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Bin Laden files prompt new scrutiny

WASHINGTON — Everyone Osama bin Laden ever wrote to, spoke to or even mentioned in the volumes of correspondence seized from his Pakistan hideout is under new scrutiny, U.S. officials say. Surveillance has been stepped up on possible terrorist targets around the world, as intelligence experts near the end of decrypting and translating material seized from the bin Laden compound.

By By Kimberly Dozier, The Associated Press , June 10, 2011

Officials: Muslim turned in suspect

WASHINGTON — The tip that led to the FBI’s subway bombing sting came from a source in the Muslim community: A Pakistani-born man from a middle-class suburb was trying to join a terrorist group, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

By By Adam Goldman ,The Associated Press , October 29, 2010

Failed terrorist sentenced

NEW YORK — The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims.

By By Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press , October 06, 2010

AP source: Unlikely two men were plotting terror

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. government official says the FBI's investigation of two men detained in Amsterdam is finding that it's unlikely they were on a test run for a future terror attack, even as Dutch authorities continued to hold the pair on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist act.

By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer , August 31, 2010

3 Pakistanis arrested in N.Y. bomb probe

Three Pakistani men who authorities say supplied funds to Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested Thursday in a series of raids across the Northeast as the FBI followed the money trail in the failed attack. Investigators said it was not yet clear whether the three men knew how the money was going to be used.

By By Mark Pratt and Glen Johnson, The Associated Press , May 14, 2010

Pakistan native admits to rigging SUV in Times Square

Seized from a plane about to fly to the Middle East, a Pakistan-born man admitted training to make bombs at a terrorism camp in his native land before he rigged an SUV with a homemade device to explode in Times Square, authorities said Tuesday.

By By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press , May 05, 2010

GOP winning war on rights for terrorists

On Capitol Hill, there’s a war being fought over the War on Terror, and so far, Republicans are winning. Or at least they’re winning the Battle of Miranda. GOP lawmakers believe they are having some success in the effort to stiffen the spine of the Obama administration as it makes policy for dealing with captured terrorist suspects in the future. Even as the administration defends its decision to grant accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent, the president himself is hinting that things might be done differently in the future.

By Byron York, The Washington Examiner , February 15, 2010

The threats of terrorism and bubbles

No one in the Obama administration is going to acknowledge that our foreign policy in the Middle East has alienated many Arabs. The U.S. pro-Israel policy and our shocking neglect of the beleaguered Palestinians underlie almost every initiative or tactical tilt that comes out of Washington.

By Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers , January 21, 2010

Yemen’s problems are ours, too

Having a Yemen visa stamped in my passport has brought wary questions from border officials over the past few years. Nowadays I’ll be lucky if I don’t get strip-searched. What a difference a botched terrorist attack makes.

By Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune , January 12, 2010

Obama: Terror attack ‘dots’ not connected

A grim-faced President Barack Obama declared Tuesday there was a deep failure of national intelligence in the botched Christmas Day airliner terror attack over Detroit, telling the nation the government had enough information to thwart potential disaster but could not “connect those dots.” Speaking after a blunt meeting with his security team, Obama said there had been even more “red flags” than had already been acknowledged: that an al-Qaida affiliate in the Arabian Peninsula planned to strike the United States and that it was working with the man who ended up accused of trying to blow up a plane with nearly 300 passengers and crew aboard.

By By Ben Feller, The Associated Press , January 06, 2010

Obama: U.S. intel had info ahead of airliner attack

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the intelligence community had bits of information that should have been pieced together that would have triggered “red flags” and possibly prevented the Christmas Day attempted terror attack on a Detroit-bound airliner. “There was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic breach of security,” Obama said.

By By Philip Elliott and Lolota C. Baldor, The Associated Press , December 30, 2009

Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists

President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use “every element of our national power” to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was “a serious reminder” of the need to continually adapt security measures against changing terrorist threats.

By By Philip Elliott, The Associated Press , December 29, 2009

The story behind the story

What we are led to believe by an often lazy and Obama-supporting big media, enabled by a deliberately ignorant public that lacks, rather than longs, for the truth, is not as it first seems. Take just one example. Remember the four Chinese Uighur released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay? They were flown to Bermuda where they now reside under conditions that are better than any they might have imagined. The storyline cast the men as innocent victims of a military terrorist sweep in Afghanistan.

By Cal Thomas, Tribune Media Services , October 02, 2009

Lebanese-born Swede gets life for terror camp plot

NEW YORK (AP) — A Lebanese-born Swede has been sentenced to life in prison for plotting to open a terrorism training camp in Oregon. U.S. District Judge John Keenan sentenced Oussama Kassir on Tuesday in New York. He was convicted in May of supporting al-Qaida by trying to help open the camp in Bly, Ore., in 1999.

September 15, 2009

Terror plot: UK court convicts three in plot to blow up airlines

Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners in simultaneous attacks designed by al-Qaida to be the deadliest terrorist strike since Sept. 11, 2001.

By By David Stringer, The Associated Press , September 08, 2009