U.S. antiterrorism efforts
30 al-Qaida militants killed in fighting in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen -- Government troops backed by warplanes and heavy artillery pounded al-Qaida positions in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 30 militants, officials said.
Date: 05/13/2012 | Nation & World
Drone strike kills al-Qaida leader in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen -- An airstrike Sunday killed a top al-Qaida leader on the FBI's most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said. The drone attack was carried out by the CIA, U.S. officials said.
Date: 05/06/2012 | Nation & World
9/11 terror trial suspects ignore their judge (video)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that ended late...
Date: 05/06/2012 | Nation & World
9/11 terror suspects disrupt Gitmo hearing (video)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks repeatedly declined to answer a judge's questions Saturday and his co-defendants knelt in prayer in what appeared to be a concerted protest against the military proceedings.
Date: 05/05/2012 | Nation & World
Bin Laden sought operative with valid Mexican passport
WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden instructed his deputies to recruit an operative with a valid Mexican passport who could cross illegally into the United States, said a former U.S. official familiar with the trove of letters and notes seized last year from the terrorist leader's compound.
Date: 05/02/2012 | Nation & World
Military to show Guantanamo trial at U.S. bases
MIAMI -- Firefighters and cops who raced to the burning trade World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, will watch in one room at a Brooklyn Army post, while 9/11 victims will watch from another. Media, family members and members of the public can watch on three separate screens at Fort Meade in...
Date: 04/29/2012 | Nation & World
Philippines using U.S. smart bombs
MANILA, Philippines -- Concealed by the night sky, the two aging Philippine air force planes unleashed a surprise high-tech weapon: U.S. satellite-guided bombs that whizzed down with deadly precision toward a long-elusive terrorist suspect and two other top radicals dozing with their men in Jolo...
Date: 03/22/2012 | Nation & World
U.S. no-fly list doubles in size in one year
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States, including about 500 Americans. The government lowered the bar for being added to the list, even as it says it's...
Date: 02/03/2012 | Nation & World
U.S. worried about Bin Laden tipster in Pakistan
WASHINGTON -- The United States is "very concerned" about the condition of a Pakistani doctor who provided information that helped them track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CBS News in an interview to be broadcast today.
Date: 01/29/2012 | Nation & World
Somali captors move U.S. hostage after Navy SEAL raid
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A group holding an American hostage in Somalia moved him at least three times in the day since U.S. Navy SEALs rescued an American and a Dane and killed their nine kidnappers, pirates said Thursday. The abductors said they would kill the hostage if they are...
Date: 01/26/2012 | Nation & World
Navy SEAL raid in Somalia shows extent of U.S. reach
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The Navy SEALs parachuted into the darkness, landing more than a mile from their objective: a small bush camp in north-central Somalia where an American aid worker and a Danish colleague were being held captive.
Date: 01/25/2012 | Nation & World
Judge: Islamic charity founder free until ruling
MEDFORD, Ore. -- A federal judge has issued an order allowing a man convicted of using a defunct Islamic charity to smuggle money to Saudi Arabia to remain free while waiting on an appeals court ruling.
Date: 01/21/2012 | Northwest
Panetta: Djibouti critical to U.S. terror fight
CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, arriving Tuesday in Djibouti, said U.S. operations against al-Qaida are now concentrating on key groups in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa.
Date: 12/13/2011 | Nation & World
Iran shows video of captured U.S. spy drone
WASHINGTON — Tehran's capture of a largely intact, top secret U.S. drone, which it displayed on state television, not only lays bare America's surveillance program over Iran, but it also puts sensitive, advanced technology in hostile hands.
Date: 12/08/2011 | Nation & World
Take a look inside Romania's secret CIA prison
WASHINGTON — In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the heart of the capital city, is a secret the Romanian government has long tried to protect.
Date: 12/08/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. commandos fan out in remote Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The U.S. military has dropped its first set of boots into the tropical overgrowth of central Africa, one of the most inaccessible areas of the world, to help fight a brutal rogue rebel group that's known for abducting children and mutilating the faces of victims.
Date: 12/08/2011 | Nation & World
Downed spy drone targeted Iran, U.S. admits
WASHINGTON -- The Iranian capture of a high-tech, stealth U.S. drone shines a light on the American spying mission there, but probably doesn't tell Tehran much that it didn't already know, a senior U.S. official said.
Date: 12/08/2011 | Nation & World
85-year-old says she was strip searched at JFK
NEW YORK — An 85-year-old New York grandmother said Saturday she was injured and humiliated when she was strip searched at an airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Nation & World
Pakistan spy chief intervenes in memo scandal
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's powerful army intelligence chief personally intervened to check details surrounding a secret memo asking Washington to rein in Pakistan's military following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the man who made the memo public said Sunday.
Date: 11/20/2011 | Nation & World
Each inmate at Guantanamo costs U.S. $800,000 a year
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Guards get combat pay, just like troops in Afghanistan, without the risk of being blown up. Some commanders get to bring their families to this war-on-terror deployment. And each captive gets $38.45 worth of food a day.
Date: 11/11/2011 | Nation & World
Is Iran working on a nuclear warhead?
VIENNA, Austria -- An International Atomic Energy Agency report this week on Iran's nuclear program will point to efforts by Tehran to build a computer model of a nuclear warhead, diplomats said Saturday.
Date: 11/06/2011 | Nation & World
Feds arrest 4 in alleged militia plot against government
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — In the violent underground novel "Absolved," right-wing militia members upset about gun control make war against the U.S. government. This week, federal prosecutors accused four elderly Georgia men of plotting to use the book as a script for a real-life wave of terror and...
Date: 11/02/2011 | Nation & World
Leon Panetta to get a tasty treat for finding bin Laden
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. government offered a $25 million bounty for Osama bin Laden, but there was a lesser-known enticement for then-CIA chief Leon Panetta: a sip or two of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1870, one of the world's most celebrated wines.
Date: 10/27/2011 | Nation & World
Iraq war is over; all troops to come home
WASHINGTON — America's long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq will be over by year's end and all U.S. troops "''will definitely be home for the holidays," President Barack Obama declared Friday.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
Iraq will be left in sea of conflict
BAGHDAD -- The inability of the Obama administration to reach an agreement on a continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq will increase pressure from all directions on the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, testing the resiliency of this country's fragile national institutions and a...
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
County families with connection to war in Iraq react to its end
EVERETT -- The war in Iraq touched many lives in Snohomish County. Some served there, some died there. The announcement Friday that the president is ordering all troops home was met with varying reactions. Many welcomed the news. Dedi Noble did not.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Local News
U.S. and Pakistan rebuild their spying ties
WASHINGTON -- In what could mark a turning point in U.S.-Pakistani relations, Pakistani forces have arrested a handful of al-Qaida suspects at the CIA's request and allowed the U.S. access to the detainees, U.S. and Pakistani officials said.
Date: 10/09/2011 | Nation & World
1 in 3 veterans sees Iraq, Afghan wars as a waste
WASHINGTON — One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion...
Date: 10/05/2011 | Nation & World
Trial to begin for man accused in underwear attack
DETROIT -- The trial of a young African accused of trying to bring down an airliner with a bomb in his underwear is no whodunit. Prosecutors have his hospital-bed confession, dozens of witnesses, remnants of the explosive and an al-Qaida video featuring the 24-year-old explaining his suicide...
Date: 10/03/2011 | Nation & World
Drones are U.S. weapon of choice in war on terror
WASHINGTON -- Hunting al-Qaida targets from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Yemen to Somalia, the fleet of U.S. armed Predator and Reaper drones that killed two American members of al-Qaida in Yemen are the night stalkers of the expanded U.S. war on terrorists.
Date: 10/02/2011 | Nation & World
Should president have the power to approve American deaths?
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama steered the nation's war machine into uncharted territory Friday when a U.S. drone attacked a convoy in Yemen and killed two American citizens who had become central figures in al-Qaida.
Date: 10/01/2011 | Nation & World
Top Al-Qaida operative killed in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen — The Yemeni government has released an official statement saying the U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed.
Date: 09/30/2011 | Nation & World
Airport security rules for kids revamped
WASHINGTON -- Children 12 years old and younger soon will no longer be required to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress on Tuesday. The policy also includes other ways to screen young children without resorting to a pat-down...
Date: 09/14/2011 | Business
Petraeus, Clapper: Al-Qaida far from done
WASHINGTON -- America's top two intelligence officials said Tuesday that al-Qaida is weaker and U.S. intelligence agencies are smarter since the Sept. 11 attacks -- but the terrorists are nowhere near giving up.
Date: 09/14/2011 | Nation & World
Lives not the only toll of 9/11
If you want to kiss your husband goodbye at the airport gate, you can't.If you check out books from a public library, investigators could look at what you read.If you planned to visit Naval Station Everett on the Fourth of July, you were out of luck.
Date: 09/04/2011 | Local News
New Stryker vehicles deflecting bombs better
TACOMA -- A new version of the Army's eight-wheeled Stryker vehicle is deflecting bombs better, according to military officials, who say soldiers driving the new armored combat vehicle are walking away from large roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
Date: 08/29/2011 | Northwest
U.S. officials: Al-Qaida's No. 2 killed in Pakistan
WASHINGTON -- U.S. and Pakistani officials said Saturday that al-Qaida's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat.
Date: 08/28/2011 | Nation & World
With CIA help, New York police move covertly in Muslim areas
NEW YORK -- Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has become one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government, an Associated...
Date: 08/24/2011 | Nation & World
Obama: 'Lone wolf' terror attack biggest concern
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a "lone wolf" terror attack in the U.S. is more likely than a major coordinated effort like the Sept. 11 attacks nearly a decade ago.
Date: 08/16/2011 | Nation & World
45 percent of Guantanamo inmates shun Ramadan fast
MIAMI — With the vast majority of the prisoners at Guantanamo now marking their 10th Ramadan in a row behind the razor wire, the military is providing food around the clock for both the faithful honoring the dawn-to-dusk fast and those Muslim captives who choose to ignore it.
Date: 08/06/2011 | Nation & World
TSA software to end naked scanner images
LOS ANGELES — Say goodbye to naked scanner images.
Date: 07/20/2011 | Nation & World
Report: CIA target bin Laden with phony program
WASHINGTON -- The CIA ran a phony vaccination program in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden's family was believed to be living in an effort to obtain DNA evidence indicating whether the al-Qaida leader was there, The New York Times reported.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Nation & World
Leon Panetta: U.S. within reach of defeating al-Qaida
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Al-Qaida's defeat is "within reach," U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Saturday during his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief. He said eliminating as few as 10 of the group's top figures could cripple its ability to strike the West.
Date: 07/10/2011 | Nation & World
U.S. to use precision strikes to stop terror, strategy says
WASHINGTON -- Precision strikes and raids, rather than large land wars, are the most effective way to defeat al-Qaida, the Obama administration concluded in a new counterterrorism strategy.
Date: 06/29/2011 | Nation & World
Agencies checking for radioactivity on Puget Sound
PORT ORCHARD -- Local marine police officers perform a variety of responsibilities while patrolling the waters of Puget Sound: They perform safety checks, inspect vessels, investigate drunken boaters and more.Add thwarting nuclear attacks to their repertoire.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Northwest
Poll: Most Pakistanis think bin Laden's death bad
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistanis largely disapprove of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, with a majority believing the al-Qaida chief's death is a bad thing and relations between Washington and Islamabad will suffer as a result, new polling data show.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Nation & World
Ayman Al-Zawahri named to lead al-Qaida
CAIRO — Osama bin Laden's longtime second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, has taken control of al-Qaida, the group declared Thursday, marking the ascendancy of a man driven by hatred of the United States who helped plan the 9/11 attacks.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Nation & World
USS Carl Vinson returns from Bin Laden mission
SAN DIEGO — To the tearful joy of military family members and the admiration of civilian onlookers, the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson returned to San Diego on Wednesday after a seven-month deployment that included the at-sea burial of Osama bin Laden.
Date: 06/15/2011 | Nation & World
Bin Laden informants nabbed
WASHINGTON -- Pakistan's intelligence service has arrested the owner of a safe house rented to the CIA to observe Osama bin Laden's compound before the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, as well as a "handful" of other Pakistanis, a U.S. official said late Tuesday.
Date: 06/14/2011 | Nation & World
Drone base set for Gulf
WASHINGTON -- The United States is building a secret CIA air base in the Persian Gulf region to target terrorists in Yemen, preparing for the possibility that an anti-American faction may take over Yemen and ban U.S. forces from hunting a lethal al-Qaida faction there, The Associated Press has...
Date: 06/14/2011 | Nation & World
Al-Qaida leader threatens the West
CAIRO — Osama bin Laden's deputy warned Wednesday that America faces not individual terrorists or groups but an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it and its allies. He was delivering a 28-minute videotaped eulogy to slain al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Date: 06/09/2011 | Nation & World
Al-Qaida commander's death increasingly certain
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani authorities are nearly certain that a recent U.S. missile strike killed one of the most wanted leaders of al-Qaida, but the lack of a body still leaves some room for doubt, a security official said Sunday.
Date: 06/05/2011 | Nation & World
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