Nearly 10 years after the Sept. 11, 2001  terror attacks brought to light the dangers of fake IDs, federal undercover agents are still able to easily obtain genuine U.S. e-Passports using clearly fraudulent information that should have raised red flags at the State Department according to this ABC  News report. Gregory Kutz, an investigator for This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qeada’s second in command is back, once again threatening more terror attacks against the US and the West. In an audio eulogy for Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Zawahiri mentions the Times Square Attack and promises more to come. According to a transcript provided by the “MEMRI”, the Middle East Media Research Institute, based This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror... 

Israel and the US have collected a great deal of information about how Islamic terrorists operate. Much of this data will continue to be secret for quite a while, but new pieces of information are made public once in awhile. The latest revelation is in fact confirmation of several older items of information. Suicide bombers This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted... 

Denying terrorists access to radiological materials that can be used in a dirty bomb attack—one that could bring our economy to a standstill and render areas uninhabitable for decades—is a major security challenge. Should a dirty bomb or multiple dirty bombs be detonated in any American city, port complex, airport or train station, the result This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

Terms like Islamic radicalism and Islamic extremist are no longer being used by the Obama administration, leaving many counterterrorism experts concerned. Critics argue that in order to fight terrorism, the term has to be properly defined. A recent report by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy claims the White House has ignored the role This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

LAn international police sting at a Pretoria South Afric petrol station has netted four men involved in the sale of a highly radioactive metal suspected to be destined for use in a dirty bomb. The high-risk operation by the Hawks’ specialised tactical unit was carried out yesterday. Police recovered some Caesium-137 contained in a protective This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

The scene is becoming too familiar: A young man is arrested for intending to harm innocent people. He may proclaim he’s an Islamic soldier, he may say he wants to be a martyr, or he may have planned a trip overseas with the apparent intent of shooting at American soldiers. Such descriptions jibe with a This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland... 

The next time you pull into a parking garage and the attendant gives you the once-over, he or she may be taking note of more than just the shiny rear spoiler on your new car. As part of a new government initiative, parking lot attendants and other transportation workers are being trained as the next This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland security... 

Despite billions of dollars spent on securing our nation’s airports since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, experts say terrorists are still testing and targeting aviation security because an attack could kill a lot of people, undermine public confidence and cause significant economic damage. “It remains an incredibly high target for terrorists,” Erroll Southers, President This story comes to us via Homeland Security –... 

For years, officials have predicted that it is only a matter of time before the car bombs and suicide attacks that are commonplace in Afghanistan and Iraq arrive in the U.S. But so far, overseas terrorist groups have had little success in launching those kinds of attacks in America. The latest example: the attempted car This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source... 

A Colorado man armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden, a police officer said Tuesday. The man was identified as 52-year-old construction worker Gary Brooks Faulkner, said officer Mumtaz Ahmad Khan. He was picked up in This story comes  Read More →

Young British Muslims are being groomed by Al-Qaida for a Mumbai-style attack on targets in Britain, the country's spy agency has warned. Britain’s internal intelligence agency MI5 has warned that a new generation of British extremists is being radicalized by Middle East-based Anwar al-Awlaki, who recruited the Detroit plane bomber. They are concerned that Awlaki’  Read More →

Almost nine years after 9/11, terrorism is a fast-evolving, mostly underestimated worldwide threat, and America may be more vulnerable to attacks today than it was on that sunny September morning. That grim assessment was the consensus of experts who spoke at a recent journalism conference on terror and security issues held, fittingly, in an office tower This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror... 

CNN reports that just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period.” That grim assessment is contained in an This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror... 

By Jenni Hesterman – What if the bad guys are somehow able to defeat us and set off a nuclear weapon in downtown LA? Not a dirty bomb, but an actual 10 kiloton nuclear device that results in the stereotypical mushroom cloud over the city. How should first responders plan for this attack? What are This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland...