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Ultra-Orthodox Don Holocaust Garb for Protest

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:48:00 CST

Israelis are fuming after an ultra-Orthodox group dressed in concentration camp garb to protest their treatment by the public for promoting segregation of the sexes. Thousands of the extremists gathered in Jerusalem with their children dressed in the striped black-and-white uniforms of Jews imprisoned in World War II. They were...

Cops Thwart Firebomb Attack on Berlin Station

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:36:53 CDT

Police thwarted a firebomb attack on Berlin's central train station yesterday after a worker discovered several incendiary devices hooked up to detonators. The planned attack was claimed by a leftist group protesting Germany's involvement in the Afghan war and demanding the release of suspected WikiLeaks source US Private Bradley Manniing....

Clinton: 'We Have Extremists in My Country'

Matt Cantor — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:15:05 CST

No euphemisms for Hillary Clinton. While speaking on a United Arab Emirates talk show today, the secretary of state compared the Tucson shooter to a ideologically driven terrorist, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Look, we have extremists in my country,” she said. “A wonderful, incredibly brave young woman Congress member,...

Bin Laden in House, Not Cave: Official

Matt Cantor — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:29:00 CDT

“Nobody in al-Qaeda is living in a cave”—instead, Osama bin Laden and other top figures are likely to be living rather comfortably in houses in Pakistan, under the protection of locals and some Pakistani intelligence, a NATO official tells CNN . Bin Laden has likely been roaming from Pakistan’s far...

Why the 'War on Islam' Is All Wrong

Matt Cantor — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:29:14 CDT

After Bill O’Reilly sparked a furor on the View with his comment that “Muslims killed us on 9/11,” MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan made an impassioned distinction today between Muslims and a Saudi-funded sect that has gone under the public radar, Mediaite reports. “There’s a small group of well funded Wahabbi extremists...

Creepy Letters to 30 Governors Spook FBI

Kevin Spak — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:37:00 CDT

The FBI has warned police around the country that there may be violence in the coming days inspired by ominous letters sent by an extremist group. Thirty sitting governors have received letters telling them that if they don’t leave office within 3 days they will be removed, according to an...

GOP's Lunatic Streak Is Bad for America

John Johnson — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:55:52 CDT

Watching right-wingers react to health care reform can be entertaining for a while, writes Paul Krugman, but it's ultimately depressing. It's just not fun seeing "extremists take full control of one our two great political parties." This isn't just fringe activists, either, as evidenced by John Boehner's declaration of "Armageddon....

ADL: Beck Is Top Hate Monger

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:09:50 CST

Right-wing Fox mouth Glenn Beck is the most toxic media hate monger operating in the US today, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. "Beck has made a habit of demonizing President Obama and promoting conspiracy theories about his administration," the r eport states. He "has even gone so...

Two Killers Eluded FBI Hunt for 'Lone Wolves'

Kevin Spak — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:02:23 CDT

The shootings of George Tiller and a National Holocaust Museum guard came despite a renewed FBI effort to preempt solo acts of political violence, the Wall Street Journal reports. Identifying such extremists—while respecting their civil rights—is a challenge. Both James von Brunn and Scott Roeder expressed their views...