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- Internet Is A Fertile Breeding Ground For Terrorism – UK
The internet has become the most significant vehicle in promoting extremism, according to a report released by the Home Affairs Committee. The report says the internet has become a “fertile breeding ground” for terror and is more involved in radicalisation than prisons, universities or places of worship. MPs spoke to radical cleric Abu Hamza who [...]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.
Internet Is A Fertile Breeding Ground For Terrorism – UK
- Terror group ‘planned for future’
A group of UK-based radical Islamists decided against carrying out suicide attacks in London so they would have a “long-term future” in committing acts of terrorism, a court has heard. Within weeks of joining together, the al Qaida-inspired extremists plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and to organise for Britons to undergo terrorist training [...]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.
Terror group ‘planned for future’
- Philippine extremist planning attacks when killed
A key Abu Sayyaf commander killed in a US-backed airstrike in the southern Philippines was planning terror attacks, including new kidnappings of foreigners and bombings, when he was slain, security officials said Sunday. The pre-dawn military bombing offensive on Thursday killed longtime Abu Sayyaf commander Umbra Jumdail and several other militants while they slept 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.
Philippine extremist planning attacks when killed
- Woman Charged In Beheading Plot Held Without Bond
A federal judge in North Carolina ruled Friday that a Raleigh school administrator accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a terrorism case should be held without bond until her trial. Nevine Aly Elshiekh made her first court appearance Friday after being arrested last month after FBI agents tracked her 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.
Woman Charged In Beheading Plot Held Without Bond
- US doubles no-fly list of suspected terrorists
The Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States, including about 500 Americans, the Associated Press has learned. The government lowered the bar for being added to the list, even as it says it’s closer than [...]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.
US doubles no-fly list of suspected terrorists
- Death of top terror leader not confirmed
Authorities in the Philippines are still attempting to confirm the death of one of South-East Asia’s top terror suspects, following a US-backed air-strike on a paramilitary training camp. However, a leading terrorism analyst has suggested that even if the deaths of Malaysian man Zulkifli bin Abdul Hir and two other high-profile targets are confirmed, 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.
Death of top terror leader not confirmed
- Cattle prod found in carry-on baggage
The TSA says a cattle prod was discovered in a man’s carry-on bag at a checkpoint at the Baltimore Washington International Airport on Tuesday.We’re told he gave the cattle prod over to police, and there was no impact on airport operations Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. [...]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.
Cattle prod found in carry-on baggage
- TSA Agents Reportedly Wait 6 Hours Before Alerting Cops About Potential Bomb
Transportation Security Administration agents at New York’s La Guardia Airport reportedly found two possible pipe bombs in a passenger’s luggage and left the materials in a public area for six hours before alerting police. The New York Post reported that on Monday, the agents apparently left the pipes on a radiator as fliers passed through [...]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.
TSA Agents Reportedly Wait 6 Hours Before Alerting Cops About Potential Bomb
- Terrorist Attack Map Shows Terrorism ‘Hot Spots’ Across U.S.
Can science predict where terrorists will strike? Not quite. But researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB) have created a detailed map of where terrorism attacks have occurred since 1970 – and it reveals some big surprises. The map’s accompanying study, conducted at the UMD’s National Consortium for [...]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.
Terrorist Attack Map Shows Terrorism ‘Hot Spots’ Across U.S.
- Man caught in terrorism sting admits bomb plot
A Maryland man pleaded guilty yesterday to trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a military recruiting center in suburban Baltimore, saying he was motivated by what he saw as an American war on Islam. Antonio Martinez, 22, entered the plea to the charge of attempting to use a weapon of [...]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.
Man caught in terrorism sting admits bomb plot
- TSA rail, subway spot-checks raise privacy issues
The Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams (VIPR) conducted 3,895 surface transportation operations in 2010, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Screenings occurred at some of the nation’s 500 Amtrak stations. [...] And while privacy groups express their concern, TSA officials point out that the TSA acronym stands for Transportation Security [...]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.
TSA rail, subway spot-checks raise privacy issues
- Suspect in taxi holdup cites ‘terror cell’
A man accused of robbing a taxi driver at gunpoint, then fleeing from another cab stopped for a traffic violation, said he was trying to recruit the second driver into his terror cell, police said. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted [...]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.
Suspect in taxi holdup cites ‘terror cell’
- FBI plans social network map alert mash-up application – BBC
The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material “scraped” from social networks. It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps “using mash-up technology”. The bureau has asked contractors to suggest possible solutions including the estimated cost. Read More This story comes to us [...]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 plans social network map alert mash-up application – BBC
- Emergency In Your Area? Public Alerts On Google Maps Shows Warnings
Google announced a new layer of data being added to Google Maps for public alerts. If there are emergency alerts in your area, Google will show them to you on the map, with more details on the alert.You can access it over at google.org/publicalerts. The map will load with a layer of data on top [...]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.
Emergency In Your Area? Public Alerts On Google Maps Shows Warnings
- DHS: Secretary Napolitano Unveils National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today unveiled the Obama administrations National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Department of Homeland Security is committed to facilitating legitimate trade and travel, while preventing terrorists from exploiting supply chains, protecting transportation systems from attacks and disruptions, and increasing [...]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.
DHS: Secretary Napolitano Unveils National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security
- London 2012 – London prepares for severe Olympic terror threat
British security officials are reportedly planning for the terror threat at this summer’s London 2012 Olympics to be severe – meaning an attack is considered ‘highly likely’. According to this article, Home secretary Theresa May is taking the responsibility of delivering a ‘safe and secure Games’, with the security budget already in excess of £1 [...]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.
London 2012 – London prepares for severe Olympic terror threat
- FBI: Jailed Terror Plotter Wanted Witnesses Slain
A North Carolina man sentenced to prison recently as part of a homegrown terrorist ring has been accused in a federal court document of plotting to kill witnesses who testified against him at trial. An affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday accuses Hysen Sherifi of plotting against the witnesses from his jail cell. Authorities say [...]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: Jailed Terror Plotter Wanted Witnesses Slain
- Man detained near home of former president released
The Secret Service took a man into custody Tuesday afternoon who had a gun in his vehicle next to the home of former President George W. Bush. He said he was attempting to deliver a “spiritual message” to the former president. A Dallas police sources told News 8 that police were called to the 10000 [...]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.
Man detained near home of former president released
- Man Arrested In Firebombings Of 2 NJ Synagogues
An unemployed teenager charged Tuesday with firebombing two synagogues is an anti-Semite whose hatred of Jews guided his actions, authorities said. Anthony Graziano, of Lodi, was charged with the Jan. 11 attack on a Rutherford synagogue and the Jan. 3 firebombing of a synagogue in Paramus. He was being held on $5 million bail. Read [...]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.
Man Arrested In Firebombings Of 2 NJ Synagogues
- US Military Raid Frees American – Dane Held Hostage In Somalia
U.S. military forces sent helicopters into Somalia in a nighttime raid Tuesday and freed two hostages, an American and a Dane, while killing nine kidnappers, U.S. officials confirm. The Danish Refugee Council also confirmed the two aid workers, American Jessica Buchanan and Dane Poul Hagan Thisted, were freed “during an operation in Somalia.” Read More [...]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.
US Military Raid Frees American – Dane Held Hostage In Somalia