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• Anniston, Alabama
  ...nAlabamaIn1888.JPG|400px|thumb|right|This [[Pictorial maps|panoramic map]] with marked [[Point of interest|points of interest]] illustrates a [[bird's-eye ...the center of national controversy in 1961 when a mob bombed a bus filled with civilian [[Freedom Riders]] during the [[American civil rights movement]].
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• John F. Kennedy assassination
  |caption=President Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, and [[Texas Governor]] [[John Connally]] in the [[Pre ...sal Time|UTC]]) in [[Dealey Plaza]]. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding with his wife [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline]] in a Presidential [[moto
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• 1995 Palo Verde, Arizona derailment
  ...f position to cause the derailment, but only after they had been connected with wires. This kept the [[track circuit]] closed, circumventing safety systems ...nlight. Everyone had forgotten about them except the man who carried their locations written on a scrap of paper in his pocket. He ordered the tank drivers wher
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• Terrorism
  ...ual terrorists tend to be motivated more by a desire for social solidarity with other members of their organization than by political platforms or strategi |title= Head Games / It All Started with Robespierre / "Terrorism": The history of a very frightening word
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• Propaganda of the deed
  ...sis" (1870) stated that "we must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresist ...lté'' that "a structure based on centuries of history cannot be destroyed with a few kilos of dynamite".<ref>quoted in Billington, James H. 1998. ''Fire i
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• Steven Hatfill
  ...is personal and professional life. After eight months of pressure from the media and amateur detectives, the [[United States Department of Justice|US Depart ...to an end a five-year legal battle that had recently threatened a reporter with large fines for declining to name sources she said she did not recall.
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• 2001 anthrax attacks
  ...ntaining [[Bacillus anthracis|anthrax spores]] were mailed to several news media offices and two [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[United St Media reports focused on other possible suspects for years, but FBI files show th
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• Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks
  ...no'' firm suspects and that the theories of the amateur detectives and the media reporters were incorrect. ...to do with the actual sequence of events. The first case reported in the media was Bob Stevens in Florida, causing many people to assume that the culprit
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• BioWatch
  ...ref name=fas/> The original 31 city program cost $60 million to implement, with a proposed expansion in 2005 to cost $118 million.<ref>[http://www.ndu.edu/ ...located based on different policies than those which would provide optimum locations for counter-bioterrorism sensors, the BioWatch filters may not be optimally
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• Black site
  ...Committee of the Red Cross]] (ICRC) prepared a report based on interviews with black site detainees, conducted between October 6 and 11 and December 4 and ...before being made available to him. Danner provided excerpts of interviews with detainees, including [[Abu Zubaydah]], [[Walid bin Attash]] and [[Khalid Sh
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• Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
  ...t of the worst,"{{Citation needed|date=August 2008}} it is now known those with the highest intelligence value are not detained or interrogated in Cuba, an ...rs whose identity hasn't been revealed and whose families don't know their locations. They are thus deprived of any [[Habeas Corpus]] rights. Ghost detainees' i
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...e's [http://london.usembassy.gov/forpo916.html Interview of Secretary Rice With British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw] on [[BBC]] [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4's]] ...United States' [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) on [[EU]] territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countr
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• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
  ...cial act knowing that it was not authorized by statute; this is punishable with a fine of up to $10,000 or up to five years in prison, or both.<ref>{{cite ...or divulging phone calls or electronic communications; this is punishable with a fine or up to five years in prison, or both.<ref>{{cite web
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• Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
  ...lgian State Security Service]] reported that SWIFT was indeed in violation with Belgian and European privacy laws.<ref>{{cite news|title=Belgian PM: Data T ...orting bore "no resemblance to security breaches, like disclosure of troop locations, that would clearly compromise the immediate safety of specific individuals
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• Time-domain reflectometer
  ...ristics, [[Fusion splicing|splice]] and [[electrical connector|connector]] locations and associated losses, and estimate cable lengths. ...ble with open termination.JPG|thumb|300px|TDR trace of a transmission line with an open termination.]]
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