Topic: U.S. Department of Justice

'JihadJane' arrested for terror recruiting

A US woman operating online under the name "US authorities said middle-aged Pennsylvania resident Colleen LaRose, who was arrested in October 2009, spent more than a year networking with would-be attackers around the world.The Justice Department unsealed the indictment against LaRose just ...
A US woman operating online under the name "US authorities said middle-aged Pennsylvania resident Colleen LaRose, who was arrested in October 2009, spent more than a year networking with would-be attackers around the world.LaRose, born in 1963, is also accused of recruiting ...

US 'JihadJane' arrested for terror recruiting

A US woman operating online under the name "US authorities said Tuesday middle-aged Pennsylvania resident Colleen LaRose, who was arrested in October 2009, spent more than a year networking with would-be attackers around the world.LaRose, born in 1963, is also accused of ...
US authorities charged an American woman known as "The Justice Department unsealed the indictment Tuesday against Colleen LaRose, who was arrested in October 2009, hours after Irish police arrested seven people accused of plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist.She is also accused ...

U.S. officials defend handling of airline bomb case

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 ...

U.S. wins 9 out of 10 terrorism cases since 2001

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States has won convictions in 89 percent of cases involving terrorism charges brought since the September 11, 2001 attacks, a study by New York University's Center on Law and Security found on Wednesday.With the self-professed September ...
Year of Terror: 2009 saw more major terror defendants than any year since 9/11Federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism in 2009 than in any year since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, providing evidence of what experts call a rise in ...

Two charged by U.S. in plot to attack Danish paper

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Chicago men have been arrested and charged with plotting to attack a Danish newspaper whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed -- including one with him wearing a bomb in a turban -- led to deadly protests by Muslims, ...
The father of a Jordanian man charged with trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper in the United States insisted on Friday that his son was innocent and the accusation was " "His son Hosam, 19, was arrested on Thursday after planting ...
The father of a Jordanian man charged with trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper in the United States insisted on Friday that his son was innocent and the accusation was " "His son Hosam, 19, was arrested on Thursday after planting ...