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...first, FlyBy felt a little bit like the Hardy Boys or the Boxcar Children or whichever group of kids it was that used to ask lots of annoying questions about insignificant things before solving an even more inconsequential mystery...
...individuals abroad may now be the dominant terrorism threat on U.S. soil. Marc Sageman, a terrorism scholar and onetime CIA case officer in Pakistan, has charted the origins of terrorist events in the West since 2004. "Almost 80% of the plots in the past five years are homegrown groups with no physical links to any transnational terrorists group," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month. In his 2008 book Leaderless Jihad, Sageman says the "present threat has evolved from a structured group of al-Qaeda masterminds, controlling vast resources and issuing commands, to a multitude of informal local...
...humor, charisma and technological savvy helped him develop a global reputation as an intellectual blood bank for aspiring martyrs. The Fort Dix Six are said to have listened to his sermons, as are some of the Minneapolis youths who traveled to Somalia to join the al-Shabab terrorist group. And last December and January, surveillance of al-Awlaki revealed that he had received as many as 20 e-mails from Hasan...
...been at loggerheads with the owners, who have recently been accused of taking a more conservative approach to the news and trying to rein in some of the magazine's more aggressive reporting. While the 11-year-old magazine had been a cash cow for the media group, it had received a smaller share of the revenues, according to current and former staffers. "The parent company milks it for a huge chunk of their revenue," says a former staffer. "She's been cash-strapped trying to do new projects." (See pictures from the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic...
Born in Eschweiler to a German mother and Dutch father, Boere moved to the Netherlands as a child, joining the SS in 1940 shortly after the country's fall to the Nazis. Part of a group that was ordered to assassinate dozens of members of the Dutch resistance in an operation code-named Silver Pine, Boere's three victims included a pharmacist and a bicycle mechanic. While some SS commandos were tried and executed in the Netherlands in the years after the war, others, like Boere, simply fled...