431 days ago - Ali al-Marri was trained in an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan in the 1990s, met and was counseled by Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, volunteered for a "martyr mission" and came to the United States as a "sleeper agent" to hack into banks and disrupt the nation's financial system.
594 days ago - On a day when Alexander Litvinenko was in a British hospital fighting for his life after being poisoned and accused President Vladimir Putin of murder, the Irish newspapers gave far more coverage to the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes wedding in a castle north of Rome than this astonishing story.
683 days ago - The Intercollegiate Studies Institute recently completed a study on American civic literacy that should serve as a wake-up call for every educator in the country. Since America’s founding, leaders have argued that our nation cannot be free and ignorant at the same time. Yet, if this study can be relied on, that is precisely the predicament we find ourselves in.