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  Obama’s Top Military Adviser Warns of Possible ISIS Attacks in Baghdad (Published 2014)

  The New York Times - Brian Knowlton

  WASHINGTON — Fighters for the Islamic State were managing to blend in with disenfranchised Sunni populations in some Iraqi towns and villages near the capital, raising the chances of militant attacks against targets in Baghdad, President Obama’s top military adviser said on Sunday. “I have no doubt …

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  Illinois Teen Charged With Trying to Travel to Mideast to Join ISIS

  NBC News - By Mike Brunker

  Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, is the 13th American believed to have joined or tried to join radical Islamic groups fighting in Iraq, Syria. A 19-year-old Illinois man was charged Monday with a terrorism-related offense for allegedly trying to join ISIS in its battle to carve out an Islamic caliphate in …

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  U.S. teen arrested on charges of trying to join ISIS

  USA TODAY - Doug Stanglin

  An American teenager from a Chicago suburb was arrested during the weekend at O'Hare International Airport for allegedly attempting to travel overseas to join the Islamic State, federal authorities said Monday. The FBI arrested Mohammed Hamzah Kahn,19, a U.S. citizen, on Saturday without incident …

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  Oct 6, 2014
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  'You Have The Right To Remain Silent.' Or Do You?

  NPR - Emily Green

  "You have the right to remain silent." Any devotee of TV crime dramas or police procedural shows hears the phrase regularly. But new court decisions in recent years have chipped away at that principle. Take the case of California resident Richard Tom. In 2007, he broadsided a car, injuring a girl and …

• http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Obama-Mayors-other-leaders-to-help-minority-boys-5784621.php

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  Sep 28, 2014