Tag: Terrorism

FILE - This file image from the FBI website shows Abu Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the United States for more than a decade. Al-Libi was captured in a raid Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, and is being held aboard the USS San Antonio, a warship mainly used to transport troops. Instead of sending suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay or secret CIA "black" sites for interrogation, the Obama administration is questioning them aboard U.S. naval vessels. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

National Security

Government to follow humane tactics questioning al-Libi

Eileen Sullivan · October 8, 2013 8:08 pm

Al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al-Libi was captured in Tripoli, Libya, over the weekend by American special forces. (AP Photo/FBI File)

Republicans call for al Qaeda operative to be held in Gitmo

Tim Mak · October 8, 2013 4:00 am

This image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi. Gunmen in a three-car convoy seized Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the U.S. for more than a decade outside his house Saturday in the Libyan capital, his relatives said. (AP Photo/FBI)

National Security

US interrogators sent to question al Qaeda suspect

EILEEN SULLIVANPETE YOST · October 7, 2013 9:37 pm

An armed member of the militant group al Shabaab attends a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Image)

National Security

Pentagon: SEAL raid failed to capture terror group leader

Meghashyam Mali · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

Al-Shabaab is a repugnant and evil bunch, formally allied with al Qaeda, but the group's focus thus far has been regional: the creation of an Islamic state in Somalia, and, as an AS spokesman put it in 2010, "sending a message to every country who is willing to send troops to Somalia," like Uganda and Kenya. (AP File)

Obama opens another bloody front in the war on terror, Somalia

Gene Healy · October 7, 2013 4:00 am

National Security

Pentagon: US forces take al-Qaida leader in Libya

Robert Burns · October 6, 2013 2:53 am

National Security

AP sources: Navy SEALs raid Somali town

Kimberly Dozier · October 6, 2013 12:42 am

National Security

Tunisian man extradited to US in suicide bomb plot

Pete Yost · October 3, 2013 9:39 pm

Americans reportedly participated with Somalian terrorists in the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that left at least 67 people dead.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Rukmini Callimachi)

Why can’t the Associated Press call a terrorist a ‘terrorist’?

Gregory Kane · October 2, 2013 4:00 am

National Security

US: Taliban attack could have been foreseen

Robert Burns · October 2, 2013 1:33 am

The Child Soldiers Prevention Act waiver applies fully to Chad, South Sudan and Yemen. Congo and Somalia received partial waivers. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Obama waives ban on aiding regimes that use child soldiers

Joel Gehrke · September 30, 2013 4:00 am

National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander is sworn on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) call records. Clapper told lawmakers he's willing to consider limits on surveillance by the National Security Agency. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Official sidesteps queries on cellphone locations

Kimberly Dozier · September 27, 2013 3:38 am