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Here Are The 104 Places in America to Put Gitmo Detainees

Think you can't close Guantanamo Bay? A new congressional study prompted by a powerful Senator found up to 104 places inside the U.S. to put Gitmo detainees. It's just going to take some major...

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Death by Algorithm: West Point Code Shows Which Terrorists Should Disappear...

Paulo Shakarian has an algorithm that might one day help dismantle al-Qaida -- or at least one of its lesser affiliates.

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PlayStation-Controlled DIY Tank May Be the Wildest Weapon Yet in the Syria War

Syria's rebels may have taken the concept of a video game a tad too far. A home-made rebel tank has been built and armed with a machine gun controlled like it's a Playstation.

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Somali Pirate Kingpin Calls It Quits as Hijackings Plummet

The dread Somali pirate Mohamed Abdi Hassan called a press conference Thursday to announce his retirement. He picked a good time to get out of the game: piracy is way, way down.

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Mali Shadow War Now Being Fought From the Sky

The international counterattack against Islamic militants in Mali ramped up over the weekend, with air strikes by French warplanes and gunship helicopters and a French-supported airborne assault by...

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This Is the Arsenal Hitting Mali’s Militants

By air and by land, the French military is on the attack in the embattled West African state of Mali. Here are their weapons of war.

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Air Force Evacuates Some Hostages Freed From Algeria Oil Field Chaos

A U.S. Air Force C-130 medical transport plane landed in Algeria on Friday morning to evacuate some of the hostages freed from their terrorist captors during a chaotic Algerian military operation.

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This Tech Entrepreneur Is About to Launch the Blackwater of the High Seas

Beware, pirates of Africa. You may have outlasted years of patrols from the world's navies. But now you'll have to contend with a dapper British investor who is seeking to privatize the fight against...

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Suicide Bomber Strikes U.S. Embassy in Turkey

A suicide bomber attacked the U.S. embassy in Ankara, the capitol of Turkey, killing at least two in the first major attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility since the assault on the U.S. consulate in...

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Rapping Terrorist Accused of Not Writing His Own Jihadi Rhymes

Omar Hammami wasn't just an American jihadist. He was a fake emcee, using a ghostwriter for his embarrassingly bad jihadi rap career.

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Now Al-Qaida Wants to Torch Your Car and Snarl Your Commute

Once al-Qaida turned airplanes into missiles. Now its tips for would-be jihadis run more toward vehicular vandalism.

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In Manifesto, Mexican Eco-Terrorists Declare War on Nanotechnology

Over the past two years, Mexican scientists involved in nanotechnology have become targets. They're not threatened by the nation's drug cartels. They're marked for death by a group of bomb-building...

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Urban Exploration Helps Terrorism, Counterterrorism Agency Warns

Sure, most so-called placehackers or urban spelunkers are just taken with the mysteries of cities. But the National Counterterrorism Center warns that these adventurers inadvertently aid terrorists.

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Biggest Threat to U.S. National Security: Wars

In 2004, Osama bin Laden explained how his terrorists were going to win its struggle against a vastly more powerful adversary: al-Qaida sought to “blee[d] America to the point of bankruptcy.” Bin Laden...

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‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist

Omar Hammami is an American jihadist from Somalia. He intends to stay one, he tells Danger Room, even as he's struck up a Twitter friendship with U.S. counterterrorists.

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It’s Forced Feeding vs. Scotch-Tape Batons as Gitmo Detainees Continue Hunger...

Feeding tubes, Scotch tape and water bottles have all become improvised weapons in an ongoing clash at Guantanamo Bay between guards and hunger-striking detainees.

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When, And Why, to Call a Bombing ‘Terrorism’

Slow down a second. What happened in Boston may or may not have been terrorism. Here's how to think through the distinction.

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4 Questions Obama’s Big National Security Speech Should Answer

Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We'll see.

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