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  • NBCs “Revolution” Shows Life after An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

    NBCs “Revolution” Shows Life after An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack

    What would the life in the United States look like if the continent were hit by an electromagnetic pulse EMP? The new TV show Revolution from producer J.J. Abrams, launching on NBC in the fall, is seeking to answer the question.The show portrays life in the United States 15 years after an EMP disables all [...]

  • U.S. Remains Vulnerable to an EMP

    U.S. Remains Vulnerable to an EMP

    An article recently published by the Los Angeles Times discusses how solar storms pose a grave threat to Earth. Mike Hapgood, a space weather scientist in England, says that the world is unprepared for such a storm, and one is likely to occur soon. The Heritage Foundation has led a vital campaign aimed at informing [...]

  • Al Qaeda Bombmaker Designs Bombs to Hide in Cameras, Hard Drives and Pets

    Al Qaeda Bombmaker Designs Bombs to Hide in Cameras, Hard Drives and Pets

    ABC News reports that the al Qaeda bombmaker behind the foiled plot on U.S-bound planes has emerged as the most feared face of terror for American authorities,

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  • CIA thwarts new al Qaeda underwear bomb plot

    The CIA thwarted a plot by al Qaedas affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design, a U.S. counter-terrorism official tells CBS News. Officials deny there was ever any immediate threat to the

    5/7/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Terror threat triggers Sinai travel alert

    Israeli officials say they’ve arrested two Palestinians who were allegedly plotting a terror attack in the West Bank. Border Police deployed at the Tapuach Junction in the West Bank say the two men were carrying knives, a homemade gun and

    4/22/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • TSA officer turns in envelope with $9,500 in cash

    Terrific story about an outstanding TSA officer at DFW. A quick-thinking Transportation Security Administration officer is being credited for helping to reunite a passenger with a costly carry-on item: an envelope filled with $9,500. The TSA said Carlos Palma dropped

    4/22/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Inside the ’09 plot to bomb NYC subways

    September 2009 might have been one of those dates etched in our history. That is when al Qaeda terrorists planned to walk onto New York City subway trains and into Grand Central Terminal with bombs in their backpacks. Those trains

    4/19/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Science journal could give recipe for deadly avian flu virus

    A science journal is poised to publish a study that some experts believe could give a recipe to bioterrorists. The study is from an experiment by a Dutch scientist who engineered the avian flu virus to make it more deadly to mammals by making it spread through the air. That experiment was funded by the [...]

    5/13/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Dozens of bodies, some mutilated, dumped on Mexico highway

    Fox News reports forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs. According to the report, Mexicos organized crime groups often abandon multiple bodies [...]

    5/13/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Rail passengers to see ‘strong presence’ of bomb-sniffing dogs during NATO summit, Amtrak says

    Bomb-sniffing dogs will be checking passengers and trains at Amtrak’s Homewood and Union stations during the NATO summit at McCormick Place later this month, Amtrak said Thursday. “Passengers will see a strong canine presence,” said Marc Magliari, Amtrak’s spokesman. If a dog senses something suspicious and the passenger refuses to submit to “additional scrutiny,” the [...]

    5/10/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Unruly Passenger Forces Emergency Landing in Boston

    A plane made an emergency landing at Boston’s Logan Airport Thursday after a passenger became unruly and attempted to open a cabin door in flight, ABC News affiliate WCVB reported. Michael Ensalaco, 40, of Mooresville, N.C has been charged with interfering with a flight crew.The passenger had to be restrained by other fliers, according to [...]

    5/10/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Yemen terror group may have made more underwear bombs, US officials say

    Just days before the news broke about the CIA’s takedown of a plot involving a sophisticated new underwear bomb, al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen publicly boasted that it had vastly expanded and improved its capabilities for making such devices. That boast — contained in a largely overlooked passage of Inspire, the online propaganda organ of al-Qaida [...]

    5/9/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Possible threat grounds Southwest plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor

    Authorities are continuing to investigate possible threats involving three different Southwest Airlines 737s. One plane involved in the investigation landed Tuesday night at Sky Harbor International Airport. A Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman confirms the Southwest plane in question was taken to an isolation pad away from the terminal where dozens of passengers were removed [...]

    5/9/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Gun parts found concealed in stuffed animals at Rhode Island airport

    Federal transportation officials have found gun components and ammunition hidden inside a few stuffed animals carried by a passenger at Rhode Islands T.F. Green Airport. The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that a man traveling to Detroit with his 4-year-old son on Monday was stopped when a TSA officer noticed the disassembled gun components “artfully [...]

    5/8/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Officials: More Al Qaeda Bombs Unaccounted For

    U.S. and European officials say that even though an al Qaeda bomber was stopped before he could board a plane for the U.S., the threat is far from over — there are believed to be several other would-be bombers with similar non-metallic devices that could get through most airport security screening. Federal officials confirmed today [...]

    5/7/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Former Special Ops Adviser: Al Qaeda Is Coming Back

    Triumphant from the successful pursuit of Osama bin Laden last year, President Obama proclaimed that al Qaeda was “on a path to defeat.” But Seth Jones, a former U.S. Special Operations Command senior adviser, says the evidence he has collected points to the contrary. In Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa’ida Since [...]

    5/5/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Mexico Border – 9 hanged from bridge, 14 heads found in ice chests from decapitations

    Just across the border from the U.S., drug gangs slaughtered 23 people — hanging nine from a bridge and decapitating 14 more, whose heads were found stashed in coolers near the town hall. The four men and five women discovered dangling from the Colosio Bridge in Nuevo Laredo were handcuffed, blindfolded and bore signs of [...]

    5/4/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Al Qaeda Calls for Massive Forest Fires

    The men who launched al Qaedas English-language magazine may have died in a U.S. missile strike last fall, but “Inspire” magazine lives on without them — and continues to promote jihadi attacks on Western targets, offering detailed advice on how to start huge forest fires in America with timed explosives and how to build remote-controlled [...]

    5/2/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • 5 arrested for allegedly trying to blow up Ohio bridge

    Fox News is reporting that five people described as anarchists were arrested Monday in a Cleveland-area park for allegedly trying to blow up a bridge.

    5/1/2012 | 0 comments | View Post