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 [...]
Ever since the Sept. 11 attacks, airports have probably been the most heavily guarded sites when it comes to preventing terrorist attacks.And yet the most recent terrorism plot in Yemen involved an attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner with a bomber wearing a difficult-to-detect explosive bomb in his underwear, according to U.S. officials. Why [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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,
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 public.U.S. officials say the plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Editors note: This story is based on internal al Qaeda documents, details of which were obtained by CNN.
With the anniversary of Osama bin Ladens death looming, American and European authorities told ABC News today that they fear al Qaeda may soon try to explode U.S.-bound aircraft with explosives hidden inside the bodies of terrorists. As a result, security at several airports in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East [...]
Documents found in the house where Osama bin Laden was killed a year ago show a close working relationship between top al-Qaida leaders and Mullah Omar, the overall commander of the Taliban, including frequent discussions of joint operations against Nato forces in Afghanistan, the Afghan government and targets in Pakistan. The communications show a three-way [...]
Ayman Al Zawahiri, who took over the leadership of al Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden last year, remains in the Af-Pak region, a top US counter-terrorism official said on Sunday. ”We believe he Zawahiri is in that region of the world, as well as other al Qaeda leaders that continue to borough into [...]
