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U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 24, 2007 @ 12:20pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as American icons and infringing on people's privacy. Unlike police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Oct 20, 2007 @ 5:28am neoform

Reuters -- U.S. lawmakers on Thursday offered apologies to a Canadian citizen who was deported by U.S. counterterrorism officials to Syria, where he says he was imprisoned and tortured. Lawmakers from both parties also called on the Bush administration to apologi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 7:31am neoform

CNN -- Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group. This comes despite the fact.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 10:01am neoform

MSNBC -- A bomb was left in a duffel bag in the parking lot of a clinic where abortions are performed, but a bomb squad safely detonated it. An employee found the package Wednesday in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center, authorities said. The im.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Several dozen terrorism suspects believed to have been held at secret CIA prisons are still missing without trace, and the United States should reveal what has happened to them, a leading rights group said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Pre.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 15, 2007 @ 2:11pm mrmdc

The Register -- Brits planning a trip to the US will now have to surrender all 10 of their digits to the authorities for fingerprinting. The prints will then be added to the same FBI database which stores the prints of convicted criminals... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 5, 2006 @ 8:34am neoform

MSNBC -- Bassem Youssef is the FBI's highest-ranking Arab-American agent. He's fluent in Arabic, ran the FBI's offices in Saudi Arabia and is a terrorism expert. In fact, Youssef's undercover work helping to infiltrate the terror organization of the so-called.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 1:05pm mrmdc

Associated Press -- Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detaine.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 2:37pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- The nation is preparing for its biggest terrorism exercise ever next week when three fictional "dirty bombs" go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. Yet eve.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

Alter Net -- From torture to warrantless wiretapping, the Bush administration's approach to terrorism has defied legal standards at all levels. Back in September 2002, Maher Arar was passing through JFK airport in New York. He was expecting a simple transit. A Syri.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 7:24am neoform

ABC News -- In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly inclu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 7, 2007 @ 1:30pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Khawaja's case is the first being heard under new terrorism provisions of Canada's criminal code. Anti-Terrorism Act He faces seven charges under new laws introduced as part of the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act. Khawaja had argued that he ha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 3:55pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative opened the nation's first "terror-free" gas station... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 30, 2006 @ 11:10am mrmdc

CBS News -- A computer security student says terrorists would have no trouble getting around the government's no-fly list, and to prove it he set up a Web site that prints fake boarding passes... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 25, 2006 @ 2:08pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- A former CIA operative wanted for trial for acts of terrorism against Cuba is stuck in legal limbo in a Texas jail. Luis Posada, 78, who has allegedly taken part in plots to assassinate Fidel Castro and bomb Havana hotels, is being described as a test cas.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 19, 2006 @ 12:17am neoform

Reuters -- The Department of Homeland Security warned officials on Wednesday in seven U.S. cities about a dirty-bomb threat to National Football League stadiums but does not believe the threat is credible, officials said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 16, 2006 @ 4:53pm neoform

Reuters -- A New York attorney convicted of aiding terrorism by helping a client smuggle messages to militant followers was sentenced on Monday to 28 months in prison... Read More