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LETTER: Justifications Continue Cycle Of Violence
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was thrown out of a mosque for shouting, "You cannot mention this guy (Martin Luther King Jr.) because he's not a Muslim" [April 21, news, "Brother 'Changed Drastically'"]. It wasn't about how he was treated here; it was about things...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X
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Obama must find the best bad option in Syria
Having vowed that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a U.S. "red line" and provoke a strong American response "with enormous consequences," President Barack Obama now finds himself under increasing pressure to act, following reports by U.S....Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Military, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011)
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Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...
Tags: Trials, Prisons, Central Intelligence Agency, Litigation, Sports
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...Tags: Yemen, U.S. Congress, Career and Workplace, Robert Mueller, Lindsey O. Graham
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Blocking entry of radicals is good for Israel and U.S.
In their commentary, Zainab Choudry and Saqib Ali ("Don't let Israel discriminate," April 30) objected to Senate Bill 462 (the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013) introduced recently in the U.S. Senate that advocates Israel's right to deny...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Civil Rights, Interior Policy, Wars and Interventions, Hamas
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: Rebellions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Central Intelligence Agency, Kabul (Afghanistan), U.S. Military
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Guantanamo detainee says prison 'shakedown' sparked hunger strike
WASHINGTON — Obaidullah, an Afghan villager captured with diagrams of improvised bombs, has marked nearly 11 years as a detainee at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Three months ago, outraged by what he called another prison...
Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. Congress, Lawyers, Prisons, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Terrorism suspect not to be released after all
Ahmad Tounisi leaned forward on the courtroom bench, intently following the judge's detailed observations as he ruled on whether Tounisi's son should be released from jail while awaiting trial on terrorism-related charges. U.S. District Judge Edmond...
Tags: Lawyers, Jihad, Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prosecution
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Somalia's security forces hamstrung by corruption, infiltrators
Reuters* Al Qaeda-linked militants weakened but remain potent force * West fears slide back into anarchy if gains not cemented * Security to top agenda of May 7 London conference By Richard Lough and Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, May 3 (Reuters) - Somalia's...Tags: Ethiopia, Mogadishu (Somalia), Rebellions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, African Union
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History of US bombings, failed attempts
Here is a list of some of the worst bombings in the U.S. dating to the 1800s, including some famous attempts that failed: — April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing two people and...
Tags: Martin Luther King Day, Trials, Timothy McVeigh, Prisons, Times Square
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Iraq: String of attacks across country kills 32
BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgents launched what appeared to be a highly coordinated string of attacks across Iraq on Monday morning, killing at least 32 and wounding more than 200, according to officials. The attacks, many involving car bombs, erupted...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nouri Maliki, Motorvehicle Accidents, Explosions
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Slain diplomat from River Forest was a girl with an adventurous mind
Before she was a young U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Afghanistan, before she and others were blown up by a bomb, before she was eulogized at Fenwick High School on Tuesday, Anne Smedinghoff was a girl. The temptation now is to see her only...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Emergency Incidents, Anne Smedinghoff, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989), Kabul (Afghanistan)
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 4, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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May 4, 2013
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May 5, 2013
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May 4, 2013
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May 4, 2013
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May 3, 2013
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Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 15, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 10, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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