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‘Surprise!’ NBC News reports that freed Taliban leader vows to ‘fight Americans again’

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http://twitter.com/#!/BroncosJeff/status/474938883897970689 Gee, who could’ve predicted this? http://twitter.com/#!/NBCNews/status/474936879188422656 If anyone needs us, we’ll be looking for our shocked faces: “After arriving in Qatar, Noorullah Noori kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there,” a Taliban commander told NBC News via telephone from Afghanistan. Noori pushed to return to Afghanistan after learning that…

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Border Patrol detains Pakistanis, Afghan, two smugglers

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Note: Twitchy incorrectly relied on news alerts that described Pakistan and Afghanistan as Middle Eastern. We apologize sincerely for the error and have edited our headline to avoid confusion. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared to confirm via a tweetthis morning that eight Syrianillegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector on…

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Smart take! Dem Rep. Jackie Speier explains why Taliban aren’t ‘necessarily’ terrorists [video]

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http://twitter.com/#!/NoahCRothman/status/476380604561637376 Looks like Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier thinks David Brooks is right on. This morning, Speier told MSNBC’s Kristen Welker that the Taliban aren’t as bad as some people (i.e. Republicans) have made them out to be: http://twitter.com/#!/RepSpeier/status/476420714099376128 Transcript (starts around the 4:40 mark): Let me underscore the term “terrorist.” The Taliban is part of…

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