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Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen — Washington (CNN) - The United States still intends to send some Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility back to Yemen despite a terrorist threat there, President Barack Obama's terrorism czar said Sunday.
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Associated Press:
US, UK close Yemen embassies over al-Qaida threats — Buzz up! — SAN'A, Yemen - The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday in the face of al-Qaida threats, after both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight the terror group linked …
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. and U.K. Shut Embassies in Yemen Over Qaeda Threats — SANA, Yemen — The United States and Britain shut their embassies in the Yemen capital on Sunday, with the Americans citing unspecified but “ongoing threats by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” the regional branch responsible …
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:Al-Qaeda benefits from a decade of missteps to become a threat in Yemen
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:Yemen's Chaos Aids Evolution of Qaeda Cell
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Low favorables: Dems rip Rasmussen — Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama's popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Partisan Trends — Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008 — In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports.
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Low favorables: Dems rip Rasmussen — But critics note that the practice of screening for only those voters regarded as most likely to head to the polls potentially weeds out younger and minority voters — who would be more likely to favor Democrats than Republicans.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
From the White House Flickr page. — UPDATE: No, I don't think Obama's facial expression is just a fluke of when the shutter went off. His eyes aren't closed, as some with poor displays seem to think. Here's a detail from the frame: — ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Joseph Gautier writes …
New York Times:
Living on Nothing but Food Stamps — CAPE CORAL, Fla. — After an improbable rise from the Bronx projects to a job selling Gulf Coast homes, Isabel Bermudez lost it all to an epic housing bust — the six-figure income, the house with the pool and the investment property.
Washington Post:
Soft on terror? Not this president — THERE IS, it seems evident, more than enough blame to go around in the botched handling of the botched Christmas bombing. Not for some Republicans. With former vice president Richard B. Cheney in the lead, they have embarked on an ugly course to use …
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Brennan responds to Cheney: He's either ‘willfully mischaracterized’ Obama or is ‘ignorant of the facts.’ — Earlier this week, former Vice President Dick Cheney joined the GOP's hypocritical attacks against President Obama's response to the attempted Christmas day terror attack, claiming that …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
OUR STUNTED DISCOURSE.... For over a week now, the right has been working aggressively to go after President Obama over national security policy. But since the failed Christmas-day plot, conservatives haven't quite come up with a coherent line of attack. Indeed, nine days later …
Robin Sidel / Yahoo! Finance:
Banks Roll Out New Check, Card Fees … The nation's banks will be bombarding customers with new fees and products in 2010 as they try to replace more than $50 billion in revenue wiped out by new rules that clamp down on certain business practices. — So far, the changes are mostly concentrated in checking accounts and credit cards.
Mark Steyn / National Review:
The Joke's on Us — The Pantybomber wasn't the big joke. We are. — On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? — But the Pantybomber wasn't the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government.
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