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Two New Jersey Men Arrested on Terrorism Charges Before Boarding Flight
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyTeams of state and federal law enforcement agents on Saturday arrested two northern New Jersey men at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport before they boarded separate flights to Egypt allegedly as a first stop on their way to Somalia where they planned to link up a with a group tied to al Qaeda, according to reports in the Newark Star Ledger and New York Daily News. The men were identified as Mohamed Hamou Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo "Omar" Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park. New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the two had been under investigation since 2006 and ...
Times Square Bomb Attempt Seen as Failure for Homeland Security, Poll Says
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA plurality of voters think the attempted bombing in Times Square was a failure for the Homeland Security Department because the suspect was able to leave his car in Times Square with explosives in it, and unlike the case of the would-be Christmas Day bomber, the public is divided on whether Faisal Shahzad should be tried as an enemy combatant,according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted May 4-5. Forty-seven percent labeled security efforts a failure because of Shahzad's ability to get the bomb-laden SUV into a busy part of the city and park it before a T-shirt vendor saw smoke ...
Video Shows Accused Christmas Day Bomber Training
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 26) -- A video has surfaced showing accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab training with al-Qaida in Yemen. The video, obtained and broadcast Monday by "ABC World News," shows the 23-year-old Nigerian firing weapons and speaking in Arabic about his impending attack. He is shown reading from the Quran and saying, "God said those who punish you must be punished." A U.S. intelligence official said Monday that the preliminary judgment is that it is Abdulmutallab in the video and the footage is consistent with the understanding that he was in training. It is not ...
AG Eric Holder on 9/11 Terror Trial: I'll Do What's Best for the Case
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyAttorney General Eric Holder Wednesday defended himself against Republican criticism that the Justice Department is treating terrorism suspects as criminals rather than enemies of the state. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder said his department needs prosecutorial options to successfully execute its anti-terrorism duties as he answered Republican concerns about where 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and the granting of Miranda rights to terrorist suspects. He also reaffirmed the Obama administration's commitment to closing the Guantanamo Bay detention ...
Nearly Two-Thirds Back Reading Plane Bomber His Miranda Rights
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe Obama administration's handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the al-Qaeda-directed Nigerian who tried to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day has been a political football for weeks, with Republicans and others criticizing the decision to try him in a criminal court rather than as an "enemy combatant" before a military tribunal, and also for reading him his Miranda rights as would be done for ordinary American citizens. But a substantial majority of Americans -- 65 percent to 33 percent -- believe that it was the correct action for the FBI to read him those rights, including the right ...
Cheney Goes for the Gold in Spinning the Iraq War
By David Corn - Politics DailyIf there were a gold medal for mugging history, Dick Cheney would be on the podium. Once again, the former veep has come out of his not-so-undisclosed location to lob potshots at President Obama. But he's becoming too predictable and sloppy. Put a television camera or microphone in front of the guy and he automatically utters, "Barack Obama doesn't believe we're at war." During an interview on ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday, when host Jonathan Karl challenged Cheney's claim that Obama is "trying to pretend we're not at war" by pointing out that the Obama administration has launched numerous ...
Accused Christmas Day Bomber Cooperating With Investigators After Visit From Family
By David Sessions - Politics DailyUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of attempting to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, has been talking openly with investigators "for days" after visits from two of his family members, the New York Times reports. CIA operatives located the relatives in Lagos, Nigeria, and persuaded them to come to the United States and encourage Abdulmutallab to cooperate. The suspect was not speaking to FBI investigators before his relatives arrived, but since then has told authorities how and why he tried to detonate an underwear bomb aboard a flight from Amsterdam on ...
Nigerian Terror Suspect Is Talking, Officials Say
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 2) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day has been cooperating with investigators since last week, discussing his contacts in Yemen and providing intelligence in multiple terrorism investigations, officials said Tuesday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's cooperation could prove to be a national security victory and a political vindication for President Barack Obama, who has been under fire from lawmakers who contend the administration botched the case by giving Abdulmutallab the right to ...
Commissions vs. Courts: Abdulmutallab, KSM Rekindle Terrorist Trial Debate
By Katie Glueck - Politics DailyThe White House said Friday that it would move the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) from New York City to an as-yet-undetermined alternative location. This announcement came after a bipartisan group of lawmakers called the decision to try KSM a few blocks away from Ground Zero dangerous, counterproductive and expensive. For the moment, he's still slated to be tried in the US, though options now include a military base. The KSM controversy is the latest development in the debate over whether terrorists should be tried in American courts or in military commissions ...
Details of Christmas Day Bomber Interview Released
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 24) -- For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked - to Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents. He spoke openly about what he'd done and why, and provided valuable intelligence, U.S. officials told The Associated Press in a series of interviews that spell out for the first time the details of Abdulmutallab's arrest and questioning on Dec. 25. Badly burned and bleeding, the suspect tried one last gambit as he was taken from the plane: He claimed ...
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