Terrorism

The war-crimes trial of Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay should be put on hold until the courts rule on the legality of the hearings, his Pentagon-appointed lawyer says in an emergency petition to the U.S. […] […]

TWO near-simultaneous car bombs in the southern Iraqi city of Kut killed 30 people and wounded 80 this morning. The blasts struck the commercial center of Kut, 160 kilometers south of Baghdad and capital of […] […]

NEW YORK – A former member of Guyana’s parliament and another man were convicted of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a plan that authorities said was meant […] […]

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN—A suicide car bomber who blew himself up next to a small bazaar near Kandahar city committed “a sheer act of murder” in killing six nearby children, said the commander of Task Force Kandahar […] […]

A psychologist who made his name on the evils of television is now warning against computers as well, saying they are bad for the brains of young children. Dr Aric Sigman, an American-born British psychologist […] […]

US senators who want a hearing into the Lockerbie bomber’s release have been urged to sign a letter asking the Scottish Government to hold its own public inquiry into the tragedy. The Justice for Megrahi […] […]

France has declared war on al Qaeda, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network’s North African branch, after terrorists killed a French aid worker taken […] […]

WASHINGTON – The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has postponed Thursday’s hearing on the release of the man convicted for bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, because of what a senator says is […] […]

THE US has hit back at claims it was guilty of “double talk” over the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber – insisting it always wanted him to die in jail. The Obama administration intervened […] […]