Thursday, July 8, 2010

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CNN Fires Octavia Nasr For Twitter Post Praising Hezbollah Terrorist



Posted: 07 Jul 2010 11:46 PM PDT


The New York Daily news reports that less than 140 characters cost CNN’s Octavia Nasr her job after she tweeted her “respect” for a terrorist Hezbollah sheikh who died over the weekend. Nasr, CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs, ran into hot water after she posted on Twitter that she was “sad to hear of [...]

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Muslim Americans Grapple With Issue of Homegrown Jihads



Posted: 07 Jul 2010 11:35 PM PDT


The scene is becoming too familiar: A young man is arrested for intending to harm innocent people. He may proclaim he’s an Islamic soldier, he may say he wants to be a martyr, or he may have planned a trip overseas with the apparent intent of shooting at American soldiers. Such descriptions jibe with a [...]

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Russia Continues To Fly Nuclear Bombers Near US Airspace



Posted: 07 Jul 2010 10:59 PM PDT


The Washington Times reports that Russia is continuing to fly strategic nuclear bombers near U.S. and Canadian airspace. Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., commander of the U.S. Northern Command says its because the Russian military is seeking to maintain “the illusion of power,” according to the report. Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., who took over [...]

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Perfect Citizen – NSA Program Targets Domestic Cyber Attacks



Posted: 07 Jul 2010 10:21 PM PDT


The U.S. government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday. U.S. intelligence officials have grown increasingly alarmed about what they believe to be Chinese and Russian [...]

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NYC Subway Bomb Plot Linked to British Al Qaeda Cell



Posted: 07 Jul 2010 03:49 PM PDT


A failed plot to set off bombs in the New York subway system last year was part of a larger Al Qaeda terrorist conspiracy that planned a similar attack in England, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. In an indictment unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors added several Al Qaeda figures to the case, including Adnan Shukrijumah, an FBI most-wanted [...]

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Number of Afghans Gone AWOL in U.S. Reaches 46



Posted: 07 Jul 2010 12:35 PM PDT


Fox news reports a be-on-the-lookout alert issued last month for 17 Afghan military men who walked away from an Air Force base in Texas has turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg. No fewer than 46 members of the Afghan military have gone absent without leave from the Defense Language Institute’s English [...]

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