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ALAN DERSHOWITZ: He’s an ideologue. I don’t think he would have revealed this information if it had been critical of Venezuela or Cuba or the Palestinian authority. You know, he doesn’t like America, he doesn’t like Western democracy, he’s never met a terrorist he didn’t like, so he’s a very far-left ideologue that uses this to service his political agenda, not simply to reveal information in a neutral way.
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An example photo of a “weapons cache” included in a Department of Homeland Security and FBI bulletin to law enforcement. Photo via Maine State Police.
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A joint bulletin issued in early August by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI warns state and local law enforcement agencies to look out for people in possession of “large amounts” of weapons and ammunition, describing the discovery of “unusual amounts” of weapons as a potential indicator of criminal or terrorist activity.
Citing the example of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who reportedly “stockpiled approximately 12,000 pounds of precursors, weapons, and armor and hid them underground in remote, wooded locations,” the bulletin instructs law enforcement to look for “large amounts of weapons, ammunition, explosives, accelerants, or explosive precursor chemicals” that “could indicate pre-operational terrorist attack planning or criminal activity.” Weapons do not have to be “cached” in remote locations to meet the standard for suspicious activity. According to the bulletin, weapons could be stored in an “individual’s home, storage facility, or vehicle” and may include common firearms such as “rifles, shotguns, pistols” as well as “military grade weapons.” The illegal possession of large amounts of ammunition is also listed as a potential indicator of “criminal weapons possession related to terrorism.” While the bulletin never clarifies what constitutes a “large” or “unusual” quantity of weapons or ammunition, it does say that such a quantity would “arouse suspicion in a reasonable person.”
The joint DHS-FBI Roll Call Release distributed to police, first responders and private security throughout the U.S. is part of a series of bulletins describing activities “reasonably indicative of criminal activity associated with terrorism.” The suspicious activities described in the bulletins are derived from criteria in the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) Functional Standard for Suspicious Activity Reporting signed in 2009. The ISE Functional Standard governs the collection of information for the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI), an interagency program to collect suspicious activity reports from law enforcement agencies around the country. Other bulletins in the series focus on everything from surveillance and theft to photography and even “eliciting information,” an activity described as “questioning individuals at a level beyond mere curiosity.”
Like other bulletins in the DHS-FBI series on suspicious activity reporting, the document notes that “constitutional activities should not be reported” unless the circumstances “support the source agency’s suspicion that the behavior observed is not innocent, but rather reasonably indicative of criminal activity associated with terrorism, including evidence of pre-operational planning related to terrorism.” However, no guidance is provided on potential legal issues related to the reporting of constitutionally-protected activities.
Possible indicators of criminal weapons possession related to terrorism:
Large quantities of weapons are typically cached in a location such as an individual’s home, storage facility, or vehicle, but can be found attended by the individual (such as in luggage while traveling) or unattended (discarded or seemingly discarded) in a public area.
Possession of large amounts of weapons, ammunition, explosives, accelerants, or explosive precursor chemicals could indicate pre-operational terrorist attack planning or criminal activity.
For example, in preparation for conducting the July 2011 attacks in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik stockpiled approximately 12,000 pounds of precursors, weapons, and armor and hid them underground in remote, wooded locations.
Recent SAR incidents reported to the Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI) shared space highlight the types of weapons discoveries that are suggestive of pre-operational activity and attack planning.
Although neither incident was linked to terrorist activity, they are cited as examples for awareness and training purposes.
During a traffic stop, police discovered 7 firearms (4 pistols, 1 shotgun, and 2 rifles), approximately 5,000 rounds of ammunition, 21 ammunition magazines, a 12-gauge ammunition belt with rounds, a pistol holster with magazine pouch, a punch knife, and other materials in the vehicle. The police arrested and charged the driver and passenger with weapons possession.
Constitutional activities should not be reported in a SAR or Information Sharing Environment (ISE) SAR absent articulable facts and circumstances that support the source agency’s suspicion that the behavior observed is not innocent, but rather reasonably indicative of criminal activity associated with terrorism, including evidence of pre operational planning related to terrorism. Race, ethnicity, national origin, or religious affiliation should not be considered as factors that create suspicion (although these factors may be used as specific suspect descriptions.
http://info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-FBI-Weapons.pdf
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2013/10/dhsfbi-considers-anyone-with-large.html
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I’ve been called many things in my life, but one thing I have never been called is a terrorist.
Until now.
Evidently, the unholy trinity ( Reid, Pelosi, and Obama) has determined that people who blow up buildings, kill innocent people, disrespect our flag, etc. are not the real terrorists. The real terrorists are people who don’t agree with them. Who knew, right? Who knew that all you had to do to become one of the most hated people in this country today is to believe in small government and lower taxes?
The liberal left doesn’t have a clue about anything, really, but especially about what an American is. People who identify with the Tea Party are Americans. They come from all races, genders, walks of life, and socio-economic levels. We don’t all agree on every issue. That’s not what the Tea Party is about. But the two things we do agree on are the fact that we pay way too much in taxes, and the government needs to be reigned in. We are not anarchists, we are not rioters, we do not camp out in parks illegally, and we are not moochers living off other people’s hard work. We simply believe that we should be allowed to keep most of what we have worked for, and we don’t believe that we should have to “share” our wealth with those who prefer not to go out and work hard to get their own wealth.
I have never killed an innocent person, I have never blown up a building of any kind, and I do not promote disobeying the laws of our land. I do believe that I should be allowed to own guns, visit any public building that my tax dollars have helped in any way, and refuse to blindly follow anyone just because they may be holding a public office. I have my own ideas and opinions, and they may not always agree with everyone else’s; but I claim a God-given right to have those opinions and express them in any legally acceptable form. These are not rights given to me by any government or politician, and I refuse to let them take those rights away from me.
If that makes me a terrorist, then what are we calling those who blow up buildings and kill innocent people these days?
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The more than 100 nuclear reactors across the United States are inadequately prepared to repulse terrorist attacks, a new report warns.
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC, presently requires that energy plants are capable of preventing attacks carried out by five or six people, according to the report, entitled “Protecting US Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack.”
The report, prepared by the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas, focuses on the terrorist attacks of 2001, and warns the NRC to prepare for something much bigger down the road.
The combined public and private security provided at the US’s 104 commercial nuclear reactors and three research reactors “is inadequate to defend against a maximum, credible, non-state adversary,” the researchers said, adding that private-sector nuclear facilities remain “less protected than government facilities that face similar risks of theft of fissile material or radiological sabotage, which makes no sense.”
There also remains the risk of attacks from “high-powered sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades,” the researchers said.
The report also draws particular attention to security at three research reactors, including one in Maryland that is situated 24 miles from the White House. These facilities are powered by highly-enriched uranium, which could be used to make nuclear weapons if the supplies fell into the hands of terrorists.
The US government has made some progress since September 11, 2001, when nuclear plants only had to protect against attacks by three people, according to Alan Kuperman, the project coordinator and a co-author of the report.
“That is a good sign of progress, but that does not address the concern we have about nuclear reactors,” Kuperman said.
Since 2001, the US nuclear industry has spent over $ 2 billion on enhanced security, the report said, adding “it is difficult to know if those enhancements have been adequate.”
A spokesman for the nuclear energy sector’s trade agency, the Nuclear Energy Institute, told Reuters that security at US nuclear facilities had improved markedly since 9/11, with a total of 9,000 armed officers guarding them.
But according to the report’s authors, even that seemingly robust number of officers would not be enough to fight off a well-coordinated terrorist attack.
Prior to the revisions following the 9/11 attacks, “the numbers (of anticipated terrorists attacking a nuclear site) were kept relatively low because intelligence agencies generally assumed that they themselves were capable of detecting conspiracies of more than a few members.”
That assumption, the report says, was proven wrong by the events of 9/11 when 19 hijackers, using commercial jets as weapons of mass destruction, successfully staged terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC.
The NRC slammed the report, which was requested by the Pentagon, as a “rehash of arguments from a decade ago,” when the country was on high alert following the deadliest attacks on American soil.
“The report contains no new information or insight,” David McIntyre, an NRC spokesman, told Reuters. He said the nuclear watchdog had bolstered security requirements for commercial nuclear power plants and was confident that these were adequately protected.
The question now is how the US government, which has been forced to trim back on federal programs in the aftermath of the economic crisis, will be able to foot the bill for more security at America’s nuclear energy plants.
Nafis came to the United States on a student visa and attended school at a state university in Missouri, though he had previously had contact with Al Qaeda, according to reports. The State Department, then under the direction of Secretary Hillary Clinton, issued the visa because Nafis was not one of the 39 million records on file of individuals flagged for denial.
Nafis attended school in Missouri to study cyber security for less than one year and requested transfer to a school in New York, supposedly to live near family, his parents said in interviews at the time of the attempted terror plot and subsequent arrest.
Nafis is just one of the young men in the United States on student visas who have been involved with terror attacks in recent years. The State Department also failed to flag the so-called “underwear bomber” in 2009 who attempted to blow up a commercial airplane full of passengers. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab passed the State Department’s records test despite his Nigerian parents’ warnings to U.S. officials that their son was dangerous.
Most recently, the northeastern U.S. has experienced the Boston Marathon bombings, allegedly carried out by Chechen students, and a series of odd events, one involving foreign students from Signapore, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Just weeks after the marathon attack, 7 chemical engineering students were detained at the Quabbin Water Reserve that provides clean water to the greater Boston area. Ten days later, padlocks were cut at the aqueducts that deliver drinking water to Boston and surrounding towns.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered new student visa reviews as a result of the missteps at the State Department in vetting the Boston Marathon bombers prior to their approvals to study in the U.S. With Secretary Clinton no longer at the top of the State Department investigation, no further news has been reported on the progress of the new reviews.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein released a statement in July 2012 regarding student visas, reminding the nation of the “students” who attacked on September 11, 2001.
“In late 2000, a foreign student was allowed to enter the United States on a student visa but never attended classes. In 2001, additional foreign travelers were allowed to re-enter the country based on plans to attend a flight school that wasn’t certified to accept foreign students. Those individuals later hijacked four U.S. airliners, killing thousands of Americans. Yet more than a decade later, this GAO report makes it clear that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement still has no process in place to monitor whether foreign students are actually enrolled in school or attending classes, or even whether the schools they claim to attend are legitimate…”
“With more than 850,000 foreign students enrolled in 10,000 U.S. schools at the beginning of this year, it’s clear that monitoring activities of students in this country on visas and shutting down sham schools that serve as fronts for criminal activity are questions of national security.”
Apparently, not much has been done to fix the system as of August 2013.
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HONG KONG — China’s state-run media on Thursday called a deadly clash a day earlier in an ethnically divided far western region a “terrorist attack,” and raised the death toll from the bloodshed.
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An earlier report from China’s official news agency, Xinhua, said 27 people had died in the violence that erupted in the Xinjiang region, where there are tensions between Uighurs, an overwhelmingly Muslim Turkic ethnic minority, and China’s Han majority. But a new report from Xinhua gave a total death toll of 35.
It said 24 people, including 16 Uighurs, were killed by rioters. Also, the police shot and killed 11 of the rioters, who had attacked a police station, a squad of antiriot police officers and government offices in Lukqun, a township in Turpan Prefecture, Xinhua said. The report gave no explanation for the attack.
The Chinese government often calls incidents of Uighur violence in Xinjiang terrorist attacks.
Advocates of Uighur self-rule and other critics say the government grossly exaggerates the level of organization behind the unrest.
Buford quotBuckyquot Rogers FBI Disrupts Potential Domestic Terrorist Attack In Minnesota
The FBI may have thwarted a major domestic terrorism attack last week that could have killed several people. The FBI announced on Monday in a press release that they have arrested a man in Minnesota who they suspect was in the planning stages of a domestic terrorist attack.
The alleged suspect is Buford “Bucky” Rogers, 24, who was arrested in Montevideo Minnesota. According to ABC News a large group of federal, state, and local law enforcement officials raided his mobile home on Friday and, along with arresting Rogers, captured a cache of weapons including a Romanian-made AK-M rifle, Molotov cocktails, and suspected pipe bombs. Authorities warn that the investigation is still ongoing.
The FBI said in their press release:
“The FBI believes that a terror attack was disrupted by law enforcement personnel and that the lives of several local residents were potentially saved. The terror plot was discovered and subsequently thwarted through the timely analysis of intelligence and through the cooperation and coordination between the aforementioned agencies.”
Rogers formed an anti-government group called the Black Snake Militia. Authorities told ABC News that that Rogers’s potential targets included local authorities. Authorities refused to confirm or deny if Rogers was allegedly planning the terrorist along or as part of a group. They also did not confirm or deny if other arrests were expected.
Anti-government militias and conspiracy-minded patriot groups have been on a rise reaching a high of 1,360 groups in 2012, according the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even more amazing is that this is the second year in a row that the record for number of anti-government militias and conspiracy minded patriot groups has been broken.
via The Southern Poverty Law Center
There are now more patriot and militia groups then at the height of the “militia movement” during the 90s under former President Bill Clinton, which saw anti-government terrorism occur such as the Oklahoma City Bombing that killed 169 people. In addition to the bombing there has been a long list of other such acts that the SPLC has kept track of on its website.
Rogers has been convicted of felony burglary in 2011 and also pleaded guilty to reckless use of a firearm in 2009. His felony status means that he was restricted from possessing a firearm. Rogers was arrested without incident and appeared in court today.
As the story develops it will hopefully come a swift resolution with no violence. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing few want to see a repeat of that tragedy.
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