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Authorities have captured an Arizona prison escapee and an alleged accomplice who have been on the run since last month, the Arizona Department of Corrections said late Thursday. John McCluskey and Casslyn Mae Welch were arrested in the Springerville, Arizona-area, according to the department. McCluskey, 45, was serving a 15-year sentence for attempted second-degree murder and other charges when he and fellow convicts Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick broke out of the prison July 30, allegedly with Welch's help. Province and Renwick are already in custody. Welch, who was on the visitation list for one of the inmates, threw cutting...

THERE ARE times when one reads an article of such magnitude it causes utter disbelief; and rereading the piece only exacerbates the feeling. That was certainly how I felt when I read that the sister of Lovelle Mixon — the assailant who killed four Oakland police officers before he, too, was killed by police — seeks compensation from the city because of injuries she and her grandmother sustained during the gunbattle that ensued in her apartment where Mixon was hiding after he had already killed two officers. It is alleged that as Mixon hid in the apartment, the sister and...

You’ve heard by now the Haskell story right? In case you haven’t let’s start there. Kurt Haskell is an attorney. He and his wife were in Amsterdam that day after a safari and Kurt witnessed the underwear bomber (Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab) before the flight being aided by what Haskell described to be an older Indian gentleman who was well dressed. [...] Mr. Haskell recalled that just before being questioned about the sharp dressed man incident a man was pulled into a room, handcuffed, and detained by authorities. Who was he? Why was he detained? Is there any relevance to...

The Dutch military police are investigating reports that an accomplice may have helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam on Christmas day without a passport. Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to blow up the Detroit-bound plane with an explosive chemical called “PETN” he smuggled through security. He was charged on Saturday with trying to destroy an airplane, punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Meanwhile, a Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. But Dutch...

Most of Madoff's victims were also his accomplices By Joe Nocera Friday, March 13, 2009 NEW YORK: Standing in the security line Thursday morning, waiting to get into the federal courthouse in Manhattan, I started chatting with the man behind me. He looked to be in his early 60s, and though he was well dressed, he looked a little haggard. I asked him if he was a victim of Bernard Madoff, who would soon be pleading guilty to masterminding the greatest Ponzi scheme in history. He said he was. Did he want to talk about it? He wasn't sure, he...

Bystanders to this financial crime were many By Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Pablo Triana Published: December 7 2008 19:18 | Last updated: December 7 2008 19:18 On March 13 1964, Catherine Genovese was murdered in the Queens borough of New York City. She was about to enter her apartment building at about 3am when she was stabbed and later raped by Winston Moseley. Moseley stole $50 from Genovese’s wallet and left her to die in the hallway. Shocking as these details surely are, the lasting impact of the story may lie elsewhere. For plenty of people reportedly witnessed the attack,...

An aspect of the war on terrorism that gets too little attention, yet is as important as any other, is the media war. Whether they realize it, members of the mainstream media are participants in the war on terrorism, and nowhere is that more evident than in Iraq. Blogger Bill Roggio, who has embedded as a journalist in Iraq and Afghanistan, says the enemy’s documents reveal that much of their strategy revolves around manipulation of the media. An enemy unable to beat us on the battlefield is employing a strategy of attacks planned specifically for maximum media coverage and effect....

Two churches intend to give sanctuary to illegal immigrants to protect them from deportation and put pressure on lawmakers to create a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. Beginning Wednesday, a Catholic Church in Los Angeles and a Lutheran church in North Hollywood each intend to shelter one person as part of the "New Sanctuary Movement." A handful of churches in other U.S. cities plan similar efforts in the months ahead to spotlight the plight of illegal immigrants. "We want to put a human face to very complex immigration laws and awaken the consciousness of the...

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2007 – An accused terrorist accomplice held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied any involvement with al Qaeda, as well as possessing knowledge that money he had wired from overseas to the United States was used to finance the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a transcript from his March 30 tribunal hearing. Ammar al Baluchi is the nephew of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who is also being detained at Guantanamo. Baluchi denied under questioning during the hour-and-a-half tribunal that his uncle had introduced him to al Qaeda operatives prior to the Sept. 11,...

A fight erupts among acquaintances, words give way to violence and a bystander is fatally shot amid a crowd of onlookers. For investigators, solving the crime would seem simple enough: question witnesses, identify the gunman and make an arrest. But in this particular case, the killing of a security guard two weeks ago outside a recording studio in Brooklyn, detectives have run into a stubborn wall of silence. Among scores of witnesses, including the rap artist Busta Rhymes and a half-dozen hip-hop celebrities who were present at the filming of a video at the studio, the lack of cooperation has...

<p>Donor nations put new pressure Thursday on the Palestinians to crack down on militants and clean up their finances, suggesting that future aid could be in doubt if there is no improvement, diplomats said.</p> <p>The donors, in Rome for their annual meeting, also criticized Israeli travel restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza during the three years of violence since peace talks collapsed. Aid workers say the restrictions and other military operations hinder their efforts and wreck development projects.</p>

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29028 Monday, September 23, 2002 Why Iraq? Why now? Posted: September 23, 20021:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com I keep hearing the administration talking about the reasons we're about to invade Iraq. President Bush told the United Nations Baghdad is developing weapons of mass destruction. True. He told the hapless international body that Iraq has violated countless U.N. resolutions. True. He told the U.N. Iraq has attempted to assassinate world leaders – including his father. True. He said Iraq possesses dangerous...