After finding work with British Airways in April 2007, the suspect sent information to Anwar al-Awlaqi, an extremist cleric based in Yemen who is linked with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. An Information Technology worker employed by British Airways was found guilty yesterday of supplying information to al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen in support of a plot to target the […]
FBI Was Warned Years in Advance of Mumbai Attacker’s Terror Ties
by Sebastian Rotella Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack. The previously undisclosed allegations against David Coleman Headley, who became a key figure in the plot that killed 166 […]
Internal BP Probes Warned of Accidents – For Years
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Ryan Knutson A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways. The confidential inquiries, which have not previously been made public, focused on a rash of […]
Madoff’s Inner Circle: Who Knew What?
When Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, he insisted he was the lone perpetrator, asserting that no one – not his family, not his colleagues, not his friends – knew of the fraud. But an alternate narrative is emerging from the pile of Madoff-related civil suits and court motions […]
British soldier jailed 9 months for refusing to return to Afghanistan
Joe Glenton, the first British soldier to serve in Afghanistan and publicly speak out against the war, was sentenced to 9 months in military jail for being absent without leave (AWOL) and was demoted to the rank of private yesterday in Colchester. After serving a six-month tour in Afghanistan, he was absent from June […]
Injured Abroad, Neglected at Home: Labor Dept. Slow to Help War Zone Contractors
WASHINGTON–In her first public address after taking office, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis promised to increase enforcement of laws designed to protect workers. "You can rest assured that there is a new sheriff in town," she told union members at a gathering in Miami Beach shortly after her confirmation in February. Ten months later, Solis’ Labor […]
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