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A woman paints her palm with water colors during an event for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 17, 2014. Authorities now believe someone on board the Boeing 777 shut down part of the aircraft's messaging system about the same time the plane with 239 people on board disappeared from civilian radar. But an Inmarsat satellite was able to automatically connect with a portion of the messaging system that remained in operation, similar to a phone call that just rings because no one is on the other end to pick it up and provide information. No location information was exchanged, but the satellite continued to identify the plane once an hour for four to five hours after it disappeared from radar screens.

Missing Malaysian jetliner sparks new life into old terror plots

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

People and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb explosion at a commercial street in al-Ameen district in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 16, 2014. A series of car bomb attacks targeting commercial areas and a restaurant killed and wound scores of people, Saturday in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, authorities said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

US delivers Hellfire missiles, ammunition to Iraq

By SAMEER N. YACOUB - Associated Press

Judge: Enough evidence to convict bin Laden kin

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Spain, Morocco bust suspected jihadist cell

By CIARAN GILES AND PAUL SCHEMM - Associated Press

**FILE** French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian talks Jan. 2, 2014, with French soldiers from Operation Sangaris, at Mpoko Camp in Bangui, Central African Republic. France will broaden its military presence in Africa's turbulent Sahel region with specialized new outposts to better fight the terror threat from extremist groups such as al Qaeda, the defense minister said. (Associated Press)

French take down wanted Islamic militant ‘Red Beard’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Bin Laden kin knew of ‘something big’ pre-9/11

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

This video framgrab, taken Oct. 31, 2013, and provided by the American Bar Association (ABA) shows the CIA’s acting general counsel Robert Eatinger speaking during the 23rd Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law, hosted by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, in Washington. The senior CIA lawyer accused by the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee of trying to intimidate the panel over its investigation into secret prisons and brutal interrogations of terrorism suspects was himself involved in the controversial programs. (AP Photo/ABA)

CIA lawyer at center of computer snooping clash

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, defendant Suliman Abu Ghayth, right, is seated with al Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden, center, and Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, in Afghanistan. Suliman Abu Ghayth, is being tried in New York, charged with plotting to kill Americans by being a motivational speaker at al Qaida training camps before the Sept. 11 attacks and as a spokesman for the terror group afterward when it sought to recruit more militants to its cause. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York)

British shoe-bomb plotter says he flew with bomb

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, defendant Suliman Abu Ghayth, right, is seated with al Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden, center, and Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, in Afghanistan. Suliman Abu Ghayth, is being tried in New York, charged with plotting to kill Americans by being a motivational speaker at al Qaida training camps before the Sept. 11 attacks and as a spokesman for the terror group afterward when it sought to recruit more militants to its cause. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York)

Shoe-bomb witness to speak from London at N.Y. trial

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, defendant Suliman Abu Ghayth, left, joins al-Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden, center, and an unidentified man somewhere in Afghanistan. Abu Ghayth, Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, is being tried in New York for his role as a recruiter and motivational speaker for the terror group. (AP Photo/US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York)

Al Qaeda to launch English-language Web magazine ‘Resurgence’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this undated photo provided by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, defendant Suliman Abu Ghayth, right, is seated with al Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden, center, and Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, in Afghanistan. Suliman Abu Ghayth, is being tried in New York, charged with plotting to kill Americans by being a motivational speaker at al Qaida training camps before the Sept. 11 attacks and as a spokesman for the terror group afterward when it sought to recruit more militants to its cause. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York)

Shoe-bomb witness to speak from London at NY trial

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

2 Yemen soldiers killed in attack on army base

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 file photo, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah speaks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry before their meeting in Rawdat Khurayim, a secluded royal hunting retreat in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has identified the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group along with al-Qaida and other groups, warning those who join them or support them they could face five to 30 years in prison. A statement Friday, March 7, 2014 from the Saudi Interior Ministry said King Abdullah approved the findings of a committee entrusted with identifying extremist groups referred to in a royal decree earlier last month.(AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool, File)

Saudi Arabia names Brotherhood a terrorist group

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Yemeni soldiers guard convicted al Qaeda militants in San'a, Yemen, on July 11, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Al Qaeda kills accused U.S. spy, hangs him from soccer goal posts in Yemen

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - This image made from video provided by by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman. Abu Ghaith goes to trial Monday, March 3, 2014 in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida's mouthpiece after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to stand trial on U.S. soil since the attacks. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

American tells of meeting bin Laden before 9/11

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

A Yemeni graffiti artist paints faces of victims of the al-Qaida militant attack that occurred in the Defense ministry complex on Dec. 5, 2013, on a wall during an &quot;anti-terrorism&quot; campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Several Yemeni security officials recently said that al-Qaida has spread to operate in every province of the country of more than 25 million. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemen branch is known, has demonstrated its capabilities with a sophisticated and brutal attack in December on the Defense Ministry in the capital, Sanaa, that killed more than 50 people. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Al-Qaida in Yemen kills comrade accused of spying

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

FILE - This image made from video provided by by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman. Abu Ghaith goes to trial Monday, March 3, 2014 in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida's mouthpiece after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to stand trial on U.S. soil since the attacks. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

NY prosecutor: Bin Laden kin wanted to harm US

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - This image made from video provided by by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman. Abu Ghaith goes to trial Monday, March 3, 2014 in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida's mouthpiece after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to stand trial on U.S. soil since the attacks. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law goes on trial in NYC

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - This image made from video provided by by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman. Abu Ghaith goes to trial Monday, March 3, 2014 in New York on charges that he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida's mouthpiece after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to stand trial on U.S. soil since the attacks. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law goes on trial in New York

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

Boko Haram has destroyed hundreds of vehicles during a terror spree in Bama, Nigeria. The Islamic extremists in Nigeria's northeast also killed 115 people and razed more than 1,500 buildings. (Associated Press)

Spread of brutal Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram alarms U.S.

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times