Pipe Bomb and Unidentified Chemicals Found In Car During Traffic Stop – Livermore

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A routine traffic stop Saturday led police to the discovery of several homemade explosives and bomb-making materials in Pittsburg.

The driver, Paul Michalek, 45, of Pittsburg was arrested on suspicion of possessing an explosive device. He has since made bail, according to the Livermore Police Department.

Traffic officers stopped Michalek’s car at about 5:10 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of North L and Park streets. Michalek had a suspended driver’s license, police said. Read more

Passenger At Tampa Airport “TIA” Found With Hidden Box Cutter In Book

A Clearwater man trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight was arrested over the weekend after airport police found a box-cutter knife hidden inside a hollowed out book, according to airport officials. Read more

Mock Dirty Bomb Attack Tests Canada’s Terror Response

A mock dirty bomb explosion here Monday launched a week-long exercise to pit authorities and emergency responders against terrorists attacking Canada’s west coast.

“We all hope Canada will never have to face a terrorist attack,” said Ted Sykes of Ottawa’s defence department, who also is director of Exercise Initial Thunder, Canada’s largest ever such drill. Read more

Fidel Castro Resigns

Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency in a letter published by official Communist Party paper, Granma.

“I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the Council of state and commander in chief,” he wrote in the letter.

Mr Castro handed over power temporarily to his brother, Raul, in July 2006 when he underwent intestinal surgery.

The 81-year-old has ruled Cuba since leading a communist revolution in 1959.

In December, Mr Castro indicated that he could possibly step down in favour of a younger generation.

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Update: At Least Four Injured In Explosion At West Texas Oil Refinery

Authorities are now saying that at least four people have been injured in today’s refinery explosion in Big Spring, Texas (about halfway between Dallas and El Paso).

The explosion also caused the evacuation of two elementary schools before classes were cancelled for all nine Big Spring school campuses. Classes were also cancelled at Howard College. Read more

Undersea Cables May Have Been Cut By Saboteurs

Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday.

“We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago,” the UN agency’s head of development, Sami al-Murshed, said. Read more

Amtrak To Increase Security – Guard Against Possible Terrorism

Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers’ carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.

The initiative, to be announced by the railroad on Tuesday, is a significant shift for Amtrak and aimed to confront the public perception that the passenger rail system is an easy target for terrorism, officials said Monday. Read more

LAX – Los Angeles Airport Terminal Evcauated After Suspicious Comment

Authorities say a “suspicious comment” from an airline passenger forced the evacuation of a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport for two hours.

Airport spokesman Albert Rodriguez says a man on a Southwest Airlines flight from El Paso, Texas made the comment Sunday afternoon at about 2 p.m.

Rodriguez says a police bomb squad found no weapons or explosives when they searched the man and his luggage as he got off the plane.

Authorities say the man is now in the custody of the FBI, which is continuing the investigation.

More than 1,800 passengers had flights delayed. Rodriguez says operations returned to normal at about 4 p.m.

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Newly Formed Terrorist Group Busted In Pakistan – Had Plans To Target Charity Groups

Ten members of the newly formed Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi were arrested Friday with weapons, explosives, chemicals and poison, Jihadi literature, and hit lists of high-profile people, politicians, international and national NGOs and police officials. The organization is anti-Semitic.

The group apparently wanted to target charity groups for what they say are links to the Free Masons and other groups. Read more

University Of Miami Alerts Students To Suspicious Man

The University of Miami issued an alert to students and faculty about a suspicious man who has been walking around campus.

The alert said: “A suspicious Caucasian male (5 feet, 10 inches, to 6 feet, 2 inches) has been coming into the offices on the third floor of the Wolfson Building and has been spotted in other buildings around campus.”

The alert said that the man is not a student and will not identify himself when asked.”He carries a large dark green bag with leather straps on his shoulder. He has a very thick accent that reportedly sounds Russian. When asked if he can be helped, he typically responds that he is looking to buy used books, but quickly leaves. He also is always on a cell phone, speaking in another language,” according to the alert.

College campuses across the country are on alert after a gunman killed five students, wounded at least 15 others, then killed himself at Northern Illinois University.

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FBI Warns of Possible Hezbollah Revenge In U.S.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin Friday to state and local law enforcement authorities advising them to watch for potential retaliatory strikes by Hezbollah, one day after the Lebanese militia group vowed to avenge the death of a top commander by attacking Israeli and Jewish targets around the world. Read more

Mexico City – Bomb Explodes Near Police Headquarters Killing 1

An explosion has rocked the centre of Mexico City, killing at least one man and injuring two other people.

The device was set off near the city’s police headquarters, Mexico City police chief Joel Ortega said. No group has so far said it carried out the attack.

Investigators believe the bomb was activated remotely by a mobile phone.

The dead man’s hand was blown off, the police chief said. It is unclear whether he was responsible for the bomb or if he simply picked up the package. Read more

Suspicious Package Closes Progreso Bridge At Mexico US Border Crossing

The Progreso International Bridge linking Mexico and Texas is shut down while authorities investigate a suspicious package found at the border crossing.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Felix Garza said a caller to the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office reported a bomb on the bridge about 7 p.m. Thursday.

Garza said the crossing was shut down and wasn’t sure when the bridge would reopen

He said officers didn’t find anything on the U.S. side of the bridge. But Mexican authorities said they found a suspicious package.

Garza told The Monitor in McAllen that the package didn’t look like it had anything to do with bombs, but they were taking a look at it.

Vancouver Canada – Explosion Rips Through String of Businesses Incluidng Starbucks

The explosion that decimated a string of businesses on West Broadway early yesterday morning was the same type of blast sometimes used to blow up fortified bunkers and tanks, to clear minefields, and which brought down TWA flight 800 in 1996.

“The explosion was an air-fuel explosion,” said Constable Tim Fanning, spokesman for the Vancouver police. Police say the blast inside a Taco Del Mar restaurant at 686 West Broadway at 2:30 a.m. was arson. No one was injured. Read more

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