Topic: Brooklyn (New York City)

U.S. charges suspected Moroccan militant

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday charged a Moroccan man with conspiring to provide weapons and other assistance to al Qaeda militants.Abdeladim El-Kebir, 30, also known as "Abi al-Barra," was arrested in April by German authorities and is now in custody ...

Memoirs: Living in Israel

When I graduated from Ridgefield High School in June of 2003, I made a risky decision to move to Brooklyn, NYto go out on my own in the world instead of going off to college like everybody else I knew. Not being ...

Planned mosque near NY's Ground Zero sparks debate

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks have touched off a firestorm among New Yorkers nearly a decade after Muslim extremists linked to al Qaeda slammed planes into the World Trade Center.The ...
Feds eye Brooklyn trial for Gitmo suspect who lived in USFederal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan who grew up in Maryland before allegedly enlisting with al-Qaida to face trial in New York, a person familiar with ...

U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.The men claimed they suffered inhumane ...
New York City may soon be able to add a team of experts on weapons of mass destruction to its lineup of emergency first responders, gaining access to a terrorism-fighting tool already in place in cities like Topeka and Boise but not ...