Topic - Anwar Al-Awlaki

• World Scene

  A senior al Qaeda leader in Yemen was killed in a family feud Thursday, and an ensuing gunbattle between his followers and opponents left 16 other militants dead, a security official and tribal elders said.

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  Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison

  A federal judge ordered life in prison Thursday for a Nigerian Muslim who turned away from a privileged life and tried to blow up a packed international flight with a bomb concealed in his underwear.

• Feds release new details about underwear bomber

  A Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane began his path to terrorism with a text message from a top al-Qaida figure in Yemen, the U.S. government said Friday in a court filing that discloses new details about their relationship.

• Man pleads guilty over online 'South Park' threat

  A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.

• Inside Politics

  House Republicans are proposing to make federal employees pay more toward their pensions while reducing benefits in order to pay for highway programs.

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  4 Britons admit London Stock Exchange bomb plot

  Four British men fueled by the words of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric pleaded guilty Wednesday to involvement in an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange at Christmastime.

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  The List: Top 20 events of 2011

  From Occupy Wall Street to the Joplin tornado, the debt-ceiling battle and the killing of Osama bin Laden, 2011 will not soon be forgotten.

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  GORDON: Five ways Obama weakened America in 2011

  So 2011 has come and gone - yet another bleak chapter in our national security outlook under President Obama. Considering that we have a president who made it a point to apologize for our superpower status, the notion that he would somehow weaken the country should not be surprising. After all, he's only matching his words with deeds.

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  White House says no veto of defense bill

  The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat that President Obama would veto a defense bill over provisions on how to handle suspected terrorists as Congress raced to finish the legislation.

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  N.Y.C. mayor: Manhattan man arrested in bomb plot

  An "al Qaeda sympathizer" accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.

• CURL: Obama Doctrine: With us, or we'll whack you

  The Bush Doctrine, articulated by George W. Bush after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the Sept. 11 attacks, was simple: "We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," he said on Sept. 20, 2001.

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  Yemen: U.S. strike kills local al Qaeda media chief

  American drone strikes in southern Yemen have killed nine al Qaeda-linked militants, including the media chief for the group's Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent U.S.-born cleric slain in a similar attack last month, government officials and tribal elders said Saturday.

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  BOLTON: Treat Somali pirates like terrorists

  The recent kidnapping of a handicapped French woman from a Kenyan resort, initially attributed to Somali pirates, was the second such kidnapping in a month. Kenyan authorities now blame al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda.

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  EDITORIAL: Obama's killing of U.S. citizens

  The more Americans learn about the White House rationale for the targeted killing of an American citizen, the more ominous it sounds.

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  Al Qaeda confirms killing of U.S.-born cleric al-Awlaki

  Al Qaeda's Yemeni offshoot on Monday confirmed the killing of U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki late last month and vowed to avenge the prominent progagadist's death.

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