Tag: TERRORISTS

The Taliban has begun sending gruesome "night letters" -- violent videos meant to intimidate and control Afghans -- en masse via SMS. Historically written threats posted on buildings, night letters have long been a successful means of coercion by the Taliban. The video form has cropped up in the last couple of years on Facebook and YouTube, and tends toward the extreme, such as interviews of ...

In a recent study at Northwestern University, researchers used electrodes to examine the brain activity of 29 "fake" terrorists. As FOX reports, each student was given a fake terrorist plan of attack on a given U.S. city, and about 30 minutes to educate themselves. They were also asked to flesh out the attacks in greater detail, based on information concerning weapons and methods. The ...

If we were unlucky enough to run a major airline company and had to choose some celebrity to promote our new boarding pass system, Osama bin Laden probably wouldn't be our first choice. For British Airways, though, the world's most wanted (and hated) man is apparently just the kind of star power the company needs to promote its new mobile-boarding pass service. As Yahoo! News reports, a ...

Now that we've had the opportunity to catch our collective breath after Saturday's Times Square bomb scare, police have begun piecing the clues together. And Monday night, they finally nabbed a suspect -- thanks, in part, to Craigslist. Authorities have reportedly identified one "person of interest" in connection with the bomb scare: Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally ...

Only a few miles from their target, three European eco-terrorists were arrested by Swiss police during a routine traffic stop on April 15th. According to The Daily Mail, Costantino Ragusa, Silvia Guerini and Luca Bernasconi -- all members of the Italian terrorist group Il Silvestre -- were arrested when authorities found a primed explosive device inside their vehicle. A police spokesman said the ...

We've heard it said that a terrorist's most powerful weapon is the Internet. For our part, we've seen no shortage of stories about extremist recruiters using Facebook, or Twitter, or even 'World of Warcraft' to further their dastardly deeds. We've always been a bit incredulous, and now a report from the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence backs that up, ...

All your Big Brother nightmares are about to come true, thanks to an $800,000 award from the Nation Science Foundation. The money is funding computer and behavioral scientists at the University of Buffalo to work on a tracking system that will allow authorities to score an individuals likeliness to commit a terrorist act. Sound creepy? Well, it gets even better. The system works by monitoring ...