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Authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges Monday against eight defendants they said recruited young Somali-American men to return to their homeland to fight for an Islamist militant group. The charges said men were recruited in Minneapolis mosques to fight for al-Shabaab, which the United States accuses of being al Qaeda’s proxy in the Horn of Africa nation. In all, [...]

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Eight Charged In U.S. for Somali War Recruiting

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Live H1N1 Briefing for Bloggers and Our Readers Today

British police have charged four men with terrorism offenses following raids last week in Manchester and near London’s Heathrow airport, an officer says. Israr Malik, 21, was charged with intending to commit acts of terrorism, namely violent jihad, between June 2008 and November 17 this year, the officer said. Matthew Newton, 27, Munir Farooqi, 52, and Haris [...]

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Four Face Terror Charges In UK

The threat of a bio-terror attack on the U.S remains high and may be more likely than you think. One could be forgiven a little nostalgia for the 1950s and ’60s, when elementary-school students solemnly crawled under their desks in preparation for the impending mutually assured destruction of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. For the [...]

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Preparing for The Bio-terrror Threat

Is this cause for concern? I’m not sure, perhaps it’s common in severe cases of H1N1 that have progressed into a severe pneumonia. We attempted to contact the Polk County Medical Examiner on Sunday and were told to call back on Monday. Iowa has officially recorded 21 H1N1 deaths, including seven in Polk County alone. But [...]

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Iowa – H1N1 Deaths Understated, Finding Hemorrhagic Lungs

It’s being reported that on Thursday a solider at Fort Benning discovered a suspicious package and a note threatening a massacre similar to the Nov. 5 attack at Fort Hood. The anonymous note and package –  reported by The Army Times as a box of 20 hollow-point bullets — were found Thursday morning outside a motor [...]

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Officials Investigate Threat on Fort Benning

Not a good sign in the fight against Swine Flu. Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that’s resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It’s the first cluster of that many cases seen in the U.S. Health officials said Friday the four cases were reported at Duke [...]

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NC Reports Tamiflu Resistant Cases of Swine Flu

An interesting concept is currently being tested in New York. Gamers used to confronting invading terrorists, nuclear attacks, and natural calamities, in virtual form may get a dose of reality in the middle of their game. Gamers in New York State could soon receive warnings about real emergencies through their favorite video console. My son’s [...]

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New York Tests Xbox-Based Emergency Alert System

According to a new poll, two-thirds of Americans expect an Islamic suicide bomb attack on American soil within six months. Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies said one of the most shocking findings of his recent polling on the subject was that 65 percent are expecting an attack within six months. “Some of the communication between Fort Hood [...]

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Americans Expect Islamic Terror Strike Within 6 Months

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is asking the Department of Homeland Security to cancel it’s plans for a simulated nuclear explosion scheduled to take place in Las Vegas next May. In a letter Wednesday to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Authority President and Chief Executive Officer Rossi Ralenkotter said the premise of an upcoming [...]

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Las Vegas Urges Officials To Cancel Mock Nuclear Blast

I’m not sure how one can ever place a price tag on preventing another 9/11…or worse. The commander of military forces protecting North America has ordered a review of the costly air defenses intended to prevent another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack, an assessment aimed at determining whether the commitment of jet fighters, other aircraft and [...]

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U.S. Reviews Air Defenses to Thwart Terror From Skies

As with the story yesterday from the Ukraine, this is something to keep an eye on. The primary concern over Swine Flu is it’s potential  to mutate into a much more serious disease. Scientists in Norway have identified a mutated form of the swine flu virus that is raising concern because it was found in two [...]

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Swine Flu Mutation Concerns Norwegian Scientists

27 East News reports that the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office has dropped a trespassing charge filed against an East Quogue woman who was arrested in July for taking pictures at the Air National Guard base in Westhampton with two guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in her car. The misdemeanor charge was dropped [...]

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Charge Dropped Against Woman Arrested Near ANG Base

It appears Iran may not be the only nuclear concern in the middle east. WTOP reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency ‘IAEA’ and Syria are walking a tightrope and appear to be headed toward a collision over two nuclear sites where undeclared uranium was recently found. The agency found traces of uranium at the Dair [...]

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Syria Suspected Of Concealing Nuclear Activity