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• Daniel James Murray - Feds Look For Man That Threatened
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• 11 Bodies, Some Mutilated Found In Car Near US Border
  
  
• FBI Probes Muhammad’s Ties to Ohio Mosque
  
  
• Ricin Scare Prompts Hazmat Response
  
  
• Gun Found on US Airways Plane at PHL Airport
  

Daniel James Murray - Feds Look For Man That Threatened Obama Posted: 05 Jun 2009 12:40 AM PDT Federal authorities are searching for a man who has at least eight guns registered to him and has threatened to kill President Obama. The man, identified as Daniel James Murray, is charged with making threats against the president of the United States. He recently withdrew $85,000 from a Utah bank and told a teller: “We are on a mission to kill the president of the United States,” according to court papers. Murray is originally from New York, but was seen several times in late May in St. George, Utah, making bizarre statements at a bank. According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Utah, Murray opened an account at Zions First National Bank on May 19 with a $85,000 check. “With all this mess going on under President Obama with banks and the economy, I’m sure if citizens happen to lose their money, they will rise up and we could see killing and deaths,” he said, according to the criminal complaint. On May 27, he returned to the bank and tried to withdraw $12,000, but lacked proper identification. “Not to be disrespectful, but if I don’t get this money, someone is going to die,” Murray said, according to the criminal complaint. Read Full Article 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.

11 Bodies, Some Mutilated Found In Car Near US Border Posted: 04 Jun 2009 10:24 PM PDT Mexican police found 11 bodies in an abandoned vehicle near the U.S. border on Thursday, some with their hands and legs cut off and left with threatening messages scrawled by suspected drug hit men. The bodies of the men, who were shot to death, were found in the northwestern state of Sonora in a stolen SUV with Arizona plates, the state attorney general’s office said. A state attorney general’s office spokesman said drug cartels were likely behind the attack, although he declined to give details about the messages left on the bodies. The killings came a day after drug gangs shot up a police station in a nearby town as violence flared in the state dominated by Mexico’s top trafficker, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman. Read Full Article 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.

FBI Probes Muhammad’s Ties to Ohio Mosque Posted: 04 Jun 2009 09:52 PM PDT Nuradin Abdi was convicted in 2007 of planning to blow up an Ohio shopping mall. A suspect is in custody amid reports of homegrown terrorism. Iyman Faris was convicted in 2003 of planning to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. Christopher Paul was convicted in 2008 of conspiring to use explosives against targets in the U.S. and Europe. All three terrorists worshiped and socialized at a small mosque in Columbus, Ohio, and, according to David B. Smith, an attorney for Faris, were part of a larger group of jihadists and extremists who frequented the mosque. The FBI now is investigating reports of links to that same mosque by Muslim-convert Abdulhakim Muhammad who allegedly shot and killed one soldier Monday and critically wounded another in a drive-by attack on a Little Rock, Ark., recruiting station, ABC News has learned. Read Full Article 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.

Ricin Scare Prompts Hazmat Response Posted: 04 Jun 2009 09:37 PM PDT A Hazmat team responded this afternoon when police found what appeared to be ricin in an Everett Washington home at 1208 50th Street SW. The situation started out as an alleged domestic violence assault. The 43-year-old victim was hospitalized, and an FBI spokesperson says after she got out, she discovered the hazardous materials and reported them to police. Everett police recognized that the materials could be ricin, according to the FBI, and the scene was contained. Hazmat crews said they found both the components to make ricin along with what appears to be the finished product in an office in the home. The domestic violence suspect, the woman’s 46-year-old husband, is being hospitalized and will be taken into custody. [...] The FBI says this is not a terrorism-related incident. While even the tiniest bit of ricin can be deadly, you have to be in very close contact with the toxin in order for it to get in your bloodstream. For this reason, the FBI says the incident is not a public health threat. No homes have been evacuated. Source 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.

Gun Found on US Airways Plane at PHL Airport Posted: 04 Jun 2009 08:59 AM PDT UPDATE: The FBI charged a US Airways employee with helping his roommate get a concealed, semiautomatic handgun onto a plane departing Philadelphia early Thursday. Customer service agent Roshid Milledge switched black carry-on bags with passenger Damien Young at the gate so Young could board the 7 am flight to Phoenix with the unloaded 9 mm weapon, the FBI said in an affidavit. Young, 29, was moving to Phoenix and had asked Milledge about the procedures for transporting guns. Milledge, 38, instead agreed to carry the bag through an employee entrance so it would not be screened by security. An alert fellow passenger saw the switch and, sensing that Milledge seemed “fidgety,” raised concerns. Young, already on the plane, allegedly denied to a US Airways manager that he had switched bags with anyone. The plane then started to taxi, but was soon called back to the gate so Young could be removed. He then admitted the bag was his and both men gave statements, the FBI said. Milledge told agents he had grabbed the wrong laptop bag from their Philadelphia home that morning and was switching it back. The gun is registered to Young, and he had a valid permit to carry it, authorities said. Original Story ——– Two people, including a US Airways employee, were being questioned on Thursday morning after authorities at Philadelphia International Airport found a handgun on a flight bound for Arizona. According to preliminary information from investigators, someone waiting for a flight saw a passenger hand a bag to a US Airways employee to may have been authorized to bypass the security screening line. The witness reported the incident to the TSA. The bag was located on the plane and found to contain an unloaded 9mm handgun. The gun and the bag were confiscated, and the passenger and the US Airways employee were taken into custody for questioning. The rest of the plane was searched as a precaution. The FBI, Philadelphia police, and the TSA were continuing to investigate. The 7:10am US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Phoenix was canceled, and the 10:15am flight eventually took off about 11am. via KYW Newsradio 1060 Philadelphia - Gun Found on US Airways Plane at PHL Airport. 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.

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