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- Suspicious Device, Ammo, Passports Found
- Report – Street Gang Smuggling Terrorists into U.S.
- Police Break Up Somali Islamists Terror Plot In Australia
- al Qaeda Tells Obama Conditional Truce Still Stands
- Feds Name 8th North Carolina Terror Suspect
- Baja Mexico Earthquakes Felt In Downtown San Diego
- National Dialogue on the Homeland Security Starts Today
Police were called to a home in South Philadelphia where a suspicious device was found. Authorities were called to vacant house located on the 2200 block of McClellan St. There, police found a possible explosive device with a significant amount of ammunition and passports. Both the bomb squad and homeland security were called to the scene, but have since left. This story comes to us via Homeland |
Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into the U.S. After 9/11, Mara Salvatrucha attracted the attention of top al Qaeda officials, who realized that the gang could be used to smuggle operatives and weapons into the United States. An agreement was forged between the terrorists and the gang-bangers. In exchange for safe passage across the border, al Qaeda – through its cells in South America – agreed to pay the Maras from $30,000 to $50,000 for each sleeper agent they managed to smuggle into the country with bogus matricula consulars. This story comes to us via Homeland |
A plot by Islamic extremists in Melbourne to launch a suicide attack on an Australian Army base has been uncovered by national security agencies. Four men all Australian citizens were arrested this morning as federal and state police, armed with search warrants, swooped on members of the suspected terror cell this morning in the second-largest counter-terrorism operation in the nation’s history. Those arrested included a 26-year-old Carlton man, a 25-year-old Preston man, a 25-year-old Glenroy man and a man, 22, from Meadow Heights About 400 police raided homes in the northern Melbourne suburbs of Glenroy, Meadow Heights, Roxburgh Park, Broadmeadows, Westmeadows, Preston and Epping. They also raided homes at Carlton in inner Melbourne and Colac in southwestern Victoria. “Police believe members of a Melbourne-based group have been undertaking planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Australia and allegedly involved in hostilities in Somalia,” a joint police statement said. The men are expected to be charged with a range of terrorism-related offences. This story comes to us via Homeland |
Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said a truce offered to the last U.S. administration was still on the table, but President Barack Obama must withdraw troops from Muslim lands and meet other demands. “If Obama wants to (reach) an understanding then he should respond to Sheikh Osama (bin Laden’s) two offers,” Zawahri said in an interview with al Qaeda’s media arm As-sahab, posted on an Islamist website on Monday. Zawahri warned that militants would continue to fight “until doomsday” unless their conditions were met. “The minimum the mujahideen would accept (includes) … the exit of infidel troops from all of the land of Islam and an end to stealing Muslims’ wealth under the threat of military power.” Zawahri said the conditions also include that Western countries stop backing “corrupt and apostate regimes in the Muslim world” and the release of all detained Muslims. This story comes to us via Homeland |
Jude Kenan Mohammad was confirmed this afternoon to be the eighth member of a group of terrorism suspects arrested last week and accused of plotting “violent jihad” overseas. He is being considered a fugitive by the FBI and is not in the custody of American officials. Mohammad, 20, a high-school dropout who grew up in Wake County, was arrested last year in Pakistan after he strayed into a tribal area off-limits to foreigners. He had told his family he was going to live and work with his father, who runs a store in Peshawar. Mohammad’s name was linked to the group immediately after their arrests last Monday and several news outlets reported he was the eighth suspect, resting on unnamed sources. His name was redacted from the indictment under late Monday afternoon when it was unsealed by a judge. In the indictment, Mohammad is accused of traveling to Pakistan in October 2008 to “engage in violent jihad. No other details are given. This story comes to us via Homeland |
A 6.9 magnitude quake struck 358 miles southeast of Tijuana on Monday, just minutes after the same area was shaken by a 5.8 magnitude tremblor, according to the United States Geological Survey. People felt shaking in downtown San Diego, according to reports made to 10News. Scientists said there’s no tsunami threat to the West Coast and Hawaii following the two earthquakes that struck minutes apart in Mexico’s Gulf of California. The U.S. Geological Survey said the first temblor with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 hit the Gulf of California at 10:55 a.m. PDT Monday. It was followed about five minutes later by a magnitude-6.9. This story comes to us via Homeland |
  Homeland Security Review QHSR You’re Invited! The National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review begins TODAY! Join the conversation at Right now, thousands of stakeholders across the country are coming together to produce ideas and priorities that will inform our nation’s homeland security policies for the next four years. DHS will produce a report based on the results of its review for submission to Congress on December 31, 2009. You can read and rate actual DHS study group proposals, contribute your own ideas, and watch in real time as the best ideas “rise to the top”
Need more info? Watch this short video of Secretary Napolitano explaining the National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, and why your input is so critical to this process. This unique opportunity is hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration, a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on effective government. Your participation, and that of stakeholders like you around the nation, will inform this important review of our nation’s homeland security strategy and priorities. Thank you in advance for joining the discussion and sharing your feedback. This story comes to us via Homeland |
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