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Terrorism: Home Secretary Theresa May wants Qatada out "by the Olympics"

She did not mince her words as she continued, “The right place for a terrorist is a prison cell. The right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell far away from Britain.” May said that she wanted to deport Qatada “so he is not in this ...

08/02/2012 11:46:12 via eGov monitor

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In Syria: Fears of terrorism out of chaos

By Suzanne Kelly (CNN) – As the international community debates how to stop the bloodshed in Syria, intelligence experts are looking closely at possible terrorist scenarios that could occur should the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad go.

08/02/2012 11:37:13 via CNN (blog)

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RBS Chief Hester Will Remain to Defuse 'Biggest Time Bomb'

8 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester said he decided against resigning after a dispute about his bonus, choosing instead to defuse what he called “the biggest time bomb in history.

08/02/2012 11:36:11 via BusinessWeek

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Uzbek refugee denies helping terror group

AP A refugee from Uzbekistan accused of helping a foreign terrorist organization denied the allegations in a court appearance Thursday in Denver, before a judge advised him not to speak further without an attorney. "I swear to Allah I never did ...

08/02/2012 11:16:16 via Las Vegas Sun

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Tunstall terrorist recorded inviting Muslims to jihadi training camp

TERRORIST Usman Khan was recorded inviting fellow Muslims to his jihadi training camp in Pakistan. Khan's attempts to recruit others to his cause were captured by bugs hidden by the security services at his Tunstall home. The 20-year-old was also heard ...

08/02/2012 10:43:43 via This is Staffordshire

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Bomb Girls go out with a bang

The bombs quite literally drop in Wednesday's finale of the Canadian miniseries, Bomb Girls. While the show's individual bomb girls each wages climactic personal battles (from unwanted pregnancy to an abusive father), they're also collectively forced ...

08/02/2012 10:27:00 via Edmonton Journal

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Report: Student debt could be next economic bomb

William E. Brewer Jr., president of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, offered a warning. "Take it from those of us on the frontline of economic distress in America," he said. "This could very well be the next debt bomb for the ...

08/02/2012 10:14:42 via Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

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5 Reasons Why Israel Might Bomb Iran, Or Not

Given the legacy of the Holocaust, no Israeli leader wants to be remembered as the one who let Iran build a bomb and did nothing to stop it. Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not let Iran become a nuclear-armed state on his watch.

08/02/2012 10:03:32 via NPR

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Midwood vet headed home after injury in Iraq, and long limbo awaiting discharge

All that changed in August 2009 when an improvised explosive device went off and hit the humvee he was driving in South Baghdad province, killing the lieutenant - and friend - Angert was with and sending him hurtling into a ditch.

08/02/2012 09:06:14 via New York Daily News

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Efforts Support Deployed US and Coalition...

... Quantity (IDIQ) contracts from the US General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) in support of the Department of Defense's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).

08/02/2012 08:52:03 via defpro

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Today in History: Booby-Trapped Pipe Bomb Killed 2 LAPD Officers in North ...

Arliegh McCree of the LAPD bomb squad was killed in the line of duty while defusing a pipe bomb on Feb. 8, 1986 in North Hollywood. LAPD On Feb. 8, 1986, exactly 26 years ago today, Detective Arleigh McCree and Officer Ronald Ball of the Los Angeles ...

08/02/2012 08:35:03 via Patch.com

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Bomb Girls finale worth watching - Regina Leader-Post

Regina Leader-By Chris Lackner, media News February 8, 2012 2:07 AM While the show's individual Bomb Girls each wage climactic personal battles (from unwanted pregnancy to an abusive father), they're also collectively forced to confront a new reality: The war ...

08/02/2012 08:24:19 via Post

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Bomb threat empties Walmart - Record-Searchlight

Record-The Walmart Superstore off Dana Drive in Redding was evacuated for about an hour Monday night after an employee found a note in a women's restroom saying a bomb had been planted somewhere in the store. Walmart employees evacuated the building shortly ...

08/02/2012 08:11:44 via Searchlight

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Efforts Support Deployed US and Coalition Forces in Counter-IED Operations

... Quantity (IDIQ) contracts from the US General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) in support of the Department of Defense's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).

08/02/2012 08:11:16 via defpro

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Resurgence of Terrorists in Karachi

However, the new year of 2012 shows the resurgence terrorists in Karachi. Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the National Assembly on February 2 this year that the deteriorating situation in Karachi was the result of a well-planned conspiracy.

08/02/2012 07:29:14 via Kashmir Watch

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Yorkshire ‘model soldier’ killed by new type of bomb

Royal Dragoon Guards trooper James Leverett, 20, died after his Viking armoured vehicle struck a massive improvised explosive device (IED). His girlfriend Tiffany Lound was eight months pregnant with the couple's baby son James at the time and more ...

08/02/2012 07:10:03 via Yorkshire Post

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'The big struggle of our generation is terrorism,' Baird asserts

He recalled hearing news of a terrorist attack many years ago that took place in the northern town of Metulla, which is home to the Canada Centre, and asking, as a “young, naïve” government employee, what Canada could do.

08/02/2012 07:08:19 via Jewish Tribune

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Iran as sequel? Another bomb

Acquiescing in the Iranians' development of a nuclear bomb is hardly palatable, either. A nuclear-armed Iran would be free from attack, allowing it to dominate its neighbours, foment terrorism and export religious extremism, while triggering a regional ...

08/02/2012 07:01:22 via Globe and Mail

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JCJC student arrested for making bomb threat

6:09 pm ELLISVILLE - Authorities have arrested a Jones County Junior College student in connection with a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of two campus buildings Tuesday. Agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation located Harold W.

08/02/2012 06:37:42 via Hattiesburg American

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Guam National Guard & Navy Team Up For Explosives Training

The guard members are placed in different scenarios where they provide security to their Navy counterparts in identifying Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and detonating it properly. Tagawa mentions he will be here until Thursday and describes one ...

08/02/2012 06:15:42 via Pacific News Center

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Bomb squad called to Coyote Village

A routine room check at the University of South Dakota turned into a full investigation involving a bomb squad, University Police and Vermillion Police. Tuesday evening, staff at Coyote Village found unidentified items in one of the resident rooms.

08/02/2012 05:47:03 via USD Volante Online

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Man pleads guilty in bomb threat case

By Brad Bauer , and Sentinel MARIETTA - A Marietta man is left facing up to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to calling in a bomb threat to Washington State Community College last May. Ronald G. Woodrum, 46, ...

08/02/2012 05:18:18 via Parkersburg News

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Avon Barrier Company to showcase high-level crash-tested anti-terrorist ...

It can withstand direct impact forces, including extreme Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) attack. It is capable of resisting a 7500KG truck travelling at 40MPH. The full range of Avon Barrier Company's products include rising arm ...

08/02/2012 05:13:04 via Security Park

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Bomb squad responds to home with 10 grenades

The Miami Herald (http://bit.ly/zCrOJz) reported that officers evacuated the neighborhood along Southwest 37th Avenue during rush-hour on Monday afternoon while the police's bomb squad tried to figure out if the grenades were live or not.

08/02/2012 04:00:53 via MiamiHerald.com

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Radical US Muslims Little Threat, Study Says

WASHINGTON — A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research ...

08/02/2012 03:02:47 via New York Times

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Bombs rock Kaduna

The second vehicle, which did not explode was loaded with 10 numbers of 20 litre of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), 4 numbers of 30 litres loaded with IEDs, and 2 numbers of large peak milk containers also loaded with IEDs.

08/02/2012 02:31:56 via Vanguard

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JCJC student arrested after alleged bomb threat - WDAM-TV

WDAM-(AP) - A 19-year-old Jones County Junior College student has been arrested for allegedly writing a note claiming there was a bomb on campus. Harold Wayne Hadley Jr. was arrested Tuesday at his home in Seminary after a note was found in a bathroom of ...

08/02/2012 02:21:09 via TV

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Iran's Bomb: Haven't We Been Here Before?

But I have a growing sense that the increasingly ominous reports about Iran's A-bomb aspirations mimic a story I've heard before. It was in 2002 and 2003, when the drumbeats of impending war were being pounded by our political leaders and dutifully ...

08/02/2012 01:54:00 via The Public Record (blog)

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Lockheed Martin Awarded JIEDDO OPS Services Contract

JIEDDO was established as a Deputy Secretary of Defense directed initiative with the mission to rapidly provide solutions to defeat the enemy's IED campaign, thus saving lives of service members fighting against insurgent networks that employ IEDs as a ...

08/02/2012 01:53:13 via Sacramento Bee

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Bomb rocks army barracks in Nigeria's Kaduna

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber disguised in military uniform was killed on Tuesday when his car bomb exploded under fire from soldiers outside a military base in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, the army said.

08/02/2012 01:51:52 via Chicago Tribune

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Times Square vendor who thwarted car bomb runs for Congress

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A street vendor who helped thwart a bombing attack in Times Square in May 2010 has announced he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson, a disabled Vietnam veteran, called himself "a real outsider" in a campaign that, if he won, ...

08/02/2012 01:46:12 via Chicago Tribune

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Mohamed Mohamud terrorism trial rescheduled for this fall

US District Judge Garr M. King approved a series of changes to the trial schedule late last week, giving lawyers about five more months to try the case of the accused terrorist. Lawyers have sparred for months in court papers over evidence that the ...

08/02/2012 01:04:26 via OregonLive.com

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Bomb squad investigating box of alleged grenades - 7Online WSVN-TV

7Online WSVN-MIAMI (WSVN) -- The bomb squad is investigating the discovery of a box of alleged grenades near the City of Coral Gables. It remains unknown if these objects are in fact live explosives, but the City of Miami's bomb squad unit is not taking any chances ...

08/02/2012 00:07:09 via TV

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No Bomb Found After Vo-Tech Evacuated

The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School was searched Tuesday morning after it received a bomb threat. No bomb was found. By John Saccenti Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School on Rues Lane was evacuated at just before 10 am ...

07/02/2012 22:44:16 via Patch.com

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Review: Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals

Unlike those who take what terrorists claim at face value and then draw the wrong conclusions, he recognizes that individuals who are willing to slaughter unarmed men, women, and children won't hesitate to lie. And yet, that doesn't reduce the value of ...

07/02/2012 22:23:40 via Huffington Post

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Man arrested after bomb squad called for suspicious briefcase

The bomb squad moved in and determined the briefcase was empty. Police arrested a Marion man after a suspicious package was left in front of the Williamson County Jail and Sheriff's Office Tuesday morning. Joseph S. Thomas, 44, of Marion is charged ...

07/02/2012 21:57:03 via KFVS

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DOD to craft new terrorist-hunting strategy for Afghanistan

By Staff The US military will revisit its terrorist-hunting strategy and make key adjustments to the way it employs Special Operations forces in Afghanistan in the advent of their taking on a larger role as a result of a planned ...

07/02/2012 21:51:27 via Defense Systems

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Bomb squad called as precaution after car smashes into front of downtown ...

AP PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh police bomb squad has closed nearby streets and is checking out a car that smashed into the front of a bank downtown, though a police spokeswoman says there's no indication the incident is terror-related.

07/02/2012 21:10:32 via The Republic

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Bomb threat forced evacuation of Redding Walmart Monday night - Record-Searchlight

Record-By Record staff The Walmart Superstore off Dana Drive in Redding was evacuated for about an hour Monday night after an employee found a note in a women's restroom saying a bomb had been planted somewhere in the store.

07/02/2012 21:09:50 via Searchlight

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Student loans the 'next debt bomb' for US, attorneys warn

“This could very well be the next debt bomb for the US economy,” said William Brewer, president of the association. “Students and workers seeking retraining are borrowing extraordinary amounts of money through federal and private loan programs to help ...

07/02/2012 20:59:17 via InvestmentNews

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MPs attack May over suspected terrorist

By Helen Warrell Theresa May faced relentless questioning from MPs across the political spectrum on Tuesday, as adversaries on both sides of the Commons demanded to know what action she was taking to speed the deportation of a suspected terrorist due ...

07/02/2012 20:45:50 via Financial Times

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Terrorist Thwarter Runs for Congress

The man who alerted police of a smoking vehicle in Times Square and ended up thwarting a potential terrorist attack announced Tuesday that he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson was selling knockoff handbags in Times Square on May 1, 2010, ...

07/02/2012 20:42:15 via Daily Beast

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The Cable: Former US base opened to Iranian terrorist group

Camp Liberty, which housed US troops in Iraq up until a few months ago, is now open to house members of the State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK). But MEK leaders haven't decided they're ready ...

07/02/2012 20:39:55 via Foreign Policy (blog)

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Debbie Stabenow Launches Money Bomb Off Pete Hoekstra's China Ad

is turning the tables on one of her would-be challengers, launching a money-bomb fundraising pitch in response to an ad that featured negative stereotypes of the Chinese. The ad from former Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra, which ran in Michigan during ...

07/02/2012 20:37:59 via Huffington Post

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Times Square vendor who thwarted car bomb runs for Congress

By Jonathan Allen | NEW YORK () - A street vendor who helped thwart a bombing attack in Times Square in May 2010 has announced he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson, a disabled Vietnam veteran, was working at his handbag stall on May 1, ...

07/02/2012 20:15:39 via Reuters

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Bomb scare causes evacuation at East Brunswick vocational school - The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger - By Tom Haydon/The Star-Ledger Google Maps Students at a vocational and technical high school in East Brunswick, shown here, were out of school for much of today after a bomb scare forced officials and police to evacuate the building.

07/02/2012 19:41:25 via NJ.com

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Russia claims Assad promised 'cessation' of violence in Syria

By Roland Oliphant, Moscow and David Blair But Sergei Lavrov's words were immediately undermined by the Syrian interior ministry, which pledged to press on with the offensive against "armed terrorist gangs" in the city of Homs. "Operations to hunt down ...

07/02/2012 19:41:05 via Telegraph.co.uk

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Bomb attacks strike military bases in Nigeria

Click here Bomb attacks strike military bases in Nigeria Originally published: February 7, 2012 7:59 AM Updated: February 7, 2012 2:10 PM By The Associated Press JON GAMBRELL (Associated Press) (AP) -- Bombs exploded Tuesday at two major military bases ...

07/02/2012 19:27:08 via Newsday

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Lockheed Martin Gets JIEDDO OPS Services Contract - Quick Facts

... one of five Operations Support Services IDIQ contracts from the US General Services Administration Federal Systems Integration and Management Center in support of the Department of Defense'sJoint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.

07/02/2012 19:26:46 via NASDAQ

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Ron Paul Glitter Bombed (VIDEO)

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is the latest politician to fall victim to the glitter bomb. Paul was showered with sparkles as he left the stage following a rally at the Minneapolis convention center, according to a press release sent to ...

07/02/2012 19:22:25 via Huffington Post