Report: CIA Arranged Bride for Terrorist in Plot to Kill Him
Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The CIA paid an al Qaeda spy $250,000 to help find a bride for American-born terrorist Anwar al Awlaki in a plot to locate and kill him, according to a report in the Danish newspaper Jylla…
Family of Slain Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Sues Leon Panetta, David Petraeus
Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The family of an al Qaeda member is suing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David Petraeus for the drone attack that killed Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen last year.O…
Holder to Speak on Targeted Killings of Americans
Official White House photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — To kill or not to kill? Under what conditions can or should the United States government target and kill — without trial — a U.S. citizen suspected of plotting terrorism?On Monday, Attorney Gene…
New Details About Unrepentant ‘Underwear’ Bomber Released
U.S. Marshals Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — ‘Underwear’ bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was obsessed with radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar Awlaki, and embarked on a pilgrimage to Yemen to seek him out in 2009. During that…
Al Qaeda Fighters Grab More of Yemen
ABC News(RADA’A, Yemen) — Al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate has taken control of a city just 100 miles south of the capital, after militants led by the brother-in-law of the late U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki stormed the police station and the prison in …