Mr. Headley, an American citizen, is accused of being the lead operative in a loose-knit group of militants plotting revenge against a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

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"In the piece below, we take a look at the insurgency in Afghanistan more closely – from al Qaeda's perspective.

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"Activists from the Campaign to Free Gilad Schalit met with Palestinian activists at the Gaza border on Saturday afternoon, ahead of a combined rally planned for later in the week.

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A group cited by U.S. officials as a domestic terrorism threat claimed responsibility Friday for knocking down two radio station towers in Snohomish County, Washington.

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Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor, John Yoo who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists. These activists accuse him of being a war-criminal.

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People on the government's terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them, according to a new government report.

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New Delhi: Barely seven months after the Mumbai attacks, Indian efforts in the United Nations to place sanctions on Jaish-e-Mohammad founder Maulana Masood Azhar have received a major setback.

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Ali Soufan was a participant or observer in the following events: Late December 1999: FBI Exposes Errors in CIA Reporting on Millennium Plots, Finds Key Evidence CIA Ignored Late October-Late November 2000: Confession Leads FBI to Cole Mastermind

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Two Basque newspapers published a statement from ETA in which it says support for independence is stronger now then when it was formed. The tough talk comes a month before key regional elections.

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"The War with Israel Is Over - and they won.

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US-led efforts to tackle the al-Qaeda group are not regarded as successful, an opinion poll carried out for the BBC World Service suggests. Some 29% of people said the "war on terror" launched by President George W Bush in 2001 had had no effect on the Islamist militant network.

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People across the world think the U.S.-led "war on terror" has not weakened al Qaeda and many believe it has actually strengthened Osama bin Laden's network, a poll for the BBC World Service said Monday.

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In his last months, President Bush is working to ensure that his successor will have the greatly expanded power of the executive branch — unprecedented in American history — that Bush instituted after 9/11.

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WASHINGTON — A prominent Saudi contractor who recently won an $80 million contract by the U.S. Army, is also under federal indictment.

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In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 - an …

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"Acting upon tips and key eyewitness accounts, the NYPD announced that they had just apprehended a male cyclist in Queens who they believed to be responsible for the early morning bombing of a Times Square Marine recruiting station.

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US security officials have issued their long-awaited list of chemicals that could be used by terrorists in WMDs and will require extra security measures by the chemical producers

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I was reading this article tonight and there is a ton of debate around this article. The Author is claiming that global warming is a much bigger threat to the human race than Terrorism ever was or will be…Have a read and post your thoughts

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By definition, the aim of "terrorism" is not to topple the U.S. government, or even to rack up a massive body count (though that seems to be a perk for them). The aim of terrorism is to cause terror. It's to scare us. Frighten us.

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Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs in a "repellent interview" brought up, unprompted, the number of major U.S.

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In the wake of President Bush's "surge" speech, Rasmussen Reports has today recorded an approval rating of 35% for the President -- "the lowest level of approval ever measured by Rasmussen Reports," according to the firm. ...

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RUSSERT: Go back, Senator, to 2002. The administration saying we would be greeted as liberators. John McCain saying that you thought success would be fairly easy. MCCAIN: It was. RUSSERT: In all honesty…

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The New Spin Forward: Political Theater and the President's Speech

For all the hype it wasn't much of a speech.

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U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories.

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British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday.

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