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• Drone loaded with meth crashes near US-Mexico border crossing
• UK warned of ‘very significant risk’ of ISIS-inspired terror attack
• Saudi Arabia’s ‘reformer’ King Abdullah dies
• Surprise! Magnets used to plant drugs under cars from Mexico
• How Al Qaeda’s Biggest Enemy Took Over Yemen

Drone loaded with meth crashes near US-Mexico border crossing Posted: 22 Jan 2015 08:05 PM PST Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot. Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone fell Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico’s border with California. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland […] 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. Drone loaded with meth crashes near US-Mexico border crossing

UK warned of ‘very significant risk’ of ISIS-inspired terror attack Posted: 22 Jan 2015 08:01 PM PST Britain is at ‘very significant risk’ from a terror attack by extremists inspired by ISIS jihadis, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned today. Speaking ahead of a counter-terror summit in London today, he warned against complacency in the fight to ‘disrupt these plots before they come to the stage of an attack’. As foreign ministers from […] 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. UK warned of ‘very significant risk’ of ISIS-inspired terror attack

Saudi Arabia’s ‘reformer’ King Abdullah dies Posted: 22 Jan 2015 07:55 PM PST Throngs of mourners gathered in Mecca early Friday just hours after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud died. He was 90. Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz was appointed as the new king, state television reported. The announcement of Abdullah’s death comes several weeks after the state-run Saudi Press Agency said he was suffering from […] 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. Saudi Arabia’s ‘reformer’ King Abdullah dies

Surprise! Magnets used to plant drugs under cars from Mexico Posted: 22 Jan 2015 07:51 PM PST Drug smugglers are turning “trusted travelers” into unwitting mules by placing containers with powerful magnets under their cars in Mexico and then recovering the illegal cargo far from the view of border authorities in the United States. One motorist spotted the containers while pumping gas after crossing into Southern California on Jan. 12 and thought […] 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. Surprise! Magnets used to plant drugs under cars from Mexico

How Al Qaeda’s Biggest Enemy Took Over Yemen Posted: 22 Jan 2015 07:49 PM PST Yemeni President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, his prime minister and entire government cabinet resigned en masse today, just 24 hours after Houthi rebels occupied the presidential compound in Sanaa. The resignations give unprecedented power to the Houthis, a Shiite minority from the country’s isolated northern highlands.The political crisis also opens the door to an all-out […] 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. How Al Qaeda’s Biggest Enemy Took Over Yemen