As the war on terrorism continues to move beyond Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States and other countries remain on alert for more acts of terror. The Bush Administration, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Senate, and Department...
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As the war on terrorism continues to move beyond Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States and other countries remain on alert for more acts of terror. The Bush Administration, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Senate, and Department of Justice have all played a role in the current bedate about how to best protect citizens from terrorists while also protecting civil liberties and democratic freedoms. Here you can discuss politics and news associated with the "war on terror".
The Philippine government on Monday vowed to take revenge against Al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants after they dumped the severed head of a kidnapped school principal at a petrol station. The head of Gabriel Canizares was found inside a bag at the petrol station on the restive southern island of Jolo at dawn, 22 days after he was abducted, but the rest of his body remained missing, local police said. The Abu Sayyaf had demanded a two-million-peso (42,000-dollar) ransom for the release of... Read Full Story
Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts. The changes in the terror group's training operations — often hidden inside walled compounds deep in Pakistan's mountains — have made them increasingly difficult to target by U.S. intelligence forces as they have stepped... Read Full Story
Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines beheaded a schoolteacher after kidnapping him last month, officials said Monday. The severed head of Gabriel Canizares, 36, was left in a bag at a gas station on Jolo Island, three weeks after suspected Abu Sayyaf militants stopped a passenger minibus and dragged him away in front of his colleagues, said regional military commander Maj. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino. The militants, notorious for bombings, ransom kidnappings and... Read Full Story
Pakistani police shot dead a would-be suicide bomber who approached a checkpoint in the capital Islamabad shouting "Allah Akhbar!" late Sunday, senior officials said. Police claimed the man came from South Waziristan, the district in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Al-Qaeda-infested Afghan border where the military is pursuing a major operation against the Taliban. "A double-cabin pick-up came at F-11 checkpost of Islamabad police and dropped off this suicide bomber on the opposite... Read Full Story
The United States has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine. The journalist wrote that during meetings with current and former officials in Washington and Pakistan, he was told that the agreements would allow specially trained American units to provide added security for the Pakistani arsenal in case of a... Read Full Story
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“ All we have to do is send two mujahedeen [warriors] to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth saying ‘al-Qa’ida’ in order to make generals race there, and we cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses – without their achieving anything of note!” –Osama bin Laden, November 1, 2004, CNN
“ I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in... Read Full Story
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani soldiers entered the Taliban headquarters in South Waziristan on Friday, the military said, as gunmen wounded an army brigadier and his driver in a drive-by shooting in the capital. The army went on the offensive in South Waziristan, a lawless ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border, on October 17, aiming to root out Pakistani Taliban militants behind a wave of violence in urban areas. The offensive is closely watched by the United States and other powers... Read Full Story
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani soldiers entered the Taliban headquarters in South Waziristan on Friday, the military said, as gunmen wounded an army brigadier and his driver in a drive-by shooting in the capital. The army went on the offensive in South Waziristan, a lawless ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border, on October 17, aiming to root out Pakistani Taliban militants behind a wave of violence in urban areas. The offensive is closely watched by the United States and other powers... Read Full Story
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh police have arrested three Islamist militants, including a suspected activist of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, who were plotting to attack U.S. interests in the country, a senior police officer said on Friday. "We have arrested the three from Chittagong port city as they were making plans to hit U.S. targets," the officer, who asked not to be identified, told reporters. Lashkar-e-Taiba is the group blamed for last year's assault on Mumbai. The U.S. embassy... Read Full Story
Islamist militants Wednesday shot dead two women teachers in Pakistan's tribal belt, where ground troops backed by jets stormed into a strategic Taliban bastion and fought bloody street battles. The military said 30 "terrorists" were killed during fierce fighting, focused mostly in the crucial Taliban strongholds of Ladha and Sararogha in a third week of an offensive in South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan. Pakistan has vowed to crush Tehreek-e-Taliban in South Waziristan, part of the... Read Full Story
