Counterterrorism Blog
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September 2010 Archives

Call to Taliban After Bomb Attempt in Times Sq. - Faisal Shahzad

E.U. cites nationals training in terror - Ahmed Siddiqui, the German in custody at the U.S. air base at Bagram

Congress Passes Homeland Bills to Improve Information Sharing and Grant Oversight - Reducing Over-Classification Act (H.R. 553), Redundancy Elimination and Enhanced Performance for Preparedness Grants Act (H.R. 3980)

Spain arrests American al-Qaida suspect - Mohamed Omar Debhi, from Texas

Risk of small-scale attacks by al-Qaeda and its allies is rising, officials say - Statements at Senate panel hearing

Anonymity promised for NYC terror trial jurors - trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani

Yemen Military Besieges Remote Qaeda Redoubt

France raises anti-terror security after tip-offs

Pakistani identified as al Qaeda top brass: Deadly commander a CIA target - Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri

Inside the mind of the Times Square bomber - Faisal Shahzad

Chechen Is Detained, Then Freed, in Poland - Akhmed Zakayev

Pakistani's Death in London Sets Off Unrest - Imran Farooq

Informer in Bomb Plot Describes His Two Lives

What the new Zawahiri tape means

U.S. Debates Response to Targeted Killing Lawsuit Anwar al-Aulaqi

Witness's Role in Embassy Bombing Trial to Be Contested at Hearing - Trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in New York

US considers terror charges for cleric al-Awlaki - Updated

US eyes terror charges for Yemeni cleric al-Awlaki

Underwear Bomber Hints He Might Plead Guilty; Also Fires his Attorneys - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Pakistani Insurgent Group Expands in Afghanistan

(Iraq) Five killed in central Iraq violence

In Saudi Arabia, re-educating terrorists held at Gitmo: Former Guantanamo Bay prisoners said to be more likely to return to terror. - "Abdulrahman Al Hadlaq, director of the Interior Ministry's Ideological Security Directorate, said the program's relapse rate for Guantanamo returnees came close to 20 percent, or 18.9 to be exact."

Report calls immigrants and domestic Muslims a terror threat in U.S. Bipartisan Policy Center report by Peter Bergen and Bruce Hoffman is here

(Denmark) Explosion possibly terror related

Growing power of al-Qaida leader in Yemen - Said Ali al-Shihri, ex-Guantanamo detainee

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Arrested in Yemen - Jabir Jubran al Fayfi ISN 188

Norway man pleads not guilty to terror financing - Name of Norway defendant protected under privacy law

In Saudi Arabia, women join fight against terror

Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politician - Australia-born Feiz Muhammad threats on audio against Geert Wilders who faces trial in the Netherlands for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.

Inside Al Qaeda - Nine years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden's network remains a shadowy, little-understood enemy. The truth, as revealed by one of its fighters, is both more and less troubling than we think.

(UK)
Dead Codebreaker Was Linked to NSA Intercept Case
- Gareth Williams, worked decoding Taliban communications, foul play

Probe Circles Globe to Find Dirty Money - Investigation of Alavi Foundation and Iran

Dutch Release Two Yemeni Men

U.S. charges Pakistani Taliban leader in CIA attack - Hakimullah Mehsud

U.S. adds Pakistan Taliban to terror list - Tehrik-i-Taliban, or Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP). Simultaneously, U.S. prosecutors charged TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud for a plot that killed seven CIA employees at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last December.

(Netherlands) Terror probe may be false alarm- Men who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam