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...been harboring - and nurturing - terrorists for years. It is the site of the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors, as well as the stomping ground of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric and cyber-pen pal of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood, Texas, shooter who killed 13 people in November. Abdulmutallab visited Yemen at least twice, most recently from August to December 2009, studying Arabic - and, apparently, bombmaking. (Read "Yemen: Al-Qaeda's New Staging Ground...
...careful that conservative voters don't take his attacks on Rubio as attacks on them. He also has to hope that Jeb Bush, whose work as Governor he professes to admire, doesn't decide to throw his still heavy political weight behind Rubio. In a speech to Republicans in Fort Lauderdale last month, a seemingly frustrated Crist read off a litany of his conservative stances and said, "I don't know what else you're supposed to be, except maybe angry too." And yet, if he's going to right his campaign, he has to engage the anger...
...Fort Hood Massacre...
...deadliest attack on a Stateside military base in U.S. history, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people during a Nov. 5 rampage at Fort Hood. The psychiatrist, cast by some as a shattered loner unhinged by the prospect of fighting fellow Muslims, was seen by others as part of a new strain of self-generated extremists. Critics suggested that officials ignored red flags in his behavior because they feared accusations of racial profiling...
...alleged attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas had demonstrated the "frailty" of American intelligence, "making all they have spent upon security technologies a waste to them." In an additional shout-out, it praised "the hero mujahid [Major] Nidal Hasan," the accused perpetrator of the Fort Hood, Texas, massacre, as an exemplar of the mission "to kill every crusader with all means that are available...