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• US probes security firm shooting in Iraq

  - 2007-09-17

  WASHINGTON AFP — US officials are investigating a shootout in Baghdad involving the US security firm Blackwater in which eight people were killed, the State Department said Monday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the incident and the investigation, spokesman Tom Casey...

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• Another UAE company provides security for US Navy

  - 2006-03-10

  WASHINGTON AFP — While Dubai Ports World bowed out of running six US port facilities to quell an outcry over security concerns, another Dubai-owned company has since January provided services in 12 US ports and to the US Navy. The British company Inchcape Shipping Services ISS was sold in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, agent, Dubai, SECURITY, Time Magazine, vessel

• Suicide bombers' caretaker in Iraq helped plan 30 attacks

  - 2005-10-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — A former soldier in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard helped organize at least 30 suicide bombings in Iraq and has cooperated with insurgent groups, including the one led by Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The man, who used the pseudonym Abu Qaqa al-Tamimi, was a...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Iraq, SADDAM, SECURITY, Time Magazine

• Iraq terror mastermind Zarqawi focusing sights on Europe

  - 2005-08-28

  WASHINGTON AFP — Iraq's most wanted militant, Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who as Al-Qaeda's pointman in Iraq has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks, is overseeing preparations for a major attack in Europe. Citing European intelligence reports, Time magazine said Zarqawi "has been overseeing preparations by highly trained operatives...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, attack, Europe, Government, Iraq, SECURITY, Time Magazine

• September 11 panel received no Pentagon data on key hijacker: ex-chairman

  - 2005-08-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — The panel investigating the September 11 attacks in the United States was not given details of a Pentagon program that allegedly marked suspected ringleader Mohammed Atta as an Al-Qaeda member a year before the attacks, the commission's ex-chairman said. The top secret Pentagon monitoring program, codenamed...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, attack, commission, Pentagon, SALES, SECURITY, Time Magazine

• Guantanamo log details interrogation tactics used against 9/11 suspect

  - 2005-06-13

  WASHINGTON AFP — A top Saudi terror suspect held at a US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was forcibly injected with fluids, grilled near military dogs and straddled by a female soldier, according to secret US logs published here. Mohammed al-Qahtani was forcibly injected with three and a half...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, Bush, fluid, Manufacturing, president, SECURITY, terror, Time Magazine

• Officials fear "limousine bombs" at Bush inauguration: report

  - 2005-01-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — US officials working on security for President George W. Bush's second presidential inauguration fear terrorists could use limousines packed with propane gas canisters for an attack. Fears of an attack by VBIEDs -- vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices -- come from a 39-page Al-Qaeda document seized in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, SECURITY, Time Magazine, Washington

• Bush named 'Person of the Year'

  - 2004-12-19

  WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush was named Time magazine's Person of the Year, after a reelection victory that he said was about the "use of American influence." Officials from the magazine announced Sunday that Bush got the nod "for sticking to his guns literally and figuratively, for...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, Bush, Iraq, Leadership, SECURITY, Time Magazine

• Kerry disputes talk of Bush 'bounce'.

  - 2004-09-13

  By Glen Johnson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 13--WASHINGTON -- Despite some polls indicating President Bush taking the lead or gaining among key constituencies in his reelection campaign, John F. Kerry disputes the incumbent received a "bounce" following...

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• No Panic On Eldridge Street

  - 2004-08-13

  Lipman, Steve The Jewish Week 08-13-2004 Landmark synagogue, Jewish community staying the security course following Time report on al-Qaeda. Tuesday was quiet at 12 Eldridge St. Around lunchtime, a few workers from the Lower East Side neighborhood opened...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, SECURITY, Time Magazine