The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

Today's Situation Room:

Wolf Blitzer delivers the most important news and political stories of the day. Tune to The Situation Room weekdays 4-6pm ET and Saturdays 6pm ET on CNN.

Are fliers safe from new al Qaeda bomb?

CNN's Brian Todd investigates whether the bomb in the latest plot could have gotten through airport security.


Filed under: Air travel • al Qaeda • Brian Todd • Situation Room • Terror

Bergen: Bomb maker is 'most dangerous'

National security analyst Peter Bergen talks to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound jet.

RELATED STORY:
Official: Attempt to blow up U.S.-bound plane thwarted


Filed under: Peter Bergen • Terror

Al Qaeda calls for firebombing in U.S.

CNN's Brian Todd reports that terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki continues to inspire jihadists from the grave.

RELATED VIDEO: New terror tactic: 'body bombs'


Filed under: al Qaeda • Anwar al-Awlaki • Brian Todd • Terror

How the U.S. found bin Laden

Jose Rodriguez, who oversaw the CIA's enhanced interrogation program, says it led the U.S. to bin Laden.

RELATED STORY: Bin Laden documents to go online Thursday


Filed under: Afghanistan • CIA • interrogation • Terror
April 25th, 2012
11:10 AM ET

Al Qaeda's U.S. railroad, Wal-Mart plots

CNN's Brian Todd reports on a newly-exposed 2008 al Qaeda plot to bomb the Long Island Railroad.


Filed under: al Qaeda • Brian Todd • Situation Room • Terror
October 14th, 2011
12:09 PM ET

Why Iran may have wanted ambassador dead

CNN's Brian Todd reports on possible motivations Iran might have had for an alleged plot against a Saudi ambassador.

RELATED STORY: Administration vows 'toughest sanctions' against Iran

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Filed under: Brian Todd • Iran • Saudi Arabia • Terror
BLITZER’S BLOG: Do terrorists read Tom Clancy’s fiction?
October 13th, 2011
03:32 PM ET

BLITZER’S BLOG: Do terrorists read Tom Clancy’s fiction?

By CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

(CNN) - Sometimes nonfiction seems to follow fiction, especially, it seems, in the case of Tom Clancy and his spy novels.

In 1994, he wrote a thriller called “Debt of Honor.” Long before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Clancy had a character fly a Boeing 747 into the U.S. Capitol.
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October 13th, 2011
10:29 AM ET

Wolf interviews Treasury Department Under Secretary for Terrorism David Cohen

Wolf interviews Under Secretary David Cohen on the assassination terror plot targeting the Saudi ambassador to U.S.


Filed under: Interviews • Iran • Terror
October 12th, 2011
08:48 PM ET

Wolf Interviews Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren

Wolf interviews Israeli Amb. to the U.S. Michael Oren about the alleged terror plot against the Saudi Amb. to the U.S.

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October 12th, 2011
05:45 PM ET

Wolf interviews House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Peter King

Wolf talks with Rep. Peter King on the assassination terror plot targeting the Saudi ambassador to U.S.

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