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• Bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested, charged in US with conspiring to kill Americans
• Air marshals, flight attendants want TSA to reconsider knife policy
• Digital Jihad: Inside Al-Qaeda’s Social Networks
• FBI: Portland City Worker Provided Support To Al-Qaeda Suicide Bomber
• North Korea vows nuclear attack on US, as UN prepares to vote on sanctions

Bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested, charged in US with conspiring to kill Americans Posted: 07 Mar 2013 03:03 PM PST A top Al Qaeda spokesman who is the son-in-law of Usama bin Laden has been captured overseas and charged in the United States with conspiracy to kill Americans, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, first revealed that Sulaiman Abu Ghayth was captured in [...] 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. Bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested, charged in US with conspiring to kill Americans

Air marshals, flight attendants want TSA to reconsider knife policy Posted: 07 Mar 2013 06:56 AM PST Groups representing federal air marshals and flight attendants — outraged over the Transportation Security Administration’s decision to allow small pocketknives back into aircraft cabins — say they will ask the TSA to reconsider the policy. Both groups say they learned about the policy change Tuesday, and charged that the TSA is forgetting about the terrorist [...] 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. Air marshals, flight attendants want TSA to reconsider knife policy

Digital Jihad: Inside Al-Qaeda’s Social Networks Posted: 07 Mar 2013 06:48 AM PST Almost a decade after their emergence, Al-Qaeda’s password-protected online forums continue to remain popular. Government officials in the U.S and elsewhere have spoken out against the message boards, which are used by jihadis to converse and distribute information, saying they serve as a recruiting tool for terrorists and have been used to incite violence against [...] 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. Digital Jihad: Inside Al-Qaeda’s Social Networks

FBI: Portland City Worker Provided Support To Al-Qaeda Suicide Bomber Posted: 07 Mar 2013 06:47 AM PST FBI agents on Tuesday arrested a Portland city worker on allegations that he provided support to a suicide bomber who participated in a 2009 attack in Pakistan that killed about 30 people and injured another 300. Reaz Qadir Khan, 48, was arrested at his home and charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material [...] 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. FBI: Portland City Worker Provided Support To Al-Qaeda Suicide Bomber

North Korea vows nuclear attack on US, as UN prepares to vote on sanctions Posted: 07 Mar 2013 06:27 AM PST   North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test. An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyangs Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right [...] 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. North Korea vows nuclear attack on US, as UN prepares to vote on sanctions