Terrorism

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Ask the pilot
Has the U.S. met its match in airport-security craziness? Plus: NASA's pilot survey coverup.
We must ban secretive U.S. torture
Why the White House should turn over secret legal memos, and why I'm sponsoring legislation to end brutal interrogations.
Pakistan's election reckoning
How Saturday's poll could determine the fate of Musharraf, Bhutto -- and bin Laden.
Vengeance is Brandon Mayfield's
Falsely accused of being a terrorist, the Oregon lawyer wanted something more from the government than a cash settlement. He's fighting the Patriot Act -- and so far, he's winning.
The dark truth about Blackwater
Outsourcing the war to private military contractors such as Blackwater has shattered the United States' moral authority and its ability to win wars like that in Iraq.
Ahmadinejad's New York state of mind
My time with the Iranian president this week underscored how the U.S. media has overlooked his political savvy.
What you missed while watching "Rescue Me"
Salon watches another GOP debate so you don't have to: Fox News men get plucky! Dems take heat for Larry Craig! McCain surges at Romney! And much more.
The mullahs won't like it
"Yeh Hum Naheen," a pop song topping the charts in Pakistan, has a message for the West: We are not terrorists
If you think they hate us now
A Republican victory in 2008 could sink America's reputation in the world even lower.
What would Jesus bomb?
In case of attack, Tom Tancredo has Mecca and Medina in his sights.
Cooking the intelligence, again
The latest government estimate of the terrorist threat is just a rehash of the same old script, produced under pressure to support the president's efforts to sell the Iraq war.
"A persistent and evolving terrorist threat"
A top-level intelligence report made public Tuesday warns of more terrorist attacks inside the United States.
Bush and Cheney's tortured secrecy
Can the White House win a constitutional showdown with Congress over executive privilege after shredding the nation's trust?
Inside the minds of killer doctors
Some of the accused behind the recent terror plots in Britain were professional healers. What on earth prompts someone to snap from caregiver to killer?
Stop terrorism: Talk to women
Britain's Baroness Pola Manzila Uddin thinks that appointing more women to positions of power might stop the spread of homegrown terrorism.
Israel's Olmert rises from the rubble
Despite the Gaza disaster and poll numbers that make George Bush look beloved by comparison, the shrewd prime minister has renewed his grip on power.
What George Tenet really knew about Iraq
Unraveling the former CIA chief's cover story about bogus intelligence -- and the grand scheme that launched the war.
Bomb plot tests British again
New Prime Minister Gordon Brown edges away from Tony Blair and the Iraq war as the U.K. braces against the rising terror threat.
Surging toward disaster in Iraq
As the U.S. takes sides in Iraq's splintering civil war, a top Republican warns Bush's policy will fail.
Rudy amid the evangelicals
"America's mayor" stays resolute on terrorism and the war -- but don't even ask him about the A-word.
Jihad from the Caribbean
In Trinidad, Salon meets longtime Muslim agitator Yasin Abu Bakr, who is allegedly linked to the plot to blow up JFK airport.
The CIA's torture teachers
Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics -- likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
Imperial presidency declared null and void
Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.
Ask the Pilot
Why are pilots and flight attendants paraded through metal detectors, but not cleaners and caterers? Plus: Phantom hijackers revisited, and ominous news for your summer travel plans.
The end of Bush's kangaroo courts?
The dismissal of two cases in Guantánamo Bay dealt a rightful blow to the administration's quasi-justice system for alleged terrorists.
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