Boston Marathon suspects planned New York attack, says Mayor Bloomberg - video
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg says Boston marathon bombing suspects planned to use remaining explosives to launch an attack on Times Square
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Bill Moyers interview on Boston Marathon bombing | Glenn Greenwald
Talking to the PBS host about civil liberties, terrorism, US foreign policy and the dangers of secrecy(updated below)Time constraints are preventing me from writing much today, but the full 25-minute...
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US 'jihadist rapper' claims to have survived attempt on life by al-Shabaab
Omar Hammami says he was shot in neck by 'assassin' from Somalian Islamist group he is believed to have once fought forAn American "jihadist rapper" in Somalia has claimed that he survived an attempt...
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Kenneth Feinberg prepares to put a price on trauma of Boston bombings
Interview: Lawyer known as the 'master of disaster' dealt with compensation issues after 9/11, Virginia Tech and AuroraIn 10 days' time, Kenneth Feinberg will enter a room in Boston packed with victims...
View Article9/11 plane part found in New York alley – video
Landing gear from a plane thought to have hit the World Trade Centre in 2001 has been discovered in a narrow Manhattan alley
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Boston police chief 'fine' with calls for marathon bomb suspect's execution
Edward Davis says he would have no sympathy for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if, as expected, prosecutors push for death sentenceThe Boston police commissioner who led the hunt for the Boston marathon bombers has...
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev and radical Islam: friends and neighbours seek answers
Those who knew and worked with parents of Boston bombing suspects say family was increasingly splitThe third floor of the wood-framed house in which the Tsarnaev family lived in a quiet, residential...
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Pakistan's campaign trail politicians use stealth to outwit Taliban threats
Parliamentary candidates resort to 'corner meetings' to convey message ahead of next month's pollsIn a country where politicians strive to hold vast political rallies with huge crowds of supporters, it...
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Aspiring Pakistani MP finds voters few and far between on the campaign trail
Candidate covers big distances to attract voters displaced by fighting in South Waziristan between army and TalibanWith his stress on job creation and economic development, Abdur Rahim Khan Barki...
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Report: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's repeated requests for a lawyer were ignored |...
There is zero legal or ethical justification for denying a suspect in custody this fundamental right(updated below)The initial debate over the treatment of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev focused on whether he...
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev shows why gun control 'terror gap' must be bridged
In America, thanks in part to the efforts of the NRA, being a suspected terrorist is not enough to stop you buying a gunThe discovery that the suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on a...
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Muslims in US more opposed to suicide bombing than in other countries
Pew report based 38,000 interviews showed Muslims in US more opposed to suicide bombs than Muslims in other countriesMuslims in the US are generally more opposed to suicide bombings than their...
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Damascus bomb 'kills 13 and wounds 70', says Syria Television
State TV reports carnage in Marjeh Square as rebels and Assad loyalists trade accusations over chemical weaponsA bomb blast in the government-held centre of Damascus killed 13 people on Tuesday, state...
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Obama: Guantánamo prison 'not in the best interests of the American people'
President says 'I don't want these individuals to die' as medical team arrives in Cuba to keep striking protesters aliveBarack Obama vowed to take action to close the controversial prison camp at...
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A young Yemeni writer on the impact and morality of drone-bombing his country...
The 24-year-old Ibrahim Mothana speaks eloquently and insightfully about what the US is doing to his country. We should listenIbrahim Mothana is a 24-year-old Yemeni writer and activist. I first became...
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The failed EDL rally plot shows how much extremists need each other | Vidhya...
Both the would-be terrorists who plotted the Dewsbury attack and the EDL rely on each other to incite their supporters' hatredOn Tuesday six men pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist attack on an...
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Boston police announce three arrests in marathon bombing investigation
Two Kazakhs and a US citizen accused of removing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's backpack from dorm room after bombing, but not alleged to have helped plan attackBoston police said three more people have been...
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Former Guantánamo chief prosecutor petitions Obama to close prison camp
Col Morris Davis attracts 64,000 signatures to Change.org petition and tells the Guardian the base is 'a stain on the country'A former chief prosecutor for the controversial American prison camp at...
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Pope Francis welcomes Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI back to the Vatican
Emeritus pope and Pope Francis begin unprecedented period of co-habitation in tiny city stateThe emeritus pope, Benedict XVI, was greeted by his successor on his return to the Vatican on Thursday to...
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California to confiscate guns held illegally in firearms crackdown
Governor signs law to allow agents to seize guns from 20,000 Californians who have been disqualified from owning themCalifornia plans to confiscate guns from 20,000 people who bought them legally but...
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