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The May 7, 2012, AP story that disclosed details of the CIA operation in Yemen to stop an airliner bomb plot occurred around the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.
WSJ: Gov't probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records
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He has promised to do everything in his power to stop the Iranians acquiring a nuclear bomb.
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Security officials say the bomb exploded near a bus stop in the mostly Shia Muslim district of al-Husseiniyah.
BBC: Iraq violence: Baghdad hit by deadly car bomb
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So imagine what went through the minds of the panic-stricken security teams when she suddenly ordered her bomb-proof Jaguar to stop so that she could plunge into the crowds thronging the pavements around Donegal Square.
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The UN's resolution 1540 obliges all governments to stop nuclear (and chemical and biological) bomb-making materials falling into terrorist hands.
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Representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany began a fresh round of talks with Iran over its nuclear plans, this time in Baghdad, hoping to persuade its government to agree to stop enriching its uranium to the high grade that would enable it to make a bomb.
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As more governments look to civilian nuclear power as a source of clean electricity, tighter controls and other new schemes are needed to help stop would-be cheats or terrorists from exploiting or stealing some of the proliferation-prone technologies and materials for bomb-building.
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