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What I Will Tell My Unborn Child About the Boston Bombings

Natalie Thomas | Posted 04.17.2013 | Impact
Natalie Thomas

Eventually, when she's old enough, I'll tell her about that dreaded day in Boston. But my focus will be on the citizens, runners, emergency workers and bystanders -- all everyday heroes, who made (and make) Boston an amazing place to call home.

Is the War on Terror Worth the Price?

Dennis Trainor | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics
Dennis Trainor

When one considers how completely out of whack our defense budget is in the post 9/11 age of perpetual war, the cuts will still leave us with a military budget that dwarfs all other countries combined.

New TSA PreCheck: Elitist, Confusing, Mysterious, Maddening

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 01.15.2013 | Politics
Blake Fleetwood

If you are under 12 or over 75--in like Flynn. No worries. No more long TSA security lines involving taking off your shoes or taking out your laptop...etc... But for the rest of us flyers, it's a secret new "E-ZPass" program of sorts: "Managed Inclusion" is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, to paraphrase Winston Churchill.

California Terror Suspects Charged For Alleged Overseas Plots

AP | Posted 11.28.2012 | Los Angeles

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Three California men have been indicted on terrorism-related charges for allegedly plotting to kill Americans overseas. An indic...

4 Arrested In Terror Plot

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 11.20.2012 | Los Angeles

Four California residents are suspected of plotting to wage "violent jihad," by joining forces with al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Feder...

We Lost the War on Terror the Day We Attacked Iraq

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics
Lloyd Chapman

Recently, I went through security for a flight from San Francisco to Palm Springs. I've learned to streamline my security screening by leaving my watc...

Sam Stein

Arizona GOP Candidate: Middle Eastern Immigrants Only Want 'To Harm' The U.S.

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.28.2012 | Politics

Gabriela Mercer, the likely Republican congressional candidate in Arizona's new 3rd District, once declared that the only goal of Middle Easterners cr...

Trial Begins For Would-Be Bomber Who Wrote 'Time For Jihad' In Journal

AP | BETSY BLANEY | Posted 08.22.2012 | Crime

AMARILLO, Texas — Federal agents who searched the Texas apartment of a Saudi man accused of gathering materials to make a bomb found sulfuric ac...

Would-be Bomber Writes 'Time For Jihad' In Journal

AP | BETSY BLANEY | Posted 08.20.2012 | Crime

LUBBOCK, Texas — Twice in the days leading up to Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari's arrest federal agents secretly searched the Saudi man's West Texas apa...

Russia Claims Arms Seizure From Rebel Mastermind

AP | NATALIYA VASILYEVA | Posted 05.10.2012 | World

MOSCOW -- Russian agents have foiled terror attack plans on the Black Sea resort of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Games, and seized a large amount of...

Controversy Surrounding San Francisco's Terror Task Force Heats Up

| Posted 05.06.2012 | San Francisco

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By G.W. Schulz Muslim community members and other residents are urging San Francisco offi...

The Bangkok Bombing Attributed to Iran: A Scene From a Keystone Kops Movie or a Clever or Rushed Maneuver by the Iranians?

Haggai Carmon | Posted 04.18.2012 | World
Haggai Carmon

Did the three suspected Iranians terrorists in Bangkok reenact a scene from the early 1920s silent film comedies -- the Keystone Kops featuring clumsy...

It's Finally Over -- and It Was Wrong

Jim Wallis | Posted 12.27.2011 | World
Jim Wallis

The initial feelings that rushed over me after hearing the announcement that we're pulling out of Iraq were of deep relief. But then they turned to deep sadness over the terrible cost of a war that was always wrong: intellectually, politically, strategically and, above all, morally.

Jaweed Kaleem

Some Muslims Question Anwar Al-Awlaki's Death

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 11.30.2011 | Religion

The U.S.-led killing in Yemen of al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S. born imam who was known for his Internet videos preaching violent jihad and...

Officials: U.S.-Born Muslim Cleric Killed In Yemen

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 11.30.2011 | World

SANAA, Yemen — The killings of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and another American al-Qaida propagandist in a U.S. airstrike Friday wipe out t...

Bombs Rock Iraq Holy City

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB and SAAD ABDUL-KADIR | Posted 11.25.2011 | World

BAGHDAD — Back-to-back bomb blasts ripped through one of the holiest cities in Shiite Islam Sunday, killing at least 10 people in a community st...

Ex-Chicago Gang Member With al-Qaeda Ties Deserves Harsher Sentence, Feds Say

AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 11.19.2011 | Chicago

MIAMI — The 17-year prison sentence imposed on convicted terrorism plotter Jose Padilla is far too lenient for someone who trained to kill at an...

Nigeria Released Known Terror Suspects, One Now Detained In Connection With U.N. Bombing

AP | By JON GAMBRELL | Posted 11.06.2011 | World

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria released known terror suspects, including some affiliated with al-Qaida's north Africa b...

GW Bush Admits 'Fog of War' Experience of 9/11

Turnstyle | Posted 10.26.2011 | Media
Turnstyle

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

Obama's "Weak", "Politically Correct" Counterterrorism Plan Will Make Americans Safer

Reza Aslan | Posted 10.12.2011 | Politics
Reza Aslan

By focusing on a wider range of domestic threats beyond just "radical Islam," and by moving more government resources toward preventive measures, the Obama White House is being neither politically correct nor weak on terrorism. It is making Americans safer.

Friday Talking Points -- More Tea, Anyone?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.05.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

With the conclusion of the debt ceiling "crisis," the media pivoted swiftly to their standard larger questions (to them, at any rate) about any politi...

Former Officials: Al Qaeda Still Likely To Use WMDs

AP | By KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 09.27.2011 | World

ASPEN, Colo. -- A chemical or biological attack by al-Qaida and its offshoots remains a threat, despite the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden, ...

Terrorism Where We Least Expect It

Paul Heroux | Posted 08.31.2011 | World
Paul Heroux

President Bush used to say that terrorists hate freedom. Actually, terrorists use freedom, need freedom and have exploited freedom.

Justice Department: Two Arrested In Seattle Terror Plot

AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 08.23.2011 | Crime

SEATTLE — The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, and the ongoing war crimes prosecutions of Washington state soldiers helped inspire a terror plot in...

Who Is Anwar Al-Awlaki?

GQ | Posted 08.21.2011 | World

With Osama dead, U.S. intelligence is zeroing in on the remaining most dangerous terrorists alive, and one man is at the top of the list. Of the eight...