Confessed Terrorist Tried To Help U.S. Track Down Other Terrorists
Region: United StatesBy Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica CHICAGO—Confessed terrorist David Coleman Headley was so eager to cooperate after his 2009 arrest that he worked with FBI agents to try to engineer the capture of a suspected... more
Views: 1455Sohaib Athar: "My Story" (from the man who tweeted Osama Bin Laden's death to the world)
Region: PakistanSohaib Athar¹ is a 33 year-old IT Consultant born in Lahore and currently living in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama Bin Laden was killed two days ago. First person to tweet live about Osama... more
Views: 2847Discovery of Bin Laden Hideout Spotlights Concerns About Pakistan’s Intelligence Service
Region: PakistanBy Sebastian Rotella , ProPublica The killing of Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani city dominated by the military has spotlighted a conundrum that Western counterterror agencies have grappled with for years: Is Pak... more
Views: 1318Airport snafu: Security easily compromised by terror suspects
Region: United States"[O]n at least 23 occasions its highly specialized Behavior Detection Officers failed to stop terrorists from boarding planes, investigators found. At least 16 people who were later charged or pleaded guilty to terrorism c... more
Views: 1151Krav Maga: Israeli security forces urged to study deadly combat system
Region: Israel
Following an incident in the Jordan Valley in which a lone Israeli soldier was attacked by a Palestinian on Friday, members of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) have been ordered to keep their magazines i... more
Views: 1892Libyan rebels have questionable history, says intelligence source
Region: Libyan Arab JamahiriyaA former U.S. intelligence officer now serving as a director of corporate security for a multi-national corporation tells the Law Enforcement Examiner that he's aware of the identity of some of the Libyan rebels fighting C... more
Views: 1453Absence of Afghan justice fuels Taliban, al-Qaeda recruitment: U.K think-tank
Region: AfghanistanThe sidelining of justice by the Afghan government and its international backers is fueling the insurgency in Afghanistan and presents a serious strategic risk, claims a new report from the British international secur... more
Views: 2148Fort Hood killer may face execution, says post commander
Region: United StatesAn Army official has recommended that the Fort Hood mass-murderer Major Nidal M. Hasan be tried before a general court martial authorized to consider capital punishment, according to Jim Garamone of the Amer... more
Views: 1341Anwar al-Awalqi connected terrorist plot thwarted
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)After finding work with British Airways in April 2007, the suspect sent information to Anwar al-Awlaqi, an extremist cleric based in Yemen who is linked with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. An Information Te... more
Views: 1046Breaking: Saudi Jihadi nailed for attempted use of WMD in Texas
Region: United StatesA 20-year old Saudi Arabian national and student-resident of Lubbock, Texas, was nabbed last night by U.S. law enforcement agents on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destr... more
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