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At Least 35 Dead in Afghan Attacks

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:38:20 CDT

Brazen attacks on government buildings in Kabul and various locations in eastern Afghanistan claimed at least 35 lives today, the Los Angeles Times reports. Five civilians, 11 police officers, and 19 insurgents are reported dead after attacks on buildings in Kabul, including US, British, and German embassies, the parliament building,...

Anders Breivik 'Planned Car Bomb' for Obama

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:23:20 CDT

Killing 77 innocent people apparently wasn't enough for Anders Behring Breivik. The Norwegian far-right extremist also planned to car bomb President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony back in 2009, the Telegraph reports. Breivik admitted to police that it would have been a symbolic attack—security was too tight to reach...

Global Terror Attacks Up, Deaths Down

Rob Quinn — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:17:06 CDT

Last year saw deaths from terrorism drop for the third year in a row, although the number of terror attacks was up slightly, according to the State Department's annual report on global terrorism . Some 13,186 people were killed in 11,500 terror attacks in 72 countries, down from 22,...

Israel Hit by Multiple Coordinated Terror Attacks

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:47:25 CDT

Assailants armed with heavy weapons, guns, and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula today, killing at least five people and wounding about a dozen more, officials say. The rare violence in that part of the country targeted a passenger...

Bin Laden Planned US Attack on 9/11 Anniversary

John Johnson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:44:07 CDT

Osama bin Laden wanted to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this year in the best way he knew how: with another assault on US soil. Intelligence gathered from the Navy SEALs raid that killed him showed bin Laden was trying to put together a team to carry...

NY Terror Target: School Buses

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:57:54 CDT

New York state security and educational authorities are on high alert after an email sent to officials and the media threatened attacks on school buses. Bus drivers have been warned to be especially watchful for suspicious behavior or packages. The email, which is being taken very seriously by authorities, also...

5 Arrested in Plot on Danish Newspaper

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:20:59 CST

Denmark's intelligence service today arrested four people suspected of planning an "imminent" terror attack against a newspaper that printed the controversial Prophet Mohammad cartoons; Swedish police said they arrested a fifth suspect. The group planned to enter the building where the Jyllands-Posten daily has its Copenhagen newsdesk and "kill as...

Oregon Terror Suspect's Mosque Torched

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:20:00 CST

Federal authorities are investigating a suspected hate-crime torching of a mosque attended by the Oregon teen charged in last Friday's attempted terror attack. Arson destroyed part of the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvalis a day after former Oregon State University student Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested when police...

We Didn't Always Flip Out Over Terrorism

Kevin Spak — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:16:42 CST

Imagine this: Muslim terrorists hijack a jet and hold it hostage for two weeks. Simultaneously, a bomb blows up a 747 in midair, killing 300-plus people. Months later, a US airliner is bombed over Greece. Five months after that, terrorists kill 20 aboard a US plane in Pakistan. All of...