Category: Terrorism

Defense attorneys say an Ohio man who plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol has now rejected “radical Islamic propaganda” that influenced him and should get a substantially lighter prison term than the 30-year sentence prosecutors are seeking. (FOX)- In a 31-page memo filed Tuesday, attorneys for 22-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell say a sentence between 10 […]

I actually came up with a similar idea on this last year. I think that this is a brilliant initiative and should be seriously considered nation wide. Fox News Reports: A new federal initiative seeks to prevent deaths in terror attacks and school shootings by training ordinary people from custodians to administrators on how to […]

Investigators have found evidence that the man who plowed a car into a crowd at Ohio State University Monday before stabbing several pedestrians with a butcher knife was inspired by ISIS propaganda, law enforcement sources told Fox News. (FOX)- The sources did not specify what evidence was found, but investigators are inclined to believe that […]

Federal investigators are examining a Facebook post that may have been written by the Somali-born Ohio State University student who injured 11 people Monday. (FOX)- He plowed his car into a group of pedestrians, then attacked bystanders with a butcher knife, law enforcement sources told Fox News. Abdul Artan, 18, was shot and killed by […]

An Ohio State police officer was being hailed a hero for his quick reaction after killing a man a minute after he drove his car into a crowd and then stabbed multiple people Monday. (FOX)- Officer Alan Horujko, who had only joined the department in January 2015, was responding to reports of a nearby gas […]

A Brooklyn man has been arrested for plotting a terror attack on Times Square and trying to join ISIS at least five times, according to a complaint unsealed Monday. (FOX)- Mohamed Rafik Naji, 37, is charged with traveling to Turkey and Yemen between March and September of last year in an effort to join the […]

Federal authorities say an Ohio man who plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol during President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address kept trying from behind bars to incite others to violence in support of the Islamic State. (FOX)- Prosecutors describe 22-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell’s “post-arrest conduct and misconduct” as unusual in a sentencing […]

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says that five men arrested recently in two French cities were planning a terror attack in France as early as next week. (FOX)-He also says that they were receiving their orders from an Islamic State group member based in Iraq or Syria. Molins spoke to reporters Friday, the day after anti-terrorism […]

Dump trucks protect Thanksgiving parade in NYC (FOX)- More than 80 city sanitation trucks will be used at intersections and other strategic spots along the 2 ½ mile parade route to create an imposing physical barrier to terror. The trucks weigh about 16 tons empty and up to twice that with sand. “You can ram […]

An Afghan official says that at least 27 civilians have been killed after a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in the capital, Kabul. (FOX)- Faredoon Obiadi, head of the criminal investigation department for the Kabul police, said Monday that at least 35 others were wounded in the attack. The Interior Ministry confirmed in a […]