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Gen. Petraeus Rushed From Senate Hearing Room
Associated Press WriterGen. David Petraeus slumped over Tuesday morning during a Senate hearing, but revived after a few seconds and left the room under his own power. After about 20 minutes he returned to the hearing room. Petraeus, 57, had finished telling Sen. John McCain...Tags: John McCain
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Obama: Al-Qaida Link to Christmas Terror Suspect
An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.
"This is not the first time this group...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Al-Qaeda, Corporate Crime, U.S. Embassy, Explosions
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US, UK Close Yemen Embassies Over Al-Qaida Threats
The U.S. and Britain locked up their embassies in Yemen on Sunday after fresh threats from al-Qaida, and the White House expressed alarm at the terror group's expanded reach in the poor Arab nation where an offshoot apparently ordered the Christmas Day...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Al-Qaeda, Corporate Crime, Osama bin Laden, Janet Napolitano
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White House: Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Square Car Bomb
Saying they obtained new evidence, senior White House officials said Sunday that the Pakistani Taliban were behind the failed Times Square bombing.
The attempt marks the first time the group has been able to launch an attack on U.S. soil. And while U.S....Tags: Transportation Accidents, Al-Qaeda, Religious Conflicts, Osama bin Laden, Taliban
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Pirates Recapture US Captain After He Tries to Escape
WASHINGTON AP -- The American captain held hostage by four Somali pirates made a desperate escape attempt Friday by trying to swim to freedom but was recaptured after they fired shots, and officials said other pirates were sailing to the scene in hijacked...Tags: Barack Obama, Maersk Alabama Hijacking (2009), Piracy, France, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry
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Gold stars, taps and tributes for Memorial Day
The crowd that filled Daley Plaza Saturday for Memorial Day ceremonies was as quiet as the throng of NATO protesters in the same spot just over a week earlier had been boisterous. But Ald. James Balcer, 11th, a Marine veteran who emceed Saturday's event,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Memorial Day, Holidays, NATO Summit
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Chicago honors service members for Memorial Day
A crowd gathered in Daley Plaza today for the first Memorial Day ceremonies since American troops left Iraq at the end of 2011. CIA Director, General David Petraeus addressed the crowd as the special guest of Mayor Emanuel for Chicago’s Memorial...
Tags: Memorial Day, Central Intelligence Agency, Holidays, Rahm Emanuel, NATO Summit
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15 years later, CIA acknowledges fallen Marylander worked for agency
The report from the State Department was brief: Thomas M. Jennings Jr., a federal worker from Burtonsville on a temporary assignment with NATO peacekeepers, had died in a car crash in Southern Bosnia.
Fifteen years later, it turns out that was only...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Vienna (Austria), Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), U.S. Embassy, Police Investigations
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CIA remembers those lost in covert operations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA is remembering those lost in the hidden, often dangerous world of espionage, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its hallowed Book of Honor. The new star carved into...Tags: Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Yemen, U.S. Embassy
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President Obama reaches out to military veterans
WGN NewsAt the start of Memorial Day weekend, President Barack Obama launched a new outreach campaign, "Veterans and Military Families for Obama." In the 2008 elections, Senator John McCain won the majority of the veteran vote. In 2012, President Obama aims...Tags: Festive Events, Barack Obama, Iraq War (2003-2011), Veterans Affairs, U.S. Military
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CIA honors officer killed in the line of duty in Yemen
WASHINGTON -- At Jeffrey Patneau's funeral in October 2008, his family was not allowed to talk about where he had worked or what he had done. He was described as a State Department employee, which was his cover. "It was very difficult, because people...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Lobbying, Yemen, Police Investigations, U.S. Embassy
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CIA discloses names of 15 killed in line of duty
WASHINGTON — The CIA on Tuesday disclosed the names of 15 of its operatives killed in the line of duty over the last 30 years, the result of a new effort to honor fallen officers whose sacrifices had long gone unrecognized by all but a few....Tags: Pakistan, Lobbying, Yemen, Espionage and Intelligence, U.S. Embassy
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