Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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Two British Nationals Detained with Suspicious Devices – India



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:45 PM PST


Two British nationals staying at the Radisson Hotel near the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here have been detained and are being questioned for being in the possession of suspicious gadgets, police said.
The two men were detained by the Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police on Monday for possessing high tech gadgets, maps and binoculars.
“They checked [...]

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al Qaeda Studied Airline Security Prior To Bomb Design



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 10:12 PM PST


Leaders of al Qaeda in Yemen claim that they studied airline security in the U.S. and overseas carefully before designing the bomb that Umar Abdulmutallab carried with him on Christmas Day.
In a new publication, according to a translation prepared by terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann's translators, the group claims it studied x-ray machines, metal detectors, and [...]

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al Qaeda Recruiting English Speakers and Women



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 07:29 PM PST


al Qaeda in Yemen is actively recruiting English-speaking individuals according to intelligence officials in this Fox News report., Investigators say they are looking for people who are more like Americans, having been born in the United States or Canada. “Anyone who can fit in and not attract suspicion” is desirable to the terror network right [...]

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Talibans Top Commander Captured In Secret Joint Raid



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 07:10 PM PST


The New York Times is reporting that the Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials.
The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an Afghan described by American officials as the most significant Taliban figure to [...]

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Intl. Assassination Team Responsible for Dubai Killing?



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 06:01 PM PST


Dubai police Monday identified 11 people suspected in the killing of a top Hamas official last month and vowed “to hunt them down.”
At the same time, police offered a chilling scenario of how Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a founding member of Hama’s; military wing who had survived at least three other previous attempts on his life, was [...]

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Man Helps Restrain Panicked Passenger on Delta Flight



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 05:05 PM PST


Thirty-five passengers were about to takeoff when a man lunged for the door and tried to get off the plane. Several reports indicate the passenger suffered a panic attack, although others are taking more of a ‘wait and see” approach.
Jeff Backus is back for day two at Capital Region International Airport. He was enroute to [...]

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al Qaeda Operative Arrest May Yield Significant Intel



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 03:23 PM PST


Excellent piece by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball at Newsweek. U.S. intelligence officials appear to have obtained access to what could turn out to be a significant trove of phone numbers, photographs and documents detailing the links between Al Qaeda’s leaders in northwest Pakistan and the terror group’s increasingly menacing affiliate in Yemen, two counter-terrorism [...]

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Terror Alert Sends British Airways Jet Back Home



Posted: 15 Feb 2010 06:03 AM PST


From the UK’s Mirror – A British Airways jumbo was ordered back to Heathrow halfway through a flight by American air traffic controllers after a terror alert.
They banned Flight 243 from US airspace over a “data discrepancy” regarding a 55-year-old male passenger.
The Boeing 747’s flight path to Mexico City would have taken it over Florida.
Metropolitan [...]

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