In his first public comments about the terror threat in the Middle East, President Barack Obama used an interesting forum. The Jay Leno Show. Obama’s sixth appearance on the show came just days after the State Department ordered the shut down of nearly two dozen U.S. embassies in the Middle East and North Africa, and […]
Alarm over a security threat which prompted the shutdown of 22 embassies last week has forced U.S. and Britain officials to withdrawal personnel from Yemen. Both the U.S. and Britain stepped up precautions in the capital of Sana “due to increased security concerns,” with Washington ordering nonemergency government personnel to leave and the Foreign Office […]
UPDATE: 3:30 PM EST According to NewsBreaker, an intercept of communication between head of al Qaeda in Pakistan & affiliate in Yemen led to shutdown of US embassies. More details to follow. —– In the wake of a possible militant threat last week, the U.S. says they will keep a number of embassies closed in […]
Coordinated late-night assaults on two high-security Iraq prisons have left dozens dead and allowed hundreds of inmates to escape. Insurgents armed with mortars and machine guns launched the attacks on Taji and Abu Ghraib prisons, which are home to thousands of prisoners, including convicted al-Qaeda militants. Iraq has seen a surge of violence since April, and […]
An industrial mechanic, who is also a self proclaimed member of the United Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has been arrested after planning to create and distribute a mobile radiation device he planned to sell to a southern branch of the clan, as well as an Albany Jewish association. Glendon Scott Crawford, along […]
The news of the NSA following us and listening in on some phone calls was already enough to cause controversy, but now things are getting more intense. According to CNET, the National Security Agency is reportedly listening in on phone calls without any warrants, and that members of the Congress agreed they could be accessed “simply […]
It was around 10:45 P.M. Sunday night, May 1st, 2011, when I received a New York Times alert on my phone claiming that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan. Is this real? Within minutes of turning on the TV, and seeing the ‘Breaking News’ banners flash across the bottom of every network’s screen, […]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but now, his mother is telling reporters that her wounded son is doing “fine.” Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told Bloomberg that she talked to her son briefly for the first time since he was locked up. “I couldn’t stop myself from crying,” Tsarnaeva from […]
Police investigating the brutal Woolwich, London attack had another break in their case, when a 10th suspect was arrested on Monday. The 50-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder 25-year-old drummer, Lee Rigby, last Wednesday. However, police gave no further details about the suspect’s identity. The soldier was attacked by Michael Adebolajo, […]
Just days after Michael Adebolajo and his 22-year-old accomplice, Michael Adebowale, butchered an innocent soldier to death on the streets of Woolwich, London, it was discovered that one of the suspects had been held in another country on suspicions of terrorism. Kenyan police say that Adebolajo was held in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of seeking […]
Just two days after 28-year-old Michael Olumide Adebolajo and an unidentified 22-year-old brutally attacked an innocent soldier in London, video of their dramatic capture has emerged. In the video, you can see the two men charging at police after they realize they are surrounded. The officers shoot Adebolajo, whose body all but flies across the street […]
Yesterday, a gruesome attack in London raised new fears of terrorism in Britain and shocked the rest of the world. Two suspects wielding meat cleavers, a firearm and knives, attacked and killed an unarmed soldier in the middle of the day in Woolwich, South East London. Believed to be British-born Muslims of Nigerian descent, the […]
