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Five US citizens arrested in Pakistan, being investigated on links to extremists.

Five young men who vanished from the Washington area last month are believed to be held in Pakistan while authorities investigate possible links to extremists there. The Pakistani embassy in Washington says the investigation focuses on whether the US citizens have links to extremist groups in Pakistan. The five men have been arrested but no formal charges have been filed

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Reports Fuel Speculation Over Bin Laden’s Location

The mystery over Osama bin Laden's whereabouts has taken a new turn, with multiple reports claiming that the Al-Qaeda leader is not hiding in Pakistan, as widely believed, and could be in Afghanistan. Information about the location of the man the U.S. blames for orchestrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been scarce ever since international forces launched a manhunt for him in Afghanistan in 2001

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Officials press Obama’s Afghan strategy; Build and withdraw

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nation’s top military officer laid out a muscular defense of President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning, but senators of both parties objected to major parts of the new strategy.

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Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: More Poetry, Less Terror

It was easily one of the 50 most important speeches Barack Obama will ever give: Tonight, he made the case for why he’s sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. (Oh, and terrorists

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Pullout from Afghanistan to begin in 2011

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce Tuesday night that he will begin to transition American forces out of Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, setting the first time frame to wind down the war there nearly a decade after the United States first sent troops in to topple the Taliban government, a senior administration official said.

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Obama’s slavery czar

His title is a jawbreaker: director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. But Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca's target is, simply, slavery. “We tend to say, slavery: bad; 1865: taken care of,” he tells me, wiping his hands dismissively as if washing away the scourge

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Katt Williams Arrested For Burglary

Katt Williams Arrested For Burglary: comedian Katt Williams has been known to entertain the legions of fans around the country for his standup routine and film roles. Friday But Sunday night, 38 years old, ‘Star After Next’ managed to land his latest role as a thief in Atlanta

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Arianna Huffington thinks Joe Biden Should Resign – Do you?

Joe Biden met with CENTCOM chief Gen. David Petraeus this morning to talk about Afghanistan — an issue that has pushed the vice president into the spotlight, landing him on the cover of the latest Newsweek. I have an idea for how he can capitalize on all the attention, and do what generations to come will always be grateful for: resign.

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41 dead as a 13 year old suicide bomber hits NW Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber flung himself at a military convoy passing through a busy market in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing 41 people in the latest in a wave of deadly strikes, the military said. The bomber targeted a paramilitary convoy as it passed through a security checkpost in a bazaar in Alpuri town in Shangla, a district neighbouring Swat valley and the target of a recent anti-Taliban military offensive. Pakistan's army claims to have cleared Swat and nearby districts of the Taliban threat in an offensive launched in April, and are now poised to start a similar ground and air assault in the nearby northwest tribal belt.

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Gunmen attack Pakistan’s army headquarters

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A team of gunmen brandishing assault rifles and grenades tried to break into Pakistan's army headquarters on Saturday, sparking a raging gunbattle with troops outside the capital of Islamabad, police said. The brazen attack was the third major militant assault in a week and came as the government said it was planning an imminent offensive against Islamist militants in their strongholds in the rugged mountains along the border with Afghanistan.

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