tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26540970346556542362012-01-14T05:23:31.539-08:00RKLnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-35098806559948713652010-02-18T03:39:00.000-08:002010-02-18T03:39:01.586-08:00

Malaysia will extradite nine foreigners detained last month over alleged links with international terrorist groups, officials said Thursday. Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told state media the nine -- whom rights activists say are from Jordan, Nigeria, Syria and Yemen -- were on the "most-wanted lists" of their home countries and anti-terrorist organisations. In comments confirmed by his

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-86517394686082659892010-02-17T03:26:00.001-08:002010-02-17T03:26:08.110-08:00

A Pakistani court dismissed on Wednesday a request for the release on bail of five Americans accused of contacting militants over the Internet and plotting terrorist attacks. The students, in their 20s and from the U.S. state of Virginia, were detained in December in the central Pakistani town of Sargodha, 190 km (120 miles) southeast of the capital. They have not been formally charged but

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-33351301593486345992010-02-17T03:25:00.001-08:002010-02-17T03:25:36.467-08:00

New Zealand said Wednesday its men's hockey team will delay travelling to the Hockey World Cup in India following a reported threat against foreign sports people travelling to the country. "While Hockey New Zealand still plans for the Black Sticks men?s team to attend the Hockey World Cup in Delhi, it has decided to keep the team in Perth until further notice," Hockey New Zealand chief executive

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-11171944073054891242010-02-16T06:46:00.001-08:002010-02-16T06:46:45.958-08:00

Iraq is the country most at risk from terrorist attacks for the second straight year, according to a ranking by global analysts Maplecroft, while Thailand has joined the nine countries most in danger for the first time. Terrorism has shot back up the global agenda since al Qaeda claimed a Dec 25. bid to down a U.S. airliner and insurgent violence remains a pressing concern as both Iraq and

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-54269835937198450522010-02-16T03:29:00.001-08:002010-02-16T03:29:24.554-08:00

Pakistani lawyers for five young Americans accused of contacting militants over the Internet and plotting terrorist attacks sought their release on bail on Tuesday, saying the prosecution lacked evidence. The students, in their 20s and from the U.S. state of Virginia, were detained in December in the central Pakistani town of Sargodha, 190 km (120 miles) southeast of the capital. They have not

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-40475694450477265502010-02-15T11:21:00.001-08:002010-02-15T11:21:40.919-08:00

Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Monday his country was ready to take in five detainees from the US prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo, Cuba. "The Spanish government has volunteered to take in five Guantanamo detainees," Moratinos told a press conference in Madrid. The foreign minister had announced last month that Spain was finalising procedures for taking in two

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-58193400501366093912010-02-15T03:07:00.000-08:002010-02-15T03:07:02.847-08:00

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says his successor, Joe Biden, is "dead wrong" about terrorist threats facing the United States. Biden says Cheney is "misinformed." And the feud goes on. Highly partisan public skirmishes between President Barack Obama's White House and Cheney have become standard fare. And the back-and-forth on the Sunday morning talk shows did not disappoint. Biden struck

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-12537234762006442312010-02-15T02:56:00.001-08:002010-02-15T02:56:10.215-08:00

Five Muslims were sentenced Monday to 23 to 28 years in prison in Australia for stockpiling explosive chemicals and firearms for terrorist attacks on unspecified targets. Justice Anthony Whealy of the New South Wales Supreme Court expressed little hope the men could be rehabilitated, saying they were motivated by "intolerant, inflexible religious conviction" and had shown contempt for the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-33299112663924974872010-02-12T04:43:00.000-08:002010-02-12T04:43:55.637-08:00

The head of Britain's MI5 security service denied on Friday that his agency colluded in torture after a court ruling showed it knew that a detained British resident had been abused by U.S. intelligence officers. In a rare public intervention, MI5 Director-General Jonathan Evans said criticism of the security agency could play into the hands of Britain's enemies. In addition to bombs and bullets

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-43288582329232892802010-02-12T04:42:00.001-08:002010-02-12T04:42:29.265-08:00

In the early months of his presidency, President Barack Obama's national security team singled out one man from its list of most-wanted terrorists, Baitullah Mehsud, the ruthless leader of the Pakistani Taliban. He was to be eliminated. Mehsud was Pakistan's public enemy No. 1 and its most feared militant, responsible for a string of bombings and assassination attempts. But while Mehsud carried

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-36309315601285350542010-02-11T10:44:00.000-08:002010-02-11T10:44:34.425-08:00

The lawyer for one of the suspects in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack was shot dead Thursday, police and a colleague said. Shahid Azmi was representing Fahim Ansari, an Indian national accused of helping facilitate the attack on India's financial capital in November 2008. A lawyer colleague of Azmi, Rashid Mirza, said unidentified men opened fire on Azmi near his home in suburban Mumbai. Azmi,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-42108266785774943552010-02-11T06:04:00.001-08:002010-02-11T06:04:37.652-08:00

The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers — a vote the United States said disrupted an important source of information for anti-terror investigators. EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. The parliament's president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly wants

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-70520057049147890082010-02-11T06:03:00.001-08:002010-02-11T06:03:55.503-08:00

The White House warned that a British court's order releasing once-secret details of the harsh interrogation of a terrorism suspect could affect US-British intelligence sharing. "We're deeply disappointed with the court's judgment today, because we shared this information in confidence and with certain expectations," said Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for President Barack Obama. The ruling led to the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-34651301585368468172010-02-10T07:40:00.000-08:002010-02-10T07:40:48.362-08:00

Britain's government on Wednesday disclosed a once-secret description of "cruel, inhuman and degrading" U.S. treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, losing a long court battle to keep the material classified. Judges rejected the government's claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation. The information disclosed is a judge's seven-paragraph

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-30155975432950512372010-02-10T07:38:00.001-08:002010-02-10T07:38:27.610-08:00

A suspected member of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top's network went on trial in Indonesia on Wednesday charged over twin suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last year. The bombings killed seven people as well as the two suicide bombers and marked the bloody end of a four-year hiatus in attacks attributed to Noordin and Al-Qaeda-linked regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-56812902519846430952010-02-09T07:32:00.005-08:002010-02-09T07:32:58.508-08:00

An Islamist student described as a "wannabe suicide bomber" was set to walk free on Tuesday after a Scottish court quashed his most serious conviction on terror charges. Mohammed Atif Siddique, now 24, from Clackmannanshire in central Scotland, was jailed for eight years in October 2007 for a string of terrorism offences, including possessing and distributing terrorist material. Last month,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-37549864929527088612010-02-09T07:32:00.003-08:002010-02-09T07:32:36.407-08:00

The conviction of a man accused of wanting to become a suicide bomber was overturned Tuesday after a court in Scotland ruled that the trial judge did not properly instruct the jury. Prosecutors indicated they will not seek new charges against Mohammed Atif Siddique, 24, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2007. Prosecutors had said during the four-week trial that the Scottish college

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-32233003465427253892010-02-09T07:32:00.001-08:002010-02-09T07:32:12.950-08:00

Legal aid officials have seized the London home of jailed radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza to recover costs spent on defending him, they said on Tuesday. The Egyptian-born former imam, who has one eye and a hook for one hand, was jailed for seven years in 2007 for inciting followers to murder non-believers, and is fighting extradition to the United States. The Legal Services Commission (LSC)

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-26286645874839257382010-02-05T05:48:00.000-08:002010-02-05T05:48:16.719-08:00

Indian and Pakistani officials are likely to meet on Monday to decide the agenda of bilateral talks proposed by India over a year after the terror attacks on Mumbai. New Delhi blamed the November 2008 assaults, which killed 166 people, on Pakistan-based militants and broke off peace talks until Islamabad acted against the planners of the strike. But India has come under international pressure

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-50303826158113798132010-02-05T05:47:00.001-08:002010-02-05T05:47:43.933-08:00

The Nigerian suspect in a failed Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher and has helped the U.S. hunt for the radical preacher, a law enforcement official said Thursday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has been cooperating with the FBI for days, providing information about his

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-51080350765647634932010-02-03T01:46:00.001-08:002010-02-03T01:46:45.594-08:00

The long legal battle of an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted in an attempted bombing on the millennium has taken another turn after an appeals court threw out his sentence and removed the trial judge from the case. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday said Ahmed Ressam's 22-year prison sentence is too lenient. Border agents in Washington state arrested the Algerian national in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-27150862864139946632010-02-02T09:58:00.001-08:002010-02-02T09:58:51.401-08:00

Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to say Tuesday whether he thinks it's appropriate to try self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York civilian court, not far from the site of the attack. Prodded by Sen. John McCain to say if he agreed with Attorney General Eric Holder's choice on prosecution strategy, Gates replied that he thought Holder was better suited than

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-47120984861200617042010-02-02T03:25:00.000-08:002010-02-02T03:25:41.246-08:00

Five American terrorism suspects alleged Tuesday in a message on tissue paper that they were tortured by the FBI and Pakistani police trying to frame them, the latest wrinkle in a case that has added to sensitivities in U.S.-Pakistani relations. The men tossed the message out to reporters as they were entering their latest hearing in court, where a judge delayed formally charging the suspects

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-18627211850065717262010-02-02T03:23:00.002-08:002010-02-02T03:23:55.447-08:00

Dozens of Metro Transit Police officers will swarm one of Washington's busiest stations during rush hour Tuesday with dogs and bomb technicians to demonstrate it can thwart potential attacks. About 50 officers from various Metro police units, including its new anti-terror team, special response teams and criminal investigators were scheduled to begin their work at the station around 7:30 am (

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-4488843862265539842010-02-02T03:23:00.000-08:002010-02-02T03:23:23.711-08:00

Russian officials say a bomb explosion on railroad tracks in St. Petersburg injured one worker and is being considered a terrorist attack. Russian Railways says in a statement that the pre-dawn explosion Tuesday hit a small maintenance locomotive on the outskirts of the city. The driver suffered a leg injury. The blast caused the disruption of commuter rail traffic for several hours. The

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-38405311049409143802010-01-29T03:03:00.001-08:002010-01-29T03:03:39.573-08:00

Counter-terrorist forces have arrested a suspected Islamist militant in central Indonesia. Police spokesman Edward Aritonang said Friday the 32-year-old suspect was detained Wednesday in East Java province. Eko Budi Wardoyo was allegedly involved in the 2005 bombing of a market that killed 22 people and the murder of a Christian priest in 2004. The crimes were committed by a militant network

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-60616161324636204502010-01-28T08:24:00.001-08:002010-01-28T08:24:18.971-08:00

A key al-Qaida in Iraq leader that intelligence officials say was responsible for bringing hundreds of suicide bombers across the border from Syria has been killed in a raid in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday. The military called the death a blow to the terrorist organization in Iraq, though acknowledged it remains very much capable of carrying out well planned, coordinated

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-70062631862707337612010-01-28T03:59:00.000-08:002010-01-28T03:59:13.183-08:00

Terrorism suspects from Jordan, Nigeria, Syria and Yemen have been detained in Malaysia, activists said Thursday as a report linked them to the Nigerian behind the botched Christmas plane bombing. Malaysia announced Wednesday it had arrested 10 people for "acts of terrorism" and said they were members of an international terror outfit tracked down in cooperation with foreign intelligence groups.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-8534813079030602902010-01-27T08:49:00.001-08:002010-01-27T08:49:25.904-08:00

The uncle of a Colorado airport driver charged in a terror plot against New York City has been indicted, two law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The officials told The Associated Press that Naqib Jaji was indicted on a single felony charge and was arraigned in a sealed proceeding in Brooklyn two weeks ago. The charge wasn't specified. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-37423134110107816942010-01-27T08:48:00.001-08:002010-01-27T08:48:48.953-08:00

Alleged Al-Qaeda bomb plotter Hambali, sought for trial in his homeland of Indonesia, should not be tried in a civilian US court, Democratic US Senator Jim Webb said Tuesday. Webb, who joined a growing chorus of calls for President Barack Obama to try suspected terrorists in military courts, noted that Hambali had been linked to the 2002 Bali nightclub blasts that killed 202 people, mostly

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-31731529902032089462010-01-27T04:42:00.002-08:002010-01-27T04:42:52.159-08:00

Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government overstepped its power when it froze the bank accounts of five terrorist suspects without a vote in Parliament. It said the special Treasury orders were unlawful. The government said it had a duty to disrupt terrorist financing, and would seek Parliamentary approval for "fast-track legislation to ensure there is no disruption to our

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-5164058474764688352010-01-27T04:42:00.000-08:002010-01-27T04:42:24.535-08:00

World powers gathered Wednesday for talks on how to tackle Al-Qaeda militants operating out of Yemen, seen as a new frontier in the war against terror after an attempt to blow up a US-bound jet. Ministers and officials from 21 countries will discuss security as well as the wider economic and political problems facing Yemen, the poorest state in the Arab world. US Secretary of State Hillary

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-75072731207919269062010-01-26T05:04:00.000-08:002010-01-26T05:04:26.544-08:00

President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Tuesday that al Qaeda has been weakened by U.S. actions, and as evidence pointed to a taped message purported to be by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden about a failed Christmas Day airplane bomb plot. "Al Qaeda itself is greatly weakened from where it was back in 2000. Bin Laden sending out a tape trying to take credit for a Nigerian student

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-40674763793133827852010-01-26T05:03:00.001-08:002010-01-26T05:03:10.667-08:00

The United States isn't prepared for a biological terrorist attack, a congressionally mandated panel said in a report released Tuesday. The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation gave the Obama administration a failing grade for its efforts to prepare for and respond to a biological attack, such as the release of deadly viruses or bacteria. "Nearly a decade

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-71650075382603994472010-01-25T11:47:00.001-08:002010-01-25T11:47:36.720-08:00

A Chicago businessman accused of leading a double life as an international terrorist pleaded not guilty Monday to making plans for an attack on a Danish newspaper and helping arrange the rampage in 2008 that killed 166 people in the Indian city of Mumbai. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 49, a Canadian national born in Pakistan, intends to fight the charges, attorney Patrick Blegen said after the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-53252010594230266282010-01-21T04:04:00.001-08:002010-01-21T04:04:33.805-08:00

Since 2001, al-Qaida is believed to have dispatched three men to blow up American airliners. Two of them tried but failed to set off explosions, and the third backed out of his assignment. What made him different? A new study suggests family ties may have played an important role. The report to be released this week by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy looked at dozens of terrorists

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-10816724686509691052010-01-20T05:33:00.001-08:002010-01-20T05:33:16.876-08:00

The Obama administration has so far used broad strokes to describe how it will repair an intelligence system that failed to stop an attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack. This week, Congress starts pressing for specifics. FBI Director Robert Mueller, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other senior security officials head to Capitol Hill for two days of hearings about how

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-69507762788563268752010-01-20T02:21:00.001-08:002010-01-20T02:21:48.355-08:00

A syndicate of terror groups is working to sow violence and destruction across South Asia, and India and Pakistan need to work together to combat the mutual threat, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. Gates, who spoke during a visit to India, said no nation was immune from terror. He linked Taliban militants operating along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border with Lashkar-e-Taiba

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-12617706941025717152010-01-19T11:45:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:45:32.678-08:00

A man with ties to an alleged al-Qaida associate charged in a New York bomb plot conspired to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan after receiving military training from the terror network, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Loonam made the allegation against Adis Medunjanin during a brief hearing in federal court in Brooklyn. An indictment unsealed last week had charged

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-8770546413357369872010-01-19T11:44:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:44:52.482-08:00

Interpol's No. 2 official says big-money payoffs from pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa don't yet appear to have reached terror groups like al-Qaida. Jean-Michel Louboutin also says Africa — a hub of the drugs trade, terrorism and pirate attacks — has become a crucial area of focus for the international police agency. Louboutin insists he has "no certainty" that al-Qaida or an affiliate

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-6443561731603616802010-01-19T04:40:00.001-08:002010-01-19T04:40:51.857-08:00

The FBI collected more than 2,000 records on U.S. telephone calls by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or by persuading phone companies to provide them, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. FBI officials issued approvals afterward to justify their actions in collecting the phone records between 2002 and 2006, the newspaper said. "This practice ceased in 2006 and never

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-11731365128052657542010-01-19T04:39:00.000-08:002010-01-19T04:39:04.194-08:00

Zakaria Amara, considered the ringleader of the "Toronto 18" extremist Muslim group that planned al Qaeda-style bombings of Toronto landmarks in 2006, was given a life sentence on Monday, the stiffest penalty yet imposed under Canadian anti-terrorism laws. The sentence, handed down in a Toronto-area court, is the fourth custodial term handed out in the sprawling case, and follows a 12-year

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-56065147397122365662010-01-18T08:44:00.001-08:002010-01-18T08:44:11.699-08:00

Five Americans arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of terrorism told a court Monday that they had been tortured by police — charges that could add to political sensitivities surrounding the case. The men made the allegations during a hearing before a special anti-terrorism court in the eastern town of Sargodha. The session was held in order for police to submit a charge sheet alleging that the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-3436509068297169682010-01-18T08:43:00.001-08:002010-01-18T08:43:48.240-08:00

Top US national security officials failed to fully appreciate mounting evidence that Al-Qaeda might be preparing a new attack on the United States and of the dangers posed by extremists linked to Yemen, The New York Times reported Monday. Earlier this month, the administration of President Barack Obama presented its findings about a failed Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound US

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-46701721779001012392010-01-18T08:42:00.001-08:002010-01-18T08:42:52.839-08:00

A British court on Monday canceled curfews imposed on two men considered potential security threats, dealing a blow to the government which says such measures are a tool to combat extremists. The ruling was a new challenge to so-called "control orders", introduced by the government in 2005, after the highest court in the country said last June the authorities should not use secret evidence to

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-11438094871359716672010-01-18T01:16:00.000-08:002010-01-18T01:16:03.036-08:00

Taliban gunmen, some wearing suicide vests, launched a commando-style assault on government buildings in the center of Kabul on Monday, underscoring the perilous security situation in the Afghan capital. It was the worst attack on the city in nearly a year. Gunfire and loud explosions could be heard across the capital and a huge column of smoke was pouring out of a shopping center that was at

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-17151682872887477712010-01-18T01:15:00.001-08:002010-01-18T01:15:31.504-08:00

Al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen denied in an Internet statement on Monday that government airstrikes last week killed its top military leader in the country and five other militants. However, the group conceded that some of its "brothers" — militant jargon for members of the group — were wounded in Friday's raid outside a remote desert village near the Yemen-Saudi border. Yemeni officials had said

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-55065097861992097052010-01-12T06:23:00.002-08:002010-01-12T06:23:40.033-08:00

Iraqi security forces say they thwarted attempted terror attacks Tuesday when they seized a large cache of explosives during cordon-and-search operations in Baghdad, amid heightened tensions in the run-up to crucial March polls. Iraq's nationwide parliamentary elections will test whether Iraqis can vote in a government capable of overcoming deepening ethnic and sectarian rivalries, or whether

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-20229482363361242152010-01-12T06:23:00.000-08:002010-01-12T06:23:08.642-08:00

Israel's parliament has adopted legislation that bans the state from paying for the funeral of any citizen who commits terror attacks against the Jewish state, state radio said on Tuesday. The law was adopted on Monday evening with all 39 deputies in attendance -- out of 120 -- voting in favour. "This text will be a dissuasive factor for potential terrorists," Miri Regev of the governing Likud

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-22470281713894904302010-01-11T11:47:00.001-08:002010-01-11T11:47:34.549-08:00

A radical Yemeni cleric accused by Washington of supporting terrorism warned on Monday against any US troop deployment to Yemen to fight Al-Qaeda, saying it would be considered an occupation. Sheikh Abdulmajeed al-Zendani also denied having links with US-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi who Washington believes is behind the botched Christmas Day US plane bombing. "We reject any military occupation

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-14061053371842347582010-01-11T11:46:00.001-08:002010-01-11T11:46:48.995-08:00

Prosecutors filed a preliminary charge of terrorism Monday against a Somali man accused of trying to kill a Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. The man had faced a preliminary charge of attempted murder for breaking into Kurt Westergaard's home in Aarhus, in western Denmark, Jan. 1 armed with a knife and an ax. Prosecutor Marian Thomsen said investigators changed the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-87484269450169417452010-01-11T03:03:00.000-08:002010-01-11T03:03:10.015-08:00

Al-Qaida's North Africa offshoot demanded the release of four of its members in exchange for a French hostage it kidnapped two months ago, in a message posted on militant Web sites Monday that gave a 20 day deadline. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb said that their only condition for the freeing of Pierre Camatte is the release of four members of the group arrested by Mali several months ago. "

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-40302683546930848722010-01-11T02:59:00.001-08:002010-01-11T02:59:24.068-08:00

A judge was set to hear arguments from lawyers Monday before deciding if a terrorist bombing suspect's rights were violated when he was held for five years for questioning at Guantanamo Bay and in secret CIA-run camps abroad instead of being prosecuted promptly in a U.S. court. Lawyers for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who's accused of deadly bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa, say the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-3502508625739730642010-01-05T15:00:00.001-08:002010-01-05T15:00:33.473-08:00

Dutch investigators said Tuesday they found no evidence that a Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner contacted accomplices at Amsterdam's airport, and that he already had the explosives on him when he arrived on a connecting flight. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab flew to Schiphol Airport from Lagos, Nigeria, before boarding a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Christmas

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-37931685519889003872010-01-05T14:59:00.001-08:002010-01-05T14:59:38.846-08:00

A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday could make it harder for Guantanamo detainees to challenge their confinement and endorsed the government's broad power to hold people seized in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the continued detention of a former cook for Taliban forces who said he never

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-55142860966111644692010-01-05T07:42:00.001-08:002010-01-05T07:42:14.181-08:00

A German man was temporarily detained at Stuttgart airport on Tuesday after he repeatedly told security personnel that he had explosives in his underwear, police said. The 42-year-old man apparently was joking about the failed attempt by a Nigerian man to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day by igniting explosives concealed in his underwear. Police said a full body search of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-34362443886604776702010-01-05T07:27:00.001-08:002010-01-05T07:27:33.890-08:00

US senator John McCain warned Tuesday Al-Qaeda is increasingly using Yemen as a base to launch attacks around the world, and called on Washington to help the Arab country expel the terror network. McCain and fellow US senator Joseph Lieberman, who both visited Yemen in August, told reporters on a one-day trip to Baghdad that the United States needed to help Yemen build up its economy. "We

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-73084573060618184342010-01-05T07:26:00.001-08:002010-01-05T07:26:53.463-08:00

The United States has overhauled its terror watchlists after the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner which has led President Barack Obama to order a widespread review of security measures. Obama, who has denounced "systemic" intelligence failures in the bombing attempt, was scheduled to meet on Tuesday with US intelligence chiefs to discuss the attempt by a Nigerian man to bring down

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-2931714276981101622010-01-04T08:53:00.001-08:002010-01-04T08:53:33.277-08:00

People traveling to the United States from or through Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries were subjected to extra security screening, including full body pat-downs, Monday as U.S. officials refined their response to a failed terrorist attack in Detroit on Christmas. The Transportation Security Administration outlined the new rules in a directive sent to airlines Sunday. They went

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-5108662973478480632010-01-04T08:52:00.001-08:002010-01-04T08:52:37.913-08:00

Security forces killed two suspected al-Qaida militants in clashes outside the Yemeni capital on Monday, officials said, as the U.S. and British embassies extended their closure for a second day because of threats of attack by the terror group's offshoot here. The clashes took place in a region northeast of the capital where last month the government carried out intensified raids against an

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-52430962100371809352009-12-30T09:33:00.001-08:002009-12-30T09:33:18.046-08:00

A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials said on Wednesday. The Somali man — whose name has not yet been released — was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops before the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-32282560116870166552009-12-29T10:54:00.001-08:002009-12-29T10:54:26.310-08:00

Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior. Throughout more than 300 posts, a user named "Farouk1986" reflects on a growing alienation from his family, his shame over sexual urges and his hopes that a "great jihad" will take

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-51597647530022330142009-12-29T10:53:00.000-08:002009-12-29T10:53:42.974-08:00

US media on Tuesday published photos of the singed underwear that a Nigerian terror suspect allegedly wore to hide explosives in his failed attempt to blow up an airplane over the United States. The pictures provided by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and obtained by ABC News also showed a packet of powder explosives that had been sewn into the crotch of the undergarment, as well as a

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-55186532955953950782009-12-28T13:32:00.001-08:002009-12-28T13:32:29.230-08:00

US President Barack Obama on Monday vowed an all-out pursuit of plotters of a failed Christmas Day bombing of a US-bound airliner, vowing "we will not rest" until they are captured and tried. "A full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable," Obama said in his first direct public

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-62063632212262269082009-12-28T11:59:00.000-08:002009-12-28T11:59:07.196-08:00

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, saying it was retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen. Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the U.S. system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board the flight in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-64944385094817307772009-12-28T07:33:00.000-08:002009-12-28T07:33:30.857-08:00

The Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner cut off contact with his relatives and disappeared from their lives until they awoke to news of the attempted Christmas Day attack, his family said Monday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's father talked to Nigerian security agencies two months ago and a month later to foreign security agencies about his concerns that his son had

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-67165194780600243952009-12-28T07:32:00.001-08:002009-12-28T07:32:31.089-08:00

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watchlist with a U.S. visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The Obama administration has ordered investigations into the two areas of aviation security — how travelers are placed on watch lists

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-31088885566652017512009-12-24T00:36:00.001-08:002009-12-24T00:36:59.031-08:00

The Pentagon has poured nearly $70 million in military aid to Yemen this year, a massive financial infusion aimed at eliminating the expanding al-Qaida safe havens in that country. Airstrikes Thursday in Yemen's Shabwa province, in which at least 30 suspected militants were said to have been killed, is evidence of Yemen's more aggressive efforts against al-Qaida. The U.S. spending in the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-15730734704373152662009-12-24T00:15:00.001-08:002009-12-24T00:15:54.670-08:00

President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will take months for the government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists. The drawn-out construction timetable shows the political risk of Obama's pledge, a delay that could even be extended by congressional opposition

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-7772013563229156702009-12-18T10:24:00.002-08:002009-12-18T10:24:58.677-08:00

India's resort state of Goa -- popular with foreign tourists, particularly from Britain, Israel and the United States -- could be the target for a major terror strike, a local minister said. "Available intelligence inputs indicate that a strong desire is entertained by various Pakistan-based terrorist groups to indulge in spectacular violence in Goa," state home minister Ravi Naik told the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-56092225567971347022009-12-18T10:24:00.000-08:002009-12-18T10:24:04.565-08:00

Three accused al-Qaida associates arrested in Africa arrived in New York on Friday to face charges that they conspired to support terrorism by smuggling drugs bound for Europe, authorities said. The arrests mark the first time U.S. authorities have captured and charged al-Qaida suspects in a drug trafficking plot in Africa, in a case officials say demonstrates the spread of the terror network

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-38881935772912011282009-12-16T09:18:00.001-08:002009-12-16T09:18:37.084-08:00

Switzerland on Wednesday accepted to resettle an Uzbek detainee held at the controversial US military detention centre for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Swiss government said after a cabinet meeting that it had received assurances from the United States that the man did not constitute a danger to public safety and had never been prosecuted. "The Federal Council (government)

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-25427776122185233692009-12-15T13:42:00.001-08:002009-12-15T13:42:55.485-08:00

A federal judge in Chicago has refused to release on bond a man who allegedly had advance knowledge of the 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai. U.S. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan said Tuesday that Tahawwur Rana (tah-HOW'-err RAH'-nah) has both the means and the knowledge to flee internationally to avoid prosecution. She also says that with an estimated net worth of $1.6 million,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-140808347044944662009-12-15T11:38:00.001-08:002009-12-15T11:38:50.718-08:00

President Barack Obama has ordered the federal government to acquire an underused state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects now held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The federal government will acquire Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., transforming the prison in a sleepy town near the Mississippi River into a

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-52490204433516777032009-12-10T10:13:00.001-08:002009-12-10T10:13:11.106-08:00

A judge has sentenced a London man to a minimum of 18 years in prison for his role in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger jets using liquid explosives. Adam Khatib, 23, was sentenced for plotting with Abdulla Ahmed Ali, who was convicted of leading a team that planned to simultaneously down at least seven trans-Atlantic flights. Ali was sentenced in September to 40 years. Two men

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-44826817313987073182009-12-10T10:12:00.001-08:002009-12-10T10:12:32.279-08:00

A group of lawmakers is questioning plans to try terror suspects in the United States and move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil. House Republicans say the Obama administration has failed to provide details on plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and move prisoners to possible sites in Illinois and Michigan. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (HOOK-stra) said it was "irrational" to send some

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-26814577286397200682009-12-10T10:11:00.001-08:002009-12-10T10:11:47.711-08:00

Three Islamic extremists were jailed on Thursday over a foiled plot to blow up passenger airliners flying between Britain and North America. Adam Khatib, 23, was sentenced to at least 18 years over the 2006 plot to bring down at least seven transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives hidden in soft drinks bottles. Its discovery led to strict new rules about carrying liquids on commercial

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-87382715105050652692009-12-07T09:37:00.001-08:002009-12-07T09:37:33.211-08:00

A Chicago man accused of planning an armed attack on a Danish newspaper was charged Monday with conducting surveillance on potential targets in the Indian city of Mumbai before terrorist attacks in 2008 that killed 166 people. David Coleman Headley, 49, was charged in a 12-count criminal information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and maim people in India

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-76837752539517223752009-12-07T09:36:00.001-08:002009-12-07T09:36:54.386-08:00

A legal rights group said Monday the British government misled parliament about two terrorism suspects who were subjected to rendition. Clive Stafford Smith, director of the London-based rights group Reprieve, said the government must reveal what it knows about the cases of two men captured by British soldiers in Iraq in 2004 and turned over to American forces, who flew them to Afghanistan,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-24231562557526389372009-12-03T09:42:00.003-08:002009-12-03T09:42:34.916-08:00

An appeals court on Thursday overturned the convictions of three Greeks who had been found guilty of belonging to a far-left terrorist group that was blamed for dozens of attacks on American targets. Overall, the group Revolutionary Popular Struggle had been blamed for two murders and scores of murder attempts and bombings between 1975 and 1995. Citing insufficient evidence, the five appeals

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-45687319633859683252009-12-03T09:42:00.001-08:002009-12-03T09:42:09.518-08:00

Four men wanted for the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am plane have been added to the FBI's most wanted terrorist list — with a $5 million reward for each. The suspects were allegedly part of the Abu Nidal terrorist group when they attacked Flight 73 during its stop in Karachi, Pakistan — leading to the deaths of 20 passengers and crew, including two Americans. Pakistan tried and convicted the men,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-6683797678527559162009-12-03T09:41:00.001-08:002009-12-03T09:41:42.421-08:00

A powerful blast wrecked an Iranian pilgrim bus near a Shiite shrine in Damascus on Thursday, killing three people in an incident Syria said was caused by a tyre blow-out and not a terrorist attack. "It is not a terrorist act at all," Interior Minister Saeed Sammur told journalists at the scene of the explosion, a petrol station, where the mangled remains of the yellow Scania bus could still be

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-86249721489446252932009-12-02T16:00:00.000-08:002009-12-02T16:00:00.201-08:00

Pakistan's army has confirmed security agencies are questioning a retired major in connection with a U.S. terror investigation. Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas did not say when the arrest was made or reveal the identity of the man. Intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, first revealed the arrest last week. Abbas said Wednesday that the major is being questioned over alleged links

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-1965482050847964522009-12-02T15:07:00.001-08:002009-12-02T15:07:27.818-08:00

Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for blowing up a high-speed Russian train last week, an attack that killed 26 people, injured scores of others and raised fears of a fresh wave of terror attacks. The Chechen claim, posted on a Web site sympathetic to the militants, could buttress the suspicions of Russian investigators, who have been tracing the attack to Islamist separatists in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-70554417337411300342009-12-01T14:56:00.000-08:002009-12-01T14:56:07.256-08:00

Britain's High Court dealt a blow to the government Tuesday by ruling that terror suspects cannot be denied bail on the basis of secret evidence. The court was ruling in the case of two men suspected of terrorist activities. They have been refused bail but their lawyers have not been told why. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he was "surprised and disappointed" by the judgment. "We will do

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-28562920564138236612009-11-30T09:51:00.000-08:002009-11-30T09:51:18.201-08:00

Police released a composite sketch Monday of a man thought to be involved in a train bombing that killed 26 people, and a railway official suggested the attack had the hallmarks of terrorism by saboteurs from the volatile North Caucasus. Authorities say Friday night's derailment of a train speeding from Moscow to St. Petersburg was caused by a bomb planted on the tracks. The blast gouged out a

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-78547874302679853042009-11-26T11:25:00.001-08:002009-11-26T11:25:36.409-08:00

India on Thursday marked the first anniversary of last year's deadly attacks on Mumbai with a show of security strength and prayers for the dead, as the government vowed a tough line to curb terror. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led tributes to the 166 people who were killed when 10 heavily-armed Islamist gunmen stormed India's financial capital, sparking a bloody, 60-hour siege shown live on

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-18003104913973047342009-11-23T08:21:00.001-08:002009-11-23T08:21:44.799-08:00

British police have reached a compensation deal with the family of a Brazilian man who was shot dead by police after he was mistaken for a terrorist. Both sides say the amount of the settlement will not be disclosed. Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by police on July 22, 2005, when they were looking for terror suspects involved in an attack on the city's transit system the day before. Paul

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-32958991159657730462009-11-17T08:22:00.000-08:002009-11-17T08:22:04.512-08:00

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a disbarred civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case to go to prison and said a judge must consider whether her sentence of a little more than two years behind bars was too lenient. Lynne Stewart, 70, has been free on appeal since she was sentenced in 2006. The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its nearly 200-

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-75416380892385698342009-11-16T09:47:00.000-08:002009-11-16T09:47:00.314-08:00

Anti-terror police arrested five people on Monday in pre-dawn raids in Manchester and near London's Heathrow airport, officials said. The detentions, including a 26-year-old man seized in a hotel near Heathrow, were linked to an alleged overseas threat, media reported, while officials sought to play down the immediate danger. "This is a complex and ongoing investigation, which has now reached

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-23422042346950320542009-11-16T08:24:00.000-08:002009-11-16T08:24:18.497-08:00

The state of Illinois is lobbying hard to land relocated Guantanamo detainees despite strenuous opposition to bringing the terrorism suspects to the United States, top lawmakers said Sunday. The aim is to sell a nearly vacant maximum security prison to the federal government, something Governor Pat Quinn called a "once in a lifetime opportunity." "It's safe and secure it provides lots of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-41482939680778054842009-11-13T05:47:00.001-08:002009-11-13T05:47:53.261-08:00

A Somali man suspected of recruiting youth in Minneapolis for Islamic terrorism in Somalia has a U.S. green card, Dutch media reported Friday. Mohamud Said Omar, 43, was arrested last weekend at the request of U.S. authorities in an asylum seeker's center in Dronten, Netherlands, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Amsterdam. According to Dutch prosecutors, U.S. authorities suspect Omar

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-41899789675734664212009-11-13T05:33:00.000-08:002009-11-13T05:33:28.419-08:00

A suicide bomber in a pickup truck attacked the northwestern regional headquarters of the Pakistani spy agency overseeing a campaign against militancy, killing 10 people Friday. Another suicide assault in the area killed six more. The bombings were the latest in a string of attacks on security forces, civilians and Western targets since the government launched an offensive in mid-October

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-87045631671411543082009-11-12T09:16:00.001-08:002009-11-12T09:16:12.843-08:00

Italy's top security official said Thursday that authorities have smashed an international terror cell with the arrest in Italy and elsewhere in Europe of 17 Algerians who were raising money to finance terrorism. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, speaking to reporters in Rome, called the terror cell "significant." "An Algerian terror cell that gathered money for terrorist activities outside of

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-66245726800304364202009-11-10T14:03:00.003-08:002009-11-10T14:03:58.659-08:00

A Marine reservist was charged with attacking a Greek Orthodox priest he said he thought was a terrorist. Jasen D. Bruce allegedly hit 29-year-old Alexios Marakis over the head with a tire iron and chased him for three blocks Monday evening before Tampa police officers intervened. Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting from Crete, told police he had stopped to ask the 28-year-old reservist

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-53365964180311464722009-11-10T14:03:00.001-08:002009-11-10T14:03:30.153-08:00

The Pentagon says a small shipment of swine flu vaccine has arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. It's unlikely any of the terror detainees held there will get any of the sought-after vaccine now. The possibility that detainees would get vaccinated became a political and public relations headache for the Obama administration at a time when many Americans are still waiting for doses that

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-37452362227547466722009-11-09T13:57:00.001-08:002009-11-09T13:57:18.145-08:00

Two videos produced by Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network have been found in the home of a Chicago man accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, federal prosecutors said. Bin Laden appears on one of the DVDs, describing the lives of four so-called martyrs "on behalf of Islam," and other footage focused on the cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad published in the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-80574994679275869402009-11-09T07:42:00.000-08:002009-11-09T07:42:30.636-08:00

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett went on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF. After initial arguments, the trial was adjourned to Wednesday by High Court Judge Muchineripi Bhunu to allow time to consider applications made by the state and defense.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-17312691758702029442009-11-09T07:40:00.001-08:002009-11-09T07:40:50.172-08:00

The man accused in the Halloween-night shooting death of a Seattle policeman remains hospitalized, and authorities were expected to talk more Monday about why they believe the suspect is a domestic terrorist who held a grudge against law enforcement. Prosecutors plan to discuss formal charges against 41-year-old Christopher Monfort at a news conference later Monday, police spokesman Mark

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654097034655654236.post-85075406182208825962009-11-09T07:39:00.000-08:002009-11-09T07:39:38.941-08:00

Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts. The changes in the terror group's training operations — often hidden inside walled compounds deep in Pakistan's mountains

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