Terrorism
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Pakistan Denies Indian Terror Allegations
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009Pakistani officials yesterday denied any support for the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, refuting stepped-up allegations from India, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Jan. 6). ...
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India Charges Official Pakistani Role in Mumbai Attacks
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009Senior Indian officials suggested this week that the late-November terrorist attacks in Mumbai must have received some official Pakistani backing even if Islamabad's top leadership was not involved, news ...
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India Provides Evidence of Mumbai Attackers' Links to Pakistan
Monday, Jan. 5, 2009India delivered material to Pakistan today describing how "elements in Pakistan" supported the late-November terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced (see GSN, Dec. 23, ...
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Bioterror Attempt Likely by 2013, DHS Report Warns
Monday, Jan. 5, 2009A U.S. Homeland Security Department intelligence report warns that terrorists are likely to attempt a biological-weapon strike sometime over the next several years, potentially spreading a lethal illness to ...
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South Asian Tensions Simmer in Mumbai Aftermath
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008 Tensions have grown between the two nuclear-armed rivals in South Asia as Pakistan has not met India's demands to crack down further on groups New Delhi believes to be responsible for last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Time magazine reported today (see GSN, Dec. 8). Indian officials have reportedly collected evidence that the 10 attackers trained in Pakistan with the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, but Pakistan has demanded solid proof before taking additional action against the organization. Lashkar-e-Taiba was already banned in the nation, and authorities have arrested about 60 members of the group and an affiliated organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa, both of which have been identified by the U.N. Security Council as having terrorist ties, according to Time. "Whatever action has been desired by the United Nations, we have taken," said Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik. -
U.S. Bolstered Counterterrorism Efforts in 2008, Homeland Security Says
Friday, Dec. 19, 2008The U.S. Homeland Security Department made significant strides in 2008 to protect the country from potential attacks involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, the agency said yesterday ...
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U.S. Military to Raise Alert Status for Inauguration
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008U.S. military chemical-weapon responders are expected to be among the thousands of troops deployed to provide protection in Washington, D.C., when Barack Obama is sworn in as president next month the Los ...
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Homeland Security Council Out? Obama Might Add Responsibility to National Security Council
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The incoming Obama administration is considering changes to the White House's role in homeland security policy that could dramatically enhance the influence of the president's national security adviser, giving him a primary role in shaping disaster management and counterterrorism policy within the United States (see GSN, Dec. 3). According to several former executive branch officials and experts outside government, some of whom have participated in transition proceedings with staffers for President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama, the question is whether to keep the White House's Homeland Security Council intact or to merge it with the National Security Council, which handles foreign policy matters. The homeland council, which Bush created shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, coordinates domestic policy among a range of federal agencies, as well as state and local governments. But its staff is smaller and bureaucratically less influential than the NSC staff. If Obama merged the two, the portfolio of retired Army Gen. James Jones, the president-elect's pick for national security adviser, would expand. -
U.S. Not Worried About Nuclear Security in India, Pakistan
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008Concerns over terrorism in South Asia do not extend to the security of Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons, a U.S. Defense Department official said yesterday (see GSN, Dec. 9). ...
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Pakistan Refuses to Turn Mumbai Attack Suspects Over to India
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008Pakistan today said it would not give India custody of individuals arrested for their suspected role in last month's attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Dec. 8). ...
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India, Pakistan Seek to Keep Tensions in Check
Monday, Dec. 8, 2008Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan have sought to prevent armed conflict in the wake of last month's Mumbai attacks by terrorists who reportedly trained in Pakistan, news agencies reported recently (see GSN, ...
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Pakistan Vows to Target Terrorists After Mumbai Attack
Friday, Dec. 5, 2008 Any person within Pakistan who aided the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week faces "strong action," the government in Islamabad vowed yesterday in an effort to curb tensions with regional rival India, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Dec. 4). India has indicated that the attackers were trained Pakistan and said Wednesday it was exploring all options for responding to the series of gun and grenade strikes that killed 188 people. The two nuclear-armed states have already gone to war on three occasions since 1947. -
U.S. Seeks to Manage India-Pakistan Tensions After Mumbai Attack
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited New Delhi yesterday, in part to minimize the potential for violence between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan after last week's terrorist attacks in ...
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22-Year Sentence Reinstated for Would-Be LAX Bomber
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008A U.S. federal court in Seattle yesterday reinstated a 22-year prison sentence for a man trained by al-Qaeda and convicted of plotting a bomb attack on the Los Angeles International Airport, the ...
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Obama Administration Faces Challenge in Managing Homeland Security Department, Experts Say
Monday, Dec. 1, 2008The U.S. Homeland Security Department faces significant management challenges as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office in January, the Boston Globe reported yesterday (see GSN, Nov. 6). ...