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Convicted terrorist who tried to blow up Israeli plane fails to win parole
Judge upholds decision that Nezar Hindawi must remain in jail after planting bomb in pregnant fiancee's hand luggage in 1986A convicted terrorist who has served 26 years in prison for trying to blow up...
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We don't need secret courts to protect our US relations | David Davis
The claim that America's intelligence agencies won't share material if our justice remains open is bogusWhen US authorities revealed last May that a British agent in Yemen was central to uncovering the...
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Syria: after Assad falls, what then? | Haytham Manna
The alliance between foreign jihadists and some Syrians shows the fight for Syria will not end with the fall of the regimeIt was not the supposed imminent collapse of the Syrian regime that dominated...
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Police foil Christmas plot to kill Irish soldier in British army
Garda Síochána says Continuity IRA befriended soldier on Facebook and planned to kill him in Limerick over ChristmasAn Irish national serving in the British army has been told not to travel home for...
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Metropolitan police to retain counter-terror lead until NCA is up and running
Home Office shelves plans to strip Met of lead role in fighting terrorism amid concerns change could damage effectivenessThe government's plans to strip Scotland Yard of its lead in counter-terrorism...
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Abu Qatada assets could be used to offset cost of keeping him in Britain
Home Office officials consider using terror suspect's frozen assets as cost of deportation battle soars past £500,000Home Office officials are investigating whether more than £217,000 in frozen bank...
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President Obama's last best chance to end America's Guantánamo shame |...
Four years after the order to close Guantánamo, Congress still thwarts the president's promise. Now comes a final opportunityDuring my recent trips to watch the legal proceedings at the Guantánamo Bay...
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UN authorises use of military force against Islamists in Mali
Security council sanctions military operation to be carried out by an African-led force against al-Qaida and other militantsThe UN security council on Thursday unanimously authorised the deployment of...
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Kidnappings of foreigners on rise in Yemen
Capture of an Austrian man and Finnish couple highlight security dangers in capital city of the strife-torn countryThe kidnap of three foreigners in broad daylight, in one of the busiest and most...
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Afghanistan suicide bomber attacks US base
A vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the gate of a US military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing the attacker and three Afghans, Afghan police said. The Taliban claimed...
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Obama's gift to al-Qaida, support for tyranny, and FBI monitoring of dissent...
Numerous individual events from this week alone signify important trends in US government policyThis week will likely entail light posting, but here are several items worthy of note:(1) I can't recall...
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France hastens military intervention against al-Qaida-linked groups in Mali
French minister promises all-out effort to free hostages held by Islamists in northern Mali's Sahel regionFrance has named the general who will lead a European mission to the Sahel region, in a move...
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Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf
New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissentIt was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the...
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Pakistani Shia pilgrims killed in suicide bombing
Nineteen dead, according to officials, as killer smashes truck laden with explosives into Baluchistan bus bound for IranA suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a bus...
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Gunmen kill seven Pakistani aid workers
Shooting of six female aid workers and a male doctor appears to be latest attack by militants on public health teamsGunmen have killed six Pakistani female aid workers and a male doctor in what appears...
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Man arrested in East Sussex over torture allegations in Nepal
Met police counter-terrorist officers arrest 46-year-old man in St Leonards-on-Sea over suspected crimes in 1996-2006 civil warPolice have arrested a man living in St Leonards-on-Sea on suspicion of...
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Barack Obama's baleful continuity with Bush era fetters on American liberties...
Unnoticed amid the fiscal cliff histrionics, the president signed into law further powers for the state to surveil and detain citizensAmid the White House and congressional theatrics surrounding the...
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Suspected al-Qaida terrorist extradited from Britain to US
Abid Naseer, originally from Pakistan, is accused of plotting attacks on Manchester shopping centres and New York subwayA suspected al-Qaida terrorist accused of plotting attacks on Manchester and the...
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Basque party linked to Eta declares its own dissolution
Batasuna, banned in Spain a decade ago, says it will disband and back separatist coalitionA Basque political party which for years allegedly acted as a front for the armed separatist group Eta has...
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The 'war on terror' - by design - can never end | Glenn Greenwald
As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite directionLast month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford...
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