Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is unlikely to go free. The onetime al Qaeda operative has confessed on multiple occasions to organizing the worst terrorist attacks in modern times. If anything, he’s prone to overstating his own importance in the terrorist organization behind the plot. But the Obama administration’s decision to try Mohammed and four others...
Monthly Archives: November 2009
U.S. is Striking Back in the Global Cyberwar
Haymarket, va.-More than two dozen professional hackers have set up operations in exurban Virginia beside a mock military headquarters made of plywood. Huddled over laptops, they are preparing to launch a vicious barrage of cyberattacks. Once they break into their targets’ computer networks, the nefarious possibilities are myriad: shutting off phone lines, overloading citywide...
Moves to Seize Mosques Spark Outrage
Government authorities had long suspected that the Alavi charitable foundation, associated with the late shah of Iran, was linked to the country’s current ruling theocracy. But it was not until last week that federal prosecutors in New York began legal action against the foundation, seizing its ownership share of the Piaget Building, a 36-story...
Wofford Terriers Coach Mike Ayers Helps His Players Win On and Off the Field
Spartanburg, S.C.-Putting his team through a dry run of the complicated “Wingbone” offense, Wofford College Terriers Head Coach Mike Ayers wipes at the beads of sweat sliding down the back of his neck and soaking the cord that holds his whistle. The South Carolina sun is so intense in August that the assistant coaches...
Supreme Court Weighs Juvenile Life Sentences
Nationwide, there are more than 2,200 juveniles serving sentences of life without parole. That figure includes dozens of children as young as 13 years old. Four years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that executing anyone for a crime committed when he or she was younger than 18 is unconstitutional. On...