempts on Israelis living abroad that were attributed to Tehran, renewed posturing over its nuclear program and fresh threats of economic retaliation -- suggest that Iranian leaders are responding frantically, and with increasing unpredictability, to the tightening of sanctions by...
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Radical US Muslims of little threat, says study
A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialised, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or atta...
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In Afghan war, officer becomes a whistle-blower
On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis travelled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not levelled with the American public.
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Group in US hoped for big payday in offer to help Gaddafi
To a colourful group of Americans - the Washington terrorism expert, the veteran C.I.A. officer, the Republican operative, the Kansas City lawyer - the Libyan gambit last March looked like a rare business opportunity.
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WikiLeaks names sources in cables, even those marked "Strictly Protect"
In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly 134,000 leaked diplomatic cables in recent days, more than six times the total disclosed publicly since the posting of the leaked State Department documents began last November.
