President Obama to unveil security reforms

President Barack Obama will meet today with top security advisors and will receive an update on the terror plot inquiry involving the Nigerian national who attempted a bombing of a Delta flight bound for Detroit on Christmas day.  The Transportation Security...

United States ups security measures at all airports

The United States has put into effect increased vigilance measures at its airports,  regarding passengers who enter its airports from countries considered to be high security risk.   Afghanistan,  Yemen,  and Iraq figure on the list.  Full body pat...

Molotov Cocktail, Anti-Israeli Books Found in Philadelphia Garage

According to the Department of Homeland Security and the Philadelphia Police, they are currently investigating a potential bomb threat after a molotov cocktail, anti-Israeli books and a notebook computer were found in a Philadelphia parking garage. The garage is across the...

The British 'Bobby' effect ...

I take no credit ... at all ... in saying what I am about to say, because, to me, anyone with a halfpenny of common sense will tell you exactly the same thing. The biggest problem with trying to fight terrorism is that bureaucrats are calling the shots. It is as simple,...

Terror suspect was not on watch list ; no evidence backed claims

Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab was in the US terror list data base;  he was not on the 'watch list',  officials have confirmed.  The 23 year old Nigerian who attempted to detonate explosives on Delta Northwest flight 253 had been said to be on the watch list,...

Janet Napolitano says US cannot meet deadline to screen cargo

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today admitted that the US cannot meet the 2012 deadline to scan all incoming ship cargo, a badly needed measure designed to prevent possible nuclear and other terror attacks. In testimony prepared for the Senate Transportation...

Fort Hood: A pre-vision of a new Internet fueled terrorism

A new kind of Terrorism:  The lone wolf of Fort Hood  Some analysts are figuring out that the Fort Hood rampage conducted by Major Nadil Hasan foreshadows a new brand of "Internet terrorism":  The lone individual who becomes fired up by what he reads on the...

Gov't to pay $1.2 million to 5 wrongfully detained Muslims

The  U.S. government will pay $1.2 million in a settlement to five Muslim immigrants who were unjustly detained after 9/11.   The 5 men were housed  in a Brooklyn, N.Y. prison. According to the New York Times, the prison held hundreds of...