War On Terror

Millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam Given Longer Sentence For LAX Bomb Plot

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Wed, 10/24/2012 - 17:29

The bomber who crossed into the U.S. near Seattle plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport, Ahmed Ressam, was re-sentenced to to 37 years in prison.

He had been sentenced to a shorter term, but prosecutors argued that part of the deal was that he was suppose to help U.S. authorities with information about Al-Qaeda and other members.

Sometime in 2003 he stopped talking to officials after he had been placed in solitary-confinement for 23 hours a day.

Al Qaeda Suspects Arrested In Spain In Plot To Bomb European Cities

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 10:06

The Spanish Interior, Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, has announced that Spain has arrested two Al Qaeda suspects in Ciudad Real who were planning to blow up buildings on Spain and other European countries. He added that they were from ex-soviet block countries but did not give specifics.

Diaz went on to say that they were likely heading to France and that they had also searched the home of a Turkish man.

"It is one of the most important operations against al Qaeda to date to be carried out on an international level," he said.

Judge Orders Al Qaeda To Pay $6 Billion For 9/11 Terrorist Attack On World Trade Center

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 14:19

New York City -

Following a judgement last year by U.S. District Judge George Daniels, a Federal Magistrate has ordered Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Iran to pay $6 billion in damages to relatives of the September 11 attacks in new York and Pennsylvania.

Magistrate Frank Maas was ordered to determine the value of the damages after Judge Daniel concluded that Al Qaeda was responsible and failed t show up in court after insurance companies had filed suit.

Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton Calls Afghanistan A Major Ally

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 11:23

(From the AP)

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Obama administration on Saturday declared Afghanistan the United States’ newest “major non-NATO ally,” an action designed to facilitate close defense cooperation after U.S. combat troops withdraw from the country in 2014 and as a political statement of support for Afghanistan’s long-term stability.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made the announcement shortly after arriving in the country for talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Supreme Court Rejects 7 Guantanamo Detainee's Appeal Over Use Of Evidence At Trial

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Mon, 06/11/2012 - 13:55

Washington, D.C. -

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from seven Gitmo Detainees who argued that an appeals court was in error in allowing second-hand hearsay evidence to be used at their trial and that it violated a 2008 Supreme Court ruling that ordered a a meaningful review of the lawfulness of their detention.

Attorney's for the detainees said that based on the rules of the trial court, it weighted anything the government said, implied or showed as significantly more authoritative than experts the defense might call upon.

Al-Shabaab Terrorist Group Offers 10 Camels As Bounty For Obama, 2 For Hillary Clinton

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 11:15

Washington, D.C. -

In an apparent attempt to retaliate to the U.S. government's bounty of several million for information leading to the capture or killing of Al-Shabaab terrorist group leaders Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, the groups spokesperson and fundraiser and Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed, the founder of the Islamist group in Somalia, Al-Shabaab has offered 10 camels in a bounty for the killing of President Barack Obama.

U.S. Drone Strike Kills Al-Qaeda's 2nd In Command In Pakistan

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 17:38

Washington, D.C. -

A U.S. unmanned drone strike has killed Al-Qaeda's second in command in Pakistan, Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a hideout in North Waziristan in Pakistan's tribal areas according to the White House Press secretary, Jay Carney, who described it as a "major blow".

The U.S. has maintained drone strike in Pakistan despite the objections of the Pakistani government, and there is a growing sense the Pakistan is no longer an active ally, but merely a symbolic one at most, with so many terrorist and terror leaders being found and killed inside Pakistan.

Pakistan Sentences Doctor That Helps U.S. Kill Bin Laden To 33 Years In Prison

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 11:23

Pakistan has sentenced Dr. Shakil Afridi to 33 years in prison under its Frontier Crimes Regulations, FCR, for helping the United States hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.

Afridi ran a vaccination clinic for the public and also helped to quietly collect DNA samples in Abbottabad of the population for the CIA's search for bin Laden for a decade. Human rights groups have called the FCR abuse because it is a special set of regulations that govern the restive tribal region of Pakistan where clan leaders and militants rule.

British Aid Worker' Body Found Beheaded Along Roadside In Quetta Pakistan; More US Drone Strikes

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 10:00

The body of Khalil Rasjed Dale was found beheaded and wrapped in a plastic sheet along a road near Baluchistan Pakistan. Dale was a ICRC and British Red Cross aid worker who ran a humanitarian aid camp.

His name had been written on the plastic with a black marker along with a note that said his ransom had not been paid. He had been originally been kidnapped in January.

According to Pakistan police reports, Dale's head was cut off by a small sharp knife that sawed through the neck.

Pakistan To Reopen Supply Routes To NATO

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 15:34

Ending a five month closure, Pakistan's parliament has voted to reopen crucial supply routes into Afghanistan to NATO forces.

Last November Pakistan closed supply routes into Afghanistan after a NATO air raid on a Pakistani Army border post ended up killed more than 20 Pakistani soldiers.

The vote was part of an overall vote on resuming NATO relations, but it also banned NATO from moving ammunition through Pakistan.