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FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The father of Imran Awan — an IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who investigators concluded made “unauthorized access” to House servers — transferred a USB drive to a Pakistani senator and former head of a Pakistani intelligence agency, the father’s ex-business partner, Rashid Minhas, alleged. Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran Awan’s father, Haji Ashraf Awan, was giving data to Pakistani official Rehman Malik, and that Imran bragged he had the power to “change the U.S. president.” Asked for how he knew this, he said that on one occasion in 2008 when...

Note: The following text is a quote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASES Sunday, December 20, 2009 United States Transfers 12 Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland Region Twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of each of these cases. As a result of that review, which examined a number of factors, including potential threat, mitigation measures and the likelihood of success in habeas litigation, the detainees were...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

A senior Iraqi judge investigating the murder of a revered Shia cleric flew to Britain on Friday to gather evidence against Moqtada al-Sadr, the hardline Shia leader who is confronting coalition troops in the holy city of Najaf. The judge will interview three Iraqi exiles who witnessed the savage attack last April on Sayed Abdul Majid al-Khoei, a cleric whom Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, hoped would help forge peace in Iraq. The Shia leader, a powerful moderating voice who preached tolerance of other faiths, returned to Iraq from 12 years' exile in Britain only to be shot and hacked...

Nov. 26, 2003 Italy to host Palestinian fundraising conference By ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME Italy will host an international donors conference for the Palestinians in mid-December, most likely Dec. 15-16, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Wednesday. Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath and Finance Minister Salam Fayad are expected to represent the Palestinian Authority, presenting the 2004 budget to donors at the Rome meeting, said the Palestinian envoy to Italy, Nimer Hammad. Israel will probably send a delegation, but it's not clear yet at what level, a diplomatic official said in Rome. Italy has requested ministerial-level delegations. The conference had been initially...

GAZA CITY, March 1 (AFP) - Yasser Arafat has called for a meeting next week to select a prime minister, as part of reforms demanded by Washington and Israel linked to the creation of a Palestinian state, a senior aide said Saturday. The Palestine Liberation Organization's "central council will meet from March 8 to 12 and then the parliament will convene to discuss the nomination of a prime minister," Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP. Arafat has been under intense pressure in recent months to reform his administration, accused by Israel and the United States of widespread corruption and links...