NEW YORK — Just when you think terrorist plots couldn’t get any more bizarre, the Transportation Security Administration has cautioned airline executives of a possible terror tactic involving surgically stitched explosives inside suicide bombers. The NY Daily News Reports: Terrorists simply keep looking for new ways to sneak bombs past increasingly stiff airport security, TSA […]
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the prosecution of terrorism suspects in civilian court after the top-ranking Senate Republican urged him to send two Iraqis to Guantanamo Bay rather than try them in Kentucky. Holder criticized what he called a “rigid ideology” among political opponents working to prevent terror trials that have […]
Kareem Ibrahim, 65, was convicted Thursday on five counts of conspiracy for his roll in the 2007 plot to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Federal prosecutors said the men wanted to kill thousands of people and cripple the American economy by using explosives to blow up the fuel tanks at […]
WASHINGTON – A Virginia man has been arrested and indicted on charges he tried to help people he believed were al-Qaida operatives in planning to bomb subway stations in and around the nation’s capital. The FBI says the public was never in danger because its agents were aware of the man’s activities before the alleged […]
CHICAGO — A 26-year-old Chicago man who told an FBI informant that he didn’t expect to reach the age of 30 was charged with plotting to go to Somalia to become a suicide bomber for al-Qaida and another linked terror group, federal prosecutors alleged in court documents unsealed Wednesday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed that a French hostage was killed by al-Qaida's branch in North Africa
WASHINGTON — BP’s oil spill notoriety is reviving unwelcome attention from Congress on another issue: Whether the oil company sought the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to help get a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya off the ground.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group suspected in twin bombings in Uganda’s capital that killed 64 people watching the World Cup final endorsed the attacks on Monday but stopped short of claiming responsibility, as Uganda’s president vowed to hunt down those responsible. The blasts came two days after a commander with the […]
NEW YORK — Calling himself a Muslim soldier, a defiant Pakistan-born U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing and left a sinister warning that unless the U.S. leaves Muslim lands alone, “we will be attacking U.S.”
From CNN: Washington — Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period.”
