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Despite its bumpy relationship with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is siding with the Palestine Liberation Organization in urging the Supreme Court to reject an appeal from American victims of terrorist attacks in the Middle East more than a decade ago. The victims are asking the high court to reinstate a $654 million verdict against the PLO and Palestinian Authority in connection with attacks in Israel in 2002 and 2004 that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more.
Despite its bumpy relationship with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is siding with the Palestine Liberation Organization in urging the Supreme Court to reject an appeal from American victims of terrorist attacks in the Middle East more than a decade ago. The victims are asking the high court to reinstate a $654 million verdict against the PLO and Palestinian Authority in connection with attacks in Israel in 2002 and 2004 that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds more.
The recent deadly bombings across Austin , Texas, were acts of domestic terrorism , the city's police chief said for the first time on Thursday. "This is a distinction that I did want to make today", interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said at a panel discussion hosted by NPR station KUT .
FBI officials could have tried harder to unlock an iPhone as part of a terrorism investigation before launching an extraordinary court fight with Apple Inc. in an effort to force it to break open the device, the Justice Department's watchdog said Tuesday. The department's inspector general said it found no evidence the FBI was able to access data on the phone belonging to one of the gunmen in a 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, as then-FBI Director James Comey told Congress more than once.
Is the Austin serial bombing suspect 'troubled' or a terrorist? Reaction on 'The Greg Gutfeld Show.' The man linked to a series of deadly Austin package bombings called himself a "psychopath" in a recorded confession and said he had no remorse for the explosions that killed two people, a U.S. congressman said Saturday. Mark Anthony Conditt, 23, left a roughly 25-minute recording on his cell phone detailing the seven explosive devices he created and planted throughout Austin starting in early March.
"Why won't Trump call Austin bomber what he is? A Terrorist," this is the title of the story by Alice Salles of Carbonated TV. The Austin bombing suspect is being called a domestic terrorist by people on social media, but why won't the media and the White House call him that?, she writes.
After the first package exploded on an Austin doorstep, police assured the public that there was no wider threat, no signs of terrorism. The idea of a serial bomber striking random strangers never came up.
The Trump administration in a statement said it "sympathizes deeply" with the families whose lawsuit against the Palestine Liberation Organization may soon be considered by the Supreme Court, but continues to maintain that the lawsuit does not meet the standards for review by the court. "The United States condemns acts of terror in the strongest terms and the Department of Justice is committed to prosecuting those who commit terrorist attacks against innocent human beings to the fullest extent that the law allows," said a statement emailed this week to JTA by a Justice Department spokeswoman.
Michael B. Hari, charged by the federal government in March 2018 in connection with an August 2017 bombing at a Minnesota mosque and a November 2017 attempted bombing at a Champaign women's clinic, is shown in 2006, left, and July 2017. MICHAEL BENJAMIN HARI has been in the news before - many times, actually.
Editor's note: ProPublica has published a major correction to its February 22, 2017, article -- cited in the piece below -- reporting that Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of two detainees at a "black site" prison in Thailand in 2002. The correction states that "Haspel did not take charge of the base until after the interrogation of [Abu] Zubaydah ended," though additional reporting by The New York Times indicates "she was in charge when [Abd al-Rahim] al-Nashiri was waterboarded three times."
It's amazing what unprincipled people will admit to when goaded. A petition has been posted on the parliamentary website calling on prime minister Theresa May to withdraw her invitation to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, to visit the UK.
The United Nations Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire between the Damascus government and the al-Qaeda-dominated guerrillas in Eastern Ghouta. UN Secretary-General AntA3nio Guterres reminded all sides of their absolute duty in international law to safeguard the life of innocent noncombatants.
The spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines said it is important to declare the New People's Army as a terrorist group to finally erase their image that they are fighting for the country. Guerrillas from the New People's Army in formation during the 49th anniversary of the communist rebel group in Sierra Madre mountains.
During his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump announced the issuance of an executive order that ignored the conclusion shared by both the Obama and Bush administrations: The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does more harm to the United States than good. The new executive order revokes the Obama administration's official policy to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay "as soon as practicable" and paves the way for new, additional detainees to be added to the existing detainee population.
The judge in the USS Cole terrorism case ordered prosecutors Tuesday to draft warrants instructing U.S. Marshals to seize two civilian defense attorneys who have quit the case and ignored his orders and a subpoena to appear at the war court. Air Force Col.
WASHINGTON: Pakistan continues to give a pass to extremists who seek to destabilise Afghanistan or attack India, top US lawmakers have said as they backed President Donald Trump's decision to suspend security assistance to the country. The lawmakers said that the counter terrorism cooperation had been been central to the US-Pakistan relationship, but Islamabad did not fulfil its commitments.
Alfallaj was taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on February 5, the Justice Department said. Picture for representational purpose.
Washington : Thousands of Islamic State foreign fighters and family members have escaped the US-led military campaign in eastern Syria, according to new classified US and other Western military and intelligence assessments, a flow that threatens to tarnish US declarations that the militant group has been largely defeated. As many of the fighters flee unfettered to the south and west through Syrian army lines, some have gone into hiding near Damascus, the Syrian capital, and in the country's north-west, awaiting orders sent by insurgent leaders on encrypted communications channels.
President Trump's executive order paving the way to send more terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is reversing more than a decade of U.S. policy aimed at winding down operations at the notorious prison. The "Gitmo" facility hasn't accepted a new detainee since June 2008 during the Bush administration, when Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani was sent there.
Saudi King Salman smeets with the U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. Ryan is leading a Congressional delegation to the Middle East, traveling with five Republican members of congress and one Democrat.