Tag: Terrorism & Security
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Attackers Execute 45 in Revenge Attacks in Pakistan
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Tuesday's killings follow the assassination of a member of the country's ruling Muttahida Qaumi Movement party on Monday.
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Top Officials Respond to WikiLeaks Posting
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
WikiLeaks.org released some 91,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan on Sunday.
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Twin Blasts Shake Iranian Shiite Mosque
Friday, July 16, 2010
Sunni insurgents reportedly carried out a double mosque bombing at a Shiite mosque on Thursday in Zahedan, Iran.
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Suicide Blasts Kill 62 in Northwest Pakistan
Friday, July 09, 2010
Two suicide bombings killed 62 people in the Mohmand tribal region which lies in Pakistan near the Afghan border on Friday. The attack also wounded more than 100 people, making it one of the deadliest in Pakistan in 2010.
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Queens Imam Ahmad Afzali Deported
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
A Queens imam has been deported after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against the New York City transit system. The lawyer for Ahmad Afzali says the imam and his wife left for Saudi Arabia on Monday.
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NJ Men Held for Trying to Join Jihadist Group
Monday, June 07, 2010
Authorities arrested two New Jersey men at John F. Kennedy airport on Sunday before they boarded flights to Egypt en route to Somalia. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte were charged with conspiring to commit an act of international terrorism for making their way to Somalia to join an alleged jihadist group.
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Al-Qaeda's No. 3 Leader Believed Dead
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Mustafa al-Yazid, Al-Qaeda's number three leader after Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, has been killed.
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Attacks in Lahore Kill Dozens
Friday, May 28, 2010
At least 80 people have been killed and dozens more wounded, following orchestrated attacks in Pakistan today.
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Eastern Indian Train Derailed, Killing 70
Friday, May 28, 2010
Suspected Maoist rebels derailed an overnight passenger train Friday in eastern India, triggering a crash with an oncoming cargo train that killed at least 71 people and injured about 200 more, officials said.
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Insurgents Strike Bagram Air Base
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
One American contractor, nine service members and 10 others are dead following an attack on the Bagram Air Base 30 miles north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Kabul Car Bomb Kills More than a Dozen
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The car bomb targeted a military convoy today. Six NATO service members are among those dead.
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DHS to Cut NYC Counterterrorism Funds
Thursday, May 13, 2010
New York Senator Chuck Schumer has said Homeland Security money for mass transit will be slashed by $42 million, or 27 percent, while port security funds have been cut by $11.2 million, or 25 percent.
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Holder Says Pakistani Taliban Behind Bomb
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Faisal Shahzad is the only suspect for for the failed bomb attempt.
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Authorities Arrest Man for Times Sq. Car Bomb
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Federal agents and police have arrested a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan for driving a failed car bomb into Times Square.
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WQXR's The Washington Report
Monday, May 03, 2010
David Sanger, of The NYT, talks about security in New York and the UN's nonproliferation summit.
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NYPD Releases Bomb Surveillance Tape
Monday, May 03, 2010
Police have spoken to the registered owner of the vehicle used as a homemade car bomb in the heart of Times Square, and say they have ruled him out as a suspect in the case.
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NYPD Investigates Failed Times Square Car Bomb
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Two vendors alerted police Saturday of smoke coming from the back of a dark-colored Nissan Pathfinder.
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Britain's Ambassador to Yemen Survives Attack
Monday, April 26, 2010
Britain's ambassador to Yemen has survived what's believed to be a suicide attack in the capitol of Sanaa today.
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Trial of 9-11 Plotter May Still Be In NYC
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder says New York City is still "not off the table" as a place to try alleged 9-11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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Baghdad Blasts Kill At Least 49 People
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
At least 49 people have died today in Iraq, following seven explosions across Baghdad. More than 160 were wounded.
