Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Extremist Teachings Remain In Saudi Textbooks Despite Kingdom’s Claims Of Reform

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:35 PM PST

Despite Saudi Arabia’s promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom, recent editions continue to raise alarms in the West over jihadist language. [...] In a textbook for 10th-graders, printed for the 2010-2011 academic year, al-Ahmed said teenagers are taught barbaric practices. “They show students how to cut (the) hand and the feet of a [...]

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Extremist Teachings Remain In Saudi Textbooks Despite Kingdom’s Claims Of Reform


Woman Charged With Sending Money To Pakistan Group To Fund Terrorist Attacks

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:32 PM PST

A woman was indicted Wednesday on charges she sent money to Pakistan to help fund terrorist attacks against U.S. military personnel, authorities said. Oytun Ayse Mihalik, 39, faces three counts of providing material support to terrorists and one count of making a false statement. If convicted of all counts, Mihalik could face up to 53 [...]

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Woman Charged With Sending Money To Pakistan Group To Fund Terrorist Attacks


Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:31 PM PST

A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting report. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National [...]

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Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons


DHS program to monitor social media users draws lawsuit

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:29 PM PST

Privacy advocates are suing the Homeland Security Department to obtain information on a program that monitors the social media interactions of citizens following a federal vendor’s private sector plans to sabotage certain groups’ online activities with similar technology. Homeland Security officials have expanded an ongoing initiative that tracks public online communications in the interests of [...]

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DHS program to monitor social media users draws lawsuit


Suspicious cargo container disrupts traffic at LA port

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:27 PM PST

Cargo traffic at the Port of Los Angeles was disrupted on Wednesday after longshoremen discovered a shipping container with the word “bomb” spray painted on it, a spokesman for the facility said. Dock workers at the nation’s busiest container port reported coming across the suspicious container as it was being unloaded from a ship on [...]

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Suspicious cargo container disrupts traffic at LA port


Terror suspect held at UK airport arriving from Dubai receives bail

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:25 PM PST

A Pakistani student arrested at a British airport as a terrorism suspect after arriving on a flight from Dubai was released yesterday on bail. The 22-year-old man spent 36 hours in custody after being arrested under the UK’s Terrorism Act at Birmingham International Airport on Monday after arriving on an Emirates flight. Read More This [...]

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Terror suspect held at UK airport arriving from Dubai receives bail


Mystery man in new Al Qaeda video

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 11:24 PM PST

A new video released by the Yemeni wing of al Qaeda includes a mysterious English speaker in what could be the debut of a new spokesman to replace Anwar al-Awlaki. The video, posted by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s media arm, is a commemoration of al-Awlaki, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike [...]

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Mystery man in new Al Qaeda video


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