Top Al-Qaeda-Linked Terror Suspect Arrested in Malaysia Posted: 07 May 2009 08:43 PM PDT
An official says a top Islamic terror suspect accused in a plot to crash a hijacked plane into Singapore has been arrested in neighboring Malaysia after escaping a high-security Singaporean jail last year. Mas Selamat Kastari escaped from the jail in February 2008 by wriggling out a toilet window in a surprising security breach that sparked a massive manhunt. He is the suspected commander of the Singapore arm of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah. Walter Chia, a spokesman for Singapore’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur, said Friday that Mas Selamat had been arrested in Malaysia’s southern Johor state bordering Singapore.
Chia says Mas Selamat is being interrogated in Johor and that the arrest “was made possible with the cooperation of the two countries.”
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CIA - Nancy Pelosi Briefed on Use of Enhanced Interrogations In 2002 Posted: 07 May 2009 08:36 PM PDT
Intelligence officials released documents this evening saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed in September 2002 about the use of harsh interrogation tactics against al-Qaeda prisoners, seemingly contradicting her repeated statements over the past 18 months that she was never told that these techniques were actually being used. In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The memo, issued by the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency to Capitol Hill, notes the Pelosi-Goss briefing covered “EITs including the use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah.” EIT is an acronym for enhanced interrogation technique. Zubaydah was one of the earliest valuable al-Qaeda members captured and the first to have the controversial tactic known as water boarding used against him. 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 |
Port St. Lucie Bomb Squad Called To Investigate Suspicious Suitcases Posted: 07 May 2009 08:24 PM PDT
The Holiday Inn in Port St. Lucie was evacuated Thursday night as the St. Lucie bomb squad investigated suspicious suitcases a guest had brought there. While information was sketchy, officials said the guest, possibly in his 50s, checked into the hotel at the northeast corner of U.S. 1 and Jennings Road about 5 p.m. A few minutes later, the guest called 911 to say he had respiratory problems, possibly radiation poisoning. The guest was taken to St. Lucie Medical Center in Port St. Lucie to be checked out.
An initial sweep of the guest’s black, briefcase-type bag indicated there could be something there, although officials said a second sweep cleared both the bag and the man of any radiation. Because of the conflicting information, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad was called into check out the bag. The bomb squad’s robotic device was seen carrying something from the hotel. Shortly after 9 p.m., officials said the bomb squad was going back in for a second bag. At 10 p.m., the bomb squad blew up one of the bags; officials did not say what they were going to do with the second bag. Officials later said one of the bags contained a cell phone charger and papers. A Hazmat team from St. Lucie County Fire Division was brought in to clean up the room after that.
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Pakistan Troops Bomb Taliban, Govt Says No More Dialogue Posted: 07 May 2009 08:09 PM PDT
Unleashing an all-out war on the Taliban, Pakistani fighter jets today pounded militant positions in the restive tribal belt, where a son of a pro-Taliban cleric who negotiated a controversial peace deal in Swat was killed in shelling by troops. As the government said there will be no more negotiations with the Taliban in Swat and they will be dealt with sternly, security forces targeted militants holed up in Malam Jabba, Matta and Khawaza Khela of the valley. Thousands of panic-stricken civilians streamed out of the area as fighting intensified. Pakistan government estimates that about 500,000 people could be displaced due to the escalating military operations in the troubled region. About 40,000 people have already fled the valley. Chairing a meeting of his cabinet yesterday, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani sent out a “clear message” that the militants will be “crushed with full force” and not given any relaxation as peace had not been restored even after the government implemented Shariah or Islamic law in Swat. “The writ of the government will be established without listening to these elements from now onwards,” he said.
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Hard Drive Sold On eBay Held U.S. Missile Defence System Secrets Posted: 07 May 2009 03:18 PM PDT
Highly sensitive details of a US military missile air defence system were found on a second-hand hard drive bought on eBay. The test launch procedures were found on a hard disk for the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) ground to air missile defence system, used to shoot down Scud missiles in Iraq. The disk also contained security policies, blueprints of facilities and personal information on employees including social security numbers, belonging to technology company Lockheed Martin - who designed and built the system.
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Johanna Justin-Jinich Murder Suspect In Custody Posted: 07 May 2009 03:02 PM PDT
UPDATE: Suspect Is In Custody The massive manhunt for the man accused of killing a Wesleyan University junior is over.
Stephen Morgan, wanted by Middletown police in the shooting death Wednesday of 21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich, was in a convenience store in Meriden when he Morgan then told the store clerk to call 911, a law enforcement official said. Meriden police picked Morgan up and took him to police headquarters. He was then turned over to police from nearby Middletown. Middletown police have been leading an intensive investigation into the Wednesday afternoon killing of Justin-Jinich, who was working in a cafe at a Middletown bookstore. ________ Original Story Authorities hunting for a gunman who killed a Wesleyan University student he knew said he’d threatened her before, and they warned Jews to be on alert because he is targeting them. The family of 29-year-old suspect Stephen Morgan urged him to turn himself in “to avoid any further bloodshed.” Morgan allegedly opened fire Wednesday on junior Johanna Justin-Jinich while she was working at a cafe bookstore. The pair had attended a program together at New York University when Morgan began sending Justin-Jinich harassing e-mails, according to a New York City police report.
Diana Morgan, Stephen Morgan’s youngest sister, read a prepared statement to reporters outside the family’s home in Marblehead, Mass., but did not take questions. “Turn yourself in right now to any law enforcement agency wherever you are to avoid any further bloodshed,” she read. The family says they are “shocked and sickened by the tragedy” in Middletown, Conn. They say they are know where Morgan is. Morgan allegedly wrote about targeting Wesleyan and its Jewish students in his journal, university student affairs vice president Mike Whaley told the Hartford Courant. Justin-Jinich, 21, was Jewish. “This was not a random act of violence,” Middletown, Conn., Police Chief Lynn Baldoni told reporters Thursday. “Evidence uncovered overnight suggests that Mr. Morgan may be focused on the Wesleyan campus as well as the Jewish community.”
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