A truck mounted backscatter x-ray scanner can scan vehicles it passes for dangerous goods anonymously There are 500 of these vehicles now in the USA
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold US and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents
While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Depa
Some 61 trucks loaded with over 300 tons of explosives have gone missing in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official said Friday
"The trucks were sent from a state-owned factory, Rajasthan Explosives and Chemicals Limited, in Dholpur to a private company called Ganesh Explosives in the state's Sagar district But it never reached there," the official said
According to the police, they are in possession of documents which show that the trucks had left for S
Yesterday on Tuesday 27 April at 1812 Moscow time the large antisubmarine ship Admiral Panteleyev captured a pirate ship off of Somalia according to the Ministry of Defense
The capture took place at 1812 Moscow time and took place about 15 miles from shore Inspection of the vessel revealed seven Kalashnikovs, pistols, aluminum boarding ladders, navigation equipment, including satellite navigation, fuel cans and ammunition
Twenty nine were detained
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A group of Muslim scholars says it supports airline safety, but it is "deeply concerned" about the use of airport scanners that show nude images of the human body, and are supporting a fatwa forbidding Muslims from going through full body scanners
Unfortunately its because of Islamic terrorism that such draconian systems have to be used at all A fatwa actually solves all the problems with airport scanners If Muslims don't fly, terrorism won't occur [quote]The Fiqh Council of North
The detention in Thailand of a cargo plane transporting weapons to Iran and the arrest of its crew may prove to be a disaster for illegal North Korean Arms industry
According to the Wall St Journal newspaper, a flight plan for the aircraft showed that after Bangkok it was due to make refuelling stops in Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine before going on to Tehran where it would unload its cargo
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This newly released study of the effect of Al Qaeda’s violence against Muslims provides an interesting glimpse into Muslim on Muslim violence in the Middle East
The vast majority of al Qaeda’s victims are Muslims, only 15% of the fatalities resulting from al Qaeda attacks between 2004 and 2008 were Westerners
The results show that non Westerners are much more likely to be killed in an al Qaeda attack From 2004 to 2008, only 15% percent of the 3,010 victims were Western During the mo
Top security sources have said offices of private TV channels, the National Press Club in Islamabad, other press clubs across the country and offices of the print media are likely to be the next target of terrorists
Looks like the media are in the sights of the Taliban There is some for of blinkered violence that seems purely Islamic, like the riots that killed people over the statement that Islam was not a religion of peace
A senior security official told Online that a TTP commander’s
Russia is worried that a NATO and America pull out in Afghanistan will leave Moscow alone, as it tries to stop the spread of Islamic militants into Central Asia and even Russia itself
Russia is allowing US military equipment destined for Afghanistan to pass through Russian airspace without charging a transit fee, thereby saving the Pentagon an estimated $133 million per year Some in Washington and other Western capitals hope Moscow’s stance is a harbinger of broader US-Russian cooperation
Sunni Muslim leaders have authorized Islamic states to acquire nuclear weapons
The Islamic Ruling Committee in Al Azhar, based in Cairo, ruled that Islamic states must acquire nuclear weapons for their defense The committee is regarded as the highest authority for Sunni Muslims in the Middle East, according to Middle East Newsline
"The acquisition of modern nuclear weaponry is a religious obligation," the committee said in a statement on Dec 23
The statement came in response to
Here is something you don't read in the mainstream news Two potential bombers have been arrested by the FBI in separate stings when trying to blow up buildings Thankfully their munitions had been replaced by fakes September 24, 2009
The FBI has made two arrests in the last 48 hours in separate undercover operations in which would-be bombers were given fake explosives which they proceeded to try to detonate near major buildings Below are excerpts from FBI press releases
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Unknown foreign troops in helicopters opened fire on a car on Monday killing Kenya-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a terrorist wanted over the 2002 bombing of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Mumbasa and simultaneous, botched missile attack on an Israeli airliner leaving Kenya's Mombasa airport
A senior Somali government source told the news agency that the fugitive had been in a car with other senior Islamist gunmen when they were attacked near a village in Barawe District, 250 km south o
A convoy stretching for eight kilometers and consisting of more than one hundred UK, US and Afghan National Army vehicles set off recently to resupply coalition bases in northern Helmand
The 116-vehicle convoy, one of the biggest to ever leave Camp Bastion, was travelling a dangerous 70km to bases in the Sangin Valley via the outskirts of Gereshk and then off-road through open desert
Captain Gareth Lowe, the Operations Officer for Camp Bastion's Close Support Logistic Regiment, said:
Forget getting attacked with nuclear weapons, one single Electromagnetic Pulse bomb detonated 200 miles above the earth would destroy every electronic device in America
EMP is not normally addressed when talking about nuclear attack because most strikes are planned as low-air bursts where most of the energy, EMP included, goes straight into the ground and flattens the target in between In such scenarios, electrical systems would be disabled by EMP, though few would notice because most pe
An American platoon surprised an armed Taliban column on a forested ridgeline at night, and killed at least 13 insurgents, and perhaps many more, with rifles, machine guns, Claymore mines, hand grenades and a knife
The one-sided fight, fought on the slopes of the same mountain where a Navy Seal patrol was surrounded in 2005 and a helicopter with reinforcements was shot down, does not change the war It was one of hundreds of firefights that have occurred in the Korangal Valley, an isolated
A force of 700 troops from 42 Commando along with Danish and Afghan troops swooped on the Taliban base of Marjah in a helicopter air assault that took three waves to offload the men
With Marjah a main base for processing opium and training forces, the enemy put up a fierce fight as the commandos swept through a network of mud brick compounds
Fighting was at very close quarters with troops using pistols, machine guns and in one instance a £49,000 Javelin rocket to take out the enemy
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