Terrorism

Terror in Boston Tightens Security for CicLAvia

Both this weekend's bike ride and other outdoor L.A. events could see new precautions in light of deadly attacks at marathon

Dave Barry & Alan Zweibel

'Post 9/11' Exhibit at OHWOW Gallery: What 21st Century Art of Rebellion Looks Like

Courtesy of Team GalleryRyan McGinley: Taylor (Rushing River), 2011​ When Osama bin Laden was killed in May and young people, "the Millennials," gathered at the White House, Lafayette Park and Ground Zero in a surprising burst of euphoria, their optimism was unnerving. Did they really imagine ... More >>

Operation Cupcake: MI6 Secretly Replaced Al Qaeda's Bombs with Cupcakes

Turning swords into plowshares is all well and good, but MI6 has a better idea: turning bombs into delicious cupcakes. In a sweet bit of counter-terrorism that also reads like the plot of a Kate Hudson rom-com,* the British spy agency got hold of Al Qaeda's first English language publication, Insp ... More >>

Bin Laden Name-Checks L.A. as Terror Target: LAX Gets New Bomb-Sniffing Dog Team

LAX.​Who let the dogs out? The LAPD and LAX police did -- in order to detect possible terrorists with bombs moving through the airport. The announcement of the new, specialized canines -- the first team of dogs in the nation to focus on possible bomb-carriers walking through an airport -- cam ... More >>

Al Qaeda, Other Terror Groups Reportedly Use 'vBulletin' Technology to Communicate: Fox Calls Out its Maker, L.A.'s Internet Brands

YouTubeAl Qaeda training video.​An L.A.company is under fire for creating the technology that reportedly allows terror groups like Al Qaeda to recruit members and plan attacks. Fox News this week called out El Segundo-based Internet Brands for its group-discussion platform vBulletin. Of cours ... More >>

Los Angeles Ex-Soldier Mike Bruggink Split From U.S. Army, Posed as Boar Hunter to Stalk Osama Bin Laden (and $25 Million) With AK-47

Mike BrugginkBruggink left no Afghani cave unturned.​Patriotic nutjob Gary Faulker wasn't the only Angeleno to strike out alone on a mission to find Osama bin Laden before last weekend's big Navy SEAL takedown. Marina del Rey resident Mike Bruggink was hot on his trail -- the $25 million prize ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden: Los Angeles Police Vigilant Despite Death of World's Most Reviled Terrorist

Gone.​Updated after the jump with a pat on the back from the LAFD. The LAPD is keeping its guard up despite President Obama's world-shaking announcement that terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan. Assistant Commanding Officer Blake Chow, the department's counterterrorism comm ... More >>

Lara Logan Reveals Rape Details, Moves On to Report Osama Bin Laden's Death in Same Night

CBS NewsLara Logan, back in action​"I don't want this to define me," CBS News correspondent Lara Logan told the New York Times on Thursday, previewing a solemn Sunday-night interview on "60 Minutes" in which she meticulously recounted her own February 11 gang rape in Egypt. A couple hours la ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Death Could Inspire New Terrorism in America, Says Author Chris Hedges in L.A.

FBIWill Obama's demise lead to more terrorism on U.S. soil?​While most Americans today are walking on cloud 9, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex- New York Times reporter who has covered the Middle East for seven years says we should be afraid. Very afraid. Chris Hedges told a group gathered in L.A ... More >>

Don't Say No, It's the End of the World

Muslim Journalist Asra Nomani To TSA: Racially Profile Me; Profile My Family

Georgetown UniversityIs Asra Nomani's journalistic reputation at stake?​If you're a non-Muslim male, we recommend you don't spew offensive stereotypes about Muslims on national television. That is, if you're keen on keeping your job as a left-wing journalist. If you're a Muslim woman, though ... More >>

Despite National Backlash, L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Supports Airport Body Scanners

reason.comL.A.'s mayor wants to scan your body.​Update: Villaraigosa stepped through a scanner this morning afternoon to express his solidarity with unwarranted x-ray vision. The scan is said to have revealed free Lakers tickets in his pocket. See a correction regarding Gloria Allred after the ... More >>

FOUR LIONS

Bloodbaths and Shadows

The Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an Idiot

LAX Police Union Head Says Airport Vulnerable To Terrorist Attack

​The head of the union representing Los Angeles airport police said in a letter to LAX's police chief that the airport is more vulnerable to a terrorist attack than at any time since Sept. 11, 2001. In the letter, obtained by KNX 1070 Newsradio, Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association p ... More >>

Did An Episode Of 'South Park' Inspire New York Car Bomb?

South Park Studios​Authorities are looking into the possibility that a recent episode of Los Angeles-based animated comedy series South Park that was deemed insensitive to Islam by some Muslims could have inspired the failed car bomb in New York's Times Square over the weekend. "This vehicle ... More >>

Erroll Southers Resigns From LAX Police

Erroll Southers.​Erroll Southers on Monday announced his plans to resign as assistant LAX police chief. The former FBI agent spent two years as the second-in-command for the LAX department before being thrown into a firestorm when he was nominated by President Barack Obama to run the U.S. Tran ... More >>

LAX Security Chief Larry Fetters Bails

TSALarry Fetters​LAX federal security director Larry Fetters unexpectedly retired recently, leaving the world's sixth-busiest airport without U.S. counter-terrorism leadership at a time when authorities warn that Al-Qaeda will attempt a domestic strike. Marshall McClain, president of the Los ... More >>

Airport Police Group Wants Quick Deployment Of LAX Body Scanners

​The Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association is urging "large-scale deployment" of full-body scanners at LAX because wide-spread metal detectors will not catch the kind of high-tech explosives used in the attempted bombing of an airliner over Detroit Christmas day. The LAAPOA states th ... More >>

Election '08: The Terrorists Strike, the Markets Crumble . . . Plus, McCain's Radical Dance

BY MARC COOPER We had been told since the beginning that the Taliban, al Qaeda and jihadists in general worked on what was called a "biblical calendar." None of this faster, quicker B.S. They would take their time in restoring the Caliphate. Fair enough. But who knew the Weather Underground had ... More >>

Vantage Point: Pointless

All-star cast can't save Rashomon wannabe

A Controlled Performance

United 93’s Ben Sliney, as played by an actor who understood the role

Milking It

9/11 thumb suckers

Post Cards From a Paranoid Universe

John Powers on summer's slithering freaks and creeps

Survivor's Guilt

9/11 with a laugh track

Trial by Bush

Constitution-shredding in the Jose Padilla case

Mooning America

God’s Spokesperson

Spies on Ice

Would the end of the CIA be good or bad?

The Resurrection

John Kerry comes to life on Iraq

The Obsessives

As Richard Clarke recounts it, Bush and his neos couldn’t be bothered with the facts of an impending al Qaeda attack

War by Numbers

Lying Along the Potomac

10 fibs by our president

The War on Due Process

With Patriot Act power, Bush and Ashcroft try to conquer the legal system

The List

The Case Against the War

Bush is the real menace to world order

American Idyll

Whatever happened to dirty bombs and homemade polio?

An Oklahoma Mystery

New hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists

Dirty Johnny

The attorney general loses more credibility with Padilla case

Politics of Dung

Simon smells questions he can’t answer on farm beat; Davis prepares to shovel dirt

General Mayhem

It's hard to change sides in Pakistan

War Games

Frozen in Guantánamo

The L.A. case for al Qaeda

Letters

Cold Trail

In pursuit of L.A. terrorists

War and Power

Is Osama bin Laden a terrorist or soldier, and does it matter?

Death Watcher

Political scientist David C. Rapoport on the history of terrorism

Futile Force

Better ways to fight terrorism than killing people

Start of History

The hour of the furnaces