The Latest from National Terror Alert Response Center

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• Senior Cleric Warns: Terrorism to Spread to Washington, London, Riyadh
• Tapes Reveal Different Side of Portland Bombing Suspect
• Al-Qaida-linked militants seize BP complex in Algeria, take hostages over Mali intervention

Senior Cleric Warns: Terrorism to Spread to Washington, London, Riyadh Posted: 17 Jan 2013 12:14 AM PST Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, a senior Iranian religious leader, condemned the massacre of Shiite Muslims in a terrorist attack in Pakistan which he said has been financed by the US and Saudi Arabia, and warned that the terrorism that these countries support will one day backfire and target Washington, London and Riyadh. Read More This [...] 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. Senior Cleric Warns: Terrorism to Spread to Washington, London, Riyadh

Tapes Reveal Different Side of Portland Bombing Suspect Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:55 AM PST Jurors who may have been studying the defendant in recent days at the federal terrorism trial here of a 21-year-old Somali-American named Mohamed Osman Mohamud have seen a thin, neatly dressed young man at the defense table who sometimes quietly confers with his lawyers. But on Tuesday they got a drastically different view as video [...] 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. Tapes Reveal Different Side of Portland Bombing Suspect

Al-Qaida-linked militants seize BP complex in Algeria, take hostages over Mali intervention Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:40 AM PST In what could be the first spillover from France’s intervention in Mali, Islamist militants attacked and occupied a natural gas complex partly operated by energy company BP in southern Algeria on Wednesday. Two foreigners were killed and possibly dozens of others, including Americans, were taken hostage.A militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it [...] 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-Qaida-linked militants seize BP complex in Algeria, take hostages over Mali intervention