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Poll Finds Sharp Partisan Divide on Islam-Violence Connection
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile Americans overall are almost evenly divided on the question of whether Islam is more likely to encourage violence, there is a sharp partisan divide on the subject, with Republicans and tea party movement supporters believing strongly that it does, while Democrats disagree, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Feb. 22-March 1. The subject has been brought into sharp focus with a hearing scheduled for Thursday by Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on "Radicalization in the American Muslim community." Forty-two percent of those surveyed said ...
Rep. Peter King Says Threat of Domestic Islamic Terrorism Justifies Upcoming Hearing
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyRep. Peter King of New York defended on Sunday a congressional hearing he will hold this week on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism that focuses on Muslim-Americans, calling it an issue "which is not being talked about publicly" and needs to be. "People in this country are being self-radicalized, whether it's Major Hasan or whether it's Shahzad or whether it was Zazi in New York," King said on CNN's "State of the Union." "These were all people who were identifying, in one way or another, with al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. So it's an international movement with elements ...
Congress to Hold Hearing on American Muslims; Protest Planned
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says affiliates of al-Qaida are radicalizing some American Muslims and that he plans to hold hearings on the threat they pose to the U.S. Republican Rep. Peter King of New York tells CNN's "State of the Union" that he sees an international movement with elements in the United States of Muslims becoming more radical and identifying with terrorists. A Minnesota Democrat, Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the House, says that while it's proper to investigate radicalization, he thinks it is wrong to single out a ...
Color-Coded Terror Warnings to Be Gone by April 27
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- By the end of April, terror threats to the U.S. will no longer be described in shades of green, blue, yellow, orange and red, The Associated Press has learned. The nation's color-coded terror warning system will be phased out beginning this week, according to government officials familiar with the plan. The officials requested anonymity to speak ahead of an announcement scheduled Thursday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The Homeland Security Department and other government agencies have been reviewing the Homeland Security Advisory System's usefulness for more ...
Is WikiLeaks a Terrorist Organization? Rep. Peter King Thinks So
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- Journalists have called Julian Assange's WikiLeaks project a revolution in the way news gets to the public. Governments, not surprisingly, are less enthused about the shadowy Australian and his international network of information gatherers, but so far, they've been unable to do much about it. Now, with the massive release of classified State Department cables, some U.S. lawmakers are talking about cracking down on the pro-transparency organization. New York Rep. Peter King, the ranking Republican member of the House Homeland Security Committee, wants to designate WikiLeaks as a ...
Opinion: What Happens to Guantanamo, KSM Now?
By J.D. Gordon - AOL News
(Nov. 9) -- If President Barack Obama thought emptying Guantanamo and trying terrorists in civilian courts was tough before, he hasn't seen anything yet. In one of the first acts of his new administration, President Barack Obama signed an executive order calling for closing the much ballyhooed detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. Guantanamo TimelineJan. 22, 2009: President Obama signs executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year. July 21, 2009: White House closure extends key closure deadline by six months. May 19, 2010: House Armed ...
Border Drones Plagued by Mishaps, Pilot Shortage
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 16) -- Despite high-profile support for flying unmanned aircraft along the U.S. border with Mexico, the camera-equipped drones are far from a technological magic bullet for fighting illegal immigration. Testimony presented to the House Homeland Security Committee highlights a number of problems facing Customs and Border Patrol's drone fleet, including a high accident rate and a pilot shortage. The unmanned aircraft flown by Customs and Border Patrol have an accident rate seven times higher than that of general aviation, according to testimony from Nancy Kalinowski, vice ...
Countries Look to Robot Armies for Border Defense
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 13) -- The House Homeland Security Committee will meet Thursday to discuss the use of unmanned aircraft to patrol America's borders. The number of drones deployed on such missions has been growing in recent years, and lawmakers have begun to demand that the Pentagon provide even more along the U.S.-Mexican border. But it's not just drones that are being drafted into border patrol duty. Increasingly, unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned sensors are also being used -- and not just in the United States. Countries around the world are turning to unmanned armies to help protect their ...
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