Local Expert: Tunisia Museum Massacre Targeted Both People And Culture
A local expert Wednesday night said a mass shooting at a museum in Tunisia amounted to a statement by terrorists against both people and the culture they represent.
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A local expert Wednesday night said a mass shooting at a museum in Tunisia amounted to a statement by terrorists against both people and the culture they represent.
The suspects -- Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, Akhror Saidakhmetov and Abror Habibov -- appeared in federal court in Brooklyn on Friday.
The New York Democrat said Sunday that has written to the Federal Aviation Administration to urge the agency to immediately implement several security upgrades to protect the systems.
Minh Quang Pham pleaded not guilty to charges that include providing material support to al Qaeda, receiving military training from the terrorist organization in Yemen and possession of a firearm intended for use in crimes of violence.
A Vietnamese man extradited from the United Kingdom will be arraigned Wednesday on charges he provided material support to al-Qaida in Yemen after telling his wife he was going to Ireland, authorities said.
Declassified al-Qaida documents obtained after the 2011 raid of Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound have been presented at the U.S. trial of a suspect charged in a British terrorism plot.
How would the city that is home to New Jersey's financial center react to a terror attack on its mass transit system, or a "lone wolf'' attack by individual or multiple gunmen?
In finding the Palestinian authorities liable in the attacks, jurors awarded the victims $218.5 million in damages for the bloodshed. The U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act could allow for that to be tripled.
A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a New York terrorism trial that the defendant was a top aide to Osama bin Laden nearly a decade before deadly bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Abid Naseer questioned Najibulla Zazi for about an hour. Naseer is acting as his own attorney at his trial in federal court in Brooklyn.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Celia Cohen told jurors in federal court in Brooklyn that the failed conspiracy in 2009 called for attacks in New York City, England and Denmark.
The prayer service with be held Thursday night at St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in East Brunwick.
The unit of 350 cops will be specially trained in high-tech weaponry to deal with protests, lone-wolf attacks and evolving threats posed by terrorists.
Khaled al-Fawwaz "worked for years, directly and personally for Osama bin Laden. The defendant helped Osama bin Laden declare his bloody war on Americans," Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lewin said.
Wesam El-Hanafi, who was born in Brooklyn, said he'd spent the nearly five years since his arrest reflecting on his actions.
The New York Democrat said Sunday that current federal rules could potentially allow someone to make homemade explosives without breaking the law.
Following a recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks across Europe, people in Brooklyn are worried about their streets, their schools and their synagogues, and say now is the time to hire additional protection.
In New York City, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the incident underscores the challenges counterterrorism officers here are facing.
The NYPD sent an honor unit to Paris Tuesday to mourn three police officers murdered during the terror spree last week.
The hack apparently started at 12:30 p.m. with a message that read "American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back. ISIS."
As world leaders linked arms and marched in defiance of terror attacks in Paris, there was one glaring absence: a high-level representative from the United States.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Paris on Sunday in a massive show of unity and defiance in the face of terrorism that killed 17 people in France's bleakest moment in half a century.
John Miller, the NYPD's deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that the Islamic State posted a video on Twitter on Saturday.
From the French consulate to synagogues to transit hubs to news organizations in Times Square, the NYPD has visibly increased security in New York City following the attack on a newspaper in Paris.
An Islamic cleric convicted of terrorism charges has been sentenced to life in prison by a judge who called his actions "barbaric'' and "misguided.''
