On 14 December 2003, an attempt was made to murder the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.  The attackers had placed explosives under a bridge. The bomb was meant to explode on the passage of Musharraf’s car, however, the bomb could not be activated on time and the explosion did not take its victim. Pakistani military tribunals tried nearly two dozen people (Army members, Air force members and civilians) in separate trials. Mushtaq Ahmed, a civilian, was sentenced to death after having been denied basic due process rights.

When I heard about this case, I became obsessed - I couldn’t stop talking about it. I wondered why at first, but then I realized: it exemplifies the extent to which the War on Terror – its tactics, its imagery, and its language – is embedded in the racist history of the United States. The Newburgh Four were an invented threat of strategic audacity. Their case could garner legitimacy, and make us fearful, because the FBI knew how to design a “terrorist menace” that not only invoked Islamophobia, but also a much broader arsenal of racist ideologies and signifiers.

Khalid is a British citizen originating from Libya. He is currently detained in Lynton Green prison having pled guilty under duress to ‘criminal damage and affray’ by allegedly knocking his own gas pipe and complaining that a police person was verbally abusive to him.

A man arrested for allegedly placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field got the fake explosive from an FBI undercover agent, authorities say - a tactic that has been used in other U.S. terrorism cases in recent years.

The trial of four men accused of planting bombs outside synagogues in the Bronx was delayed for a second day on Tuesday, as a judge mulled what to do with a defendant who had become completely unresponsive and had to be brought into court in a wheelchair.