War and Conflict

"Lockout" an Expendable Collection of '80s Action Flick Cliches

Florida Legislators Want to Declare That Osama bin Laden's Death Was a Good Thing

​It hasn't passed either chamber of Florida's Legislature yet -- so it's not official -- but memorial bills filed in the House and Senate suggest that Osama bin Laden's death was a good thing.Ranking somewhere around Sen. Stephen Wise's "Christmas break" bill as far as importance is concerned, the ... More >>

How Broward Bulldog's Dan Christensen Broke a 9/11 Conspiracy That's Actually True

Wikimedia Commons​Dan Christensen lost his job in the Miami Herald's Broward bureau in 2009, a casualty of rampant cost-cutting in daily journalism. Rather than throw in the towel, Christensen started his own local news site, Broward Bulldog, and vowed to continue breaking stories. "This website w ... More >>

It Was a "Kill Operation" All the Way

The story of the killing of Osama Bin Laden still hasn't been told truthfully. We first heard that the terrorist leader had used a woman, believed to be one of his wives, as a human shield before a Navy SEAL tapped two quick bullets into his chest and head. Eradicated​"There was a female ... More >>

Muslim Group "Welcomes Elimination of Osama Bin Laden"

Flickr/ Bird Eye Muslims protesting terrorism after the attacks in Mumbai. ​The Council on American -Islamic Relations is self-described as "America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization." CAIR positions itself as a peaceful organization that denounces terrorism and seeks to b ... More >>

Bin Laden Is Dead: Remembering al Qaeda's Broward Past

​America is jubilant today with the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of American operatives, and the president's approval ratings are sure to take a leap after the one-two punch of decapitating the birthers and incapacitating the world's most wanted terrorist. Those two things are tota ... 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 >>

Allen West Racking Up the Fox News Face Time

Your local congressional candidate Allen West is Fox News' go-to guy on the treatment of suspected terrorists. He's outraged that we read them their Miranda rights -- just like Sen. George LeMieux is. That damned liberal Barack Obama isn't as "tough on terror" as a true Republican like George W. Bu ... More >>

Bomb Threat at Boynton Beach School

A bomb threat has led officials to evacuate Citrus Cove Elementary School on Lawrence Avenue in Boynton Beach. Police are on the scene. More information as it becomes available.UPDATE: School has been cleared.

South Florida's Black-Market Cigarette King and Terror Financier Likely to Plead Guilty

A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal. The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say that Vidal's profits went ... More >>

South Florida Cigarette Smuggling Funds Terrorism

A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal. The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say that Vidal's profits went ... More >>

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

A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal. The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say that Vidal's profits went ... More >>

U.S. Military Deserters No Longer Find Solace in Canada

A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal. The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say that Vidal's profits went ... More >>

Guantánamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

The Bin Laden Tapes: Proof of Life?

Global freedom-hating menace Osama bin Laden has released a new album, and this one sounds like the others. Gaza, Jihad, path of God, Jews are mean, et cetera. Nothing you haven't heard before. In fact, how does the most recent tape prove that The Pajama-ed one lives? Maybe I'm just bitter because i ... More >>

Islam’s Most Unlikely Storytellers

Global freedom-hating menace Osama bin Laden has released a new album, and this one sounds like the others. Gaza, Jihad, path of God, Jews are mean, et cetera. Nothing you haven't heard before. In fact, how does the most recent tape prove that The Pajama-ed one lives? Maybe I'm just bitter because i ... More >>

Get Out of Jail Free

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure

Have Terror, Will Travel

How two FBI mercenaries cashed in on the Liberty City Seven terrorism case

Atta's Fork

How Much Would You Pay for the Utensil That Fed the Devil?

Suffered A Sept. 11 Tragedy? Call Now!

How Much Would You Pay for the Utensil That Fed the Devil?

One Day in September

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the Twin Towers.

Givus Some Truth

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the Twin Towers.

From Gitmo With Love

The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

Hotter than Larry the Cable Guy, Too

The elephant in Guantanamo's living room gets 4,200 calories a day and a Koran.

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should.

The Terrorist Who Wasn't

Hollywood's Manny Ebaid struggles to rebound after the War on Terror made him collateral damage.

Letters for January 26 – February 1, 2006

Hollywood's Manny Ebaid struggles to rebound after the War on Terror made him collateral damage.

Johnny, Get Your Glam

Friendly Fire

Err America

A plane crash in Afghanistan has a Florida company defending its mercenary profits in court

Not Over Judy's Dead Body, Pigs!

Commemorating the Stonewall riots

Caine Unable

Catholics are bad, Nazis are bad... and Michael Caine's movie about both is boring

Tackling Terrorism Inventively

Would-be Edisons come up with new ways to whack and disarm the bad guys

Forgotten 9/11

The INS screwed up when it let in the September massacre's mastermind

Muslim McCarthyism

A Miramar family gets the full suspect treatment

Trouble Tales

A look back at the lessons of "Bloody Sunday"

Letters for November 28, 2002

Pot laws are no joke, dude

Tragic Anniversary

A truly democratic telling of the terrorist disaster

Letters for August 15, 2002

Misreading Islam is fundamental

The War Within

Listen to the leaders of two South Florida mosques tied to terror

Admitting Terror: Part 5

When terrorists knock, the INS is more than likely to fall down on the job

War on War Books

Donald Miller has rewritten one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Osama's Bull's-eye

Two Stuart men find a novel way to exact revenge on the notorious Saudi: Take him to court.

Admitting Terror, Part 4

The INS's Mary Schneider warned of the terrorist threat, but nobody listened

Admitting Terror

The immigration service's own describe how America failed to protect its borders from the September 11 terrorists

Fair Game

A terrorism survivor and expert digs into the bin Laden dilemma

Amused to Death

How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

Red Alert

Terrorism on the East Coast: It was predicted

Letters to the Editor

Letters for August 9, 2001

Irish Sting

Siobhan Browne talks about President Clinton's lies, love lost, and the beauty salon

The Emerald Ire

A former probation officer once saw the IRA as killers and the FBI as heroes. All that's changed now, as he investigates the Irish gun-smuggling case.