Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has been indicted on a charge of trying to detonate bombs in the United States.

Greek police arrested four people Thursday on suspicion of involvement in a militant group that detonated a bomb outside the home of a prominent opposition lawmaker the previous day.

Counterterrorism officials have issued security bulletins to police around the nation about terrorists’ desire to attack stadiums, entertainment complexes and hotels - the latest in a flurry of such internal warnings as investigators chase a possible bomb plot in Denver and New York.

Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The school was empty at the time of the blast and no one was injured.

Suicide bombers in two explosives-laden cars with U.N. logos drove onto the main base of African Union peacekeepers Thursday and triggered massive blasts reportedly killed at least 11 people. Islamist insurgents said the attack was in revenge for a U.S. commando raid that killed an al-Qaida operative.

Noordin Muhammed Top, a militant mastermind who eluded capture for nine years and terrorized Indonesia with a string of deadly al-Qaida-funded bombings, was killed during a raid in central Indonesia, the country’s police chief said.

On Dec. 26, 1941, Winston Churchill addressed a joint session of Congress. Only a few weeks before, Japan had struck Pearl Harbor. Churchill came to the United States to discuss war-planning with Franklin Roosevelt. In his congressional speech, the British prime minister gave an honest appraisal of the military outlook. He depicted the challenges and described the necessary sacrifices but expressed his confidence in the Allied cause.

SHAMSUDIN BOKOV
Associated Press Writer

Word has spread that terrorism trials for Guantanamo Bay prisoners could take place in a new high-security courthouse in Newport News. This should give elected officials in Virginia another chance to demagogue the issue by declaring their adamant opposition to bringing terrorist suspects into the commonwealth. Why the state’s pols find it necessary to insult the professionalism and prowess of law-enforcement and security personnel by insisting terrorist prisoners be kept as far from Virginia as possible is a mystery. These would not be the first high-profile trials of dangerous suspects by a long stretch. An Alexandria court hosted 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui for part of his journey through the justice system. Virginia courts processed the Beltway snipers—not to mention countless gang members whose associates could have mounted an assault on court buildings just as easily, if not more easily, than foreign jihadists.

Although officials aren’t declaring “Mission Accomplished” regarding the killing of Baitullah Mehsud, it appears the drone attack on the Pakistani terrorist leader was a success. Mehsud is believed to be responsible for the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, among other heinous crimes. There has been some political haymaking over the use of assassination as an anti-terror tool, primarily because Vice President Dick Cheney was enthusiastic about the practice and the Bush White House did not inform congressional leaders of a CIA assassination program for several years. Little wonder: As soon as Congress learned about it, so did the rest of the known universe.

A 23-year-old Georgia man has been convicted of aiding terrorist groups by sending videotapes of U.S. landmarks overseas.

Masked gunmen killed five Pakistani preachers Wednesday outside a mosque in Somalia following morning prayers, witnesses said.

A roadside bomb hit a wedding party on its way to a ceremony in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 people including women and children, Afghan officials said Thursday.

Seven North Carolina terrorism suspects were due in federal court for a detention hearing Tuesday.

Australian police said Tuesday they thwarted a terrorist plot in which extremists with ties to an al-Qaida-linked Somali Islamist group planned to invade a military base and open fire with automatic weapons until they were shot dead themselves.