Boston bombing suspects’ mother was in U.S. terror database (Photo: Dmitry Kostyukov / The News York Times via Redux) The mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was placed in a U.S. terror database in the fall of 2011, a counterterrorism official confirmed to NBC News. Read the complete story.
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Boston bombing suspects’ mother was in U.S. terror database

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The mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was placed in a U.S. terror database in the fall of 2011, a counterterrorism official confirmed to NBC News.

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Slick al Qaeda online magazine aims to train a generation of killers (Photo: FBI via AP) It is as slickly designed as any magazine you would find at the supermarket checkout line, or in the seat pocket in front of you on an airplane. It even has snappy cover headlines — teasing articles like “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.” Read the complete story.
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Slick al Qaeda online magazine aims to train a generation of killers

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It is as slickly designed as any magazine you would find at the supermarket checkout line, or in the seat pocket in front of you on an airplane. It even has snappy cover headlines — teasing articles like “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.”

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Terrorists kill at least 19 in Somali capital during brazen court-house attack (Photo: Feisal Omar / Reuters) At least 19 people were killed in Somalia’s capital Sunday after fighters linked to al-Qaeda stormed the city’s main law courts, firing a barrage of bullets and setting off two explosions, according to reports. Read the complete story.
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Terrorists kill at least 19 in Somali capital during brazen court-house attack

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At least 19 people were killed in Somalia’s capital Sunday after fighters linked to al-Qaeda stormed the city’s main law courts, firing a barrage of bullets and setting off two explosions, according to reports.

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Bail set at $3 million for former Texas justice charged with making ‘terroristic threat’ (Photo: NBC News) A former justice of the peace in the North Texas county where a district attorney and his wife were found dead in their home in March has been arrested and charged with making a “terroristic threat,” authorities said Saturday. Read the complete story.
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Bail set at $3 million for former Texas justice charged with making ‘terroristic threat’

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A former justice of the peace in the North Texas county where a district attorney and his wife were found dead in their home in March has been arrested and charged with making a “terroristic threat,” authorities said Saturday.

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Turkish far-left group claims responsibility for US Embassy attack (Photo: SITE Intelligence Group via AFP - Getty Images) The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, according to a statement on a website linked to the group, news agencies reported. Read the complete story.
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Turkish far-left group claims responsibility for US Embassy attack

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The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, according to a statement on a website linked to the group, news agencies reported.

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Intelligence officials: We knew attack in Benghazi was terrorist act from beginning (Photo: Esam Omran Al-Fetori  /  Reuters, file) Top intelligence officials told NBC News Monday night that they have known the Sept. 11 attack on the Benghazi consulate was a terrorist act from the beginning. White House and intelligence officials meanwhile are denying charges by Republicans that there was an attempt to whitewash the origins of the Benghazi attack to protect the president politically. In the months since the attack, Republican lawmakers have focused on comments by Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who said what transpired was a “spontaneous reaction to a hateful and offensive video.”   Read the complete story.
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Intelligence officials: We knew attack in Benghazi was terrorist act from beginning

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Top intelligence officials told NBC News Monday night that they have known the Sept. 11 attack on the Benghazi consulate was a terrorist act from the beginning.

White House and intelligence officials meanwhile are denying charges by Republicans that there was an attempt to whitewash the origins of the Benghazi attack to protect the president politically. In the months since the attack, Republican lawmakers have focused on comments by Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who said what transpired was a “spontaneous reaction to a hateful and offensive video.”  

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Man arrested in alleged plot to attack Federal Reserve in NYC (Photo: NBCNewYork.com) NEW YORK - Federal authorities have arrested a man they say was plotting to attack the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. Authorities said the suspect, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, drove a van he believed to be loaded with a 1,000-pound bomb from Long Island to lower Manhattan and placed the van near the Federal Reserve Bank. He then allegedly tried to detonate explosives with a cellphone. He was arrested by the FBI and New York police.  Read the complete story.
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Man arrested in alleged plot to attack Federal Reserve in NYC

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NEW YORK - Federal authorities have arrested a man they say was plotting to attack the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City.

Authorities said the suspect, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, drove a van he believed to be loaded with a 1,000-pound bomb from Long Island to lower Manhattan and placed the van near the Federal Reserve Bank. He then allegedly tried to detonate explosives with a cellphone. He was arrested by the FBI and New York police. 

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Libyan president to NBC: Anti-Islam film had ‘nothing to do with’ US Consulate attack (Photo: TODAY) Updated at 7:59 a.m. ET: An anti-Islam film that sparked violent protests in many countries had ”nothing to do with” a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi earlier this month, Libya’s president told NBC News. In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Ann Curry, President Mohamed Magarief discounted claims that the attack was in response to a movie produced in California and available on YouTube. He noted that the assault happened on Sept. 11 and that the video had been available for months before that. Read the complete story.
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Libyan president to NBC: Anti-Islam film had ‘nothing to do with’ US Consulate attack

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Updated at 7:59 a.m. ET: An anti-Islam film that sparked violent protests in many countries had ”nothing to do with” a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi earlier this month, Libya’s president told NBC News.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Ann Curry, President Mohamed Magarief discounted claims that the attack was in response to a movie produced in California and available on YouTube. He noted that the assault happened on Sept. 11 and that the video had been available for months before that.

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Explosion outside Syria’s highest court EDITOR’S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria’s main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a “terrorist” blast. Read the complete story.
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Explosion outside Syria’s highest court EDITOR’S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria’s main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a “terrorist” blast. Read the complete story.
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Explosion outside Syria’s highest court EDITOR’S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria’s main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a “terrorist” blast. Read the complete story.
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Explosion outside Syria’s highest court EDITOR’S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria’s main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a “terrorist” blast. Read the complete story.
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Explosion outside Syria’s highest court EDITOR’S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria’s main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a “terrorist” blast. Read the complete story.
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Explosion outside Syria’s highest court

EDITOR’S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria’s main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad.

There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a “terrorist” blast.

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