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April 02, 2012 | | SATIRE Fix Young America, a fan-based youth movement, is recruiting the satirist and talk-show host to launch a national conversation about the nearly 50 percent jobless rate among America’s young people, beginning with a massive nationwide rally. They just haven't told Colbert yet, reports Diane Dimond. OUTRAGE With Obama’s legacy on race in the balance, Holder tells Dan Klaidman in Newsweek that he understands the gravity of Trayvon Martin’s case. “Given who I am, I am acutely aware of our nation’s historical, and current, struggle with issues of racial injustice,” Holder says. But “I understand that my personal focus must also be a broad one. I am the attorney general of the United States and the concerns of the entirety of our nation must be, and are, my primary responsibility.” FINALLY? Is this finally the end of violence in Syria? Kofi Annan has reportedly said that the nation—mainly President Bashar al-Assad—has agreed to a six-point peace plan. The plan specifies a U.N.-supervised ceasefire in which all soldiers and weapons will be removed from cities within 48 hours of an April 10 deadline. Last week Syria had approved of the plan, though there were no signs that Assad was going to follow through. As violence rages on in the nation, the U.N. reports that 9,000 have been killed in the last year. CYBERATTACK Al Qaeda has been offline for 11 straight days—the longest period of time its forums have remained dark since the sites went online eight years ago. The group’s main website, Shumukh al-Islam, went offline on March 22, and four others have since gone dark in an apparent cyberattack. The administrator of one al Qaeda site recently posted a message on an online forum saying “the media arena is witnessing a vicious attack by the cross and its helpers on the jihadi media castles.” But some experts aren’t entirely convinced that hackers are behind the blackouts, since several of al Qaeda’s most prominent sites remain online. The last time the group’s sites went dark was in the summer of 2010, when British officials intervened in the launch of a violence-promoting online magazine produced by al Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate. CAMPAIGN Invisible Children sparked revulsion against Joseph Kony with its “Kony 2012” video, along with criticism of its cofounder—who subsequently endured a public meltdown. This week the group releases a new video that puts the spotlight directly on an African village terrorized by the warlord, reports Winston Ross. But is it enough to silence critics? | | 
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