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Norway Arrests 3 Suspects in al-Qaida Conspiracy
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 8) -- Police in Norway today arrested three men on suspicion of having links to an international al-Qaida conspiracy that was plotting attacks in the U.S., Britain and Norway. The men had been under surveillance for over a year, Der Spiegel said. Two were arrested in Oslo; the other was arrested after being detained on a visit to Germany. Norwegian authorities suspect the trio of plotting a major attack similar to the planned strike against the New York City subway that was foiled last year. The suspects represent "one node" in a larger terrorist network that includes operatives in ...
Attorney General Eric Holder Begins Criminal Investigation After Report Cites U.S. Torture
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyWith the release of a graphic report describing the "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane" treatment of U.S. detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to investigate whether CIA interrogators and contractors violated the law by using brutal tactics to pry information from prisoners. ...
Bringing Terror Home, Where it Already Lives
By David Knowles - Politics DailySomehow lost in the current debate about whether to shutter Guantanamo Bay, formally try its residents in U.S. Courts, and lock the majority of them away in Super Max detention centers, is the fact that right now, at this very moment, our justice system is dealing quite nicely with some very frightening terrorists who tried to blow up a New York synagogues and down military aircraft with Stinger surface to air missiles. Indeed, the argument that we will somehow endanger the public if the detainees in Guantanamo set foot in the U.S. is made all the more silly when you consider that past ...
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