TagsTagsAt the New York Post, Steven Emerson has another piece on yet another government outreach program that reaches out to the wrong people: Jersey’s Counterterror Farce. November 12, 2007 — THE New Jersey Department of Homeland Security’s counterterrorism conference last month turned out to be a textbook case of exactly ...
LGF, homeland security, Political Correctness, John Esposito
At Detroit Metro Airport: Credit: Dean Shaddock (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Oh brother. The FBI sent out a warning bulletin to police that members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the US. But there’s nothing to be concerned about. WASHINGTON - Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror ...
At Newark’s Liberty International Airport, one of the officials charged with protecting us from another 9/11 attack has allegedly been helping applicants cheat on security examinations: Airport security official quits after leaked test. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) The assistant security director in charge of screening at Newark Liberty International Airport has resigned, ...
New Jersey, Newark, Liberty International Airport, Corruption, homeland security
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review exposes serious vulnerabilities in our railroad system: Terror on the Tracks. Five years after terrorists murdered 2,996 people in the Sept. 11 attacks, the Trib embarked on a probe to see how well railroads and their customers secure lethal hazardous materials — termed “hazmat” by first responders. The ...
By popular request, here’s an open thread to discuss tonight’s debut of Fox’s comic book version of the War on Terror, 24. Advance word is that the show takes a giant detour in favor of political correctness tonight.
The Pakistani immigrant who plotted to blow up New York’s Herald Square subway station has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani immigrant was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison for hatching an unsuccessful plot to blow up a ...
Just in time for the holiday season, the government has halted the Secure Flight anti-terrorism screening program, thanks to the efforts of privacy advocate groups: Report Says TSA Violated Privacy Law. (Hat tip: AJ Strata.) Secure Flight, the U.S. government’s stalled program to screen domestic air passengers against terrorism watch lists, ...
Suspicious behavior led to the arrest in Boston of a truck-driving student. (Hat tip: instant.) A truck-driving student is in custody in Boston after raising suspicions when he wasn’t interested in learning how to back up his rig. WLVI-TV (Ch. 56) reported last night that the would-be trucker is a 28-year-old Muslim ...
Derrick Shareef, who called himself Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef in his “martyrdom video” and plotted to set off hand grenades in Chicago shopping malls, was a member of the Nation Of Islam (as was pretty obvious from the quotes in the FBI affidavit).
Terrorism, homeland security, Illinois, Plot, Associated Press, NOI
The Associated Press’s latest report on the terror arrest in Illinois has a very uncharacteristic level of detail in its lead paragraph: Feds: Man planned to blow up Ill. mall. Almost a flying pig moment. The big wigs may be stonewalling on Jamilgate, but some of the cogs seem to be ...
Terrorism, homeland security, Illinois, Plot, Associated Press
An indeterminate man of unknown origin with possible “ideological motivations” has been arrested for plotting a terror attack in Illinois. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) WASHINGTON - A man was arrested in the Chicago area on Friday for allegedly plotting to attack Rockford, Ill., over the holidays, officials told NBC News. The plan ...
Terrorism expert Steven Emerson is giving a lecture on radical Islamic infiltration of America at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, and the usual suspects (Islamists and Western useful idiots) are seething mad and planning to protest: Ex-CNN reporter’s lecture here will bring protest as some call him anti-Muslim. (Hat tip: ...
Another probably bogus threat has been intercepted on an Islamist web site: Government doubts threat on NFL stadiums. WASHINGTON - A Web site is claiming that seven NFL football stadiums will be hit with radiological dirty bombs this weekend, but the government on Wednesday expressed doubts about the threat. The warning, posted ...
Terrorism, homeland security, Adnan El Shukrijuma, Al-Shukri Juma
It’s wall to wall Foley on the evening news, but for those who care about protecting ourselves and our friends from terrorist threats, this is a much bigger scandal: Terrorists’ mail still not monitored. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) WASHINGTON - Convicted terrorists locked up in U.S. prisons can still use mail and ...
A commenter at Ace of Spades may have spotted terrorist Adnan Al-Shukrijuma in Texas. Some have speculated he may be involved in planning an attack on the US during the Ramadan season. Here’s what he looks like. Click the photo for the FBI’s wanted page, and be sure to contact them ...
Terrorism, homeland security, Adnan El Shukrijuma, Al-Shukri Juma
Explosive Substances Found at Tri-State Airport. Tri-State Airport in Wayne County has been evacuated. A perimeter has been set up, and evacuees are being asked to stand back 350 feet from the airport. The Transportation Security Administration reports that a passenger’s water bottle screened positive for an explosive material around 9:15 this ...
A reader emailed on Saturday to let me know that he had personally seen (and reported) two Middle Eastern men purchasing a large quantity of untraceable cell phones at a Sam’s Club store in Tucson, Arizona. Today this incident is in the Tucson news, as police try to locate the ...
Coast Guard increases Mackinac Bridge patrols. CARO - The U.S. Coast Guard has increased patrols near the Mackinac Bridge after prosecutors said they believe three Palestinian-American men from Texas now jailed on terrorism-related charges were targeting the 5-mile-long span. The men were arrested Friday outside a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. outlet in Caro ...
As reported on LGF, the US has relaxed its restrictions on student visas for Middle Eastern countries, so we shouldn’t be surprised by this story: Egyptian students disappear in US. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Immigration agents and the FBI are looking for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States on valid ...
How unserious have we become about stopping terrorists from attacking airplanes? HPD, airport security at odds over incident. (Hat tip: National Terror Alert.) The report states that a man with a Middle Eastern name and a ticket for a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta shook his head when screeners asked if ...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations today called for an investigation into Palestinian accusations that America helped Israel in the Jericho prison operation: CAIR Calls for Probe of U.S. Role in Israeli Prison Attack. WASHINGTON, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ — A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for ...
CAIR, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Propaganda, homeland security, Israel
We’ve had several reports on the head of Islamic chaplains in the New York City Department of Corrections, who gave a speech to a Muslim Students Association meeting in which he said the “greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House,” Jews control the media, and Muslims are being ...
Audio, Radical Islam, Imam Umar Abdul-Jalil, Prisons, Emerson, homeland security
Yesterday we noted the New York Post’s report on an anti-Government, anti-Semitic speech made by the chief Imam of New York City’s Department of Corrections, to a meeting of Islamic leaders. Today at The Counterterrorism Blog, Brian Hecht of Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism has a piece on the ...
Radical Islam, Prisons, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, homeland security
Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha have an excellent in-depth look at radical Islamic front group CAIR, an article that should be required reading for any journalist tempted to blandly describe the Council on American Islamic Relations as a “civil rights organization:” CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment. The Council on American-Islamic Relations ...
CAIR, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Propaganda, homeland security