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| 1 | Bin Laden takes credit for bomb attempt on U.S. jet | Nation and World |
| BEIRUT — Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day attempt to blow up an American civilian jet in an audiotape broadcast Sunday on Arab television. U.S. | ||
| 1/24/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Intelligence chief rips handling of accused plane bomber | Nation and World |
| The Obama administration created the interrogation team last year to replace a CIA program that President Obama dismantled shortly after taking office. | ||
| 1/20/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Report: al-Qaida may be training Americans in Yemen | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — U.S. officials think as many as three dozen Americans who converted to Islam while in prison in the United States have traveled to Yemen over the past year, possibly to be trained by al-Qaida, according to a Senate report. The arrivals have alarmed U.S. | ||
| 1/19/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | CIA bomber may have been Jordanian double-agent | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The suicide bomber who killed eight people at a CIA compound in Afghanistan last week was a Jordanian who had been recruited by that nation's intelligence service to help U.S. spy agencies penetrate al-Qaida, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official. | ||
| 1/4/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Yemen carries out airstrikes against al-Qaida | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The Yemeni government said it carried out airstrikes Thursday on a suspected gathering of al-Qaida operatives, and it indicated a cleric tied to the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, may have been among those killed. | ||
| 12/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Key lawmakers raising doubts about war plan | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Days before President Obama is expected to announce his decision to send as many as 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, key lawmakers from both parties expressed deep misgivings about the cost and course of an expanded war. | ||
| 11/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Fort Hood shooting suspect was under FBI probe in 2008 | Nation and World |
| The disclosure on Monday that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan communicated with an imam who had ties to Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers was sure to raise the question of whether U.S. | ||
| 11/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Nobel Peace Prize: honor or anchor? | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — The gold medallion given to recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't come with a ribbon, but the award could end up being a weight around President Obama's neck. | ||
| 10/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Bin Laden son reportedly killed by drone | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials think Osama bin Laden's son and potential heir in the al-Qaida organization was killed this year by a Predator missile strike in Pakistan. | ||
| 7/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Taliban video of GI a dilemma for U.S. | Nation and World |
| KABUL, Afghanistan — Posing an emotional new complication for the expanding U.S. military effort in Afghanistan, Islamic militants released a video of a captured American soldier whom U.S. military officials identified for the first time Sunday as Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho. | ||
| 7/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Insiders say strike force was secret plan CIA hid | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — The secret CIA program halted last month by agency Director Leon Panetta involved the establishment of elite paramilitary teams that could be inserted into Pakistan or other locations to capture or kill top leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network, according to former U.S. | ||
| 7/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Detainee says he gave false story after harsh interrogation | Nation and World |
| Mohammed made the assertion during hearings held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the militant leader was transferred in 2006 after being held at secret CIA sites since his capture in 2003. | ||
| 6/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | U.S. military, Pakistan in joint drone missions | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has begun flying armed Predator drones inside Pakistan and has given Pakistani officers significant control over targets, flight routes and decisions to launch attacks under a new joint operation, according to U.S. officials familiar with the program. | ||
| 5/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | U.S. to release photos from other probes in Afghanistan, Iraq | Politics |
| WASHINGTON — The Obama administration agreed late Thursday to release dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuses at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush years. | ||
| 4/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | U.S. spy chief worries Taliban leader Omar plotting return | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Afghanistan's former Taliban leader is crafting a strategy to reclaim power, the top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, identifying a key administration concern as the White House prepared to announce a new strategy to step up combat operations in Afghanistan. | ||
| 3/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Economy threatens security, intel chief warns | Nation and World |
| The economic collapse "already looms as the most serious one in decades, if not in centuries," said Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, in his first appearance before Congress as the top intelligence official in the Obama administration. | ||
| 2/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Bin Laden's son believed to be in Pakistan | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden's son and heir apparent is no longer under house arrest in Iran and is believed to have joined his father in Pakistan, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell said Friday. U.S. | ||
| 1/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | 3 warlords lead Afghan uprising | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — The escalating insurgency in Afghanistan is being spearheaded by a trio of warlords who came to prominence in the CIA-backed war to oust the Soviets but who now direct attacks against U.S. forces from safe havens in Pakistan, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials. | ||
| 10/1/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Private contractors make up 25 percent of U.S. spy force | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Private contractors account for more than one-quarter of the core work force at U.S. intelligence agencies, according to government figures that show how much of the nation's spying work has been outsourced since the Sept. 11 attacks. | ||
| 8/28/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | U.S. spy satellites eyeing Iraqi army | Nation and World |
| WASHINGTON — Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the U.S.-backed Iraqi army, according to current and former U.S. officials. | ||
| 7/2/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||