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The Times of Israel

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Writer: MATT APUZZO

April 28, 2013
5:02 pm

This composite photograph shows Tsarnaev Tamerlan, 26 (left), and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing (photo credit: AP/The Lowell Sun & Robin Young)

Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap

Bombers’ mother spoke to her older son about the possibility of going to ‘Palestine’

By Eileen Sullivan and MATT APUZZO

January 9, 2013
6:03 am

Undated photo of retired-FBI agent Robert Levinson (photo credit: AP/Levinson Family)

US intelligence presumes Iran behind photos, video of missing ex-FBI agent

Nearly six years after Robert Levinson’s disappearance, his wife says the US government isn’t putting enough pressure on the Iranians to release him

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO

December 16, 2012
7:26 pm

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (photo credit: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA, Wikimedia)

Connecticut governor: Gunman shot self as first responders closed in

Police have found no letters or diaries that could shed light on Adam Lanza’s motives

By John Christoffersen and MATT APUZZO

September 22, 2012
1:44 am

A Libyan man walks through the rubble of the damaged US Consulate in Benghazi after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Benghazi consulate attackers used military-style tactics, say US officials

Experts still unsure whether assault that killed 4 Americans in Libya could have been prevented

By MATT APUZZO and Kimberly Dozier

September 1, 2012
12:53 pm

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (photo credit: Charles Dharapak/AP)

First since ’52: No talk of war in GOP speech

Romney accepts his party’s nomination without mentioning war, reflecting weak public support for Afghanistan involvement and fatigue over a decade of terrorism fears

By MATT APUZZO

July 28, 2012
7:33 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama in New York, September 21, 2011 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Is Israel the CIA’s top counterintelligence threat in the Near East?

Signs of sophisticated surveillance prompt US intelligence officials to speak out on ‘complicated relationship’ with Mideast ally; Prime Minister’s Office: It’s a false report

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO