Sentence struck down in millennium bomb plot
LOS ANGELES — A 22-year sentence was unreasonably lenient for al-Qaida-trained terrorist Ahmed Ressam, who drove a trunkload of powerful explosives into the United States from Canada with the intent of bombing Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the millennium, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
The 7-4 ruling by the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to a…
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Top Lawmakers Mull Syrian Options
An estimated 7,500 Syrians have been killed by President Bashar Assad’s military during the past year, a fact that has led Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to call for U.S.-led air strikes to stop the slaughter of unarmed civilians being carried out by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying: “Providing military assistance to the Free Syrian Army and other opposition groups is necessary, but at…
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Debbie’s Date with Radicalism
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Former Marylander Convicted Of Terrorism
Majid Khan, 32, pleaded guilty to helping al-Qaida plot attacks all over the world, including a 2003 car…
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Commentary: How would we respond to another terrorist attack?
How would America respond to another terrorist attack on its soil?
We never thought very much about that before 9/11, back when the subject of terrorism only came up in discussions about other countries.
The topic is still one we…
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Baby-Faced Bombers
http://www.homelandsecuritynet.com/HSN/2012/02/baby-faced-bombers/
Afghan police recently arrested four suspected insurgents in the process of smuggling 41 children to Pakistan from eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province.
According an Interior Ministry spokesperson, the insurgents were planning on using the children said to be between 6 and 11 years of age, as suicide bombers, saying: "We…
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Bird Flu Research Details To Be Released
Despite fear that terrorists could the information to start epidemics, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced they would release the “full details” of experiments done last year by research teams, at Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the virus known as H5N1, that made the deadly bird flu virus more contagious.
Scientists around the world have been divided on the subject, and there has been a moratorium…
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High tech police gadgets to fight crime
Would you have a problem with a police van being parked in your neighborhood? This same armored vehicle has large red letters painted on the side that state, “Warning: You are under video surveillance.” The front bumper taunts, “Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?” This is the “The Peacemaker,” the Fort Lauderdale Police Department’s new surveillance weapon to fight crime.
The first Peacemaker served its previous life as a Brinks’ armored truck which was discontinued and then…
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Case Study: FSB Poisons High-Value Target?
Glenn McGovern
On November 1, 2006, Former FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) Colonel Alexander Litvinenko left his residence around 11:00 A.M. He caught the bus to the East Finchley tube station where he then took the train for a twenty-minute ride into London.
On his agenda was a meeting with former KGB colleague Andrei Lugovoi, at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square. The purpose of…
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Yep! Those Homeland Security Advosry System Alerts are going away after nine years. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano will unveilthe new public warning system tomorrow, January 27, 2011. The old color-coded system will be phased out with the changes implemented by the end of April.
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The Terrorist Planning Cycle: Indicators and Clues for Law Enforcement
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