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Federal agents have raided several convenience stores and a mosque in tiny Henderson, N.C., while arresting at least two Muslim men in connection with the raid. Authorities suspect the stores were operating a so-called hawala money-transfer network supporting terrorist activities in Yemen, including al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, WND has learned. AQAP's leaders include fugitive al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to 10 major terror plots in the past year alone.

Pakistan received $656 million in security funds from the United States as authorities probed links between the country and the confessed Times Square bomber. According to Dawn newspaper, the U.S. embassy in Islamabad transferred $188 million to Pakistan's central bank last week and the remaining $468 million on Monday. The coalition-support funds compensate Pakistan for counterterrorim and counterinsurgency operations. Faisal Shahzad, a Connecticut resident and the 30-year-old son of a retired official in Pakistan's air force, was hauled off an Emirates airlines flight bound for Dubai on Monday night and charged Tuesday with attempting to detonate an SUV bomb in...

The real estate market has crashed. The stock market has crashed. The banking sector is in shambles. Unemployment and underemployment is rising. There’s a liquidity problem making it difficult for companies to obtain necessary capital to expand their businesses and thereby increase employment. The US borrows over $700 billion a year from China and we end up transferring that money to the Saudi’s and the Middle East in the form of petro-dollars, also reaching $700 billion a year. It’s an interesting number as the federal government just agreed to spend $700 billion in taxpayer’s money to “fix” the current problems....