Gaddafi terror comments fail to quell controversy
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi condemned  terrorism at the request of President Nicolas Sarkozy, but his  comments failed to quell widespread controversy on Thursday  over his lengthy stay in France.
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Critics question the effectiveness of US intelligence operations, and whether the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated.
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Salman Rushdie, whose British knighthood has led to worldwide protests from Muslims angered by his 1989 novel, "The Satanic Verses," is not commenting on the uproar, for now.
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The State Department said Wednesday it is not yet satisfied with Libya's explanation for its role in a purported assassination attempt against Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
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Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday hotly denied letting al-Qaida infiltrate the coastal strip, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has alleged.
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Jose Padillaâs detention became the centerpiece of a debate over the Bush administrationâs prosecution of terrorism.
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FRANKFURT -- While the British public reacted to the latest terrorist strike there with stoicism and a practiced determination to get on with life, Germany has erupted in a rancorous dispute over how to deal with a terrorist threat that has yet to materialize here.
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Two Saudi newspapers called Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi "rash" and "mad" on Thursday, a day after Riyadh recalled its ambassador to Tripoli over what it said was a Libyan plot to kill the kingdom's de facto ruler.
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Critics say President Sarkozy ignored Libya's dismal human rights record while pursuing $17.6 billion in business deals.
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has defended the use of landmines by weak countries countering aggression by stronger adversaries, and said the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines should be amended or scrapped.
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A controversial new opera about Libya's  flamboyant leader Muammar Gaddafi blasted opera buffs out of  their seats at its world premiere, but music critics asked --  Where was the singing?
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Marketers and the news media are still struggling with the fine line between commemorating and exploiting the 9/11 attacks.
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat early Thursday morning reignited the debate over the future of Israel and the Palestinians worldwide, but even locally residents admitted an answer remains elusive.
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The militant demand that a French ban on Islamic head scarves be overturned has raised an unprecedented backlash among religious and political leaders in the Middle East, who have often been silent about hostage slayings and other terrorism.
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The allegations that British troops have been torturing Iraqi prisoners have not yet had the impact in the Arab world that the Abu Ghraib scandal did.
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Muammar Kaddafi has become something of a poster child in the administration's fight against terror. But back in 1981, he was said to be behind a hit squad bound for Washington, Ronald Reagan recalls in his newly published diaries. Just how serious was the Libyan threat?
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Somalia's Islamists reject accusations that they were behind the suicide attack on the government.