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• Hondurans Receiving Threatening Text Messages To
  “Stay Inside”
  
  
• Cybug – Military Developing Half-Robot,
  Half-Insect Spies
  
  
• Somali Man’s Family Says He’s Not A Terrorist
  
  
  
• Swiss Pay Millions To al Qaeda For Release Of
  Hostage
  
  
• Manhattan Teenager Arrested In Starbucks
  Bombing
  
  
• Community Preparedness Toolkit Launches On
  Serve.gov
  
  
• Gunfire Erupts Near Capitol Hill After Traffic
  Stop

Hondurans Receiving Threatening Text Messages To “Stay Inside” Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:49 AM PDT Hondurans are trying to get word out by Twitter that they are receiving threatening text messages on their cell phones tonight, telling them to stay inside and not leave their homes tomorrow night. “Now more than ever I will be the first one out the door,” Honduran Pedro Martinez told Canada Free Press tonight. Pedro Martinez is the pseudonym we gave to the young Honduran professional that Canada Free Press (CFP) walked through Twitter hookup last week. “Tomorrow might be a bad day,” Pedro tipped off CFP on twitter. “People are infiltrating Honduras thru (sic) Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua with the intention to create chaos.” Looks like deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya, who has called for a popular insurrection in his own country so that he can be returned to power after soldiers removed him at gunpoint on June 28, is on the way back. 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. Share this post

Cybug – Military Developing Half-Robot, Half-Insect Spies Posted: 15 Jul 2009 10:14 PM PDT cybug bugspy Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or “cybugs” that could work even better. Scientists can already control the flight of real moths using implanted devices. The military and spy world no doubt would love tiny, live camera-wielding versions of Predator drones that could fly undetected into places where no human could ever go to snoop on the enemy. Developing such robots has proven a challenge so far, with one major hurdle being inventing an energy source for the droids that is both low weight and high power. Still, evidence that such machines are possible is ample in nature in the form of insects, which convert biological energy into flight. 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. Share this post

Somali Man’s Family Says He’s Not A Terrorist Posted: 15 Jul 2009 09:17 PM PDT Prosecutors portray a 25-year-old Minneapolis man accused of waging jihad in Somalia as a would-be terrorist who went so far as to help build a training camp. But family members of Abdifatah Yusuf Isse say the former college economics major never wanted to be a terrorist but got in over his head after he accepted a plane ticket to Somalia so he could visit his grandmother. Isse and Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, are the first two men charged in a long-running federal investigation into the recruitment of Minnesota Somalis to join Islamist fighters in Somalia. A grand jury indictment in February was unsealed this week after Ahmed was arrested. The court file, briefly sealed and then unsealed Wednesday without explanation, sheds some This undated photo provided Wednesday, July 15, 2009 by the Washington County Jail in Stillwater, Minn., shows Abdifatah Yusuf Isse. Isse is one of two men accused of supporting terrorism in a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday, the first charges in an investigation into the disappearances of several young Somali men who activists believe were recruited from the Minneapolis area by radical elements in Somalia. (AP Photo/Washington County Jail) (AP) light on the case. In the last 18 months, up to 20 Twin Cities men of Somali descent are believed to have returned to their homeland, and at least three have turned up dead in Somalia, according to their families. Isse pleaded guilty in April to federal charges that he provided support to terrorists and has been cooperating with the FBI’s investigation, according to the court documents. His attorney, Paul Engh, said in a June filing that Isse and other young Somalis were recruited at a house of worship to fight in Somalia. Prosecutors say Isse admitted that he trained with terrorists in Somalia and helped build a terrorist training camp. via Somali man’s family says he’s not a terrorist – TwinCities.com. 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

Swiss Pay Millions To al Qaeda For Release Of Hostage Posted: 15 Jul 2009 09:10 PM PDT A sum between 3 and 5 million euros has been handed over to Al Qaida for the Islamic Maghreb for the release of the Swiss hostage, Werner Greiner, reported the Algerian press today. According to Liberté, quoting informant sources, a Malian intermediary was to have delivered the 5 million euros to the terrorist group. According to the Arab language newspaper El Khabar, the sum was set at 3 million, and arrived in northern Niger with a Tuareg intermediary. Yesterday and official from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Markus Boerlin, stated that “Switzerland did not negotiate with the kidnappers or pay the ransom”. The Swiss citizen was kidnapped in northern Mali in January with a British hostage, Edwyn Dyer, who was killed at the beginning of June, reportedly due to London’s refusal to negotiate and pay the ransom to the terrorists. 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. Share this post

Manhattan Teenager Arrested In Starbucks Bombing Posted: 15 Jul 2009 09:00 PM PDT A Manhattan teenager inspired by the reel life anti-social character played by Brad Pitt in “Fight Club” is now in real trouble – he’s charged with bombing an Upper East Side Starbucks as part of an attack on corporate America, New York City police said Wednesday. Kyle Shaw, 17, was arrested outside his Chelsea building Tuesday night and charged with arson, criminal mischief and criminal possession of weapon. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Shaw is not connected to the still-unsolved bombings at the Mexican and British consulates or to a bombing at the Times Square military recruitment station. 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. Share this post

Community Preparedness Toolkit Launches On Serve.gov Posted: 15 Jul 2009 08:55 PM PDT Research on preparedness shows that people who believe themselves “prepared” for disasters often aren’t as prepared as they think. Forty percent of survey respondents did not have household plans, 80 percent had not conducted home evacuation drills, and nearly 60 percent did not know their community’s evacuation routes. Nearly 20 percent of survey respondents reported having a disability that would affect their capacity to respond to an emergency situation, but shockingly only one out of four of them had made arrangements specific to their disability to help them respond safely in the event of an emergency. Our nation’s emergency managers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, EMT/paramedics, and other emergency responders do an incredible job of keeping us safe, but they can’t do it alone. We must all embrace our individual responsibility to be prepared – in doing so, we contribute to the safety and security of the nation as well. Becoming more prepared in case of an emergency is easier than you might think. Whether it’s your home, your neighborhood, your place of business, or your school, you can take a few simple steps to prepare your community. This toolkit gives you the basics for getting started. See Community Preparedness Toolkit 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

Gunfire Erupts Near Capitol Hill After Traffic Stop Posted: 15 Jul 2009 04:02 PM PDT Police have apparently sealed off a number of entrances to the U.S. Capitol after gunfire erupted a few blocks away. Police apparently shot a 35-year-old man near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in what authorities described as a routine traffic stop that turned deadly. The unidentified man was shot after brandishing a weapon, police said. He died shortly after the late afternoon confrontation, in which witnesses said multiple gunshots were fired. Developing… 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

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