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BAGHDAD - The United States today handed over security control of the Green Zone, symbol of the American-led occupation, to Iraq as a UN mandate for foreign troops ran out and bilateral military accords took effect.

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Secretary Chertoff, DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Md. Governor Martin O’Malley and Va. Governor Timothy M. Kaine met December 23, 2008 at Secret Service headquarters to discuss security planning and implementation for the 56th Presidential Inauguration.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on December 22, 2008 that it will designate Malta as a Visa Waiver Program country on December 30, 2008. Maltese nationals will be able to travel visa-free to the United States effective December 30th.

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The large UAV — it has a 62-ft. wingspan and weighs around 45,000 pounds at takeoff — is the U.S. military’s principle vanguard for a potential new age of stealthy, autonomous combat aircraft.

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush wrapped up a whirlwind trip to two war zones today that in many ways was a victory lap without a clear victory. A signature event occurred when an Iraqi reporter hurled two shoes at Bush, declaring: "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."

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WASHINGTON - A dozen retired generals met with President-elect Barack Obama's top legal advisers Wednesday, pressing their case to overturn seven years of Bush administration policies on detention, interrogation and rendition in the war on terror.

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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled a willingness to forge ahead with two key priorities for the incoming Obama administration: accelerating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

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WASHINGTON - The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists.

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A part-time assistant harbor master on Cape Cod has been charged by federal authorities with pretending to be an armed federal agent so he could bypass airport security.

More than a dozen targeted Westerners, Israelis have been killed

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says Indian leaders must not blame his country for this week's deadly terror attacks in Mumbai. And in an unprecedented move, he has agreed to send the chief of Pakistan's top spy agency to India to help investigate the violence.

The report of a threat of terrorist violence against the New York transit system has prompted Los Angeles officials to increase security.

I moved to Mumbai six years ago from New York City, and I have seen India change with each terrorist attack. Wednesday night's attack will prove a defining turning point. India will go from being resiliently defensive to resolutely offensive.

Commuter transit systems on high alert

RAWSTORY.COM -- Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee... criticized some of the president's policies in the war on terror.

"This business of wiretapping is not in order in accordance with Constitutional rights and where you have the immunity granted to the telephone companies," Specter told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Wednesday. "That is still a festering wound and some speculation as to whether that will be asserted by a new administration."

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