ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The suspected mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic church in Nigeria escaped custody after being arrested in the country’s capital, police acknowledged Tuesday – an embarrassment for a nation struggling to contain increasingly bloody sectarian attacks by a radical Islamist sect. SEE ALSO: GOP Candidates Go Hard on […]
Since before Achilles dragged Hector’s body around the walls of Troy, warriors have been desecrating the corpses of their vanquished enemies, whether to send a message or exact revenge. SEE ALSO: Latino Stereotypes On TV: When Will It Stop And for just as long, they have known in their hearts it was wrong. The video […]
According to the American Muslim news site Illume Magazine, a conservative blogger named Pamela Gellar is upset that Butterball Turkeys have been certified halal (the Muslim equivalent of kosher). Apparently she deems these turkeys unfit for American consumption and suggested a boycott: “Across this great country, on Thanksgiving tables nationwide, infidel Americans are unwittingly going […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of a “lone wolf” accused of plotting to attack police stations and post offices with homemade bombs apologized to New Yorkers on Monday, even as questions arose about why federal authorities – who typically handle terrorism cases – declined to get involved in what city officials called a serious […]
The trial of a man charged with planting a bomb at a Martin Luther King parade in Spokane Wash. has been moved due to the unveiling of the new MLK memorial in Washington D.C. Kevin Harpham was originally set to face the court Aug. 22, but a federal judge insisted on moving the trial date […]
Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos. According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms: On June 30, a young African-American […]
With the recent bombing and shootings in Oslo committed by madman Anders Breivik, we decided to take a look back and find the 10 most notorious white terrorists of all-time. When you hear the word terrorist in our national media conversation, you usually hear the words Islamic and Muslim right before it. But rarely ever […]
NEW YORK — Just when you think terrorist plots couldn’t get any more bizarre, the Transportation Security Administration has cautioned airline executives of a possible terror tactic involving surgically stitched explosives inside suicide bombers. The NY Daily News Reports: Terrorists simply keep looking for new ways to sneak bombs past increasingly stiff airport security, TSA […]
WASHINGTON — BP’s oil spill notoriety is reviving unwelcome attention from Congress on another issue: Whether the oil company sought the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to help get a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya off the ground.
