Terrorism

Florida Man Blows Fingers Off With Homemade Bomb

James Minyard, 41, of Tampa never finished school, and wanted to start and finish a difficult job just to prove that he could. So, instead of learning how to play the guitar or taking up scuba diving, like most people would, he took up building homemade bombs. And then he proceeded to blow off parts ... More >>

Drone-Banning Bill Passes Florida Senate Unanimously

Good news, everyone! It looks like it's going to be a little harder for the government to vaporize you with a drone, thanks to a 39-0 vote by the Florida Senate for SB 92. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Negron, who is the chamber's appropriations chair, the bill will keep local law enforcement officials fro ... More >>

The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

Obama: "We Win Florida, We Win The Election"

President Obama was in Florida yesterday during a bus tour, hitting up Melbourne, West Palm Beach, and inexplicably getting a bear hug from a pizza guy. Obama spoke to roughly 6,000 people at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, telling them that if he can win Florida, he will win the election. ... More >>

Victor Finn Accused of Making Most Straightforward Bomb Threat Ever: "I'm Gonna Blow Your Shit Up"

Fort Lauderdale 18-year-old Victor "Duffleman" Finn is having a bad couple of weeks. Between June 11 and 19, he was accused of making bomb threats, mugging a woman, and throwing asphalt through a rehab center's window. Now, he's in jail.On June 11, he allegedly called a rehab center where his ex-gir ... More >>

Allen West Blames Obama for Afghanistan Suicide Bombing

In a tweet this morning, Congressman Allen West linked to an article detailing a suicide bombing in Kabul, the Afghan capital that President Barack Obama had just departed from, and... took the side of the Taliban."Pres flew into Afghanistan at night for 7 hrs," West wrote. "As sun came up, Taliban ... More >>

Run to Remember

Reflect Loss

Arsonists With a Cause

Local Muslims May Support Terrorists or Strive for Peace -- Depending on Whom You Ask

Prosecutors say the six men supported the Taliban in Pakistan.​If you believe the feds, the group of local Muslims arrested across South Florida this past weekend were supporters of terrorism and worked to fund those who would kill and kidnap in the name of Islam. The four-count indictment claims ... More >>

Ann Coulter Misleads, Defends Torture

​Ann Coulter is either cynical or crazy. I'm hoping for the latter, because I'd hate to think my home state contains anyone willing to dissemble as freely and viciously as she does in her latest column -- a hot mess of half-assertions and quarter-truths too sloppy to illuminate anything even in th ... More >>

[Update] Proof of Osama Bin Laden's Death: Where Is It?

Proof of Bin Laden's death? Nope, that's just a stick figure.​Update: President Obama has decided against releasing photographic evidence of Osama Bin Laden's death amid concerns the images could be inflammatory. On Monday, we reported the news that U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden, Ame ... More >>

Five Osama Bin Laden Cocktails

Red Death cocktail​On Sunday night, President Obama told the world that Osama Bin Laden, the leader behind our nation's most horrific terrorist attacks on 9/11, had been killed in a special operation by Navy SEALs. While most deaths aren't celebrated, Bin Laden ain't your average situ ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Is Dead: Some Links

​Osama bin Laden is dead and you want to know the whole story? The compound in Attobad​-- U.S. forces shot bin Laden in the head during a raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. One of the al Qaeda leader's sons was also killed, as were two other men and a women being used as a human ... More >>

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Art

Broward College Says Alleged al Qaeda Leader Was Dropout, Used Different Name

Broward.eduBroward College's Pine Center campus, where a future terrorist suspect took chemistry classes.​Seeking to "stem the tide of incorrect information," Broward College has released a statement that clarifies the school's association with Adnan El Shukrijumah, the former Miramar resident who ... More >>

Juice Obtains Civil Suit Filing Against Chiquita Listing 242 Plaintiffs

Today's suit alleges Chiquita funded AUC terrorists​The Juice has obtained the 110-page civil suit filed yesterday in West Palm Beach Federal District Court on behalf of 242 Colombian plaintiffs against Chiquita Brands International. The suit, brought by Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, which ha ... More >>

Allen West Getting Jingo With It

Col. Allen West, candidate for Congress in Ron Klein's coastal South Florida district, has another YouTube clip for his trophy case. This one comes from last month's "Reclaim American Liberty" conference in New York City. West gave a blunt answer to a question about why Islamic jihadists hate us nic ... More >>

Author Predicts Jeb Bush Will Rise at Same Rate as Palin Plummets

Bush​Brad Meltzer is the bestselling author of The Book of Fate, so his predictions should not be taken lightly. U.S. News & World Report rounded up him and others among America's public intellectuals to get their perspective on what would happen in 2010. Meltzer's crystal ball imagines a righ ... More >>

The Scars He Carried

South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism

We Head to Afghanistan to Find Out What's Been Gained by Eight Years of War

Liberty City Six Judge Refuses to Pay Private Investigator After He Speaks Out

Hanging Up On Osama, Food Bombs for the Homeless, Jack Bauer Endorses Art

Phone Call from Obama, Congreswoman. No wait, Osama.Sure, there are a lot of people wondering how much of a dumbass Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is for hanging up on Barack Obama. It took three phone calls before Ros-Lehtinen finally figured out it wasn't a hoax. But in these times, terrorist ... More >>

Joe Badran is supposed to help keep Broward County schools diverse, but Americans Against Hate says he supports Hamas and terrorism

Lies We Can Believe In

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve

Booze for the Cause

Sometimes the best way to show respect is with shots and beers

Hindsight is 20/20

Besides, otherwise the terrorists will win

A Star Is Bourne (Again)

Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

Does This Story Look Like News?

The Coup

Pick a Bigger Weapon (Epitaph)

Bombs for Babies

Stephen Jordi planned to blow up abortion clinics. Does that make him a terrorist?

George of the Bungle

Michael Moore goes Bushwhacking in Fahrenheit 9/11

Out of the Dark

FLIFF spotlights a reclusive Mexican writer, a bluegrass pretender, Israeli terror victims, and a Portuguese family in flight

You, Spy

Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

Gunning for Profit

Opportunists make a fortune supplying guerrillas and terrorists from South Florida gun shops

Terror Firmer

In The Dancer Upstairs, Bardem is the quiet amid the violence

Letters for March 27, 2003

A Hate-Love Relationship

Bobbing for War

Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

Best Terrorist Fish Stories

Shuckums

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Back in the Lion's Mouth

The INS had two chances to nab Mohamed Atta. It failed both times.

Their Own Osamas

Abortion clinics and counseling centers faced terrorism long before everyone else

A Bunker in Boca

High prices. Impressive gadgets. Even when it comes to terrorism, Boca is tops.

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Critic's Pick

Hashbrown

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

1984 and Counting

Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell

Undercurrents

When bad things happen, SoFla newspapers react. Sometimes they overreact.