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Iranian Plane Buzzes USS Eisenhower In Middle East



Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:25 AM PDT


An Iranian maritime patrol aircraft buzzed the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower at sea in the Middle East last week, passing within 1,000 yards of the ship, but American defense officials sought to downplay the encounter as relatively common.
The Iranian navy Fokker F27 turboprop reconnaissance plane had been flying near the Eisenhower Strike Group for about [...]

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Pakistan Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud Alive, Says Spy Agency



Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:58 PM PDT


According to reports in the UK’s Guardian, the Taliban leader in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, survived an American drone strike in January and is alive and well, according to a senior official with Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence agency.
Mehsud was reported to have died in a CIA drone strike in South Waziristan in January but, although Pakistan’s [...]

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FBI Agents Dedicated To Terror Doubled in Eight Years



Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:26 PM PDT


The number of FBI agents dedicated to counterterrorism doubled between 2001 and 2009 accounting for more than a quarter of the work done by field agents by last year, a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general has found. Despite the increase, actual active counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases dipped over the last four years by [...]

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Bin-Laden Tried Go Get Nukes, Says His Former Bodyguard



Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:20 PM PDT


Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin-Laden tried to obtain nuclear weapons, according to his former bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri.
“He dreamed of getting nuclear weapons, and I’m sure that had he got hold of them, he would not have hesitated to use them,” al-Bahri told Al-Quds al-Arabi on Wednesday morning.
Al-Bahri, who is currently residing in Yemen, revealed to the [...]

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UK Man Made Fortune Selling Anarchist Terror Guide



Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:36 PM PDT


A Portsmouth man faces jail for selling information from Al Qaeda on how to carry out terrorist attacks.
Terrance Brown produced a CD entitled The Anarchist Cookbook at his home in Whitworth Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, Winchester Crown Court heard.
He sold copies around the world, making tens of thousands of pounds, on his website anarchist-cookbook.com. The site [...]

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Homeland Security To Probe Oil Rig Explosion



Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:30 PM PDT


According to this Reuters report, the Departments of Interior and Homeland Security on Tuesday announced they were launching a joint investigation into the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig which subsequently sank.
The joint investigation will have subpoena power as well as the ability to call witnesses and hold public hearings, the two agencies said.
The [...]

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Continental Flight Diverted Because of Threat



Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:06 PM PDT


A Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Washington was diverted to a North Carolina airport because of a threatening message found in the bathroom, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday, the second such incident in as many days.
Continental flight 3006 was headed to Washington Dulles International Airport but was landed at Greensboro, North Carolina, where it [...]

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