Fix U.S. Airport Security Before It’s Too Late
The same security flaws that allow drugs into the United States can be exploited by terror groups and may eventually lead to another 9/11-type mass terror attack. It is time to close that gap by...
Richard Reid
Operation Hemorrhage: The Terror Plans to Wreck the West’s Economy
Every European who flies frequently knows the airport in Zaventem, has spent time in the ticketing area that was strewn with blood, limbs, broken glass, battered luggage and other wreckage. ...
Op-eds
Egypt Requests Release of al Qaeda Explosives Expert
The Egyptian government has requested the release of a top al Qaeda explosives expert from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to...
Op-eds
Guantanamo Detainee Releases Audio Message to Syrian People
An audio message to the Syrian people purportedly from a current Guantanamo detainee has been released online by jihadist forums, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. The message is reported...
Op-eds
New Investigation Into Murder of Daniel Pearl Released
On Thursday, The Center for Public Integrity released a new report detailing the circumstances of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder. The report confirms that...
Op-eds
The Beginning of the End of Swiss ‘Active Neutrality’?
Tuesday morning, NBC News broadcast an interview with Saad Iqbal Madni, a former Guantanamo detainee. Madni’s story is an old one and there is no real “news” here. The New...
Op-eds
From Al Qaeda Recruit to Millionaire?
Is the British government preparing to make one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s alleged co-conspirators a millionaire? The Washington Post reports on the British payouts to former Gitmo detaine...
Op-eds
The Continued Ineptitude of Our Jihadi Enemies
A senior Taliban commander killed himself and his assistant when a bomb they were assembling prematurely detonated, the BBC reported yesterday. Several of Irshad Khan’s family members...
Op-eds
Top 10 Dumbest Terrorists
(May 12) -- Failed Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad could join the ranks of terrorists who blundered while attempting to carry out violence against the U.S. or its allies. Whi...
Op-eds
The Najibullah Zazi Detention Memo and His Use of Explosives
On Sept. 24, the government submitted a memorandum of law supporting its motion for a permanent order of d...
Op-eds
Smarter Commercial Aviation Security
The United States and one of its most faithful allies in the war on terrorism, the United Kingdom, have providentially averted a terrorist plot of frightening magnitude that, had it succeeded, wo...
Op-eds
Profiles and Courage
I'm writing this on my laptop in the Atlanta airport, waiting for a flight delayed due to weather. But I can't complain. I didn't spend long at the security check. On the other han...
Op-eds
Behind the Times
The "Paper of Record" Doesn't Understand the Terrorist Threat
Op-eds
Shoe Bomber 2.0; The Justice Department Indicts Richard Reid’s Accomplice
John Ashcroft reminded Americans Monday of how effective the government's post-9/11 effort to thwart Islamic militancy has been, announcing the indictment of a second conspirator in the most...