Category Archives: Terrorists

Congress, White House at odds over defense bill

By doris | Published: December 2, 2011

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbc.msn.com Congress and the White House are headed for a showdown over a massive, $662 billion defense bill that would require the military to hold suspected terrorists linked to al-Qaida or its affiliates, even those captured on U.S. soil, and detain some indefinitely without trial. The Senate voted 93-7 Thursday night for [...]

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Homeland Security nears decision on terror warning system

By doris | Published: April 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is nearing a decision on its plan to replace the color-coded terror warning alert introduced after the attacks on 9/11 with a two tier detailed advisory system. “The plan is not yet final, as we will continue to meet and exercise with our partners [...]

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9/11 responders’ $4.2B aid package called miracle

By doris | Published: December 23, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK – It was called a “Christmas miracle,” but a last-minute compromise by Congress will provide a smaller aid package than originally envisioned to help victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the responders sickened as they worked in its smoldering ruins. The measure passed [...]

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Biden, Cheney spar via talk shows

By doris | Published: February 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden and his predecessor Dick Cheney sparred Sunday over terrorism and the Iraq war, duking it out on the most prominent of platforms: the political TV talk show. In separate appearances on different programs, Cheney called the Obama administration “dead wrong” about al Qaeda and [...]

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Groups slam Obama panel’s plan to hold some Guantanamo detainees

By doris | Published: January 24, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Washington (CNN) — A recommendation by the Obama administration’s Guantanamo Detainee Review Task Force to continue holding nearly 50 detainees indefinitely without charges sparked fury among civil liberties groups Friday. The recommendation, confirmed to CNN by two government sources not authorized to release the information, was completed by a task force under [...]

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Report on failed Christmas terror attack released

By doris | Published: January 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com The government had sufficient information to have potentially disrupted an al Qaeda plot to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day, but failed to identify Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab as a potential bomber, a White House review of the incident shows. In the end, the six-page report found, it was the inability of [...]

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Sources: Feds scrambling to find additional air marshals

By doris | Published: January 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The federal government is scrambling to find ways to comply with President Obama’s order to put more air marshals on flights after a botched Christmas Day airline terrorist attack, government sources have told CNN. Hundreds of additional marshals could be “loaned” from the Secret Service and U.S. Customs [...]

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Obama promises justice for Christmas terror plotters

By doris | Published: January 3, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — President Obama on Saturday linked the man accused in a botched Christmas Day airline bombing to an al Qaeda affiliate based in Yemen. The president pledged that everyone involved in the attack would be held accountable. He also highlighted his administration’s attempts to crack down on extremist enclaves in [...]

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Lessons learned from 9/11 terrorist attacks?

By doris | Published: January 1, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a commercial airliner has renewed questions of whether the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission have been taken seriously. In its 2004 report on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the commission warned that the Transportation Security Administration and Congress “must [...]

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Are dogs the key to bomb detection at airports?

By doris | Published: December 31, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Banning, California (CNN) — How could a man who allegedly had explosives hidden in his underwear have been allowed to board a plane headed for the United States? Anti-terrorism experts say it never should have happened, and that specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs could have provided a low-tech way to detect such [...]

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White House OKs expanding CIA drone program in Pakistan

By doris | Published: December 6, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The White House has authorized an expansion of the CIA’s program to attack suspected al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border with missiles shot from pilotless planes, a U.S. official confirms. The covert effort is part of the Obama administration’s plan to increase the [...]

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