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Today’s featured national security headlines
U.S. implicates North Korean leader in attack
Insurgents attack NATO military base in Afghanistan
Yemeni cleric advocates killing U.S. civilians
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Update: 5/24/2010
American couple kidnapped in Yemen – Armed tribesmen kidnapped an American couple near the Yemeni capital Sana’a Monday, officials said. … Taxi driver Mohammed Saleh, who was driving the pair, said six gunmen stopped them on the road and took them to al-Hamra village. … On Sunday, it emerged that U.S.-born cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki had called on Muslims to kill American civilians in a video released by the Yemeni offshoot of al-Qaida. He sought to justify and encourage civilian deaths by accusing the United States of intentionally killing a million Muslim civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. … Full story
Update: 5/25/2010
U.S. couple released by Yemeni tribe — Two U.S. citizens, a husband and wife, taken hostage by Yemeni tribesmen were released on Tuesday a day after they were seized near the capital Sanaa, a Yemeni government official said. “The Americans have been freed and handed over to the mediation committee,” a government official told Reuters. … Full story
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: One Year Ago — May 23, 2009
File photo of previous Green Zone attack. (Photo credit: DPA)
One-year retrospective: One year ago today, I reported that a Katyusha rocket blasted Baghdad’s fortified government and military Green Zone compound overnight, killing a civilian working for the U.S. Department of Defense.
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