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Eric Holder, Attorney General, 9/11, New York, Terrorism, Khalid Sheik Mohammed
At a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 suspects in civilian court in New York. Holder said he knows “we are at war with a vicious enemy who targets our soldiers on the ...
Eric Holder, Attorney General, 9/11, New York, Terrorism, Khalid Sheik Mohammed
The big news of the morning is that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects currently held at Guantanamo Bay will be tried in New York in civilian court. “I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. The ...
The DC sniper was executed tonight. Jarratt, VIRGINIA (Reuters) - John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C. region a year after the September 11 and the deadly ...
DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Terrorism, Death Penalty
DC sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at 9 pm in Virginia. ABC News’ Russell Goldman interviewed one of Muhammad’s (and teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo’s) victims, Paul LaRuffa, who amazingly survived five gunshots at close range: Survivor of Beltway Sniper Wants Justice, Gov. ...
DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Terrorism, Death Penalty
The IDF has uploaded a video presentation showing the huge shipment of weaponry from Iran, intended for Hezbollah, that was intercepted this week by an Israel Navy commando force aboard the civilian ship Francop. [Video]
Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Smuggling, Weapons Smuggling, Hezbollah, Terrorism
There’s been another terror-related arrest today, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, where a man was allegedly planning attacks on politicians and a shopping mall. As with all the recent terror-related arrests, Tarek Mehanna apparently never even got close to carrying out any attacks; the FBI was on to him every step of ...
Here’s an amazing speech at the United Nations by the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, about the UN’s latest attempt to demonize Israel, the Goldstone Report. [Video] UN Watch has more information, and a complete transcript of Col. Kemp’s speech.
United Nations, Colonel Richard Kemp, Israel, Terrorism, UN Watch, Gaza, Goldstone Report
Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi, accused of planning a series of bombings in New York, may have been in contact with the head of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. NEW YORK – The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly ...
Just posted at the IDF’s YouTube page: On October 12, 2009, there was an explosion at a Hezbollah weapons storehouse in Tayr Filsay, in southern Lebanon. This aerial footage, taken shortly after the explosion, shows Hezbollah operatives closing down the area around the warehouse, driving in two trucks and ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Weapons, Smuggling, Terrorism, Israel, Video
Here’s a video clip from the Israeli Defense Forces, showing what happened September 25, 2009, when Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza prepared to launch rockets into Israel to attempt random murder, unaware that their every move was being watched. [Video] In the above video an Unmanned Air Vehicle captures ...
In Illinois, another plot to commit mass murder foiled long in advance by authorities: Alleged would-be bomber described as humble, polite. Over the two years that authorities tracked Michael C. Finton, accused Thursday of trying to bomb Springfield’s federal courthouse, they gave Finton plenty of chances to drop the ...
A 19-year old Jordanian citizen was arrested yesterday in Dallas, after planting an inactive car bomb near a skyscraper; the authorities were on to him long before he tried to carry out his plot: Man arrested in alleged attempt to bomb Dallas skyscraper. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi has repeatedly ...
Benjamin Netanyahu is calling out the United Nations: “Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists?” It looks like quite a few delegates walked out on his speech. The speech is live on CNN. Here’s a thread to discuss... UPDATE at 9/24/09 3:11:00 pm: The speech ...
The latest reports about the alleged New York City bombing plot contain a clue to why so much of this story has seemed weird and disjointed — the FBI and the NYPD were apparently engaged in an inter-bureau squabble: Three Men Arrested by FBI in NYC Terror Plot. The ...
Things are finally starting to break open in the case of the alleged New York bombing plot: NYC Terror Plot Suspect Admits al Qaeda Ties, Official Says. The Denver man at the center of an alleged New York bomb plot, Najibullah Zazi, has admitted he has ties to al ...
A major Al Qaeda leader thought to be the mastermind of the terror attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has reportedly been killed in Somalia. A senior al Qaeda operative behind the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania is believed to have been ...
The United Nations, for the first time, is planning to introduce lessons about the Nazi Holocaust to Palestinian students in Gaza. In the twisted world of Hamas, however, this amounts to a war crime. Hamas spiritual leader Younis al-Astal lashed out after hearing that the U.N. Relief and Works ...
Attorney General Eric Holder has announced he’s going to appoint a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects, as a prelude to possible “full scale” criminal investigations. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to appoint a prosecutor to examine nearly a dozen cases in which CIA ...
Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Attorney General, CIA, Terrorism, Torture, Interrogation
Scottish officials said they were releasing Lockerbie terrorist Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi for “compassionate reasons.” Well, that ... and those Libyan oil contracts. LONDON — In the wake of the sole convicted Lockerbie bomber’s return to a hero’s welcome in Tripoli, questions intensified in Britain on Friday as to ...
Scotland, Lockerbie, Terrorism, Appeasement, Libya, Oil, Britain
This is an absolute disgrace, as Scotland frees a terrorist mass murderer on “compassionate grounds.” Apparently, their compassion doesn’t extend to the surviving family members of this animal’s victims. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States strongly condemned Thursday’s decision by Scottish authorities to free a terminally ill Libyan convicted ...
There’s absolutely nobody to root for, as Hamas puts down a threat to their control of Gaza by invading a mosque and slaughtering more than 20 people. GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian Islamists Hamas struck back at an al-Qaeda challenge to their grip on the Gaza Strip by storming a ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Hamas, Gaza, Warriors of God, Al Qaeda
Ladies and gentlemen, the pig has left the hangar, as Human Rights Watch issues a new report on war crimes committed by — Hamas. Airborne porker sighted over Middle EastJERUSALEM (AFP) – Rocket attacks carried out against Israel by the Hamas rulers of Gaza and other Palestinian militants amount ...
Human Rights Watch, Hamas, War Crimes, Rockets, Israel, Terrorism, Palestinians
A video report from North Carolina's WRAL TV, on the detention hearing for Daniel Patrick Boyd and six other alleged homegrown jihadis arrested last week: WRAL Video