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• What You Can (And Can’t) Carry Through TSA Checkpoints
• Gunman opens fire at crowded Georgia fair; 7 wounded
• Taliban claim over 20 insider attacks in 8 months
• Second bomb threat in two weeks made against L.A.-London flight
• Fake airline-boarding passes get through security, experts say

What You Can (And Can’t) Carry Through TSA Checkpoints Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:45 PM PST A cannonball. Somebody was actually brilliant enough to pack an explosively-viable cannonball into their luggage. A cannonball. In the annals of idiocy, few can beat what the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) finds daily in luggage. Chainsaws, grenades, grenade launchers, loaded guns, warheads, mortar and bazooka rounds, mines, eels (yes, eels) — and that’s only what [...] 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. What You Can (And Can’t) Carry Through TSA Checkpoints

Gunman opens fire at crowded Georgia fair; 7 wounded Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:27 PM PST Police in Savannah, Ga., were searching Sunday for a gunman who opened fire at a crowded fair, wounding seven people. The shooting happened Saturday night at the Coastal Empire Fairgrounds  on Savannah’s  suburban south side. Savannah-Chatham metro police officers at the fair had just cleared up an apparently unrelated fight near the rides when shots [...] 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. Gunman opens fire at crowded Georgia fair; 7 wounded

Taliban claim over 20 insider attacks in 8 months Posted: 04 Nov 2012 04:14 PM PST In an interview published in the 78th issue of the Afghan Talibans al-Samoud magazine, an official in the groups “Dawa [Preaching] and Education Committee” describes the Talibans strategy for its insider attack campaign and summarizes operations in that area. The interview, which was released on Oct. 29, was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence [...] 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. Taliban claim over 20 insider attacks in 8 months

Second bomb threat in two weeks made against L.A.-London flight Posted: 04 Nov 2012 06:45 AM PST An anonymous caller phoned in a bomb threat on a United Airlines flight scheduled to leave from LAX to London on Saturday evening, according to multiple law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation. Flight 934, bound for Heathrow Airport, was moved to a secure part of LAX and was examined, according to the sources, who were not authorized [...] 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. Second bomb threat in two weeks made against L.A.-London flight

Fake airline-boarding passes get through security, experts say Posted: 04 Nov 2012 06:43 AM PST More than 11 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it remains possible to use fake boarding passes to get through airport-security checks, according to new evidence from security researchers and official documents. The security vulnerabilities could allow terrorists or others on “no-fly” lists to pass through airport checkpoints with fraudulent passes and proceed through [...] 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. Fake airline-boarding passes get through security, experts say