Social Media Led Authorities to a Benghazi Terror Suspect
It may be the biggest break in the international manhunt for the Benghazi killers and it's all thanks to social media.
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The link between drug smuggling and terror usually spurs images of Afghan poppy fields under the wary eye of men in fatigues. Sometimes, though, it's garbage bags filled with money from selling illegal cigarettes in Brooklyn.
It may be the biggest break in the international manhunt for the Benghazi killers and it's all thanks to social media.
Intelligence agents in Jordan have arrested 11 men they say were planning a serious of suicide bombings using explosives smuggled in from Syria.
A 21-year-old Bangladeshi man failed to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday, largely thanks to the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A Danish spy claims that the third marriage of terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was actually part of a CIA plot to set up the al-Qaeda leader for a CIA assassination attempt.
It took quite some time for senior administration officials to admit what they appear to have known all along, but both President Obama and Hillary Clinton have begun to acknowledge that the September 11 attack in Benghazi was the work al-Qaeda linked terrorists.
Pakistan was willing to devote a national holiday to protesting the film Innocence of Muslims but calling for the producer's assassination is a step too far, apparently.
Protesters burned U.S. flags and hurled objects at riot police amid fires and clouds of tear gas in Pakistan's capital. Looks like the blowback over the Innocence of Muslims film isn't ending anytime soon.
For the most part, the West has been spared of the kind of turbulent protests rocking the Muslim world in recent days, but that soon could change as anti-Islam groups threaten to screen the film Innocence of Muslims in the U.S., Canada and Germany.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice surprised journalists Sunday when she contradicted prevailing wisdom that the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya last week was not a pre-meditated attack.
If you can't keep track of all the Muslim protests erupting across the globe, you're not alone.
Everyday Americans spout off hours upon hours of offensive statements about Islam. So how on Earth did a poorly-produced, wildly obscure 14-minute YouTube clip spark violent uprisings from Yemen to Afghanistan to Algeria to Egypt?
As members of the crew who worked on Muslim Innocence speak out, we're learning more and more about the mysterious man behind the movie, allegedly named Sam Bacile, what the real cost of production was, whether the movie played anywhere, or what it was originally about.
The biggest international news story of the month may be based on a total fraud. That's the sinking feeling reporters are getting about Muslim Innocence, the so-called "film" attributed to a flurry of riots from Algeria to Gaza to Egypt to Afghanistan.
From banning YouTube in Afghanistan to nationwide protests in Egypt, the outrage cycle is far from over following the release of an anti-Islam movie by a Israeli-American filmmaker Sam Bacile.
A midday attack on a police station in Istanbul killed at least one officer, wounded several others and leaves people in Turkey pointing the figure at who is to blame.
An SUV transporting U.S. consulate employees in Pakistan was rammed into by a suicide bomber in an SUV packed with explosives on Monday morning, according to reports.
Militants armed with machine guns and suicide vests attacked a Pakistani Air Force base pinning down security forces for more than two hours and raising new concerns about the safety of the country's nuclear arsenal.
A series of bombings and gun assaults across Iraq has made Monday one of deadliest days of the year in Iraq, with at 82 people dead and more than 130 injured, and those numbers are likely to rise.
Swedish officials are denying Bulgarian news reports that say that the suicide bomber who killed five Israeli tourists yesterday has been identified as Mehdi Ghezali, a Swedish citizen who spent two years in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Little is know about the terrorist who carried out an apparent suicide bombing on a bus full of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, but one detail to emerge is that he was carrying a fake Michigan drivers license listing a Louisiana address.
A Senate committee has found that lax oversight at one of the world's biggest banks allowed terrorists and drug cartels to launder billions of dollars of illegal funds through its U.S. branches.
The most prominent Syria defector to date says that his country's "wounded" regime may have already used chemical weapons on its people and has collaborated with Al Qaeda terrorists to orchestrate high profile bombings across the country.
The Opening Ceremonies are two weeks away, but organizers of the London Olympics are already taking heat over what could turn out to be the Games worst nightmare — a gigantic hole in security.
Reports out of Yemen say a suicide bombing attack on police cadets in the capital of Sanaa has claimed the lives of at least eight and wounded 15 others, suggesting that Sanaa may be becoming al Qaeda's favorite suicide bombing target.
It's not clear whether federal prosecutors ever took seriously a terrorism plot, foiled last year, to blow up the Pentagon using model planes, but on Tuesday they were poised to get a serious conviction out of it as the defendant, Rezwan Ferdaus, agreed to plead guilty.
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Six people were arrested in Greater London on Thursday as part of a possible terrorist plot "involving Islamist extremists, with potential UK targets," according to The BBC.
Passengers and crew on a Tianjin Airlines flight in the Xinjiang province in China, overpowered and subdued six people who attempted to hijack the plane shortly after takeoff.
Nearly twenty years after a deadly nerve gas on attack on the Tokyo subway, police in Japan have tracked down the final remaining fugitive from the group that was responsible.
The Washington Post reports that U.S. military operations in Africa are expanding into a wide-reaching network of air bases, spy planes, and Special Operations units targeting terrorist and guerrilla groups across the continent
A wave of coordinated car bombings across Iraq have killed more than 60 people, most of them pilgrims gathering to mark an important religious festival.
According to his press over the years, if there was a Renaissance man among al Qaeda's senior leadership, it was Abu Yahya al-Libi, the terror network's deputy leader who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan on Monday.
Sometimes "enhanced interrogation" doesn't feel like torture until you see it happening to someone you can relate to.
Hosting The Eurovision Song Contest was a really big deal for Azerbaijan, so foiling an alleged terrorist plot to attack it was a pretty big deal too, which the country kept secret for weeks.
If you think PBS and the CIA have nothing in common, you're wrong.
This is the worst trend ever: Afghan police say yet another poisoning attack at a school -- the fourth this year and the second in a week -- has put 160 female students in the hospital as Taliban militants try to keep women from getting an education.
In what seems to be the only way we find out about who might be the second most powerful man in the al-Qaeda terrorist network, the U.S. is claiming that they've killed Sakhr al-Taifi--al-Qaeda's supposed second in command.
Memorial Day weekend brought news of more U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan as The New York Times raises new questions about President Obama's so-called "Kill List" of terrorists targeted for assassination.
It's not often we learn about the secret world of government-paid hackers, but when we do, it's fascinating to see how they they leave their mark.
Over the White House's denials that any of its people let slip classified information about an operative inside this month's would-be underwear bomb plot, two Republican congressmen have asked the FBI to investigate the White House for the alleged leak.
Three men loosely connected with the NATO protests have been arrested in Chicago for planning terror attacks on major police stations and businesses downtown, as well as President Obama's campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house.
The Associated Press gets credit for actually breaking the recent "underwear bomber" news, but the information that the plot was an inside job by an intelligence operative actually appears to have come accidentally from a White House attempt at damage control.
The Secretary General of the United Nations says he believes al-Qaeda is responsible for two massive bombs that killed 55 people in Damascus last week.
The heat is on a U.S. official responsible for leaking details of al Qaeda's disrupted bomb plot to the Associated Press.
A new twist in the conflict in Syria is emerging with the rise of the Al-Nusra Front, a shadowy al Qaeda-style militant group reeking havoc in the country.
Intelligence services in the United Kingdom are now getting pulled into the story of the foiled airline bomb plot as it's been revealed that the mole who infiltrated al Qaeda in Yemen was actually a British citizen.
Both the Syria government and opposition forces blame the other side for two huge bombs that went off in Damascus today, underscoring once again the failure of the U.N. cease fire.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced a full internal review to determine who might have leaked information to the media about the suicide bomb plot that was thwarted by an Al Qaeda spy.
It's difficult to exaggerate the value of the sting operation that foiled Al Qaeda's latest underwear bomb plot.
In a shocking revelation from intelligence sources, the suicide bomber reportedly thwarted trying to blow up a U.S. airliner last month, was actually an informant who willingly turned over the bomb and a top al-Qaeda operative to the CIA.
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