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• Whoa! Shocking Video — Bulgarian Opposition Leader Survives Assassination Attempt After Gun Misfires
• Alaska Airlines hijack hoax targets passenger who slept most of way to Seattle; FBI investigating
• Passenger escorted off plane after threat warning
• Algeria: 7 hostages, 11 militants dead after raid
• FBIs dramatic takedown of Ore. terrorism suspect attempting to detonate bomb airs in court

Whoa! Shocking Video — Bulgarian Opposition Leader Survives Assassination Attempt After Gun Misfires Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:54 AM PST Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, survived an assassination attempt today during a party conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The assassin’s gun misfired giving the opposition leader time jump out of the way and for security guards to jump the man. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - [...] 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. Whoa! Shocking Video — Bulgarian Opposition Leader Survives Assassination Attempt After Gun Misfires

Alaska Airlines hijack hoax targets passenger who slept most of way to Seattle; FBI investigating Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:47 AM PST The FBI is probing a hijack hoax that sent fighter jets scrambling to help land an Alaska Airlines flight bound for Seattle on Thursday night. The FBI field office in Honolulu received a call Thursday claiming a man on Flight 819 from Kona was going to hijack the plane. A male passenger was identified by [...] 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. Alaska Airlines hijack hoax targets passenger who slept most of way to Seattle; FBI investigating

Passenger escorted off plane after threat warning Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:41 AM PST Military jets scrambled to escort an Alaska Airlines flight into Seattle and authorities took a passenger off the plane Thursday night, after a caller told the FBI that a possible hijacker was aboard, officials said. FBI agents interviewed but did not arrest the passenger aboard the flight from Kona, Hawaii. “We’re not anticipating an arrest,” [...] 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. Passenger escorted off plane after threat warning

Algeria: 7 hostages, 11 militants dead after raid Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:36 AM PST Algeria’s special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert in a final assault Saturday, killing 11 militants, but not before they in turn killed seven hostages, the state news agency reported. The report, quoting a security source, didn’t specify if any hostages or militants remained alive or give the [...] 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. Algeria: 7 hostages, 11 militants dead after raid

FBIs dramatic takedown of Ore. terrorism suspect attempting to detonate bomb airs in court Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:32 AM PST At a darkened train station, the teenager and the purported jihadi pulled into a quiet lot where months of planning were to culminate in this: a plot to kill thousands at a Portland Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.”You know what to do,” the man said to the teenager, breathing heavily. “O Lord, O Lord, O Lord.”"Ready,” the [...] 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. FBIs dramatic takedown of Ore. terrorism suspect attempting to detonate bomb airs in court