By Al Pessin Pentagon 30 August 2006 The Defense Department has called on the Associated Press to correct a report that it says mischaracterized a speech by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday. But the AP is standing by the story and many o...
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 18 August 2006 watch Security report The alleged terror plot to use liquid explosives to bring down commercial jets over the Atlantic Ocean is fueling research into explosives detection technologies. Several U.S. compa...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 15 August 2006 President Bush at a meeting with the Homeland Security Team at the National Counterterrorism Center President Bush says almost five years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, America is safer, bu...
By Jim Malone Washington 10 August 2006 British authorities said Thursday they have foiled a major terrorist plot that involved the use of liquid explosives on several airliners flying from Britain to the United States. So far, 21 people have been a...
By Gary Thomas London 10 August 2006 watch UK Airline Plot report British authorities say they have foiled a plan to blow up aircraft flying from Britain to the United States. Stringent security restrictions were immediately ordered at British airpo...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, D.C. 26 June 2006 watch Terrorism report U.S. government officials say the arrest of seven suspected terrorists in Miami, Florida represents a step forward in the war against terror. But as VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports,...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 June 2006 A recent agreement between Somalia's transitional government and the Islamic Courts may be put in jeopardy following Saturday's appointment of a hard-line cleric on the United States' most wanted list to head t...
By Lisa Ferdinando Miami 18 July 2006 Lawyers for terror suspect Jose Padilla are seeking to suppress statements their client made to U.S. government agents before he was arrested in May 2002. Padilla is being held in Miami and appeared in court Mon...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 17 July 2006 Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, left, shakes hand with Pakistani counterpart Riaz Mohammed Khan before talks in New Delhi, Jan. 17, 2006 Pakistan says it does not allow its territory to be used for terro...
By Jim Malone Washington 31 May 2006 Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui remains the only person convicted in connection with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Others who allegedly planned the 9/11 attacks are being held by the U.S. abro...