As Indian forces for a third day continued to root out terrorists responsible for a wave of deadly attacks across Mumbai, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which maintains an office in Mumbai and is in close contact with Indian government and Jewish community officials, issued the following statement: The outlines of the terrorist attacks...
For more than six decades, the FBI has stationed agents and other personnel overseas to help protect Americans back home by building relationships with principal law enforcement, intelligence, and services around the globe and facilitating a prompt and continuous exchange of information. Today, the FBI has Legal Attaché offices — commonly known as Legats...
Gangs of heavily armed gunmen stormed several Indian hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India’s financial capital. The suspects killed at least 78 people and wounded another 200, according to US embassy officiala. The gunmen were specifically targeting Britons and Americans and may be...
In fiscal year 2007, the Department of Homeland Security obligated about $12 billion for acquisitions to support homeland security missions. DHS’s major investments include Coast Guard ships and aircraft; border surveillance and screening equipment; nuclear detection equipment; and systems to track finances and human resources. In part to provide insight into the cost, schedule,...
In spite of the news media distancing the recent attack on a ship off the coast of Somalia from global terrorism, intelligence experts believe this is just the latest operation initiated against the United States and the West by Al-Qaeda. Recently a failed assassination attempt on the prime minister of Somalia, as well as...
Sabotage, like any other weapon, offers its user an amplification and extension of his own strength, both to harm others and defend himself.Sabotage has the additional appeal of destroying much evidence of itself, and is usually hard to prove. Sabotage offers the indigenous malcontent or the alien subversive the widest selection of targets, the...
(The following article is based on reports obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.) US government and other terrorism experts continue to report that Islamic extremism is on the rise and that the spread of Islamic extremism is the preeminent threat facing the United States. In addition, various sources alleged that Saudi...
Denizens of our nation’s newsrooms are all celebrating the nomination of two-term governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano, by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes the law enforcement agencies responsible for protecting US borders and capturing illegal aliens. However, not everyone is celebrating, especially the majority of law...
The National Legal and Policy Center, an organization that achieved success as a plaintiff in the 1993 lawsuit to open the meetings and records of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care task force, criticized President-Elect Barack Obama for selecting Eric Holder as his Attorney General nominee. NLPC promotes ethics in public life, and sponsors the...
With US, Afghan and Pakistani forces applying pressure on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the enemy “is running out of options for places to go,” a senior US officer in the region said today. Army Col. John M. Spiszer, commander of Task Force Duke, which is centered on the 1st Infantry Division’s 3rd...
The National Association of Chiefs of Police (NACOP) received the following report from the US Department of Defense in order to alert police commanders and security directors about a recent terrorism tactic development: It’s a measure of the enemy in Afghanistan that Taliban terrorists attacked girls walking to school in Afghanistan on Nov. 12...
How many times have we heard mayors and governors, when faced with complaints regarding illegal aliens, claim that their police officers aren’t authorized or trained to enforce immigration laws? Too many times, if you ask me. Well, either these government leaders are too ignorant to to hold office or they’re out-and-out lying to the...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today regulations aimed at strengthening the security of the nation’s freight and passenger rail systems and reducing the risk associated with the transportation of security-sensitive materials. “By striking a sensible balance of security guidelines with certain regulatory requirements, we’re enabling the rail and chemical industries to...
Wake County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday became the first of four law enforcement agencies in North Carolina to receive new database link that will automatically check the criminal and immigration history of all individuals booked into the jail, according to a report submitted to the National Association of Chiefs of Police. This new process...
Iranian diplomat Heshmatollah Atharzadeh has been kidnapped by armed men in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday morning, police have said. The diplomat’s car was ambushed in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Atharzadeh was heading from home to office with his guard when the car was ambushed in Hayatabad, a neighborhood near...
On Monday, the Pakistan branch of the Taliban captured an entire supply convoy of thirteen trucks, two armored Humvees and other supplies bound for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, without incurring a single fatality. Approximately 60 masked militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban blocked off part of a roadway in the Khyber Pass....
“Now that the elections are behind us, we begin a time of transition. During this time, it is important that all of us continue giving our best efforts to the American people and bringing the dedication and commitment to our jobs that we have brought to them from day one. It is also important...
The three Islamic militants found guilty of the 2002 Bali bombing have been executed on the island of Nusakambangan. Huda bin Abdul Haq, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Imam Samudra were executed by firing squad shortly after midnight. It had been announced that the three would be killed in November but no date was given...
While President-elect Barack Obama’s defenders will swear on a stack of Korans that he is not supported by Islamic terrorists, a recent post-election survey shows Obama’s tremendous popularity among US Muslims. Unfortunately the survey doesn’t identify how many respondents are — or support — Islamic terrorists, nor does it identify the immigration status of...
A Miami federal jury convicted Venezuelan national Franklin Duran, on charges of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela within the United States, without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, as required by law, according to reports obtained by the National Association of...
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