Here Are The 104 Places in America to Put Gitmo Detainees
Think you can't close Guantanamo Bay? A new congressional study prompted by a powerful Senator found up to 104 places inside the U.S. to put Gitmo detainees. It's just going to take some major...
View ArticleDeath by Algorithm: West Point Code Shows Which Terrorists Should Disappear...
Paulo Shakarian has an algorithm that might one day help dismantle al-Qaida -- or at least one of its lesser affiliates.
View ArticlePlayStation-Controlled DIY Tank May Be the Wildest Weapon Yet in the Syria War
Syria's rebels may have taken the concept of a video game a tad too far. A home-made rebel tank has been built and armed with a machine gun controlled like it's a Playstation.
View ArticleSomali Pirate Kingpin Calls It Quits as Hijackings Plummet
The dread Somali pirate Mohamed Abdi Hassan called a press conference Thursday to announce his retirement. He picked a good time to get out of the game: piracy is way, way down.
View ArticleMali Shadow War Now Being Fought From the Sky
The international counterattack against Islamic militants in Mali ramped up over the weekend, with air strikes by French warplanes and gunship helicopters and a French-supported airborne assault by...
View ArticleThis Is the Arsenal Hitting Mali’s Militants
By air and by land, the French military is on the attack in the embattled West African state of Mali. Here are their weapons of war.
View ArticleAir Force Evacuates Some Hostages Freed From Algeria Oil Field Chaos
A U.S. Air Force C-130 medical transport plane landed in Algeria on Friday morning to evacuate some of the hostages freed from their terrorist captors during a chaotic Algerian military operation.
View ArticleThis Tech Entrepreneur Is About to Launch the Blackwater of the High Seas
Beware, pirates of Africa. You may have outlasted years of patrols from the world's navies. But now you'll have to contend with a dapper British investor who is seeking to privatize the fight against...
View ArticleSuicide Bomber Strikes U.S. Embassy in Turkey
A suicide bomber attacked the U.S. embassy in Ankara, the capitol of Turkey, killing at least two in the first major attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility since the assault on the U.S. consulate in...
View ArticleRapping Terrorist Accused of Not Writing His Own Jihadi Rhymes
Omar Hammami wasn't just an American jihadist. He was a fake emcee, using a ghostwriter for his embarrassingly bad jihadi rap career.
View ArticleNow Al-Qaida Wants to Torch Your Car and Snarl Your Commute
Once al-Qaida turned airplanes into missiles. Now its tips for would-be jihadis run more toward vehicular vandalism.
View ArticleIn Manifesto, Mexican Eco-Terrorists Declare War on Nanotechnology
Over the past two years, Mexican scientists involved in nanotechnology have become targets. They're not threatened by the nation's drug cartels. They're marked for death by a group of bomb-building...
View ArticleUrban Exploration Helps Terrorism, Counterterrorism Agency Warns
Sure, most so-called placehackers or urban spelunkers are just taken with the mysteries of cities. But the National Counterterrorism Center warns that these adventurers inadvertently aid terrorists.
View ArticleBiggest Threat to U.S. National Security: Wars
In 2004, Osama bin Laden explained how his terrorists were going to win its struggle against a vastly more powerful adversary: al-Qaida sought to “blee[d] America to the point of bankruptcy.” Bin Laden...
View Article‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist
Omar Hammami is an American jihadist from Somalia. He intends to stay one, he tells Danger Room, even as he's struck up a Twitter friendship with U.S. counterterrorists.
View ArticleIt’s Forced Feeding vs. Scotch-Tape Batons as Gitmo Detainees Continue Hunger...
Feeding tubes, Scotch tape and water bottles have all become improvised weapons in an ongoing clash at Guantanamo Bay between guards and hunger-striking detainees.
View ArticleWhen, And Why, to Call a Bombing ‘Terrorism’
Slow down a second. What happened in Boston may or may not have been terrorism. Here's how to think through the distinction.
View Article4 Questions Obama’s Big National Security Speech Should Answer
Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We'll see.
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