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TSA's New Strategy: Chats With Passengers

Agency plans to borrow security ideas from Israel

(Newser) - Get ready to reveal more than just your underwear at airport security checkpoints: TSA officers plan to start chatting up more passengers as part of the screening process. The agency already has "behavior detection officers" at work in airports across the US, but the new strategy calls for more...

US Accuses Iran of Alliance With al-Qaeda

US: Iran lets militants run fundraising network from within its borders

(Newser) - The US has officially accused Iran of having a deal with al-Qaeda that lets militants route supplies, cash, and fighters through Iran to Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Treasury Department has sanctioned six al-Qaeda operatives who it suspects run a fundraising network that uses Iran-based operatives...

Breivik Planned 'Celebration' With Escorts, Fine Wine

Played online games, watched True Blood , dropped by mom's for dinner

(Newser) - Aiming to keep his “martyrdom operation” a secret, Anders Behring Breivik worked hard come across as a regular guy—and he succeeded at being forgettable. “He didn’t say anything you could remember,” an acquaintance tells the New York Times . “He’s one of the crowd,...

Images From Oslo Terror Attacks

Death toll rising from bombing, shooting

(Newser) - Norway is ramping up security in the wake of the twin terror attacks in and near Oslo. The group Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or Helpers of the Global Jihad, has claimed responsibility, but it remains unclear whether the group was actually behind the strikes, reports the New York Times . In a...

Mumbai Blasts Baffle Indian Intelligence

'Every city in India is vulnerable'

(Newser) - India still has no idea who was behind the three explosions that killed 18 people in Mumbai yesterday, and the government has admitted it had no inkling the attacks were coming. “Whoever planned this attack worked in a very, very clandestine manner,” Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told...

Hackers Hit Top al-Qaeda Website

Cyberexperts unsure whether attack was government sponsored

(Newser) - Hackers have taken down a key al-Qaeda online forum and propaganda site, al-Shamukh, hitting not just the website but also the host server, reports the AP . Given the sophistication of the attack, security experts think the incident might have been government-sponsored, something that has happened several times in the past...

Man With Suspicious Bag Detained in Pentagon Scare

Suspect in Arlington National Cemetery reportedly had al-Qaeda literature

(Newser) - Roads around the Pentagon were closed today after police detained a man in Arlington National Cemetery and found his car in bushes near the Pentagon. Park police stopped the man overnight because the cemetery was closed, and found that he was carrying what was believed at the time to be...

Jihadi Site Issues 40-Name, American-Heavy Hit List

Prominent US targets in industry, military, media named

(Newser) - A jihadi website closely linked to al-Qaeda has posted a hit list of 40 prominent people, mostly Americans. Those named include a congressman, a conservative pundit, Pentagon officials, and American businessmen whose company helps produce drones, reports ABC News . The site includes photographs and biographical information, and suggests followers send...

Rapper Lupe Fiasco: Obama's the Real Terrorist

He says US foreign policy helps foster terror

(Newser) - Conservatives slammed President Obama for hosting Chicago rapper Common at the White House. Now Obama is taking criticism from a different Chicago rapper. "To me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America,” Lupe Fiasco told CBS in an interview noted by the Huffington Post...

2 Iraqis Living in Kentucky Charged With Terror Plotting

Men accused of trying to send weapons, money to al-Qaeda

(Newser) - Two Iraqis living in Kentucky have been arrested on charges that they tried to send sniper rifles, stinger missiles, and money to al-Qaeda operatives in their home country, according to court documents unsealed today. Thirty-year-old Waad Ramadan Alwan and 23-year-old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, who both have lived in Bowling Green...

Terrorist: Pakistan Helped Plan Mumbai Attack

David Headley says ISI recruited him for Lashkar-i-Taiba

(Newser) - Pakistani spies helped plan the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, confessed Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley testified yesterday. Headley said that after he had trained with the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group for three years, he was recruited by an ISI officer when he was detained near the Afghan border in 2006—and,...

FBI Links Top al-Qaeda Bombmaker to Two US Plots

Fingerprint, forensics link Ibrahim al-Asiri to underwear bomber, cargo bombs

(Newser) - The FBI has now definitively linked top al-Qaeda bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri to a trio of explosives used in two recent attempts to attack the US, via a fingerprint and forensic evidence. Al-Asiri, who works in Yemen with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was already suspected of being involved with the...

Ohio Couple Pleads Guilty in Terror Funding Case

Deal allows Hor and Amera Akl to escape life sentences

(Newser) - An Ohio husband and wife pleaded guilty today to charges that they plotted to help finance a Mideast terrorist group, under a deal that spares them from potential life sentences. Hor and Amera Akl, dual citizens of the US and Lebanon, were arrested in June 2010 after authorities said an...

Chicago Trial Could Link Pakistan to Terror Group

Jury selection begins today in Tahawwur Rana trial

(Newser) - Jury selection begins today in a Chicago trial that could reveal links between Pakistan's intelligence agency and the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The trial of Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana, accused of helping David Coleman Headley serve as a scout for the attacks, "will undoubtedly demonstrate links between Pakistan...

Irish Militants Issue London Bomb Threat

Warning comes day before queen's visit to Ireland

(Newser) - Irish militants called in a bomb threat targeting central London today, a day ahead of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland—the first visit by a British monarch in more than a century, Reuters reports. A source says the threat has some credibility because the caller uttered a codeword known...

Terror Suspects Plotted NYC Synagogue Bombing

They 'hated Jews,' were sick of treatment of Muslims

(Newser) - Two men busted in a New York City terror raid plotted to bomb a Jewish synagogue and possibly the Empire State Building, officials have revealed. Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, were upset that Muslims were being "treated like dogs" and purchased a hand grenade and guns from...

After bin Laden's Death, Afghanistan Debate Heats Up

Washington weighs withdrawal, other options

(Newser) - The big question in Washington: Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, what do we do about Afghanistan? Senators John Kerry, a Democrat, and Richard Lugar, a Republican, both said yesterday that we must reassess the nearly decade-old conflict and work toward, as Kerry said, "the smallest footprint necessary....

Sen. Schumer Calls for 'No Fly List' on US Trains

We need tougher security in wake of Osama compound intel, he says

(Newser) - Since Americans love flying so much these days, New York Sen. Charles Schumer wants to make train travel a little more like it. He's calling for the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Flight program with its "No Fly List" to be extended to Amtrak, creating a "...

5 Arrested on Terror Charges Near UK Nuke Plant

Homes of the five suspects were being searched

(Newser) - Five men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism outside a nuclear power facility in Britain, reports CNN . All five live in London and their homes were being searched, while roads near the Sellafield nuclear facility were temporarily closed. The arrests drew interest given the killing of Osama bin Laden,...

Fearing Reprisals, US Warns: Be Vigilant

Top al-Qaeda ideologue promises revenge

(Newser) - News of Osama bin Laden's death was met with dancing in the streets , but officials are warning Americans that his death could bring reprisals. The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert yesterday and today put US embassies on alert, warning of an "enhanced potential for anti-American violence...

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