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Posted Jul 28, 2009 11:47 AM CDT

(AP) – Federal prosecutors said today that one member of a North Carolina group that sought to wage "violent jihad" is still at large. US Attorney George Holding says authorities hope to soon apprehend an eighth person described in an indictment unsealed yesterday. The person's name... Read full story »

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