Arrest Early Or Risk Potential Terror Attack
December 14th, 2009 admin
It’s a rather big dilemma for law enforcement and national security. At what point does continued surveillance outweigh the risk of

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The New York Times is reporting that two officials said the government had intelligence from Yemen before Friday that leaders of a branch of Al Qaeda there were talking about “a Nigerian” being prepared for a terrorist attack. While the information did not include a name, officials said it would have been evident had it This story comes to us...
Interesting: The researchers say they’ve found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if only theoretical, that would allow a surveillance target to thwart the authorities by launching what amounts to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the connection between the phone company switches and law enforcement. The University of Pennsylvania...
Fox News reports a team of CIA counterintelligence officials recently visited the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and concluded that CIA interrogators face the risk of exposure to Al Qaeda through inmates contacts with defense attorneys. The agency’s “tiger team” of security specialists was dispatched as part of an...
British police said Tuesday they have arrested a man under the Terrorism Act, a move which comes days after the U.K. raised its terror alert from “substantial” to “severe.” Officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit arrested a 30-year-old man from the Sparkhill area of Birmingham, Britain's second largest city,...
MyFox Houston reports a British man was arrested on suspected terror charges after airing his frustration at air travel delays on social networking site Twitter. Airport security around the globe has been heightened since the failed Christmas Day bombing aboard a Detroit-bound jet, with fears of further terrorist attacks making security and police...
In a story that seems to be unfolding daily, the latest twist involves a book Chicago terror suspect David Coleman Headley carried with him, “How to Pray like a Jew”. Mr. Headley isn’t Jewish. He is an Islamic fundamentalist. Headley, a Pakistani native whose birth name was Daood Gilani before he changed it, was using the This story...
Good essay from the Wall Street Journal: It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but there is nothing nuanced about two basic facts: (1) America is a country of 310 million people, in which thousands of horrible things happen every single day; and (2) The chances that one…...
David Coleman Headley, a Chicago man suspected of scheming to attack a Danish newspaper is now charged with playing a role in the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 166 people according to a report on Fox News. Headley, 49, was charged in a 12-count criminal information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb This story comes to us via...
A Nigerian Muslim’s attempt to blow up an airliner landing in Detroit on Christmas Day has Americans much more concerned about the dangers of another terrorist attack. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 79% of U.S. voters now think it is likely there will be another terrorist attack in the United States in This story...
Very interesting article via Time Magazine. Andrew Bieniawski was in bed when the earthquake struck. On Feb. 26, Bieniawski, the assistant deputy administrator for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA, had arrived in Santiago, Chile, to join a group of scientists and nuclear engineers on a top-secret mission to remove a potential...
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