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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | THU 31 Dec 2009 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | December 31, 2009 01:29 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last week's failed plot to bomb a U.S. passenger jet has exposed lingering fissures within the U.S. intelligence community, which had information from interviews and clandestine intercepts but did not put the pieces together, officials said.
| | | | December 31, 2009 08:53 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan and killed eight CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the U.S. agency's largest death tolls, while four Canadian troops and a journalist died in a separate attack.
| | | | December 31, 2009 09:01 AM ET
 | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.
| | | | | December 31, 2009 09:05 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - Two French journalists have been kidnapped by insurgents northeast of the Afghan capital together with their translator and driver, a police official said on Thursday.
| | | | December 31, 2009 07:12 AM ET
 | HELSINKI (Reuters) - Four people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Finnish shopping mall on Thursday, police said, in the country's third multiple shooting incident in as many years.
| | | | December 31, 2009 01:54 AM ET
 | HONOLULU (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was resting comfortably at a hospital in Hawaii on Wednesday after suffering chest pains, his website said.
| | | | | December 30, 2009 09:57 PM ET
 | THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Netherlands and Nigeria said on Wednesday they would use full-body scanners at airports after a failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound plane by a 23-year-old Nigerian suspect who passed through both countries.
| | | | | December 30, 2009 09:57 PM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top executive at American International Group Inc has resigned because of pay curbs imposed by the Obama Administration's pay czar, the insurer said on Wednesday.
| | | | | December 31, 2009 09:06 AM ET
 | KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - If you recently tweeted about how you were chillaxin for the holiday, take note: Fifteen particularly over- or mis-used words and phrases have been declared "shovel-ready" to be "unfriended" by a U.S. university's annual list of terms that deserve to be banned.
| | | | | December 30, 2009 09:56 PM ET
 | CHICAGO (Reuters) - First it was pocket knives and nail clippers. Then it was shoes. Then liquids. Now the government may want a closer look at your underwear after a botched attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.
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Plot exposes fissure in U.S. intelligence community
