Lawyer: USS Cole victims’ families to get at least $200K after judge unfreezes Sudanese money

RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly nine years after 17 sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole, some relatives of the victims are set to receive at least $200,000 each from Sudan, a lawyer said Tuesday.

NY judge unfreezes more than $13M in Sudanese accounts to pay families of USS Cole victims

RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly nine years after 17 sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole, a judge has ordered New York banks to release $13.4 million in frozen Sudanese accounts to family members of the victims.

DOJ interrogation memos approved waterboarding, but left unanswered: Does torture work?

WASHINGTON — Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons.

Obama: Open to possibility of prosecutions, congressional probe of harsh interrogation tactics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama left the door open Tuesday to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations, saying the United States lost “our moral bearings” with use of the tactics.

Officials: Suspected US missiles kill 3, wound 5 in northwestern Pakistani tribal region

ISLAMABAD — Suspected U.S. missiles killed three people at a Taliban compound in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, despite militant threats of a wave of suicide bombings if the strikes don’t end.

Suicide car bomber attacks Pakistan army convoy in northwest, killing 27 and wounding 65

ISLAMABAD — A suicide car bomber attacked an army convoy at a checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 27 people near another emerging militant stronghold within striking distance of the Afghan border.

Pakistani police say suicide car bomb kills 20 at checkpoint in northwest

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a military checkpoint in Pakistan’s troubled northwest on Saturday, killing at least 20 people, officials said.

Pakistani police say suicide attack kills 10 at checkpoint in northwest

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber attacked security forces manning a checkpoint in Pakistan’s troubled northwest on Saturday, killing at least 10 people, officials said.

US envoy: Pakistan aid surpassed expectations but more needed to fight terrorism

US envoy: Pakistan aid beats hopes but more needed

TOKYO — A day after international donors pledged more than $5 billion to Pakistan, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said Saturday that the aid exceeded expectations but far more is needed to strengthen the country’s economy and fight terrorism.

Terrorist Assault on Cricket

The morning of 3rd March 2009, will go down in history as a ‘black morning’ personally for Pakistan Cricket and universally for World Cricket. Thanks to a dozen masked terrorists loaded with grenades, launchers and AK 47s, who launched a surprise attack on the Sri Lankan Team who was on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium for another usual day at the job.