Aicha el-Wafi, Mother of 9/11 '20th hijacker' Zacarias Moussaoui tells CNN about her sons path into extremism.
In hindsight, Aicha el-Wafi can see that the warning signs about her son Zacarias Moussaoui were present as he was growing up in southern France.
There's been a lot of talk lately suggesting that the era of taking your shoes off when you pass through airport security may be coming to an end. That sounds great, but I wouldn't get too excited just yet.
In the wake of an 'incomplete' report card, Homeland Security says changes are coming for flyers.
The Newseum's War on Terror exhibit displays artifacts from 9/11 attacks and items obtained in the war on terrorism.
Newcomer Nico Evers-Swindell will play Prince William in the royal Lifetime movie
Journalism and national security have survived decades of lies; both can handle a little unexpected truth.
All passengers flying within or to the United States are now being screened against government watch lists before they get their boarding passes, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.
Most passengers want to get to their destination. A very small number, by my estimates about one in a few billion, desire immortality and believe they will achieve some greater objective by blowing themselves up and taking hundreds of their fellow passengers with them. The problem for the authorities is how to intercept this small number of individuals and frustrate their plans.
Some airport workers are not screened by security. Is this a dangerous break in security? Two experts join to discuss.
He has influenced convicted terrorists such as Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber. His sermons were found in the apartment of suicide bombers who struck London, England, in 2005. Even one of the 9/11 plotters is said to have been a follower of Sheik Abdullah El-Faisal.
CNN's Drew Griffin travels to Jamaica to find radical Islamic cleric Abdullah El-Faisal.
The long legal saga of convicted terrorist and 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui may be now be over.
CNN's Erica Hill talks with some of the passengers of Northwest Flight 253 which was the target of an attempted terror attack.
Kurt Haskell's eyes were locked on the seatback monitor in front of him when the words of a passing flight attendant caught his attention.
In light of the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, the Transportation Security Administration has announced new enhanced "guidelines" requiring airline passengers traveling from (and through) 14 different countries to undergo especially rigorous security screening before being able to fly into the United States.
The 23-year-old Nigerian man who has been charged with attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound international flight on Christmas Day is likely to be treated as a regular criminal defendant, according to CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
On August 28, the Saudi Arabian deputy minister of interior, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, survived a bombing attack launched by an al Qaeda cell based in Yemen, Saudi Arabia's southern neighbor.
CNN's Ali Velshi talks with terrorism analyst Peter Bergen about the suspect in an incident on an airplane.
The attempted attack on a Northwest Airlines flight Friday fell almost to the day eight years after another failed solo attack on an international flight.
Convicted terrorist Richard Reid is allowed to mail his family members, spurring security concerns. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
Convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid was given permission to correspond from prison with members of his family this summer, after the Justice Department allowed restrictions on him to expire.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are urging state and local law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for the possible use of shoes to conceal and smuggle explosive components.
Visiting Supermax, the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," reveals nothing so much as an astonishing and eerie quiet.
The arrests this week in Germany confirm a trend investigators have been noting: lone wolves are replacing large networks
Airline passengers will be allowed to bring most cigarette lighters on board again starting next month, freeing airport screeners to spend more time searching for explosives
The true story of Daniel and Mariane Pearl is admirable and well-made, but cruelly reminds us that we cannot alter the course of history
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, admitted to those attacks and numerous others during a U.S. military hearing on Saturday, according to an edited transcript of the hearing released by the Pentagon Wednesday.
CNN's Becky Anderson interviews Peter Herbert, a British human rights lawyer who visited Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe-bomber" in a U.S. jail in 2002.
IPods are OK, but hand cream isn't. And don't even think about that bottle of water you just bought at the gift shop.
The long lines and bulging trash cans at U.S. airports due to increased security after a suspected terror plot was uncovered Thursday had some aviation experts questioning the focus of America's air passenger screening system.
A Web site message purportedly from Osama bin Laden says admitted al Qaeda follower Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says he lied on the witness stand about being involved in the terrorist plot and wants to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial. The judge turned him down.
Zacarias Moussaoui's family in France blame Islamic radicals in Britain for turning a once carefree youth into a dangerous terrorist.
Would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid denies a central part of al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui's testimony -- that the pair were to hijack a passenger jet together and fly it into the White House.
Richard Reid, the man who tried to bring down a commercial airliner in 2001 with a bomb concealed in his shoe, will not testify at the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the judge in the case decided on Friday.
Zacarias Moussaoui put himself in the middle of the September 11, 2001, plot on Monday, claiming that he planned to hijack a plane and fly it into the White House and that shoe bomber Richard Reid would have been his accomplice.
Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told a stunned courtroom Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth plane on September 11, 2001, and crash it into the White House.
Shortly after 9/11, al Qaeda began planning to use shoe bombers to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building in Los Angeles, California, President Bush said Thursday.
Federal prosecutors in New York have announced the arrest in the Czech Republic of another man wanted in the Oregon terror camp case.
Terrorists don't usually attack their own. It happens, of course: In Iraq, for instance, insurgent bombers all too often kill Iraqi civilians.
Need a light? Don't bother asking anyone coming off an airplane.
A British man was sentenced to 13 years in jail on Friday for conspiring with convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to blow up an aircraft in 2001.
The recent U.S. ban on cigarette lighters aboard passenger planes has caught scores of smokers by surprise at North American airports, but the ban is also making waves globally.
A British man has pleaded guilty to conspiring with convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to blow up an aircraft in 2001.
Passengers still can carry butane lighters aboard commercial aircraft this week despite a law banning them that was scheduled to take effect Tuesday.
A man suspected of involvement in the botched attempt by "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to blow up an airliner in December 2001 has been indicted by a grand jury in Boston, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Spanish investigators are working to connect the dots between the al Qaeda terror network and the men arrested in connection with the Madrid train bombings last week.
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