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    Remembering Doug Bailey

    Jun 13, 2013 05:09 PM EDT

    ... mentor and had an amazing vision for how to run a campaign.Never heard of #DougBailey You should. washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/...— Alex Rublowsky (@arub) June 12, 2013 In 1992, I took a class from Doug Bailey on pol. ads Great teacher. Visionary.I'm one of many he ...

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    Nigeria's Poor Youth Might Be 'Vulnerable' to Boko Haram's Call

    Feb 02, 2012 07:01 PM EDT

    Residents of the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Photo by Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images. Nigerians not only are bracing for further attacks by the hard-line Islamist sect Boko Haram, they're also worried that disenchanted poor youth in the northern city of Kano ...

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    U.S. Treading Carefully to Build Case Against Iran Over Alleged Plot

    Oct 13, 2011 10:06 PM EDT

    ... directly to some members of the Iranian government, at least at a medium level. JEFFREY BROWN: Now, there's also been people looking into Mr. Arbabsiar and his life in Texas. And some of it makes him sound like an unlikely plotter, or at least an unlikely person that the ...

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    U.S. Imposes Sanctions Over Alleged Iran Terror Plot

    Oct 12, 2011 12:29 PM EDT

    ... response to Tehran and considering sanctions and other punitive measures, as both sides continue to trade accusations. The men accused were 56-year-old Manssor Arbabsiar, a dual citizen of the United States and Iran, and Gholam Shakuri, said to be a member of the Quds special operations force. On ...

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    Is Iran's Regime Capable of Attacks Inside U.S.?

    Oct 11, 2011 10:03 PM EDT

    ... from Saudi Arabia and possibly two embassies. The announcement came from Attorney General Eric Holder. Two men have been charged, both of Iranian background. Manssor Arbabsiar was arrested last month at New York's Kennedy International Airport. He's a naturalized U.S. citizen who also holds an Iranian passport ...

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    Holder: 2 Charged in Plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador

    Oct 11, 2011 06:41 PM EDT

    EmbedVideo(1724, 482, 304); Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday afternoon that U.S. authorities had uncovered and stopped a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador and blow up the embassies of Saudi Arabia and Israel in Washington, D.C. Holder said Manssor Arbabsiar, a naturalized U.S. citizen from ...

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    Supporters of Assad Regime Retaliate -- on the Web

    Oct 07, 2011 04:55 PM EDT

    ... Admin PW (password) for the CENTRAL BANK OF #SYRIA was...'password'" Other Twitter handles the group uses to needle the regime are @Op_Syria and @ArabAnonymous. It would appear that despite a lack of U.N. resolutions against the Assad government, or a Libya-style NATO bombing campaign, a small ...

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    'Parazit' Fuses Iranian Politics and Comedy

    Mar 01, 2011 01:27 AM EDT

    ... make sense whatsoever. JEFFREY BROWN: And so each week, 35-year-old Kambiz Hosseini, who came to the U.S. a decade ago, and Saman Arbabi, 37, who arrived when he was in middle school, try to make their own kind of sense, broadcasting to Iran in Farsi as part ...

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    Monday on the NewsHour: A Look at 'Parazit'

    Feb 28, 2011 08:48 PM EDT

    ... broadcast by satellite into Iran, but the government often jams it, thus the name “Parazit,” or static. The “Parazit” duo are Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi. Hosseini studied theater in Iran and worked as an art critic. He left for the United States in 2000 after encountering increasingly restrictive conditions ...

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    Accused Shooter Loughner to Appear in Court, Car Bombs Kill Iraqi Pilgrims

    Jan 24, 2011 12:42 PM EDT

    Jared Lee Loughner, the accused shooter in the Arizona shooting rampage, is expected in court Monday afternoon for a preliminary hearing on charges of murder and attempted murder. He also faces charges of attempted assassination. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. A judge from California is hearing the case, as colleagues of Arizona...