Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:23 AM EDT
Under pressure from Republican critics, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday the U.S. still hopes to capture and interrogate Osama bin Laden but expects the al-Qaida leader won't be taken alive.
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Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:25 AM EDT
An Afghanistan-born imam who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into a suicide bomb plot against New York City subway stations will not go to prison but must leave the country within 90 days, a judge ruled Thursday.
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Thu Apr 8, 2010 9:33 AM EDT
A spokeswoman representing the Qatar embassy says the diplomat who prompted an airplane bomb scare has been released by authorities after questioning.
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Thu Apr 8, 2010 7:56 AM EDT
A diplomat from Qatar who caused a security scare on board a Denver-bound airliner has left the United States.
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Thu Apr 8, 2010 3:13 AM EDT
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he is confident an accord will be reached shortly with the European Union to relaunch a Bush-era data-sharing program the U.S. considers key to anti-terror investigations.
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Wed Apr 7, 2010 10:38 PM EDT
A Qatari diplomat was on his way to an official visit with an imprisoned al-Qaida sleeper agent when he touched off a bomb scare by slipping into an airline bathroom for a smoke, officials said Thursday as the diplomat prepared to leave the U.S.
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Wed Apr 7, 2010 4:04 PM EDT
The FBI arrested a northern California man Wednesday for allegedly making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
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Fri Apr 2, 2010 3:31 PM EDT
With a shake of the head, a pregnant Colorado woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of helping foreign terrorists who authorities say were plotting to kill a Swedish artist.
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Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:38 PM EDT
There's a lot of anger out there. But the alleged plot by Midwestern militants and violent outbursts by scattered individuals don't signal any coming wave of extremist violence, federal investigators say.
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Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:50 PM EDT
A U.S. official says some of the people arrested by the FBI in Midwest raids this weekend face gun charges.
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Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:08 AM EDT
Federal prosecutors are considering weapons charges against former executives at Blackwater Worldwide over allegations the private security company illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned.
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Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:54 PM EDT
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday defended his bureau's handling of the Christmas airline bombing attempt, insisting agents in Detroit moved quickly to protect lives. The suspect, he added, has been cooperating after his arrest.
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Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:03 AM EDT
Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
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Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:50 AM EST
If the woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" goes on trial, she would become just the second American woman tried on U.S. soil on terrorism charges — and the first accused of directly working toward a Muslim holy war.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:52 PM EST
A law enforcement official says a New Jersey man charged in Yemen with being a member of al-Qaida traveled to that country with the goal of joining a terrorist group.
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Fri Mar 5, 2010 10:52 AM EST
Law enforcement officials say the California man who opened fire on police outside the Pentagon stopped at a motel in Reno, Nevada, before traveling to the nation's capital.
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Thu Mar 4, 2010 9:22 PM EST
Law enforcement officials say they've got one person in custody and are investigating whether a second was involved in a shooting at the Pentagon subway entrance.
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Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:21 PM EST
A Senate committee chairman told the Justice Department on Friday to hunt for the missing e-mails of an attorney who provided legal justification for the Bush administration's harsh interrogation of terror suspects.
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Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:05 PM EST
Wrapping up one of its most vexing investigations, the FBI concluded that Army scientist Bruce Ivins acted alone in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and further unnerved a nation still reeling from the 9/11 attacks.
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:59 PM EST
A federal law enforcement official has identified the pilot in the Austin, Texas, plane crash as Joseph Stack and says investigators are looking at an anti-government message on the Web linked to him.
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:02 PM EST
U.S. law enforcement officials say they are investigating whether the crash of a small plane into a building in Austin, Texas, may have been an intentional act by the pilot.
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:13 PM EST
A law enforcement official says the crash of a small plane into a building in Austin, Texas does not initially appear to be the result of a crime or terrorism.
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Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:41 AM EST
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 Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.
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Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:32 PM EST
Badly burned and bleeding, the suspect in the Christmas Day flight to Detroit tried one last gambit as he was led away: He claimed there was another bomb hidden on the plane he'd just tried to destroy, officials said.
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Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:54 AM EST
The Justice Department says three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the government of Slovakia.
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