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CIA chiefs reportedly split over cleric plot

The CIA chief in this northern Italian city opposed the intelligence agency's planned abduction of a radical Muslim cleric as ill-conceived and counterproductive, according to evidence gathered by prosecutors here....
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CIA chiefs reportedly split over cleric plot

The CIA chief in this northern Italian city opposed the intelligence agency's planned abduction of a radical Muslim cleric as ill-conceived and counterproductive, according to evidence gathered by prosecutors here....
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Italy arrests 2 in alleged CIA plot

Two high-level Italian intelligence officials were arrested and four Americans, including the CIA's former Rome station chief, were being sought Wednesday as part of a long-running investigation into the abduction...
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Prayer for road ahead

As sunshine glinted off his gold vestments, Pope Benedict XVI summoned centuries of Roman Catholic tradition Sunday, then asked hundreds of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square to...
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Inside the papal conclave

Once the doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Monday, it didn't take long for Roman Catholic cardinals to decide that their dean, Joseph Ratzinger, would provide the most logical sequel...
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Inside the papal conclave

Once the doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Monday, it didn't take long for Roman Catholic cardinals to decide that their dean, Joseph Ratzinger, would provide the most logical sequel...
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News greeted with roar, delight

The smoke that slipped horizontally from the stovepipe atop the Sistine Chapel was almost identical in color and consistency to the gray clouds that scudded along behind it Tuesday evening....
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Pope Benedict XVI

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a traditionalist and doctrinal enforcer who collaborated closely with his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, was elected pope Tuesday in a conclave that lasted little more than...
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News greeted with roar, delight

The smoke that slipped horizontally from the stovepipe atop the Sistine Chapel was almost identical in color and consistency to the gray clouds that scudded along behind it Tuesday evening....
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Pope Benedict XVI

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a traditionalist and doctrinal enforcer who collaborated closely with his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, was elected pope Tuesday in a conclave that lasted little more than...