The Hunt: What’s behind the Al Shabaab video release?

By WTOP Staff
February 25, 2015 | 1:27 PM

Al Shabaab released a video this week urging Somalis in the U.S. and Canada to attack shopping malls. Was it an attempt to stop Somalis from joining ISIL? A former United Nations Counter-Terrorism official talks with WTOP’s National Security Correspondent JJ Green to shed some light.

WTOP photo tour: Historic nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir to be dismantled

By Neal Augenstein
August 28, 2020 | 4:55 AM

The red button was always there — just in case. Most people never knew the United States' first nuclear power reactor to provide sustained electricity to a commercial power grid was — and is — on the grounds of Fort Belvoir, the U.S. Army installation in Fairfax County, Virginia.

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