Articles tagged with terrorism

Thu, May 24, 2012

Texas man sentence to 20 years for threats to aid terrorism

By Jim Forsyth

(Reuters) - A Muslim convert from Texas who once e-mailed a radical Muslim cleric saying he wanted "to do my part for ...

Sat, May 19, 2012

Anti-NATO activists weighed Obama HQ attack: prosecutors

By Eric Johnson

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three protesters arrested on terrorism-related charges ahead of the NATO-summit considered targeting U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election ...

Wed, May 02, 2012

Women in Secret Service scandal not tied to cartels, terrorism: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secret Service personnel implicated in a prostitution scandal in Colombia paid 9 of the 12 women they were involved with ...

Thu, March 29, 2012

Lawyers tested in court over anti-terrorism act

By Grant McCool

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for the Obama administration were put to the test by a U.S. judge on Thursday to ...

Thu, March 29, 2012

Author Shriver looks at terrorism with droll humor

By Andrea Burzynski

NEW YORK (Reuters) - International best-selling novelist Lionel Shriver's latest book is released on Thursday, but it isn't exactly new ...

Mon, March 19, 2012

France opens terrorism probe into shootings

PARIS (Reuters) - French anti-terrorism prosecutors will investigate the shooting of a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday and ...

Thu, December 22, 2011

California woman indicted on terrorism-support charges

By Brett Wolf

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Turkish national on terrorism-support charges for allegedly wiring ...

Tue, December 20, 2011

Jury finds Massachusetts man guilty of aiding al Qaeda

By Lauren Keiper

BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of conspiring to support al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages ...

Tue, November 22, 2011

Republicans bash Pakistan in debate

By John Whitesides

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican presidential hopefuls criticized U.S. policy toward Pakistan and called for placing sanctions on Iran's central ...

Mon, November 14, 2011

A decade on, U.S. terrorism tribunals are bogged down

By Jane Sutton

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The beige-carpeted room where an al Qaeda chief appeared last week charged with ...

Sun, September 25, 2011

British police charge six with terrorism offences

LONDON (Reuters) - Six men have been charged with terrorism offences a week after they were arrested in a police operation in Birmingham, Britain's ...

Fri, September 09, 2011

Clinton: al Qaeda behind unconfirmed threat to U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said that al Qaeda was behind a specific, credible but unconfirmed report of ...

Thu, September 08, 2011

New York cracks down after "credible" 9/11 threat

By Daniel Trotta and Phil Stewart

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York police amassed a display of force on Friday including checkpoints that snarled ...

Tue, September 06, 2011

Mexico "Twitter terrorism" breaches civil rights: lawyer

By Patrick Rucker

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has breached an international human rights charter by bringing terror charges against two social media users who ...

Fri, September 02, 2011

Pakistani man arrested on U.S. terrorism charges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pakistani-born man living in northern Virginia was charged with trying to help a militant group in his home country, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and ...

Mon, August 15, 2011

Five North Carolina terrorism suspects plead not guilty

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Five North Carolina men accused of forming a local ring with plans to assist others in waging holy war abroad ...

Wed, August 03, 2011

Former CIA official sees terrorism-cyber parallels

By Tabassum Zakaria

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Different wars for different times. Cofer Black, a former top CIA counterterrorism official, said on Wednesday he sees ...

Wed, August 03, 2011

Somalia heads terrorism risk, South Sudan in top 5: survey

By William Maclean

LONDON (Reuters) - Somalia is most at risk from terrorist attack, followed by Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan and the new nation of ...

Fri, June 17, 2011

Attorney General Holder defends terrorism trial plans

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the Obama administration's use of criminal courts to try terrorism suspects ...

Thu, May 26, 2011

State Department names Caucasus Islamist group to terrorism list

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday named an Islamist insurgent group in Russia's North Caucasus to its official list of terrorist groups ...

Thu, May 19, 2011

U.S. adds Gaza militant group to terrorism list

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday put the Army of Islam, a Palestinian militant group based in the Gaza Strip and blamed for ...

Mon, May 16, 2011

Scott Rudin Wants Jesse Eisenberg To Play The Zuckerberg Of Terrorism, Evan Kohlmann

Normally when someone gets a call from Scott Rudin, that person is prepared to say yes to whatever the Oscar winning producer asks of ...

Thu, May 12, 2011

New Yorkers pleased with police on terrorism: poll

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eighty-nine percent of New Yorkers approve of how police handle the threat of terrorism, reaffirming Police Commissioner Ray Kelly as the ...

Thu, May 12, 2011

Senate panel OKs anti-terrorism nominees

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Thursday approved two top Treasury officials to lead the department's anti-terrorism unit that aims to deprive insurgents ...

Tue, May 03, 2011

Pakistan, U.S. vow to fight terrorism after bin Laden death

By Zeeshan Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and the United States reaffirmed their commitment on Tuesday to fight Islamist militancy on Tuesday, a day after ...

Wed, April 20, 2011

U.S. unveils new terrorism alerts, scraps colors

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled a new warning system to alert Americans about specific terrorism threats, formally pushing the much-ridiculed color-coded ...

Mon, April 18, 2011

EU to review rules for anti-terrorism data logging

By Eva Dou

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union, responding to concerns over excessive state intrusion, is rethinking how it logs citizens' telephone calls and ...

Sat, April 02, 2011

Saudi says 5,080 convicted of terrorism crimes

RIYADH (Reuters) - A total of 5,080 people have been convicted of terrorism crimes in Saudi Arabia, where al Qaeda launched a campaign in ...

Thu, March 24, 2011

U.S. adds Saudi bombmaker to terrorism blacklist

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday added a Saudi bombmaker who is a key suspect in the 2010 al Qaeda parcel bomb plot ...

Thu, February 17, 2011

Congress votes to renew anti-terrorism powers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation to renew three expiring surveillance provisions of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act won final congressional approval on Thursday.

The Republican-led House of ...

Tue, February 15, 2011

Senate votes to renew anti-terrorism provisions

By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a bill on Tuesday to extend for 88 days three provisions of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act ...

Wed, February 09, 2011

North Carolina man guilty in terrorism case

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The leader of a small militant group in North Carolina pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to carry out acts ...

Tue, February 01, 2011

"Jihad Jane" pleads guilty in U.S. terrorism case

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman known as "Jihad Jane" pleaded guilty on Tuesday to plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist, providing ...

Mon, January 31, 2011

California Man Facing Terrorism Charges After Mosque Arrest

(Dearborn, MI)  --  A California man is facing a charge of making a terrorist threat after he was arrested outside the Islamic Center of America ...

Fri, January 28, 2011

U.S. woman due to change plea in terrorism case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman charged with providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a foreign nation is due to change ...

Thu, January 27, 2011

U.S. to provide specifics in future terrorism alerts

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new system to warn Americans about terrorism threats that will include specific ...

Thu, January 20, 2011

U.S. adds Pakistani Taliban member to terrorism list

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday added a senior member of the Pakistani Taliban to a terror blacklist, the State Department said.

U ...

Wed, January 19, 2011

Canada arrests man wanted on US terrorism charges

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canadian police have arrested a man accused of helping stage suicide bomb attacks in Iraq, including one that killed five U.S ...

Mon, December 27, 2010

Nine charged with plotting terrorism offences in UK

By Michael Roddy

LONDON (Reuters) - Nine men arrested in police raids a week ago have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in Britain ...

Sat, December 25, 2010

Dutch police arrest Somalis over terrorism plot

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested 12 Somalis on Christmas Eve on suspicion of plotting an imminent terrorist attack in the Netherlands.

The alleged plot ...

Thu, December 16, 2010

Bombing Suspect Charged With Terrorism

(Detroit, MI) -- The suspect accused of trying to explode a bomb on a Detroit-bound plane last Christmas was arraigned on more charges this morning ...

Fri, December 10, 2010

Attorney General Eric Holder defends anti-terrorism stings

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday strongly defended undercover sting tactics like those used last month to capture an Oregon man ...

Mon, November 29, 2010

U.S. terrorism verdict won't alter process: Holder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The acquittal of a man on all but one of the charges related to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in ...

Thu, November 18, 2010

Republican leader slams Obama over terrorism case

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans criticized the Obama administration on Thursday for pursuing terrorism cases in federal court after a jury acquitted a ...

Thu, November 18, 2010

Republican leader slams Obama over terrorism case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday slammed the Obama administration for the acquittal of a man once held at the ...

Wed, November 17, 2010

Jury clears Ghailani of major terrorism charges

By Basil Katz

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first suspect transferred from Guantanamo military prison to face a U.S. civilian trial was found not ...

Tue, November 02, 2010

Terrorism biggest global worry for U.S., UK, India: poll

By Karen Foster

LONDON (Reuters) - People in the United States, Britain and India see war and terrorism as the top global challenges while Chinese ...

Wed, October 27, 2010

"Hotel Rwanda" hero implicated in terrorism case

By Kezio-Musoke David

KIGALI (Reuters) - Paul Rusesabagina, the man who saved more than 1,200 people from genocide in events depicted in the Oscar-nominated ...

Wed, October 20, 2010

Republican gains may foil terrorism trials

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Expected Republican gains in Congress in next month's elections will further stymie President Barack Obama's efforts to ...

Mon, October 18, 2010

Terrorism, cyber attacks top UK security threats

By Mohammed Abbas and Rhys Jones

LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber attacks, terrorism, inter-state conflict and natural disasters are the top threats to British security, officials ...

Fri, October 15, 2010

NY man charged for fake tip on terrorism threat

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York man has been charged with lying to FBI agents about a fake terrorism plot in the United States, U ...

Sun, October 10, 2010

Blunt U.S. warnings to Pakistan prompted by terrorism fear

By David Alexander and Caren Bohan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's push on Pakistan to get tough on militants on its territory is prompted by ...

Mon, October 04, 2010

Terrorism alert tips U.S. hand, but just barely

By Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. warning to citizens of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe also sent a clear ...

Sun, October 03, 2010

U.S., UK raise terrorism threat level in Europe

By Caren Bohan and Kylie MacLellan

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain warned their citizens on Sunday of an increased risk of ...

Sun, September 19, 2010

Dutch arrest British terrorism suspect at Schiphol

By Aaron Gray-Block and Ben Berkowitz

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch military police arrested a British man of Somali descent at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on ...

Tue, August 17, 2010

US citizen Berenson says sorry for Peru terrorism

LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. citizen Lori Berenson publicly apologized on Monday for collaborating with a Marxist guerrilla group during Peru's civil war and ...

Mon, July 19, 2010

NY synagogues get increased anti-terrorism funds

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City nonprofit and religious groups including more than 25 synagogues will receive nearly $6 million in anti-terrorism grants, up ...

Thu, July 15, 2010

NY lawyer in terrorism case gets 10 year sentence

By Basil Katz

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lawyer who helped a terrorism suspect smuggle messages to his followers from prison was sentenced ...

Wed, July 14, 2010

NY lawyer in terrorism case faces 30-year sentence

By Basil Katz

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge will decide on Thursday whether a New York lawyer convicted of helping a terrorism ...

Fri, July 09, 2010

U.S., EU eye new anti-terrorism data-protection pact

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Commission hopes to begin talks with the United States this year on an agreement to protect personal data transferred across ...

Mon, June 28, 2010

U.S.: Cheonan sinking was not international terrorism

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sinking of a South Korean warship widely blamed on North Korea was not an act of international terrorism and does not ...

Mon, June 28, 2010

U.S.: Cheonan sinking was not international terrorism

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sinking of a South Korea warship widely blamed on North Korea does not by itself justify putting Pyongyang back on a ...

Mon, June 28, 2010

Five Americans appeal terrorism convictions in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Five American men sentenced last week to serve 10 years in a Pakistani prison on terrorism charges appealed against their conviction Monday ...

Thu, June 24, 2010

Pakistani court sentences Americans for terrorism

By Kamran Haider

SARGODHA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Five American students were sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in jail for contacting militants online and plotting ...

Mon, June 21, 2010

Supreme Court upholds terrorism support law

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law that bars Americans from providing support to foreign terrorist groups, rejecting ...

Sun, June 20, 2010

Napolitano: Monitoring Internet Needed to Fight Terrorism

WASHINGTON D.C. (WTAQ) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications. FOX News reports Napolitano saying it's ...

Thu, June 03, 2010

EU and U.S. eye human rights in terrorism prevention

By Justyna Pawlak

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Human rights and respect for Islam and religious differences should play a vital role in efforts to combat terrorism ...

Thu, May 13, 2010

Thai court orders Thaksin arrested on terrorism charges

By Nopporn Wong-Anan

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court issued orders on Tuesday to arrest former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges in connection ...

Tue, May 11, 2010

Government mulls putting Pakistan Taliban on terrorism list

By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department said on Tuesday it was looking into putting the Pakistani Taliban, the group tied to the ...

Tue, May 04, 2010

UPDATED: NYC Bomb Suspect to face Terrorism Charges

NEW YORK, NY (WTAQ) - The suspect in the attempted car bombing in Times Square faces federal charges including plotting and carrying out an act ...

Fri, April 16, 2010

Special Report: U.S. shifts gears to tackle homespun terrorism

By Nick Carey

DEARBORN, Michigan (Reuters) - At a recent congressional hearing on homespun terrorism, Indiana Representative Mark Souder tore into a little-known Los Angeles ...

Mon, March 29, 2010

Obama condemns Moscow bombs as heinous terrorism

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday condemned suicide bombings in Moscow that killed at least 37 people and injured 65 on ...

Thu, March 18, 2010

"Jihad Jane" pleads not guilty to terrorism

By Jon Hurdle

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of providing material support ...

Wed, March 17, 2010

FBI cautious on rules for terrorism questioning

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to be cautious about imposing strict rules on how and whether ...

Wed, March 17, 2010

Five Americans charged with terrorism in Pakistan

By Kamran Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court formally charged Wednesday five young Americans of plotting terrorism in the country, their lawyer said, in ...

Fri, March 05, 2010

No terrorism link to Pentagon shooting: police

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California man who was fatally shot after opening fire on security officers outside the Pentagon appears to have been acting alone ...

Tue, February 23, 2010

Supreme Court considers terrorism support law

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned whether a law that bars Americans from providing support to foreign terrorist groups ...

Sun, February 14, 2010

Biden rejects Cheney attacks over terrorism fight

By Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden rejected assertions by Dick Cheney on Sunday that the Obama administration was soft on terrorism ...

Sat, February 13, 2010

U.S. reviewing terrorism suspects procedures: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is reviewing a plan that would require the Justice Department and FBI to consult with the intelligence community before ...

Mon, February 01, 2010

Obama seeks money for terrorism trials, prison

By Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed spending $73 million to prosecute the five accused September 11 conspirators and one ...

Sun, January 31, 2010

Egypt arrests 26 suspected of plotting terrorism

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has arrested 26 suspects who the prosecutor said belonged to a cell of militant group Islamic Jihad and were plotting "terrorist ...

Wed, January 20, 2010

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

By Michelle Nichols

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States has won convictions in 89 percent of cases involving terrorism charges brought since the September ...

Fri, January 15, 2010

Fort Hood shooting was terrorism, U.S. says

By Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The shooting rampage at a U.S. Army base in November was "an act of terrorism," an Obama administration ...

Mon, January 11, 2010

Denmark adds terrorism charge to cartoonist attack

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish prosecutors have added a terrorism charge to two charges of attempted murder against a Somali man who broke into the home ...

Fri, January 08, 2010

Angry Cuba demands removal from U.S. terrorism list

By Jeff Franks

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba angrily rejected on Friday U.S. accusations that it supports terrorist groups and demanded its removal from a ...

Thu, December 31, 2009

Pakistan seeks terrorism charges against Americans

By Kamran Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist ...

Tue, November 17, 2009

Lawyer in terrorism case ordered to prison

By Christine Kearney

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld on Tuesday a disbarred New York lawyer's conviction on charges of ...

Thu, November 05, 2009

Two charged in Massachusetts terrorism case

By Ros Krasny

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal prosecutors have charged two men with providing material support to terrorists and other crimes, including conspiracy ...

Wed, September 30, 2009

U.S. officials worry about homegrown terrorism plots