Terrorism

Three Members of Al-Shabaab, The Group Behind Nairobi Mall Attack, To Be Tried In N.Y.

When Ali Yasin Ahmen, Madhi Hashi, and Mohamed Yusef appeared in the Brooklyn courthouse last December, people were confused. They were confused because the men were Somali; two of them had Swedish citizenship and the other held citizenship in the U.K. They were apprehended in Africa, en route to ... More >>

The Attacks of 26/11 is an Exploitative Docudrama

Feds Say Failed Attack On Federal Reserve Was "On Behalf Of Al-Qaeda;" Bomber's Other Target Was "High-Ranking Govt. Official"

Federal authorities thwarted a plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in lower Manhattan this morning, in a would-be attack that was "on behalf of Al-Qaeda," the U.S. Attorney's Office announced this afternoon.(Read the federal criminal complaint below).According to the feds, the failed bomber ... More >>

Business Finally Picking Up One Year After 9/11 Memorial Opening

This morning marked the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 men, women and children, most of whom died in the city's Financial District at the World Trade Center. Security felt tighter this year as streets were cordoned off and NYPD directed thousand ... More >>

Bloomberg, Kelly Say NYPD Foiled 14 Terror Plots; Not So, Article Counters

For years, Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Ray Kelly have claimed that the NYPD has thwarted 14 terror attacks since 2001. And many people actually believed them. The problem is it's not really true. In fact, as the internet news site Propublica notes, "the figure overstates the number of serious, ... More >>

'The Sphere' To Leave Battery Park

"The Sphere" -- a sculpture that survived the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center -- will leave Battery Park at the end of the month, according to the Associated Press. The sculpture sat in the plaza between the two towers and became a memorial after it was recovered from the rubble. Despite an o ... More >>

9|11: The Winners

For some people, the terrorist attacks have been a gold mine

9/11 Survivors Will Not Be Allowed to Attend Ground Zero Commemoration

​This year's commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero -- which marks the 10th, and will be held for the first time at the new 9/11 memorial -- will be the first to exclude survivors who escaped the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, reports DNA Info. The World Trade Center Survivors' Netwo ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Wanted to Rename Al Qaeda

​According to a letter discovered in the raid that led to his death, Osama Bin Laden was considering alternate names for his terrorist group because he felt that "Al Qaeda" had taken on a bad connotation for killing too many Muslims. He wanted to pick a name that would "convince Muslims worldw ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Eyed 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11 For Terrorist Attack

​A "rush examination" of the evidence gathered from Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan reveals that the Al Qaeda leader was still involved in thinking up future terrorist attacks, despite now-outdated guesses from analysts that he may have become more of a figurehead in recent years ... More >>

Al Qaeda Confirms Death of Osama Bin Laden

​Reuters reports this morning, via the SITE monitoring service, that Al Qaeda used the internet on Friday to confirm the death of their leader. "Al-Qaeda released a statement on jihadist forums on May 6, 2011, confirming the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden," SITE said. Previously, Al Qaed ... More >>

There Were 62 'Suspicious Package' Reports in New York City After Osama Bin Laden's Death

​The "suspicious package" reported in Times Square on Monday minutes after a Ground Zero news conference about the killing of Osama Bin Laden -- later deemed to be a bag of trash -- was one of 62 reports on Monday alone. "The daily totals typically spike when terrorist plot makes headlines her ... More >>

Barack Obama Will Visit Ground Zero on Thursday

​President Barack Obama will be in New York City on Thursday to visit Ground Zero, where Osama Bin Laden's September 11 attack brought down the World Trade Center towers almost ten years ago. Though no schedule for the trip has been announced, New York 1 confirms that Obama will meet with fami ... More >>

Moscow Cops Find Suicide Bomber's Head in Airport Rubble

Cops in Moscow think they've found the head of the suicide bomber who blew up the city's busiest airport today, killing 35 people and wounding at least 168 others. As a Russia Today talking head puts it, it's "the head of a man wth an Arabic appearance." The mid-afternoon (Moscow time) attack "spr ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Poster From FBI Doesn't Even Mention 9/11

FBI's poster of Bin Laden.​The FBI's Ten Most Wanted list of course includes Osama bin Laden, but it doesn't say he's wanted for murdering several thousand New Yorkers on 9/11. What gives? Why the pussyfooting around such an obvious fact?

Bin Laden's Own in the Powerful Documentary The Oath

The ghosts of 9/11 in Laura Poitras's outstanding film

Giuliani Criticizes Obama for Allowing Crotch-Bomber "Domestic Attack" When Bush Had None (um, 9/11?)

Rudolph Giuliani went on Good Morning America and announced that "we had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama," seeming to forget the World Trade Center attacks that made him America's Mayor in 2001. Interviewer George Stephanopoulos did not correct him at the time. Cue Darry ... More >>

White House Crotch-Bomber Report: "The Dots Were Never Connected"

The White House report on the attempted underwear-bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (pictured) on a Delta airliner during Christmas contains a lot of praise for America's "counter-terrorism community" -- in the summary, their "excellent analytic work" is lauded, and it is asserted that this w ... More >>

Crotch-Bomber Abdulmutallab Indicted by Grand Jury on Six Counts

​From what we'd been hearing, we thought the Obama Administration was going to let Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab off with a revoked visa, leaving him to romp and play. But today the foiled Christmas crotch-bombing has been indicted by a grand jury in Detroit, and will be tried for his lap immolati ... More >>

Wish You Were Here: Rightbloggers Celebrate Obama's Vacation With Attacks, Photo Analysis

President Obama has just come back from his Hawaii vacation, but for rightbloggers it was as if he never went away. They continued to hammer Obama's terrorism policy in his absence, recycling old tropes and coming up with with some fascinating new ones. When seven members of the CIA were kille ... More >>

The Alarming Record of the F.B.I.'s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot

Guantanamo's Final Days

The infamous Prison Camp ain't dead yet

Mumbai mastermind reported captured

Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? The US Can't Decide about Bangladeshi Immigrant Sachin Karmakar

Welcome to America, freedom fighter. Now go stuff yourself.

Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh

Giuliani's business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11's mastermind escape the FBI

Rudy's Pants On Fire

Secret testimony shows that Rudy's stump speech is inflated, at best

Scenes from Outside the 9/11 Memorial

The Wit and Wisdom of Bernie Kerik

Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record

The Horror of Babylon

Slow Noose Day: 'Visa Loophole' Lets Colored Brits into U.S.

A Flight to Remember

Bloody Tuesday: Paul Greengrass's visceral cine-memorial stakes its claim to authenticity

Moussaoui's Guilt: Less Profound Than Airline's Own Incompetence?

Moussaoui's Guilt: Less Profound Than the FBI's Own Negligence?

Dubai's Port of No Return

Don't jump to conclusions, but there are ties between the UAE, bin Laden, and the Taliban

Those So-Called Terrorists

Seton Hall study: Guantanamo filled with hapless proles

State of the Union: Why Those Terrorists Got Away

Bush skips uncomfortable details on wiretap program

Pursuing Terrorists in the Great Desert

The U.S. Military's $500 Million Gamble to Prevent the Next Afghanistan

Pursuing Terrorists in the Great Desert

The U.S. Military's $500 Million Gamble to Prevent the Next Afghanistan

Wiretaps: Two Who Got Away

President Bush—unawares?—trumpets botched case

Still Dusted

Clinton, Nadler call for investigation of EPA response to 9-11

Bush Plays al Qaeda Card Again

Bin Laden and company get big roles in 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq'

Flashback: 9-11 Panel Got Its Own Failing Grades

Key questions left unanswered in hijacked 9-11 probe

Open and Shut

Four years later, we still have ten big questions

The Phantom Menace

Unclear and present danger: Three-part polemic constructs novel narrative of neo-con game

9-11 Probers Leave Questions Behind

Feeling Insecure

There's no defense for some of the government's defense plans, even for D.C.

The 10 Ways Bush Screwed New York

A presidential potpourri of cuts, blunders, stonewalls, deceptions, and distractions

Errors of Commission

The hijacking of the probe into the 9-11 hijackers

Morning Report 7/14/05
Muffled No Longer, Rowley Runs for Congress