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• In Egyptian village, Christian shops marked ahead of church attack
• Prosecutors getting to motive in Fort Hood trial
• Insight: Egypt seen as graveyard of Islamist ambitions for power
• American al Qaeda militant urges attacks on U.S. diplomats
• Iraq officials say bomb attacks kill 4 in Baghdad

In Egyptian village, Christian shops marked ahead of church attack Posted: 18 Aug 2013 01:29 PM PDT Before the violence that shook this small village last week, there were warning signs.

Prosecutors getting to motive in Fort Hood trial Posted: 18 Aug 2013 10:13 AM PDT FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The prosecutors pursuing the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist accused in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will soon begin trying to answer a difficult but key question: Why did Maj. Nidal Hasan attack his fellow soldiers in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base?

Insight: Egypt seen as graveyard of Islamist ambitions for power Posted: 18 Aug 2013 09:32 AM PDT By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) - As the army ruthlessly crushes the Muslim Brotherhood on the streets of Cairo, having swept away its elected president, Egypt is being painted as the graveyard of the Arab Spring and of Islamist hopes of shaping the region's future. This week's bloody drama has sent shockwaves out of Egypt, the political weathervane and cultural heart of the Arab world. ...

American al Qaeda militant urges attacks on U.S. diplomats Posted: 18 Aug 2013 03:00 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - An American al Qaeda militant has called for more attacks on Western diplomats in the Arab world, praising the killers of the U.S. ambassador to Libya on September 11 last year, a U.S.-based monitoring group said on Sunday. Western nations shut embassies across the Middle East and North Africa early this month, after a warning of a possible militant attack. Many have reopened, and Britain said its Yemen embassy would open on Sunday after being closed for 12 days. Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam with a $1 million U.S. ...

Iraq officials say bomb attacks kill 4 in Baghdad Posted: 18 Aug 2013 02:45 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say two separate bomb attacks in commercial areas of predominantly Sunni neighborhoods of Baghdad have killed at least four civilians.

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