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Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb threat
Updated: Fri, Sep 9, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed tip that al-Qaida has plans to set off a car bomb in New York City or Washington around the Sept. 11 anniversary, with bridges or tunnels as potential targets. It was the first word of a possible "active plot" timed to coincide with... Read More
Al-Qaida's No. 2 reported killed by US in Pakistan
Updated: Sat, Aug 27, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Pakistani officials said Saturday that al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat. Since Navy SEALs stormed Osama bin Laden's compound and killed... Read More
Petraeus OK'd to head CIA
Updated: Fri, Jul 1, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to confirm Gen. David Petraeus to be the nation's CIA director. Read More
Obama says new task force will examine gas prices
Updated: Thu, Apr 21, 2011
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- President Barack Obama announced Thursday that the Justice Department is assembling a team to "root out any cases of fraud or manipulation" in oil markets that might be contributing to $4 a gallon-plus gasoline prices.
"We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American... Read More
Key Iraqi testimony in US case for invading Iraq revealed as lie
Updated: Wed, Feb 16, 2011
Iraqi: I'm proud my WMD lies led to war in Iraq Read More
WikiLeaks: US demanding our Twitter account info
Published: Sat, Jan 8, 2011
LONDON (AP) — U.S. officials have issued a subpoena to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to court documents obtained Saturday. WikiLeaks says other American Internet companies may also have been ordered to hand over information about its activities. The U.S. District Court for the... Read More
Bank of America stops handling WikiLeaks payments
Published: Sat, Dec 18, 2010
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Bank of America Corp. has joined several other financial institutions in refusing to handle payments for WikiLeaks. The Charlotte-based bank released a statement saying it will no longer process any transactions that it believes are intended for the site, which has released thousands... Read More
Pakistani spy agency denies it unmasked CIA chief
Published: Sat, Dec 18, 2010
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's top spy agency denied Saturday that it helped unmask the CIA's station chief in Islamabad, dismissing speculation it was retaliating for a U.S. lawsuit linking the Pakistani intelligence chief to the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India. An official with the Pakistani spy service warned... Read More
Hackers strike at MasterCard to support WikiLeaks
Published: Wed, Dec 8, 2010
LONDON (AP) — Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank and others who have acted against the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange. Internet "hacktivists" operating under the label "Operation Payback" claimed... Read More
WikiLeaks uses Swiss Web address as options narrow
Published: Sun, Dec 5, 2010
GENEVA (AP) — WikiLeaks' elusive founder, his options dwindling, has turned to Switzerland's credit, postal and Internet infrastructure to keep his online trove of U.S. State Department cables afloat. Supporters say Julian Assange is considering seeking asylum in Switzerland. He told a Spanish newspaper... Read More
US cable: China leaders ordered hacking on Google
Published: Sun, Dec 5, 2010
BEIJING (AP) — Contacts told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body and a senior leader demanded action after finding search results that were critical of him, leaked U.S. government memos show. One memo sent by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to... Read More
Iran says UN agency sending spies, not inspectors
Updated: Sat, Dec 4, 2010
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's intelligence chief accused the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency of sending spies in the guise of inspectors to gather information about Iran's nuclear activities, state TV reported Saturday. The claim was another sign that Iran has hardened its stance since the assassination a week... Read More
WikiLeaks fights to stay online amid attacks
Published: Fri, Dec 3, 2010
LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks struggled to stay online Friday as governments and hackers hounded the organization across the Internet, trying to deprive it of a direct line to the public. Like a fugitive moving from house to house, WikiLeaks changed the name of its Web site after a U.S. company stopped directing... Read More
Arrest in Yemen in bomb plot; more suspects sought
Updated: Sat, Oct 30, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to al-Qaida's Persian Gulf faction in the plot to mail bombs powerful enough to down a cargo plane. Officials said the woman was detained as part of a widening search for people believed to have used forged... Read More
WikiLeaks near release of secret US war documents
Published: Fri, Oct 22, 2010
LONDON (AP) — The WikiLeaks website is poised to release what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history — hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports that could amount to a classified history of the war in Iraq. U.S. officials condemned the move and said Friday... Read More
Christine O'Donnell said China plotting to take over US
Published: Mon, Oct 4, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn't divulge. O'Donnell's comments came as she and two other Republican candidates debated... Read More
Mike Mullen: Leak of Afghan materials may risk US lives
Published: Tue, Jul 27, 2010
BAGHDAD (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says the leak of U.S. military documents about Afghanistan could put American lives at risk. Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in Baghdad Tuesday that he was "appalled" by the leak. He says "there is a real potential threat... Read More
Russia's Putin sings with expelled agents
Published: Sun, Jul 25, 2010
FOROS, Ukraine (AP) — Vladimir Putin says he met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the United States, joining them in a patriotic song and promising them good jobs and a bright future back in their homeland. Russia's prime minister said late Saturday he recently got together with the 10 sleeper... Read More
UK Enlisted Astrologer to Fight Hitler
Updated: Tue, Dec 1, 2009
LONDON (AP) -- Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler's unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscopes for him and other Nazi leaders, documents declassified Tuesday show. They soon regretted it.
The file released to Britain's National Archives... Read More
World Briefs
Published: Sun, Oct 5, 2008
Strike angers Taliban
The Taliban are furious about the latest apparent U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, indicating a senior militant may be among two dozen people killed, officials and residents said Sunday.
The attack Friday on the North Waziristan tribal region was believed to have killed several Arab fighters... Read More
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