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<title><![CDATA[Appointments]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rep. Reyes not under investigation, House panel says]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:59 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has said it is not investigating Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who was the subject of a complaint last year involving contact between his office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert O'Harrow Jr.]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Arrests in Chicago drive home global nature of terrorism threat]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO --  David C. Headley, a peripatetic Chicagoan accused of scouting potential terrorism targets in India and plotting to kill two Danish journalists, was not always David C. Headley. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Slevin and Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[In Fort Hood aftermath, Pentagon opens two reviews]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The Pentagon is launching an urgent review of whether military procedures hinder the identification of service members who pose a threat to their fellow troops.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323058571" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323058571" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Scott Tyson and Ben Pershing]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Holder answers to 9/11 relatives about trying terrorism suspects in U.S.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ After enduring four hours of hostile questions in a crowded Capitol Hill hearing room about his decision to send the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes to Manhattan for trial, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. submitted himself to one more round of interrogation Wednesday. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carrie Johnson]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani nuclear scientist said to affirm Post article's accuracy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A leading Pakistani newspaper said Wednesday that the former director of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear program had affirmed a recent account in The Washington Post of the country's nuclear dealings with China, saying the account was accurately based on a letter that Abdul Qadeer Khan said he sent to his wife. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[R. Jeffrey Smith]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Hasan's ties to radical imam raise questions of ÃÂself-radicalization']]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Three weeks before Maj. Nidal M. Hasan purchased the semiautomatic pistol allegedly used in the Fort Hood attack, a radical Yemeni American cleric whom he frequently e-mailed gave a broad religious blessing to Muslims who attack "government armies in the Muslim world." ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama pushes China on currency, human rights]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:32:49 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ BEIJING -- Describing ties with China as "never more important to our collective future," President Obama on Tuesday mixed praise for Chinese economic triumphs with gentle prodding on its currency, human rights and Tibet.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323106195" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323106195" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Higgins and Anne E. Kornblut]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[U.N. seeks assurances that Iran has no other hidden nuclear sites]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ U.N. nuclear experts who last month were granted a first look at Iran's newly disclosed uranium processing site have acknowledged in a confidential report that the visit raised questions about whether other secret installations exist in the country. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joby Warrick and Thomas Erdbrink]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Fine Print: Settling a CIA-DNI turf war]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ For those of you who believe the only thing the CIA leadership has to do is provide all-source intelligence analyses to President Obama and his top policymakers, think again. Besides two wars raging and the U.S. clandestine and covert operations abroad, the agency must carry out operations on the bureaucratic and legal fronts at home. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pincus]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[French and Afghan troops move to begin supply road in hostile area]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ TAGAB VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN -- Hundreds of French and Afghan troops on Sunday pushed into a hostile valley in eastern Afghanistan where militants launch quick attacks and then disappear into hillside villages. The mission: Secure the area for a planned bypass road around the Afghan capital to move supplies from neighboring Pakistan. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[For smug KSM, federal court could be perfect arena]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said that he expected the towers to crumble immediately and that he feared they might not fall at all.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323111813" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323111813" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Finn]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[For Holder, much wrestling over decision]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Eric H. Holder Jr. called his order Friday to send the suspected plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks to trial in Manhattan "the toughest decision I've had to make as attorney general." But what the nation's chief law enforcement officer did not lay bare for public consumption was the four months of deliberation, lobbying and tug of war inside his own Justice Department that preceded an announcement that will follow him into history. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carrie Johnson]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Prosecutors tie Iran, U.S. assets]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Federal prosecutors on Thursday moved to seize several U.S. assets allegedly controlled by entities linked to the government of Iran, including a mosque and Islamic school in Potomac, land in Prince William County and a Manhattan skyscraper. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glenn Kessler]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Weak allies limit Obama's options]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In the final stages of its deliberations over a new war strategy, the administration's attention has shifted to the two governments whose cooperation and competence are considered essential to success -- Afghanistan and Pakistan. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen DeYoung and Joshua Partlow]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Hasan is charged with 13 counts of murder in Fort Hood shootings]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The White House pushed forward Thursday with a review to determine whether U.S. intelligence agencies adequately shared information about Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, and military prosecutors charged the Army psychiatrist with 13 counts of premeditated murder in last week's rampage at Fort Hood, Tex.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323121852" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482323121852" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Rucker and Ellen Nakashima]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[White House confirms primacy of CIA station chiefs, ending turf war]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ National security adviser James L. Jones has decided that CIA chiefs of station in countries across the world will continue also to represent the office of the director of national intelligence, ending a brief turf battle between the heads of the two spy organizations, according to U.S. intelligence officials. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Pincus]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Bomb hits Pakistan's spy agency in northwest, killing 7]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:40:45 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ ISLAMABAD -- A powerful car bomb exploded in front of the national intelligence agency building in the Pakistani city of Peshawar early Friday morning, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 30, military and intelligence officials said. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamela Constable and Haq Nawaz Khan]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan war, Fort Hood shooting weighing on President Obama]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ War and tragedy are putting President Obama through the most wrenching period of his young administration. Visibly thinner, admittedly skipping meals, he is learning every day the challenges of a wartime presidency. Health-care reform, climate-change legislation, the broken economy -- all are cerebral exercises compared with the grim responsibility of being the commander in chief. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Achenbach]]></dc:creator>
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