Terror
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Boston Marathon terror attack
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Dutch government raises terror threat level
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The Dutch government has raised its terror threat level from "limited" to "substantial," saying Dutch citizens are traveling to Syria to fight in the civil war and could return battle-hardened, traumatized and further radicalized.
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Turkey: US Embassy bomber had terror conviction
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The suicide bomber who struck the U.S. Embassy in Ankara spent several years in prison on terrorism charges but was released on probation after being diagnosed with a hunger strike-related brain disorder, officials said Saturday.
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Hillary Clinton on Libya: State Department working to strengthen security
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted on Wednesday that the department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at U.S. missions worldwide after the deadly Sept. 11 raid on the consulate in Libya.
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Algerian hostage crisis: Americans still hostage in Algeria, State Dept says
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Frederick Buttaccio, a Texas resident, has been identified as the first American citizen killed in the ongoing hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in eastern Algeria, the Associated Press says.
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Rezwan Ferdaus sentenced to 17 years for terror plot
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A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.
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NYC Federal Reserve bomb plot foiled
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A Bangladeshi man snared in an FBI terror sting considered targeting President Barack Obama before settling on a car bomb attack on The Federal Reserve in New York City, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Yemen: Al-Qaida official killed in airstrike
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Yemeni officials say an airstrike has killed al-Qaida's No. 2 leader in Yemen along with five others traveling with him in one car.
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Waterboarding use by American interrogators uncovered
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Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States, in a report Thursday that details further brutal treatment at secret CIA-run prisons under the Bush administration-era U.S. program of detention and rendition of terror suspects.
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Yonathan Melaku seeks psychiatric evaluation
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Prosecutors say Yonathan Melaku, who in January pleaded guilty to the overnight shootings in northern Virginia, is mentally competent for sentencing.
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Rezwan Ferdaus to plead guilty to two charges
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A man from Ashland, Mass. with a physics degree from Boston's Northeastern University will plead guilty to attempting to provide material support to terrorists and attempting to damage and destroy federal buildings by means of an explosive.
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UK cops nab 6 in terror raids, say no Olympic link
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British police used smoke grenades and a stun gun in an early-morning swoop Thursday on a home close to London's Olympic Park, as six terror suspects were rounded up in a series of raids across the city.
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Norwegian man tied to possible summer terror threat, sources say
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Al-Qaida has reportedly recruited a Norwegian man to bring down an airplane, with the attack timed to coincide with the upcoming summer games.
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Amine El Khalifi pleads guilty in Capitol bomb plot
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Amine El Khalifi, a Virginia man accused in an alleged bomb plot against the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty in an Alexandria courtroom on Friday and faces 25-30 years in prison.
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Al-Qaida senior leader killed in Pakistan drone stike
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A U.S. official says a drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region has killed al-Qaida's second-in-command.
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NATO strike kills al-Qaida senior leader
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The U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida's second highest leader in the country in an airstrike in eastern Kunar province, the coalition said Tuesday.
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American al-Qaida militant had 'privileged' childhood in Alabama
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An American who serves as a commander with a Somali militant group says in a new autobiography that he had a "privileged" childhood in Alabama before he joined the al-Qaida linked militants.
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Al Qaida bomb plot thwarted
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The man at the center of an al-Qaida plot to bomb an airliner was a CIA informant, officials say.
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