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• Giving Away Great Stuff To Lucky Facebook Fans Today
  
• U.S. And Mexico Probe Oil Thefts Linked To Cartels
  
• Radioactive Canadians A Daily Occurrence At U.S. Border
  
• Jihadis Have Attacked Pakistans Nuclear Facilities 3
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• Terror Threat Forces England Out of Badminton Tournament
  

Giving Away Great Stuff To Lucky Facebook Fans Today Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:14 AM PDT We’re giving away some great items today to a few lucky Facebook Fans. We started the Fan Page just 2 weeks ago and already over 1100 of you have joined us. Thank-you! The giveaway includes (1) Autographed copy of Brad Thor’s latest book, The Apostle, (2) Smith & Wesson 12 LED Galaxy Tactical Flashlights and (5) Copies of the book, “It’s A Disaster”. For more details, go to our Facebook Fan Page and click the sign-up tab. Again thanks! ~Martin 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. Giving Away Great Stuff To Lucky Facebook Fans Today

U.S. And Mexico Probe Oil Thefts Linked To Cartels Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:32 PM PDT U.S. and Mexico authorities are investigating the purchase by U.S. companies of millions of dollars worth of petroleum products stolen from Mexican national oil company Pemex and smuggled across the border. The operation appears to have been led by Mexican drug cartels expanding their reach. On Tuesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency will host a news conference with U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Mexican officials in San Antonio to discuss the scheme. The U.S. is returning $2.4 million in funds generated from smuggling to the Mexican government, a spokeswoman for ICE said. A Houston executive pleaded guilty in connection with investigation after admitting that he and others conspired to buy the stolen products, which were loaded onto a barge in Brownsville, Texas, said Nancy Herrera, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney in Houston. “We’re working with the Mexican authorities,” Ms. Herrera said. Donald Schroeder, the president of Trammo Petroleum, is set to be sentenced in December. Mr. Schroeder, court documents say, purchased the product knowing it to be stolen. Mr. Schroeder’s attorney could not be reached for comment. Ms. Herrera declined to identify what U.S. companies bought the stolen products from Mr. Schroeder. Court filings describe the buyers as “larger companies.” 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. U.S. And Mexico Probe Oil Thefts Linked To Cartels

Radioactive Canadians A Daily Occurrence At U.S. Border Posted: 10 Aug 2009 09:34 PM PDT In an effort to catch “dirty” radioactive bombs and weapons of terrorists, the U.S. government has in recent years installed highly sensitive radiation sensors at all of its land, sea and air points of entry. Ten days ago they caught Don Tracey’s radioactive blood. In what one U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer says is now “a daily occurrence,” American border agents are pulling aside people who have undergone nuclear medical procedures such as stress tests and radiation treatments. You could say they’re now catching Canadians with glowing hearts. They’re also catching everything from glazed plates made with naturally radioactive earth to industrial radiation sources used in surveying equipment. The discoveries come as a result of the U.S. installing “radiation portal monitors” so sensitive that they can detect radiation emanating from the luminescent dial of an old Second World War military compass. 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. Radioactive Canadians A Daily Occurrence At U.S. Border

Jihadis Have Attacked Pakistans Nuclear Facilities 3 Times Posted: 10 Aug 2009 09:23 PM PDT Pakistan’s nuclear facilities have already been attacked at least thrice by its home-grown extremists and terrorists in little reported incidents over the last two years, even as the world remains divided over the safety and security of the nuclear weapons in the troubled country, according to western analysts. The incidents, tracked by Shaun Gregory, a professor at Bradford University in UK, include an attack on the nuclear missile storage facility at Sargodha on November 1, 2007, an attack on Pakistan’s nuclear airbase at Kamra by a suicide bomber on December 10, 2007, and perhaps most significantly the August 20, 2008 attack when Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers blew up several entry points to one of the armament complexes at the Wah cantonment, considered one of Pakistan’s main nuclear weapons assembly. These attacks have occurred even as Pakistan has taken several steps to secure and fortify its nuclear weapons against potential attacks, particularly by the United States and India, says Gregory. In fact, the attacks have received so little attention that Peter Bergen, the eminent terrorism expert who reviewed Gregory’s paper first published in West Point’s Counter Terrorism Center Sentinel, said “he Gregory points out something that was news to me and shouldn’t have been which is that a series of attacks on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons facilities have already happened.” Pakistan insists that its nuclear weapons are fully secured and there is no chance of them falling into the hands of the extremists or terrorists. But Gregory, while detailing the steps Islamabad has taken to protect them against Indian and US attacks, asks if the geographical location of Pakistan’s principle nuclear weapons infrastructure, which is mainly in areas dominated by al-Qaida and Taliban, makes it more vulnerable to internal attacks. 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. Jihadis Have Attacked Pakistans Nuclear Facilities 3 Times

Terror Threat Forces England Out of Badminton Tournament Posted: 10 Aug 2009 11:16 AM PDT The England team has withdrawn from the World Badminton Championships in India because of “a specific terrorist threat” against the tournament. The eight-strong squad, which includes the Olympic silver medallist Nathan Robertson, pulled out of the event, which starts tomorrow in Hyderabad, after a reported threat by the Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The tournament’s organisers said they were disappointed by the decision of the England team, which was also accused by its Scottish counterpart of over-reacting. Thomas Lund of the Badminton World Federation said: “It’s unfortunate that the English team made their decision before we had had an opportunity to properly brief the team management.” Anne Smillie, chief executive of Badminton Scotland, which said its players will stay, told the BBC the English players would have to live with the knowledge that they have pulled out of a major world event. Welsh Badminton has three players at the tournament. 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. Terror Threat Forces England Out of Badminton Tournament

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