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Nerves fray at Fort Hood as deployment nears
For some in a Fort Hood platoon that lost three in the on-base attack, anxiety is heightened ahead of an early January deployment to Afghanistan.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:51:55 GMT
Hasan had intensified contact with cleric
Nov. 10: FBI officials admitted they knew months ago that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was e-mailing a radical Muslim cleric overseas. A Morning Meeting panel discusses how authorities missed what appeared to be multiple red flags in the Fort Hood massacre.  (Other)Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers, according to two sources.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:10:34 GMT
China coal mine blast kills 42, traps 66
Relatives of coal miners come to the accident site to wait for further information in the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Saturday.A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in China, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:16:00 GMT
Sentence request for U.S. suspect in Italy killing
Jailed suspect Amanda Knox is surrounded by penitentiary police as she arrives for a murder trial session in Perugia, on Saturday. Defendants Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in November 2007. Prosecutors on Saturday were expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:01:35 GMT
Militia movement revives across U.S.
Ray Southwell, left, and Norm Olson, members of the Alaska Citizens Militia, stand by the woods near their home in Nikiski, Alaska, on Sept. 29. Olson's militia is small at the moment, but there has been a resurgence of the militia movement nationwide.A civil rights organization says it has identified at least 50 new right-wing militia groups that have formed within the last two years, in part coinciding with the advent of the Obama administration.

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