“After disrupting two recent terrorism plots, American intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that extremist groups in Pakistan linked to Al Qaeda are planning smaller operations in the United States that are harder to detect but more likely to succeed than the spectacular attacks they once emphasized, senior counterterrorism officials say.
The two cases — one involving [...]
“Convoys of white vans led by Newark’s mayor and filled with more than 100 of its employees and residents are flooding the city’s neighborhoods in the middle of the night as a way to reduce crime.
As part of Community Caravan Night Patrols, more than 120 volunteers have patrolled city streets with Mayor Cory Booker and [...]
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The military, facing a complex and intractable mixture of “wicked problems” on the battlefield, has responded with a doctrinal revolution in the production and practice of operational theory. But most police agencies don’t incorporate the “operational level of maneuver” into their planning and concept of operations. We face [...]
“The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unveiled today a 50-member task force comprised of federal, state, local and Canadian agencies designed to combat cross-border crimes.
The Border Enforcement Security Task Force, or BEST, will focus on national security and terrorist threats, human smuggling and trafficking, contraband smuggling, money laundering, bulk cash smuggling, transnational gang activities and [...]
“A U.S. Air Force major described an al-Qaida sleeper agent as a sometimes kind, respectful man who nonetheless would attack the United States if given a chance.
Air Force Maj. Deborah Sirratt testified during the first day of a sentencing hearing for 44-year-old former Bradley University graduate student Ali al-Marri, who has admitted training in al-Qaida [...]
“The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses’ offices suddenly look like big-city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day.
The federal government has urged schools to close because of the H1N1 swine flu only as a last resort. But schools are [...]
“The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday said health authorities were underprepared for the increase in H1NI cases.
Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) also said federal agencies would be in bad shape if a mutated strain of H1N1 developed or if the nation faced another public health crisis while dealing with the so-called swine [...]
“CIA Director Leon Panetta warned Friday that the nation’s ballooning federal debt threatens resources available for national security as well as education and health care, and that Americans should not expect ‘that we can remain a powerful nation’ if the trend continues.”
(Panetta: Debt threatens security, health care)
“President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.
The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s [...]
“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning of dire consequences from the spread of nuclear weapons.
In a speech outlining the Obama administration’s nuclear arms agenda, Clinton cited a range of troubling trends abroad. They include a failure to stop North Korea from developing a nuclear bomb, and weakness in the United Nations’ agency that’s [...]