CCI has issued a Special Advisory discussing the potential threat and appropriate responses for US faith-based organizations following the bombing event at the Boston Marathon. Read the Advisory … [Read more...]
Reuters: Britons in aid convoy briefly kidnapped in Libya
March 29, 2013 By
BENGHAZI, Libya | Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:24pm EDT (Reuters) - Five British nationals who were part of an aid convoy passing through Libya on the way to Gaza were briefly kidnapped by an armed group, … [Read more...]
New York Times: Taliban Spread Terror in Karachi as the New Gang in Town
March 29, 2013 By
By DECLAN WALSH and ZIA ur-REHMAN Published: March 28, 2013 KARACHI, Pakistan — This seaside metropolis is no stranger to gangland violence, driven for years by a motley collection of armed … [Read more...]
Police: British hostage taken in Nigeria released
March 28, 2013 By
by JON GAMBRELL | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago March 28, 2013 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A British man abducted in Nigeria's largest city has been released by his kidnappers, a police spokeswoman … [Read more...]
Reuters: New leader named for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
March 25, 2013 By
By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS | Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:01pm EDT (Reuters) - Algerian Djamel Okacha has been named as a new commander in al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), replacing Abdelhamid Abou … [Read more...]
Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa
March 22, 2013 By
By Craig Whitlock, Published: March 21 THE WASHINGTON POST NIAMEY, Niger — The newest outpost in the U.S. government’s empire of drone bases sits behind a razor-wire-topped wall outside this … [Read more...]
CNN Article on Internet Security and Use Tracking
March 16, 2013 By
The Internet is a surveillance state By Bruce Schneier, Special to CNN updated 11:39 AM EDT, Sat March 16, 2013 The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and … [Read more...]
Southern CA church pays ransom for kidnapped missionary in Mexico
March 16, 2013 By
KHTS Radio: Fri, 03/15/2013 - 8:25pm | Perry Smith A member of The Church on the Way in Valencia is now back home uninjured with his family in Granada Hills after being kidnapped Thursday in … [Read more...]
Terror Threat Potent, But Dispersed, Intelligence Chief Says
March 15, 2013 By
By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 – The terror threat is still potent, but it is much more dispersed than it once was, the director of national … [Read more...]
Reuters: Insight: Islamist inroads in Mali may undo French war on al Qaeda
March 13, 2013 By
By David Lewis TIMBUKTU, Mali | Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:20am EDT (Reuters) - Residents who slipped into a non-descript mud-brick house after Islamist fighters fled Mali's desert town of Timbuktu … [Read more...]