The BBC reports Australian police arrested 16 people in Sydney and Melbourne preventing a "potentially catastrophic attack." Chemicals, weapons, and computers were seized in raids on 23 houses in Sydney and Melbourne Tuesday, following a 16-month investigation. "I'm satisfied that

The Associated Press reminds us yesterday's tragic earthquake struck where the world's most wanted terrorist avoids justice, but maybe not mother nature's wrath: No evidence suggests that the deadly earthquake that rocked Pakistan on Saturday injured or killed the world's

At this hour, CNN, MSNBC, and FNC are reporting that there will be an alert briefing by the New York City Police and Mayor addressing "unspecified threats for NYC subways". The briefing scheduled to air at 5:30pm EDT. Newsday (via

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Reuters reports a Yemeni man was sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $750,000 on Thursday for conspiring to support and fund al Qaeda and Hamas: Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed, 32, was convicted by a federal jury on March

Reuters reports that the imprisoned founder of a radical Islamic group and three followers were indicted on Wednesday for plotting attacks on Los Angeles-area military facilities and synagogues, the Israeli consulate and El Al airlines. The four men had purchased

Agence France-Presse reports that a prominent London-based militant Islamic scholar has issued a fatwa banning suicide operations: "To my mind, these operations are closer to suicide than to martyrdom-seeking, and they are taboo and not permissible" for a number of

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A German Court today found Mounir el-Motassadeq guilty of membership of the Hamburg terror cell that took part in the 9/11 attacks and sentenced him to seven years. El-Motassadeq was accused of providing logistical help to the Hamburg al Qaeda

The BBC reports a missile was fired at the USS Ashland docked in the Jordanian port of Aqaba: "I can confirm that a rocket flew over the bow of USS Ashland and the rocket impacted in the roof of a

story is Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer. Northeast Intelligence Network looks at whether or not DOD attorneys had legal authority to stop the dissemination of the information uncovered by Able Danger. [Caveat: some good research and more than a handful of

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Sky is reporting a major raid: including stun grenades and at least one controlled explosion in uber-trendy Notting Hill off Tavistock road. It is believed they have arrested someone who may be one of the bombers. "It is half a

The Associated Press reports that North American Muslims issued a fatwa against terrorism: In the fatwa, the 18-member Fiqh Council of North America wrote that people who commit terrorism in the name of Islam were "criminals, not 'martyrs':" "There is

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by counter-terror analyst Dan Darling] Dan Nexon, who is among other things an assistant professor at Georgetown , asked some very interesting questions as to whether or not there is an organized terror network. As an advocate of this position,

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has been issued throughout the Indian Ocean basin follwing a 7+ magnitude earthquake centered near the Nicobar Islands.