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David Coleman Headley

Restaurant window damaged in 2008's militant attack is seen at the railway station in Mumbai.

Did bulk surveillance programs really stop an American-born terrorist? Probably not

Justice

After Edward Snowden, the US government said its controversial surveillance programs had stopped a terrorist – David Coleman Headley. But a number of Snowden documents show otherwise.

International terrorism, government informants exposed in Chicago

The World

Domestic arrest reveals terror networks’ global reach

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