US Border officials planned to question Nigerian on landing

REPORT SHOWS US INTELLIGENCE CAME CLOSE TO UNCOVERING NIGERIAN'S TERROR PLAN  A report from the Los Angeles Times says that US border officials had knowledge  that  the Nigerian national on a...

CA Airport : Passenger bag tests positive for explosives?

Authorities shut down a California airport and detained a passenger after his bag  tested positive for explosives.   The passenger insisted that the container was holding honey,  but a powerful...

TSA high airport security has ACLU up in arms

The Civil Liberties group has asserted that stringent airport measures in the wake of a Nigerian's attempt to blow up a US airliner are unconstitutional and ineffective.  Pat -downs and full body scans are no...

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...

New scanners break child porn laws

"The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned." This is a privacy dimension that I had not considered before in terms of body...

British intelligence passed Farouk data to US

US authorities had data and information passed to them by British intelligence officials about the Nigerian national who attempted to detonate deadly explosives on a Detroit-bound Delta Northwest flight on Christmas day,  press officials say.  The airline terror...

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,...

Professor says blaming Obama counterproductive for Natl. Security

A Princeton University Professor of US History and Public Affairs has said that blaming the President regarding the national security failure on Christmas Day is counter productive, and that Obama is correct in...

Washington Post lists 5 myths RE Terrorism, Natl. Security

With former Vice President Dick Cheney and various and sundry GOP members strategically pushing national security back to front and center  -  in the hopes of effecting midterm elections and the 2012 campaign  -  the Washington Post has come out with 5...

GOP strategically puts national security back in limelight

The GOP has seized on the attempted bombing on Christmas day of a NorthWest Delta flight by a Nigerian national to put national security back at the center of issues.   National security is likely to be...

National/Homeland Security is a consumer product

When the President addresses “National Security” with the NS Council, he attends to all aspects of protecting the nation including economic and military policies. Homeland Security was created after 9/11 to...

How the terrorists have won Mk II

I wrote a story about how the terrorist have won a short while ago - this, in the wake of the most recent terrorist attempt - is an addition to that story.With most things you have to put them into perspective, which, as we have seen from the clamour and calls, isn't what is...

National Defence Censors Info on Future Costs of Afghanistan War

In a significant policy shift, Canada's Department of National Defence censored an NDP request for disclosure of future costs of the Afghanistan War.  Canada has been involved in the UN/NATO sanctioned war...

LaHood Overhauling Mexican Truck Program

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told a National Press Club gathering May 21 that his plan to overhaul the controversial Mexican truck demonstration program is now being vetted by the White House and has the support of “a number of members of Congress.”  If he...

National Security as an Election Issue?

The Twenty20 cricket tournament of the Indian Premier League has gone out of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />India…Australia has refused to play Davis Cup in India…Will it be the same story in 2010 when Commonwealth Games are to be held in India?  A country...

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