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Moscow Suicide Bomber Likely a 'Black Widow'

Female may have been avenging death of her husband at Russia's hands

(Newser) - The suicide bombers who killed 35 in Monday’s Moscow airport attack are thought to be from a “Black Widow” squad that trained in Pakistan. The female bomber was seen in the arrivals crowd before detonating the bomb, and her black clothes and veil indicate she was a “...

Amid $31M Bank Probe, Vatican Creates Financial Watchdog

New laws will also fight terrorist financing

(Newser) - The Vatican today created a financial watchdog agency and issued new laws to fight money laundering and terrorist financing in a major effort to shed its image as a tax haven that for years has been mired in scandal and secrecy. The decrees, which go into effect April 1, were...

Are Suicide Bombers Just ... Suicidal?

Controversial studies suggest some are simply depressed

(Newser) - Suicide bombers are thought of as fundamentalists driven by ideology to make the ultimate statement. But what if they—or at least some of them—are just depressed individuals looking for a way out? In the Boston Globe , Paul Kix examines studies that have been done over the years highlighting...

Why Are More Latinos Converting to Radical Islam?

Antonio Martinez is the latest troubling case

(Newser) - The FBI's arrest of alleged would-be terrorist Antonio Martinez highlights a growing concern among US officials: Why are more Latinos converting to radical Islam? The question is especially important because Latino converts are being radicalized in the US—and al-Qaeda appears to be specifically recruiting them, because they can move...

25% of Freed Gitmo Detainees Returned to Terror

New report offers first look at what happened to former prisoners

(Newser) - About one-quarter of former Guantánamo Bay detainees have been linked to terrorist activities since being released, according to a government report. Of the 598 men transferred out of the prison, 81 are confirmed to have taken part in terrorism or insurgency; 69 more are suspected of taking part in...

Glenn Beck Estimates 10% of Muslims Are Terrorists

That's a whopping 157 million Islamic terrorists

(Newser) - According to Glenn Beck, 10% of all Muslims are terrorists. And since there are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, ThinkProgress notes, Beck is basically calling 157 million of them terrorists. The talk show host made the comment on his radio show yesterday, the Huffington Post reports, while he...

Spain Busts Gang Linked to Forged Terrorist Passports

International operation supplied to Qaeda-linked groups

(Newser) - Police arrested seven people in Spain and three in Thailand in an international sting on a group suspected of forging passports for an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group, the Spanish Interior Ministry said today. The detainees formed part of a group based in Thailand and linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Islamic group...

Ore. Bomb Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

Lawyer accuses FBI of entrapment

(Newser) - The 19-year-old Somali-American accused of trying to explode a car bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony has pleaded not guilty to at tempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Mohamed Osman Mohamud's lawyer accused the FBI of entrapping his client, who was arrested after an elaborate sting operation, Reuters...

Go Ahead, Profile Me, Says American Muslim
Go Ahead, Profile Me,
Says American Muslim
OPINION
Nov 29, 2010 12:16 PM CST

Go Ahead, Profile Me, Says American Muslim

It's time to stop being politically correct about this, she writes

(Newser) - Asra Q. Nomani is an American Muslim, but when it comes to airport security, she has no problem saying, “Profile me. Profile my family.” As the most recent would-be terrorist case highlights, "there is one common denominator defining those who’ve got their eyes trained on US...

Would-Be Terrorist a 'Great Kid,' but Lately Changed

Friends, neighbors talk about Mohamed Osman Mohamud

(Newser) - Who is Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the Somali-born Oregon teen accused of attempted terrorism ? Friends and neighbors recall him as "a great kid," a well-adjusted engineering student who got good grades, liked girls, played basketball, and was obsessed with the Portland Trailblazers. But recently he dropped out of...

Did the FBI Really Stop a Terrorist?

Or did it basically entrap Mohamed Osman Mohamud?

(Newser) - The media, as well as Democrats and Republicans alike, are touting the FBI’s recent arrest of a 19-year-old would-be car bomber . But is Mohamed Osman Mohamud really “some menacing sleeper terrorist” who came this close to blowing up a crowded Christmas event in Oregon—or was he prodded...

FBI Sting Nabs Would-Be Car Bomber in Oregon

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, tried to sabotage tree-lighting ceremony

(Newser) - An Oregon man was arrested last night and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction after trying to detonate a car bomb at a tree-lighting ceremony. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a US citizen born in Somalia, drove a van to Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland and attempted...

So How Many Terrorists Has the TSA Actually Caught?

None—that it's publicized, at least

(Newser) - There's no denying that the country is in an uproar over the TSA's new heightened security procedures, raising one fairly obvious questions: Does the TSA actually catch terrorists? The answer isn't very clear-cut, writes Juliet Lapidos in Slate 's Explainer column. The TSA won't cite any specific instance when it...

Coulter: TSA Scans 'Hitler's Last Revenge'

She recommends profiling instead

(Newser) - Following the controversial TSA pat-down of a 3-year-old girl , Ann Coulter is back—and she has her own controversy to start. Coulter, no fan of the TSA's new body scans or pat-downs, told Bill O'Reilly the heightened security procedures result from the "crazy, politically correct world we're living in...

Awlaki Urges Killing of Americans in New Video

al-Qaeda cleric presses for rebellion in Yemen

(Newser) - Anwar al-Awlaki declared open season on American lives in a new video circulated on jihadist web sites, the BBC reports. Those sympathetic to Awlaki and al-Qaeda need not ask whether to kill Americans at any point, the US-born cleric said, because they are of the "party of devils."...

DEA Employed Mumbai Plotter in Pakistan

David Headley released from probation despite terror warnings

(Newser) - US authorities not only ignored warnings that Mumbai terror plotter David Headley was involved with Pakistani terror groups , they sent him to Pakistan to work for the Drug Enforcement Agency. Concerns about Headley's involvement with Lashkar-e-Taiba were not raised in 2001 when he was granted early release from probation to...

Here's What the Terrorists Are Plotting
 Here's What 
 the Terrorists 
 Are Plotting 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Nov 6, 2010 8:08 AM CDT

Here's What the Terrorists Are Plotting

Recent bomb scares give insight into their plan

(Newser) - The Yemen-based mail bomb plot offers new insight into what, exactly, terrorists are planning next. Aviation expert Clive Irving runs down their apparent plan in the Daily Beast :
  • The goal: Blow up a plane over a major US city.
  • The location: Most likely over “the great urban sprawl along
...

Dozens of European Terrorists Training in Pakistan

Plus, 20 NATO oil tankers attacked

(Newser) - As Japan joined the list of countries issuing travel alerts for Europe, intelligence officials report that dozens of Muslim militants with European citizenship are believed to be training in Pakistan for terror missions—possibly in Europe. One senior Pakistani official puts the number of such extremists at "several dozen,...

Euro Terror Plot Hatched By Germans, Brits in Pakistan

Intel officials intercepting their phone calls

(Newser) - Eight Germans and two British brothers are using Pakistan as a safe haven from which to plan Mumbai-style terror shootings across Europe, a Pakistani security official tells the AP . The group is coordinating the plot by phone with acquaintances in Germany and London. Pakistani, British, and German intelligence officials are...

Times Square Bomber Planned a Second Attack

Feds try to get failed terrorist sentenced to life in prison

(Newser) - Prosecutors are throwing the kitchen sink at Faisal Shahzad, in an effort to get the would-be Times Square bomber put away for life. In a legal brief released today, feds allege that Shahzad had planned to launch a second attack after hitting Times Square. The failed terrorist also told authorities...

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