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Telegraph, 24.04.13 04:34 UTC

Ex-CIA director David Petraeus becomes a professor

Ex-CIA director David Petraeus is replacing one kind of intelligence work with another, taking up a role as a visiting professor at a US university.

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Seattle Times, 24.04.13 04:11 UTC

Accused bomber says U.S. wars fed the brothers radicalism

Investigators looking into the suspects in the Boston Marathon attacks will be conducting a worldwide investigation to examine the origins of their apparent radicalization.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, 24.04.13 03:14 UTC

Lives at risk around the world from novelty golf toys sold as 'bomb detectors'

LONDON: When James McCormick told armies, police forces and governments that his bomb detectors worked from deep underwater or a low-flying plane, it might have sounded too good to be true. ...

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Daily Mail, 24.04.13 01:55 UTC

Inspired by Inspire: Boston Marathon bomber admits he learned to build a bomb from al Qaeda propaganda magazine

PUBLISHED: 23:48 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 00:25 GMT, 24 April 2013 The suspected Boston Marathon bomber has admitted that he and his brother planted two bombs at the race - and had learned to ...

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Reuters - Top News, 24.04.13 00:58 UTC

Boston bomb suspect's wife assisting probe -lawyer

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Scott Malone PROVIDENCE, R.I./BOSTON | Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:46pm EDT PROVIDENCE, R.I./BOSTON (Reuters) - The wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect is assisting ...

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CNN Top Stories, 24.04.13 00:57 UTC

Alleged Iran link in Canada plot puzzles

(CNN) -- Is al Qaeda looking to ground transportation as a promising target after the introduction of intense security measures for air travel? And are its supporters able to operate out of Iran ...

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Los Angeles Daily News, 23.04.13 23:59 UTC

President is right to be careful with 'terrorism': Letters to the Editor for Thursday, April 25, 2013

According to Krauthammer, terrorism is any attack on civilians for political purposes. I also recall this word was a catalyst to ramp up fear in the minds of the American people to justify a need to ...

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Telegraph, 23.04.13 20:47 UTC

Boston bombs suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Afghanistan and Iraq wars inspired us

The surviving Boston bombing suspect has told investigators that he and his older brother were motivated by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a desire to "defend" Islam.

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 20:34 UTC

Defense seeks new expert in Afghan killings case

Attorneys for the U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians during a 2012 rampage have asked that a new psychiatric expert be appointed in the case.

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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 20:33 UTC

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said.

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