WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two senior U.S. senators urged the Obama administration to hand over to the U.S. military the man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas Day for additional interrogation and charges….
U.S. intelligence analysts are investigating how much, if anything, Osama bin Laden knew about the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.
For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked — to U.S. Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.
Iraqi lawmakers have demanded the withdrawal of a UK-made bomb detection device after the British government said it doesn’t work and its manufacturer was arrested on suspicion of fraud.The Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, tonight ordered an investigation into the mass purchase of the ADE651 wand, made by ATSC, which had been sold [...]
Osama bin Laden purportedly claims responsibility for the attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas in a new audio message released Sunday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday defended its decision to charge a Nigerian man with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet in a criminal court amid fierce Republican criticism that doing so hampered obtaining intelligence…
The Justice Department defends its decision to treat as a criminal rather than an enemy combatant a man suspected of trying to blow up a jetliner on Christmas Day.
A U.S. Airways jet was diverted to Philadelphia International Airport after a praying Jewish man’s religious item was mistaken for a bomb.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia on Thursday after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb, Philadelphia police said.
State police bomb technicians dismantle a “multitude” of explosive devices found at the home where eight people were shot to death.