The newly discovered links between a Chicago-area terror suspect and last year’s deadly Mumbai attacks have triggered front-page headlines in India, including a rash of speculation about an alleged Bollywood connection. A ccording to an FBI affidavit, David Coleman Headley, the son of a former Pakistani diplomat accused of plotting terror attacks in Denmark, was in regular communication since early 2008 with an operative of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani terror group suspected of orchestrating the Mumbai massacre.
By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff The Fort Hood shooting may soon become more politically explosive. Two U.S. intelligence officials Thursday night confirmed
Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged on Wednesday a previously unspoken proviso to the controversial decision to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators in a federal court in New York: even if the defendants are somehow acquitted, they will still stay behind bars.
500;height=500;podcastURL='http://www.newsweek.com/id/40211';placeAd=99,'video';] By Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, and Mark Hosenball Earlier this year, when justice Department prosecutors began trying to assemble
Just two weeks before Maj. Nidal Hasan purchased the weapon he allegedly used in the Fort Hood shooting, the radical imam with whom he had been communicating posted an incendiary message on the Internet vilifying Muslim soldiers who "follow orders" by fighting on behalf of the "enemies" of Islam.
Is the Taliban trying to use the Fort Hood massacre to push the U.S. out of Afghanistan? On the very day the president is meeting with his national security advisers to decide about troop strength in Afghanistan comes this remarkable communiqué from the Taliban celebrating Nidal Hasan's bloody shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Like his e-mail companion Anwar al-Awlaki , the Taliban calls Hasan a "hero" for shooting American soldiers. The group says the "carnage" in Iraq and Afghanistan has "awakened the human sympathies in the souls (sic) of the American soldier."