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WikiLeaks: 9/11 Mastermind Says He Killed Daniel Pearl Against al-Qaida Warnings
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA senior al-Qaida military commander instructed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and said that Pearl should "be returned back to one of the previous groups who held him, or freed." But Mohammed, the supposed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, says he killed Pearl anyway, according to military documents released by WikiLeaks on Monday and published by the Los Angeles Times, The Australian and other news organizations. AP Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is shown after his capture in 2002. Military documents released ...
Search of 'Bomb Factory' House in California Halted
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(Nov. 26) -- After finding a record cache of homemade explosives, San Diego County authorities have announced they are halting their search of the densely packed home, saying it is too dangerous to continue. Local and federal agents have discovered blasting caps and pentaerythritol tetranitrate, a powerful plastic explosive known as PETN, along with a huge supply of weapons-making materials at the home of an Escondido man who is in jail on bomb-making charges, the Los Angeles Times reported. PETN was the explosive used by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid and by terrorists worldwide, ...
War on Terror in Courtoom Grinds to Political Halt, Like WWII 'Sitzkrieg'
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyFollowing the German onslaught of Poland in September 1939, and before the Nazi war machine invaded Belgium and Holland in May 1940, World War II experienced what contemporary wags called the "Sitzkrieg" (literally, the "sitting war"). The word was a masterful spoof on Germany's vaunted "Blitzkrieg" ("lightning war") -- which would both precede and succeed it-- and it marked a sixth-month period of notable lack of aggression and fighting between the Allied and Axis powers. Nearly nine years after the Twin Towers fell, America now evidently has entered a lamentable Sitzkrieg phrase of its own ...
Giuliani: 'No Domestic Attacks Under Bush'
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 8) – Rudy Giuliani became known as "America's Mayor" for his response to 9/11, but today those terror attacks apparently slipped his mind. Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," the former New York City mayor sought to portray President George W. Bush as more effective in fighting terror than President Barack Obama in the wake of Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day. Spencer Platt, Getty Images A spokesman for Rudy Giuliani tried to clarify the former mayor's assertion that no terror attacks had occurred ...
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