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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Cheat Sheet - What Reagan Can Teach Obama

Today: Al-Shabab's Jihadi Recruitment Drive in Minnesota , Al-Shabab: Hostages Still in Mall , Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty in Leak
Cheat Sheet: Morning

September 24, 2013
IRAN

Like the Gipper did with Gorbachev, Obama can make history this week with Iran's Hassan Rouhani. But Obama must pay close attention to Reagan's real legacy—not the hawks who call themselves Reaganites, writes The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart.

JIHADI RECRUITMENT

An al Qaeda affiliate is luring young men away to fight and die in Africa. The Daily Beast's Jamie Dettmer reports. Plus, Michael Daly on the poet killed in the Kenya mall attack, and Miranda Green on U.S. malls' high alert.

MURKY

Al-Shabab insisted Tuesday that militants are "holding out" inside the besieged Nairobi mall with hostages, while Kenyan TV said six of the hostages have been killed. The al Qaeda–linked group said on its Twitter feed that there are "countless dead bodies" strewn about the Westgate shopping complex and described the militants as "unruffled and strolling around the mall in such sangfroid manner." A Kenyan military official also confirmed that gunmen are still in the building, and said "we are not sure yet" if there are still hostages. A burst of gunfire broke the early-morning calm while helicopters buzzed over the complex and the government publicly insisted that it is in control of the mall.

THAT WAS CLASSIFIED

A retired FBI agent, bomb technician Donald Sachtleben, has agreed to plead guilty to leaking classified information, according to court papers the Justice Department filed Monday. Sachtleben spoke to the Associated Press last year about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen and was identified after federal investigators obtained Associated Press reporters' phone logs. The former agent has agreed to serve 43 months in prison (in addition to another 97 on an unrelated child-pornography charge) and is the eighth case of a leak-related prosecution under President Obama's administration.

FINAL CHAPTER?

Baby Veronica, the 4-year-old Native American girl at the center of a legal battle over Cherokee Nation rights, was returned to her adoptive parents Monday night. Veronica, whose biological father is a member of the Cherokee Nation, was adopted by a South Carolina couple, the Capobiancos, at birth and lived with them until she was 27 months old. Her biological father, Dusten Brown, an Iraq War veteran, was then awarded custody under the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law designed to stop adoptions of Native American children by white families. The Oklahoma Supreme Court invalidated the lower court's decision and finalized Veronica's adoption.


REMEMBER THEM?
China Bans North Korea Exports
Due to fear of nuclear-weapon use.
HOT MIKE
Obama: 'Scared of My Wife'
Says he hasn't had a cigarette in six years.
SERIOUSLY
George W. Bush Is on Instagram
Shares pictures of granddaughter, cat.
ANTICIPATION
'Breaking Bad' Gets Record Ratings
Despite being up against Emmys, Sunday night football.
TAKE BACK THE NIGHT
Stream Full '20/20 Experience'
Part two of Timberlake's album now on iTunes.

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