Man Impersonated Federal Agent On 2007 Flight From Logan Posted: 12 May 2009 10:53 PM PDT
…and gets a slap on the wrist. Amazing. The man in his late 40s flashed a badge, said he was a Department of Homeland Security agent, and filled out a flying-while-armed form at the airline ticket counter at Logan International Airport. Then he bypassed security and boarded a plane to San Diego. On his return trip to Logan several days later, he again told airline personnel he was an agent flying armed and was invited by the pilots into the cockpit, where they told him who the air marshals were on the flight and who else was flying armed. There was just one problem: The man was an imposter. Stephen Grant, 48, of Rockland was sentenced today to two years of probation on one count of impersonating a federal agent, federal prosecutors said. Rather than being a pistol-packing law officer, Grant was actually director of sales for a medical supply company based in Rockland and was on a business trip, leaving Boston on Jan. 1, 2007 and returning on Jan. 4, 2007. The badge he flashed, if someone had looked closely, was the badge he had gotten for being a part-time assistant harbormaster in the town of Chatham, prosecutors said. The case was investigated by the Transportation Security Administration and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. 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                  |
5 Men Convicted In Plot To Blow Up Chicago’s Sears Tower Posted: 12 May 2009 10:42 PM PDT
Five men were convicted Tuesday of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to destroy Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in hopes of igniting an anti-government insurrection. The jury in Miami acquitted another member of the so-called “Liberty City Six” in the sixth day of deliberations. Two previous trials ended in mistrials when jurors could not agree on the men’s guilt or innocence. They were arrested in June 2006 on charges of plotting terrorism with an undercover FBI informant they believed was from al-Qaida. Defense attorneys said terrorist talk recorded on dozens of FBI tapes was not serious and the men wanted only money. Ringleader Narseal Batiste, 35, was the only one convicted of all four terrorism-related conspiracy counts, including plotting to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to wage war against the U.S. Batiste, who was on the vast majority of hundreds of FBI audio via 5 Men Convicted In Plot To Blow Up Chicago’s Sears Tower, FBI Buildings - 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 Most Dangerous Country In The World Posted: 12 May 2009 10:36 PM PDT
made it “the most dangerous country in the world,” Canada’s Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Monday. “I’m extremely concerned,” MacKay told a press conference. “The instability in Pakistan in my view makes Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world.” Around 12,000 to 15,000 Pakistan security forces are battling Islamist fighters in three northwest districts in what Islamabad says is a fight to eliminate Extremist attacks have killed at least 1,800 people across Pakistan in less than two years and around Pakistani 2,000 soldiers have died in battles with Islamist MacKay said the Taliban’s recruiting and rearming in Pakistan is also harming NATO efforts to rout insurgents in neighboring Afghanistan, where Canada has “As long as insurgency is allowed to foster and to incubate inside Pakistan, the problem remains very real, very difficult,” he said. via AFP: Pakistan ‘most dangerous country in the world’. 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 |
Man Had Enough Uranium For Dirty Bomb - Melbourne Posted: 12 May 2009 10:32 PM PDT
A Victorian man who was arrested and charged last month with serious drug offences held enough uranium at a storage facility to make a “dirty bomb”. The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard yesterday that investigators found the uranium oxide powder at Harcourt, outside Castlemaine, along with drug equipment and a confidential police document. It was alleged by a detective that Andrew John McNaughton, 45, became a target of the police Petra taskforce in December after “intelligence indicated that he was involved in police corruption by way of sourcing and distributing restricted confidential Victoria Police information”. The court heard that an explosives expert found that the uranium could be used in the “construction” of a dirty bomb and that other chemicals for drug manufacture could in combination make an “incendiary device”. Detective Sergeant Peter Kos said in evidence that the uranium was “depleted” and only dangerous if ingested. He agreed with defence lawyer Rob Stary that it “effectively has no use at all” except as a measure to determine radioactivity. But Sergeant Kos, who said the maximum penalty in Victoria for possessing uranium was about a $15,000 fine, said its other possible use was for a dirty Mr Stary told magistrate Peter Lauritsen that while its presence might cause “disquiet”, here was no suggestion by police the uranium was for “any other Prosecutor Stephen Payne said police opposed bail for McNaughton on grounds that included that he was an unacceptable risk of reoffending and endangering Man had ‘enough uranium for bomb’ theage.com.au. 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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