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Russian Transport Official Sacked in Wake of Deadly Bombing
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsAs Moscow held a day of mourning for the victims of a deadly airport bombing, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today fired a top transportation official and criticized police who patrol transit centers as "passive." Mourners lit candles and brought flowers to the main airport where 35 people were killed by a suicide bomber Monday afternoon, and services were held in the capital's churches, according to reports. Medvedev sacked Maj. Gen. Andrei Alexeyev, the head of the transport police for the region that includes Moscow, The Associated Press reported. The president criticized transport ...
Airport Security: Choose One
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Emergency Broadcast System Coming to Cell Phones
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- The Emergency Broadcast System that interrupts TV programming in times of crisis is jumping to a new format where it might be able to reach you better -- on your cell phone. The communications company Alcatel-Lucent announced Tuesday that it's creating a Broadcast Message Center that will allow government agencies to send cell phone users specific information in the event of a local, state or national emergency. It will be similar to the TV alerts in that the text messages will be geographically targeted for areas where a tornado alert or major road closure, for example, is in ...
Somalia Tops Global Terrorism Risk Index; US Ranks 33rd
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Here is one list you don't want your country topping. The Terrorism Risk Index, published by the British risk advisory firm Maplecroft, draws on data from June 2009 to June 2010 to evaluate terrorist attacks in 196 countries based on frequency and intensity. Somalia is the country most at risk of a terrorist attack, according to Maplecroft's index, published today. The Terrorism Risk Index is one of 41 indices and maps included in the group's "Political Risk Atlas 2011," which will be published in December. The United States ranked 33rd on the list, joining France (44) and the ...
Bomb at Iranian Military Parade Kills 10
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 22) -- A bomb planted along the route of a military parade in northwestern Iran has killed at least 10 spectators in what Iranian media are calling a "terrorist attack" by Kurdish rebels. Nearly 60 people were also wounded in today's bombing in Mahabad, near the borders with Iraq and Turkey. It's an area where Kurdish fighters have clashed with Iranian soldiers for years, but they've rarely targeted civilians. The explosives may have gone off prematurely. The Associated Press quoted state radio as saying the bomb was rigged to a timer and planted under a bush near the parade route. ...
On 9/11 Anniversary, Terror Threat Is More Homegrown
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- On the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the current threats facing the United States are less severe but increasingly homegrown, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, the U.S. government is still unprepared. That's according to a new report published online Friday by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit think tank formed in 2007 by former members of the 9/11 Commission that seeks to develop "policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both sides of the aisle." The terror alert level for 2010 is described as "less severe ... more ...
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Somalia Bomb's Grim Message: Afghanistan Not Sole Threat
By Haley Sweetland Edwards - AOL NewsADEN, Yemen (Dec. 3) -- A suicide bomber's deadly attack at a Mogadishu hotel Thursday not only drives home the fragility of the all-but-failed state of Somalia. It also highlights a problem the U.S. escalation in Afghanistan doesn't address: that al-Qaida's Islamist allies are active far beyond the sway of the Taliban. The attack on one of the Somali capital's few luxury hotels Thursday killed at least 19 people, many of whom were attending a college graduation ceremony. Among the victims were three government ministers, one of whom -- Ibrahim Hassan Adow, the minister of higher education ...
Lawmaker Apologizes for Kidnapping Remark
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- Rep. John Shadegg isn't backing off his charge that holding 9/11 trials in New York would put the city at greater risk, but he says he's sorry he dragged the mayor's daughter into the argument. In remarks on the House floor Monday night, the Arizona Republican blasted Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to move admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his cohorts from Guantanamo Bay to New York, where they will be tried in civilian court. He scoffed at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's assurances that the city can handle any possible security problem. "Well mayor, ...
Hillary Clinton: Jakarta Bombings Show 'Viciousness of Violent Extremists'
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyFollowing Friday's two hotel bombings in Jakarta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced the "viciousness of violent extremists" who carried out the attacks and called them proof that "the threat of terrorism remains very real." CBS reports that Clinton also pledged U.S. assistance to Indonesia's government if it is sought, commenting, "We have no higher priority than confronting this threat along with other countries that share our commitment to a more peaceful and prosperous future." Friday's attacks at Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels killed eight and injured 50. The casualties ...
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