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• Bush library exhibits: 9/11, war, Katrina, recount
• Iraq vet pleads guilty to killing fellow soldiers
• More than 40 million watch end of manhunt
• Police: 2 arrested in al-Qaida linked Canada plot
• As George W. Bush library opens, a rare meeting of presidents and rivals
• Police: 2 arrested in Canada terror plot
• Syria says two bishops kidnapped by rebels
• U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murdering fellow servicemen in Iraq
• Search for motives in Boston bombing: What it means for everyone
• Will the Pressure Cooker-as-WMD Case Hold Up Against the Boston Bomber?
• EU lifts Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels
• Army sgt. pleads guilty to fatal Iraq shootings
• Rand Paul Wants to Ban 8-Year-Olds Immigrants from America
• Frustrated Iraqi Sunnis protest, fear they being sidelined
• Will the Boston bombings resurrect America's 'War on Terror'?
• Iraq Sunnis stage day of civil disobedience
• Israeli official says drones could replace planes
• George W. Bush's Reluctant Re-Emergence on the Political Scene
• Libya says wants higher oil quota in OPEC
• 6 gripping new details about the Boston bombing endgame
• InspireMeToday.com Celebrates Five Years of Illuminating Wisdom
• Urban warfare comes to America
• Back at college, suspect called Boston bombs "crazy": classmate
• The futility of blaming Islam

Bush library exhibits: 9/11, war, Katrina, recount Posted: 22 Apr 2013 04:50 PM PDT DALLAS (AP) — A tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum begins in a bright area representing his early domestic agenda, but with one turn, visitors find themselves in a darkened room surrounded by chilling reminders of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Iraq vet pleads guilty to killing fellow soldiers Posted: 22 Apr 2013 04:14 PM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army sergeant pleaded guilty Monday to killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in 2009 at mental health clinic in Baghdad during the Iraq War, describing how he gunned down the men and saying he was in a "rage" when he began his rampage.

More than 40 million watch end of manhunt Posted: 22 Apr 2013 04:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 42 million people watched the last hour of Friday's manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect on television.

Police: 2 arrested in al-Qaida linked Canada plot Posted: 22 Apr 2013 04:05 PM PDT TORONTO (AP) — Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, police said Monday. The case bolstered allegations by some governments and experts of a relationship of convenience between Shiite-led Iran and the predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network.

As George W. Bush library opens, a rare meeting of presidents and rivals Posted: 22 Apr 2013 03:16 PM PDT By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Their rivalries have helped to define American politics for more than a quarter-century. And sometimes the complex relationships among the only five people alive who know what it's like to be president of the United States have seemed to be straight out of a soap opera. They have called each other names and blamed one another for the nation's problems. But when they have a rare meeting in Dallas on Thursday for the opening of former president George W. ...

Police: 2 arrested in Canada terror plot Posted: 22 Apr 2013 02:58 PM PDT TORONTO (AP) — Two men were arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida "elements" in Iran, police said Monday.

Syria says two bishops kidnapped by rebels Posted: 22 Apr 2013 02:11 PM PDT By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two prominent Syrian bishops, who had warned of the threat to religious tolerance and diversity from the two-year conflict in their country, were kidnapped on Monday by armed rebels in the northern province of Aleppo, state media said. SANA news agency said the Syriac Orthodox and Greek Orthodox Archbishops of Aleppo, Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi, were seized by "a terrorist group" in the village of Kfar Dael as they were "carrying out humanitarian work". ...

U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murdering fellow servicemen in Iraq Posted: 22 Apr 2013 01:58 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier pleaded guilty on Monday to murder for shooting dead five fellow servicemen at a military counseling center in Iraq, a plea made in a deal with military prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. U.S. Army Sergeant John Russell was accused of killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty, adjacent to the Baghdad airport, in a 2009 shooting the military said at the time could have been triggered by combat stress. ...

Search for motives in Boston bombing: What it means for everyone Posted: 22 Apr 2013 01:14 PM PDT With so much uncertainty about the motives for the Boston Marathon bombings, journalists and investigators are probing every life detail of the two accused brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Will the Pressure Cooker-as-WMD Case Hold Up Against the Boston Bomber? Posted: 22 Apr 2013 12:44 PM PDT The Department of Justice filed its complaint against 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday, charging the U.S. citizen in his hospital bed on two charges: "use of a weapon of mass destruction" and "malicious destruction of property resulting in death." He'll be tried in a U.S. federal court — not as an enemy combatant, as some lawmakers had pushed for — and faces the possibility of life in prison. ...

EU lifts Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels Posted: 22 Apr 2013 11:33 AM PDT The European Union on Monday lifted its oil embargo on Syria to provide more economic support to the forces fighting to oust President Bashar Assad's regime. The decision will allow for crude exports from ...

Army sgt. pleads guilty to fatal Iraq shootings Posted: 22 Apr 2013 10:56 AM PDT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — An Army sergeant has pleaded guilty to killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in 2009 at mental health clinic in Baghdad during the Iraq War.

Rand Paul Wants to Ban 8-Year-Olds Immigrants from America Posted: 22 Apr 2013 10:47 AM PDT Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the coveted position of "Republican liberals kind of like" with his drone-related filibuster earlier this year. Paul will surely disappoint them today with his demand that the Senate delay immigration reform until until we figure out how the Boston marathon bombers got into America, and how to prevent that from happening in the future. The thing is, we know how the Tsaraevs got into America. It's not because there were warning signs and they slipped through our fingers. They got into America because they were kids.

Frustrated Iraqi Sunnis protest, fear they being sidelined Posted: 22 Apr 2013 09:20 AM PDT By Kamal Naama RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis in Sunni provinces boycotted government offices, closed shops and deserted universities on Monday in the latest protests by the minority sect which fears it is being marginalized by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Streets in the Sunni-majority provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin were mostly empty after people shuttered their shops or stayed away from work in what protest leaders said was an attempt to put pressure on Baghdad. ...

Will the Boston bombings resurrect America's 'War on Terror'? Posted: 22 Apr 2013 08:00 AM PDT Political commentators on both sides are focusing on Islam, terrorism, and the limits of U.S. power. Sound familiar?

Iraq Sunnis stage day of civil disobedience Posted: 22 Apr 2013 07:03 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Many of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority held a day of civil disobedience on Monday to protest what they see as discrimination by the Shiite-led government.

Israeli official says drones could replace planes Posted: 22 Apr 2013 06:12 AM PDT 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 ...

George W. Bush's Reluctant Re-Emergence on the Political Scene Posted: 22 Apr 2013 05:12 AM PDT A few weeks into his post-presidential life, George W. Bush flew off with an old friend to launch the arduous task of raising a half-billion dollars to build his library and refurbish his tattered legacy.

Libya says wants higher oil quota in OPEC Posted: 22 Apr 2013 03:14 AM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya will seek to increase its oil output quota in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Oil Minister Abdelbari al-Arusi said on Monday. OPEC dropped individual allocations in 2011 when it adopted a 30-million-bpd output target. But with production rising in Libya and Iraq the issue of quotas may need to be addressed at some stage. Libya's last output target, under a 2008 deal where quotas were not issued publicly, was 1.47 million bpd. Al-Arusi said that current Libyan oil production stood at around 1.5 million barrels per day. ...

6 gripping new details about the Boston bombing endgame Posted: 22 Apr 2013 12:25 AM PDT After a weekend of media digging and officials talking, we have more tantalizing clues about just what happened last week

InspireMeToday.com Celebrates Five Years of Illuminating Wisdom Posted: 22 Apr 2013 12:16 AM PDT Inspirational website shares daily motivational entries from luminaries.Whitefish, MT (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 Daily inspirational website InspireMeToday.com celebrates its fifth birthday this month. InspireMeToday.com (http://www.inspiremetoday.com) features a daily 500-word inspirational essay from different thought leaders in business, the arts, spirituality and more. The website also features podcasts and online courses, with site members in over 150 countries. Founder Gail Lynne Goodwin established the website in 2008 after visiting with troops at a base in Iraq. ...

Urban warfare comes to America Posted: 21 Apr 2013 11:39 PM PDT Despite more than a decade of fighting grueling and deadly wars abroad, many Americans didn't fully grasp the sickeningly destructive power of IEDs until last week

Back at college, suspect called Boston bombs "crazy": classmate Posted: 21 Apr 2013 05:41 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. ...

The futility of blaming Islam Posted: 21 Apr 2013 03:34 PM PDT Consider this a companion post to "The Insanity of Blaming Islam" for the Boston bombings. I'm glad i have a chance to revise and expand my remarks, although I'm really only going to expand upon them. A lot of people who read the piece, which I pecked out after hearing Rep. Peter King call for a vague new examination of Muslim radicalization in America, believe me to be a lot of bad things: ant-American, obtuse to moral truths, committed to apologetics for inexcusable behavior, or blind to the true reality of Islam.

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