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Under Panetta, a more aggressive CIA
March 21, 2010The plan was a standard one in the CIA's war against extremists in Pakistan: The agency was using a Predator drone to monitor a residential compound; a Taliban leader was expected to arrive shortly; a CIA missile would kill him.
CIA director says secret attacks in Pakistan have hobbled al-Qaeda
March 21, 2010Aggressive attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region have driven Osama bin Laden and his top deputies deeper into hiding and disrupted their ability to plan sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
Soaring IED attacks in Afghanistan stymie U.S. counteroffensive
March 21, 2010Taliban fighters more than doubled the number of homemade bombs they used against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan last year, relying on explosives that are often far more primitive than the ones used in Iraq.
Pentagon to investigate intelligence unit that allegedly used contractors
March 21, 2010 The Pentagon said Monday that it was looking into allegations that a Defense Department official had set up an intelligence unit staffed by contractors to hunt insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the guise of social and cultural information-gathering.
FBI, DEA join probe of slayings near Mexican border
March 21, 2010Dozens of officials from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other U.S. agencies joined an investigation Monday into the killings of three people tied to the U.S. Consulate in the Mexican city of Juarez, scrambling to determine whether the slayings marked an escalation in the region's drug war or were simply cases of mistaken identity, officials said.
Family starts scholarship to spur government careers
March 21, 2010Heirs to a supermarket fortune will launch a multimillion-dollar scholarship foundation on Tuesday that is designed to encourage graduate students to pursue government careers in national security, foreign policy and international development.
FBI historian gives context to bureau's complex past
March 21, 2010
Growth of Environmental Film Festival was only natural
March 21, 2010 Usually when critics can't get DVDs of an upcoming movie, it's not a good sign. But in the case of "GasLand," the documentary that opens Washington's Environmental Film Festival on Tuesday, it's an indication of how in-demand the festival's offerings have become in the event's 18th year.
U.S. citizen held in Yemen after shootout with hospital guards
March 21, 2010Yemeni counterterrorism authorities captured a U.S. citizen of Somali origin after he shot his way out of a hospital in the Middle Eastern country, where he was being held after a mass arrest of al-Qaeda members, authorities said Thursday.
'JihadJane' suspect dropped out before high school, married at 16
March 21, 2010The Pennsylvania woman who allegedly used the Internet alias JihadJane to recruit people for violent jihad had dropped out before reaching high school and was married at age 16, the start of a bumpy life that might have left her vulnerable to radical beliefs, according to federal sources and public records.
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