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Nigerian underwear bomber to be sentenced in Detroit

By doris | Published: February 16, 2012

Full Story at Yahoo.com DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal judge is set to decide on Thursday if the Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit in 2009 will spend the rest of his life in prison. A bomb hidden in the underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, [...]

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Most powerful US nuclear bomb dismantled

By doris | Published: October 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com AMARILLO, Texas — The last of the nation’s most powerful nuclear bombs has been taken apart in Texas. Technicians at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo removed the uranium Tuesday from the last of the nation’s largest nuclear bombs, a Cold War relic known as the B53. The bomb put into service [...]

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US official: Blast in Michigan was from car bomb

By doris | Published: September 21, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MONROE, Mich. — A blast that turned a vehicle along a Michigan street into a blackened shell and seriously injured an attorney and his two sons was the result of a car bomb, police said Wednesday. Emergency responders rushed to the site of the Tuesday evening explosion near a highway underpass [...]

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After a decade of grief and recovery, nation remembers 9/11

By doris | Published: September 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Thousands gathered Sunday morning at New York’s Ground Zero, stood still in silence, some crying as they listened to the names of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks were read aloud. “They were our neighbors, our friends, our wives, children and parents,” said New York Mayor [...]

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Sept. 11 exhibits go beyond Ground Zero

By doris | Published: September 1, 2011

Full Story at Overhead Bin.msnbc.msn.com As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks nears, there will be gatherings at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City, at the Pentagon Memorial in Washington, D.C., and at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. Many museums around the country also are [...]

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At least 91 dead in Norway shooting, bomb attack

By doris | Published: July 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com OSLO (Reuters) – A suspected far-right gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway’s ruling Labor party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo. Witnesses said the gunman, identified by police as a 32-year-old Norwegian, moved across the [...]

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Bin Laden hideout location challenges Pakistan credibility

By doris | Published: May 2, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Osama bin Laden’s presence in an elaborately fortified million-dollar compound “raises questions” about what some Pakistani officials might have known about the al-Qaida leader’s presence prior to Sunday’s raid that killed him, the top White House counterterrorism adviser said Monday. The pointed comments by White House advisor John Brennan come amid [...]

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Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore.

By doris | Published: November 27, 2010

Full Story at News.Yahoo.com PORTLAND, Ore. – Undercover agents in a sting operation stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, federal authorities said. The bomb was a dud supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities [...]

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N. Korea fires on S. Korea, killing 2 and injuring more than a dozen

By doris | Published: November 23, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea fired artillery toward its tense western sea border with South Korea on Tuesday, killing two South Korean marines, the South’s Defense Ministry said. Fifteen other South Korean soldiers were wounded, five of them seriously, defense officials said. Three civilians were injured in the attack. At [...]

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Nine years after 9/11, a photo provides some peace

By doris | Published: September 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Judson Box has never known exactly how his son, Gary, died on September 11, 2001. But an unexpected find nine years later has given him a glimpse into his son’s final hours. Gary, then 35, had been working as a firefighter in Brooklyn for roughly five years [...]

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Bomb plot suspect arrested trying to catch flight to Dubai

By doris | Published: May 4, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — A naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan arrested overnight in the Times Square bombing investigation will appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom Tuesday morning to face formal charges. Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested at JFK International Airport in New York at 11:45 p.m. E.T. Monday as he prepared [...]

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Car bomb found in parked SUV in Times Square

By doris | Published: May 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A T-shirt vendor who noticed smoke coming out of a tinted, dark green sport utility vehicle alerted police to what turned out to be a potential bomb placed in Times Square. “We avoided what could have been a very deadly event,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg early Sunday morning. “It [...]

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