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• Back at college, suspect called Boston bombs "crazy": classmate
• Five days of fear: What happened in Boston
• Iraqis see some irregularities in provincial vote
• Israeli official says drones could replace planes
• Syrian opposition warns Hezbollah to stay out
• Boston bombing suspect kept low profile in Dagestan
• Iraqis counting votes from provincial elections
• Suburb becomes war zone in days after bombings
• For bombing suspects, question may be who led whom
• U.S. teenager accused of seeking to join al Qaeda-linked Syrian group

Back at college, suspect called Boston bombs "crazy": classmate Posted: 21 Apr 2013 04:37 PM PDT By Mary Ellen Clark DARTMOUTH, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Working out at the gym at their sleepy New England college, two students chatted about how "crazy" it was that bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon. Three days later, one of them was named a prime suspect. Returning to campus on Sunday after being evacuated on Friday during a massive manhunt for the bombers, students at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth swapped recollections of seeing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, back in the dorm, at class and in the gym in the aftermath of the bombings. ...

Five days of fear: What happened in Boston Posted: 21 Apr 2013 04:21 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — In the tight rows of chairs stretched across the Commonwealth Ballroom, the nervousness — already dialed high by two bombs, three deaths and more than 72 hours without answers — ratcheted even higher.

Iraqis see some irregularities in provincial vote Posted: 21 Apr 2013 12:17 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi election monitors on Sunday reported multiple irregularities in the country's first provincial vote since U.S. troops left, but were unclear as to whether results would be affected.

Israeli official says drones could replace planes Posted: 21 Apr 2013 10:57 AM PDT TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's air force is on track to developing drones that within four to five decades would carry out nearly every battlefield operation executed today by piloted aircraft, a high-ranking Israeli officer told The Associated Press Sunday.

Syrian opposition warns Hezbollah to stay out Posted: 21 Apr 2013 09:22 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian opposition called on Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from the country immediately, as activists said regime troops supported by pro-government gunmen linked to the Lebanese Shiite militant group battled rebels Sunday for control of a string of villages near the Lebanon-Syria border.

Boston bombing suspect kept low profile in Dagestan Posted: 21 Apr 2013 07:45 AM PDT By Alissa de Carbonnel MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - If Tamerlan Tsarnaev was already plotting the Boston Marathon bombings when he stayed in this bustling Russian city at the heart of an Islamist insurgency last year, neighbors say he hid it well. The ethnic Chechen killed in a shootout with U.S. police last week spent at least a month last summer helping his father renovate his first-floor apartment next door to a dentistry in Makhachkala, a city in the Dagestan region on the Caspian Sea. ...

Iraqis counting votes from provincial elections Posted: 21 Apr 2013 03:25 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqis have begun counting votes from the first provincial elections since the last U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011.

Suburb becomes war zone in days after bombings Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:53 PM PDT WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of rounds were exchanged in a deadly gun battle, a suspected terrorist's body was dragged under a stolen SUV and a bomb blast rattled residents.

For bombing suspects, question may be who led whom Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:09 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Tamerlan Tsarnaev ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, relished debating people on religion, "then crushing their beliefs with facts."

U.S. teenager accused of seeking to join al Qaeda-linked Syrian group Posted: 20 Apr 2013 06:01 PM PDT (Reuters) - An 18-year-old Chicago-area man accused of planning to join an al Qaeda-linked group fighting in Syria has been arrested by the FBI, the agency said on Saturday. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi of Aurora, Illinois, was taken into custody late on Friday as he prepared to board a plane at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport bound for Turkey, the FBI said in a statement. It added that Tounisi was a friend of Adel Daoud, an American accused of trying to stage a bombing outside a downtown Chicago bar last year. The agency said Tounisi had not been involved in that plot. ...

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