Terror leader Osama bin Laden will release a new Internet message dealing with Israel and the Palestinians, a terrorism monitoring group said Thursday.The announcement of the impending comments by the head of al-Qaida was posted on Web sites often used
Al Qaeda is planning to attack the Euro 2008 football championships in Switzerland and Austria in June, Swiss police say."The Euro 2008 tournament is a target cited by the Islamist terrorist network," federal police spokesman Juerg Buehler told Swiss newspaper
A man authorities believe may have set at least some of the wildfires along Florida's Atlantic coast is in custody on suspicion of arson.Brian Crowder, 31, described as a white male with sandy blond hair who weighs 185 pounds, was
Police are to use hundreds of airport-style and hand-held weapon detectors in the crackdown on knife crime.Teams of 15 officers will be deployed across the 10 boroughs in London that have recorded the most knife crime.Assistant Commissioner Tim Godwin, head
Gunmen in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta have hijacked a ship belonging to an US company and kidnapped its crew.The militants are demanding a ransom of 30m naira ($259,000) for the boat and the crew, a military spokesman said.The vessel, which
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's protective force failed to deter a mock terrorist attack during a recent security drill, according to a Time magazine report online Monday.During the simulated night-time attack several weeks ago, a team posing as terrorists was able to
A shock of thick black hair was all that peeped out from under a white sheet that covered a small body Wednesday at a morgue in Jaipur after serial bomb blasts killed at least 80 people.Seven bombs went off along
Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border.In the past few months, the police officials have shown up at the U.S. border, fearing
A backpack found floating in the waters around a Sydney Harbour navy base caused a bomb scare and evacuation today.After a three hour investigation, police allowed evacuated navy officers to return to the HMAS Kuttabul base on Garden Island.Hundreds of
Fast-moving wildfires along Florida's Atlantic coast that have scorched at least 70 homes may be the work of arsonists, authorities said Tuesday.Palm Bay, Fla., officials say they suspected arson after they received word of fires starting every 45 minutes Monday,
Up to 700 employees at the AgriProcessor's Plant, the largest kosher meatpacking plant, could be arrested as part of an immigration raid Monday.Federal agents descended upon the plant in northeast Iowa at around 10 a.m. to execute a criminal search
The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by
A bomb threat followed by the delivery of a suspicious object brought the evacuation of a construction site at the U.S. Naval Reservation in San Diego's Barrio Logan neighborhood.Police spokeswoman Monica Munoz says military officials told police about the threat
A federal assessment says the Indianapolis 500 is an attractive target for terrorists - but there's no credible or specific threat aimed at the Memorial Day weekend race.In an internal FBI/Homeland Security Department assessment released today to local police, officials
A US warship, the USS Cole, which was deployed off Lebanon in February amid concern over Beirut's political crisis, crossed Egypt's Suez Canal on Sunday on its way back to the Mediterranean.The United States sent the guided-missile destroyer to waters
Nigeria's security services were on high alert on Saturday after a warning from the police chief that Al-Qaeda could be planning a bombing campaign in Africa's most populous country."The Al-Qaeda network has planned to send time bombs to Nigeria," Inspector
Actor Dennis Farina was charged with a felony Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.When the weapon was discovered at a security checkpoint, the 64-year-old actor said he had forgotten the
A Peoria man was allowed to board a plane Friday morning at Greater Peoria Regional Airport after police found an ammo clip and nine .22 caliber bullets in his carry-on bag.Joshua Davis, age unavailable, of 908 E. Republic St. was
Authorities say a hazardous materials response team was called when an air cargo container holding radioactive material was punctured at a remote freight facility near Los Angeles International Airport.Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department says no one was
The RCMP is investigating seven suspected terrorist plots so disturbing they "keep me awake at night," the senior Mountie for national security disclosed yesterday.Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said the cases are "spread right across the country" and each is comparable
