MI6 Nixed Major Undercover Operation After Memory Stick Lost Posted: 03 May 2009 10:56 PM PDT
to scrap a multi-million-dollar undercover drug operation after an agent The unidentified female agent left the stick behind in her handbag. Undercover agents and informants were put at risk by the loss This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and Share this post                  |
Tunnels Pose Trouble from Mexico to Middle East Posted: 03 May 2009 10:50 PM PDT
By 2014 most of the border will be home to sensor-equipped towers that are linked to a central communications network. But while proponents argue that over the border, most experts admit it will do little to guard against people making their way under it. [...] Since 2001, more than 100 tunnels have been discovered by U.S. law enforcement, compared with just 15 in the 1990s, and the pace is accelerating. Most of those have been uncovered through human intelligence, since there are no currently available technical means to reliably detect tunnels. The Department of Homeland Security started spending research money on detection technologies two years ago. But even the most promising ones — primarily adapted from mining and petroleum exploration industries — are several years from proving reliable. “We see this as one of those frontier threat areas that have to be mitigated but it is a very, very difficult problem area,” says Rick Miller, a leading expert at the Kansas Geological Survey. Most of the tunnels are pretty crude, what law enforcement call gopher holes. Typically just a few feet down and only long enough to get under a fence or two, they can be dug with a pick axe and shovel in the span of just a few nights. [...] Far more worrisome are the increasingly sophisticated tunnels that display mining engineering expertise and significant investments of money. A tunnel discovered in 2006 believed to have been financed by the Tijuana Cartel led by the family of Ramon Arellano Felix was around 2,400 feet long and about nine stories deep. It had concrete floors in certain sections, ventilation, Tijuana across the border to a warehouse in Otay Mesa, the main commercial port of entry near San Diego. This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and Share this post |
Flight Attendant In Custody Over Guns At Airport - Denver Posted: 03 May 2009 10:38 PM PDT
Police in Denver Colorado say a flight attendant accused of trying to take two unloaded handguns through a security checkpoint was taken into custody on Saturday. Police have not yet released the name of the woman taken into custody or confirmed which airline employs her. This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and Share this post |
Pakistan Strife Raises U.S. Doubts on Nuclear Arms Posted: 03 May 2009 10:28 PM PDT
As the insurgency of the Taliban and Al Qaeda spreads in Pakistan, senior American officials say they are increasingly concerned about new vulnerabilities for Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, including the potential for militants to snatch a weapon in transport or to insert sympathizers into laboratories or fuel-production facilities. The officials emphasized that there was no reason to believe that the arsenal, most of which is south of the capital, Islamabad, faced an imminent threat. President Obama said last week that he remained confident that keeping the country’s nuclear infrastructure secure was the top priority of Pakistan’s armed forces. But the United States does not know where all of Pakistan’s nuclear sites are located, and its concerns have intensified in the last two weeks since the Taliban entered Buner, a district 60 miles from the capital. The spread of the insurgency has left American officials less willing to accept blanket assurances from Pakistan that the weapons are safe. Pakistani officials have continued to deflect American requests for more details about the location and security of the country’s nuclear sites, the officials said. Some of the Pakistani reluctance, they said, stemmed from longstanding concern that the United States might be tempted to seize or destroy Pakistan’s arsenal if the insurgency appeared about to engulf areas near Pakistan’s nuclear sites. But they said the most senior American and Pakistani officials had not yet engaged on the issue, a process that may begin this week, on Wednesday. “We are largely relying on assurances, the same assurances we have been hearing for years,” said one senior official who was involved in the dialogue with Pakistan during the Bush years, and remains involved today. “The worse things get, the more strongly they hew to the line, ‘Don’t worry, we’ve got it under control.’ ” In public, the administration has only hinted at those concerns, repeating the formulation that the Bush administration used: that it has faith in the Pakistani Army. "I’m confident that we can make sure that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is 'secure,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday, “primarily, initially, because the Pakistani Army, I think, recognizes the hazards of those weapons falling into the wrong hands.” He added: “We’ve got strong military-to-military consultation and cooperation.” This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Share this post |
Austria: Suspect Arrested In Poisoning of 5 People At Bar Posted: 03 May 2009 10:11 PM PDT
Police in Vienna arrested a man suspected of slipping drugs into drinks at a crowded bar Sunday, causing five people to collapse. Authorities Investigators said they were still trying to determine a motive for the attack, which happened on a sunny afternoon at a small bar packed with up to 50 people enjoying an “after hours” party. [...] She said officers later took the unidentified suspect into custody after witnesses said they had seen a man offering the victims drinks. Investigators said it was unclear exactly what substance had been added to the drinks, but that it appeared to be some kind of narcotic. Seper said the victims drank freely, apparently unaware that anything was amiss. IndyStar.com AP National The Indianapolis Star. This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and Share this post |
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