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Yemen to Get Limited Attention at London Conference
By Haley Sweetland Edwards - AOL NewsSAN'A, Yemen (Jan. 26) – The international community had better work fast. The portion of this week's conference in London meant to address Yemen's multitude of problems is scheduled to last only two hours. For this Yemen power-session, tacked on Wednesday to a full-day conference on Afghanistan the next day, the assembled government officials and nongovernmental experts have a goal that is simple to state but hard to implement: They want to keep Yemen, often dubbed "the new Afghanistan," from becoming a failed state and a haven for al-Qaida. Yemen is expected to use the conference ...
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Airport Security: Is Israel the Answer?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, Alex, there's one obvious solution to the rampant dysfunction you so colorfully describe in that hilarious recap of your recent journey from India back to the United States. And I can sum it up in one word: Israel.Over the past week or so, much ink has been spilled over the pros and cons of airport security techniques as diverse as body scanners (child porn?), passenger profiling (racist or just plain smart?) and the prohibition on bathroom breaks during the last hour of the flight (cruel and unusual punishment?). Surprisingly, what people aren't talking so much about are the methods ...
What Intelligence Analysts Didn't Do in Airliner Plot
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Jan. 7) -- It's not that intelligence analysts couldn't connect the dots in the failed Christmas bombing plot. It's that they didn't try hard enough to do so. That, in essence, was the conclusion of a White House review of why the attack wasn't discovered and stopped before it fizzled in the skies above Detroit. The report found that the intelligence community wasn't stymied by the kinds of information-sharing jealousies endemic before 9/11. Rather, counterterrorism officials with clues in hand failed to search for more information and alert others. It was, President Barack Obama suggested ...
Before His Inauguration, Rumors of a Terrorist Plot Weighed on Obama
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAs Barack Obama prepared for his inauguration, Bush administration officials learned of an alleged plot by Somali extremists to detonate explosives during the ceremony, The New York Times Magazine reports. "All the data points suggested there was a real threat evolving quickly that had an overseas component," said Juan Carlos Zarate, President George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism. As the inauguration approached, signs of a plot "seemed to be growing in credibility and relevance." The rumored plot weighed heavily on Obama in the final days before Jan. 20; ...
Obama Says Security System Failed
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 5) - President Barack Obama asserted on Tuesday that the U.S. government had enough information to foil the attempted bombing on a Christmas Day airline flight but intelligence agencies "failed to connect the dots." Obama called that unacceptable and said, "I will not tolerate it." The accused attacker, a Nigerian man who claimed ties to al-Qaida, was subdued by other passengers and airline crew members after he allegedly attempted to detonate explosives hidden under his clothes. The president, speaking after meeting with his Cabinet and national security team, declared, "We ...
How Young Muslims Get Radicalized
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 31) -- Two big questions are driving the coverage of failed Christmas Day bomber suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and they are these: How was it that the warning signs were missed and he was allowed to board the airplane he allegedly intended to destroy? And just what is it that drives young men like him – incidentally Muslim young men of privileged upbringing and Western education – to turn to violent religious extremism? The first has sparked a vicious blame game and could well prompt a full-blown congressional inquiry. But the second is just as important, especially as ...
Cartoonist Hid in 'Panic Room' During Attack
By not in system - AOL NewsCOPENHAGEN (Jan. 2) - An ax-wielding Somali man with suspected al-Qaida links was charged Saturday with two counts of attempted murder after breaking into the home of a Danish artist whose Prophet Muhammad cartoon outraged the Muslim world three years ago. The suspect, who was shot twice by a police officer responding to the scene, was rolled into a Danish court on a stretcher, his face covered. He was ordered held for four weeks on preliminary charges of attempting to murder the cartoonist, as well as the police officer who shot him. Efforts to protect the artist - 74-year-old Kurt ...
Failure to Connect Dots Recalls 9/11 Shortfalls
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- The headlines were sickeningly familiar. "Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror," concluded The New York Times. "U.S. Intel Lapses Helped Abdulmutallab," CBS News reported on the Nigerian suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. "What the CIA Did and Didn't Know About Alleged Underpants Bomber" was the post on Newsweek's Declassified blog. President Barack Obama received a report today on the intelligence failures that let the alleged underpants bomber board a U.S.-bound airplane on Christmas Day. But details have already emerged about tantalizing clues that ...
Poll: Waterboard the Terror Suspect, Americans Say
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 31) -- The U.S. government no longer uses the interrogation technique known as waterboarding on suspected terrorists. But don't tell that to the American public. According to a new poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports, 58 percent of those surveyed said that they want the federal government to waterboard terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man accused of trying to set off an explosive device on Northwest/Delta Flight 253 as it approached Detroit. Congress voted to outlaw waterboarding in 2008, and Republicans like John McCain have often repudiated the practice. Yet a clear ...
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