U.S. Targets Visa Violators in Terror War
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WASHINGTON - More than 350 people who have committed crimes or are suspected of terrorist links have been arrested in a federal crackdown on foreigners with visa violations, part of a broader effort to prevent al-Qaida from disrupting U.S. elections...
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More than 350 people who have committed crimes or are suspected of terrorist links have been arrested in a federal crackdown on foreigners with visa violations, part of a broader effort to prevent al-Qaida from disrupting U.S. elections.
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Terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed used one of his many aliases to obtain a tourist visa to visit Australia a month before the September 11 attacks in the United States which he plotted, the government said.
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There is deep concern about the possibility of a terrorist attack in the United States this year because al Qaeda may be recruiting and giving explosives training to Europeans, many of whom can enter the country without a visa, the director of national intelligence told Congress.
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U.S. immigration tried to deport only 12 people on terrorism-related charges from 2004 through 2006, according to a private research study
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An Islamic militant group designated as a terror organization by the U.S. claimed responsibility for foiled bombings that targeted the American air base at Ramstein, as well as U.S. and Uzbek consulates in Germany, the government said Tuesday.
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Travel industry leaders meeting in Washington Wednesday said they want the U.S. government to stop treating tourists like terrorists, and to take steps to reverse a steep decline in overseas travel to the United States that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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The United States said it has put a leading Saudi dissident and another national of the desert kingdom on its list of terrorist financiers and is asking the United Nations to sanction them as well.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras has stepped up security at foreign embassies here after the government received information that al-Qaida was trying to recruit Hondurans to attack the embassies of the United States, Britain, Spain and El Salvador, the Honduran security minister said Sunday.    The heightened security was implemented three days ago and a national terror alert was declared Sunday after intelligence services received reports of the plan, Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said...
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Evidence that doctors are at the heart of a British terrorist plot has foreign-born physicians in the U.S. on edge and wondering whether already stringent immigration security will get even tougher.
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The Philippines has put rights activists, including a former U.S. attorney-general and members of church groups, on an immigration blacklist drawn up ostensibly to stop terrorists from entering, a rights group said on Friday.
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Dozens of people who have vanished after allegedly being detained by the US in counter-terror operations named in report by human rights groups.
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The United States has advised its citizens in Indonesia to take additional security precautions against possible terrorist attacks in the run up to Islam's biggest festival of Eid al-Fitr next month.
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Developing nations on Tuesday urged the United States and other powerful countries to consult them on tackling terror and resolving the Middle East conflict.
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The United States said it was concerned over safe havens being established by Islamic militants in northern Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
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Honduras has stepped up security at embassies here after the government received information that Al Qaida is trying recruit Hondurans to attack the embassies of the United States, Britain, Spain and El Salvador, Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said Sunday.
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U.S. military lawyers on Thursday   challenged President George W. Bush's plan to try terrorism   suspects, including the accused September 11 mastermind, as   Democrats charged the White House with election-year   fearmongering.