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• FBI Adds New Most Wanted Terrorist -Joanne Chesimard
• Feds likely turning up heat on American pal of Boston bombing suspect, experts say
• Woman Arrested at SJ Starbucks for Potential Orange Juice Poisoning
• Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus
• Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on Dams
• New bird flu poses serious threat, scientists say
• CBS: Tsarnaev laptop recovered
• FBI Seeks 3 Men Possibly Linked to Benghazi Terror Attack
• Bomb suspect’s buddies covered for him, feds say
• U.S. steps up hunt for editor of al-Qaeda online magazine
• U.S. Man Accused of Trying to Join Al-Qaeda Confined to Home
• Police discover unexploded bomb in Austin, Texas business district

FBI Adds New Most Wanted Terrorist -Joanne Chesimard Posted: 02 May 2013 04:17 PM PDT On the 40th anniversary of the cold-blooded murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the fugitive convicted of the killing, Joanne Chesimard, has been named a Most Wanted Terrorist by the FBI—the first woman ever and only the second domestic terrorist to make the list. Officials from the FBI and the New Jersey State Police [...] 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 Adds New Most Wanted Terrorist -Joanne Chesimard

Feds likely turning up heat on American pal of Boston bombing suspect, experts say Posted: 02 May 2013 04:10 PM PDT The American teen arrested with a pair of Kazakh students in connection with the Boston Marathon bomb probe is facing hard time and likely is under intense pressure to tell everything he knows, legal experts say. Robel Phillipos, 19, who grew up in Cambridge, Mass., and went to high school with chief suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, [...] 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. Feds likely turning up heat on American pal of Boston bombing suspect, experts say

Woman Arrested at SJ Starbucks for Potential Orange Juice Poisoning Posted: 02 May 2013 04:09 PM PDT A 50-year-old pharmacist was arrested Monday night after police say she removed two bottles of orange juice from a bag – which they say were filled with rubbing alcohol – and placed them on the shelf with other refrigerated items at a Starbucks in San Jose. San Jose Police Sgt. Jason Dwyer took the woman [...] 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. Woman Arrested at SJ Starbucks for Potential Orange Juice Poisoning

Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus Posted: 02 May 2013 04:07 PM PDT Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory. They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions [...] 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 scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus

Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on Dams Posted: 02 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT A hacker compromised a U.S. Army database that holds sensitive information about vulnerabilities in U.S. dams, according to a news report. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ National Inventory of Dams contains information about 79,000 dams throughout the country and tracks such information as the number of estimated deaths that could occur if a specific [...] 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. Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on Dams

New bird flu poses serious threat, scientists say Posted: 02 May 2013 03:59 PM PDT A new strain of bird flu that is causing a deadly outbreak among people in China is a threat to world health and should be taken seriously, scientists said on Wednesday. The H7N9 strain has killed 24 people and infected more than 125, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO), which has described 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. New bird flu poses serious threat, scientists say

CBS: Tsarnaev laptop recovered Posted: 02 May 2013 03:55 PM PDT The missing laptop in the Boston Marathon bombing has been found, according to CBS and WTOP. Authorities hope that the laptop might provide clues to any other accomplices, or at the least to the pattern of radicalization that led to the bombing: Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - 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. CBS: Tsarnaev laptop recovered

FBI Seeks 3 Men Possibly Linked to Benghazi Terror Attack Posted: 02 May 2013 03:52 PM PDT The FBI has released new images of three men the bureau is seeking for additional information related to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens. In a brief statement, the FBI wrote on its website that the three men “were [...] 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 Seeks 3 Men Possibly Linked to Benghazi Terror Attack

Bomb suspect’s buddies covered for him, feds say Posted: 02 May 2013 03:48 PM PDT A laptop, some empty fireworks and a jar of Vaseline landed three friends of Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in jail Wednesday, charged with trying to throw investigators off their buddy’s trail. Those are the items federal prosecutors say Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos took from Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University [...] 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. Bomb suspect’s buddies covered for him, feds say

U.S. steps up hunt for editor of al-Qaeda online magazine Posted: 02 May 2013 03:44 PM PDT The hunt is on. U.S. authorities are stepping up their efforts to track down the editor of a digital magazine published by Al Qaeda after details emerged that the surviving Boston bomber told investigators he and his brother learned how to build explosives by reading the online publication. The CIA is believed to be spearheading [...] 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. U.S. steps up hunt for editor of al-Qaeda online magazine

U.S. Man Accused of Trying to Join Al-Qaeda Confined to Home Posted: 02 May 2013 03:39 PM PDT A U.S. citizen accused of attempting to join an al-Qaeda ally in Syria was ordered confined to his parents’ home with electronic monitoring while he awaits trial. The man was arrested at O’Hare International Airport on April 19 as he was about to board a plane bound for Istanbul with plans to travel on 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. U.S. Man Accused of Trying to Join Al-Qaeda Confined to Home

Police discover unexploded bomb in Austin, Texas business district Posted: 02 May 2013 03:32 PM PDT Fire investigators in Austin, Texas said Wednesday that they need the public’s help finding whoever created an unexploded bomb discovered last week in a business district on the northwest side of the city. The device was discovered behind the Springwood Business Complex on Pond Springs Road by a woman walking her dog on April 22, [...] 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. Police discover unexploded bomb in Austin, Texas business district