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Terrorism and Homeland Security

A Federal Judge’s Bizarre Views of Justice for American ISIS Terrorist and the Bereaved Mother of His Victim

April 22, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Houston-based National Security Division prosecutors appealed a light sentence against a convicted terrorist after Reagan-appointed District Judge Lynn Hughes scoffed at their arguments, expressed paternal sympathy for the convicted terrorist, and dismissed input from the dead victim’s bereaved mother (present in court) as “only her grief…sad but not cogent.” By Todd Bensman as originally … [Read more...] about A Federal Judge’s Bizarre Views of Justice for American ISIS Terrorist and the Bereaved Mother of His Victim

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

All in the ISIS Family; How the Terror Group Destroyed a Suburban Texas Family

March 11, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Were the brothers Arman and Omar Ali to come home to Plano right now from Syria's battlefields, they would find their ISIS-simpatico parents in federal custody and maybe even join them there. Fealty to the Islamist ideal has left the Ali family unit a ruin, its pretty $450,000 brick home empty, and 14-year-old little sister and daughter in enhanced teen angst with relatives in Houston. Meanwhile, … [Read more...] about All in the ISIS Family; How the Terror Group Destroyed a Suburban Texas Family

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

The Hero Texas Cop Who Killed Two ISIS Terrorists Mid-Attack

February 23, 2019 by Todd Bensman

JUNE 16, 2016 BY TODD BENSMAN I enjoyed the honor of nominating Garland Police Department Officer Gregory Stevens for the Texas Department of Public Safety’s “Director’s Award,” the agency’s highest for non-DPS personnel, for his heroic actions of May 3, 2015 and then the satisfaction of witnessing his receipt of it to a crowded, standing ovation. It happened at DPS headquarters this … [Read more...] about The Hero Texas Cop Who Killed Two ISIS Terrorists Mid-Attack

Filed Under: Terrorism Coverage, Terrorism and Homeland Security

What Happened to the Texan Who Became the Goebbels of ISIS?

January 21, 2019 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman, originally published January 21, 2019 in PJ Media A few years ago, a Texas resident who was born, raised, and educated in my state of Texas -- and whose parents, ex-wife, and four children still reside here -- reportedly became the chief propagandist for ISIS in Syria. John Thomas Georgelas, son of a prosperous U.S. Air Force doctor, ascended to his senior position because the … [Read more...] about What Happened to the Texan Who Became the Goebbels of ISIS?

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

Exclusive Report: A Promised Panama Investigation of Iran-Hezbollah for ’94 Plane Bombing Likely Suppressed

January 18, 2019 by Todd Bensman

On a reporting trip to Panama in December 2018, Bensman checked up on a promised investigation of Iranian-Hezbollah involvement in the 1994 bombing of Las Chiricanas Flight 901, which killed 12 Panamanian Jews. He came home with strong doubts that any such investigation was happening. As published in The Federalist January 23, 2019 See November 9, 2020 … [Read more...] about Exclusive Report: A Promised Panama Investigation of Iran-Hezbollah for ’94 Plane Bombing Likely Suppressed

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security, Foreign Correspondence

Every Last One: Another Prosecution of the Garland, Texas Terror Attack Starts Next Month

January 14, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Published by PJ Media On May 3, 2015, Garland Police Officer Gregory Stevens stood his ground when two heavily armed, ISIS-inspired terrorists jumped out of their car with a plan to murder everyone they could at a free-speech event: A “Draw the Prophet Mohammed” contest. It happened at the Curtis Caldwell Performing Arts Center entrance Stevens was assigned to guard as an off-duty job. … [Read more...] about Every Last One: Another Prosecution of the Garland, Texas Terror Attack Starts Next Month

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

The Federalist: A forgotten jihadist beheader in Oklahoma cleared for execution; There is always time to remember

December 4, 2018 by Todd Bensman

The Alton Nolen case is very much worth remembering, along with all terror attacks that occur on U.S. soil, not just for the victims and their survivors but for lessons that must be learned. Todd Bensman, for The Federalist This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially cemented the execution of America’s least known Islamic terrorist. Jihadist convert Alton Nolen is now set to be put to … [Read more...] about The Federalist: A forgotten jihadist beheader in Oklahoma cleared for execution; There is always time to remember

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

When Terrorists Learned ‘Lawfare’ Works: A Memory Triggered by The Holy Land Foundation Trial’s 10-Year Anniversary

December 3, 2018 by Todd Bensman

In November, a writer for the American Thinker called to ask for my recollections about covering the trials and tribulations of what is often described as the largest terrorist fundraising operation in U.S. history. It hadn’t occurred to me, but the 10-year anniversary of the “Holy Land Foundation Five” convictions in a Dallas federal courtroom has unexpectedly arrived. The call from the … [Read more...] about When Terrorists Learned ‘Lawfare’ Works: A Memory Triggered by The Holy Land Foundation Trial’s 10-Year Anniversary

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

Part III: Hezbollah’s Clandestine Terror Wing in America: the Michigan Mystery

November 18, 2018 by Todd Bensman

This is the third installment of a series derived from two ongoing federal court prosecutions of individuals who allegedly worked as undercover operatives for Iranian Hezbollah’s notorious “Unit 910” foreign terrorist wing. Part I and Part II delivered revelations about U.S. assassination and target surveillance activities of Bronx-based Lebanese immigrant Ali Kourani. This … [Read more...] about Part III: Hezbollah’s Clandestine Terror Wing in America: the Michigan Mystery

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

Part II of III Hezbollah’s ‘Unit 910’ in America: A Treasure Hunt for Fake Docs, Weapons, Explosives

November 2, 2018 by Todd Bensman

As a card-carrying, read-in intelligence operative for Hezbollah’s noxious foreign terrorism wing, Ali Kourani was expected to do far more than videotape a Manhattan armory and gather names of Jewish businessmen from LinkedIn to knock off one day (as reported in Part I of this series). He was expected to keep his killing skills sharp. In Part I, I revealed part of what Kourani -- a … [Read more...] about Part II of III Hezbollah’s ‘Unit 910’ in America: A Treasure Hunt for Fake Docs, Weapons, Explosives

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

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