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Pentagon to investigate intelligence unit that allegedly used contractors
March 17, 2010The 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 17, 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 17, 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 17, 2010
Growth of Environmental Film Festival was only natural
March 17, 2010Usually 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 17, 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 17, 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.
JihadJane, an American woman, faces terrorism charges
March 17, 2010 A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send her to prison for life.
Napolitano says suicide plane crash wasn't related to domestic terrorism
March 17, 2010A suicide plane crash that killed the pilot and an Internal Revenue Service worker at an office building in Austin on Feb. 18 was not a case of domestic terrorism, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday in a radio interview.
Obama must decide degree to which U.S. swears off nuclear weapons
March 17, 2010President Obama's top national security advisers will within days present him with an agonizing choice on how to guide U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the rest of his term.
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