Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: FARC guerillas A native of Lebanon will spend a dozen years in prison for providing military weapons to the Colombian FARC group. Jamal Yousef, who is also known as “Talal Hassan Ghantou,” was sentenced on Oct. 11 in a Manhattan federal court…
King wants Ansar al-Sharia officially designated as terror organization
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Ansar al-Sharia The leader of the House Homeland Security Committee wants the U.S. State Department to single out the group blamed for the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya as a foreign terror organization. Homepage position: 10 read…
Florida woman sentenced in 2010 cruise ship terror bomb hoax
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: Carnival Fascination A woman who triggered a full-scale search of a passenger cruise ship at in the Port of Jacksonville, FL after phoning in a bomb threat to the vessel in 2010 will spend a year in jail for her actions. Linda…
Long-sought terror suspects face U.S. courts
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Abu Hamza al-Masri The notorious one-eyed Islamist cleric accused of plotting to help Al Qaeda open terrorist training camps in the U.S. is set for his first official U.S. court arraignment on Oct. 10 after he and four other long-sought terror suspects…
FBI sets $50,000 reward for fugitive terror suspect
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Ahmad Abousamra The FBI put a $50,000 bounty on the head of a radicalized U.S. citizen from a Boston, MA suburb charged with traveling to Pakistan and Yemen to seek military training from Al Qaeda to kill American soldiers. Agents are hoping…
NNSA, Canada, Russia begin building counter terror training center
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection Image Caption: RF MOD Construction of a new counter terror training facility has begun in the Russian city of Abramovo under the auspices of a collation of U.S., Canadian and Russian nuclear security authorities. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said on Sept. 21…
State Dept. could take Iranian group off terror list in coming days
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: MeK The U.S. State Department could take the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a group that has opposed the leadership in Iran, off of its list of designated terror groups the week of Sept. 23, according to agency spokespeople. A formal decision on the delisting…
Justice Department needs to adjust terror data reporting, says IG
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Justice Department The U.S. Justice Department’s National Security Division needs to make some finer adjustments in how it collects and reports terrorism statistics, said a report from the agency’s Inspector General (IG) issued on Sept. 6. An IG follow-up audit report covering…
NC domestic terror cell leader, another member sentenced to prison
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Anes Subasic The purported leader of a North Carolina domestic terror cell and one of its members were sentenced to long prison terms on Aug. 24 for their roles in a plot to support foreign terrorists and murder overseas. Daniel Patrick Boyd,…
Two Georgia men in domestic terror plot sentenced to five years
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption: Rifle with silencer Two of the group of elderly men who plotted to buy explosives and silencers to use in a domestic terror plot aimed at federal and state government officials and buildings, were sentenced to five years in prison on Aug….
