Terrorism News
Within the last month, our country has witnessed two senseless, high-profile acts of criminal violence that would have been labeled terrorism if brown-skinned Arab Muslim men with foreign-sounding names had committed them.
American Colleen LaRose, the self-proclaimed "Jihad Jane," faces terror charges for trying to murder a Swedish artist for his depiction of the prophet Muhammad. Gwen Ifill talks to a reporter about the threat of domestic terrorism.
The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman aiding in foreign terrorism and shows the evolution of the global threat.
A suicide plane crash that killed the pilot and an Internal Revenue Service worker at an office building in Austin on Feb. 18 was not a case of domestic terrorism, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday in a radio interview.
LONDON -- U.S. intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of terrorism suspects, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.
She called herself "Jihad Jane" - a petite blonde from the Philadelphia suburbs accused of trying to recruit terrorists for attacks overseas via the Internet. The neighbors had no clue and neither did her boyfriend. But federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Colleen LaRose may represent the new face of terrorism, as CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the terrorism and militancy were being fanned to destabilise the economy of the country which is at the threshold of a double digit growth.
As we come up on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, I hope readers will search for stories that reveal a different perspective on terrorism.
The Prince William County police department will receive a $40,000 grant as part of a state program to fight terrorism.
Albemarle County and Charlottesville have picked up a federal grant to fight terrorism here.