Topic: Al Qaeda
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Though President Barack Obama won swift approval of $800 billion in spending to help prop up the economy, a White House celebration was likely short-lived.Given the stiff Republican resistance he ...
Judge OKs detention of suspected bin Laden bodyguard as Guantanamo Bay review continuesTwo Guantanamo Bay detainees, including a Yemeni man accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, were correctly labeled as enemy combatants and are being held lawfully at the ...
From al-Qaida to Russia's president, critics ready to test Obama overseasRussian President Dmitry Medvedev chose the day after Barack Obama's election victory to brandish a threat of ballistic missiles. "As for Al-Qaida, it likened Barack Obama to a favored slave doing his ...
Shall we play a game?It's Friday. Note to Al Qaeda: If you insist on trying to insult Barack Obama, the United States' first African American president-elect, falling back on the tropes of an America that no longer exists simply is not going ...
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama, using racial epithet to describe president-electAl-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The ...
Federal prosecutors defend administration's right to hold accused enemy combatantA lower court should be able to resolve a challenge to President Bush's authority to detain the only suspected enemy combatant held on U.S. soil, the federal government said in a brief filed ...
The White House gave explicit written approval for the waterboarding treatment of captured al-Qaida suspects by their CIA interrogators, according to a report yesterday.The most compelling evidence suggesting the Bush administration, at the highest levels, approved the specifics of the interrogation practice ...
Failed Bush policy has made a mess of Afghanistan for the next president to clean up After the 9/11 attacks, there was strong bipartisan support in the United States to fight al-Qaida and its Taliban allies in Afghanistan. With America wrapped up ...
I have supported Sen. Barack Obama for president for well over a year, mainly on the strength of his positions on international affairs--I judged him the candidate most likely to restore America's position in the world. Yet before those leaders had been ...
Quotes From and About the House Joint Hearing on Progress in IraqSome quotes from and about Monday's hearing on progress in Iraq featuring testimony from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker:___"The surge was intended to provide breathing space, breathing space for ...
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APTOPIX Mideast Egypt Church Attack
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Egypt Al Qaida
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Mideast Egypt Church Attack
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