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A U.S. serviceman is in custody after he allegedly admitted he was planning an attack on the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, the same base where 13 people were killed in a 2009 terror attack. U.S. officials told ABC News an AWOL serviceman, identified by the FBI as a Private First Class Naser Jason Abdo, was arrested Wednesday after making a purchase at Guns Galore in Killeen, Texas, the same ammunition store where Maj. Nidal Hasan purchased the weapons he allegedly used to gun down 13 people and wound 32 others on Nov. 5, 2009. Abdo, 21, allegedly...

The FBI's arrests of two Boston-area men tied to the Times Square bombing attempt -- both held on immigration violations -- underscore continuing homeland-security lapses. FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents say two men of Pakistani descent, who may have provided cash to Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad, were taken into custody in raids on Thursday. One was here on an expired visa. The other was on the loose while an immigration court adjudicated his deportation-and-removal order. He'd reportedly been ordered deported in 2002, yet managed to embed himself in American society for more than seven years. But...

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