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• Cartel Member Killed In El Paso Feared For His
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• The Creeping Homegrown Terror Threat
  
  
• Terror and Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets –
  Counterterrorism Blog
  
  
• Suspicious Buyers Put Scrap Metal Yards On
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Cartel Member Killed In El Paso Feared For His Life Posted: 12 Aug 2009 08:31 PM PDT A Mexican man who was allegedly killed on orders from his own cartel believed they were hunting for him after he began working as an informant and was fearful for his life, according to court documents. Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana began to worry after he began working as an informant for immigration officials in the United States. “The victim was concerned for his own well-being and the safety of his family,” the documents said, referencing statements the victim made to a witness. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials gave Gonzalez a visa so he could live in El Paso, Texas, his fellow Juarez cartel members began to get suspicious, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said at a press conference. Allen said Gonzalez’s exit from Mexico, combined with a raid on a cartel warehouse and the arrest of cartel lieutenant Pedro “El Tigre” Aranas Sanchez led cartel members to believe he might be working as an informant, Allen said. Then, a Mexican newspaper named Gonzalez as an informant in the arrest of the high-ranking cartel member, according to court documents. Police say Gonzales quickly became the target of his own cartel. Police said Gonzalez knew if his fellow cartel members found him, he would likely be killed, police said. On May 15, the cartel found him. 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. Cartel Member Killed In El Paso Feared For His Life

The Creeping Homegrown Terror Threat Posted: 12 Aug 2009 08:05 PM PDT The arrest of seven North Carolina residents, including Daniel Boyd and his two sons, on charges of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit murder abroad, showed how the problem of homegrown Islamic terrorism is far more rampant than the media or the public is aware of. Just look at the major cases in the past year alone: The convert from Long Island who joined al Qaeda (disclosed this past week) and gave the group information about Long Island trains and New York City’s subways. The plot to blow up two synagogues and a National Guard plane in upstate New York by prison converts (scheduled to go to trial). The plot to kill hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix by assimilated American Muslims living here 25 years (all convicted). The plot to operate a terrorist training camp in Oregon (pleaded guilty). The plot to blow up buildings by the Liberty City 7 (all convicted). The sweeping conviction of Hamas officials for conspiring to support terrorism overseas. The cases of young Somali teenagers raised in the U.S. going overseas to become suicide bombers. The Boyd case in North Carolina proves that radical Islamic ideology transcends economic class problems as has been claimed by pointy-headed sociologists. The Boyd family was white, had a middle-class existence, and had the economic opportunities afforded all Americans — just like most of the terrorists cited above — and yet chose to engage in jihad to the point that Daniel Boyd was willing to send his two kids on suicide missions to Israel. That the FBI stopped all these plots is amazing, but they will never continue to bat a thousand. One of these days, the jihadists will succeed. 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. The Creeping Homegrown Terror Threat

Terror and Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets – Counterterrorism Blog Posted: 12 Aug 2009 07:56 PM PDT Every Pakistan watchers knew about those events. Bill Roggio has highlighted these events in his reports too (esp. in Long War Journal). But, Shaun Gregory (“The Terrorist Threat to Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons,” CTC Sentinel, Vol. 2 (7), July 2009) has analyzed these events to expose the vulnerability of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, the “pillar of Pakistan’s national security”. The paper published in the CTC Sentinel (Combating Terrorism Center, West Point) has triggered a pitched debate in the region and in the Western World whether Pakistan’s nuclear infrastructures are secure or not , especially in the face of those (mentioned below) terror attacks that occurred in the last couple of years. Gregory’s article underscores three terror strikes on nuclear weapons facilities in Pakistan, questioning the physical security of the coveted nuclear assets: “These have included 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 sites.” (Correction: The twin attack at the Wah Cantonment actually took place on August 21, Thursday, 2008, not on August 20 as chronicled in the paper). Let’s revisit those terror events, all perpetrated by Taliban and Al Qaeda elements. 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. Terror and Pakistan’s Nuclear Assets – Counterterrorism Blog

Suspicious Buyers Put Scrap Metal Yards On Alert Posted: 12 Aug 2009 07:36 PM PDT Police have warned scrap yard managers to be cautious after a group of suspicious scrap metal buyers visited a Council Bluffs yard. The men paid cash for five vehicles and scrap metal last week at Rasmussen Mechanical Services in Council Bluffs. The men said they were from Texas and worked for a company called Consolidated Surplus. [...] “We’re not saying they aren’t legitimate, we’re saying their company is not legit,” said Council Bluffs Sgt. David Dawson. “And the business they’re doing appears to not be legit.” There is no indication that this incident is terror related at this time. The activity is of a suspicious nature and we’re posting the story to create additional awareness. As always, if you see anything suspicious, report it immediately. Authorities’ suspicions were supported by the Michigan Manufacturers Association, which alerted its members to a similar situation. According to the association, a group of well-dressed men purchased scrap metal and used machinery with cash. The men claimed to be from a Texas company that later turned out to be bogus. 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. Suspicious Buyers Put Scrap Metal Yards On Alert

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