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Haifa bus bombing: Remembering on the 10th anniversary

Ten years ago today, I awoke to radio news reports of a bus bombing in Haifa, Israel, killing 17 and injuring 53, including many school children. To us it was more than a report of a distant tragedy: Dear friends from MIT, working for the Baptist denomination in Israel, lived...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 5, 2013 9:51 PM

Terrorist ties to Tulsa car buyer?

A U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) money-laundering and forfeiture complaint filed Thursday, December 15, 2011, in U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York lists a Tulsa company, Ace Auto Leasing, Inc., as the recipient of over $20 million in wire transfers from Lebanese financial institutions...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 16, 2011 12:48 AM

The OKC bombing videos: What's missing?

The Associated Press reported Sunday on a new development concerning the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for surveillance tapes from buildings near Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. After a long wait, four tapes were released,...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 28, 2009 11:00 PM

North Carolina jihadi cell busted

Counterterrorism investigative reporter Erick Stakelbeck has some thoughts on the terror arrests in North Carolina. It's a disturbing situation: Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this North Carolina jihad cell is that it was apparently made up of mostly white converts to Islam. Indeed, Daniel Patrick Boyd looked like your...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 28, 2009 9:46 AM