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State Dept. optimistic about counterterrorism cooperation in Pakistan

In spite of Pakistan's strained relationship with the United States, the State Department is optimistic about counterterrorism cooperation, said Daniel Benjamin, the department's coordinator for counterterrorism. Benjamin spoke at an April 18 hearing of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade.

Social media faster than seismic waves; Libyan rebels fly their own minidrone;

> There was an earthquake in Virginia; some federal buildings in Washington, D.C., closed. Article (WaPo)> Mineral, Va., the town at the quake's epicenter. Article (NYT)> Social media faster

Libyan Internet networks suffering outages

Libyan Internet networks have recently undergone sporadic, hours-long outages, says Manchester, N.H.-based Renesys, an Internet traffic monitoring firm. The outages take place day and night and

Panetta: defeat of al Qaeda 'within reach'

The United States is within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda, said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a July 8 media availability conducted while the new DoD secretary was en route to