US to try five 9/11 plotters in New York
Five men accused of the Sept. 11 attacks will be tried in a New York civilian court, attorney general Eric Holder said Friday adding the U.S. would press for maximum sentences including the death penalty.
Five men accused of the Sept. 11 attacks will be tried in a New York civilian court, attorney general Eric Holder said Friday adding the U.S. would press for maximum sentences including the death penalty.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pledged to Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham H. Foxman that Italy will not cooperate with Iran to launch an Iranian data communications satellite, a statement issued by the ADL said Friday.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office denied a report in the Arabic-language newspaper al-Arabiya that he will inform Syria, through French channels, that Israel would agree to surrender the strategic Golan Heights in return for a peace treaty.
About 40 Muslim with machetes and clubs tried to break into a Sunday worship service outside Uganda’s capital city of Kampala on Nov. 1, leaving a member of the congregation with several injuries and damaging the church building.
In surveying the cultural carnage in the wake of the worst terrorist attack on a military installation in U.S. history, it bears noting that there have been seismic shifts in America. When America was free of the shackles of Islam, say, fifty years ago, the current response to such an attack by an enemy faction would have been unthinkable.
U.S. prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit to seize control of a New York City skyscraper they say is owned by companies illegally funneling money to the Iranian government, according to Friday news reports.
Suicide car bombs tore through security offices in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people and heavily damaging the Peshawar headquarters of the country's top intelligence agency.
Residents of Gaza have grown wary of building tunnels to Egypt following a series of accidents in which dozens have been killed, according to the Hebrew-language daily Maariv.
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
Suppose Maj. Nidal Hassan had called a meeting of agents of the FBI and top officers of Fort Hood, and then said something like this: