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Khassadar force vehicle escapes IED attack

The sources said the vehicle of the Khassadar Force was heading from Mohmand Agency to Shabqadar when an improvised explosive device planted by the militants near Dando Bridge went off. The vehicle suffered partial damage but no casualty was reported ...

23/02/2012 00:22:43 via The News International

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17-year-old arrested for bomb threats at CHS

The third bomb threat of the school year interrupted classes at Columbus High School today, and a 17-year-old suspect was arrested, Columbus Police Chief Selvain McQueen said Wednesday evening. Police believe the juvenile is responsible for today's ...

22/02/2012 23:54:23 via The Commercial Dispatch

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Suspect in Capitol bomb sting waives court hearing

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) — A man charged with plotting a suicide bombing inside the US Capitol as part of an FBI sting will remain in jail while he awaits trial after he waived his right to a detention hearing Wednesday. Amine El Khalifi, 29, ...

22/02/2012 23:16:00 via The Associated Press

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Iranian terrorist plot throws the spotlight on Israel's BFF in the Caucasus

Today: To outsiders, the choice of Azerbaijan as the locale of an Iranian terrorist mission seems puzzling. This small Shiite Muslim nation in the South Caucasus — caught between Iran and Russia, the region's great powers, while sharing borders with ...

22/02/2012 23:10:30 via National Post

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'Act of Valor': Real SEALs foil terrorist plot

By MARK JENKINS A scene from the film "Act of Valor," starring real, active-duty Navy SEALs. It opens Friday at area theaters. Military reality and video-game fantasy shake hands and come out fighting in "Act of Valor," an action flick that stars ...

22/02/2012 22:53:20 via Monterey County Herald

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Convicted Triangle terrorist indicted in beheading plot

RALEIGH, NC — A Raleigh man convicted in a homegrown terrorism plot faces new charges in connection with an attempt to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses who testified against him. Hysen Sherifi was indicted on nine counts Tuesday, ...

22/02/2012 22:52:09 via WRAL.com

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HP's Hardware Businesses Bomb as Profits, Revenue Fall

By Mark Hachman Hewlett-Packard reported a sharp drop in profits and revenues that missed Wall Street expectations in both categories, hurt by revenue decreases in its printer and PC businesses. HP reported net earnings of $1.5 billion, down 44 percent ...

22/02/2012 22:27:14 via PC Magazine

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Radio bombs, mysterious stickers probed in Bangkok blasts

By the Wire Staff A car is in ruin after a bomb blast last week in Bangkok, Thailand. Several suspects are in custody. Bangkok, Thailand () -- A series of blasts last week in Thailand that set off accusations between Iran and Israel involved ...

22/02/2012 22:26:43 via CNN

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Radio bombs, mysterious stickers probed in Bangkok blasts

By the CNN Wire Staff A car is in ruin after a bomb blast last week in Bangkok, Thailand. Several suspects are in custody. Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- A series of blasts last week in Thailand that set off accusations between Iran and Israel involved ...

22/02/2012 22:16:48 via CNN International

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Oshkosh installs new counter-IED kits

The kits provide better protection against larger improvised explosive devices. The task was performed in less than seven months, Oshkosh said. And the first kit for the MRAPs was designed and delivered in just 30 days as a result of close cooperation ...

22/02/2012 20:48:58 via UPI.com

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Demo offers insight into bomb squads

About a minute later, after diagnostics are complete, the disruptor shoots the package, destroying the “bomb” inside. Although Wednesday's bomb squad activity was simply a demonstration in a parking lot outside Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo., ...

22/02/2012 20:40:15 via Topeka Capital Journal

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'Dark Web' searched for terrorism clues

22 (UPI) -- Mathematical tools and techniques can be used burrow deep into the Internet to uncover extremists discussing and plotting terrorist acts, US researchers say. Researchers involved in the "Dark Web Project," a program started partly in ...

22/02/2012 20:26:26 via UPI.com

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Suspect in Capitol bomb sting waives court hearing

AP ALEXANDRIA — A Moroccan-born man charged with plotting a suicide bombing inside the US Capitol has waived his rights to preliminary and detention hearings. The entrance to Amine El Khalifi's apartment building in Arlington, Va., El Khalifi was ...

22/02/2012 19:59:52 via Kennebec Journal

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Suspect in Capitol bomb sting waives court hearing

A Virginia man charged with plotting a suicide bombing inside the US Capitol has waived his rights to preliminary and detention hearings. Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria was arrested Friday and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction ...

22/02/2012 19:46:16 via WRAL.com

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Suspect in Capitol bomb sting waives court hearing

A Virginia man charged with plotting a suicide bombing inside the US Capitol has waived his rights to preliminary and detention hearings. Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria was arrested Friday and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction ...

22/02/2012 19:45:07 via San Jose Mercury News

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Convicted NC Terrorist, Indicted In Beheading Plot

Raleigh, NC-- A man already convicted and serving time for his role in a homegrown terrorism plot has been indicted on charges he attempted to hire a hit man, to behead three witnesses who testified against him. Tuesday, WRAL-TV obtain documents that ...

22/02/2012 19:05:35 via WFMY News 2

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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

On the night of February 15, Israeli aircraft struck two centers of terrorist activity in the northern and central Gaza Strip (IDF Spokesman, February 16, 2012). The Palestinian media reported that the attacks damaged a training post of Hamas' military ...

22/02/2012 18:57:42 via Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center

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India plays down evidence of Iran link to bomb attack on Israelis

NEW DELHI — The Indian government appears to be playing down evidence of Iranian involvement in last week's bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat here, perhaps out of concern that any such evidence might put it under more international pressure to ...

22/02/2012 17:48:28 via Washington Post

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Thai detention of Iranian bomb suspect extended

20, 2012, an Iranian bomb suspect Mohammad Kharzei, center, is escorted by Thai police officers to verify the house where he and other Iranian compatriots rented in Bangkok, Thailand. One week after three Iranians were arrested in an apparently botched ...

22/02/2012 17:43:42 via Kansas City Star

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British emergency services hold mock terrorist attack for Olympic security test

LONDON (AP) -- British police, fire and ambulance staff held a huge pre-Olympics security exercise Wednesday centering on a mock terrorist attack on the London subway system. The two-day test - called "Exercise Forward Defensive" - started at the ...

22/02/2012 17:38:29 via SI.com

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Azerbaijan arrests terror suspects

(JTA) -- Suspected terrorists with links to Iran and Hezbollah were arrested in Azerbaijan, while bombs intended for use against Israeli targets in Thailand's capital were discovered hidden in inexpensive portable radios. The suspects in Azerbaijan are ...

22/02/2012 17:25:59 via Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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The Moroccan “Paper Terrorist”

Washington / Morocco Board News-- When the news that a Moroccan was arrested in Washington, DC on charges of terrorism, a friend of mine called. ”I thought it was you,” she joked. But the case of Amine El khalifi is no joke. It profoundly rattled the ...

22/02/2012 16:45:24 via Morocco Board News Service

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NC terrorism convict faces new beheading plot case

By Michael Biesecker AP / February 22, 2012 RALEIGH, NC—A North Carolina man recently convicted in a homegrown terrorism plot faces new charges that he attempted to hire a hit man to behead three witnesses who testified against him.

22/02/2012 16:42:29 via Boston.com

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American journalist killed in Syrian bomb attack

An American journalist covering the violence in the Syrian city of Homs has been killed. Marie Colvin lived in the UK and was a war reporter for The Sunday Times newspaper. Other people, including French photographer Remi Ochlik, were killed when the ...

22/02/2012 15:59:17 via BBC News

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Assad seeks to bomb Homs into submission, alarms world

AMMAN (Feb 22, 2012): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has caused an international outcry for ...

22/02/2012 15:31:36 via The Sun Daily

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Three Novels Explore Worldwide Suicide Bombings and Terrorist Threats

22, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Don Ruch, the accomplished author of three novels, puts his extensive knowledge, research and study into the ongoing acts of suicide bombings, and terrorist threats throughout the world. In Mr. Ruch's first novel, ...

22/02/2012 15:14:04 via Sacramento Bee

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Afghan Army, Police team defeat IED in Gardez

By Spc. Kenneth Scar Army 1st Lt. Clayton Smith, Scout platoon Leader, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Bn., 509th Inf. Regt., Task Force Spartan, looks on as an Afghan Uniform Police chief gestures to where his policemen discovered an IED in ...

22/02/2012 14:44:10 via United States Army (press release)

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What Will Iran Do if it Gets a Nuclear Bomb?

Sagan therefore called for a US nonproliferation policy that includes reaffirming to nascent nuclear states that the bomb "will make their states targets for preventive attacks by their potential adversaries, will not easily lead to survivable arsenals ...

22/02/2012 13:53:02 via The Atlantic

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North Carolina Report on Homegrown American Terrorism Lacks Merit

Federal law enforcement has amassed an impressive record identifying and interdicting would-be jihadists bent on waging terrorist attacks before they can acquire the means to kill people. The American military has killed or detained senior terrorist ...

22/02/2012 13:32:30 via Algemeiner

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Bombs, Gunfire Rock Kano

Sounds of bomb blasts and several gun shots scared residents of Tinshama in Otoro, Taurani Local Government Area of Kano State, Northwest Nigeria, this morning. The crossfire started at about 5 am and lasted till about 6.30 am this morning.

22/02/2012 13:31:52 via P.M. News (blog)

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Suspect in Capitol bomb sting expected in court

A Virginia man charged following a yearlong FBI investigation with plotting a suicide bombing inside the US Capitol was expected to make a second court appearance Wednesday. Amine El Khalifi, 29, of Alexandria was arrested Friday and charged with ...

22/02/2012 13:29:58 via Fox News

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Explosive found in veteran's home

Eustis police came to the residence of David Anderson on Saturday after his son, Brian, told police about an improvised explosive device. Brian Anderson said he had been contacted earlier by the Department of Veterans Affairs after his father allegedly ...

22/02/2012 13:20:27 via Daily Commercial

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Spokane bomb squad detonates device found in car

A bomb squad detonated the explosive Tuesday afternoon with a boom that sounded through the neighborhood near NorthTown Mall. The man who called police told KXLY said it was a cardboard tube, packed with something and wrapped with match heads on the ...

22/02/2012 13:12:34 via Fox News

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Three Novels Explore Worldwide Suicide Bombings and Terrorist Threats

22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Don Ruch, the accomplished author of three novels, puts his extensive knowledge, research and study into the ongoing acts of suicide bombings, and terrorist threats throughout the world. In Mr. Ruch's first novel, ...

22/02/2012 13:11:47 via MarketWatch (press release)

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Abdulmutallab, judiciary and terrorism in Nigeria

This brought not too cheery conclusion to family members, friends and members of all terrorist networks across the globe; the feeling of losing a good lieutenant to the walls of a prison yard forever. By the judgment, Abdulmutallab became the first ...

22/02/2012 13:03:51 via Moment Nigerian Newspapers

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Assad seeks to bomb Homs into submission, alarms world |

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Erika Solomon | AMMAN () - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that has ...

22/02/2012 12:59:52 via Reuters

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More "spillover violence:" El Paso woman hit by bullet from Juarez shootout

Perhaps, even more frightening event occurred in April 2011 when a motorist spotted a suspicious device along US Expressway 77/83 in Brownsville and reported it to police. The device turned out to be an improvised explosive device.

22/02/2012 12:37:51 via Examiner.com

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U.S. bound cargo remains vulnerable to terrorists, WMD

It's been more than a decade since Islamic terrorists attacked the US, yet the agency created to protect the nation from another strike is asleep at the wheel, failing to adequately screen the monstrous amounts of cargo that enter the country each day, ...

22/02/2012 12:37:50 via Examiner.com

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Smart bomb crosses continents for a direct hit

Rudd's timing was chosen with smart-bomb precision: 1.20am in Washington was 5.20pm in Canberra. Just in time for TV reporters to prepare their nightly news packages; not enough time for the Prime Minister's office to assemble a coherent response.

22/02/2012 12:15:47 via Sydney Morning Herald

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Thai detention of Iranian bomb suspect extended

Police found bombs in the house, but are still not clear about the suspects' intentions. There is speculation that they planned to attack Israeli targets in the Thai capital as part of a covert battle being waged over Iran's alleged quest to develop ...

22/02/2012 11:33:50 via The Daily Star

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Occupants consolidated the line of occupation in connection with the terrorist ...

Russian occupants consolidated security along the perimeter of the occupation of line on the Enguri River by putting additional units. As the commander of the Abkhazian armed formations Mirab Kishmaria said, at the moment intensified security regime ...

22/02/2012 11:07:57 via Experts' club

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Why India needs the National Counter Terrorism Centre

Anyone who has dealt with or understands internal security issues will tell you that the National Counter Terrorism Centre is an imperative. Such a body is required to meet the growing threat of terrorist violence which recognises neither national nor ...

22/02/2012 10:54:52 via Rediff

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Iran not seeking atomic bomb, supreme leader says after unsuccessful IAEA visit - Al-Arabiya

Al-The IAEA named Parchin in a detailed report in November that lent independent weight to Western fears that Iran was working to develop an atomic bomb, an allegation Iranian officials reject. The IAEA delegation was to submit its new report, ...

22/02/2012 10:48:21 via Arabiya

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Suspect in US Capitol bomb sting expected in court

A Virginia man charged following a yearlong FBI sting with plotting to blow up a bomb inside the US Capitol in a suicide operation is expected to make a second court appearance. Twenty-nine-year-old Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria was arrested Friday ...

22/02/2012 10:41:11 via Sacramento Bee

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Deputies check car for possible bomb on interstate

HAW RIVER — A 911 call from a concerned citizen about a suspicious vehicle on Interstate 40/85 Tuesday evening resulted in a traffic stop near the Jimmie Kerr Road exit and an investigation into a possible homemade bomb. The 911 call was made sometime ...

22/02/2012 10:08:16 via Burlington Times News

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Jundollah's Terrorists Killed in Clashes in Southeastern Iran

The four terrorists were shot dead in a surprise operation carried out by Iranian law enforcement officers, an informed source said on Tuesday. A local provincial law enforcement officer also lost his life during the gun battle that took place after ...

22/02/2012 09:43:41 via Fars News Agency

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A very unusual bomb attack and India's tightrope

The Indian Intelligence agencies think there is a very little likelihood of any known militant group from the region being part of the bomb plan. The attack on Israeli embassy staff in New Delhi on Monday has brought into sharp focus India's growing ...

22/02/2012 09:07:18 via Zee News

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Iran threatens Israel over plans to bomb nuclear sites

By Adrian Blomfield, February 22, 2012 2:07 AM Iran threatened a pre-emptive attack against Israel Tuesday in the event of an attack on its nuclear facilities. Mohammed Hejazi, the deputy head of Iran's armed forces, hinted that Tehran ...

22/02/2012 08:23:00 via Ottawa Citizen

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New York City is Nation's #1 Terrorist Target

A number of these plots are believed to be connected to Iran and its major terrorist proxy Hezbollah, especially those targeting Israel and Israeli interests in other countries. "It's no secret that whenever there's a terrorist bombing or other ...

22/02/2012 08:02:36 via Family Security Matters

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McGuinness call over Derry schoolboy bomb victim Gordon Gallagher

The parents of a schoolboy killed when he triggered an IRA bomb in Londonderry in 1973 believe the deputy first minister knows who was involved. Gordon Gallagher, 9, died when the device exploded in his garden in Creggan. Martin McGuinness was in jail ...

22/02/2012 07:43:41 via BBC News