Antiterrorism News

Grand Rapids - The pressure cooker-type bombs set off at the Boston Marathon would have been detected by a new technology that "listens" for nitrogen atoms in gunpowder and virtually every common explosive, a U.S. company says.

Avignon - The mother and uncle of a toddler were in court, Wednesday facing charges of ‘defending terrorism,’ the mother having sent her young son, who happens to be named ‘Jihad’ to nursery school wearing a T-shirt carrying the legend “I am a bomb."

Sydney - Surveillance technology is big news, but its capabilities are usually underrated. The current technology is perfectly capable of creating a police state. If this technology had been available to Stalin, the Gulags would have been ten times bigger.

Peshawar - Nasir Khan, a Khyber Agency official, and Fazal Mehmood announced Wednesday that a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason.