The FBI's top six news stories for the week ending September 25 were about arrests and/or indictments of suspected Muslim terrorists. Combined, they became the latest national security targets in America's war on Islam.
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joins us to discuss what he calls “politically motivated hype” over Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration has warned of sanctions unless Iran allows inspections of a newly disclosed nuclear site. Iran insists the site has been used for peaceful purposes. The row comes just after Iran’s test-firing of medium- and long-range missiles and before Iranian officials are due to hold talks with the US and five other nations in Geneva.
The U.S. government has just received the ultimate put-down from one of its Guantanamo prisoners. Arkin Mahmud, a Chinese Uighur who has been held at the prison camp for 8 years, stated ruefully, “In China, at least I would have a trial and sentence.”
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, has said that Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" by not declaring it had developed a second uranium enrichment plant before last week.
Israel has agreed to free 20 Palestinian women prisoners in exchange for information about Gilad Shalit, a captured Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip.
Iran is entering talks with six world powers over its nuclear programme this week with good intentions, the Islamic Republic's chief nuclear negotiator has said.
An Afghan immigrant to the United States accused of planning to carry out bomb attacks in New York has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and has been ordered held without bail.
Iran has said it will not negotiate over its right to develop a nuclear programme when it meets officials from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in Geneva on October 1.
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Toyota is to recall 3.8m vehicles in the United States because of the risk that loose floormats could have caused crashes that killed five people.
