Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaida meets Victoria's Secret

Those sultans of style at al-Qaidahave released their line of lingerie for spring, and it's a blast. Tucked away in their secret atelier in Yemen, the fanatics of fashion have come up with an updated version of the exploding underwear that caused such a...

Tags: Explosions, Entertainment Events, Fashion Shows, Victoria's Secret, Central Intelligence Agency

Tags: Justice System, Bradley Manning, Prosecution, Computer Networking and Internet, WikiLeaks

Al-Qaida after bin Laden

One year after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs at his safe house in Pakistan, a substantially weakened al-Qaida and its affiliates continue to pose a threat to the West. The Pakistan-based group's leadership has been decimated by drone...

Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Navy, Pakistan, Elections, Saddam Hussein

Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work

Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....

Tags: Abusive Behavior, West Point, Abbottabad (Pakistan), Social Sciences, Culture

We probably shouldn't attack Iran, but we shouldn't tell them that

Should we bomb Iran for plotting to blow up a Washington, D.C., restaurant in order to assassinate the Saudi ambassador? Probably not. Should Iran be worried that we might? Absolutely. And yet, within hours of the Justice Department charging...

Tags: Foreign Aid, White House, Justice System, U.S. Military, Ronald Reagan

As Afghanistan drawdown looms, concerns about Pakistan

Back from a visit to Kabul, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger expressed confidence in relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan. It's Pakistan that concerns him. "A lot of terrorists are being trained and harbored in Pakistan," said Ruppersberger, the top...

Tags: White House, Baltimore County, United Air Lines, Pakistan, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Howard County teen pleads guilty to terrorism plot

With a full math and science scholarship to the Johns Hopkins University and accolades for his writing, Howard County's Mohammad Hassan Khalid seemed ready to continue the American dream his father embarked on years ago when he brought the family from...

Tags: Religious Conflicts, Justice System, Juvenile Delinquency, Prosecution, FBI

Tags: Pharmaceuticals, White House, Ayman al-Zawahri, Kidnapping, Washington, DC

Former Islamic jihadist teaches Middle Eastern politics at Washington College

Shiraz Maher went to the mosque in search of answers. Why, he wanted to know, had 15 young men from Saudi Arabia, the country where he spent most of his childhood, just crashed jetliners into prominent U.S. buildings? The men who gave him clarity wore...

Tags: Religious Conflicts, Cambridge (England), Washington College (Maryland), Colleges and Universities, Saudi Arabia

Bin Laden anniversary a reminder of Obama's foreign successes

We are a nation that loves anniversaries — of births, weddings, deaths and everything else under the sun. We're now celebrating the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden and arguing whether President Barack Obama, who gave the order,...

Tags: Parties and Movements, White House, General Motors Corp., Culture, Elections

To Romney's chagrin, Obama is no Jimmy Carter

As Mitt Romney continues his quest for the silver bullet that will wipe out all the deep reservations about his qualifications to be president, the man who still owns the job is demonstrating every day why incumbency gives him a major advantage in...

Tags: Labor Markets, White House, Jules Witcover, Jimmy Carter, Television Networks

Public may watch Guantanamo arraignments from Fort Meade

Members of the public may watch the arraignment of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects Saturday at Fort Meade, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. Mohammed and his co-defendants are to be arraigned at...

Tags: Baltimore County, September 11, 2001 Attacks, United Air Lines, The Pentagon, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland)