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Panetta says war on al-Qaida taking new direction

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - America's war on al-Qaida is taking a new direction, moving beyond declared combat zones like Afghanistan while countering the terrorist network's search for new sanctuaries, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday.

Afghan revolving door: 5 US generals, 5 years

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and PATRICK QUINNAssociated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - For former CIA director David Petraeus, it was a one-year stint as top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. His replacement is scheduled to leave next year after 18 months in the job. And now the sex scandal that draws

US judge: Somali colonel responsible for torture

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAP Legal Affairs Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A former military colonel with a Somali security force dubbed the "Gestapo of Somalia" by its critics was responsible for the torture of a human rights advocate in the 1980s, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a decision that

Former Sen. Warren Rudman of NH dies at 82

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By NORMA LOVEAssociated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Colleagues knew former Sen. Warren B. Rudman for his abrupt manner, but they trusted his expertise. On one matter in particular, though, he wished people would have listened to him: that the U.S. was vulnerable to a major terrorist attack.

Courting Asia, Obama finds that the world intrudes

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By JIM KUHNHENN and JULIE PACEAssociated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - For all the attention wrenched elsewhere in recent days - on new violence in the Middle East, the "fiscal cliff" back home - President Barack Obama's speedy trip to Southeast Asia achieved a major goal: It was

Obama sends Clinton to Mideast amid Gaza crisis

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By JULIE PACEAssociated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - President Barack Obama dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East on Tuesday as the U.S. urgently seeks to end a conflict between Israel and Hamas that has killed more than 100 in the last week. Clinton

In unusual CIA case, FBI detoured from usual path

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 19th

By RICHARD LARDNERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The way the FBI responded to Jill Kelley's complaint about receiving harassing emails, which ultimately unraveled or scarred the careers of ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and Marine Gen. John Allen, is the exception, not the rule. The FBI

Congress to investigate Benghazi 'talking points'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 19th

By ANNE FLAHERTYAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers want to know who had a hand in creating the Obama administration's now-discredited "talking points" about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and why a final draft omitted the CIA's early

Obama makes history with Myanmar, Cambodia visits

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 19th

By JULIE PACEAssociated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - On a history-making trip, President Barack Obama on Monday paid the first visit by an American leader to Myanmar and Cambodia, two Asian countries with troubled histories, one on the mend and the other still a cause of

Obama makes history with Myanmar, Cambodia visits

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 19th