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Europe looks the other way as US conducts targetted assassinations Tuesday, April 10, 2012 By Nathalie VanRaemdonck Following the attacks of 11 September 2001, the cooperation between the European Union and the United States on counterterrorism increased substantially. In 2004 the EU and US adopted a Declaration on Combating Terrorism that spelled out the objectives of their counterterrorism cooperation.1 In this declaration it is stated that USEU counterterrorism cooperation would be in keeping with human rights and the rule of law. However, the US has over time expanded its counterterrorism tactics beyond what many in the EU would consider the...

Police Won't Confirm Missing Man Has Shooting Connections Man Is Reportedly Affiliated With White Supremacist Groups RALEIGN, N.C. -- State police in North Carolina said that they're looking for a former resident -- but won't confirm or deny a connection to a string of killings in Maryland and Washington, D.C. A Raleigh newspaper, The News and Observer, reports that a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has issued a bulletin for Robert Gene Baker III, (pictured, right). Baker is a former Raleigh resident, but it's unclear when he last lived there. Federal agents said that they believe he's heading south...