US shooter armed with extensive weapons
By Matt Apuzzo, Pete Yost
The gunman in the Newton, Connecticut, school shooting was prepared for a massacre.

The gunman in the Newton, Connecticut, school shooting was prepared for a massacre.

The victims of the U.S. school shooting were shot multiple times by semiautomatic rifle, the medical examiner said Saturday, and he called the injuries “devastating.”
WASHINGTON — The FBI has a fingerprint and forensic evidence linking Al-Qaeda’s top bomb maker in Yemen to a trio of explosive devices used in recent attacks on the United States, tangible reminders that Osama bin Laden’s death has not eliminated the threat from the group’s most active and dangerous franchise. Investigators have pulled a [...]
WASHINGTON—When one of Osama bin Laden’s most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led US pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world’s most wanted terrorist. That phone call, recounted Sunday by a US official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden’s personal courier, the key break in a worldwide [...]
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