Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts

2-11-2008 • Rolling Stone / Tim Dickinson

A history of the Bush administration's most dubious terror scares — and the headlines they buried

The Logic of Suicide Terrorism

2-8-2008 • The American Conservative

[Professor Robert] Pape has found that the most common American perceptions about who the terrorists are and what motivates them are off by a wide margin. [Pape] knows more about suicide terrorists than any other American.

The FBI Deputizes Business

2-8-2008 • The Progressive / Matthew Rothschild

Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members receive warnings of threats before the public—and, at least [once], before elected officials.

British plan to build training camp for Taliban Fighters

02-04-2008 • Independent

Britian planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligences sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized

NYPD plans to step up subway patrols

2-3-2008 • AP

Teams of police officers equipped with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs are set to begin daily patrols of the busiest sections of the city subways this month, in what officials describe as a first for a U.S. mass transit system. [happy, happy j

FBI: Students' 'bombs' were fireworks

1-31-2008 • AP

[guilt by Arab] Two Egyptian college students arrested near a South Carolina Navy weapons station last year were carrying low-grade fireworks, as they claimed, not the dangerous explosives as charged by federal prosecutors, the FBI has determined.

History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks are an Inside Job

01-29-2008 • The History Channel via YouTube

From the History Channel's show Conspiracies: Anthrax Attacks explaining how the weaponized strain could only come from the United States BioDefense Program.

60 Minutes - Show segments

01-28-2008 • CBS.com

House of Cards: Housing Bubble - Saddam's Translator -

NYPD Seeks an Air Monitor Crackdown for New Yorkers

1-25-2008 • The Villiage Voice / Chris Thompson

And if people use these detectors without a permit, Vallone asked, do we really have to put them in jail? Afraid so, [terror expert] Falkenrath answered.

Mother Jones' Full Coverage of Jose Padilla

01-24-2008 • Mother Jones

From July 2003 - The early stories.

Padilla's Sentence Should Shock and Disgust All Americans

1-23-2008 • Antiwar

The news that U.S. citizen José Padilla has received a prison sentence of 17 years and four months should provoke outrage in the United States, although it is unlikely that there will be much more than a whimper of dissent.

Jose Padilla is sentenced to 17 years

1-22-2008 • AP

Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations.

Padilla sentence: Does terror training merit life?

1-22-2008 • Christian Science Monitor

If US District Judge Cooke agrees with the Justice Dept., the severe sentence [life] won't be for any violent act carried out or planned by Mr. Padilla. Instead, he will be punished for what prosecutors say were his dangerous unspecified intentio

Universities join battle against terror as government guidelines are agreed

1-22-2008 • London Times

University leaders have agreed to inform the police of any extremist behavior by students or visiting speakers. Advises universities to draw up a national watch list of guest speakers who should be banned from speaking on campus. It also suggests

SEC urged not to revive "terrorist" watch list

1-21-2008 • Reuters

Two business groups urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday not to reinstate a Web tool aimed at helping investors identify companies with investments in countries the United States designates as "sponsors of terrorism."

Jesse Ventura on the Real State of the USSA

01-19-2008 • Youtube

Jesse gets everything right

Life term for terrorist in embassy plots

1-18-2008 • AP

A Canadian who secretly pleaded guilty years ago and briefly became an informant against al-Qaida was sentenced Friday to life in prison for plotting to blow up U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Philippines.

Who's worse, Al-Qaeda or the Tamil Tigers?

01-13-2008 • Gulf Times

The "ruthless tactics" of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers have inspired terrorist networks worldwide, including Al Qaeda in Iraq, says the FBI. In an appeal to the American public to report on Tiger operatives who might be lurking under cover,

2008 Dakar Rally Canceled... Are the Terrorists Winning?

01-05-2008 • About.com

The Dakar Rally is arguably the most demanding offroad competition in the world, a high profile, international event that draws some of the most talented motorcycle riders alive. Unfortunately, the Amaury Sport Association has announced that this ye

2008 Dakar Rally Cancelled... Are the Terrorists Winning?

01-05-2008 • About.com

The Dakar Rally is arguably the most demanding offroad competition in the world, a high profile, international event that draws some of the most talented motorcycle riders alive. Unfortunately, the Amaury Sport Association has announced that this ye

Couple branded 'terrorists' - for taking photos of their grandchildren

1-3-2007 • Daily Mail

A couple were banned for life from a shopping center - because they were taking photos of their beloved grandchildren. Kim and Trevor Sparshott were ordered to stop taking photos because they were causing a security threat. They were thrown out of th

Dictatorship Watch — 2,500 DUI Arrests in Arizona Since November

1-1-2008 • AZ Central

Wake up and smell the Tyranny... Authorities have stopped more than 33,000 drivers and issued more than 10,000 citations for driving offenses besides DUI since Nov. 23.

Dictatorship Watch — 2,500 DUI Arrests in Arizona Since November

1-1-2008 • AZ Central

Wake up and smell the Tyranny... Authorities have stopped more than 33,000 drivers and issued more than 10,000 citations for driving offenses besides DUI since Nov. 23.

Benazir Bhutto: Osama bin Laden was murdered

12-28-07 • AfterDowningStreet.org

In a November 6th interview by David Frost on Aljazeera, Benazir Bhutto states that Osama bin Laden was murdered. She states the murderers name, and his connections to attacks on her.

Police abandoned security posts before Bhutto assassination

12-28-07 • Rawstory.com

Rawalpindi, where Bhutto was killed, is the garrison city that houses the Pakistani military's headquarters.

In October e-mail, Bhutto said she would hold Musharraf 'responsible' for her death

12-27-07 • Rawstory.com

Benazir Bhutto said she would hold the country's current leader Pervez Musharraf "responsible" because his government did not do enough to provide for her security.

U.S. to Send Troops to Pakistan in Early 2008 - Part II

12-27-07 • WashingtonPost.com

A new agreement, reported when it was still being negotiated last month, has been finalized. And the first U.S. personnel could be on the ground in Pakistan by early in the new year.

U.S. special forces are headed for Pakistan

12-27-07 • The Nation.com

This article was on the Antiwar.com website the night before the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto killed in attack

12-27-07 • BBC News.com

At least 15 other people are reported killed in the attack and several more were injured. Ms. Bhutto had twice been the country's prime minister.