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• Rigged device explodes at Phoenix Salvation Army – 2 With Very Minor Injuries
• US hacked Yemeni Al Qaeda sites to reverse propaganda
• Woman who triggered jetliner scare being sent back to France
• Pakistan Sentences Shakil Afridi to 30 Years – Sends U.S. Clear Signal

Rigged device explodes at Phoenix Salvation Army – 2 With Very Minor Injuries Posted: 24 May 2012 06:18 PM PDT Phoenix police said preliminary evidence suggests the incident could be linked to two other cases in which a person or persons left flashlights packed with explosives in Glendale on May 13 and 14. In each of the previous attacks, a person who found the rigged flashlight suffered minor injuries. Read More This story comes to [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Rigged device explodes at Phoenix Salvation Army – 2 With Very Minor Injuries

US hacked Yemeni Al Qaeda sites to reverse propaganda Posted: 24 May 2012 05:28 PM PDT The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against Al Qaeda — hacking into Al Qaeda websites in Yemen. In a rare public admission of the covert cyber war against extremists, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says cyber experts based at the State Department hacked Yemeni tribal websites, replacing Al Qaeda propaganda [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. US hacked Yemeni Al Qaeda sites to reverse propaganda

Woman who triggered jetliner scare being sent back to France Posted: 24 May 2012 05:23 PM PDT A woman blamed for a security scare aboard a U.S.-bound jetliner will be sent back to France and won’t face criminal charges, federal prosecutors in Maine said Wednesday. Lucie Zeeko Merigot is being turned over to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency after a court appearance Wednesday in Bangor, U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty announced. [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Woman who triggered jetliner scare being sent back to France

Pakistan Sentences Shakil Afridi to 30 Years – Sends U.S. Clear Signal Posted: 24 May 2012 05:16 PM PDT The harsh sentence for the doctor who helped the CIA nab bin Laden may or may not be about Obama’s supposed snub of Pakistan’s president—but it’s clearly a message to Washington, say Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Pakistan Sentences Shakil Afridi to 30 Years – Sends U.S. Clear Signal