Convicted ringleader of plot to destroy Sears Tower, bomb FBI offices gets 13-year prison term
MIAMI - The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge.
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Officials say suspected US missile strike kills 8 militants in northwestern Pakistan
MIR ALI, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.
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16 killed in suicide bombing in western Afghanistan; lawmaker escapes assassination near Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said.
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Police say Afghan lawmaker survives assassination attempt near Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan police say Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a parliamentarian and powerful former warlord, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt near Kabul.
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Harper government rejects call for public inquiry into Afghan prisoner torture
OTTAWA - The Harper government is dismissing calls for a public inquiry into damning allegations that the military handed over prisoners to face torture in Afghanistan.
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Canada's military learned lessons from prisoner-torture controversy: Menard
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's military task force in Afghanistan learned its lesson several years ago when allegations first surfaced that detainees were being tortured at the hands of local intelligence authorities, the mission's newly appointed commander said Thursday.
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