Maj. Hasan earns praise from imam
WASHINGTON (AP) The personal Web site for a radical American imam living in Yemen who had contact with two Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers is praising alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero. The posting today on the Web site for Anwar ...
 0.7K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 431.0 Plot on army base foiled
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian police said today they thwarted a terrorist plot in which extremists with ties to an al-Qaida-linked Somali Islamist group planned to invade a military base and open fire with automatic weapons until they were s...
5.3K - Aug. 4, 2009; scored 431.0 Yemeni at Guantanamo: prisoner without a country
WASHINGTON (AP) Legally speaking, Guantanamo Bay detainee Alla Ali bin Ali Ahmed should be a free man. He remains behind barbed wire in Cuba because he has nowhere to go. Ahmed, a 26-year-old Yemeni captured at a Pakistan guesthouse in 2002, was or...
4.0K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 431.0 Global piracy: the hidden side
ISTANBUL While Somali pirates top headlines with brazen ship hijackings for ransom, many smaller-scale attacks in the world s oceans maritime muggings, essentially go unreported, depriving mariners of information about possible threats to their...
5.9K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 431.0 Black box of Yemeni jet found in ocean
PARIS (AP) - France's transport minister says one of the black boxes of the Yemeni jetliner that crashed in the Indian Ocean has been found. Dominique Bussereau told reporters after a government meeting in Paris today that we have found a black box ...
0.6K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 431.0 Plane crashes in ocean; 153 aboard
MORONI, Comoros - A Yemenia jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean today as it tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros. Officials said one child was plucked alive from the sea. There was no word on other ...
4.5K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 1000.0 Saudi anti-smoking campaign targets grooms
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The catchy slogan, Kicking the habit is on you, and marriage is on us, is meant to entice young grooms to give up smoking by offering an attractive incentive. And, indeed, hundreds have expressed interest in the first anti-sm...
4.2K - Jun. 29, 2009; scored 431.0 Arkansas recruiter shootings spark fears of homegrown American jihadists
WASHINGTON (AP) - Carlos Bledsoe's transformation from Tennessee youth to an American-born Islamic extremist charged in a bloody rampage outside an Arkansas military recruiting station may signal an ominous new wave of violent homegrown jihadists, co...
1.8K - Jun. 15, 2009; scored 431.0 Companies hire shipriders against pirates
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) There s not a warship for miles, a small pirate skiff is speeding toward you and there s no way the creaking tub you re on can outrun the bandits. How long do you wait before you shoot? It s just one of many possible dilemmas fa...
7.2K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 431.0 Gates trip will reassure allies
SHANNON, Ireland - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is on a delicate mission, seeking to reassure long-term U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf region that efforts by Washington to reach out to Iran will not come at their expense. In fact, Gates told repor...
3.3K - May. 4, 2009; scored 431.0 Qatar boosts gas output as world demand shrinks
RAS LAFFAN, Qatar - This tiny U.S. ally is showing few signs of the world economic crisis, even as some of its Persian Gulf neighbors struggle with debt, stalled projects and the collapse in oil prices. The force driving Qatar: A virtual pipeline to ...
4.7K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 431.0 Can we win the trust of those who hate us?
The buzzword on Afghanistan is trust. Having routed the Taliban, liberated millions, midwived a (Sharia-supreme) constitution, assisted in elections, propped up a government and routed the Taliban some more, all the United States needs now to win vi...
3.6K - Feb. 24, 2009; scored 431.0 Indian navy sinks pirate ship
NEW DELHI (AP) An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate mother ship in the Gulf of Aden and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said today, as separate bands of brigands seized Thai and Iranian ships in the lawless seas. The o...
6.1K - Nov. 19, 2008; scored 431.0 | 
