Nobel author: Writing inspired by fear of death

The 2009 Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller said Monday she started writing when it was no longer possible to use spoken words to describe the despicable events in her native Romania under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu.

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Nobel winner wrote about repression in Romania

Herta Mueller never intended to become a writer, it was simply a means of coping with the oppression of everyday life under Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

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FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday defended the agency's use of informants within U.S. mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations that worshippers and clerics are being targeted instead of possible terrorists.

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Members of a missing Nebraska family whose car was found in South Dakota were interviewed about allegations of abuse on the day they were last seen, authorities said Thursday.

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He revealed that a 27-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, Shirwa Ahmed, engaged in a suicide bombing in Somalia last year. "A man from Minneapolis became what we believe to be the first U.S. citizen to carry out a terrorist suicide bombing," Mueller said.

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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III today warned that extremists 'with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons' to sow terror, raising the specter that recent attacks in Mumbai that killed 170 people last year could embolden terrorists seeking to attack U.S.

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The new head of Germany's famed Bayreuth opera festival, Katharina Wagner, narrowly avoided an auto accident early on Friday morning when she took the wheel after the driver of the car suffered a heart attack and died.

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The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he believes more than one person was responsible for the the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.

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"This is the first time when the president of the United States really wanted something in wartime, and tried to overrule the Department of Justice, and the law held," said Goldsmith, after studying similar conflicts under Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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EDMONTON, Alberta — A chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday.

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President Bush had warned of new threats of terrorism when he announced Robert S. Mueller III's appointment as FBI director in 2001, but neither he nor Mr. Mueller knew how quickly the FBI would have to respond.

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Once upon a time, America had a rogue and lawless president who was willing to break the law to destroy his political opponents, use the full force of the federal government to carry out his personal and political whims, and generally act like he was a king, free of either "check …

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the jet that the FBI originally sold to lawmakers in the late 1990s as an essential tool for battling terrorism is now routinely used to ferry FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to speeches, public appearances and field office visits.

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This morning, I want to talk about the threat of nuclear terrorism. I want to touch on our collective efforts in the United States to keep our citizens safe. And I want to discuss what we in the international community must do to contain this threat. Our roadmap is clear.

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17 Minutes of Tape....

These are hard days for satire, these are loose and summery days for farce. The United States of America has it's war on and is floating it's boats off of the coast of Iran. The US has invaded Iraq and gasoline cost four simoleons a gallon.

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An FBI agent was warned to keep quiet about the dismissal of a U.S. attorney after he told a newspaper her firing would hurt the agency's ongoing investigations and speculated politics was involved, a U.S. Senate panel heard on Tuesday.

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The FBI has been illegally obtaining information on the US public, a report by the justice department's inspector general has said. The FBI used the Patriot Act, passed after the 11 September 2001 attacks, to compel the release of information illegally or improperly, it said.

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Obviously anyone opposing this request must be a supporter of child pornography, right? Under the guise of fighting kiddie-porn, privacy slowly withers away.

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