90 casualties reported in Egypt resort blasts
April 24, 2006
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More than 90 people are reported killed or injured in at least three explosions Monday in the Red Sea resort town of Dahab, an Egyptian Interior Ministry official told CNN.
The explosions, described as a terrorist attack by the official, took place in a market and a hotel.
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Alleged Bin Laden Tape: U.S. at War With Islam
April 23, 2006
Usama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force.
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Wild Melee On Sacramento Flight; Flighter Jets Scrambled
April 22, 2006
With three Secret Service agents aboard and the pilots fully in control of a United Airlines jetliner being diverted to Denver, two F-16 fighter jets scrambled to intercept the flight merely escorted the plane into Denver International Airport.
But the apparatus that could ultimately have lead to the plane with 138 passengers and six crew members being shot down — put in place after 911 — was fully operational Friday, with agencies that included the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Homeland Security on an open phone line monitoring the flight.
Had the plane “been judged as a threat by the highest levels of our government, they could make the decision to have the plane shot down,” said Lt. Commander Sean Kelly, a spokesman for NORAD, a U.S.-Canadian military command based outside Colorado Springs that monitors missiles, aircraft and space objects and warns of threats.
President Bush would ultimately make the decision.
Authorities said Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega — whose age and hometown were not immediately released — tried to open an door on the Airbus A-320 en route from Chicago to Sacramento, Calif., and then claimed to have a bomb forcing the emergency landing in Denver.
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Tech student charged with supporting terror group
April 21, 2006
A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student taken into federal custody last month has been charged with giving “material support” to a terrorist organization, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
The student, Syed Haris Ahmed, a mechanical engineering major who had become increasingly religious in his Islamic faith, was arrested March 23 by the FBI.
Syed Ahmed, 21, was charged with helping a terrorist group. The FBI believes he attended a training camp in Pakistan last year, sources say. He was in religious school there, his family says.
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Extremists may target private US planes
April 21, 2006
The Transportation Security Administration has warned aircraft owners and airport managers that Muslim extremists may be targeting private American jets and urged them to boost security.
“On April 13, 2006, a message posted in Arabic on an Internet forum explained how to identify private American jets and urged Muslims to destroy all such aircraft,” the TSA said in an advisory issued on Thursday and obtained by Reuters on Friday.
The TSA quoted the Arabic message as saying: “We call upon all Muslims to follow and identify private civilian American aircrafts in all airports of the world.”
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5 Kansas students face charges in alleged school shooting plot on Columbine anniversary
April 21, 2006
Five teenage boys fully intended to go on a shooting spree at their high school but were stopped after one of them discussed the plot on a Web site, law enforcement and school officials said.
The boys, ranging in age from 16 to 18, were arrested Thursday, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, just hours before they planned to shoot fellow students and school employees, authorities said.
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$500K Seized; Strange Situation Reported At Nuclear Plant
April 19, 2006
Two workers looking for tools set off a security situation at a Beaver County nuclear power plant that drew a response from police and federal investigators, WTAE Channel 4’s Paul Van Osdol reported.
State police said the men drove up to the Beaver Valley Power Station in a tractor-trailer on Tuesday night to pick up two large containers of tools for a contractor for whom they worked.
Security guards stopped the men for a routine inspection, but they drove away, police said.
The guards became suspicious and called police, who pulled the truck over about a mile from the plant.
A state trooper got a warrant to search the vehicle and found a duffel bag, which he said contained $504,230 in mostly small bills.
The driver denied knowing anything about the money or who gave it to him, so the trooper seized it, police said.
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Suspicious Package Shuts Down Airport Security
April 19, 2006
A security screener discovered what’s being called a ’suspicious package’ at a security checkpoint setting off a major security alert at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Darrin Kayser of the TSA says a screener noticed something suspicious in a suitcase going through one of the X-ray screening machines.
The main security screening area has been evacuated. All security gates have been shut down.
Airport officials say the airport remains open.
Tad Hutcheson, a spokesman for AirTran Airways, says all AirTran flights heading to Atlanta are being diverted to other airports.
Delta Air Lines has also stopped landing flights at Hartsfield-Jackson.
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Senate Office Building Sealed After Nerve Agent Alarm
April 17, 2006
Police closed off entries and exits at the Senate’s Dirksen Office Building on Monday and announced that people should avoid the building’s basement.
Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said an alarm went off about 4:50 p.m. indicating a suspicious substance near a basement post office facility.
The detector signaled the possible presence of a nerve agent, but initial field tests were negative, a law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity because authorities were still investigating.
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Terror Charges for Boys Accused in Plot
April 6, 2006
Four teenagers accused of plotting to kill about 25 people in a lunch- period massacre at a high school were charged Thursday under a terrorism law created after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The boys, ages 14 to 16, were arrested Wednesday after police heard about the alleged plot from administrators at the school, where three of the teens are students. Their names were not released because of their ages.
Authorities said the teens planned to attack students, teachers and others at Winslow Township High.
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