Article Archive for August 2008
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 …
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.
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 …
A loud bang was heard along the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver this evening after police found and detonated a suspicious package near Union Station.
A spokesman for the Joint Information Center said there were …
Summer brings with it rumors of attacks on the U.S. homeland. Currently, we are hearing unconfirmed word of plans in place for jihadists to be dispatched from Pakistan to conduct coordinated suicide attacks against soft …
A new Cold War between Russia and the West grew steadily closer yesterday after the Kremlin gave a warning about “direct confrontation” between American and Russian warships in the Black Sea.
Dmitri Peskov, a spokesman for …
A long-delayed emergency siren system has been put into service for New York residents within 10 miles of the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
A spokesman for the plant’s owner, Entergy Nuclear, says the new 172-siren …
Western anti-terrorism officials are increasingly concerned that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite Muslim militia that Washington has labeled a terrorist group, is using Venezuela as a base for operations.
Linked to deadly attacks on Jewish targets in …
A plane due to leave Rotterdam for Bodrum in Turkey was evacuated late on Tuesday after emergency services received a telephone threat saying it would be hijacked, Dutch authorities said.
Passengers on the plane, operated by …
According to an airport spokesperson, a man set to board the plane was stopped at a security checkpoint Tuesday morning because he was carrying an MP3 player that was wrapped in tape and batteries and …
