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From the videos I saw, the police tactical unit that responded to the hostage situation in Paris did some things right and some things wrong.

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In a book released this week, the former CIA director and defense secretary asserts that the body of international terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was sent to the deep with the aid of some 300 pounds of chains.

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By the end of this year, there will be fewer than 10,000 in Afghanistan. Here’s a timeline of the beginning of the war to the foreseeable end. [ White House ]

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Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen shot an “American Spy” in the head before hanging his body on a soccer goalpost for everyone to see. Amin Abdulah Mohammed, a CIA-recruited informant, was killed after al Qaeda discovered he was working with the U.S. His body was hung at the same site of a Dec. 24, 2013, […]

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A suicide bomb instructor accidentally killed himself and a group of Iraqi pupils during a demonstration in Baghdad Monday. The unidentified instructor was training Sunni militants in a farming area near Samara when he put on a belt packed with explosives. The bomb detonated, killing himself and 22 members of the Islamic State of Iraq […]

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CCTV footage of the Dec. 5 militant attack on a Yemeni hospital that killed 63 people was released Thursday. The attack took place at the Ministry of Defense compound in Sana’a. Militants used rocket launchers and detonated car bombs to gain entry into the compound. Once inside, another gunman lobbed a live grenade into a […]

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Security footage has surfaced showing Kenyan soldiers looting the Westgate mall as the Somali terrorists waged their war. CCTV clearly shows a group of Kenyan soldiers enter the Westgate mall, passing over the bloodstained floors with their rifles at the ready, and then several moments later callously exit with their rifles slung and carrying bags […]

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Al-Qaeda leader, Abu Anas al-Libi, was captured at his home in Libya by Delta Force commandos after they circled his car, smashed his window and forced him into a black Mercedes. Al-Libi was returning home from his early morning prayers on Saturday when three vehicles swarmed his car, blocking its path and rendering it immobile. […]

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“What he did was so heroic. He was having coffee with friends when it happened. He went back in 12 times and saved 100 people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on inside," a friend said.

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Al-Qaeda has released a **GRAPHIC** video, aimed to swell their numbers with fresh recruits. The DVD appears to be directed towards the PKK, the Kurdish party who from 1984 to 2013 has fought an armed struggle against the Turkish state for cultural and political right. Accompanying text for the video, found at an online forum […]

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More than 20 embassies and consulates closed worldwide after intercepting an alarming Al-Qaeda message indicating a “strategically significant” terrorist attack was in the works. The Yemen based Al-Qaeda leadership stated in their private communication that the attack was “going to be big”. Here at home, increased security measures have been put in place. Over the […]

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While under FBI surveillance, it was discovered that American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki apparently has a fancy fetish for fine hookers, spending more than $2,300 in three months on prostitutes in the Washington, D.C. area.

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