Carafano: Snowden is a traitor in all but name | www.statesman.com

"Edward Snowden stole hundreds of thousands of American secrets and sprinkled them across the Internet. Should he be considered a traitor?"

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Sydney woman Amira Ali dies with husband Yusuf in Syria | The Australian

"A SYDNEY woman who travelled to meet her husband in Syria has become Australia's first female fatality in the deadly conflict, after the couple died amid vicious infighting between the rebel forces."

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ASIO spying on Syria fund-raisers amid terrorism funding fears

 "Australia's intelligence agencies have been monitoring phone calls, freezing bank accounts and making covert home visits to warn people donating money to Syrian war victims that they suspect the funds might instead be financing terrorism."

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Spies' political muscle an open secret but that's about all we know

"Forget 007; forget the cars, the blondes, the exotic locations and the martinis stirred, not shaken. Think federal government bureaucracy and ASIO becomes an organisation much easier to understand."

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