While not admitting to "profiling," Washington has introduced new measures for screening US-bound air travelers based on how closely their personal characteristics match intelligence on potential terrorists, such as nationality, age, certain physical characteristics, recently visited countries and partial (Muslim-sounding) names - as revealed Friday, April 2, by the Homeland Security Secretary.
  

Two men were arrested Friday, Jan. 8, suspected of being accomplices of Naijubullah Zazi, who was charged with a plot to bomb New York's transit system a year ago in Colorado. On Friday too, Friday too, the Nigerian, Umar Abdulmutallab, flanked by two American lawyers, told a federal court he was not guilty of trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day.  He ...

Taliban-Pakistan released a video clip Saturday, Jan. 9, showing Hammam Khalil al Balawi, the suicide bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan on Dec. 30, with the Taliban-Pakistan leader before the attack. He is filmed in Pashtun dress vowing to avenge the late Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and referring to the Nigerian Umar Abdulmutalleb who subsequently failed to blow up a More...