Gunman: 'Allahu Akbar!'
FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar! an Arabic phrase for God is great! before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. U.S. A...
 9.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 97.0 Army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead, 30 hurt
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Tex...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 75.0 N. Korea aims for direct U.S. talks
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea said today it has reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and extracted enough plutonium to bolster its atomic stockpile, raising the stakes in an apparent effort to push the U.S. into direct negotiations. Repr...
3.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 135.0 German leader urges U.S. to act on climate
WASHINGTON (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress today to tear down the walls of today and reach a deal to combat global warming. Frequently ...
5.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 97.0 N. Korea pushes for talks with U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea pressed the United States to accept its demand for direct talks on the communist regime s nuclear program, issuing a veiled threat today that Pyongyang will expand its nuclear arsenal unless Washington agrees. Th...
3.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 135.0 Pakistanis voice frustrations
ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face today with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terro...
5.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 75.0 We have our own home-grown terrorists
What you need to know about Michael C. Finton is that he parked a van in front of a federal building in Springfield, Ill., believing it was loaded with explosives. He then twice made cell phone calls that he thought would detonate the bombs. Finton n...
3.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 97.0 Gunmen kill 39 in five attacks in Pakistan's cultural capital
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan s cultural capital of Lahore, and car bombs exploded in two cities near the Afghan border today, killing 39 people in an escalating ...
7.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 125.0 New book outlines British spy agency's successes, failures
LONDON - Britain s domestic spy service thinks the threat from Islamist terrorism has stopped growing but remains severe, with terrorists eager to acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to the first authorized history of the agency. The Defe...
4.8K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 125.0 Indictment: terrororism suspect shopped beauty stores for bomb supplies
NEW YORK (AP) Afghan-born Najibullah Zazi set up shop in suburban Denver, scouring the Web and visiting beauty supply stores in a hunt for chemicals needed to build bombs for al-Qaida, authorities charge, in one of the most significant terror threa...
1.4K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 119.0 North Bend sues tribe
A legal battle that began Tuesday between the city of North Bend and the Coquille Indian Tribe will likely mean reduced services for North Benders. The city is suing the tribe and its business arm, the Coquille Economic Development Corp., for breach ...
4.0K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 75.0 North Bend sues tribe
A legal battle that began Tuesday between the city of North Bend and the Coquille Indian Tribe will likely mean reduced services for North Benders. The city is suing the tribe and its business arm, the Coquille Economic Development Corp., for breach ...
4.1K - Sep. 24, 2009; scored 75.0 U.N. chief urges leaders to change
UNITED NATIONS (AP) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon challenged world leaders today to cleanse the globe of nuclear weapons, tackle the threat of catastrophic climate change and combat growing poverty from the global financial crisis. The U.N. chief w...
5.8K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 113.0 Explosive fears
There were the two in August, and a hoax or two in January, but law enforcement officials say bomb incidents in Coos County are not becoming an explosive trend. That doesn t mean they re putting down their guard. The potential risk to human life is a...
5.5K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 778.0 Journal entries of AP photographer in Afghanistan
The operation started really early Wednesday morning on this town called Dahaneh. It's south of Now Zad a few miles. It is Taliban-controlled. Alfred (Associated Press writer Alfred de Montesquiou), and Ken (AP Television News Cameraman Ken Teh) were...
21.3K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 97.0 Police investigate the bomb that wasn't
COOS BAY It was just a brown leather briefcase on the ground next to the Coos Bay Public Library this morning, but police weren t taking chances. They didn t touch it, fearing a potential bomb. Officers cordoned off streets around the library short...
3.1K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 158.0 CIA interrogations turned chaotic in post-Sept. 11 rush
WASHINGTON With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after Sept. 11, 2001 and handed them the keys to the most coercive tactics in the agency s ar...
6.0K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 97.0 Iraq: Bomb kills 2 near restaurant in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) A bicycle bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad Thursday killing two people in a deadly reminder of Iraq s security problems as the death toll rose to at least 101 from a string of blasts the day before that mainly targeted heavil...
5.6K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 125.0 Taliban fears inhibit turnout in Afghan elections
KABUL Taliban threats appeared to dampen voter turnout in the militant south today when Afghans chose the next president for their deeply troubled country. Insurgents launched scattered rocket, suicide and bomb attacks that closed some polling site...
6.5K - Aug. 20, 2009; scored 119.0 Bomb scare ends concert
ROSEBURG (AP) A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of several Douglas County parks, including one in which people were attending a Jonatha Brooke concert. The singer-songwriter left the stage at Stewart Park an hour into her performance Tuesday ni...
1.7K - Aug. 13, 2009; scored 113.0 | 
