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• FBI Launches Active Shooter Webpage

  Recent active shooting incidents have underscored the need for a coordinated and consistent law enforcement response to these incidents. And two recent actions—the passage of the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act and an administration initiative targeting violent crime—have enhanced

  6/11/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• North Carolina man pleads to buying gun for terrorist jihad

  A North Carolina man who the FBI says spoke of killing U.S. Army soldiers as part of a personal jihad has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.

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• Flight from Los Angeles to Texas diverted to Phoenix after phone bomb threat

  The FBI says they found no threats aboard a Southwest Airlines flight that was diverted to Phoenix Monday after a telephone bomb threat. The plane was traveling from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas when authorities in Los Angeles requested authorities

  6/11/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Saudi with pressure cooker in baggage seeks bond

  A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond Monday. Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at the

  5/22/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

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• UK: Soldier Dead After Terror Attack

  A man reported to be a serving soldier is dead and two people have been shot in Woolwich, south east London, after what Sky sources understand is being treated as a terrorist attack. Downing Street has called a meeting of

  5/22/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Russia Claims to Have Foiled Possible Terror Act – ABC News

  Russia’s counterterrorism agency said Monday that its special forces killed two militants and detained a third believed to have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow. A spokesman for the National Anti-Terrorist Committee, known as NAK, said on state television

  5/22/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

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• Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on Dams

  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

  5/2/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Threat of Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Is Real for Florida International University Professor

  The notion of a weapon exploding and crippling everything electronic for miles around doesn’t just live in old black and white military film for Faisel Kaleem. For the Florida International University engineering professor, the threat is real. “Somebody comes over

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• DHS Launches New Active Shooter Preparedness Webpage

    DHS has launched a new webpage dedicated to Active Shooter Preparedness.

  1/20/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Department Of Homeland Security Wants You To Disable Your Java

    We’ve been concerned about the security of Java for a while now. There was that vulnerability that affected like a billion computers, and Apple went so far as to remove Java plugins from all OSX browsers.  Now even the

  1/12/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

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• 5 Dead, Suspect In Custody In Classroom Shooting At Oikos University In California

  A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California Monday, killing at least five people, law enforcement officials said. Police say they have a suspect in custody. The shooting erupted at midmorning at Oikos University in Oakland and left

  4/2/2012 | 0 comments | View Post

• Book Review – Full Black by Brad Thor

  Scot Harvath is back! As I tore Brad Thor’s latest book Full Black from the hands of my husband okay, he was gracious enough to let me read it first, it was all I could do to not call in

  7/24/2011 | 0 comments | View Post

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• Watertown: Marathon Bombing Investigators Ask What Attracted Terror Suspects to Boston Suburb – ABC News

  Among the many unanswered questions about the two Tsarnaev brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombing is why, days after the attack, they were heading to the suburb of Watertown and its manicured lawns and tulips when police picked up their trail and began a chase. Investigators want to know what drew the accused bombers [...]

  5/22/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Man fatally shot by FBI agent knew Boston bombing suspect, friend says

  A man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent in Florida knew one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, a friend of the victim said Wednesday. FBI Agent Dave Couvertier said in a statement that an unidentified agent encountered Ibragim Todashev, of Orlando, while conducting official duties.”The suspect is deceased,” the statement [...]

  5/22/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Cannes Panic: Gunshots Heard; Man With Suspicious Device Apprehended

  Chaos erupted on the Croisette on Friday when a noise that sounded like gunshots broke out during a crowded evening on Cannes main thoroughfare. While security on the scene first told The Hollywood Reporter that fireworks had been set off, witnesses later said it was indeed a man with a gun. Read More

  5/17/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Terror plot thwarted, Montevideo residents are safe

  The Bloomington Bomb Squad and the FBI arrived in Montevideo just before noon today. With assistance from the Montevideo Police Department and the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office, they blocked off Northdale Park and surrounded a trailer inside. Read More

  5/15/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• 7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State – Boston

  Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir. State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates. Read More

  5/15/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Saudi man arrested in Detroit after statement on pressure cooker

  A Saudi Arabian man was arrested in Detroit and charged with making a false statement about why he brought a pressure cooker with him on a flight from Amsterdam, according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday. The man arrived at the Detroit airport on Saturday and was questioned about why he had brought a [...]

  5/13/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• F-16s to intercept mock attackers over Phoenix

  Arizona Air National Guard F-16 fighters will be flying over downtown Phoenix Thursday as they practice intercepting hostile aircraft intent on a terrorist attack. The F-16s from the Tucson-based 162nd Fighter Wing plan to run a series of interceptions from different approaches between 11:30 and 1 p.m.Capt. Jason Gutierrez of the Air Guard says the [...]

  5/9/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Domestic Terror Attack Thwarted in Minnesota – FBI

  Authorities thwarted what could have been a deadly domestic terror attack last week when they raided the home of a militia-linked Minnesota man, law enforcement sources told ABC News today. Buford “Bucky” Rogers, 24, was arrested Friday after an army of federal, state and local officials raided his home and discovered a cache of weapons [...]

  5/6/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• FBI Adds New Most Wanted Terrorist -Joanne Chesimard

  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 [...]

  5/2/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Feds likely turning up heat on American pal of Boston bombing suspect, experts say

  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, [...]

  5/2/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Woman Arrested at SJ Starbucks for Potential Orange Juice Poisoning

  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 [...]

  5/2/2013 | 0 comments | View Post

• Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus

  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 [...]

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