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Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
AP Exclusive: 20,000 foreign fighters flock to Syria, Iraq - Yahoo News
Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate of a top terrorism concern.
Intelligence agencies now believe that as many as 150 Americans have tried and some have succeeded in reaching in the Syrian war zone, officials told the House Homeland Security Committee in testimony prepared for delivery on Wednesday. Some of those Americans were arrested en route, some died in the area and a small number are still fighting with extremists.
The testimony and other data were obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Nick Rasmussen, chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the rate of foreign fighter travel to Syria is without precedent, far exceeding the rate of foreigners who went to wage jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen or Somalia at any other point in the past 20 years.
U.S. officials fear that some of the foreign fighters, who come from 90 countries, will return undetected to their homes in Europe or the U.S. to mount terrorist attacks. At least one of the men responsible for the attack on a satirical magazine in Paris had spent time with Islamic extremists in Yemen.
Meanwhile, the White House circulated a proposal Tuesday that would have Congress authorize the U.S. military to fight Islamic State terrorists over the next three years. A formal request for legislation is expected on Wednesday
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
LAX dry ice bombs: 4 devices left in restricted areas, police say - latimes.com
No connection to terrorism?
Officials said an airport employee heard an explosion in a men's room and went to investigate. He discovered a 20-ounce plastic bottle that had contained the dry ice. The blast did no damage, and no injuries were reported.
That area is also off limits to the public, police officials said.
On Monday night, detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department's Criminal Conspiracy Section were investigating how the bombs were placed in security areas.
"Apparently there is no nexus to terrorism right now," LAPD Det. Gus Villanueva told The Times.
The FBI was assisting the LAPD in the investigation.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Carpentersville to receive 9/11 artifact - DailyHerald.com
village recently found out it was chosen as one of the lucky applicants — out of more than 900,000 — to get a piece of the towers.
make a curbed grassy area for a ground-based flagpole with a brick pillar. A bronze fire helmet will rest on top of the pillar with the steel artifact piercing through the brick. A plaque will be displayed in honor of those who lost their lives on Sept. 11….hopes the memorial will be in place by 2015 for the 100 year anniversary of the fire department.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Northwest Herald |al-Qaida’s Mail bomb plot tied to Chicago?
but U.S. officials say evidence suggests al-Qaida’s aim was to blow up planes inside the U.S., either on runways or over American cities. Whether they had targeted Chicago specifically isn’t known.
Other terrorism experts float various theories for why the plotters might have chosen Chicago.
“I think the primary interest in Chicago is that it is the power base of President Obama,” said Evan Kohlmann, a terrorism analyst with Flashpoint Global Partners, a New York-based security consultancy.
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Deadly Blast Rocks Subway Station in Moscow - NYTimes.com
explosion occurred at 7:50 am in the Lubyanka subway station, killing people both on the platform and in an incoming train. Numerous others were injured.
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