Most Terrorists Look Nothing Like You Imagined
Most terrorists are highly educated, employed and a native of the country where they attack. This goes against previous studied portraying terrorists as isolated from their communities and vulnerable...
View ArticleThis Is The Story Of How A Guy From Alabama Became A Jihadist Fighting In...
Insights into the minds of Westerners who have traveled to faraway lands to join the armies of radical Islam are usually confined to esoteric security websites and jihadist blogs rarely written in...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Take On 'War On Terrorism' Issue In Wiretap Case
The nation's highest court will decide whether journalists and others can take the federal government to court over wiretaps of Americans overseas, Lyle Denniston is reporting for SCOTUSblog. Clapper,...
View ArticleUnabomber Lists Occupation As 'Prisoner' In Harvard Alumni Directory
The Unabomber might be stuck in prison, but he still wants to connect with his Harvard classmates. Too bad his victims don't find his life updates in the alumni directory so funny. David Gelernter...
View ArticleDARPA Is Just As Worried About A Bioterror Attack As The Pentagon
This morning, the day after the Department of Defense's number two man referred to bioterror as an inevitable threat against the United States civilian and military populations, DARPA tweeted a call...
View ArticleThere Is Now A Petition For Obama To Create A 'Do Not Kill List'
We The People, the White House's official petition site, "provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country." In light of the...
View ArticleHomeland Security Admits To Monitoring Use Of The Following 377 Terms
May 31, 2012 New York City One of breakout standup routines from the late, great George Carlin was his 1972 monologue “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” In the presence of polite company,...
View ArticleAre The US And Al-Qaeda On The Same Side In Syria?
The Houla massacre in Syria has drawn international attention and humanitarian groups are now calling for western intervention to end the bloody civil war. However, rebels have strong support from...
View ArticleHow Does One Actually Wind Up On The No-Fly List
Surely you've heard the stories of the well-intentioned, God-loving folks arriving at the airport to embark on their daiquiri-filled vacation to Club Med only to be stopped at the gate by a couple of...
View ArticleDetainees At Guantánamo Bay Are Getting A Multi-Million Dollar Upgrade...
Guantánamo Bay is undergoing millions of dollars of upgrades that could prepare it to remain open indefinitely, reports Michael Isikoff of NBC News. As of this week the U.S. detainment and...
View ArticleThree NATO Protestors Are The First To Be Charged Under Illinois' Post-9/11...
Cook County prosecutors invoked Illinois' never-before-used anti-terrorism statute to charge three NATO protestors with planning an assault on Obama campaign headquarters. Brian Church, Jared Chase,...
View ArticleThis Journalist Live-Tweeted A Deadly 11 Hour Taliban Siege Of An Afghanistan...
Yesterday saw the Taliban lay siege to a lakeside hotel just north of Kabul in Afghanistan in a horrific show of strength by the Islamist group. The deadly attack at Spozhmai hotel lasted almost 12...
View ArticleUS Judge Orders Moroccan Held For Capitol Plot
A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered a Moroccan man to be held on charges that he planned a suicide bombing attack against Congress, believing he was working with al Qaeda militants when in fact his...
View ArticleThe 10 Biggest Changes Mayor Bloomberg Has Made To New York
Since taking office in 2002, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg may have done more to change the city than any elected official in history. He's led many crusades from education and gun control to...
View ArticleCONDOLEEZA RICE: Obama Is 'Leading From Behind'
Condoleeza Rice took swipes at President Barack Obama on foreign policy during an appearance on "CBS' This Morning" Tuesday, charging Obama with "leading from behind." "I think we need a greater, more...
View ArticleThe Greatest Biological Threats To Civilization
With recent concerns over the bird flu virus being used by terrorist's to make a bioweopen, we took a look at other biological threat agents in a list compiled by the Federation of American...
View ArticleTwo Men Who Tried To Hijack A Chinese Plane Were Beaten To Death By Passengers
Two men who reportedly tried to hijack a plane in the Chinese region of Xinjiang on Friday have died in hospital, the Global Times reports. The two died from "injuries received in a fight with...
View ArticleThe Chinese Airline Crew That Stopped A Hijacking Was Rewarded With Cash,...
The Chinese airline staff who apparently beat to death two suspected hijackers in China's Xinjiang province have been handsomely rewarded for their efforts, according to China's Xinhua news wire....
View ArticleThe NYPD Is Getting Slammed For Stop-And-Frisk And Embellished Crime Numbers
The New York Police Department is facing a strong backlash after years of controversial and racially-divisive tactics used to combat terrorism and crime. Justin Elliot of ProPublica refutes the...
View ArticleHere's Every Single Terror Plot The New York Police Department Says It's Foiled
The NYPD is regularly held up as one of the most sophisticated and significant counterterrorism operations in the country. As evidence of the NYPD's excellence, the department, its allies and the...
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