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- CIA – Officers Risk Exposure at Guantanamo Bay
- Weekend Surveillance Cut at NY Locations
- Las Vegas Terror Drill Canceled – Where Now
- Five Ways To Make U.S. Mass Transit Safer
- FBI Giving Cops Critical Info – How to Spot an IED
- Smugglers Barbed Wire Traps Target US Agents
- Russians On The Hunt For New Suicide Bomb Cell
- Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S.
- Chicago-to-D.C. Flight Diverted for Suspicious Person
Fox News reports a team of CIA counterintelligence officials recently visited the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and concluded that CIA interrogators face the risk of exposure to Al Qaeda through inmates contacts with defense attorneys. [...] The agency’s “tiger team” of security specialists was dispatched as part of an ongoing investigation conducted jointly with [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
In a surprising move, the New York Daily News reports that the MTA has removed weekend security details from the Queens Midtown Tunnel and the Verrazano Bridge. No longer do MTA Bridges and Tunnels cops man booths at the tunnel exit or on the bridges two tower anchorages on Saturdays and Sundays. Instead, the MTA says it [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
At Sen. Harry Reid’s request, the Obama administration canceled a mock ‘dirty bomb’ terrorist attack exercise in Las Vegas. Critics say the administration is playing politics with national preparedness, but others say a shift to secret surprise tests is a better way to prepare for the worst. One thing is definite about this year’s federal play-acting [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
Security on mass-transit systems should be a daily priority, like in airports, they add, suggesting that subway stations do not have to be soft terrorist targets. Of course, commuters expectations that public transit take them a few miles with minimal inconvenience makes it impossible to implement in subways the strict screening that exists in airports. But the [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
If police officers find grainy white powder at a makeshift lab and assume they’ve made a drug bust, they could be making an explosive mistake. The FBI has been training thousands of law enforcement officials across the nation to identify, disrupt and dismantle improvised explosive devices, including bombs made out of ordinary household products. The need was [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
Drug smugglers have apparently set “booby traps” for U.S. Border Patrol agents on roads along the border near Deming, agency officials said Monday. The devices consist of barbed wire stretched like clotheslines across trails used by agents on all-terrain vehicles. The lines, which are difficult to spot, are about four feet off the ground and appear [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
Reports say 21 potential bombers are poised to strike as Putin vows to track down masterminds of the Moscow attacks. With rumors surfacing that a cell of suicide bombers was still at large, Vladimir Putin yesterday promised those responsible for planning the Moscow attacks would be “dragged from the bottom of the sewers”. The country was [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials. The officials were said to have termed the defection of the scientist, Shahram Amiri, “an intelligence coup” in the continuing [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
Passengers aboard an American Eagle flight from Chicago took an unexpected detour Monday night when their plane was diverted from Reagan National to Dulles International Airport. An American Airlines spokesman said they received suspicious information about a passenger on board Flight 4117 from Chicago. Airline officials said the passenger was not on any watch list, but [...] This story comes to us via Homeland |
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