War On Terror News

9/11 plotters face death penalty in trial near 'Ground Zero'

AFP - Saturday, November 14

The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will be tried in a civilian court blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, the US government announced Friday. More »

  • Ga. judge rejects terror convict's new trial bid

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    A federal judge in Georgia has rejected a bid for a new trial by a man convicted of terrorism charges earlier this year.

  • An image released in 2002 by the FBI and the US Justice Department of Ramzi Binalshibh. The accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks and four of his suspected co-plotters, including Binalshibh, will be tried in a civilian court in New York.

    9/11 plotters to be tried blocks from 'ground zero'

    AFP - Saturday, November 14

    The alleged 9/11 mastermind and four co-accused will be tried in a civilian court in New York just blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, the government announced Friday.

  • AP source: Probers didn't pass on early Hasan info

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    A law enforcement official says a terrorism task force did not refer early information about the Fort Hood shooting suspect to superiors because they concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism.

  • Pakistani soldiers atop a truck in Wana, South Waziristan. A landmine and separate ambush killed 10 Pakistani troops near the Afghan border, in a sign that violence is spreading away from the frontlines of an anti-Taliban offensive.

    Violence kills 10 Pakistan troops

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    A landmine and separate ambush killed 10 Pakistani troops near the Afghan border Wednesday, in a sign that violence is spreading away from the frontlines of an anti-Taliban offensive.

  • AP Sources: Defense Dept worker looked into Hasan

    AP - Wednesday, November 11

    U.S. officials say a Pentagon worker on a terrorism task force looked into Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan's background months ago, and concluded he did not merit further investigation.

  • Prosecutors say Chicago man had al-Qaida video

    AP - Tuesday, November 10

    Two videos produced by Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network have been found in the home of a Chicago man accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper, federal prosecutors said.

  • Zimbabwe PM's ally goes on trial for terrorism

    Reuters - Tuesday, November 10

    By MacDonald Dzirutwe

  • The terrorism trial of Zimbabwe's Roy Bennett, seen here in March, which prompted Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's government boycott was due to resume Monday in Harare.

    Trial of top Tsvangirai aide to resume in Harare

    AFP - Tuesday, November 10

    The terrorism trial of Zimbabwe's Roy Bennett, which prompted Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's government boycott was due to resume Monday in Harare.

  • Pakistan suicide bombing kills 12

    AFP - Monday, November 9

    A suicide car bomber struck near a busy livestock market in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Sunday, killing 12 people including a former Taliban supporter turned anti-militant mayor, police said.

  • Afghan Taliban deny have missing U.S. troops' bodies

    Reuters - Monday, November 9

    KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban denied on Sunday they were holding the bodies of two U.S. soldiers who had gone missing last week in northwestern Afghanistan after earlier claiming they had recovered the two dead servicemen.

  • Al Qaeda releases new bin Laden videotape - website

    Reuters - Saturday, November 7

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda released a new videotape from its leader Osama bin Laden on Friday, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm.

  • Afghan Taliban says holding bodies of 2 foreign troops

    Reuters - Saturday, November 7

    By Sharafuddin Sharafyar

  • Liberal lawmakers defy Obama on Patriot Act

    AP - Friday, November 6

    Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracking non-U.S. citizens in anti-terrorism investigations.

  • American deported to Lebanon denies terror charges

    AP - Friday, November 6

    An American citizen convicted on terrorism charges in the United Arab Emirates said on Thursday he confessed under torture and suspected that U.S. authorities played a role in his detention and prosecution in the Gulf country.

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