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6 Deemed National Security Threat Retain Aviation Licenses Posted: 26 Jun 2009 08:09 PM PDT At least six men suspected or convicted of crimes that threaten national security retained their federal aviation licenses, despite antiterrorism laws written after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that required license revocation. Among them was a Libyan sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Scottish court for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie. In response to questions from The New York Times, the Transportation Security Administration, which is supposed to root out such individuals, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration suspended the licenses on Thursday. The two agencies appeared to be unaware that the men were among the nearly one million people licensed as pilots, mechanics and flight dispatchers. They were identified by a tiny family-owned company in Mineola, N.Y., demonstrating software it developed to scrub lists of bank customers for terrorism links. Read Full Article NY Times 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.

Twin Brothers Indicted in Mail Bombing of Arizona Diversity Office Posted: 26 Jun 2009 05:56 PM PDT Twin brothers have been indicted in a 2004 mail bombing that injured the diversity director of the Arizona city of Scottsville. Dennis and Daniel Mahon are charged with conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosive, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday and filed June 16 in federal court. The indictment says the brothers, who live in Illinois, intended to “promote racial discord” on behalf of the White Aryan Resistance. The package detonated in Don Logan’s hands on Feb. 26, 2004, in the city’s Human Resources Complex. Logan oversaw diversity issues for city employees and citizens, including racial and sex discrimination. The blast injured Logan’s hand and arm. A secretary also was injured, and both spent about a week in the hospital. Authorities arrested the brothers in their Davis Junction, Illinois, home and say they had assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and white supremacist material. Source 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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