• John Major to speak against 42 day terror law

  By Rosa Prince | Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister, is preparing to make a rare intervention into domestic policies...

   

• Islamic extremists to be given counselling

  Islamic extremists could escape prosecution and instead receive therapy and counselling under new Government plans to “deradicalise”...

   

• In-flight surveillance in every seat

  New Scientist | CCTV cameras are bringing more and more public places under surveillance – and passenger aircraft could...

   

• The ‘War Crimes File’

  Hartford Courant | It comes as a relief to know that FBI agents were aghast at harsh interrogation techniques used by American...

   

• No sign al Qaeda has WMD capability – US official

  Reuters | There’s no sign that al Qaeda has acquired the capability to use weapons of mass destruction, a U.S. intelligence...

   

• Iran busts CIA terror network

  Tehran Times – TEHRAN | The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of...

   

• Torture Policies Undermine 9/11 Case

  By Jason Leopold | The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th...

   

• Renditions Ruin the EU Case

  By David Cronin | Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged...

   

• U.S. reveals way to get off terror list

  UPI | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a way for people who don’t belong on terrorist watch lists...

   

• Rights Groups Wrangle with CIA over “Ghost Prisoners”

  IPS | The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release more than 7,000 documents related to its programmes of...

   

• Interrogating Abu Ghraib

  Tony Diaz, a former military-police sergeant who served at Abu Ghraib, stares into Errol Morris’ camera and speaks...

   

• ‘Terror’ asset-grab absurd and unjust

  By Gerri Peev | ANTI-TERRORISM legislation drawn up by Gordon Brown to allow the Treasury to seize assets from suspects has...

   

• US ‘war on terror’ backfiring, says thinktank

  By Mark Tran | The US “war on terror” has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and...

   

• Judges poised to deliver new blow on terror

  By Sean O’Neill | Gordon Brown is facing a new battle over key anti-terrorism laws this week with the High Court set...

   

• ‘Terror gang plotted to blow up airliners’

  Eight Islamist terrorists plotted to blow up several transatlantic airliners in mid-air using explosives disguised as soft...

   

• Guantanamo Prisoner Charged in Embassy Attack

  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack...

   

• Watchdog’s threat to 42-day terror law

  Alan Travis | The Guardian The government’s own human rights watchdog threatened last night to launch a legal challenge...

   

• Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks

  Vice President Dick Cheney told soldiers in Iraq that the 9/11 attacks spurred the decision to invade Iraq. BAGHDAD —...

   

• Bin Laden in new video attack on EU

  Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addressed the “wise men” of the European Union in a new audio message slamming...

   

• Extent of secret Government IRA links revealed

  The full extent of a secret 20-year “back channel” between the British government and the IRA is revealed today...

   

• 9/11 accused can seek compensation

  Lotfi Raissi, the Algerian wrongly accused of training pilots involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, should...

   

• Intelligence Says Bin Laden Might Be Dead

  Geostrategy-Direct U.S. intelligence agencies are beginning to suspect that Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is dead after...

   

• VIDEO: Bhutto said Omar Sheikh murdered bin Laden

  AlJazeera Sir David speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan,...

   

• Former US congressman indicted

  An ex-congressman is indicted for his part in an alleged terrorist fundraising and accused of sending $130,000 to a Taliban...

   

• WAC Ireland Confronts Gerry Adams

  Martin Ingram, a British agent admitted infiltration of the IRA and said that over 70% of their bombings were commanded by...