FBI reassess its past look at Fort Hood suspect
WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an assessment of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new a...
 5.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 175.0 The war in Afghanistan is lost
The dimensions of the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan are becoming bigger and more daunting by the day. Once-staunch defenders of the good war are starting to break ranks. Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afgh...
1.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 75.0 Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 196.0 At the movies
The following movies are playing at South Coast theaters. Times are shown for movies at Pony Village Cinemas. () indicates showings for Friday-Sunday only. For locations outside the Bay Area, call the theaters for showtimes. Amelia After becoming the...
8.1K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 75.0 'Men Who Stare at Goats' has fuzzy vision
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney s The Men Who Stare at Goats, and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: More of this is true than what you might imagine. This wry comment serves as a nod and ...
3.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 75.0 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 119.0 Israel: Gaza rockets can reach metro Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM (AP) Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired an Iranian rocket able to reach Israel s largest urban center, the country s military intelligence chief said today. Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told parliament s foreign affairs and def...
3.0K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 75.0 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 391.0 NATO needs to leave Afghanistan
The request by the United States and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, for an additional 40,000 troops sharply highlights NATOs rapidly worsening problems. There is, however, a void at the centre of NATO policy on Afghanistan...
1.0K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 75.0 All talk, but still no action
President Obama, we re still waiting: The president reiterated his commitment to repeal the don t ask, don t tell policy that forces gay men and women to conceal their sexual orientation while serving in the military. The policy was a mistake from ...
0.9K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 75.0 Suicide car bomber kills 11 at mosque, police station in Pakistani city of Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a mosque next to a police station in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 11 people in the latest bloodshed in an unrelenting wave of terror that has hit the ...
1.6K - Oct. 16, 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 151.0 Obama allies draw comparisons to Bush on security issues
WASHINGTON New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their s...
4.9K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 391.0 Not too scary books for Halloween
Kendal Rautzhan, columnist Few children are aware that the roots of Halloween began over 2,000 years ago as a Celtic festival of the dead at the onset of winter. The originators of Halloween offered gifts of wine and food for the souls of their ances...
4.4K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 75.0 Obama can t duck an Afghanistan decision
Afghanistan used to be a great issue for Barack Obama. As a candidate, he repeatedly argued George W. Bush and his Defense Department had lost their way, focusing too much attention (and troops and resources) on Iraq while shortchanging the more impo...
3.2K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 119.0 Hijacking suspect faces arraignment
NEW YORK (AP) A man accused of using weapons hidden in a diaper bag to terrorize airline passengers while hijacking their plane and diverting it to Cuba in 1968 faces a courthouse arraignment this week after being arrested at an airport. Longtime f...
1.2K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 119.0 Explosive similar to London bombing found in California
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) A Southern California man who blew off four fingers while mixing explosives in a home that doubled as a day care center had made a volatile compound similar to the one used in the 2005 London subway bombings, a sheriff s ...
2.6K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 75.0 US forces leave isolated Afghan base after attack
KABUL (AP) Taliban fighters claimed Friday their flag was flying victoriously over an eastern Afghan village U.S. forces abandoned after suffering casualties in one of the war s deadliest battles for American troops. The withdrawal this week from m...
6.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 75.0 Obama wins peace prize
OSLO (AP) President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilater...
11.2K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 119.0 Conservative case against G.W. Bush
How many times during the past eight years did you hear that former President Bush was a dangerous right-wing extremist? What you heard less often were expressions of the deep reservations some conservatives felt about Bush s governing philosophy. Co...
4.3K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 75.0 | 
