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US Warns Citizens Against Travel to Yemen
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The State Department on Sunday advised Americans not to travel to Yemen and said U.S. citizens currently in the country should consider leaving. The travel warning also said the department has authorized family members of U.S. Embassy staff and non-essential personnel to leave the country. The advisory cited terrorism and civil unrest in the impoverished Arab nation and said that in the event of a crisis evacuation options would be severely limited due to "the lack of infrastructure, geographic constraints, and other security concerns." The State Department said the threat ...
On 9/11 Anniversary, Terror Threat Is More Homegrown
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- On the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the current threats facing the United States are less severe but increasingly homegrown, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, the U.S. government is still unprepared. That's according to a new report published online Friday by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit think tank formed in 2007 by former members of the 9/11 Commission that seeks to develop "policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both sides of the aisle." The terror alert level for 2010 is described as "less severe ... more ...
Afghan WikiLeaks: Is There Much New?
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(July 26) -- U.S. officials are condemning the leak of more than 91,000 military intelligence records on the Afghan war, saying the publication could threaten the safety of American and allied troops. But while the Pentagon may be outraged, many experts are questioning whether the trove of documents actually reveals anything new or truly damaging about the nine-year-old conflict. The collection of confidential papers was released by the WikiLeaks website -- which earlier this year put out a 2007 video of an Apache helicopter firing on a group of unarmed Iraqis -- and includes previously ...
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 ...
Yemeni Airstrike Targets Cleric Linked to Fort Hood Shooting
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAn airstrike by Yemeni forces killed 30 and appeared to target Anwar al-Aulaqi, the Yemeni-American cleric linked to the massacre at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the Washington Post reports. The strike hit the Aulaqi's home in southeastern Yemen, an alleged al-Qaeda hideout where top leaders were believed to be meeting. It is unclear if the cleric was present or if he was killed.Aulaqi had corresponded with Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is being held for killing 13 of his comrades at Fort Hood in November, and is believed to have provided Hasan with religious guidance.With ...
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