Breaking News: Mumbai Terror Attacks

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Posted to Politics on Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 05:20:59 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Details are hard to come by, but early indications are that over 100 are dead in a series of terror attacks all over the Indian city of Mumbai.

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Why Did Iraq Violence Fall?

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Posted to Etcetera on Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 08:01:00 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

During the summer of 2007, attacks on U.S. forces fell from a high of 1,550 a week to below 800 a week, and civilian fell approximately 75 percent during 2007.  Conventional Washington wisdom is that the surge of troops into Iraq and associated changes in military strategy caused this fall in violence, although others point to the Anbar Awakening.  Bob Woodward's new book raises a mysterious third explanation: "a series of top-secret operations" that allowed U.S. Special Forces to "locate, target and kill key individuals."

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Anthrax Terror Case Solved? [Breaking News]

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Posted to SciTech on Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 06:22:12 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

A government scientist who helped investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks is believed to be the one responsible for spreading the disease. He is no longer among the living after reportedly committing suicide just after learning he was about to be indicted and face the death penalty.

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Stopping Terrorism, One Can Of Spray Paint At A Time

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Posted to Legal on Sun Jun 29, 2008 at 07:55:22 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Would you want to know what was going on inside this building? When Philadelphia police recently found a newly placed surveillance camera spray painted into decrepitude, this building's white residents were fingered by black locals so cops paid a visit one morning.

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Biting the Hand that Slaps You

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Posted to Politics on Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 12:47:07 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Much has (rightly) been made of the abuses of detainees in Guantanamo Bay.  While some say torture is a necessary evil in the fight against terrorism, others say that the United States has given up the moral high ground and cannot expect respect if these practices continue.

There may be another unintended consequence: Guantanamo turns some of its detainees into terrorists.

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YOU BOYS LIKE MEX-E-CO!?

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Posted to Legal on Thu Jan 24, 2008 at 09:51:18 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

As the MPs (PDF), the FBI, and various talking heads chase the accused murderer of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, a new angle in the case may block the thirst for blood. The suspect is believed to have fled the country to Mexico, a nation which is among a growing list that refuse to extradite suspects back to face the death penalty.

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Padilla to Prison

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Posted to Legal on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 08:34:37 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

The extraordinary six year long legal odyssey of Jose Padilla has found some closure today, with the convicted terrorist being sentenced to 17 years in federal prison.

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Halt! Ihre Papiere bitte!

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Posted to Legal on Sat Jan 12, 2008 at 09:09:45 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Under new rules recently released, Americans born before 1964 will be exempt from applying for the upcoming "R.E.A.L. ID" by the time the national ID card standards are rolled out at the new target date in 2011.

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Oh Those Wacky Hawaiians

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Posted to SciTech on Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 09:10:52 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

The Battle For Supreme Idiocy between air travelers and airport security has reached a new high as an MIT student visited Boston's Logan Airport. Star Simpsons, 19, went to meet a friend on an incoming flight. Who she met were a platoon of automatic weapon toting security personnel as they responded to a tip of individual wandering the airport with something suspicious strapped to her torso.

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Head Games!

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Posted to Etcetera on Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 03:17:44 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

A much hyped recent video by terrorist Osama bin-Laden does not actually contain any threats and is a rambling statement released for the 6 year anniversary of 9/11.

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September Dawn: Making Some See Red

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Posted to Media on Sat Aug 18, 2007 at 09:05:17 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

September 11, 1857 - the first 9/11 and the first act of religious terrorism and mass murder in the United States. One hundred and twenty men, women and children of a westbound wagon train were savagely ambushed, and killed off - first under siege and then murdered under the perfidy of a false truce at Mountain Meadows, Utah. Who was responsible for the Mountain Meadows Massacre is something that has been hotly contested ever since. On August 24, the film "September Dawn" will be released which bills that day as when "the truth will be revealed." Not everybody is happy with this version of the truth, especially members of the church blamed for the destruction and those who fear the film and discussion of his religion will damage the Romney campaign.

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More warrantless wiretaps coming your way

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Posted to Politics on Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 09:39:57 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

New legislation largely authored by the White House and signed into law by President Bush this weekend expands the warrantless wiretapping program and grants it some legal footing.

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