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• Four trucks filled with bodies after Reynosa firefight
• EMP Attack: The Threat Is Real
• Newspaper: Fake bomb got past NJ airport screeners
• Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats
• Official: Cyberattacks, N. Korea, jihadist groups top U.S. threats
• Secret national security measures showcased in Discovery Channels northern border special

Four trucks filled with bodies after Reynosa firefight Posted: 12 Mar 2013 09:35 PM PDT Fear and panic filled the streets of Reynosa on Sunday night as rival gunmen battled during a three-hour firefight that saw automatic weapons and grenades used. Surprisingly, Mexican authorities were absent for most of the melee. The opening clashes were reported just before 9 p.m. Sunday, when rival factions of the Gulf Cartel consummated 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. Four trucks filled with bodies after Reynosa firefight

EMP Attack: The Threat Is Real Posted: 12 Mar 2013 07:44 PM PDT Two scholars from the congressionally mandated 2010 Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack make the case to protect the U.S. from a potentially catastrophic nuclear EMP attack on the U.S. by terrorists or rogue states. William Radasky and Peter Vincent Pry rebut Yousaf M. Butt’s charge that [...] 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. EMP Attack: The Threat Is Real

Newspaper: Fake bomb got past NJ airport screeners Posted: 12 Mar 2013 07:43 PM PDT A New York congressman called for an extensive security review at Newark Liberty Airport after a newspaper reported Friday that a simulated explosive got past screeners. Rep. Peter King’s letter to Transportation Security Administration Administrator John Pistole followed a report in the New York Post. The newspaper said an undercover TSA inspector brought a mock improvised [...] 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. Newspaper: Fake bomb got past NJ airport screeners

Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats Posted: 12 Mar 2013 07:40 PM PDT It remains the dream of military imagery analysts who stare at surveillance footage all day: sensors and cameras that alert their human masters to looming threats. The Navy’s next research program wants to make it an overdue reality. It actually wants to do much more than that, according to a Monday research announcement. But at [...] 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. Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats

Official: Cyberattacks, N. Korea, jihadist groups top U.S. threats Posted: 12 Mar 2013 07:38 PM PDT Cyberattacks pose more of a threat to the United States than a land-based attack by a terrorist group, while North Korea’s development of a nuclear weapons program poses a “serious threat,” the director of national intelligence told Congress on Tuesday. The warning by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper came in his annual report to [...] 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. Official: Cyberattacks, N. Korea, jihadist groups top U.S. threats

Secret national security measures showcased in Discovery Channels northern border special Posted: 12 Mar 2013 06:59 PM PDT Undercover agents, unmarked cars, hidden cameras…  No this isn’t an episode of “Cops,” it’s a new Discovery Channel documentary about the Department of Homeland Security.“Under Siege: America’s Northern Border,” which airs Wednesday night, is a one-hour special about the northern border of the U.S., the reported crossing point of choice for the likes of 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. Secret national security measures showcased in Discovery Channels northern border special