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The Jordanian doctor had provided information that led to the killing of several al-Qaida operatives, a former intelligence official said. His reports were so sensitive they were subject to "restricted handling," meaning they were seen in Washington only by the CIA director and his top assistants.

Journalist Steve Coll says that India and Pakistan held secret talks over the disputed region of Kashmir in 2006, but that tentative plans for peace have since been abandoned due in part to the political decline of Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to emphasize their common goals following a White House meeting Friday. But their remarks made it clear that each sees a different path to Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Scientists teach the FBI and others to understand facial expressions to ferret out criminal and terrorist motivation. Research links tics, furrows, smirks and frowns to emotion and deceit.

Conceived in 2007, Record Store Day is held on the third Saturday of April each year. Many musicians celebrate the day with limited-edition releases and in-store performances, but record-store enthusiasts Gary Calamar and Phil Gallo are celebrating differently: They've co-authored a book called Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again.

On Thursday, a Pakistani military unit fired warning shots at two U.S. Army helicopters that allegedly flew into Pakistani territory. It's the latest in a series of tense moments. How does this incident affect U.S. relations with Pakistan?

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Senior officials have been deployed by the Bush administration to plead for more time for a troop surge to show results, after Congress voted in favor of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. But two Republican senators have introduced a bill calling for a pullout.

A side-by-side comparison of the Pentagon's secret Guantanamo detainee assessment briefs and federal court rulings shows that intelligence analysts and federal judges can reach starkly opposing conclusions from the same raw intelligence.

For the first time in history, the U.S. government has authorized the killing of one of its own citizens. We speak to Amita Sharma about terror suspect Anwar al Awlaki's ties to San Diego.