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• Al-Qaeda core weakened as affiliates gained strength in 2011
• San Antonio airport reopens after bomb threat, bomb-sniffing dogs find no suspicious packages
• TSA Agents Rescue Kidnapped Woman At Miami International Airport
• Newt Gingrich Fears of EMP Attack on D.C.

Al-Qaeda core weakened as affiliates gained strength in 2011 Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:46 PM PDT U.S. President Barack Obama has made his administration’s successes against terrorist groups — above all last year’s killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden — a central plank of his re-election campaign. But according to the State Department’s latest annual counterterrorism report, al Qaeda affiliates are gaining operational strength in the Middle East and [...] 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. Al-Qaeda core weakened as affiliates gained strength in 2011

San Antonio airport reopens after bomb threat, bomb-sniffing dogs find no suspicious packages Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:44 PM PDT A bomb threat temporarily cleared out San Antonio International Airport on Wednesday after officials said someone called alleging that three packages had been left inside a parking garage. About 2,000 passengers in the terminal were herded onto the tarmac for about 1½ hours after the unknown person called around 2:30 p.m. warning about the packages, [...] 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. San Antonio airport reopens after bomb threat, bomb-sniffing dogs find no suspicious packages

TSA Agents Rescue Kidnapped Woman At Miami International Airport Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:42 PM PDT TSA agents at Miami International Airport rescued a beaten and kidnapped woman over Independence Day weekend, as first reported by NBC 6, possibly saving her life. When 25-year-old Nelkis Alvarez went through airport security to return home to New Jersey July 5, two TSA officers trained to pick up on behavioral cues noticed she seemed [...] 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. TSA Agents Rescue Kidnapped Woman At Miami International Airport

Newt Gingrich Fears of EMP Attack on D.C. Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:41 PM PDT In the 11 years since the September 11 attacks, D.C. has been victimized more severely by Mother Nature than it has been by terrorists. All the best laid plans for how to evacuate the city have been tested and failed by inclement weather and acts of God—see Snowpocalypse, 2011 earthquake—rather than a terrorist attack.But for [...] 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. Newt Gingrich Fears of EMP Attack on D.C.