This kind of sends a mixed message, no? Three Seattle-area men hailed as heroes by their mayor and police chief for uncovering a bomb plot have been fired for the very thing that they were praised for. The three men were working under contract for the…

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Spokane ‘Heroes’ Canned From Jobs

The ringleader of the 7/7 bomb plot cut ties with a bookshop that stocked lectures by a scholar who condemned suicide bombings, the 7/7 inquests hear.

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Bomber ‘left shop over scholar’

The White House has made substantive and public relations changes to the president’s vacation after its response to a bomb plot last Christmas was criticized.

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Obama’s Traveling Team Stays Focused on Terror

Was the release of an Osama bin Laden audiotape last week a signal to Yemeni terrorists to initiate the cargo-plane bomb plot? Authorities are investigating the possibility, as they suspect that bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan are…

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Bin Laden Guiding Yemen Terror?

The International Air Transport Association warns governments not to overreact to last week’s bomb plot using cargo aircraft.

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No ‘knee-jerk’ answer to air plot

The bomb plot has deepened anxiety in the international community about Yemen’s volatile state and the ability of al-Qaeda to strengthen its presence there.

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Al-Qaeda’s influence in Yemen

The two packages seized in Britain and Dubai contained PETN, the same chemical explosive used in a foiled Christmas Day bomb plot last year. That plot was also hatched in Yemen.

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U.S. Hunts for More Suspicious Packages

The man arrested over an alleged Washington DC Metro bomb plot had tried to contact extremist groups in January in an effort to fight US forces overseas, the FBI says.

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DC ‘bomb plot’ man known to FBI