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Relaxed Curbs At Shoe Bomber’s Prison Angers Security Experts Posted: 22 Sep 2009 12:52 AM PDT A detailed news package from the Boston Herald reports that three terrorists involved in the 1993 attack of the World Trade Center have sent 90 letters exhorting holy war to overseas al-Qaeda units from the same prison in Colorado where shoe bomber Richard C. Reid is spending his life sentence. According to the report: The letters were [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Mexico-USA Flights See Increased Security Measures Posted: 21 Sep 2009 08:12 PM PDT Mexican federal police will intensify security measures on flights inbound to the United States from Mexico at the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to press reports in Mexico. Under the new measures, Carry-on luggage as well as regular baggage will be thoroughly checked twice, as will boarding tickets. The measures, adopted after [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Mass Transit Warning To Be On Alert For Terrorism Posted: 21 Sep 2009 07:43 PM PDT There’s a reminder today from federal officials that rail and transit systems can be vulnerable to terrorist attacks. The reminder is being sent out to law enforcement around the country. The FBI and the Homeland Security Department warn that improvised explosive devices are the most common method used to blow up mass transit and rail [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Self-Storage Facilities Eye Sensors to Detect Terrorist Threats Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:25 PM PDT Prior to the 1993 World Trade Center and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings, the perpetrators used self-storage facilities to hide explosives and briefly housed the trucks used to carry out the attacks. A 2004 FBI memo to self-storage facility owners warned, “Terrorist plots that involve IED’s [improvised explosive devices] have utilized rental storage facilities to [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Feds Unsure If Arrests Have Foiled al-Qaeda Terror Plot Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:22 PM PDT According to the New York Daily News, Federal agents from Denver and New York to Pakistan are still racing to solve an Al Qaeda bomb plot, unsure whether the arrest of three suspects has put the terror gang out of business. “They’re still looking,” a senior counterterror official told the Daily News. As to whether they [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Capitol Police Close Streets to Search Suspicious Car Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:09 PM PDT U.S. Capitol Police a searching a suspicious car in the nations capitol, resulting in several closed streets. The vehicle, a Honda covered with stickers was stopped at about noon an because of a suspicious looking package on top of the car, police closed several streets, searched the car and interviewed the driver. Source – NBC News This story [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
AirManager – Filtration System Could Stop Spread of Germs on Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:15 PM PDT A revolutionary new air filter could help reduce the spread of the H1N1 virus and other illnesses among passengers on board commercial airline flights, British researchers say. The aerospace giant BAE Systems has joined forces with Quest International, a small company based in Cheadle, near Manchester, England, to develop a machine that destroys up to [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
9/11 Conspirators Refuse to Appear in Court Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:57 PM PDT Fox news is reporting that in a bizarre moment, the three 9/11 conspirators who are acting as their own attorneys refused to come to court Monday. The prosecution says the men should be forced to attend, even forcibly extracted from their cells, but the judge declined to do so. A military judge agreed Monday to another [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Chicago Officials Deny Public Health Threat Following Plague Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:26 PM PDT Chicago health officials have started taking the precautionary measures to keep the Bubonic plague from spreading following the death of a University of Chicago geneticist. Sixty-year-old Malcom Casadaban died last week within 12-hours of developing intense flu-like symptoms. Casadaban had been working with a strain of Yersenia pestis, which only affects ten-to-15 people in the U.S. [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Zelaya Returns to Honduras, Takes Refuge in Brazilian Embassy Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:07 PM PDT Manuel Zelaya has taken refuge inside the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, Telesur television network reported Monday. Zelaya had announced Monday he returned to Honduras almost three months after he was toppled in a coup, despite warnings he would be arrested. The U.S. State Department confirmed that Zelaya, an ally of Venezuela’s socialist [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
AQ Khan Blows The Whistle On Pakistan…In 2003 Letter Posted: 21 Sep 2009 12:25 PM PDT AQ Khan nails Pakistan's nuke lies – Pakistan – World – NEWS – The Times of India The Times of India is reporting that A.Q.Khan has made public and official what some had long alleged: his nuclear proliferation activities that included exchanging and passing blue-prints and equipment to China, Iran, North Korea, and Libya was done [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
Canada Ends Round-the-clock Surveillance of Alleged Al-Qaeda Posted: 21 Sep 2009 12:11 PM PDT Canada’s federal court Monday granted a former pizza delivery man accused of being an Al-Qaeda sleeper agent lighter bail conditions, saying he no longer poses a serious national security threat.Algerian Mohamed Harkat faced some of the stiffest bail conditions ever set by a Canadian court when he was released in 2006 after spending almost four [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National |
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