Topic: Northwest Airlines Flight 253
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Nigerian man suspected of attempting to bomb a U.S.-bound plane in December appeared to have attended a militant training course, according to a videotape said to have been made by al Qaeda in Yemen.The video, which also contains ...
A retired colonel and a police officer were killed in separate explosions on Thursday in east Yemen's Shabwa province, considered to be an Al-Qaeda stronghold, officials said.The blasts in the mountainous As-Said region, 650 kilometres (400 miles) east of the capital, came ...
AP sources: Diplomat in bomb scare was en route to meet jailed terrorist in ColoradoA Qatari diplomat was on his way to meet an imprisoned al-Qaida agent when he touched off a bomb scare by slipping into an airline bathroom for a ...
Security screening for US-bound travelers will no longer target specific countriesThe U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travelers' nationalities. The new policy replaces a security requirement put in place after the attempted bombing ...
Technical limitations stem from privacy, policy considerations, National Counterterrorism Center official says . Russell Travers, NCTC's deputy director for information sharing and knowledge development, said the center has many technological tools that sort, sift and cull through the swaths of information it ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior senators unveiled legislation on Thursday to require the military to hold, interrogate and prosecute certain terrorism suspects and also bar them from receiving legal rights afforded most criminals in the United States.Republican Senator John McCain and Independent ...
In a direct election-year challenge to US President Barack Obama on national security, lawmakers unveiled legislation Thursday requiring military interrogations and trials for suspected terrorists.The bill comes amid a fierce election-year battle over how the United States should handle alleged extremists, with ...
I recently took an American Airlines flight back to China from Los Angeles International Airport. There were 615 million airline passengers in the U.S. last year. Gross domestic product per capita in the U.S. last year was $46,443. This means that in ...
In my last post I wrote about why intelligence agencies were apparently unable to " The post elicited a variety of comments, some from distinguished experts (Don Peppers in customer data, Sam Felton in strategic and competitive intelligence, Sanjay Poonen in enterprise ...
Al-Qaeda is becoming less of a threat across much of the Middle East and south Asia with the clear exception of Yemen, top US general David Petraeus said Sunday."Our assessment is that over the course of the last year or so, Al-Qaeda ...
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By Jim Kouri Dec 27, 2009 A Nigerian man claiming ...2009-12-27
