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Iraqi Cash
Is Funding
Al Qaeda

Bin Laden search finds money trail leading from various sources

May 21, 07 4:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - A stepped-up CIA effort to hunt down Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan hasn't succeeded in locating the  terrorist, the LA Times reports, but it has uncovered evidence that cash is being funneled from Iraq to keep Al Qaeda alive and well. "Iraq is a big moneymaker for them,"... More »

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Iraq • CIA • terrorism • Pakistan • money • war • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Top Taliban Commander
Is Killed

Mullah Dadullah ordered bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, beheadings

May 13, 07 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban's top military commander was killed in Southern Afghanistan, and his body  displayed, covered by a pink sheet, in Kandahar today. An amputee whose body was recognizable in part by a missing leg, Mullah Dadullah was killed in a joint operation by Afghan security forces and American and NATO... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • terrorism • Mullah Dadullah • Kandahar • terrorist

Fort Dix Plot Draws Out 'Lone-Wolf' Terrorists

With Al-Qaeda lying low, officials fear
a new crop of home-grown jihadists 

May 9, 07 11:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The foiled Fort Dix plot revealed the one thing U.S. intelligence agencies least wanted to see, report Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball: evidence of an emerging home-grown jihadist movement. The would-be terrorists were "lone-wolf" operators, who drew inspiration from online videos and instruction manuals rather than taking orders... More »

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terrorism • jihad • terror plots • Fort Dix • terrorist

NRA Backs Gun Sales To Terror Suspects

Opposes bill giving AG discretion
to ban sales to people on terror
watch lists

May 4, 07 10:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The NRA is urging the Bush administration to oppose a bill that bans suspected terrorists from buying guns. In a letter to AG Alberto Gonzales, the group's executive director objects that the bill, introduced in the Senate last week, "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Justice • Attorney General • NRA • gun control • Virginia Tech • gun sales • terrorist • Second Amendment

Terrorist Attacks Spiked in '06

Attacks rise 25% percent, driven by

Apr 30, 07 10:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Terrorist attacks rose 25 percent in 2006, with much of the rise attributable to Iraq, according to a State Department report released today. Terrorism claimed over 20,000 lives in 2006—two-thirds of those in Iraq—up sharply from 2005, raising doubts about the short-term success of the continued War... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • War on Terror • terrorism • Sudan • State Department • weapon • chemical weapons • terrorist • Iraq war

Padilla Jury Selection Begins

Judge rules that prosecutors can mention 9/11—but can't link Padilla directly

Apr 16, 07 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jury selection began today in the trial against accused terrorist Jose Padilla, with  Judge Marcia Cooke ruling that prosecutors may make references to the 9/11 attacks, but not suggest that Padilla and his co-defendants were linked to them. "Any idea, through inference or otherwise, that these defendants are connected... More »

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torture • Jose Padilla • trial • September 11 • bomb • terrorist

Innocent Customers
Caught in Terrorist Dragnet

Companies refuse business to partial name matches on OFAC's list

Mar 27, 07 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hassans, Muhammeds, and other men with Arabic-sounding names  are being turned away when they try to buy cars, homes, and even exercise equipment. Responding to post-9/11 requirements to screen customers against terrorist lists, companies are turning down buyers with even partial name matches rather than risk stiff fines and prison... More »

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national security • terrorism • OFAC • mistaken identity • discrimination • terrorist lists • terrorist

Tribesmen Turn on Al-Qaeda

Mar 21, 07 10:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifty people, including a group of children stranded aboard a school bus, have been killed in fighting between al-Qaeda terrorists and local tribesmen in one of Pakistan’s lawless regions on the border with Afghanistan. Taliban leaders, who have ties to both groups, are trying to broker a truce, according... More »

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Afghanistan • Pakistan • Pashtun • terrorist • Waziristan • Osama bin Laden • militant • al-Qaeda

New Terrorist Leader Trains
In Lebanon

Shakir al-Abssi boasts 150 operatives at his base in a refugee camp

Mar 16, 07 11:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new terrorist leader, Shakir al-Abssi, has emerged to pick up where Al Qaeda left off, assembling small teams to strike at Americans from his base in Lebanon.  His militant Islamic group, called Fatah al Islam, boasts 150 members who operate freely because Lebanese officials claim they have no... More »

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terrorism • Lebanon • Fatah al Islam • Shaker al Abssi • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda

Prisoner Sheds Harsh Light on "Black Sites"

Testimony undercuts Bush claims about CIA secret facilities for terror suspects

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Details about "black sites"--the network of secret internment facilities for terror suspects the CIA ran until last summer—are emerging as former prisoners tell their stories. The Washington Post interviews Marwan Jabour, an accused al-Qaeda paymaster who spent 28 months in two facilities—where he was drugged, burned,... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • rendition • torture • human rights • terrorist • black sites • internment • Marwan Jabour • Geneva Convention

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