The American Civil Liberties Union today is asking the FBI field offices in 29 states and Washington, D.C. to turn over records related to the agency’s collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities. According to an FBI operations guide, FBI agents have the authority to collect information about and create maps This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Who would have thought this Alaskan couple was involved in domestic terrorism? He was the local weatherman, sending up weather balloons twice a day above this remote community of 450 full-time residents near Bristol Bay and preparing short-term forecasts for pilots and fishermen. She was a stay-at-home mom who drove their 4-year-old to preschool, sang This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert... 

Fox News reports the failed bombing attempt over Detroit on Christmas Day may not have been the only attack that extremists planned for the 2009 holiday, with intelligence from overseas three weeks earlier indicating that a plot targeting New York City on the same day may have been in the works, according to an FBI This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source... 

Fox News reports that a nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English. The men apparently have disappeared over a 2-3 year period. The Afghan officers and enlisted This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror  Read More →

ABC News reports a recent internal FBI report warns federal, state and local authorities to be alert for a potential new tool in the jihadi terror arsenal – the placing of suspicious, but harmless, bags in public places to inspire fear, disrupt public transportation and tie up police and bomb squads. The so called “battle of This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Fox News reports the FBI arrested two New Jersey men at JFK International Airport on Saturday night as they were preparing to board separate planes in an alleged terrorism plot tied to a radical Islamic group based in Somalia, FOXNews.com confirmed. Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, of Elmwood Park This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Two residents of Toledo, Ohio, Hor I. Akl, age 37, and his spouse, Amera A. Akl, age 37, both of whom are dual citizens of the United States and Lebanon, were arrested today on charges that they conspired to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspired to launder money, and committed arson This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted... 

A pipe bomb exploded at a mosque in north Florida May 10 and is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The FBI says they have few leads, and have joined the mosque and a nearby church in offering a $20,000 reward for information. The bomb went off during evening prayers, when about 60 people were This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland... 

New York Daily News reports a Brooklyn bookkeeper is accused of trying to send Al Qaeda money and Casio watches to build bombs and was ordered held without bail Monday. Federal Magistrate Judge James Francis denied a bid to have Sabirhan Hasanoff released to house arrest, citing his technical savvy, conversations about the terror network on This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Federal and state authorities are conducting a series of anti-terrorism training exercises this week at ports throughout California. The two days of simulations beginning Tuesday include an attack on a container ship at the Port of Oakland and a bomb to be located in San Francisco Bay by sea mammals trained by the Navy. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

The FBI and other local agencies are conducting a three-day training exercise that began yesterday and are letting the public know, hoping to “prevent unnecessary concern,” according to the LAPD. Today’s training will test those agencies on their “ability to respond to a terrorist attack involving an improvised nuclear device” and will mostly occur in This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror... 

UPDATE: A federal law enforcement source says that search warrants are being executed in Boston, New York, and New Jersey. “We can confirm that search warrants have been executed in several locations in the Northeast in connection with the investigation into the attempted Time Square bombing,” a Justice Department official told CNN. “Two individuals encountered during This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror... 

The FBI is reporting that they are forming a new border task force to look for and combat possible terrorist entering the U.S. through our borders with Mexico and Canada, with a eye on dishonest federal, state and local law enforcement and other officials. Special Agent Keith Byers in the attached video describes the Bureau’s interest This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

A federal judge has granted the FBI access to evidence linked to a webcam scandal at a Philadelphia suburban school district. Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania said they were investigating “ possible criminal conduct ” (.pdf) in the 6,900-student Lower Merion School District. U.S. District Judge Jan DuBois is presiding over a federal civil lawsuit alleging the  district secretly snapped tens of thousands of webcam images (.pdf)... 

UPDATE: Between four and eight people have reportedly been taken into custody for questioning in Pakistan in connection with the investigation of the Times Square bombing attempt. Authorities are not saying who the potential suspects are or where they are being held, but they say there were raids Monday night and Tuesday morning in different locations. Some This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror...