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Pakistani Court Charges 5 Americans With Terrorism

national — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:47:04 +0000

Five Americans face life in a Pakistani jail after officials there charged them with plotting terror attacks. A Pakistani court charged the five men from Virginia on Wednesday with attempting to join al Qaeda-linked groups to carry out attacks in Pakistan. Officials said they believe the group was also planning to go to Afghanistan to fight against [...]

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Pakistani Court Charges 5 Americans With Terrorism

Soaring Debt Increases Risk of Social Unrest Worldwide

national — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:38:08 +0000

The world’s five biggest AAA-rated states are all at risk of soaring debt costs and will have to implement austerity plans that threaten “social cohesion”, according to a report on sovereign debt by Moody’s. The US rating agency said the US, the UK, Germany, France, and Spain are walking a tightrope as they try to [...]

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Soaring Debt Increases Risk of Social Unrest Worldwide

Could Airborne, Parachuting Bears Catch Bin Laden

national — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:51:11 +0000

Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden? That’s one suggestion the Pentagon has received from someone who noted, quite correctly, that a bear’s sense of smell is much more powerful than a bloodhound’s. “Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas [bin Laden] might be,” the innovator wrote. “Attempt to train bears to take off parachutes after landing, [...]

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Could Airborne, Parachuting Bears Catch Bin Laden

Holder: Bin Laden Never To Be Caught Alive

national — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:06:24 +0000

Osama bin Laden will never be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday. “The possibility of capturing him alive is infinitesimal,” Holder said. “He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so that he is not captured by us. We know that. … The possibility simply [...]

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Holder: Bin Laden Never To Be Caught Alive

Taliban Internet Recruiting Through The Eyes of a Detainee

national — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:51:01 +0000

The young Taliban detainee, shackled at the wrists, with his head covered with a black canvas bag, was chillingly clear about his life's mission: “The Taliban have only one objective: to continue killing the Americans.” The tools this particular terrorist had adopted to accomplish that goal were not suicide bombs or sniper rifles, but laptop computers [...]

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Taliban Internet Recruiting Through The Eyes of a Detainee

Five Doomsday Scenarios for an IT Apocalypse

national — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:44:51 +0000

Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day. But [...]

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Five Doomsday Scenarios for an IT Apocalypse

Hakeemullah Mehsud is Alive, Says Former ISI Officer

national — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:25:08 +0000

A former officer in the Pakistani military intelligence service with close ties to terrorist groups has denied that Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was killed in a US air strike according to a report at The Long War Journal. Khalid Khawaja, a self-described humans rights activist with deep ties [...]

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Hakeemullah Mehsud is Alive, Says Former ISI Officer

Terrorists Targeting Children Via Social Media

national — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:18:34 +0000

The Internet grew 20 percent uglier last year, with terrorists and racists increasingly turning to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter — and targeting children, finds the 2010 Digital Hate Report. The Internet grew 20 percent uglier last year, with terrorists and racists increasingly turning to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter [...]

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Terrorists Targeting Children Via Social Media

Spencer Pratt to Join Fight Against Cyberterrorism

national — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:24:21 +0000

Spencer Pratt is ready to jump into the fight against cyber-terrorism according to a report on FoxNews.com. In the report, Bill Beasley, president of American Defense Enterprises, a firearms training firm in Los Angeles, told FoxNews.com that he and Pratt are in the “beginning stages” of negotiations to start a cybersecurity venture. [...] Beasley said Pratt contacted him [...]

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Spencer Pratt to Join Fight Against Cyberterrorism

Domestic Cyber Terrorist Sought in Poughkeepsie

national — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:08:31 +0000

WKTV reports STD Carriers Disease Control and Prevention Services are looking for a cyber terrorist known as Mike Bascaino in the Poughkeepsie area. A man going by this name is believed to have accessed the computer systems of the International Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Carrier Registry over 100 times for the purpose of engaging in unauthorized [...]

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Domestic Cyber Terrorist Sought in Poughkeepsie

Some Thoughts on Jihad Jamie and Jihad Jane

national — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:50:49 +0000

Judging by what we know them so far, both of the white American female converts to Islam who were recently taken into custody Jihad Jane in the U.S., Jihad Jamie in Ireland were lonely, troubled indiduals see here and here. What’s becoming clear is that international jihadists are redoubling their efforts to recruit disaffected U.S. [...]

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Some Thoughts on Jihad Jamie and Jihad Jane

US State Department Travel Warning For Mexico

national — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:51:29 +0000

The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to and living in Mexico of concerns about the security situation in Mexico, and that it has authorized the departure of the dependents of U.S. government personnel from U.S. consulates in the Northern Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, [...]

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US State Department Travel Warning For Mexico

Gunmen Kill American Consulate Staff Members in Juarez

national — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:03:19 +0000

Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate, an attack U.S. President Barack Obama said “outraged” him. An American woman working at the consulate in Ciudad Juarez, just over the border from El Paso, Texas, and her U.S. husband were fatally shot [...]

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Gunmen Kill American Consulate Staff Members in Juarez

Mumbai – Terror Attack Thwarted, Two Arrested

national — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:35:33 +0000

Indian police have arrested two men suspected of plotting a series of terror attacks in Mumbai. The pair aimed to attack a market, a shopping center and a state-owned gas facility, according to anti-terrorism officers. Police said the men had links with terror groups in Pakistan and were acting on directions from handlers there. Vinesh Agarwal, [...]

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Mumbai – Terror Attack Thwarted, Two Arrested

Bollywood Pursues Terrorism and Terrorists at Full Throttle

national — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:15:30 +0000

“The Hurt Locker” may have won big at the Oscars this week, but for movie fans outside the U.S., the night was a bust. With a paltry $4 million in earnings overseas, hardly anyone saw the film. One reason: Like other post-9/11 pictures about Iraq and the global war on terror, Kathryn Bigelow’s was weighed [...]

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Bollywood Pursues Terrorism and Terrorists at Full Throttle