Trial Begins for Woman Who Cut Baby from Womb
It sounds like a dark story from the days of ancient pagan rituals: A person tears open a woman’s womb while she’s still...
Crime
Al-Qaeda Uses Popular Radical Clerics to Recruit Trainees
Yemeni intelligence officials asserted Friday that their investigation revealed that Umar Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of attempted to bomb Northwest Flight 253 on...
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Hasan Relative Joins Defense Team; JAG Empanels “Sanity Board”
In order to determine his competency to stand trial, Major Nidal Hasan is to undergo a mental evaluation by a team of three...
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Detroit Bomber Arraigned in Federal Court; Pleads Not Guilty to All Charges
Wearing the typical garb of a federal prisoner, Umar Abdulmutallab entered the courtroom wearing khaki trousers, a plain white t-shirt, and shackles on...
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Gun Ownership Up, Crime Down
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the "oft-cited credo that more guns equal more crime is being tested by facts on the ground...
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Ninth Circuit Panel Strikes Down Washington Voting Law
A three man panel of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, by a two to one split vote, has determined that...
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Obama Critical of Intelligence in Christmas Day Plot
President Obama said on January 5, following a meeting with members of his national security team, that U.S. intelligence had gathered enough information...
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Major Nidal Hasan: An Officer and Jihadist
Since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, a number of American Muslims have grown increasingly radical in their adherence to a violent strain...
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Whole Body Scanners: Would They Have Detected the Detroit Bomb?
The new millimeter-wave body scanners soon to be deployed in airports throughout the United States would not have detected the explosive device smuggled...
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Virtual Strip Searches and Terrorism
The U.S. Transportation Security Agency official blog published a twist on the old Clement Clark Moore poem the day before Christmas and the...
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Federal Court Sets Taser-use Standards
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled on December 28 that police officers need sufficient reason to believe a...
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Security Sieve Through Which Abdulmutallab Passed: Who’s to Blame?
Reports from two investigations into the intelligence community’s mishandling of crucial information relevant to the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 by Nigerian...
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How Did Abdulmutallab Avoid Detection?
As reported yesterday by The New American, a second person of interest was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers after the...
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Did Abdulmutallab Board Flight 253 Without a Passport?
As is typical in the aftermath of this sort of occurrence, there is a maelstrom of stories swirling around Umar Abdulmutallab’s attempt to...
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New York City Murder Rate at All-time Low
New York City is headed for a record-low number of murders in 2009, according to the New York Times for December 28. As...
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