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  • Five U.S. Muslims convicted in terror plot

    Five young American Muslims were convicted of plotting terrorist attacks and sentenced to jail in a case that highlights concerns about Westerners traveling to Pakistan to link up with extremist groups.


  • Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John O. Brennan says of U.S.-born recruits to terrorist groups: "There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the world, and they are very concerning to us." J.M. EDDINS JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES

    Dozens of Americans believed to have joined terrorists

    The president's most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security says in an exclusive interview that citizens who pose a threat to the country are being tracked.


  • Gary Faulkner gets ready to board a connection flight, back home to Colorado, on Wednesday afternoon, after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, in Los Angeles. Mr. Faulkner, on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden, is back in the United States, 10 days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

    Bin Laden hunter says he'll 'absolutely' try again

    A Colorado man who traveled to Pakistan to hunt down Osama bin Laden said he'll "absolutely" try again, despite his arrest in the woods of northern Pakistan.


  • Pakistani police officers stand guard outside the district jail, where five young American Muslims from the Washington, D.C. area who were arrested in Pakistan in December are being held in Sargodha, Pakistan, Thursday, June 24, 2010. The five American men were convicted Thursday on terror charges by a Pakistan court and sentenced to 15 years in prison each, a prosecutor said. The judge handed down two prison terms for each man, one for 10 years and the other for five, said deputy prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

    DC-area mosque leader disappointed in convictions

    The leader of a D.C.-area mosque is disappointed that five young men who worshipped there before going to Pakistan have been convicted on terror charges and sentenced to 10 years in prison.


  • A Pakistani police officer frisks a man at the entrance of the district jail where five young Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area, who were arrested in Pakistan in December, are being held, in Sargodha, Pakistan, Thursday, June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

    Pakistan: Anti-terror court convicts 5 Americans

    Five American men were convicted Thursday on terror charges by a Pakistani court and sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that heightened concerns about Westerners traveling to Pakistan to contact al Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups.


  • Illustration: President Obama

    TYRRELL: Observing Obama

    It was precisely Feb. 4, 2009, when I broke my self-imposed rule. It was not a very old rule, but it was serious. I had told myself I would not criticize the new president of the United States, Barack Obama - at least not for a few more months. But I slipped up. I could not completely swallow the fact that a community-action leader with almost no experience at the national level had become president.


  • American Scene

    Edith Shain, who claimed to be the nurse who was smooched by a sailor in Times Square in the famous Life magazine photograph marking the end of World War II, died Sunday of liver cancer.


  • **FILE** Islamist cleric Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (Associated Press)

    Punjab govt. funds terror-linked charity

    The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has given more than $1 million to institutions run by an Islamic charity that is on a U.N. terrorism blacklist and affiliated with a group the U.S. considers a foreign terrorist organization.


  • This Sunday, May 30, 2010, photograph provided by Dr. Scott Faulkner shows his brother Gary Faulkner at the Denver International Airport en route to Pakistan. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott Faulkner)

    Bin Laden hunter on his way back to U.S.

    An American on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden is headed back to the United States, 10 days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment.


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