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• Using Social Media to Enhance Situational Awareness
• Once called ‘terror network,’ Al Jazeera America dares to enter U.S. cable market
• 6 hand grenades found in checked luggage by TSA agents at Albuquerque airport in the past week

Using Social Media to Enhance Situational Awareness Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:41 AM PST Social media has amply demonstrated its abilities as an outbound tool, a means for government to push information out to its constituents. Municipalities tweet emergency information during crises. Politicians rally friends on Facebook. Even as these active uses of social media come into their own, newer passive uses are evolving. Rather than shout, government agencies [...] 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. Using Social Media to Enhance Situational Awareness

Once called ‘terror network,’ Al Jazeera America dares to enter U.S. cable market Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:35 AM PST When Al Jazeera becomes a major U.S. cable channel, as it plans, some Americans are likely to click past it, recalling the alleged anti-American tone by the pan-Arab network during the Iraq war a decade ago. “My guess is that when people hear about Al Jazeera, they will not be paying attention to the news [...] 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. Once called ‘terror network,’ Al Jazeera America dares to enter U.S. cable market

6 hand grenades found in checked luggage by TSA agents at Albuquerque airport in the past week Posted: 04 Jan 2013 10:40 AM PST uthorities say six hand grenades have been found in checked baggage in the past week at Albuquerque’s airport. The information was included in the TSA’s weekly roundup of weapons collected in checked and unchecked baggage at the nation’s airports. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror [...] 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. 6 hand grenades found in checked luggage by TSA agents at Albuquerque airport in the past week