Category Archives: Homeland Security

Failed Attack Signals New Threat?

By doris | Published: December 27, 2009

Full Story at CBS News.com (CBS/AP) U.S. counterterrorism officials are scrambling to assess a potential new threat from an explosive mixture that evaded detection aboard a Detroit-bound airliner but failed to bring down the plane. The suspect, identified by multiple law enforcement officials as a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, claimed to have ties [...]

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Passenger: Terror suspect seemed ‘stunned’

By doris | Published: December 26, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Syed Jafry was preparing for his plane to land in Detroit, Michigan, after a long flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, when he heard a noise that startled him. “There was a little bit of light, a little bit of — kind of flamish light and there was fire,” Jafry told [...]

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U.S.-born militant: Al-Qaida not behind killings

By doris | Published: December 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAIRO – Al-Qaida issued a new English-language video Saturday denying it was behind a series of bombings in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians, calling such attacks un-Islamic. U.S.-born al-Qaida operative Adam Gadahn, who commonly delivers the organization’s English messages, said the extremist network was being framed for the bloodshed [...]

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Report: Countries prepping for cyberwar

By doris | Published: November 19, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNET) — Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a “Cyber Cold War,” amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be released on Tuesday by McAfee. In particular, countries gearing up for cyberoffensives are the U.S., [...]

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Vietnam vet: ‘I’m not ashamed to say I shed some tears’

By doris | Published: November 11, 2009

Full Story at The-Daily-Record.com RITTMAN DISTRICT — Asking all 18- and 19-year-olds to stand, Gary Maibach urged Rittman students to look at the teenagers. Those are the ones asked to serve their country in the military, Maibach said, not gray-haired grandfathers. Maibach, who served as a medic in the Army during the Vietnam War, encouraged [...]

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Security center opens to battle computer attacks

By doris | Published: October 31, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – The United States is well behind the curve in the fight against computer criminals, Sen. Joe Lieberman said Friday, as Homeland Security officials opened a $9 million operations center to better coordinate the government’s response to cyberattacks. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said [...]

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