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Letterman - Sacha Baron Cohen Interviews a Terrorist

How do you interview a terrorist? Sacha Baron Cohen tells how he tracked one down for "Bruno."

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Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated

whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group was working... more

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NRA Appears To Back Gun Rights For Terror Suspects

In defense of the right to bear arms, the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups seem to have taken up the cause... more

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"Black Watch Regiment," Scots Soldiers, Filmed Carrying Out Huge Helicopter Attack On Taliban

Coalition troops in Afghanistan carried out a massive assault against a Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province in southern... more

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Jose Padilla's Revenge on John Yoo

In 2002, Justice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote a memo recommending that Jose Padilla, arrested in Chicago in the wake of 9/11... more

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VIDEO: Palestinian Moderate is an Extremist

VIDEO: Palestinian Moderate is an Extremist http://honestreporting.com/a/moderateorhardline.asp

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Holder: Indefinite Detention Will Include Measures Of Due Process

Eric Holder asserted on Wednesday that terrorism suspects indefinitely detained by the United States would be granted... more

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Osama bin Laden Is a Dead Man

Almost exactly three years ago I predicted the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. And a month later he was dead. Sometimes you can see... more

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YouTube Video shows Taser Police Giving Shock Treatment

Mobile phone footage showing a man being hit at least twice by a 50,000-volt police Taser gun prompted an urgent inquiry... more

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U.N. Report: Israeli Authorities Have Issued a New Wave of Orders for Palastinian House Demolitions

The United Nations report a new wave of demolition orders, given out May 31, by the Israeli authorities. The orders call for... more

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CIA Director: Cheney Almost Seems To Want Another Terrorist Attack

The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local... more

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Latest Shootings show threat of ‘lone wolf’ terrorists

An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a military recruiting office. Another man opens fire in a Kansas church.

Three chilling, unconnected slayings in less than two weeks. One gunman was a white supremacist, one a militant Muslim, one a fervent foe of abortion.

Each suspect had a history that suggested trouble. Each apparently was driven to act by beliefs considered by some as extreme. Each shooter fits the description of a "lone wolf" terrorist, a killer whose attack, authorities say, is harder to head off than if planned by a trained terrorist network.

"It could be anyone. It could be the guy next door, living in the basement of his mother's place, on the Internet just building himself up with hate, building himself up to a boiling point and finally using what he's learned," said John Perren, head of the counterterrorism branch at the FBI's Washington field office.

Perren described the difficulty of hunting a lone wolf suspect in an interview with the Associated Press just two days before white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly shot and killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

"The lone wolf is what concerns the Washington field office, what concerns the FBI the most," he said.

Von Brunn had a criminal record and a Web site preaching virulent racism. Yet authorities say it is difficult to predict when someone will put down a laptop and pick up a gun.

When investigating a terrorist network, FBI agents can often access e-mails, phone records and documents to build a case. In some cases, they can develop informants to penetrate the group and provide intelligence.

But a killer acting alone rarely tells anyone what he's planning, let alone when or how. That makes it hard for authorities to determine who is prepared to commit a criminal act in furtherance of a perceived cause.

Trying to counter that threat, the FBI has created what it calls "tripwires." These are programs that seek tips from businesses whenever someone buys significant amounts of materials that can be used to make explosives, or large amounts of weapons or ammunition.

Such precautions seem to have worked in the case of a man who cleaned out his savings account in Utah and told the bank teller he was on a mission to kill President Barack Obama. The man, who relatives said suffers from mental illness, triggered a criminal investigation and he was eventually arrested.An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a... more