World / Terrorism
Amtrak To Expand Random Security Sweeps
11.07.2008 04:15
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Recently we’ve heard from some of our readers that they’ve noticed increased security on mass transit systems in a couple of major cities. This could be attributed to something as simple as increased use of mass transit due to rising gasoline prices, or any number of things. We are not aware of any increased threat on [...]
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TSAs TRIP Program May Help Travelers Clear Name From No-Fly List
11.07.2008 04:14
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Nearly seven years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States with hijacked airliners, it may finally be getting easier for innocent travelers to get their names removed from the watchlists. Easier but not easy, as reform is far from complete and far from transparent. Following years of consumer complaints, Freedom of [...]
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Ehud Barak To Tell President Bush Time Is Running Out On Iran
11.07.2008 04:14
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In a series of consultations apparently aimed at coordinating policies against the Iranian nuclear threat, Defense Minister Ehud Barak will head to the US on Monday for talks at the Pentagon, days after Mossad chief Meir Dagan was in Washington for meetings with key intelligence officials. Sources say Israel is urgently trying to convince the [...]
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Report Will Warn - Biological Weapons Greatest Terrorist Threat to Britain
11.07.2008 04:14
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The government will be warned later this year of the significant threat posed to British security by biological weapons. A warning of the profound security implications of the worldwide biotechnology revolution is expected to be a key tenet of a major counterterrorism report out later this year. The Institute for Public Policy Research’s (IPPR) national security commission, [...]
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Terror Threat to Olympic Games - China Shuts Down 41 Mosques Arrests 82 Suspected Terrorists
11.07.2008 04:14
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Chinese authorities have replaced top police and security officials in the Muslim dominated Xinjiang province, which is the hotbed of separatism and political violence. They have also closed down 41 “illegal” places of worship. These places of worship were used as training ground for conducting a “holy war”, Chen Zhuangwei Chen, the police chief of Urumqi, [...]
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China Claims To Have Foiled 5 Olympics Terror Plots
11.07.2008 04:14
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Chinese security forces claimed today to have foiled five “terrorist” plots against the Olympics amid an intensifying pre-games crackdown that has seen police kill five Uighur Muslim suspects and deport a British-Tibetan woman in the past two days. Human rights groups expressed scepticism about the claims, saying the authorities were using the Olympic threat to crack [...]
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Charlotte Flight Gets Bomb Scare - FBI Deems Threat Not Credible
11.07.2008 04:14
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A bomb threat to a US Airways flight that was evacuated after landing at its destination has been deemed “not a credible threat,” the FBI said Thursday. Flights at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport were back on a typical morning schedule Thursday, hours after a bomb scare isolated one US Airways flight and sent 104 passengers in for [...]
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Phoenix Recycling Plant Evacuated After Bomb Is Found
11.07.2008 04:14
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Several Phoenix businesses were evacuated on Wednesday after an unexploded bomb was discovered a near a recycling plant. Police were responding to a report of a possible hostage situation at the time of the discovery. Upon arrival at the plant, many of the workers began to scatter, prompting a chase through the business’ back lot by [...]
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Police Shoot and Kill Five Chinese al-Qaeda
11.07.2008 04:14
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China appears to be fairly effective in handling potential terrorists. With less than a month to go before the Olympics open in Beijing, Chinese police have shot dead five members of a Muslim ethnic minority they said were bent on waging holy war inspired by al-Qaeda and setting up an independent state. Several dozen police entered a [...]
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Man Delivers Drug-laced Cookies To Police Stations Across Dallas-Fort Worth
11.07.2008 04:14
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Police officers in Blue Mound didn’t think much of the cookies dropped off at their station Monday night until they got a whiff of them. Overpowering the chocolate chips was the pungent smell of marijuana. “It reeked of it,” said Lt. Thomas Cain, a Blue Mound police spokesman. “It wasn’t hard to tell. Anyone that’s been [...]
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Fighter Pilots Escort Suspicious Plane - Texas
11.07.2008 04:14
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Military fighter planes gave the pilot of a small plane a military escort on Wednesday after storms caused it to veer off course and be considered suspicious, officials said. The plane was en route to Baytown from McAllen and the pilot “tried to go around thunderstorms and crossed jurisdictions,” said Matagorda County Sheriff James Mitchell, in [...]
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Six Killed In Terror Attack On U.S. Consulate in Turkeys Istanbul
11.07.2008 04:14
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Three unidentified gunmen and three Turkish policemen were killed Wednesday in an attack on a police guard post at the main entrance of the well-fortified U.S. Consulate in Istanbul that officials labeled a “terrorist” act. One person has been taken into custody, Dogan News Agency reported. (UPDATED) The attack was “an obvious act of terrorism” aimed [...]
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RCMP Seek Suspect, Possibly Shot Following Attack By 3 On Border Patrol Agent
11.07.2008 04:14
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RCMP in Montreal are looking for a man who fled across the border Monday morning after an altercation with a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The man might have suffered gunshot wounds. The agency says an officer on routine patrol early Monday spotted the three people two male and one female walking in Derby Line, [...]
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WCCR Suspects Sinister Activities May Be Behind Recent Earthquakes in Lebanon
11.07.2008 04:14
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The World Council of the Cedars Revolution (WCCR) has just issued a statement calling on the United Nations to ascertain the causes of literally hundreds of earthquakes which have occurred in southern Lebanon over the past few months. According to the WCCRs statement: The occurrences of the earthquakes which have rocked southern Lebanon and in particular the [...]
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