News Stories relating to "terrorism"

Is duct tape really the answer? No Such Thing as Doomsday by Philip L. Hoag cuts through the nonsense with sober, sensitive advice that will really help! This classic book is invaluable in the current climate of fear, because it offers specifics about which products to buy and where to get them in order to give yourself a measure of security...

A new government plan would look up background information on you and assign you a threat level every time you buy a airplane ticket. A nationwide computer system will check credit reports and bank account activity and compare passenger names with those on government watch lists. "This system threatens to create a permanent blacklisted...

Could rumors of terrorist attack themselves be a form of terrorist attack? An attack will hit the U.S. next week, according to an Islamist website. On Monday, the site said, "the train of death is on its way" within 10 days, and "nothing will stop its riders." The article was written anonymously by someone who calls himself "The Prince of...

The demise of model rocketry may seem like a small price to pay for homeland security, but for those who love to build and fly them, it's a major tragedy. But they can't fly without solid rocket motors, and UPS has stopped shipping them due to the Safe Explosives Act, which is part of the new Homeland Security provisions. Rocketeers are...

A document drafted by Attorney General John Ashcroft called the "Domestic Security Act of 2003," which has been leaked to the media, calls for laws that will expand the Patriot Act to give the government the right to read private e-mail messages and monitor web surfing. "I think that the average web surfer is not going to notice a thing. That's...

Many Muslims no longer want to drink Coke, since it's a U.S. product, so Tawfik Mathlouthi invented Mecca Cola, with the slogan, "No more drinking stupid, drink with commitment." He says the drink fights "America's imperialism and Zionism by providing a substitute for American goods and increasing the blockade of countries boycotting American...

U.S. intelligence has identified the origins of al-Qaeda funding and discovered that the terrorists are supported by only 12 wealthy sources?all of them from Saudi Arabia. "It is our first big break in understanding al-Qaeda's financial network," says an official. "At first, the network was so big that we didn't think could find major channels...

Since skyscrapers are a symbol of Western power for terrorists, we should figure out how to protect them from the fate of the World Trade Center. The lightweight construction that enabled the World Trade Center towers to rise so high proved fatal on September 11, when terrorist-controlled jets easily sliced through them, fatally severing their...

An invasion of Iraq may make terrorism worse, because we would not be able to take over control of the country immediately. In the meantime, terrorists inside Iraq would have a chance to move or sell their weapons and locate elsewhere, where they could plan retaliation strikes.

According to Iraqi defectors and UNSCOM, the UN special...

Whitley Strieber posted this Journal on September 27, 2001: Before September 11, we were one country. Now we are another. In the old America, we were self-assuredly embarking on what was actually a very strange and forked road. On the one hand, our new administration was promoting globalism and free trade. On the other, it was pursuing a policy...

Whitley Strieber posted this Journal on September 12, 2001: September 11, 2001 was the worst day of all of our lives. In that awful sense, it brought us together in a new way. The images that haunt me--the doomed woman stretched to her limit, leaning out of a window above the flames; the dark shadow that seems to cover the second plane as it...

As we approach the anniversary of 911, we hope that the FBI will get intelligence information about the NEXT terrorist attack. But it's hard to feel hopeful when we hear about yet another time they dropped the ball before September 11, 2001. Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, who was an aide to the former Taliban foreign minister, says he was sent to warn...

Before his death, the Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal claimed his Fatah Revolutionary Council was responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people. Abu Nidal was killed on August 15 in Iraq, after he refused a demand by Saddam Hussein to help train al-Qaeda agents. Atef Abu Bakr, Nidal's...

Al-Qaeda terrorism in the U.S. may have started a decade ago, with the assassination of a radical Rabbi Meier Kahane in New York City. On November 5, 1990, as a crowd gathered in a hotel to hear him speak, deadly shots rang out. The gunman, El Sayyid Nosair, was wounded in a battle with police. A search of his home led to a "treasure trove of...