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 | | | Good Morning Aron, | THU 07 Jan 2010 | | | | |  |  | |  | | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | January 06, 2010 09:49 PM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is "not patient" and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday, as a grand jury indicted a Nigerian man for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day.  | |  |  | January 07, 2010 07:15 AM ET  | DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Afghan wing has claimed last week's attack at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in which a double agent turned suicide bomber killed seven CIA officers, saying the attack was revenge for the deaths of their leaders.  | |  |  | January 06, 2010 11:47 PM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday congressional Democrats were close to agreement on merging their healthcare bills but still faced challenges in blending the two approaches.  | |  |  |  | January 07, 2010 08:58 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans will feel "a certain shock" from a White House report to be released on Thursday on security lapses in the attempted December 25 bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner, U.S. national security adviser James Jones said in a USA Today interview.  | |  |  | January 07, 2010 08:16 AM ET  | SANAA (Reuters) - A Nigerian man accused of the attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas Day was recruited by al Qaeda in London and met a radical American Muslim cleric in Yemen, a top Yemeni official said on Thursday.  | |  |  | January 07, 2010 08:27 AM ET  | LONDON (Reuters) - An attempt to oust British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ran out of steam on Thursday after two ex-cabinet plotters failed to win public support from ministers, but analysts said Brown's authority had been shaken.  | |  |  |  | January 07, 2010 09:18 AM ET  | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will try five people arrested in connection with protests last month, the biggest in the Islamic Republic since the aftermath of the presidential election in June, the official news agency said on Thursday.  | |  |  |  | January 06, 2010 06:13 PM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Veteran Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd said on Wednesday he will not seek re-election in November in recognition that he faced an uphill battle and underscoring upheaval facing President Barack Obama's Democrats.  | |  |  |  | January 06, 2010 06:45 PM ET  | PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - An unruly passenger aboard a Hawaii-bound airliner on Wednesday prompted the pilot to return the plane to Portland, Oregon, escorted by two military fighter jets, in the latest of several U.S. aviation security scares this week.  | |  |  |  | January 06, 2010 05:44 PM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A classified Pentagon assessment shows about one in five detainees released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay has joined or is suspected of joining militant groups like al Qaeda, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.  | | | | | |   | | | |

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