Topic: Northwest Airlines Flight 253
An Al-Qaeda cyber-offensive is a real and growing threat, even though Osama bin Laden's shadowy group has yet to show a true capability, experts said."A co-ordinated cyber-attack made in Al-Qaeda?This has not happened yet, but it is not just fantasy," Dominique Thomas, ...
Sen. Christopher Bond (R., Mo.), the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, upped the ante in the rhetorical war that has broken out between him and the White House, calling not only for counterterrorism chief John Brennan's resignation but also for ...
Yemen's al-Qaida deputy chief calls for attacks on Saudi Arabia, US interests in region The deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen called for attacks on Saudi Arabia and U.S. interests in the region in a new audio message posted Monday on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser on Sunday lashed out at U.S. lawmakers, accusing them of using national security issues as a "They're going out there, they're unknowing of the facts, and they're making charges and allegations that are ...
Obama national security adviser says lawmakers should stop criticizing counterterrorism effort President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that lawmakers and others are using national security to score political points and defended the handling of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of ...
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in a troubled Nigerian city on Sunday condemned clashes between Christians and Muslims there which are said to have claimed more than 450 lives. "We are potentially a great country but we are messing up ...
The first thought, notes the Times of London, is that the increase in the threat level -- which had been at the middle level, " There's also the view that this is a general reaction to intelligence gleaned -- perhaps with renewed ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday defended its decision to charge a Nigerian man with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet in a criminal court amid fierce Republican criticism that doing so hampered obtaining intelligence from the ...
Study finds terrorists who turn away from violence often cite family influenceSince 2001, al-Qaida is believed to have dispatched three men to blow up American airliners. A new study suggests family ties may have played an important role.The report to be released ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence officer said on Wednesday that a group set up to interrogate terrorism suspects should have been used when a Nigerian man was arrested in Detroit on suspicion of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner.Director ...
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