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Obama's restrictions on drone program welcomed in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Obama’s commitment to scaling back the use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists could pave the way for improved relations between the United States and Pakistan, analysts and political leaders...
Tags: Pakistan, Government, Islamabad (Pakistan), Barack Obama, Al-Qaeda
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A new response in the war on terror
Better late than never, President Obama has moved to establish more rigorous standards for the targeted killings of Americans and foreigners alike away from a battlefield. The need for what he called "strong oversight of all lethal action" was one theme...Tags: Yemen, Pakistan, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Congress
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Editorial: Obama won't ground aerial strikes that kill terrorists. Good.
President Barack Obama has taken a lot of heat over America's targeting of terrorists overseas with lethal drone strikes. Critics argue that the secret CIA-run program provokes political backlash in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, outweighing the value of...
Tags: Pakistan, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Barack Obama
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...Tags: Boston Marathon, Robin Williams, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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Obama puts restrictions on drone program
WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear, public restrictions for the first time on using unmanned aircraft to kill terrorists, a shift likely to significantly...
Tags: U.S. Navy, Ed Royce, International Military Interventions, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Fast & Furious 6' revels in childlike love of vehicular mayhem ★★★ 1/2
“Fast & Furious 6,” — which surely maxed out Universal’s tank-top budget for the year, and sustains its joyful, unpretentious ridiculousness so perfectly that I secretly hoped the “6” meant “hours long,”...
Tags: Vin Diesel, The Fast and the Furious 6 (movie), Ludacris, Criminals, Paul Walker
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Setting limits on drones
It's about time. President Barack Obama's announcement today of new limits on drone strikes and his renewed call to close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay were badly overdue. The United States has lost much credibility overseas with...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prisons, Anwar al-Awlaki
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London man hacked to death in apparent terror attack was soldier
LONDON -- As police scoured the attack site for evidence, authorities confirmed Thursday that a man who was hacked to death on a London street before horrified bystanders in an apparent terrorist assault was a member of Britain’s armed forces. The...Tags: United Kingdom, Islam, Shootings, David Cameron, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Today's Buzz: Obama's terror war: scale it back?
Orlando Sentinel Editorial BoardPresident Obama delivered a major foreign policy speech Thursday in which he called for scaling back the use of drones to prevent civilian casualties. He also called for more steps to reduce the population of suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Bay...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections, Barack Obama, Politics
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After London attack, Britain officials begin intelligence review
LONDON — British authorities on Thursday began combing through their intelligence files and evidence from the attack site to determine whether the apparently terrorism-related killing of a young soldier on a London street could have been prevented....
Tags: United Kingdom, David Cameron, Government, Religion and Belief, Murder
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Obama: New guidelines in place for when US can use drone strikes against suspected terrorists
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he has signed new policy guidelines to oversee when the U.S. can use drone strikes against suspected terrorists. Obama says clear guidelines, oversight and accountability are spelled out in "policy...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC, Barack Obama
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Obama restricts drone strikes overseas
WASHINGTON -- Under pressure from Congress and international allies, President Obama announced a change in what has been a central piece of his counter-terrorism strategy, saying he will place new restrictions on the targeting of terrorists with...
Tags: Yemen, Armed Conflicts, Pakistan, U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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