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In this Aug. 1, 2010 file photo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left is seen with former Chief of Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug during the military's highest annual meetings in Ankara, Turkey.
(photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici)
Ex-Chief of Turkish Army Is Arrested in Widening Case Alleging Coup Plot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| ISTANBUL -- In an unprecedented move, a civilian court ordered the arrest of Turkey's former head of the army, the highest-ranking officer so far to be charged with leadership of an illegal network accused of seeking to overthrow the government, news outlets reported late Thursday. | Gen. Ilker Ba...
Supporters of Pakistani religious group Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam looks at a magazine publishing a leading story on Osama bin Laden at an anti U.S. rally in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Friday, May 13, 2011.
(photo: AP / Anjum Naveed)
Goodbye and good riddance to Bin Laden...and Iraq? The best and worst of 2011
Foreign Policy
| The administration's most important success in 2011?  I'll go with the obvious: the Seal Team 6 takedown of bin Laden.  Never discount the vital national interest in visiting harsh justice upon those who mastermind mass slaughter on the American homeland -- even 10 years delayed.  The victims a...
Nigerian violence: Police disappear as Boko Haram brings terror to the streets
The Daily Telegraph
When a city of 9 million people comes under almost daily assault, the police would normally step up their presence. But not in Kano. | Residents pass by a burning police headquarters in Kano  Photo: AFP/GETTY | By David Blair, Kano | 7:00PM GMT ...
Butler mistaken for terrorist
Independent online
Gerard Butler was once mistaken for a terrorist. | The 'Coriolanus' star was going through immigration in a London airport when he was stopped by suspicious security officials in 2001 and the actor – who had just completed a screen test for 'To...
Pentagon plots global expansion
Independent online
As traditional military operations are cut back, the Pentagon is moving to expand the worldwide reach of the US Special Operations Command to strike wherever threats arise. | On Thursday, the Pentagon unveiled a 2013 budget plan that would cut $487 b...
Jihadist pleads guilty to plotting WMD attack on military target
The Examiner
| Antonio Martinez, a/k/a Muhammad Hussain, a U.S. citizen from Baltimore, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to use of a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against a U.S. Armed Services recruiting station in Catonsville, Marylan...
The threat to Salman Rushdie's life
The Hindu
Dr. Gurdial Singh Sandhu, IAS, Principal Secretary, Home Affairs, Home Guards & Civil Defence Jail, Government of Rajasthan, writes: | Kindly refer to the editorial “A national shame” in The Hindu on Monday, 23 January, 2012, and also...
Rally calls for NYPD commissioner to quit over anti-Muslim training film
The Guardian
| Mayor Bloomberg admits commissioner Ray Kelly's reputation has been 'dented' over video shown to hundreds of officers Members of the New York Muslim community gather at City Hall to protest against the showing of an anti-Muslim film to police offic...
Bin Laden raid commander plots global expansion
The Boston Globe
| WASHINGTON-U.S. officials say the Pentagon is moving to unleash special operations troops worldwide, as traditional military operations are cut back. | Defense officials have embraced a proposal by special operations chief Adm. Bill McRaven to push...
Nuclear Terrorism
Beside a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, mourners carry a flag draped coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, who was killed in a brazen daylight assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car Wednesday, in his funeral ceremony, on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Tehran, Iran.
(photo: AP / Iranian Students News Agency, Mehdi Ghasemi)
From Palestinegate and Watergate to UNOgate
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | If Israel and the United States somehow seized or broke-in and stole information from the UNO City's IAEA as Iran claimed, information that aided in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, it would not be surprising. For years, both the U.S. and Israel have justified breaching ...
Al Qaeda
In this Aug. 23, 2004 file photo, American Jonathan Keith Idema, 48, smokes a cigarette in a court in Kabul, Afghanistan. Idema, a former Green Beret from North Carolina convicted of running a private jail in Afghanistan where he tortured terrorism suspects, has died at the age of 55.
(photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti)
The dark truth behind the man who claimed he had Bin Laden in his sights
The Independent
| Variously described as a conman, a fantasist, a sociopath, and a super-patriot, Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema died alone on Saturday of complications relating to Aids, a police official in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said. The authorities were slow to announce his death as they had trouble identifying the body. No one came to collec...



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