Queens Imam Ahmad Afzali Deported
A Queens imam has been deported after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against the New York City transit system. The lawyer for Ahmad Afzali says...
View ArticleSuicide Blasts Kill 62 in Northwest Pakistan
Two suicide bombings killed 62 people in the Mohmand tribal region which lies in Pakistan near the Afghan border on Friday. The attack also wounded more than 100 people, making it one of the deadliest...
View ArticleTwin Blasts Shake Iranian Shiite Mosque
Sunni insurgents reportedly carried out a double mosque bombing at a Shiite mosque on Thursday in Zahedan, Iran.The Associated Press reports that at least 27 people were killed and more than 270 were...
View ArticleTop Officials Respond to WikiLeaks Posting
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is adding his voice to the public chorus condemning the online leak of tens of thousands of documents detailing the war in...
View ArticleAttackers Execute 45 in Revenge Attacks in Pakistan
Many Karachi schools and businesses are closed on Tuesday after unknown attackers killed at least 45 people and wounded more than 90 in Pakistan's coastal metropolis. The attack is thought to have...
View ArticleA Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb
Amitava Kumar looks at the global repercussions of the war on terror. His book A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb tells the story of two men convicted in U.S. courts on...
View ArticlePakistani Neuroscientist Sentenced to 86 Years
In the U.S., she's considered a terrorist. At home in Pakistan, she's a hero. Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T.-educated, Pakistani neuroscientist was convicted of attempting to kill American soldiers and...
View ArticleAs Europe Braces for Terror, US Escalates Drone Attacks in Pakistan
Reports of a sudden up-tick of CIA drone attacks in the Waziristan region of Pakistan this morning coincide with what U.S. officials are describing as a "credible but not specific" terror threat in...
View ArticleTalking to the Enemy
Social scientist Scott Atran traces terrorism's root causes in human evolution and history. In Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists he touches on the nature of...
View ArticleBackstory: Viktor Bout
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was arraigned yesterday in a New York court on terrorism charges. On today’s Backstory, Stephen Braun, National Security Editor with the Associated Press and co-author...
View ArticleThis Time, I'm Pro Pat-Down
Today, we can expect as many as two million people to board domestic and international flights. I know there has been a lot of rabble rousing online about the new security procedures, which include...
View ArticleLeaked Cables Demonstrate Guantanamo Dilemma
This week’s explosive Wikileaks story includes a bevy of cables related to Gitmo. Were the camp closed, these might be the least interesting of all. As the camp is still in operation, however, the...
View ArticleAre We Safer?
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest discusses her investigation into the so-called terrorism-industrial complex that has sprung up after 9/11. Frontline’s “Are We Safer?” airs...
View ArticleBackstory: Communications Management Units in Federal Prisons
In 2006, the Bush Administration opened what are known as Communications Management Units, aimed at isolating inmates thought to have links to terrorist-related activity. Reporter and former Department...
View ArticleBin Laden Death: Terrorism Killer or Creator?
How will the world react to the death of Bin Laden? Or perhaps more significantly, how will the world of terrorism react? We speak with Lydia Khalil, former counterterrorism analyst with the NYPD, as...
View ArticleProof is in the Hard Drives: Bin Laden's Terror Tech
After poring over documents and hard drives taken out of the compound in Abbottabad where bin Laden was killed, intelligence analysts have surmised that the al-Qaida leader was consistently in touch...
View ArticleTSA and Pat-Downs: How Far do we Go for Safety?
Unfettered freedom vs complete security: Those two extremes are stances that only the most fringe utopian anarchistic libertarians and totalitarian communist types are for. But our country has enacted...
View ArticleWithout New Leader, Future of Al-Qaida in Limbo
With the death of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is now calling on all its followers to prepare do-it-yourself plans of attack against America. And it’s a sharp contrast to the strategy taken on by bin...
View ArticleTwo Florida Imams Arrested on Charges of Supporting Taliban
Monday afternoon, two Florida imams are scheduled to be arraigned in a federal court in Miami after being arrested for allegedly providing financial support for the Pakistani Taliban. Imam Hafiz...
View ArticleAfter Arrest of Imams, Florida's Muslim Community Shaken
In the first major case of homegrown terrorism in this post-Osama bin Laden era, six people were indicted by the FBI for funneling around $50,000 to terrorists in Pakistan. Two of those arrested were...
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