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Some of the proceeds of a multimillion-dollar cigarette smuggling operation may have gone to terrorist groups, New York officials said Thursday.
The Issue: Obama reopens Guantanamo issue
U.S. President Barack Obama says it's time to rethink the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because its operation is a stain on the national psyche and diminishes that for which the United States stands.
Reports the Obama administration is considering the release from prison of "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman are wrong, officials said.
Morsi sworn in as Egypt's president
Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate who became Egypt's first elected civilian president, was sworn in Saturday before the High Constitutional Court.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales praised Thursday's conviction of a lawyer in New York for smuggling notes from an imprisoned terrorist.
A court in New York has been told an Egyptian sheik imprisoned for life for terrorism sabotaged his own health, the New York Times reported.
A federal judge has dismissed charges that a lawyer supported terrorism by helping an imprisoned sheik.
American attorney Lynne Stewart was one of four named in an indictment Tuesday for allegedly helping 1993 World Trade Center terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman
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Obama visits Sandwich Shot in Washington, D.C.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order take-out lunch at Taylor Gourmet on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2013. The reason he gave was they are starving and the establishment is giving a 10 percent discount to furloughed government workers as an indication of how ordinary Americans are looking out for one another. UPI/Pete Marovich/Pool