Translation Error Found in NY Terror Sting Case
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US prosecutors have found a possible translation error in a key piece of evidence in the case against two leaders of a New York mosque accused of supporting terrorism, a Justice Department spokesman said on Wednesday.
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One of the 10 people accused of an anti-Semitic attack on a New York subway train disputes it began after a passenger said "Happy Hanukkah," the suspect's lawyer said Friday.
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Thousands of people have been mistakenly linked to names on terror watch lists when they crossed the border, boarded commercial airliners or were stopped for traffic violations, a government report said Friday.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the
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More than 120,000 hours of wiretapped conversations between terrorist suspects and sympathisers since the September 11 attacks have not been translated because of the FBI&#39;s lack of linguists, according to an official report.
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The FBI has failed to translate hundreds of thousands of hours of wiretap recordings from counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite steep increases in funding for new linguists and other translation services, according to a report released yesterday.
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Federal prosecutors Tuesday acknowledged a possible translation error in a key piece of evidence used to arrest and detain a mosque leader accused of supporting terrorism.
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A former civilian interpreter charged more than a year ago with lying to government agents and removing classified documents from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, changed his plea to guilty in a federal court in Boston on Monday.
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Defense lawyers have asked the government to dismiss the most serious charges against a former Guantanamo Bay translator accused of spying, after learning that documents he is accused of trying to deliver to Syria are not classified.
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The threats by Koral Karsan, 50, a Turkish immigrant, were part of a letter read in court today.
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An incident this week in which British former pop star Cat Stevens was deported from the United States to London as a &quot;no-fly&quot; terrorist risk was caused by a spelling error.
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The U.S. government's failure this week to win a conviction in a major case of alleged terrorism financing is a sign it may be targeting the wrong suspects and needs to rethink its prosecution strategy, legal experts say.
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The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks, a Justice Department audit released Monday said.
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The suspects in the alleged New York airport terror plot have ties to the leader of a violent militant Islamist group
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NEW YORK - Police in Nassau and Suffolk counties say they were able to tie at least 13 bank robberies to the same man because of the spelling errors in his hold-up notes.
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A man already facing terrorism and robbery charges was indicted for making bomb threats against four banks in New York, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.
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One of those charged yesterday was Dhiren Barot -- known publicly until yesterday as Eisa Hindi -- who is suspected of conducting surveillance of US financial buildings that was detailed in computer files seized recently in ...