Pakistani prosecutors charged seven men on Wednesday with planning and helping execute last year’s Mumbai terror attacks.

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is opposing the Obama administration’s decision to try alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal civilian court.

FABER Nearly a year after terrorist bullets killed her husband and daughter, Kia Scherr hopes her new Web site will help others. Scherr helped create the One Life Alliance site to promote discussion of the “sacred nature and interconnectedness” of human life in response to the Nov. 26 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, that killed her family. She designed the site with Master Charles Cannon, founder of the Synchronicity Foundation. The group, based in Nelson County, espouses meditation and peaceful, holistic living. Scherr is a longtime foundation member, as were her family members.

The Obama administration intends to try terror suspects in civilian courts. Yesterday Sen. Jim Webb said: “I have never disputed the constitutional authority of the president to convene Article III courts in cases of international terrorism. However, I remain very concerned about the wisdom of doing so. Those who have committed acts of international terrorism are enemy combatants, just as certainly as the Japanese pilots who killed thousands of Americans at Pearl Harbor. It will be disruptive, costly, and potentially counterproductive to try them as criminals in our civilian courts.

Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said.

Soon after the Fort Hood massacre, President Barack Obama advised citizens not to jump to conclusions—which is to say, he urged them to ignore the obvious. Subsequent reports regarding the alleged assassin have proved more troubling than initial suspicions. Obama’s sentiments represent the jump. Jason Zengerle, a senior editor at The New Republic, says it well:

An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism.

A small bomb exploded early Friday outside the home of a prominent Greek conservative politician in Athens, causing damage but no injuries, police said.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday the alleged terror plot disrupted in New York was “one of the most serious in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001” — but he gave no indication when more arrests might be made.

President Barack Obama thanked counterterrorism employees who work to prevent attacks on the United States and its allies, crediting them with “making real progress” in disrupting al-Qaida and other extremist networks.

New operation includes the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as well as State Police, the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, the National Guard and state Fire Programs Department.

Close cooperation between military and civilian authorities is being credited with thwarting a plot to attack U.S. military personnel at the Quantico Marine Corps base. An indictment handed down Thursday by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of North Carolina alleges that Daniel Patrick Boyd and Hysen Sherifi got maps of the base to plan an attack on Quantico.

Najibullah Zazi went from Pakistan to suburban Denver beauty shops in a hunt for the supplies and skill to make hydrogen peroxide bombs for al-Qaida, authorities charged in papers describing one of the most significant post-9/11 terror threats to the United States.

Federal prosecutors say two North Carolina terrorism suspects plotted to kill U.S. military personnel.