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Pray For Boston
My first thoughts about this tragic event come back to questions about what kind of person can justify in their own mind that making a bomb, planting a bomb in a very congested area, and detonating th...
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:14 AM
Bishop Samuel Aquila: 'There can be no backing away in the public square from the call to proclaim the dignity of human life'
In a talk presented at the Sept. 22 Gospel of Life Prayer Breakfast in St. Louis, Mo., Rev. SamuelAquila, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Fargo, said, "There can be no backing away in the public squ...
Posted on 9/30/10 at 12:07 PM
Sept. 11 ceremony in Bismarck
BISMARCK Three North Dakotans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were honored Saturday to ensure they are forever remembered and thanked for their sacrifice. About 200 people gathered here at the Memo...
Posted on 9/12/10 at 9:54 AM
US drone in Pakistan kills 10 suspected militants
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — An American drone strike in the frontier tribal areas of Pakistan killed 10 suspected militants Sunday, Pakistani officials said as the U.S. pushes ahead with its drone campaign in the face of Pakistani demands to stop.June 03, 2012
Bomb kills 1 student, wounds 7 in Italy
ROME (AP) — A bomb exploded outside an Italian high school named after the wife of an assassinated anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing one student and wounding at least seven others, officials said.May 20, 2012
Officials: Bomber was informant
The CIA had al-Qaida fooled from the beginning. Last month, U.S. intelligence learned that al-Qaida’s Yemen branch hoped to launch a spectacular attack using a new, nearly undetectable bomb aboard an airliner bound for America, officials say.May 09, 2012
Anger, sighs as 9/11 families watch terror hearing
NEW YORK (AP) — Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.May 06, 2012
Md. teenager pleads guilty in terror case in Pa.
A Maryland teenager faces 15 years in prison after admitting he agreed to help the American terrorist dubbed “Jihad Jane” raise money and recruits for a Muslim holy war.May 04, 2012
NYC man convicted in thwarted subway bomb plot
NEW YORK (AP) — In what authorities called the most serious terror threat since the Sept. 11 attacks, a New York City man was convicted Tuesday of plotting with two of his former classmates at a Queens high school to attack the subways as suicide bombers.By Tom Hays, Associated Press , May 02, 2012
Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for US raid
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil.April 29, 2012
Officials: Core al-Qaida ‘essentially gone’
A year after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks is essentially gone but its affiliates remain a threat to America, U.S. intelligence officials say. Core al-Qaida’s new leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, still aspires to attack the U.S., but his Pakistan-based group is scrambling to survive, under fire from CIA drone strikes and laying low for fear of another U.S. raid. That has lessened the threat of another complex attack like a nuclear dirty bomb or a biological weapon, intelligence officials say.By By Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press , April 28, 2012
Taliban attack Pakistan prison, free 380 prisoners
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban militants battled their way into a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20 described by police as "very dangerous" insurgents, authorities and the militants said.By Associated Press , April 15, 2012
French investigators focus on gunman's brother
PARIS — The brother of an Islamist fanatic behind a deadly shooting rampage in France celebrated his martyr-like death and may have helped him, police and a lawyer said Saturday.By By Johanna Decorse and Raphael Satter, Associated Press , March 24, 2012
Delhi court to try US terrorist Headley, 8 others
NEW DELHI (AP) — A New Delhi court agreed Saturday to try admitted American terrorist David Headley and eight others for allegedly carrying out the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, local media reported.February 18, 2012
Underwear bomber gets life in prison
Defiantly declaring “a day of victory,” a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the flight testified that the failed attack had disturbed their sleep and travels for more than two years.February 17, 2012
US seeks to mine social media to predict future
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict the future.By By Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press , February 12, 2012
Nigerian blasts mar pope's Christmas peace appeal
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas pleas for peace around the world were brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion Sunday claimed by Muslim extremists ripped through a Catholic church during Mass.By By Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press , December 25, 2011
Hezbollah unravels CIA spy network in Lebanon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hezbollah has partially unraveled the CIA's spy network in Lebanon, severely damaging the intelligence agency's ability to gather vital information on the terrorist organization at a tense time in the region, former and current U.S. officials said.November 21, 2011
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