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Likely Terrorist Attack Strikes Ukraine

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:29:55 CDT

Four blasts within minutes rocked the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk today, injuring at least 15 people in what prosecutors believe was a terrorist attack, officials say. The first blast occurred at a tramway stop in the center of Dnipropetrovsk, injuring five people. The second injured seven...

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,...

TSA's New Strategy: Chats With Passengers

Tim Karan — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:31:30 CDT

Get ready to reveal more than just your underwear at airport security checkpoints: TSA officers plan to start chatting up more passengers as part of the screening process. The agency already has "behavior detection officers" at work in airports across the US, but the new strategy calls for more one-on-one...

Chechen Warlord Claims Moscow Airport Bomb

Rob Quinn — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:20:24 CST

A Chechen militant leader has claimed responsibility for the bombing that killed 36 people at Russia's biggest airport last month. Warlord Doku Umarov appears in a 16-minute video posted online in which he says the suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was carried out on his orders and warns of...

1 Killed, 2 Injured in Stockholm Blasts

Matt Cantor — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:23:00 CST

A pair of explosions in central Stockholm yesterday killed one and injured two, the Guardian reports. A Swedish news agency was warned of the blasts minutes before they occurred; an email linked the attacks to Sweden’s military presence in Afghanistan, as well as a Swedish artist’s cartoons of the prophet...

Stop Worrying About al-Qaeda

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:18:00 CDT

“We’re safer than we think,” declares Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek , “but no one wants to admit it.” It should go without saying that we’re safer than we were nine years ago today. Al-Qaeda used to operate so successfully “because most governments treated the group as an annoyance rather than a...

Attacks on US Hit All-Time High

Emily Rauhala — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:51:52 CDT

Attempted attacks against America have reached an all-time high, according to the Department of Homeland Security. "The number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period," reads the unclassified DHS memo. The...

2 Arrested in Italy for Aiding Mumbai Attackers

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:57:36 CST

Italian police today arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and provide logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The two were arrested in an early morning raid in Brescia, where they managed a money transfer agency. The day before the attacks began, last Nov....

Powell Praises 'Gallant Heroes' of United Flight 93

John Johnson — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:58:57 CDT

Colin Powell today honored the "gallant heroes" of United Flight 93 who fought back against their hijackers 8 years ago today. At a ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., where the plane went down, he likened them to the "citizen soldiers" who have fought for the US since its inception. "They refused...