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By Bilal Randeree in Europe on July 12th, 2011
Brazilian-filmmaker Julia Bacha talks at TEDGlobal about Palestinian non-violent movements [James Duncan Davidson/TED]

"I spend my days filming dozens of Palestinian groups that use non-violence against Israeli occupation, but most of you have not heard of them," Julia Bacha, a Brazilian-filmmaker, told the audience at Tuesday's session of the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

"Only violence is given front page attention on stories about the Palestinian struggle ... Non-violent struggle is not being covered by mass media."

Bacha showed a trailer for her film, Budrus, which was shot in a West Bank village that had mounted peaceful resistance to the Israeli separation barrier that was capturing Palestinian land and isolating towns and villages.

"What's missing for nonviolence to grow is for us to pay attention to Palestinians that are already adopting non-violence.

By John Terrett in Americas on February 17th, 2011
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The heads of US National Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington DC in a rare public appearance together in one room.
 
At times, President Obama's Director of National Intelligence - his point man in the intelligence community - was forced to answer for his staff's past performance, in particular accusations that they failed to properly alert the White House to the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
 
James Clapper, director of national intelligence told the select committee: "What intelligence can do in such cases is reduce, but certainly not completely eliminate, uncertainty for decision makers whether in the White House, the Congress, the embassy or the foxholes as we did in this instance but we are not clairvoyant."

Senators took the opportunity to press Clapper on the future make-up of the Egyptian government, especially the role that might be played by the Muslim Brotherhood.

By Clayton Swisher in Middle East on November 16th, 2010
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America's top Israel lobby is going through a process of discovery - quite literally in the legal sense - and has laid itself bare in this 260-page motion in the District of Columbia's Superior Court. Kudos to Antiwar.com's Grant Smith for flagging it.

By John Terrett in Americas on October 17th, 2010
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US federal officials have acknowledged that David Coleman Headley, the American businessman who confessed to being a "scout" in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

 The revelations come in a report by the news website ProPublica<

By John Terrett in Americas on March 30th, 2010

Nine people with ties to a Christian fringe militia group have been charged with conspiring to kill police officers in FBI raids across three US states.
 
The eight of the nine who belong to the group known as Hutaree (Pronounced Hoo-TAH-ray) - which calls itself a private army training against Satan - were arrested at the weekend.
 
Most were picked up a compound in the midwest state of Michigan, basically a field with a house and a couple of caravans which serve as Hutaree central.
 
Hutaree is an extremist, all-white, anti-government militia that advocates violence against US law enforcement officials.
 
The group has a website which includes video of their operations. It shows men in camouflage uniforms taking part in mock military battles using machine guns and small bombs.     
 

By Clayton Swisher in Middle East on February 25th, 2010
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Financial institutions based and incorporated in the United States have now been fingered by Dubai Police as having issued credit cards to some of the now dozens of suspected assassins of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.  

The fraudulent cards were said to be used to book hotel rooms and pay for air travel. 

The firms allegedly involved include Meta Financial Group Inc, based in Storm Lake, Iowa, and Payoneer, a New York-based online payment company that provides pre-paid Mastercards.

By John Terrett in Americas on January 6th, 2010
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President Obama knows his administration got lucky on Christmas Day when a passenger allegedly came close to destroying a US airliner over Detroit.
 
Eleven days on he made it abundantly clear the system to stop potential bombers didn't work.
 
"The US government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack. Now I will accept that intelligence by its nature is imperfect ... but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not analysed or fully leveraged.  That's not acceptable and I will not tolerate it."
 
The comments came after Obama met with twenty Cabinet members and senior advisers including the heads of the CIA and the FBI.
 
By Imran Khan in Asia on December 24th, 2009
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For a man under pressure he looks remarkably calm. Striding towards the court is the country's interior minister, Rehman Malik.

He is a colourful character, matching his handkerchief and tie just so ( today's colour appeared to be silver), and is the man who job it is to protect Pakistan from the wave of attacks it has seen in recent months.

On this particular Thursday, though, it's Malik's turn to defend himself. He is accused of dismissing the  director of the FIA, the country's FBI, illegally. The director was investigating alleged in corruption in case involving Pakistan Steel Mills.

He denies the charges. Normally a political case like this would get the media's attention.

Today, though, it's seen as something other than a political scandal. It's being framed as another battle in the fight between the judiciary and the government.

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