U.S. Concerned About a New Wave of Bombmakers
ABC News’ Pierre Thomas reports: The U.S. government is highly concerned that 30-year-old Ibrahim al-Asiri, the man behind al Qaeda’s latest attempt to bring a bomb aboard a U.S.-bound plane, has been actively training a new wave of bombmakers and that these disciples, schooled by… Read More »
EmailF-22 Fighter Whistleblowers ‘Fully Protected’: Air Force
The two F-22 pilots who decided to speak out publicly about a mysterious, potentially deadly problem with America’s most expensive fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, are “fully protected” and others will not be reprimanded for asking not to fly the planes, a top Air Force… Read More »
Al Qaeda ‘Shadow of Former Self’, US Counter-Terror Official Says
Ahead of the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, a top American counter-terrorism official said that the core of bin Laden’s terror organization, al Qaeda, is in shambles and is a “shadow of its former self,” but the fight continues. “We’ve always been clear that… Read More »
North Korea’s Missiles Are Fakes, Analysts Say
North Korea tried to flex its military might with an extravagant parade on April 15, just three days after it admitted that its missile test had been a failure, but analysts now say that the new intercontinental ballistic missiles on display in the meticulously choreographed parade were nothing more… Read More »
Watchdog: Pentagon Buys Weapons Backwards
The federal agency charged with catching U.S. government waste said in a new report that the Pentagon has squandered millions in taxpayer dollars on expensive and complex weapons systems by spending first and asking questions later. The new report, prepared by the Government Accountability Office… Read More »
Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
It turns out that tearing through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound is bad for the skin, even if you’re a super high-tech aircraft developed by the government’s best engineers at its far-out research agency. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency,… Read More »
Report: New Video Prompts Questions in Border Patrol Killing
A new video, along with an eyewitness account, has emerged that appears to show the beating and repeated tasering of an illegal immigrant by a group of border patrol agents just hours before the immigrant’s death, according to a report airing tonight on PBS. The… Read More »
Egypt Ex-Spy Chief Fights for Right to Run for President
Former Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, who experts say oversaw torture for the Mubarak regime, has appealed a government ruling barring him from running for president in the country’s upcoming elections. Suleiman, whose candidacy had caused an uproar among both Islamists and the secular parties… Read More »
From Overseeing Torture to Running for President of Egypt
ABC News’ Lee Ferran and Rym Momtaz report: NEW YORK – One of the men campaigning to lead Egypt into its post-Mubarak future used to oversee torture for the Mubarak regime, according to Western intelligence experts, and even aided the CIA in its controversial “rendition” program… Read More »
Hogs of War? Russia Accuses Neighbor of Pig Sabotage
A top Russian health official has accused neighboring Georgia of launching a devastating biological war… against Russian pigs. Gennady Onishchenko, the Kremlin’s chief “sanitary doctor,” said that Georgia was the source of what appeared to be an “artificially created” outbreak of African Swine Fever Virus… Read More »
RSS
Twitter
Facebook