Sunday, January 25, 2015

The Latest from National Terror Alert Response Center


The Latest from National Terror Alert Response Center

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Posted: 24 Jan 2015 01:03 PM PST
Two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled today to escort two airliners enroute to Hartsfeld-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta for a possible bomb threat, NORAD said. The fighters from McEntire Joint National Guard Base in South Carolina were dispatched at 1 p.m. ET and escorted the planes to Hartsfeld, where they both landed safely, NORAD spokesman […]
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F-16s Scrambled to Escort Jets After Bomb Threat
Posted: 24 Jan 2015 10:12 AM PST
he United States has halted some counter-terrorism operations against al Qaeda militants in Yemen following a takeover of the country by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, U.S. officials said on Friday. The collapse of the U.S.-backed government of Yemen on Thursday has left America’s counter-terrorism campaign “paralyzed,” two U.S. security officials said, dealing a major setback to […]
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U.S. Suspends Some Counterterrorism Efforts Against Al Qaeda In Yemen: Officials
Posted: 24 Jan 2015 09:35 AM PST
2014 was a big year for people forgetting about guns in their luggage. In fact, according to information on contraband that the TSA just released in its year in review, the number of firearms confiscated by the TSA hit a record high of 2,212 — a 22% increase from 2013 to 2014. Unloaded guns are […]
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A knife in an enchilada was the oddest thing the TSA seized in 2014
Posted: 24 Jan 2015 09:27 AM PST
A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who tried to go to Syria to help Islamic State militants was sentenced to four years in prison Friday, even as she tearfully told a judge that she never wanted to hurt anyone and has disavowed jihad. Shannon Conley told the judge she was misled while pursuing Islam and learned […]
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Denver woman who tried to help terrorists receives 4 years
Posted: 24 Jan 2015 09:17 AM PST
In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, France terror raids were carried out in Belgium and Greece to identify, locate and hunt down so-called “sleepers cells.” Journalists and politicians have finally raised the issue of the threats potentially posed by sleeper agents in the United States, going back to the future — the […]
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Sleeper Cells: The Immigration Component of the Threat
Posted: 24 Jan 2015 09:05 AM PST
Spanish National Police arrested four suspected jihadis Saturday in the country’s North African enclave of Ceuta who allegedly had formed a terror cell and were ready to carry out an attack, the Interior Ministry said. Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said investigators, working with their Moroccan counterparts, were struck by the similarities between the suspected […]
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Spanish police arrest 4 suspected members of a jihadi cell

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