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On 9/11 Anniversary, Terror Threat Is More Homegrown
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- On the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the current threats facing the United States are less severe but increasingly homegrown, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, the U.S. government is still unprepared. That's according to a new report published online Friday by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit think tank formed in 2007 by former members of the 9/11 Commission that seeks to develop "policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both sides of the aisle." The terror alert level for 2010 is described as "less severe ... more ...
New Terror Charges Highlight Homegrown Jihadist's Burgeoning Rap Career
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of 19 people, including 14 American citizens, alleged to have provided support to Somalia's al-Shahab terrorist group. That's the African splinter-cell of al-Qaida that took credit for the massively deadly suicide bomb attacks in Uganda in July. The most prominent American charged with being involved in al-Shahab, and said to be one of the group's central recruiters of new fighters, is one Omar Hammami, a 26-year-old man who was raised in Daphne, Ala. Hammami gained notoriety as the subject of the documentary film ...
Before His Inauguration, Rumors of a Terrorist Plot Weighed on Obama
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAs Barack Obama prepared for his inauguration, Bush administration officials learned of an alleged plot by Somali extremists to detonate explosives during the ceremony, The New York Times Magazine reports. "All the data points suggested there was a real threat evolving quickly that had an overseas component," said Juan Carlos Zarate, President George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism. As the inauguration approached, signs of a plot "seemed to be growing in credibility and relevance." The rumored plot weighed heavily on Obama in the final days before Jan. 20; ...
Auschwitz Sign Theft Linked to Far-Right Terrorist Plot
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- In a holiday season already marked by lapsed security, heightened anxiety and political recrimination, things just got a little bit worse. New developments in the investigation into the disappearance of the entrance sign at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland suggest that the theft was part of a larger far-right terrorist plot in Sweden. ...
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