With a reported nine commercial ships hijacked over the past 12 days – including a spectacular strike on a Saudi Arabian oil supertanker – the world has become captivated by pirates. Specifically, a loose band of some 1,500 freebooters drawn from Somalia’s ranks of unemployed fishermen and hardscrabble Islamic militias by the lure of easy [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has renewed its efforts to apprehend several environmental extremists who remain on the loose. FBI Counterterrorism Division Deputy Assistant Director Michael Ward announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of four domestic terrorism fugitives associated with Operation Backfire; Josephine Sunshine Overaker, Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, Justin Franchi [...]
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s top choice to lead the U.S Department of Homeland Security is Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources. The Democratic governor, a supporter and campaigner for Obama’s presidential campaign, had been reported to be on a short list of people to fill cabinet posts in the new [...]
Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists. General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But [...]
Ambulance services across the UK hold records of more than 8,500 households who have a history of violence against paramedics, the BBC has learned. Staff called to emergencies at these addresses are advised to wait for police before entering the premises. The Patients Association says records must be “absolutely accurate” or “patient safety may be [...]
A staggering 174 terrorist, insurgent and extremist groups, many of them little known, are operating across India, figures compiled by a terror watch portal show. The maximum number – 40 – operate in Manipur, followed by 36 in Assam, 32 in Jammu and Kashmir, and 30 in Tripura, figures compiled by the South Asia Terrorism [...]
Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, clearing the last hurdle in full normalization of ties between Washington and Tripoli. In exchange, under a deal worked out earlier this year, President Bush on Friday signed an executive order restoring the [...]
The next president’s vulnerability to terrorist attacks has become an issue on the campaign trail. But if there’s an attack as a new administration settles in, it won’t be the first time. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown all faced acts of terrorism within their first year in [...]