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Does Osama bin Laden still matter?  Maybe not as the direct threat he once was, but his influence continues to draw many to jihad. Newsweek takes a look. In late January, Osama bin Laden released an audiotape praising the Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. “The message delivered [...]

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Why Osama Bin Laden Still Matters

The Taliban yesterday threatened to launch terror attacks in the US and Europe “very soon” according to news reports. The warning by Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior leader and mentor of suicide bombers, came after a renewal of militant violence in the region this week. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security [...]

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Taliban Threatens to Launch terror Attack in US and Europe

Six U.S. soldiers and a Turk were quarantined in a Turkish hospital after a suspicious powder was found in a parcel at Istanbul’s main airport according to Fox news in new York. Laboratory experts are underway analyze the substance on suspicion that it might be anthrax. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland [...]

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US Soldiers Quarantined In Turkey After Anthrax Scare

American officers are manning a new post of duty at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport in an effort to help identify potential terrorists or other high-risk passengers heading to the United States. Officers from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Immigration Advisory Program began Thursday. In addition to the Paris airport,  U.S. officers are working [...]

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US Officers Posted At Paris Airport In Counter Terrorism Role

Local law enforcement officials in Texas were put on alert after a Mexican military helicopter was spotted near Hidalgo County. Federal officials confirmed two Mexican military helicopter incursions took place but are asking the public not to be alarmed. Rio Grande Valley residents have reported at least four Mexican helicopter incursions since March in communities [...]

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Report of 2 Mexican Helicopter Incursions In Texas

Miami International Airport has evacuated and closed four of its six concourses as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item in a US Customs area near international arrivals. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland [...]

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Four Miami International Airport Concourses Evacuated

Earlier this week, we posted on a news report about an incident aboard a United Airlines flight to Tampa  that  resulted in nine foreign born passengers being removed from the airplane. Several passengers reportedly left shaken up after witnessing the incident. Here’s the rest of the story… A delegation of Pakistani military officers has abandoned a [...]

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Pakistan Military Abandons US Trips After Being Mistaken for Terrorists

United States prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban,  Hakimullah Mehsud, in the attack that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December. Mehsud, believed to be in the tribal areas of Pakistan and head of the group known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, was charged with conspiracy to kill Americans [...]

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Taliban Leader Hakimullah Mehsud Charged In CIA Killings

Fox News is reporting police in Maryland are responding to a hostage situation after reports that a man with a handgun entered the Discovery Channel headquarters building in Silver Spring and fired at least one shot. An official with the Montgomery County Police Department confirmed to Fox News that a man with an explosive device [...]

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Discovery Channel Building – Man With Explosive Takes Hostage

Questions linger, however American law enforcement officials say their initial concerns about a possible terror “dry run” involving two men on a United Airlines flight to Amsterdam have eased, in part because they have learned the men’s abrupt change in flights resulted from them missing their original flight. Read More This story comes to us [...]

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Questions Linger Over Two Men Arrested on United Flight

From the New York Times – To prevent attacks like the Lockerbie bombing, caused by a suitcase containing a bomb loaded onto a plane without the passenger who checked it also on being on board, airlines are supposed to remove the bags of any passengers who check luggage onto flights they do not board.In an [...]

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International Passenger Jets Still Carry Unscreened Cargo

WTSP news reports an incident aboard a United Airlines flight to Tampa resulted in nine foreign born passengers being removed from the airplane and several passengers left shaken up after witnessing the incident. According to the article, several thought the incident was serious enough that they asked to be booked on another flight. One passenger [...]

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Passengers React After Men Removed from Tampa Flight

Mexican authorities have captured a legendary Texan accused of a bloody climb to the top echelon of one of the hemisphere’s most powerful drug cartels. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as “La Barbie” faces numerous charges in Mexico, but also is wanted in the United States, where he has been indicted for smuggling thousands of pounds [...]

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Mexican Authorities Nab U.S. Born Drug Lord – La Barbie

ABC News is reporting two men have been removed from a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands and charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack. According to the report, U.S. officials said the men were traveling with what  is being termed as “mock bombs” in their luggage, apparently in a dry [...]

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Two Suspects on United Airlines Flight Arrested on Terror Charges

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating a fire early Saturday morning at the construction site of a new Islamic Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee Fire officials have said that the incident is not yet being ruled arson, although there are several reports that is suspected. Investigators are said to be “in the [...]

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Arson Suspected in Islamic Center Fire – Tennessee

Eighteen nations have wrapped up nearly two weeks of military exercises in a drill designed to defend the Panama Canal from mock terrorist attacks and other threats. In Panamax 2010 the host country sought UN Security Council authorization for a US-led international military expedition to counter an attack on the canal by an international terrorist [...]

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Mock Terror Exercise in Panama Canal Completed

An al-Qaeda-linked terror plot in Canada, in which the suspects were preparing to carry out the first terror attack in the country, has now been traced back to Pakistan, Iran and Dubai. The suspects were apparently only “months” away from carrying out the first terrorist attack on Canadian soil, according to the RCMP. Read More [...]

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Al-Qaeda Terror Plot in Canada Traced Back to Pakistan & Iran

British submariners have reported that they are experiencing the highest number of “contacts” with Russian submarines since 1987. Recently, a specially upgraded Russian Akula class submarine has reportedly been caught trying to record the acoustic signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles, according to senior Navy officers in a report  at [...]

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Are Russian Subs Stalking UK Subs Carrying Trident Missiles

The body of an official investigating the massacre of 72 migrants killed on a ranch in northeastern Mexico  was found today, dumped along a nearby road near another unidentified victim, according to local news reports. Earlier in the day, two cars exploded outside the studios of the  TV network Televisa  in Ciudad Victoria. There were [...]

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Mexican Massacre Investigator Found Dead – Violence Escalates

Khuram Sher, a one time hopeful contestant who auditioned for Canadian Idol was arrested by RCMP  investigating a possible al Qaeda terror cell allegedly plotting to attack targets in Canada. This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. [...]

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Third Terror Suspect Was Canadian Idol Contestant – Video