Aug 06 Watch Yemen Scholar Says U.S. Drone Strikes May Have Driven al-Qaida Membership Yemen Scholar Says U.S. Drone Strikes May Have Driven al-Qaida Membership… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch Non-Essential U.S. Staff Ordered to Leave Yemen, Threat Deemed ‘Extremely High’ After announcing a travel alert and warning Americans abroad of a possible terror threat, the State Department narrowed in on Yemen. Non-essential embassy staff were flown out and U.S. citizens were told to leave immediately. A U.S. drone strike killed… Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch How Does Latest Terror ‘Chatter’ Play Into Debate on U.S. Surveillance? How Does Latest Terror 'Chatter' Play Into Debate on U.S. Surveillance?… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch Anti-Muslim Video Sparks More Violent Demonstrations Across Muslim World Protests, some violent, broke out in Yemen, Iraq, Iran and Egypt, in continued response to an incendiary anti-Islamic U.S. video. Overnight, President Obama talked to Egypt's President Morsi about the events and Secretary of State Clinton rebuked the filmmaker, who… Continue watching
Sep 11 Watch News Wrap: Yemeni Defense Minister Narrowly Escapes Death in Car Bomb Explosion In other news Tuesday, a car bomb intended for Yemen's defense minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed narrowly missed its intended target, but killed eight bodyguards and five civilians in the process. Ahmed has been targeted most likely for his role in… Continue watching
May 29 Watch How Obama Maintains His Secret ‘Kill List’ Drone strikes on militant targets in Yemen are on the rise, as are targeted killings of insurgents there and elsewhere. But who has the final say on the so-called kill list of terrorists slated to be killed or captured? Ray… Continue watching
May 09 Watch How Unusual Was al-Qaida Infiltration Effort That Stopped Bomb Plot? How Unusual Was al-Qaida Infiltration Effort That Stopped Bomb Plot?… Continue watching
May 09 Watch Undercover Saudi Agent Reportedly Foiled al-Qaida Airliner Bomb Plot The would-be terrorist targeting a U.S.-bound plane was in fact an undercover agent from Saudi Arabia who had infiltrated al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. He was supposed to slip past airport security wearing a sophisticated bomb in his underwear, but… Continue watching
May 08 Watch Al-Qaida Bomb Plot: How Alarmed Should U.S. Be? A day after news broke that the CIA foiled a new al-Qaida plot to bomb an airliner, the official responses were low key on Tuesday. Margaret Warner, former National Counterterrorism Center director Michael Leiter and former FBI supervisory special agent… Continue watching
May 08 Watch In Light of New Bomb Plot, U.S. Must Be ‘Proactive,’ Napolitano Says "Our adversaries are very creative, and they are very determined, and they are very persistent," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday in the wake of the CIA thwarting another al-Qaida plot to attack an airliner. The FBI is now… Continue watching