ARTICLES RELATING TO
US TERROR THREAT
A US senator has said an estimated 4 700 people, including some civilians, have been killed in bombing raids conducted under America's secretive drone war, local media reports.
The US has authorised the killing of US citizens as part of its controversial drone campaign against al-Qaeda.
A judge at Guantanamo Bay has refused to suspend a pre-trial hearing for the prisoner accused of orchestrating the attack on the USS Cole.
A Somali-born man charged in a Christmas-season bomb plot in the US was eager to "martyr" himself in a suicide mission.
"Millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam, whose original 22-year prison term was deemed too lenient by a US appeals court, has been re-sentenced to 37 years behind bars.
The main suspect in the USS Cole bombing has refused to attend a court hearing at the US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba to protest having to wear chains.
A diminished but resilient al-Qaeda, whose terrorist attacks drew America into its longest war, is attempting a comeback in Afghanistan.
The Bangladeshi man snared in an FBI terror sting considered targeting President Barack Obama before settling on a car bomb attack on The Federal Reserve in New York City.
New York City's police commissioner says the 21-year-old arrested for plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building came to the US from Bangladesh on a student visa.
A man who'd planned to blow up the US Federal Reserve building with a 453kg "bomb" has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
A Bangladeshi man with alleged al-Qaeda links has been arrested in New York for allegedly plotting to destroy the city's Federal Reserve building with a 1 000-pound (453kg) bomb.
An 18-year-old man who tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar has been arrested and charged in a federal undercover sting.
Al-Qaeda has called for more attacks on US targets in continued Muslim fury over an anti-Islamic film made in the USA.
A French woman whose bizarre behaviour triggered a major security alert on a US-bound transatlantic flight should have undergone tighter screening.
A French radio station has interviewed a woman who forced a transatlantic flight to be diverted after saying she had a "surgically implanted device", shortly before the incident.
