TERRORISM

Egypt extends olive branch to Iran; seeks to normalize ties

A bomb exploded in Jerusalem, Israel today, injuring 39 people and killing a 60-year-old woman. The incident happened near a bus stop outside the Jerusalem Conference Center.

ST. LOUIS, March 14 - A looming cut to the federal financial-crime agency's budget could cripple state and local investigations that depend on transactions monitored via the anti-money laundering Bank Secrecy Act, worried authorities said.

A suicide bombing on a funeral procession attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday killed at least 31 people and injured over 50, hospitals and police officials said.

President Barack Obama went back on his campaign promise to close down Guantanamo Bay detention center for suspected terrorists and signed an executive order to create a system for indefinitely holding suspects at the military prison.

The Department of State has issued a travel advisory for Yemen, warning U.S. citizens of the high security threat level in the Middle Eastern country due to terrorist activities and the ongoing civil unrest.

A suicide grenade attack outside a Moscow supermarket killed only the perpetrator, according to Russian news agencies.

Daniel Patrick Boyd, a U.S. citizen and resident of North Carolina, has pleaded guilty in a federal court to charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons in a foreign country, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said.

Colleen R. LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman also known as 'Jihad Jane,' has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a Swedish cartoonist, providing material support to terrorists, and other criminal charges

A deadly blast at Moscow's Domodedovo airport killed at least 23 people on Monday, agencies have reported. Following is a timeline of major attacks in Moscow in recent times:

Egyptian police have detained at least 17 people suspected of their involvement in church attacks that killed 21 people on New Year's Eve. No extremists outfit has so far claimed responsibility for the blasts. Two explosions targeting more than 1000 worshipers who gathered to mark the New Year in the Sidi Bechr district, rocked the northern port city of Alexandria on Friday.

By getting rid of cash, nations around the world might be able to significantly reduce organized crime and political terrorism since those activities are heavily reliant on easy accessibility to dollars, euros, pounds sterling, yen and other paper currencies.

Militants who orchestrated the 26/11 attacks on India might have been trying to prevent the Pakistan Government from moving its army away from the Indian border, U.S. diplomatic cables suggest. Officials in London feared that the Indians would retaliate with an increase in covert activities in Balochistan or even by bombarding militant camps in Occupied Kashmir.

The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to the person or persons who set fire to a mosque in Corvallis, Oregon on Sunday.

Wikileaks' latest spill, dubbed the 'Cablegate', shows that the world, especially the MIddle East fears Iran. But there are very strong strategic factors that help the country survive.

A cable sent by US Ambassador Clifford Sobel says the police and intelligence agencies had arrested some individuals with links to terrorism but charged them on a variety of non-terrorism related crimes to avoid calling attention of the media and the higher levels of the government.

FBI sleuths detained a 19-year-old allegedly plotting to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. The arrest was announced late on Friday evening by the Justice Department who stated that Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and a student at Oregon State University, was arrested after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van.

Saudi security forces have detained 149 people Al-Qaeda suspects over the past eight months, the Kingdom's interior ministry said on Friday. According to authorities, the detainees were from 19 different cells plotting to carry out attacks on oil installations, government and military infrastructure.

In what looks like a setback for the Obama administration in matter of trial of terrorism suspects in civil court, the first suspect transferred from Guantanamo military prison to face a U.S. civilian trial was found not guilty by a Manhattan federal court jury on all but one charge in the 1998 African embassy bombings.

Researchers in the United States have developed a new biosensor from plasmonic nanohole arrays to detect dangerous viruses like Ebola and Marburg. The tool could be used in developing nations, airports and other places where natural or man-made outbreaks could erupt.

Al Qaeda's recent Cargo-bomb plots which were foiled by the Saudi intelligence cost them just $4200, according the group's propaganda magazine. The Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) detailed the plot it called Operation Hemorrhage in its latest edition of the Inspire magazine.