Us Terror Sting

• Man planning to carry out suicide attack at US Capitol arrested in FBI sting

  Police say a terrorism suspect has been arrested in an FBI sting operation near the US Capitol while planning to detonate what he thought were explosives.

• US man charged in aerial bomb plot on Pentagon

  A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting an assault on the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft armed with explosives - the latest of several terrorism cases to spring from federal sting operations.

• Unearthing of terror plot won't affect Obama's India trip, says White House

  President Barack Obama on Saturday warned of a "credible terrorist threat" against America after the overseas discovery of two US-bound packages containing explosives aboard cargo jets, even as the White House said the development would have no impact on his upcoming India visit.Obama said the packages, which according to the officials originated i...

• Obama's remarks on US-bound explosives: Full Transcript

  The following is a transcript, provided by the White House, of President Obama's remarks on Friday about the suspicious packages originating in Yemen and bound for the United States:Good afternoon, everybody. I want to briefly update the American people on a credible terrorist threat against our country, and the actions that we're taking with our f...

• Explosives in cargo renew debate on screening

  The discovery of two explosive devices shipped by cargo planes has reignited a long-running debate about how thoroughly cargo needs to be screened on its way into the United States. Despite the increased scrutiny of people and luggage on passenger planes since 9/11, there are far fewer safeguards for packages and bundles, particularly when loaded o...

• Yemen emerges as base for Qaida attacks on US

  Not long ago, most Americans had scarcely heard of Yemen, the arid, Texas-size country in the southern corner of the Arabian peninsula. But on Friday, as news emerged of a plot to send explosives in courier packages from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago, the world's attention was focused once again on the threats brewing in Yemen's lawless, strife-to...

• US: Pak-American arrested in terror sting

  A Pakistani-American has been arrested in the US after he fell for an elaborate bomb plot set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a sting operation that lasted more than six months. The people that 34-year-old Farooque Ahmed thought were Al-Qaida operatives were actually FBI agents. The unsuspecting Ahmed was made to carry out survei...