No Fly List

WATCH: Muslims On No-Fly List Now Suing FBI, Pressured To Be Informants

The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Islam, Marines, Video, No-Fly-List, Terrorism, Dog Training, American Muslims, Muslims, Muslim, Religion News

Fifteen American Muslims, including four military veterans, are suing the federal government after discovering they were placed on the "no-fly" list. ...

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Fighting The No-Fly List

| Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: No Fly Lists, No Fly List Fbi, Video, No Fly List Tsa, Nagib Ali Ghaleb, Stephen Durga Persaud, Airport Security, No Fly List Challenge, Rahinah Ibrahim, No Fly List Court Battle, No Fly List, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By G.W. Schulz Three California residents are among 15 plaintiffs preparing a renewed challenge t...

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Alleged Shooter On US No-Fly List

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Mohamed Merah No Fly, Video, Toulouse, France, Terrorism, Toulouse School Shooting, Mohamed Merah, Toulouse Jewish School Shooting, Toulouse Shooting, US No Fly List, Ap, No Fly List, Toulouse France, World News

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. counterterrorism official says the man suspected in the deaths of seven people in France was on the list of known or suspec...

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Stanford Graduate Fights To Be Removed From No-Fly List

| Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Rahinah Ibrahim No-Fly List, Rahinah Ibrahim Sfo, Terrorism No-Fly List, Rahinah Ibrahim, San Francisco No-Fly List, No Fly List, u.s. No-Fly List, San Francisco News

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By G.W. Schulz The federal appeals court ruling last week on gay marriage in California o...

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No-Fly List More Than Doubled In Past Year

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Aclu, Martin Reardon, American Civil Liberties Union, Tsa, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nusrat Choudhury, Homeland Security Department, Terrorism, No-Fly List, John Pistole, Transportation Security Administration, Caryn Wagner, Soufan Group, Ted Kennedy, Travel News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from ...

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US Citizen On No-Fly List Detained After Cruise To England

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Global Pulse, No-Fly List, US Citizen Detained, Michael Migliore, No Fly List, Travel News

McLEAN, Virginia — A man who traveled to England by boat because he thought he was on the no-fly list was detained Monday upon his arrival in Gr...

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No FAA Bill? No-Fly List.

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Taxes, Holiday, Grounded, Faa, Summer, Chris Weigant, Washington, Federal Aviation Administration, Congress, Vacation, No Fly List, Bill, Flying, No Fly, Politics News

Congress has chosen its priorities -- a month of paid vacation is more important to them than doing the work they have been hired to do. This is unacceptable.

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Is Military Action in The Middle East the Best Allocation of Our Nation's Limited Resources?

Robert K. Lifton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No-Fly-Zone, Debt, Libya News, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Middle East, Libyan Leader, Budget Deficit, Libya Revolution, Iran, No Fly List, Foreign Policy, Libya Protests, Politics News

Once again, with the incursions in Libya, our nation is getting involved in military action in the Middle East. Although we are part of a coalition effort, as usual America is carrying out a large part of the action and at no small cost.

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Marine Corps Veteran On No-Fly List After Reportedly Emailing Cleric For Parenting Advice

The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Abe Mashal, Counter-Terrorism, Chicago, No-Fly List, Illinois, Veteran No-Fly List, Abe Mashal No-Fly List, Chicago News

As the U.S. ramps up efforts to root out homegrown terrorism, hundreds of people who have fallen under suspicion are in a state of limbo: Many say the...

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Choosing Not to Act Is to Act

Tihomir Kukolja | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, European Union, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, No Fly List, Nato, United Nations, World News

The rare opportunity for America to assert itself as a global leader is slipping through its fingers fast.

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Obama Talks Human Rights to Chinese President as US is Accused of Proxy Detention

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulet Mohamed, Council on Islamic Relations, Kuwait, Obama, Justice Department, No Fly List, Proxy Detention, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Yemen, Anwar Al-Awlaki, China, Barack Obama, Human Rights, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Politics News

Has the United States adopted a new policy of "proxy detention" of U.S. citizens by countries that engage in torture?

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Aggressive FBI Interrogation of US Teen in Kuwait Raises Concerns

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Extraordinary Rendition Lite, Mark Mazzetti, Gulet-Mohamed, Terrorism, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Somalia, George W. Bush, Mother Jones, Yemen, Human Rights, Nick Baumann, Counterterrorism, Glenn Greenwald, No-Fly List, Sharif Mobley, Proxy Detention, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Politics News

Increasingly, it seems that Americans who've traveled to Yemen at some point have been detained abroad, where they're subjected not only to aggressive questioning by U.S. officials but also to brutality by the U.S. allies detaining them.

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Is Proxy Detention the Obama Administration's Extraordinary Rendition-Lite?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anwar Al-Awlaki, Doj, George W. Bush, Yemen, Obama, Reprieve, Diplomatic Assurances, Gulet Mohamed, Muslim, Cair, Glenn Greenwald, Sharif Mobley, Proxy Detention, No Fly List, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Sana'A, Politics News

While the U.S. may legitimately ask questions of passengers flying to or from Yemen, is it outsourcing those interrogations to countries known to engage in torture?

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Due Date Is a Career Stumble for Downey, Jr.

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pregnancy, Robert Downey, Jamie Foxx, No Fly List, Road Trip, Todd Phillips, Zach Galifianakis, Due Date, Robert Downey Jr, Movies, Entertainment News

Due Date is a cross country adventure to be endured and that classification is deadly for any comedy. When you want the trip to end and the movie to be over you know you are in trouble.

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Last Plane to Lahore

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, Times Square, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Taliban, Afghanistan, Karachi, No Fly List, Fbi, Faisal Shahzad, Lahore, World News

The time is long overdue to get tough with young adults who believe that a visit to grandma in Pakistan should include a few months at a Taliban or Al Qaeda training camp.

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Hello, He Must Be Going: Shahzad Almost Slips Through the Net

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emirates Airlnes, Times Square, No-Fly List, Travel, JFK Airport, Faisal Shahzad, Tsa, FBI Surveillance, Times Square Bomber, New York News

I don't know about you, but I can't remember the last time I booked a flight to Dubai while I was already driving to the airport, and then paid for my ticket with a wad of cash.

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Who's the Bigger Threat: Shahzad or McCain and Lieberman?

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, John McCain, War on Terror, Times Square Car Bomb, Guantanamo, Joe Lieberman, Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomber, U.S. Constitution, Tea Parties, No Fly List, Torture, Politics News

The United States Constitution is the charter document of democracy in America. It is what makes us who we are, and we go outside the boundaries of that charter at our peril.

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Too Dangerous to Fly on a Plane? Then Too Dangerous to Buy a Gun

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Terror Gap, Law Enforcement, Guns, No Fly List, Terrorism, Los Angeles News

If someone is too dangerous to fly on a plane in this country, that person is too dangerous to buy explosives and guns.

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Passenger Put On No-Fly List DURING Flight

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No-Fly List, JFK Airport No Fly List, Dealta No Fly List, Terrorism, New York News

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Airport Security Checks Revamped For Travel To U.S.

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Security, Air Travel, Tsa, Travel, Airport Screening, No Fly List, Watch List, Terrorism, Aviation Security, World News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travelers' nationalities. T...

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No-Fly List Nearly Doubles Since Christmas Attack

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Fly, No Fly List, Tsa, Christmas Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, Abdulmutallab, Home News

WASHINGTON — It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is fo...

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Homeland Security Demands Better Analysts, Not Just Better Data

Mary Shannon Little | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dennis Blair, Christmas Day Bombing, Nidal Malik Hasan, Underwear Bomber, Fort Hood, President Obama, War on Terror, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Terrorism, Homeland Security, No Fly List, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

The solution to improving our intelligence gathering is not installing better software, but ensuring that people performing these tasks have real investigative experience.

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No Fly List Match Diverts Newark Flight To Jacksonville

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Jacksonville, Newark, Jacksonville International Airport, Colombia, Terrorism, Bogota, No-Fly, No Fly List, Newark Airport, New York News

WASHINGTON — A Continental Airlines jet flying from Newark, N.J., to Bogota was diverted to Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday over concerns a passen...

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Haiti and Cuba: Dodo Birds of a Feather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Why is it so important to the great leaders of the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions that Obama's campaign message of joyous reconciliation be converted to an elegy of disillusionment?

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Border Security Found Out About Abdulmutallab, Accused Bomber, During Flight 253

LA Times | Sebastian Rotella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Tsa, Amsterdam, Air Marshals, Nigeria, State Department, Al Qaida, Flight 253, Cia, Detroit, Database, No-Fly List, US Intelligence, Bombing, Border Security, Airlines, Abdulmutallab, Terrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, World News

U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt a...

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