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Jihad Jane II, Colorado Mom Is Arrested in Terror Plot

national — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:04:09 +0000

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a Colorado mother has been arrested in connection with an assassination attempt on a Swedish cartoonist. This is the second American woman to be arrested in terror investigations this week. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, was arrested in Ireland with several other suspected terror conspirators. She is in the custody of [...]

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Jihad Jane II, Colorado Mom Is Arrested in Terror Plot

Suspected Terrorist Offered To Join Flight Crew During Strike

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:36 +0000

A British Airways worker who allegedly wanted to be a suicide bomber has been accused of offering to take advantage of the airline’s approaching strike to join the cabin crew. Rajib Karim, 30, allegedly arrived in Britain from Bangladesh in 2006 to gain a passport for terrorist purposes. He worked at a BA call centre in Newcastle [...]

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Suspected Terrorist Offered To Join Flight Crew During Strike

Man Claiming To Be Vampire Prompts Bomb Scare

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:30:00 +0000

A two-block section of Third Avenue near the King County Courthouse was closed for two hours Friday morning after a man with a suspicious device wired to his arm told people he was a vampire looking for food. Bomb-squad officers took the man into custody near the main entrance to the King County Courthouse shortly after [...]

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Man Claiming To Be Vampire Prompts Bomb Scare

Mexican Military Helicopter Hovers Over Texas Homes

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:13:19 +0000

The Houston Chronicle reports that the Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings — and rumors of drug killings — in [...]

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Mexican Military Helicopter Hovers Over Texas Homes

Internet Bloggers Tracked Jihad Jane for 3 Years

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:59:40 +0000

While the rest of America was stunned to hear that a suburban Pennsylvania woman allegedly used the Internet identity of Jihad Jane and tried to join militant jihadists, for a group of ‘Net vigilantes it was old news. In fact, at least one of the Web sleuths claims to have alerted the feds to Colleen [...]

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Internet Bloggers Tracked Jihad Jane for 3 Years

Cell-All: Super Smartphones Sniff Out Suspicious Substances

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:42:03 +0000

Years ago, if you wanted to take a picture, you needed a dedicated camera. You needed to buy batteries for it, keep it charged, learn its controls, and lug it around. Today, chances are your cell phone is called a “smartphone” and came with a three-to-five megapixel lens built-in—not to mention an MP3 player, GPS, [...]

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Cell-All: Super Smartphones Sniff Out Suspicious Substances

Mexican Cartels Attempting To Corrupt Border Agents

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:31:02 +0000

Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border and those charged with weeding them out say they don't have the money to catch all the corrupt agents, homeland security officials told a U.S. Senate panel Thursday. James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Internal Affairs, told [...]

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Mexican Cartels Attempting To Corrupt Border Agents

Foriegn Spies Told To Leave Dubai Within A Week

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:22:05 +0000

According to Newsweek’s Declassified Blog, police in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai have advised all foreign spies to get out of town—and preferably out of the region—within a week. Although it is widely known in international spy circles, news of the expulsion threat has received little circulation beyond media in the Arab world. However, [...]

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Foriegn Spies Told To Leave Dubai Within A Week

al-Qaida Seen Eyeing Less Complex Attacks On US

national — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:10:30 +0000

Ever since al-Qaida attacked the United States in 2001, U.S. authorities have worked to detect and prevent the next big terrorist strike. But officials and counter-terrorism experts say the Christmas airline plot and last November's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, may have shown al-Qaida that smaller-scale attacks also can prove unsettling, without the complexity and risk [...]

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al-Qaida Seen Eyeing Less Complex Attacks On US

FBI Probes N.J. Man Linked to al Qaeda, Worked At Nuclear Plant

national — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:15 +0000

Fox news reports a suspected Al Qaeda militant from Buena, N.J., is being investigated by the FBI after his arrest in the Middle East for allegedly trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen, WMGM-TV in Atlantic City reported. Federal sources confirmed that 26-year-old Sharif Mobley is in custody after a shooting rampage [...]

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FBI Probes N.J. Man Linked to al Qaeda, Worked At Nuclear Plant

Internet Aids Terrorist Recruiting, Radicalization, Pentagon says

national — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:04:14 +0000

Militant and terrorist groups are using the Internet to streamline their terrorist recruiting, radicalization, and training. The man who allegedly attempted to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day was contacted, recruited, and trained in just six weeks, officials say. Militant groups can radicalize individuals and train them to carry out terrorist acts much [...]

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Internet Aids Terrorist Recruiting, Radicalization, Pentagon says

DHS National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Challenge

national — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:43:27 +0000

Are you up to The Challenge? We at the National Terror Alert Response Center are. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has unveiled DHS’ National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge—a new initiative that calls on cybersecurity experts and individuals across the country to develop innovative new ways to enhance public awareness about the [...]

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DHS National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Challenge

No-Fly List Has Doubled in Size and Will Get Bigger

national — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:03:49 +0000

U.S. enforcement and intelligence officials said Wednesday that the no-fly list barring passengers with suspected terror ties from boarding planes has already increased in size since the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253, and was likely to get much larger. Security procedures have been stepped up since the attempted bombing of Delta Flight 253 [...]

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No-Fly List Has Doubled in Size and Will Get Bigger

Virus Sent To Sabotage Terror Watch List Computers

national — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:58:37 +0000

Colorado’s 9News reports federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers. According to the report, Douglas Duchak, 46, of Colorado Springs, faces two charges of attempting to damage protected TSA computers. Duchak pleaded not guilty and was released from custody. The suspect allegedly tried to send a virus [...]

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Virus Sent To Sabotage Terror Watch List Computers

Adam Gadahn Video Indicates al-Qaeda Reeling

national — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:08:34 +0000

While many are disappointed American turncoat Adam Gadahn was not the al-Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan, as erroneously reported on Monday, there is still good cause to celebrate: Al Qaeda is on the run. And it is a fitting irony that Gadahn’s latest propaganda video, released last Sunday, serves as an indicator al-Qaeda’s time in Pakistan [...]

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Adam Gadahn Video Indicates al-Qaeda Reeling