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Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent | Glenn Greenwald
Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism – 'disposition matrix' – the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim(updated below - Update II -...
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No, Mr President – how the FBI bosses the White House
Barack Obama may have struck a delicate balance with Robert Mueller, but the 104-year history of the FBI is littered with clashes between presidents and feds – and it's the Bureau that comes out on...
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Benghazi consulate attack suspect killed in Egypt, security source says
Source says Karim Ahmed Essam el-Azizi was killed by bomb which he attempted to use against security forces in raidA Libyan militant suspected by Egypt of involvement in last month's attack on the US...
View ArticleAfghanistan suicide bomber kills Eid worshippers at mosque, police say – video
Police in the north Afghan province of Faryab say the Taliban were behind a suicide bombing that killed 40 people
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William Hague hails Malala Yousafzai after hospital visit
Foreign secretary meets Yousafzai's father and praises her campaign in Pakistan for girls' right to receive an educationThe foreign secretary has visited the hospital where a 15-year-old Pakistani girl...
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Islamist rebels vow assault on Malian capital if international forces attack
Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa claims rebels are strengthening and foreign intervention would galvanise supportIslamist rebels will attack Mali's capital city if international military...
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Sudanese rebel leader vows to fight on: 'We won't wait for Khartoum to kill us'
Notoriously divided opposition groups unite to form a new revolutionary front, with a military wing, to attack the governmentYasir Arman doesn't look like a rebel leader. There's no Che Guevara beret,...
View ArticleHillary Clinton presses Algerian president on Mali conflict – video
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, meets the Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to discuss the current problems in Mali
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North Mali prepares for war as refugees dream of liberation from al-Qaida
Displaced Malians fear for the future as divisions deepen and more citizens pick up arms to defend their homelandUntil violence erupted in northern Mali, the Hotel Via Via had been on the verge of...
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Boko Haram ready for peace talks with Nigeria, says alleged sect member
Talks must be held in Saudi Arabia and spearheaded by former military ruler, says man claiming to represent Islamist groupThe radical Islamist group Boko Haram is willing to enter peace talks with...
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Syria's rebels fear foreign jihadis in their midst
As Salafis arrive to seek final battle with Shias, one town elder claims: 'They will demand that we return to the seventh century'In early summer, Abu Ismael, a six-year veteran of al-Qaida, left the...
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17 years for man tried over Pentagon terror plot
27-year-old planned to fly remote-controlled model aircraft carrying explosives into the Pentagon and CapitolA US man was sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison over a plot to fly...
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Foreign Office raises Egypt terror threat
Egypt terror threat raised from medium to high after series of deadly militant attacks across north SinaiThe Foreign Office has raised its terrorism warning for visitors to Egypt from medium to high,...
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Karachi truck bomb targets government security force
Vehicle packed with explosives slams into apartment building in deadly attack against Rangers paramilitary brigadeA suicide bomber has smashed a truck packed with explosives into housing for a...
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Britain's double standard on extradition to US prison abuse | Sadhbh Walshe
The UK home secretary condemned US detention when refusing to extradite Gary McKinnon – yet willingly deported five MuslimsOn 16 October, Britain's home secretary, Theresa May, blocked the extradition...
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Nigerian Nobel laureate: country is at war with Boko Haram
Wole Soyinka says government should not negotiate with sect's leaders, whom he describes as 'mass murderers'Nigeria is "at war" with Islamist sect Boko Haram and should not negotiate with its leaders...
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The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Mark Bowden - review
The latest in a long line of al-Qaida books aims to gets inside the mind of Bin Laden's nemesis - Barack ObamaA year and a half after Osama bin Laden's death, some of the idea of him has begun to fade....
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UN 'may use torture evidence to impose sanctions on terror suspects'
United Nations' special rapporteur on counter-terrorism questions integrity of security council's enforcement regimeThe United Nations may be relying on evidence obtained by torture when deciding...
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French gunman who killed Jewish children 'was raised an anti-Semite'
Mohamed Merah's brother reveals in new book how gunman's parents brought-up raised family 'in atmosphere of racism and hate'The radicalisation of the French gunman who killed seven people in March...
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Abu Qatada wins appeal against deportation
Islamist cleric to be freed after judges rule that despite Jordanian assurances he faces risk of trial based on evidence obtained by tortureThe radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada is to be released from...
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