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Hundreds of people on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist have almost certainly slipped into the United States amid millions of other illegal immigrants during the last three years, according to former federal officials and experts. “You have to be extremely naïve to not be significantly concerned about this,” said Rodney Scott, former chief of U.S. Border Patrol from 2020 to 2021. “Regardless of what the Biden administration may claim, what it said during the campaign and the executive orders taken in January 2021 have been interpreted around the world as the border is open. You’re insane if you don’t think terrorists...

Congressional Democrats are trying to build support for an effort to bar gun purchases by terror suspects, hoping to take advantage of the same public anxieties about security that gave Republicans a ringing House victory. The Democratic push seems likely to fall victim to opposition from the National Rifle Association and congressional gun-rights backers, chiefly Republicans, who have smothered firearms curbs for years. If the Republicans who control Congress block votes on the proposal, Democrats hope to profit politically by winning sympathy from angry voters. ...

Here is a video report on five Americans arrested in Pakistan who may be charged with aiding terrorist groups. The five - all Muslims - claim they traveled to Pakistan and had contacted the groups only because they wanted to "help the helpless Muslims." If charged and convicted, they all face life sentences in a Pakistani Prison. Five Northern Virginia men accused of possible terrorist ties told a Pakistani court Monday that they had neither sought nor established any contact with Islamic extremist groups, according to their Pakistani attorney, and had traveled to the region only "to help the helpless...

The hits just keep on coming, while you wait in line, Gitmo detainees will have their vaccines delivered,...these are the fools running our country...(Story here)

Here is a video called "Denied by Democrats" which documents Sen. James Inhofe's attempts to keep the Guantanamo Bay Terrorist Prison open, and terror suspects out of the United States. But at every turn, his attempts have been "Denied by Democrats." . . . . . (Watch Video)

ATLANTA - Two U.S. citizens accused of plotting to attack civilian and government targets shot "casing videos" of Washington landmarks that were found on a terrorism suspect's computer in Britain and met with suspects in a Canadian terrorism case, an FBI agent testified Monday. Agent Mark Richards testified that the videos of the U.S. Capitol and other Washington landmarks taken by Syed Ahmed and Ehsanul Sadequee were found on a computer belonging to Younis Tsouli, a Moroccan-born man who pleaded guilty in Britain in July to inciting others to commit acts of terrorism. Richards also said Ahmed and Sadequee, during...

Muslim donors targets of federal investigation: Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has taken thousands of dollars in cash donations from Islamists under federal investigation for terror-financing, money laundering and tax fraud, WND has learned.

LONDON - A coalition of human rights groups is demanding the United States account for 39 terror suspects it believes have been secretly imprisoned and published their names in a report being released Thursday. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and four other groups have drawn up a list of 39 so-called "ghost detainees" — people they claim are held by U.S. authorities and are still missing. "What we're asking is where are these 39 people now, and what's happened to them since they 'disappeared'?" Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watch said in a statement. CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said "there's...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Rebellious Republicans, who this week broke with the White House over President George W. Bush's plan for treatment and trial of terror detainees, kept up their fight, highlighting US division over the issue of rights versus security. Senator John McCain, who has been leading the battle to stop Bush from redefining the Geneva Conventions, said the United States needed to "hold the moral high ground," on how prisoners, Al-Qaeda or not, are treated. "We can't lower our standards because others do," he told ABC news. "We are not like Al-Qaeda. We're not like the bad guys. We're...

Yard is watching thousands of terror suspects By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 02/09/2006) Thousands of British Muslims are being watched by police and MI5 under suspicion of possible terrorist involvement, a Scotland Yard chief has disclosed. Peter Clarke, the head of the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch, said they were being looked at in the belief that they might be involved directly or indirectly in supporting terrorism. His estimate was given in an interview for a BBC2 documentary, al-Qa'eda: Time to Talk, which investigates British Muslim connections with the terrorist network and will to be shown tomorrow. Mr Clarke...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2006 – Soldiers from Task Force Band of Brothers detained 11 terror suspects and seized weapons caches Jan. 4 in the Tikrit area of northern Iraq, military officials in Baghdad said today. Eight suspects were detained Jan. 4 by soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team while conducting a patrol near the city of Hawija. The soldiers destroyed a large collection of weapons and explosives. Three suspects were caught as they tried to run away when the combat team patrol came upon their truck stopped alongside the road. Five other men were discovered in...

LYON, France - The international police organization Interpol said on Wednesday it had issued a worldwide arrest warrant for Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who is wanted in several countries for attacks he allegedly carried out for the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation. The so-called Red Notice was issued at the request of Algeria, which wants Zarqawi arrested in connection with the kidnap and murder of two Algerian diplomats in Iraq in July 2005. The head of Al Qaeda operations in Iraq, Zarqawi is also wanted by police in Germany for his part in a number of terrorist offenses and is sought...

WASHINGTON – Congress sent President Bush a ban on harsh treatment of foreign terrorism suspects in U.S. custody and directed him to send lawmakers quarterly reports on Iraq as it completed a voluminous bill Wednesday that rebuffed some of his war policies. The Senate approved the measure on a voice vote and Bush was considered certain to sign it. That would be a reversal for a White House that initially threatened to veto any bill limiting how the United States detains, interrogates or prosecutes terror suspects. Bush reluctantly endorsed the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign detainees...

Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 - A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications in some cases, despite a requirement by the White House that one end of the intercepted conversations take place on foreign soil, officials say. The officials say the National Security Agency's interception of a small number of communications between people within the United States was apparently accidental, and was caused by technical glitches at the National Security Agency in determining whether a communication was in fact...

GOP senator criticizes White House torture stance Bill would ban inhumane treatment of detainees Sunday, November 6, 2005; Posted: 2:17 p.m. EST (19:17 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- A leading Republican senator said Sunday that the Bush administration is making "a terrible mistake" in opposing a congressional ban on torture and other inhuman treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody. Sen. Chuck Hagel, considered a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said many Republican senators support the ban proposed by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. The ban was approved by a 90-9 vote last month in...

BOSTON -- The FBI notified law enforcement agencies in Boston to be on the lookout for several people described as possible terror suspects who may be headed to the city Wednesday. An uncorroborated report said that four illegal immigrants from the California/Mexico border were on their way to Boston via New York carrying some sort of explosive material. So far, no threat has been corroborated. The immigrants have been identified as Zengrong Lin, Wen Quin Zheng, Xiujin Chen and Guozhi Lin. "We have no information at this time that is confirmed by reliable sources. We have information from one single...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani computer expert linked to U.S. security alerts and the arrest of 11 terrorism suspects in Britain was part of an undercover sting operation before Washington revealed his name, a Pakistani intelligence source and British media reports said yesterday. U.S. officials revealed the name of captured al Qaeda suspect Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan while he was still cooperating with Pakistani authorities in a sting operation, an intelligence source told Reuters news agency.

Four of the five men who have been returned to Britain after being detained for two years at Guantanamo Bay have been arrested on their arrival under Britain's Terrorism Act. The five men arrived on a military plane at an Air Force base in west London this morning Australian time. Anti-terrorism officers were on board and arrested four of the ex-detainees as soon as the plane touched down. Under British law that means the men can be held without charge for up to 14 days. The fifth man has been detained but not arrested by police. He could be questioned...

Terror suspects originally arrested by armed police have been rearrested on lesser charges, Scotland Yard have said. Four men and two women were taken into custody after Anti-Terrorist Branch officers swooped on homes and businesses in Cambridge and east London. All were originally arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act, on suspicion of involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Scotland Yard said five had been released - de-arrested - under the terror laws but rearrested on other matters. A 27-year-old man and a 31-year-old man were rearrested on suspicion of bank fraud and immigration...

<p>LONDON — British police arrested two terror suspects, including one with suspected links to Al Qaeda, Britain's home secretary said Thursday.</p> <p>Television reports said those links involved convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.</p> <p>The 24-year-old man was arrested in Gloucester, western England, after police evacuated 119 nearby homes and cordoned off three roads out of fear he may have had explosives, authorities said. London's Metropolitan Police, which assisted in the investigation, said officers recovered a "relatively small amount" of what was described as "explosive material." Police gave no further details.</p>