Home Invasion - Terror Remains Long After Attack Posted: 10 May 2009 09:00 PM PDT
Alysha Rivas is only 19, but she takes pills to help her sleep. Nighttime is no longer restful for her. She dreams of men following her, kidnapping her, shooting her. “I hate to be alone. I get freaked out when someone knocks on the door unexpectedly,” she said. Her persistent anxiety and fear started when two armed young men burst into her family’s home on June 26, 2006. The attackers went into her room, pointed a gun at her and demanded drugs and money as she shielded her 5-year-old sister. “I can’t forget about it,” Rivas said. “I can’t move on.” She and her family are unwilling members of a growing group in the Tucson area: home-invasion survivors. Police are unsure whether home invasions are increasing in the Tucson area. But they suspect the crimes are spreading beyond the criminal circles where they began as a way of stealing drug loads or money from traffickers. The numbers are still very small, but more and more it seems, innocent residents are being attacked, leaving them with a deep sense of insecurity and A wave of home invasions led the Tucson Police Department to form a home- invasion unit last year. While most of the cases the police have investigated involved drug trafficking, about one-fourth could not be explained that way, police Sgt. Fabian Pacheco said. And even in the homes of criminals, there may be innocent victims — children or spouses who didn’t willingly participate in the drug trade. James Springs was a 71-year-old marijuana dealer when his East Side home was invaded on Jan. 11, 2008. His son, who has cerebral palsy, walked into the robbery on his two canes and was shot by the invaders. Then there are the people outside the criminal realm, such as the Rivas family, whose members have found themselves targeted, sometimes by mistake, sometimes Alysha Rivas was 16 when her home, near South Cardinal Avenue and West Los Reales Road, was attacked. That night she was awake in the early-morning hours, the first bedroom they came to. “I immediately began crying,” Alysha said. Her father, Joe Rivas, heard the ruckus and emerged from his room to see the intruders.
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Cheney: Obama Endangers The Nation Posted: 10 May 2009 08:45 PM PDT
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday continued his verbal attack against President Obama, saying that the country is more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack since the Obama administration took power. Mr. Cheney said that administration’s dismantling of many of the policies and protections instituted by President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — including the planned closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba and halting controversial prisoner interrogation techniques — have made the country more vulnerable to future attacks. “That’s my belief,” Mr. Cheney said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I think to the extent that those [Bush-era] policies were responsible for saving lives, that the not going to have the same safeguards we’ve had for the last eight years.” This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post |
Homeland Security Calls Police To Investigate Incoming Flight Posted: 10 May 2009 08:33 PM PDT
Colorado Springs Police were called to the airport Sunday afternoon by Homeland Security to investigate an incoming flight. Police were asked to check out the paper work on the privately owned Cessna. At this time everything appears to be in order and there is no additional information to report. The plane originated out of Texas and officials are not saying why Homeland Security wanted the plane checked out. 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 Won’t Disclose Location of Nuclear Weapons To US Posted: 10 May 2009 08:18 PM PDT
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said his country isn’t adding to its nuclear arsenal and doesn’t have to disclose the location of its weapons to the U.S. Pakistan is “not adding to our stockpile as such,” Zardari said today on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. “Why do we need more?” Asked whether Pakistan would tell U.S. intelligence officials where all its nuclear “Why don’t you do the same with other countries yourself?” Zardari said in the interview taped May 7. “I think this is a sovereignty issue, and we have a right to our own sovereignty.” President Barack Obama said last month that, while Pakistan’s civilian government is “very fragile,” he is confident that the country’s nuclear arsenal is secure. He also said that Pakistan’s military is taking the threat of internal enemies seriously and recognizes the hazard of nuclear weapons “falling into the wrong hands.” “We have confidence in their security procedures and elements and believe that the security of those sites is adequate,” General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. 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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