Iran Warns Any Attack Would Start World War

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Iran Warns Any Attack Would Start World War

A senior Iranian military commander has warned that any US or Israeli attack on the Islamic republic would start a new world war, the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.

“Any aggression against Iran will start a world war,” deputy chief of staff for defence publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the agency. Read more

Molotov Cocktail Thrown In Local WalMart – Corpus Christi

Police have continued searching for a man that threw a molotov cocktail inside a Super WalMart in the Westside Saturday afternoon.

The bomb squad was called in to investigate a device with explosive liquids at the Super WalMart off of South Padre Island Drive and Greenwood Drive. Read more

Australia Warns Of High Risk of Terror Attacks On US flights

Australia on Sunday warned of a “high risk” of terror attacks on domestic and international flights in and to the United States, urging citizens to be vigilant while in the country.

“We advise you to exercise caution and monitor developments that might affect your safety in the United States because of the risk of terrorism,” the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a travel advisory. Read more

RNC Welcoming Committee Anarchists Busted – Buckets of Urine, Slingshots, Anti-bus Weapons Seized

Ramsey County sheriff’s deputies found weapons and devices to disable buses among other items in searches in the Twin Cities last night and today. Authorities said the items came from “key members of the RNC Welcoming Committee,” a self-described anarchist group.

Five people have been arrested and four properties have been searched, according to the sheriff’s office. Read more

Hospitals Locked Down, 2 Dead In East St. Louis Hazmat Incident – Chemical Exposure

Eight to ten people are hospitalized around the St. Louis area after being exposed to some type of hazardous chemical or material. At least two people are very critical condition.

St. Anthony’s Hospital in South County and DePaul Hospital in West County both shut down their emergency rooms when victims showed up with blue skin. Read more

Threat of Bio-Terror Attacks Heightened

A combination of advances in biotechnology and easy access to inputs has heightened the threat of bio-attacks, David Heyman, an international expert on bioterrorism, said here on Thursday. Read more

Tracking Terror and Terrorists Online

For years, al-Qaida and other terror groups have set up shop in the Internet. Those who track them have covertly followed. The companies SITE and IntelCenter have penetrated even deeper into the terror Web than most intelligence agencies.

When al-Qaida was founded, Josh Devon was nine years old. Ben Venzke was 15. The year was 1988, and Devon and Venzke were as uninterested in the terrorist network as its leader, Osama bin Laden, was in the two young Americans. Read more

Morocco Smashes Al Qaeda Terror Network

The Moroccan authorities say they have broken up a militant cell operating in several towns in the kingdom.

The group allegedly had links with al- Qaeda and police described the 15 people arrested as “dangerous”. Read more

Decapitated – 12 Headless Bodies Found in Mexico – Yucatan

In a sign of the spreading violence in Mexico, 12 decapitated bodies were found late Thursday near the colonial city of Merida on the Yucatan peninsula, officials said.

The bodies bore signs of torture and some were unclothed. Yucatan state officials said a 12th decapitated body was found later about 120 miles south of Merida, a city that is often used as a tourist gateway to the famed Maya ruins at Chichen Itza. Read more

U.S. Readies To Detect Nuclear Material At Sea

Dozens of law enforcement and emergency boats in one of the nation’s largest and most congested waterways will be outfitted this fall with radiation detectors aimed at preventing terrorists from smuggling deadly weapons into the country.

The first-of-its kind test in Washington’s Puget Sound will try to find out whether radioactive or nuclear bomb-making components could be picked up if they’re hidden on board a small boat cruising into a busy harbor.

“We’ll all suffer the consequences if we’re not able to detect something,” says Coast Guard Capt. Chip Strangfeld, who is working on the project with the Homeland Security Department’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO).

DNDO chief Vayl Oxford says he puts the nation’s coasts “at the top of the list” of security challenges. “It’s one of the most difficult threats we have,” he says.

Puget Sound was chosen for the tests because it is so big and so busy, both with small recreational boats and cargo ships.

The area is home to two commercial ports and the nation’s largest ferry system. It’s the nation’s top region for non-commercial pleasure boats from overseas, and 750,000 cruise ship passengers and 15 billion gallons of oil move through its waters each year, according to Seattle Fire Department Assistant Chief A.D. Vickery.

“There’s a huge amount of movement of people, ships and cargo,” he says. “We’ve got some big, big challenges here, and the federal government has recognized there are some porous areas we need to address.”

The detector testing comes in response to security concerns about the detonation of a weapon of mass destruction on U.S. soil.

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Threatening Emails Trigger UC Berkeley Raid At Long Haul Infoshop Activist Center

Triggered by concerns over threatening emails, federal agents and UC Berkeley campus police have raided an activist center and internet cafe, seizing 14 computers.

UC Berkeley spokesman Robert Sanders would only confirm that threatening emails had been sent, but would not give out any further details. Read more

Hostage Drill To Be Held At University of Bridgeport

How does a campus prepare for a disaster or an ultimate nightmare?

It’s something that you’re always working on, getting your emergency teams, faculty and staff, and students beefed up and drilled so should a crisis occur, you are ready to respond.

The university, the Bridgeport police, emergency responders from the city and the 14 communities in the county, and the state are holding such a drill on Sept. 26-27. It’s part of Homeland Security and civil preparedness.

The scenario will be a hostage taking at a conference at the Arnold Bernhard Center for the Arts and Humanities. A group of students as well as conference speakers will be taken captive by gunmen.

The University’s Security Department, led by Bill Horvath and April Vournelis, is conducting training for faculty, staff, residence directors, and students in preparation for the drill. At the time of the training exercise, students will be asked to contact their parents and family to let them know it is a drill and they are safe.

Scott Appleby, director of Bridgeport’s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, said universities are not exempt from natural or man-made disasters. He cited the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007, the Northern Illinois University shootings earlier this year, the deadly hostage drama at a school in Besian, Russia, in 2004 or the hostage standoff at Fairfield University in 2002. Elements of those situations, he said, will be incorporated into the exercise at the University of Bridgeport. Deputy Police Chief Gary MacNamara, who was involved in resolving the Fairfield University incident, has been advising Horvath and Vournelis.

The two-day drill — from Friday afternoon on Sept. 26 to noon of the following day — will involve SWAT teams, hostage negotiators and emergency communications and fire units. It will require a shutdown of a part of the campus around the Bernhard Center. Students, neighbors, visitors and the curious will be kept away from the scene, just as if in a real-life situation.

UB President Neil Albert Salonen said that with the events of the past several years, it’s clear universities are not removed from violence and other risks. “This drill gives us and the city and region’s agency a practice so that all of us can be ready, should a crisis occur.”

The university’s Security Department and the services involved with its Emergency and Risk Management Committee, along with the city’s and the state’s Departments of Emergency Management and Homeland Security are involved with the planning of the exercise. It is primarily a City of Bridgeport test that will call on regional resources. But it will offer the university an important training experience.

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4 Arrested in Torture and Throat Slashing Deaths of 5 Men In Birmingham Alabama

There are new developments in the investigation into the death of five men in Birmingham, Alabama earlier this week who were apparently found with their throats slashed after being tortured, electrocuted, stabbed and suffocated. Read more

Yemen Arrests 30 al-Qaeda Suspects Planned Attacks On Saudi Arabia

Yemeni authorities have arrested 30 suspected members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network believed to have been plotting attacks in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, official sources said Thursday.

The 30 men, all Yemenis, were captured in the south-eastern province of Hadhramout, where police forces dismantled an al-Qaeda cell on August 12, a police source was quoted as saying by the 26 September weekly. Read more

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