Terrorism

Miami-Dade Police Watched Photog's Facebook Before Arresting Him at Occupy Miami Bust

Carlos Miller isn't shy about his M.O. -- he believes photographers have the right to photograph police on the job, and he's more than willing to get arrested to prove his point. So it's not necessarily a surprise that cops are well aware of the 305's most rabble-rousing photog. Yet there's still so ... More >>

Would-Be Terrorist Sami Osmakac Arrested in Plot to Blow Up Tampa Nightclubs

​Sami Osmakac was arrested Saturday night near Tampa after federal officials uncovered an alleged terrorist plot in which Osmakac planned to blow up a nightclub and shoot at crowds using high-powered assault weapons.Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in the former Yugoslavia, had pla ... More >>

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​Sami Osmakac was arrested Saturday night near Tampa after federal officials uncovered an alleged terrorist plot in which Osmakac planned to blow up a nightclub and shoot at crowds using high-powered assault weapons.Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in the former Yugoslavia, had pla ... More >>

Michele Bachmann Makes Up Second Cuban Missile Crisis Based on No Evidence

​In a major development, Cuba went to the United Nations yesterday and announced it wanted it to normalize relations with the United States. However, Michele Bachmann won't have it. Not because of anything like "prove facts" or a "rationale and informed understanding of the issue," but because she ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro Laundered Drug Money For Turkish Terrorists, Woman Claims In Court

via Yahoo Sports​It seems Nevin Shapiro, the scrawny, debauched Ponzi schemer currently trying to dynamite University of Miami athletics, is even slimier than we thought. A woman now claims that Shapiro, along with his convicted felon stepdad, once helped launder drug profits for the PKK, a notori ... More >>

Imam of Miami Mosque and Sons Indicted for Financially Supporting Taliban

​A father and his two sons in South Florida have been arrested and charged with financially supporting the Pakistani Taliban. Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, the Imam of the Flagler Mosque, was charged with providing "material support" to the terrorist organization by federal prosecutors. His so ... More >>

Five YouTube Songs Celebrating the Death of Osama Bin Laden

​There's no better way to express pure joy than the art of song. So when the news broke on Sunday that Obama had killed Osama, a giddy mob of superpatriotic Americans flocked to special spots like the White House, Ground Zero, and Times Square to musically convey its overwhelming excitement and g ... More >>

Today We Are All Proud Americans

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke praises George W. Bush, President Barack Obama, and the U.S. soldiers who took out Osama Bin Laden.I wish e ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden "Removed" by Pope John Paul II, says Peruvian President Alan Garcia

wikimedia commonsDo you believe in miracles? Alan Garcia does, just not the nice, feel-good kind.​Pope John Paul II may have died six years ago, but the recently beatified Pole still packs quite a holy punch. At least, so believes Peruvian president Alan Garcia, who credited JPII for "removing" Os ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Killed By Joe Gersten

​Miami New Times has learned the "human attack" that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was engineered by former Dade County Commissioner Joe Gersten.Gersten, who disappeared from Miami almost two decades ago. allegedly led a crack team of commandos who entered Islamabad almost a week ago. The ... More >>

Meet the man behind poorly spelled lawsuit against WikiLeaks

​Miami New Times has learned the "human attack" that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was engineered by former Dade County Commissioner Joe Gersten.Gersten, who disappeared from Miami almost two decades ago. allegedly led a crack team of commandos who entered Islamabad almost a week ago. The ... More >>

David Pitchford, Trailer Park Resident Suing Julian Assange, Says Suit Isn't a Joke

Assange's worst enemy: A former Key West trailer park resident.​While asset-hiding Wall Street traders perch on their windowsills waiting for the latest from WikiLeaks -- which plans to soon release more than 2,000 secret banking records of tax-cheats -- founder Julian Assange has bigger fish to f ... More >>

Airport security is racist and stupid

Assange's worst enemy: A former Key West trailer park resident.​While asset-hiding Wall Street traders perch on their windowsills waiting for the latest from WikiLeaks -- which plans to soon release more than 2,000 secret banking records of tax-cheats -- founder Julian Assange has bigger fish to f ... More >>

Farid Khavari, Iranian-Born Outsider Candidate, Calls Sink and Scott 'Economic Terrorists'

The terrorist-samba in action.Farid Khavari would like to have a word with you over your radio airwaves. The outsider candidate for governor has bought some ad time to let you know that, while his name may lead the prejudiced and idiotic to believe he's an Osama-lovin' al Qaeda operative, he's reall ... More >>

Future Perfect

The terrorist-samba in action.Farid Khavari would like to have a word with you over your radio airwaves. The outsider candidate for governor has bought some ad time to let you know that, while his name may lead the prejudiced and idiotic to believe he's an Osama-lovin' al Qaeda operative, he's reall ... More >>

Miami Herald Thinks Donna Shalala is the Times Square Bomber

​Apparently, The Miami Herald thinks all people of Middle Eastern decent look alike. While running a story yesterday on University of Miami President Donna Shalala they accidentally ran a photo of what appears to be would-be-Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. Shahzad, Shalala. Shalala, Shahzad. P ... More >>

Koran Burning Cancelled, Pastor Claims Deal with Park51 Imam

Pastor Terry Jones​The tiny Gainesville, Florida, Dove World Outreach Center ignited an international controversy when they announced plans to burn Korans on the ninth anniversary of September 11. The story stirred the same strong feelings surrounding a planned Muslim community center near Ground ... More >>

Dwyane Wade Clarifies That the Heat Losing Won't Be Anything Like 9/11

via SI​It's apparently OK to use 9/11 metaphors only if you're a war-hawk politician on the campaign trail. Dwyane Wade had to find out the hard way. The Miami Heat star has apologized after an off-the-cuff comment to the media this past weekend made it seem like he was compari ... More >>

Cutler Bay man smuggles cigarettes through the Port of Miami and goes to prison

via SI​It's apparently OK to use 9/11 metaphors only if you're a war-hawk politician on the campaign trail. Dwyane Wade had to find out the hard way. The Miami Heat star has apologized after an off-the-cuff comment to the media this past weekend made it seem like he was compari ... More >>

Thanks to the Crotch Bomber, Cubans Now Get the Full-Body Airport Pat-Down

Last week, the U.S. narrowly avoided a terror attack from a Nigerian man flying from Holland and acting on orders from Yemen-based terrorists. Thanks, Fidel. Now you've ruined flying, too.​For counterterrorism experts, there was only one logical response: ironclad new security rul ... More >>

News Roundup

Like Christina Milian, the gods of weather are going to dip it low, and after a week of record highs, we might see record lows. These weather gods are obviously bipolar. [CBS4]Wow, Bill Nelson's senate committee is done with health care, and what does he instantly start up on again? Chinese drywall. ... More >>

Black-Market Cigarettes: Miami's New Vice

The feds say a local man smuggled millions of smokes for terrorists. He's not alone.

Gitmo Terrorists Are Coming to Your Back Yard! And to the Tiny Island Nation of Palau?

As we reported in February after a visit to Guantánamo Bay, President Obama faces some pretty damn thorny decisions as he tries to close the notorious prison camp in southeastern Cuba, none tougher than what the heck to do with all the prisoners. via Wikimedia Commons.Soon coming to a backyard near ... More >>

Most Americans Want To Keep GitMo Open For Business

via Wiki CommonsCamp Delta in 2002According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll Americans overwhelmingly oppose the closure of the Gaunatanmo Bay detention camp by 65%. Only 32% favor closing the base down. 54% said they would actually be upset if the base closed, and 74% oppose its closure if it me ... More >>

Five of The Liberty City Six Convicted

The judicial saga of men who came to be known as "The Liberty Six" reached what may be the beginning of the end today. After two mistrials, and a total bill that cost taxpayers over $10 million, five of the men were convicted. Another was acquitted. The men were charged with plotting with al Queda t ... More >>

Cinco De Mixology

image via delarosamark I'm bout to let you Short Ordrians in on a secret. Jesus was a Mexican, and he has a drink named as such, and nobody's ever heard of it because I made it up.This is an exclusive, as yet unreleased recipe. The only person who's ever heard it was the bartender at Fox's ove ... More >>

Judge, Jury, and Dictator

Liberty City Six Judge Joan Lenard refuses to pay a P.I. after he speaks out.

Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve.

A Taste of Gitmo in Miami

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve.

Raw Meat

A movie with lots of porn and some weirdness glows at Churchill's.

Bravo! Bravo!

A movie with lots of porn and some weirdness glows at Churchill's.

Miami Photog Represented in NYC 9/11 Show

A movie with lots of porn and some weirdness glows at Churchill's.

A Star Is Bourne (Again)

Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

Padilla Trial Gets Under Way With a Focus on History

Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

Letters from the Issue of May 11, 2006

"Orishas are hot! They dance bien rico!"

Ice Cream and Animosity

Victor-Hugo Vaca expresses himself

George of the Bungle

Michael Moore goes Bushwhacking in Fahrenheit 9/11

BEST DEFENSE AGAINST TERRORISM

Haiti and Cuba

BEST LOCAL ALBUM OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS

Razing a Nation: The Ballad of a New Lone Ranger

Arlan Feiles

The High Cost of Homeland Defense

Thanks to generous taxpayers like you, Miami's top Coast Guard officer has a very swanky address

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Thanks to generous taxpayers like you, Miami's top Coast Guard officer has a very swanky address

Terror Firmer

In The Dancer Upstairs, Javier Bardem is the quiet amid the violence

Righteous Bombers?

Miami's non-Muslim mullahs are ready to forgive Castro's accused 2000 assassins

Politics & Parties & Power

How to campaign in the new House District 25? There's always Cuba.

Postcards from New York

One chief is memorialized as another moves on to a new job

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

1984 and Counting

Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell

Shake

The day the music died