The Latest from National Terror Alert Response Center

---

• TSA Launches Secure Flight Program
  
  
• US Citizen Denies Terror Charges In UAE Court
  
  
  
• N. Korea Warns of Nuclear War Amid Rising
  Tensions
  
  
• Arizona Home Invasion Suspects Tied to Border
  Group
  
  
• Fighting The War On Terror With Outsourcing
  
  
  
• Nuclear Terror Would Strain Bomb Sleuths
  

TSA Launches Secure Flight Program Posted: 14 Jun 2009 06:00 PM PDT Don’t be surprised if you’re asked to provide your date of birth and gender when booking plane tickets this summer. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has launched a program to improve security and reduce misidentification of passengers who have names similar to individuals on government watch lists. As part of Secure Flight, airlines will ask passengers buying tickets to provide their names exactly as they appear on the government-issued identification they plan to use when traveling. Later, airlines will begin asking passengers to provide birth dates and gender. via TSA launches ‘Secure Flight’ program – Los Angeles Times. 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.

US Citizen Denies Terror Charges In UAE Court Posted: 14 Jun 2009 05:48 PM PDT A US citizen of Lebanese origin has denied terrorism-related charges against him in the United Arab Emirates supreme court. Naji Hamden told the UAE federal judge Sunday that he was tortured in a UAE prison. He says he signed a confession under pressure because he wanted the “beatings to stop,, Raed 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.

N. Korea Warns of Nuclear War Amid Rising Tensions Posted: 14 Jun 2009 05:38 PM PDT North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions. The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart on the North’s missile and nuclear programs. A commentary Sunday in the North’s the main state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, claimed the U.S. has 1,000 nuclear weapons in South Korea. Another commentary published Saturday in the state-run Tongil Sinbo weekly claimed the U.S. has been deploying a vast amount of nuclear weapons in South Korea and Japan. 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.

Arizona Home Invasion Suspects Tied to Border Group Posted: 14 Jun 2009 05:31 PM PDT Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona. Jason Eugene Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges, said Sheriff Clarence Dupnic of Pima County, Ariz. The trio are alleged to have dressed as law enforcement officers and forced their way into a rural Arivaca home on May 30, wounding a woman and fatally shooting her husband and their 9-year-old daughter. Their motive was financial, Dupnic said. “The husband who was murdered has a history of being involved in narcotics and there was an anticipation that there would be a considerable amount of cash at this location as well as the possibility of drugs,” Dupnic said. Forde is the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a small border watch group, and Bush goes by the nickname “Gunny” and is its operations director, according to the group’s Web site. She is from Everett, Wash., has recently been living in Arizona and was once associated with the better known and larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. 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.

Fighting The War On Terror With Outsourcing Posted: 14 Jun 2009 05:24 PM PDT When American consumers dial a toll-free hotline for customer service support, they may not be aware they are helping bring an end to a long-running insurgency half way across the world. Some of the calls are routed to a call centre in the Philippines’ southern Muslim heartland, the Southeast Asian theatre of the US-led war on terror where part of a new strategy is to smother the insurgency with job empowerment. [...] Read 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.

Nuclear Terror Would Strain Bomb Sleuths Posted: 14 Jun 2009 05:12 PM PDT If the unthinkable happened, would we be left on the day after, as radioactive dust settled, with the unknowable? If a terrorist nuclear bomb destroyed the heart of a great city, how would we know who did it, with what? Mideast fanatics with a device improvised from stolen uranium? A weapon smuggled in by a rogue regime? A hijacked U.S. bomb? Where do you strike back? How do you head off another attack? President Barack Obama calls nuclear terrorism “the most immediate and extreme threat to global security.” It’s an unthinkable that’s being thought about daily in classified corners of world capitals. But knowledgeable scientists and the investigators behind a new U.S. government report say the American nuclear establishment needs more specialists and more background data on possible bomb sources to do the detective job that awaits on that day after. “I don’t believe the intelligence community is ready for the challenge,” said Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who worked for years as a U.S. intelligence leader on weapons of mass destruction. Read 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.

	Email delivery powered by Google