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Suspect Arrested In Alleged Chicago Terror Plot — Law Enforcement Officials: Plot Involved Attack In Chicago — (CBS) CHICAGO A suspect has been arrested in an alleged terror plot that involves a Chicago target, sources tell CBS 2. — As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports …
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Shopping Mall Terror Plot Foiled — FBI: Man planned "to disrupt Christmas" with "acts of jihad" — An Illinois man plotted to set off hand grenades at a Chicago-area shopping mall in a holiday season terror campaign that was thwarted by federal investigators.
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Breaking: Feds disrupt terror attack planned for Chicago-area mall? Update: "Violent jihad"; Update: Affidavit alleges video will — John Little e-mails to say that ABC News is working on a big one: … Supposedly, he's not tied to any organization. — Standby for more.
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Feds: Man planned to blow up Ill. mall — CHICAGO - A man who authorities said wanted to commit acts of "violent jihad" against civilians was charged Friday in a plot to set off hand grenades in garbage cans at a shopping mall, authorities said. — Derrick Shareef, 22, of Rockford …
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FEDS ARREST MAN THEY SAY PLANNED TO DETONATE GRENADES IN ILLINOIS SHOPPING MALL — Dec. 8: Courtroom artist's drawing is a man identified by authorities as Derrick Shareef, 22, of Rockford, Ill., as he appeared before a judge. — CHICAGO — A man has been arrested by federal agents …
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A terrorist mall plot: "I swear by Allah ...I'm down for the cause" — I just got back from a trip to the mall to see the headlines about the alleged Chicago terrorist mall plot: … Allah's been on the story since lunchtime. Also tracking: Dan Riehl and John Little.
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Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine — Jimmy Carter says his recent book is drawing knee-jerk accusations of anti-Israel bias. — I SIGNED A CONTRACT with Simon & Schuster two years ago to write a book about the Middle East, based on my personal observations as the Carter Center …
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Warm welcome in Washington, cold shoulder elsewhere — The recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group were broadly welcomed by most Republicans and Democrats in Washington yesterday, but received a far cooler reception in Iraq, Iran, Israel and from the US military.
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JIMMY CARTER FIRES BACK AT LONGTIME AIDE OVER BOOK — WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter faced new criticism Friday over his controversial book on Palestinian lands when a former Middle East diplomat accused him of improperly publishing maps that did not belong to him.
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Busted! Jimmy Carter Caught Plagiarizing in New Book! — Updated: With the plagiarized maps! — ** Jimmy Carter Caught Plagiarizing! Greg Tinti reports that Jimmy Carter lifted material from a Dennis Ross book and inserted into his new Jew-hating book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
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Report: House GOP leaders neglected to protect pages … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House ethics committee has found that GOP leaders did not break any rules in handling allegations of improper Internet exchanges between former Rep. Mark Foley and former pages, but they were negligent in protecting the teenagers.
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Foley panel: GOP didn't protect pages
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Ex-Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick Dies — Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a conservative political scientist who became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died at her home outside Washington late Thursday, colleagues announced today. She was 80.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, RIP; 'But Then, They Always Blame America First'
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Kirkpatrick, U.N. Envoy Under Reagan, Dies
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AP Stands By Disputed Iraq Story, Calls Charges 'Plain Wrong' — NEW YORK Charges that The Associated Press had been duped into running a false story on six Iraqis who were allegedly set on fire two weeks ago — and had used as a source a supposedly fictional Iraqi police captain …
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A Question for Dick Cheney: Family Values or Family Honor? /Remembering the Day Lennon Died — The religious right has a message for Dick Cheney: your daughter is selfish and a danger. Why? Because she is having a baby. After hearing that Mary Cheney, a lesbian in a committed relationship …
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Sherrod Brown: First We Go After Big Pharma — WASHINGTON DISPATCH: The senator-elect from Ohio weighs in on drug-pricing reform, Iraq, the '08 campaign, and (oh yeah, that!) trade. — Fresh from victory in Ohio's knock-down drag-out Senate race, Sherrod Brown is happily preparing to exit …
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AP Poll: Few Americans expect victory in Iraq — WASHINGTON: Americans are overwhelmingly resigned to something less than clear-cut victory in Iraq and growing numbers doubt the country will achieve a stable, democratic government no matter how the U.S. gets out, according to an AP poll.
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President slips to all-time low in the Zogby Poll as key demographic groups jump ship — The national job approval rating of President Bush has plummeted to 30%, an all-time low in the latest Zogby International telephone poll, sinking below the 31% approval rating he dropped to in early June.
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Firefly Reborn as Online Universe — Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game. — Now that's shiny.
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Antitrust Ambiguity to Be on Justices' Docket — The Supreme Court added two important antitrust cases on Thursday to its calendar for the current term. Both cases, granted at the request of defendants in private antitrust suits, are likely to lead to clarification of areas of antitrust law that have increasingly become unsettled.