Five Sydney men have been sentenced in Australia’s longest and most high profile terror case. The sentences ranged from 23 to 28 years in prison for plotting jihad on Australian soil. The men had been stockpiling chemical explosives and other weapons to carry out the attacks.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, suspect in the failed Christmas airliner attack, said that radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki had instructed him to carry out the attack. Investigators say Abdulmutallab has been cooperating with authorities by giving them information about the radical cleric and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Two men were arrested today in connection with the Najibullah Zazi terrorism case. Adis Medunjanin, 25, and Zarein Ahmedzay, 24, were apprehended after months of intense investigations in connection with Zazi’s bomb plot. It is reported that the two men traveled to Pakistan with Zazi.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian national who attempted to blow up a flight to Detroit, was arraigned today. Abdulmutallab is facing six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which is punishable by up to life in prison. He will be arraigned in a US district court in Detroit on Friday.
Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national with admitted links to al Qaeda, was subdued and apprehended after trying to detonate an explosive device strapped to his leg aboard an international flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The explosive device, reported to be a mix of powder and liquid, failed to explode but did ignite, in what […]
An al Qaeda-linked Nigerian man was subdued by passengers after attempting to detonate an explosive cocktail during a flight. The Northwest Airlines-chartered plane en route from Amsterdam landed safely at its destination in Detroit.
Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a 23 year old Georgia man, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for terror related crimes. Sadequee was found guilty on 4 terror related charges, including providing material support to the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
US prosecutors charged American David Headley in connection with the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack. Headley, who was also charged with conspiring to plan attacks in Denmark, is reported to have done reconnaissance on the Mumbai targets on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
US Army Major Nidal Hasan has been charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder for the Nov. 5 shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Hasan has already been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder.
The US Attorney’s office has announced that hearings for David Coleman Headley will be deferred indefinitely. Headley was scheduled for preliminary and detention hearings on Dec. 4 for his role in a conspiracy to carry out attacks abroad on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Ansar al Awlaki (left), and Major Nidal Hasan (right). As more clues emerge and investigations continue in the Fort Hood shootings, the debate rages as to what Major Nidal Hasan’s motives were. The facts that are already known, however, seem to paint a pretty clear picture of how these events unfolded, and what Hasan’s intentions […]
Yemeni authorities are trying to track down Anwar al Awlaki, the imam whom the Ft. Hood shooter contacted numerous times before carrying out his attack. Awlaki is suspected of giving approval to kidnapping by militants and was once arrested in Yemen for alleged ties to al Qaeda. DC sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed by […]
Washington, DC area sniper, John Lee Muhammad, will be executed for the murder of ten innocent civilians during a three week killing spree. The Supreme Court has denied his appeals and only an unlikely call from Virginia Governor Tim Kaine will save him from lethal injection. Muhammad’s teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, is currently serving […]
US intelligence has been aware for months that Ft. Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan had attempted to contact al Qaeda associates. Hasan’s ties to Anwar al Awlaki, an imam living in Yemen, further fueled speculation that this was an act of Islamic terror. British intelligence intercepted an email that led to the arrest of Afghan […]
The two men accused of plotting attacks on a Danish newspaper also planned to carry out attacks in India. Prosecutors have stated that Tahawwura Hussain Rana and David Headley also discussed attacking the National Defense College in India before they were apprehended by authorities for conspiracy to commit terrorist attacks.
A high number of terrorist plots have been disrupted in the US this year. Several of the Islamists who have been detained have been traced back to Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Mujahid Carswell, the son of the mosque leader killed in an FBI raid, has been arrested. Carswell has been on the run since yesterday’s raid by authorities on members of the Islamic group Ummah. He was detained in Windsor, Ontario, after Canadian authorities were put on alert that he might be trying to enter Canada […]
A string of raids by the FBI targeting members of a radical Islamist group calling themselves “Ummah” has ended with 10 arrests and one suspect killed in a shootout. The leader of the Detroit-based Masjid Al-Haqq mosque, Luqman Ameen Abdullah (also known as Christopher Thomas), refused to surrender and was shot and killed after exchanging […]
An Indian national living in Queens has been indicted for attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah. Patrick Nayyar and Stanisclaus Mulholland agreed to provide the terrorist group with arms and ammunition. Mulholland has been indicted but not arrested; prosecutors believe he is in Britain. Both men met with an FBI informant numerous times, whom […]
The Justice Department and FBI have announced the arrests of two men earlier this month in Chicago for planning to commit terrorist attacks overseas. David Coleman Headley, an American, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian, were charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and providing material support to terrorists. Their intended target was the Danish […]
Hosam Maher Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian man living in the US, has pled not guilty to charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place. Smadi was arrested on Sept. 24 after undercover FBI agents, posing as al Qaeda members, supplied him with an inactive car bomb which he […]
Three Ohio men have been sentenced in a terrorist plot aimed at US troops in Iraq. Mohammad Amawi received a 20-year sentence, Marwan El-Hindi received a 12-year sentence, and Wassim Mazloum received an eight-year sentence. Last year, the trio was found guilty on charges that they plotted to recruit and train terrorists to carry out […]
Tarek Mehanna has been arrested on terrorism-related charges while trying to board a flight in Boston. In 2008, Tarek, a Muslim from Massachusetts, was arrested on charges of lying to the FBI. He, along with two co-conspirators, now faces charges of conspiring to carry out attacks on civilian targets in the United States and military […]