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War on Terror stories: 212 news summaries

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 Obama Praises Afghan, 
 Pakistan Commitments 

Delicate diplomacy ends with unified resolve to fight militants

May 6, 09 4:15 PM CDT
(AP) - President Obama said he got the commitments he wanted today from the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to more aggressively fight militants gaining power and sowing violence inside their countries' borders. The high-stakes diplomacy had Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari meeting with officials separately and together. Looming... More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • Pakistan • Hamid Karzai • Asif Ali Zardari • Afghanistan war • President Obama

Al-Qaeda Agent Pleads Guilty
to Supporting Terrorism

Al-Marri entered US
the day before 9/11

Apr 30, 09 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - An al-Qaeda sleeper agent who entered the country the day before the 9/11 attacks pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism in federal court today and faces 15 years in prison, the Peoria Journal Star reports. The government says Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who had been designated an "enemy combatant" and... More »

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War on Terror • enemy combatants • terror suspects • al-Qaeda • Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri

US Terror Reports Boost Jihadis' Radical Cred

Extremists elders complain youth give them less respect than  Western analysts do

Apr 30, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prominent anti-Western cleric Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi says he isn't going soft in his old age—and he's got the Western intelligence reports to prove it. The Jordanian jihad theorist, under fire from more radical and violent younger extremists, proudly points to a report from West Point's counterterror center labeling him... More »

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War on Terror • jihad • Islamic extremists • counterterrorism • Islamic extremism

(Newser) - Republican calls for the selective release of memos on torture techniques is a naked political ploy, Greg Sargent writes on the Plum Line. “The emerging official position of the GOP on torture is that the only classified information about torture that should be released is that which can bolster... More »

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War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Department of Justice • American media • interrogation techniques • Obama administration • torture memo

(Newser) - Pakistan’s president suggested today that Osama bin Laden could be dead, an assertion the US strenuously objects to, the New York Daily News reports. “He may be dead. But that’s been said before,” Asif Ali Zardari said. “It’s still between fiction and fact.”... More »

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War on Terror • terrorism • Pakistan • United States • Osama bin Laden • Asif Ali Zardari • al-Qaeda

Brown Talks Terrorism With Pakistani PM

Snubbed by Zardari, British PM focuses on tackling extremism

Apr 27, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - British PM Gordon Brown held talks with Pakistani leaders today, appearing at a joint press conference with his counterpart, Yusuf Raza Gilani, after President Asif Ali Zardari dropped out at the last minute. The BBC attributes the snub to unhappiness with the recent British arrest of 11 Pakistani nationals... More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • Pakistan • Gordon Brown • Hamid Karzai • Asif Ali Zardari

 US 'Close' on 
 Fate of Gitmo 
 Prisoners 

First group may be released to Va.

Apr 27, 09 1:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is close to deciding whether to free an initial group of Guantanamo detainees, AP reports. Attorney General Eric Holder didn't specify how long it would be before Gitmo closes, but said he must first determine how many prisoners will be released or tried. "We're doing these all... More »

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War on Terror • Attorney General • Europe • Guantanamo prisoners • detainees • Eric Holder

 Photos of Bush-Era 
 Prisoner Abuse 
 to Be Released 

ACLU request for release of Iraq, Afghanistan photos granted

Apr 24, 09 2:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is releasing dozens of photographs depicting prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by Americans, the Los Angeles Times reports. The photos are not believed to be as extreme as the images from the Abu Ghraib probe, but defense officials warn they may provoke an angry backlash... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Bush administration • War on Terror • Abu Ghraib • ACLU • detainee • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - The ripples from the release of the torture memos continue to ruffle the CIA, David Ignatius writes for the Washington Post. “America will be better off, in the long run, for Obama's decision to expose the past practice of torture,” he acknowledges. “We all knew the... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • terrorism • interrogation techniques • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama • operative

Obama Pandered to Lefties With Memo Release: Cheney

Ex-VP slams Obama terror policies

Apr 22, 09 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney said President Obama’s release of Bush administration torture memos was meant “essentially to appease a certain element of the Democratic Party or because of campaign commitments,” Politico reports. Speaking on Fox News, Cheney did a mocking impression of al-Qaeda’s reaction: “Gee whiz, isn't... More »

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War on Terror • Dick Cheney • torture • terrorism • politics • Democratic Party • al-Qaeda • Obama administration • torture memo • President Obama

CIA Pushed Brutal Tactics
on Interrogators

Captors felt al-Qaeda suspect had already
told all he knew

Apr 18, 09 5:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Higher-ups in the CIA pressed for harsh interrogation methods to be used on a captured al-Qaeda member despite his interrogators' assurances that he had nothing more to tell, the New York Times reports. Abu Zubaydah had already yielded important information, including tips that led to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shiekh Mohammed,... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • torture • interrogation techniques • Abu Zubaydah • harsh interrogation • torture memo

'Weighty' Torture Memo Decision Took Weeks

President's belief in rule of law won out in choice to release Bush-era memos

Apr 17, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama spent weeks thinking "very long and hard" about his "weighty decision" to release memos on harsh CIA interrogation techniques green-lighted by the Bush administration, senior adviser David Axelrod tells Politico. In the end, Axelrod says, the president's belief in transparency and the rule of law won... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • David Axelrod • torture memo • President Obama

(Newser) - Among the weirder revelations emerging from the newly released CIA memos on harsh interrogations: Bush administration lawyers approved the use of insects. Apparently, one detainee in particular had a phobia about them, so interrogators wanted to slip one into his "cramped confinement box," Time reports. The technique never... More »

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War on Terror • CIA • torture • insects • Guantanamo prisoners • harsh interrogation

 Obama Releases Bush 
 Memos Detailing Torture 

Justice docs released detail OK'd techniques

Apr 16, 09 3:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Bush-era memo on interrogation techniques acknowledged that waterboarding represented a “threat of imminent death,” but that the simulated-drowning procedure was not torture because it caused no lasting psychological harm, Reuters reports. The Justice Department memo and three others on interrogations were released to the public today—and... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • torture • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • torture memo • public disclosure

 US Ditches 'War on Terror' 

Bush-era phrase has been abandoned, says Clinton

Mar 31, 09 1:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration has dropped the phrase "war on terror" in reference to the conflict with al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists, Reuters reports. "It's not being used," said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who noted that there have been no official directives about the label. Many international... More »

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War on Terror • Hillary Clinton • counterterrorism • al-Qaeda • Obama administration

(Newser) - The Bush administration ran a secret team authorized to assassinate foreign targets without being accountable to Congress, says New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh. On CNN's Situation Room, he said the hit squad could go "into a country without telling the CIA station chief or the ambassador and whack someone.... More »

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War on Terror • Dick Cheney • US military • assassination • George W. Bush • Special Forces • Joint Special Operations Command • Seymour M. Hersh

Intense Debate Led to
Obama Afghan Compromise

Biden warned against being dragged into political, military quagmire

Mar 28, 09 6:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's new Afghan strategy was forged after intense debate among advisers, reports the New York Times, with VP Joe Biden being the voice of caution, warning against being dragged into a quagmire there. All advisers agreed that the goal should narrow to tackling al-Qaeda, rather than Bush-style nation-building. But... More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • Joe Biden • Taliban • al-Qaeda • Afghanistan war • President Obama

(Newser) - President Obama laid out the government's new strategy for Afghanistan today, declaring that the US must “disrupt, defeat, and dismantle” al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Obama will send another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan, on top of the 17,000 already approved. He also announced plans to work with regional... More »

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Afghanistan • Iran • War on Terror • Barack Obama • US military • Afghanistan war • Obama administration

 US Maneuvers to 
 Name Afghan 
 Prime Minister 

Part of America's 'exit strategy'

Mar 23, 09 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is planning to place a prime minister in the Afghanistan government to bypass corruption-tainted President Hamid Karzai, reports the Guardian. American authorities, backed by European allies, also plan to divert money to the provinces away from Karzai control. US officials have grown increasingly disillusioned with the current government... More »

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War on Terror • Pakistan • troop surge • Hamid Karzai • Afghanistan war • President Obama • Afghanistan exit strategy

 Prez: 'Cheney 
 Stirred US Hatred' 

Cheney's philosophy hasn't made America safer, he says

Mar 22, 09 6:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama yesterday returned a jab from Dick Cheney on terrorism by accusing the former vice president of putting the US at risk by revving up anti-American sentiment, reports Politico. Cheney charged last week that the president's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility increased the risk of a... More »

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War on Terror • Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • Guantanamo Bay • 60 Minutes

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