Topic: Manhattan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested two North African-born men in a sting operation after they bought a hand grenade and guns to attack a New York City synagogue, authorities said on Thursday.Algerian-born Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Moroccan-born Mohammed Mamdouh, 20, bought ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York men accused of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda were charged on Tuesday with additional terrorism-related offenses, U.S. prosecutors said.Brooklyn, New York-born Wesam El-Hanafi, 35, and Sabirhan Hasanoff, 34, a dual U.S. and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Islamist extremists similar to the Times Square bomber are living among New Yorkers and the threat of attack by "homegrown terrorists" is not diminishing, city Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said on Wednesday.A failed attempt by a Pakistan-born U.S. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man accused of trying to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square on May 1 pleaded guilty on Monday to terrorism-related charges.Pakistani-born Faisal Shahzad, who became a U.S. citizen last year, was indicted in ...
Suspicious incidents fuel fear of terror, but NYC responds with 'remarkable resilience'New York police and federal transportation agents enter a subway station on Manhattan's West Side with radiation detection devices to check passengers' bags for dangerous substances.An NYPD bomb squad rushes to ...
Residents of this quiet town north of New York woke Tuesday to discover that a neighbor they hardly knew allegedly tried to blow up a car bomb in heart of Manhattan."I was shocked, scared, because we didn't think that we had someone ...
New York officials say they could stop attacks like the attempted Times Square car bomb by expanding a controversial surveillance system so sensitive that it will pick up even suspicious behavior.New York is already a heavily policed city, with 35,000 officers and ...
Another failed terrorist attack plot: Years of schemes leave NY residents wary and wearyAnother failed terrorist plot. Another mass sigh of relief.The Times Square car bombing attempt last weekend was just the latest in a long list of schemes that for nearly ...
Just as his nephew did before him in NYC, Khalid Sheik Mohammed claims terrorism equals warKhalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: "Mohammed spent several years in secret prisons run by the CIA before he was transferred ...
Obama bluntly confident in conviction of Sept. 11 suspect and enforcement of death penaltyPresident Barack Obama said Wednesday that those offended by the legal privileges being given to the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ultimately won't find it " ...
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