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Rep. Duncan Hunter, Jr. (R-CA) retains an eight-point lead over challenger Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar in California’s 50th congressional district in the latest Monmouth College poll. The poll, taken from September 22 to 26, has the incumbent ahead 49%-41% (with a 4.9% margin of error) among “potential” voters. ... Campa-Najjar’s grandfather was a terrorist who was involved in the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. His father was a Palestinian Authority official

It was on Christmas Day that Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hacked. "We were getting anecdotal reports saying, 'It looks like someone logged into my account and deleted it,'" Sullivan said. For Tunisians, it was another run-in with Ammar, the nickname they've given to the authorities that censor the country's Internet. They'd come to expect it. In the days after the holiday, Sullivan's security team started to take a closer look at the data, but it wasn't entirely clear what...

Ahmed Ammar, citizen of Yemen and resident of Poland for the past 14 years, a doctoral student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznañ and unofficial Muslim cleric-imam of the Wielkopolska region-has to leave Poland. This order was issued by Andrzej Nowakowski, governor of Wielkopolska province, at a motion by the Internal Security Agency (ABW). The province governor justifies his decision by citing the Agency's opinion, according to which Ammar's further stay in Poland "constitutes a threat to state security and to the public order." The head of the ABW, Andrzej Barcikowski, refuses to disclose information concerning the actual reasons...