Terrorism

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Seventeen Guantánamo inmates of Uighur origin may soon be leaving Cuba for Palau.
  • Glenn Beck stops making sense

    Beck: It's not the right wing's fault that crazy lefties are killing people to protest Obama's policies. Say what?
  • James W. Von Brunn's anti-Semitic screed

    The alleged Holocaust Museum shooter published a book called "Kill the Best Gentiles." Read selections here.
  • Obama changes the Middle East

    This American president's empathy with the Arab/Muslim world could be a crucial first step in brokering peace.
  • Obama's Cairo mission: Don't be Bush

    Five disastrous Middle East policies that the president must show he's rejected.
  • Ethnic profiling doesn't stop terror

    A new study finds the tactic is worse than useless in combating terrorism.
  • Another round for democracy

    Cheney's hostile speech only highlighted President Obama's commitment to American standards of liberty
  • "As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester"

    President Obama gives a speech on Guantanamo Bay, torture and national security
  • Our misguided fight against Somali pirates

    Those teenage high-seas renegades are not about to team up with terrorists, so why is the U.S. military devoting so much attention to them?
  • The shaming of America

    Judge Jay S. Bybee provided the legal framework for torture to the Bush administration. If he had even a particle of decency, he'd resign.
  • Torture works sometimes -- but it's always wrong

    The "ticking bomb" scenario only happens on TV. Those, like Dick Cheney, who cite it are leading society down a fatal slippery slope of abuse.
  • DHS report warns of rightwing extremism

    Homeland Security is concerned that today's political and economic climate is similar to the one that inspired Timothy McVeigh.
  • You can't go home (to Yemen) again

    What will Obama do with Guantanamo's single largest group of detainees? One hundred Yemenis wait to go home -- but those who've already returned to Yemen didn't find a warm welcome.
  • Meet the accidental guerrillas

    Ex-Petraeus advisor David Kilcullen warns that if Western forces aren't willing to stick around in Iraq and Afghanistan, extremists will continue turning the locals into weapons.
  • Obama's Guantánamo?

    The president needs to end Bush's disastrous policies at the Bagram Air Base prison in Afghanistan.
  • Bomb the middle class

    In an era of wealth and excess, 19th century French anarchists introduced terrorism as we know it. Can a fascinating new history help us understand our own violent times?
  • The radical Islamist who came in from the cold

    A former radical who is now working to combat religious extremism explains the Islamist mind-set.
  • Pardon the Bush miscreants

    A truth commission is a good idea. But unlikely. Instead Obama should grant immunity to those who publicly testify about torture and spying.
  • Obama's call to arms

    By rejecting Bush's torture tactics, the new president is urging Americans to reclaim their principles -- and their courage.
  • "Danger in DC!" warns Fox News

    News network reports that FBI, Homeland Security circulated a bulletin last night about jihadist threat of "limited credibility."
  • Judge not buying feds' case against 11-year-old terrorist

    The judge ordered the release of a detainee accused of belonging to a London terror cell at a time when he was 11, and lived in Saudi Arabia.
  • Goodbye to Guantánamo?

    With just four weeks till Obama's inauguration, the Bush administration's military commissions are supposed to be history. So why does the government act like they'll continue past January 20?
  • All-American terrorist

    A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain?
  • Chaos in the 9/11 courtroom

    In Guantánamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants don't know the rules -- and neither does the judge.
  • Don't replace the old Guantánamo with a new one

    President-elect Obama has pledged to close the infamous military prison in Cuba. So why are people trying to give him the right to start all over again?
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