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![David Fisher: Wanted - spy watchdog, with or without teeth?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
David Fisher: Wanted - spy watchdog, with or without teeth?
COMMENT: The former spy watchdog was uncompromising - who will replace her?
![Bin Laden's son and successor confirmed dead](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Bin Laden's son and successor confirmed dead
Hamza bin Laden was a favourite son of the former al-Qaeda leader.
![Defence minister's concerns over Afghan detainees](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Defence minister's concerns over Afghan detainees
Mapp raised concerns over detainee issues many times, inquiry told.
![Jay Kuten: Murderous darkness taints Saudi fossil fuels](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Jay Kuten: Murderous darkness taints Saudi fossil fuels
Saudi Arabia annually cuts off more heads than Isis has done in all its years of existence
![Osama Bin Laden's mum breaks silence](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Osama Bin Laden's mum breaks silence
Family of Osama bin Laden fear his son is intent on "avenging his father's death".
![Ex-National MP and cop: Fix our gangs or face ISIS in NZ](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Ex-National MP and cop: Fix our gangs or face ISIS in NZ
Former National MP and cop Ross Meurant went to talk to the Head Hunters.
![Fred Frederikse: Yemeni peace bad for business](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Fred Frederikse: Yemeni peace bad for business
Set Muslim against Muslim and sell weapons to create jobs
![Assassin cop: Man who shot ambassador](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Assassin cop: Man who shot ambassador
A look at the two main players in the killing of a Russian diplomat in Ankara, Turkey.
![What we know about Saudi's role in 9/11](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
What we know about Saudi's role in 9/11
The Saudi government still says it had no connection to the hijackers. Newly released classified information proves otherwise.
![Leader killed in blind attack](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Leader killed in blind attack
The CIA did not know in advance that al-Qaeda's leader in Yemen was among the suspected militants targeted in a lethal drone strike last week, according to United States officials who said that the....
![Al-Qaeda No 2 dies in strike](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Al-Qaeda No 2 dies in strike
Al-Qaeda has confirmed that Nasir al-Wuhayshi, its No 2 figure and leader of its powerful Yemeni affiliate, has been killed in a United States strike.
![What we've learned from Bin Laden files](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
What we've learned from Bin Laden files
Ten things we've learned from the documents recovered from the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound.
![US rubbishes bin Laden story](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
US rubbishes bin Laden story
The Obama Administration has rubbished claims that its account of the 2011 raid which killed Osama bin Laden was fabricated, describing allegations that Pakistan co-operated with the US to kill the....
![French forces free Mali hostage](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
French forces free Mali hostage
French special forces unexpectedly found and freed a Dutch hostage during a dawn assault on al-Qaeda fighters in the Sahara desert in northern Mali.
![Isis handbook for women: Marry at nine](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Isis handbook for women: Marry at nine
A document from an all-female wing of Isis spells out what's expected from women living under the strict regime - starting with marriage from age nine.
![Pilot's horrific death brings revenge call](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Pilot's horrific death brings revenge call
The Isis group's release of a video showing its fighters burning alive a captured Jordanian pilot sparked street protests calling for vengeance and threatened to draw Jordan's usually low-key monarch towards ever more direct confrontation with radical Isl
![Charlie survivor: 'Gunman spared my life'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Charlie survivor: 'Gunman spared my life'
'You are a woman, we don't kill women.' A survivor of the Charlie Hebdo massacre recalls how she stared into the eyes of a gunman who'd shot her colleagues dead.
!['That is my daughter'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
'That is my daughter'
The devastated father of France's most wanted woman has handed himself in to police, declaring: "That is my daughter."
![Editorial: Torture tactics cost US moral high ground](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=796)
Editorial: Torture tactics cost US moral high ground
It might be assumed that a practice which has endured since the Dark Ages must have some usefulness.