Rare Double Agent Disrupted Bombing Plot, US Says

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The would-be suicide bomber, the man al-Qaida entrusted with its latest device, actually was a double agent working with the CIA and Saudi intelligence agencies, officials said Tuesday. Instead of sneaking it onto a plane in his underwear, he delivered

The double agent, who volunteered as a suicide bomber for the terrorist group, was actually working as an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia.

The double agent managed to spend weeks with AQAP before handing over information that allowed the United States to launch a drone strike on Sunday that killed Fahd al-Quso, a senior figure who was wanted for the 2000

The "Double Agent." Evidently there was something "special" about the intelligence trail that caused the intercept of a bomb headed to the States from Yemen. The media are full of the story that a penetrant reached the heart of

Richard Lugar 'took brunt' of voter anger, says GOP campaign chief

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Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar lost his bid for a seventh term in the Senate in a Republican primary election on Tuesday to State Treasurer Richard Mourdock. The new Republican Senatorial nominee from Indiana will face 2nd

Richard Lugar has lost the Indiana Republican primary for Senate to Richard Mourdock. It isn't close: he's headed to a 60 percent to 40 percent defeat. (Interestingly, his Senate colleague Dan Coats only got 39 percent in the

Richard Lugar entered the Senate in January of 1977 as an ambitious politician and has achieved the status of a statesman. He has been perhaps the most influential U.S. senator in the realm of foreign policy since Scoop

Dick Lugar's crushing defeat at the hands of state Treasurer Richard Mourdock in Tuesday's Republican primary cast it as yet another example of a tea party-aligned GOPer ousting a prominent face of the party establishment.

WASHINGTON — Richard Lugar, the longest-serving Republican currently in the US Senate, lost to a more conservative, tea-party-backed candidate in Indiana's primary, US media projected. With two-thirds of precincts

Veteran Republican Senator Lugar defeated in Indiana

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They had their targets set on a fine statesman such as “]Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana. Apparently Lugar was not extremist enough for them in much the same way Tea Party supporters viewed Senator John McCain of Arizona when they backed JD Hayworth who

WASHINGTON — US Senator John Kerry, a senior Democrat, said Wednesday he was saddened by Republican colleague Richard Lugar's stunning primary defeat, calling it a blow to bipartisanship in a divided Congress. Lugar, 80, lost against a well-funded,

(WDRB) — Voters in Indiana head to the polls Tuesday, and US Senator Richard Lugar is making a final push to avoid ending his 36-year run in the Senate. Lugar spent the weekend touring northern Indiana and rallying supporters. He faces state Treasurer

Today, the Tea Party Patriots, the largest tea party organization in the country, hailed the victory in the Indiana Senate primary race as State Treasurer Richard Mourdouck ousted establishment candidate Sen. Richard Lugar