This week Chilean prosecutors dropped charges for lack of evidence against 13 suspects imprisoned eight months for a series of bombings outside bank buildings. Their case had swelled to almost 800 witnesses and 7,000 pieces of evidence, including history books and a poster of Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose. The government’s plans to prosecute [...]
The search for Mr. Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical islamic jihadist cleric and member of al Qaeda , finally ended on Friday. After weeks of surveillance of the al Qaeda leader in Yemen, armed drones operated by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA took off from a American base in the Arabian Peninsula, crossed into northern [...]
The coming wave of U.S. defense budget cuts will apparently be followed by less spending on Homeland Security. Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Government is spending near $75 Billion per year on U.S. Homeland Security. Whether the Spending Spree has been worthwhile is the subject of increasing debate, especially among U.S. liberals…READ [...]
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WASHINGTON—Department of Homeland Security DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has proposed new rulemaking for the creation of the Ammonium Nitrate Security Program, as a measure to secure potentially dangerous chemicals. “In today’s ever-evolving threat environment, we must continually reinforce the security of substances, such as ammonium nitrate, which can be used for legitimate purposes or exploited [...]
The Department of Homeland Security DHS plans to increase its cybersecurity team by more than 50%, as legislators and the White House work to expand DHS`s authority in securing both government and private-sector websites. By October next year, the Department of Homeland Security cyber workforce will grow from 260 to more than 400 workers, said [...]
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a full cabinet department of the U.S. federaal government (a sort of a Ministery of Interior) , created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks . The primary responsibilities of the DHS are : a) protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and b) [...]
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for the safety and security of the travelling public in the United States. Created on November 2001 by President George W. Bush. John S. Pistole is the 5th TSA Administrator. BACK TO PAGE.
What was a very bad day for Ahmed Ghailani, now a convicted felon likely to spend many years in a supermax prison, was also, because of the super-charged politics surrounding Guantanamo Bay, a pretty bad day for the Obama administration. To be sure, the 36-year-old Tanzanian was convicted Wednesday of one count of conspiracy in [...]
Canada’s former top spy has slammed the government’s fourth attempt to revive two fiercely debated parts of the Anti-terrorism Act, saying he “never thought” they should have been enacted in the first place. The provisions would give police extraordinary powers of preventive arrest and could force people to show up at secret hearings to testify [...]
A spanish judge said today that there was evidence of Venezuela “cooperating” with an alliance betweeen the the militant Basque terrorist group ETA and the colombian narcoterrorist group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Speaking in Hanover, Germany, the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos had requested an “explanation” from [...]
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