Homeland Security News

Government Wins Major Spy Ruling in Chicago Terror Case

A federal judge in Chicago late Wednesday ruled accused teen terrorist Adel Daoud does not have a right to the surveillance that is being used against him. That secret evidence triggered an FBI investigation that led to terrorism charges against the Hillside teenager. On Wednesday, Daoud remains locked up at the MCC-Chicago, awaiting trial on charges that his attorney has said can't be fairly defended without seeing the evidence.

Hillside teenager Adel Daoud is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction-- what he thought was a car bomb-- to blow up this downtown bar near the federal lock-up. But it was a plot largely engineered by the FBI, during which the teenager is accused of taking the bait.

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Indian intelligence agencies have arrested Yasin Bhatkal, one of the country's most wanted terrorism suspects, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said Thursday.  Bhatkal is believed to be a co-founder of the Indian Mujahideen, a militant group banned in India and listed by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization.

Intelligence officials arrested him Wednesday in the eastern state of Bihar, near India's border with Nepal, Shinde said.  "He is currently under Bihar Police's custody and is being interrogated," he said.

The U.S. State Department said in 2011 that the Indian Mujahideen has "significant links to Pakistan" and is responsible for "dozens of bomb attacks throughout India since 2005" that have caused the deaths of hundreds of civilians.  Bhatkal is wanted in relation to multiple bombings in Mumbai in July 2011 that killed 27 people in three busy marketplaces. Indian authorities suspect him of planning those attacks.

Read more: CNN