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WSJ: U.S. Cuts Pakistan Aid by $33 Million

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A Senate panel expressed its outrage over Pakistan’s conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the physician’s 33-year sentence for high treason.

The punitive move came on top of deep reductions the Appropriations Committee already had made to President Barack Obama’s budget request for Pakistan, a reflection [...]

Taliban kill 7 in capital after Obama visit

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban struck back less than two hours after President Barack Obama left Afghanistan on Wednesday, targeting a foreigners’ housing compound with a suicide car bomb and militants disguised as women in an assault that killed at least seven people.

It was the second major assault in Kabul in less than three weeks and highlighted the Taliban’s continued ability to strike in the heavily guarded capital even [...]

Iran says is building copy of captured US drone

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft’s operational history to prove his claim that Tehran’s military experts had extracted data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in [...]

AP: Killing of bin Laden voted top news story of 2011

NEW YORK (AP) – The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Japan’s earthquake/tsunami/meltdown disaster, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

The death of bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader who masterminded the Sept. 11 terror attacks, received 128 first-place votes out of 247 ballots cast for [...]

Ron Paul criticizes Obama for openly assassinating an American citizen without due process.

Ron Paul, speaking at a Politics and Eggs breakfast at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, said he doesn’t support the “assassination” of American-raised al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki. Credit Ryan O’Connor

Scratch Ron Paul off the list of people standing in line to pat President Obama ???on the back for the death of American-raised al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki.

On the same day fellow Texan and presidential candidate Rick Perry released a statement [...]

AP: Anniversary terror plot suspects may be US citizens

WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida may have sent American terrorists or men carrying U.S. travel documents to launch an attack on Washington or New York to coincide with memorials marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11, government officials say.

One U.S. official says al-Qaida dispatched three men, at least two of whom could be U.S. citizens, to detonate a car bomb in one [...]

SEAL TEAM 6 COPTER DOWNED BY TALIBAN

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said Saturday. It what was the deadliest single loss for American forces in [...]

Pakistan jails doctor who helped CIA in plot to obtain DNA from bin Laden family – McClatchy

By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have jailed a doctor who helped the CIA by creating an elaborate plot to get DNA samples of Osama bin Laden’s family before the al Qaida leader was killed in a special forces raid here.

The doctor, who holds a senior government health post in Pakistan, used nurses, who were able to gain entry to the [...]

TSA Vows MORE Interaction With Passengers

By EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON July 6, 2011 (AP)

Airlines are being warned by the government that terrorists are considering surgically hiding bombs inside humans to evade airport security. As a result, travelers may find themselves subjected to more scrutiny when flying in the heart of summer vacation season, especially to the U.S. from abroad.

The FBI and Homeland Security Department sent a memo to security [...]

China says Pakistani forces – not U.S. – killed bin Laden… Killed in firefight after helicopter shot down… ‘No one knows in that helicopter crash Bin Laden was killed’

A TV grab from CNN shows Abbottabad, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, May 1, 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night that a U.S. operation had killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and put his body in U.S. custody. (Xinhua)

ISLAMABAD, May 2 (Xinhua) — Pakistani Urdu TV channel Geo News quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying that [...]

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