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  • **FILE** President Obama (left) speaks Feb. 9, 2012, in Washington about a settlement with the nation's five largest banks over foreclosures. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is in the background. (Associated Press)

    The Wrap: From RG3 bashing political correctness to Eric Holder's Kansas problem, the week that was

    Americans learned that the Boston bombers initially wanted to launch their terror attack on Independence Day, and the Obama administration found itself on the defensive once again over accusations of a Benghazi cover-up. On the international stage, Russia’s strategic nuclear forces are undergoing a major modernization — while the U.S. scales back. Here's a recap, or wrap, on the week that was from The Washington Times.

  • Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley was publicly condemned for training materials that were deemed "academically irresponsible" and was removed as a commander candidate. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army)

    Top brass crush career of Army officer who warned of jihadists

    The Pentagon's top brass has dealt another blow to a decorated Army officer who was fired last year as a war college instructor because of his teachings about radical Islam, his attorney told The Washington Times.

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    TAUBE: Pope Francis, the fence-mender and bridge-builder

    Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected by the Vatican's papal conclave last week after five rounds of voting. He took the name Pope Francis -- after St. Francis of Assisi, the revered Italian friar who founded the Franciscan Order -- and became the first Jesuit and first leader from the Americas of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.

  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    KUHNER: Hollywood Hillary

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is a national embarrassment. In congressional testimony this week, Mrs. Clinton -- under oath -- repeatedly deceived the public about her role in the Benghazi terrorist attacks.

  • A 'Life' changing film for the young actor of 'Pi'

    The only thing more unlikely than a movie about a boy adrift on a ship with a Bengali tiger is the tale of the film's star.

  • **FILE** U.S. envoy Chris Stevens (center), accompanied by British envoy Christopher Prentice (left), speaks April 11, 2011, to Council member for Misrata Dr. Suleiman Fortia (right) at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press)

    PRUDEN: Betrayal in Benghazi, Libya, as clear as a sore toe

    Mitt Romney should think of the betrayal in Benghazi as gout in Barack Obama’s left big toe, and step on it hard at every opportunity. The president will feel it, and the memory of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens deserves no less.

  • Illustration Muslim Obama 2 by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    PIPES: 'Barry was Muslim'

    Editor's Note: In this second of a five-part series, Middle East and Islam specialist Daniel Pipes documents evidence from Barack Obama's childhood years that points to his Muslim identity.

  • Pakistani police officers escort blindfolded Muslim cleric Khalid Chisti into court in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

    Pakistani cleric faces possible blasphemy charge

    Pakistani police are investigating whether a Muslim cleric who allegedly tried to frame a Christian girl for blasphemy should be charged with insulting Islam himself and potentially face life in prison, a police officer said Monday.

  • World Briefs: Cleric may face blasphemy charge

    Pakistani police are investigating whether a Muslim cleric who allegedly tried to frame a Christian girl for blasphemy should be charged with insulting Islam himself and potentially face life in prison, a police officer said Monday.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    TYRRELL: Who speaks for reform in Islam?

    How little we know about holy Islam. When those poor wretches who were imprisoned at Abu Ghraib were pictured for all the world to see naked with underpants on their heads, we were told that the naked male Islamic body must never be seen in public.

  • Members of an underground sect in Russia's Volga River province of Tatarstan province stand at the gate of a house outside the provincial capital, Kazan, on Aug. 8, 2012. The reclusive sect that literally went underground to stop contact with the outside world kept 27 children in dark and unheated cells, many of them for more than a decade, prosecutors said. (Associated Press)

    Russia: Underground sect charged with abuse

    A self-proclaimed prophet had a vision from God: He would build an Islamic caliphate under the earth. The digging began about a decade ago and 70 followers soon moved into an eight-level subterranean honeycomb of cramped cells with no light, heat or ventilation.

  • Egyptian comedian sentenced for offending Islam

    One of the Arab world's best known Egyptian comedians has been sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam, a judge said Thursday, in the latest such case against a high-profile figure, underlining concerns about freedom of expression in Egypt.

  • Accidental discovery expands story of '2 Malcolms'

    Documents outlining the crime that landed Malcolm X in prison in the 1940s are among some 1,000 recently unearthed items purchased jointly by the civil rights leader's foundation and an independent collector of African-American artifacts.

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Gunmen ambushed a civilian Israeli bus near the resort town of Eilat last week. U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating reports that al Qaeda-aligned groups played a key role in the attack that emanated from the increasingly lawless Sinai Peninsula.

    Al Qaeda linked to Israeli bus ambush

    U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating reports that al Qaeda-aligned groups played a key role in the deadly commando-style attack near the Israeli resort town of Eilat last week.

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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad

    Inside Politics

    Rep. Peter T. King said Thursday that President Obama's "mixed messages" on terrorism and his handling of the economy have opened the door for Republicans to deny him a second term next year.

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  • (8) Piety: Mr. Obama said that in Indonesia, he "didn't practice" Islam, an assertion that inadvertently acknowledges his Muslim identity by implying he was a nonobservant Muslim.

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  • CAIRO (AP) - One of the Arab world's best known Egyptian comedians has been sentenced to three months in jail for offending Islam, a judge said Thursday, in the latest such case against a high-profile figure, underlining concerns about freedom of expression in Egypt.

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