U.S. Presses The Search For Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda high value targets are almost certainly feeling the squeeze of an expanded effort by US forces to hunt them down. Excellent write up in the National Post on the ’surge’ in Pakistan, to capture bin Laden.

The hunt for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda’s top terrorists has gone into overdrive in Pakistan’s wild and desolate northwest frontier.

On the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, U.S. Special Forces, working in “fusion cells” that blend human and signals intelligence with rapid reaction special forces and squadrons of heavily armed remote-controlled Predator drones, Read more

Predator Drone ‘UAV’ On Long Island Sparks Terror Investigation

Predator Drone ‘UAV’ On Long Island Sparks Terror Investigation – Investigators said the drone was being designed to carry 600 pounds of explosives. Jonathan Dienst breaks the story for WNBC.com

A predator drone being built by an engineer on Long Island sparked a large counter-terrorism investigation across the New York area, officials tell WNBC.com. Police said they had stumbled upon overnight testing of the drone at a little-used airstrip in Calverton, Long Island. Read more