Archive for October 2024
FOX45: Multiple failures led to MS-13 murder suspect attending Maryland schools, official says
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/10/03/fox45-multiple-failures-led-to-ms-13-murder-suspect-attending-maryland-schools-official-says/ A former federal law enforcement officer says multiple government failures allowed an MS-13 gang member and suspected killer, who has since been convicted of murder, to attend two Maryland public schools. “My message is be outraged, be mad, be angry and take action,” Mark Morgan, a former FBI agent and the former Acting Commissioner…
Read MoreTajikistan nationals with alleged ISIS ties removed in immigration proceedings, U.S. officials say
When federal agents arrested eight Tajikistan nationals with alleged ties to the Islamic State terror group on immigration charges back in June, U.S. officials reasoned that coordinated raids in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia would prove the fastest way to disrupt a potential terrorist plot in its earliest stages. Four months later, after being…
Read MoreMinnesota man arrested after allegedly threatening to ‘shoot up’ synagogue
A Minnesota man was arrested after allegedly threatening to “shoot up” a Minneapolis synagogue, officials announced on Saturday. Staff at Temple Israel reported to the Minneapolis Police Department on Sept. 11 that they had received several phone calls from a person threatening to “shoot up” the synagogue. Then on Thursday, a special police detail assigned…
Read MoreCountries Around The World Commemorate The Anniversary Of Hamas Attack On Israel
Vigils, commemorations and acts of remembrance were planned across the world on Monday to mark one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel as world leaders called for an end to antisemitism and the release of Israeli hostages. Last year’s surprise cross-border attack, which killed about 1,200 people, caught Israel unprepared on a…
Read More‘Terrorist attack’ near Karachi airport kills two Chinese nationals, embassy says
Two Chinese nationals were killed in an explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday night, the Chinese embassy in Pakistan said, in what it described as a “terrorist attack”. In a statement emailed to journalists, separatist militant group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed the explosion was an attack…
Read MoreUkraine says Russia attacked its critical infrastructure with 19 drones
The Ukrainian air force said on Friday that Russia attacked critical infrastructure in the country with 19 drones overnight. Air defences shot down nine drones, with seven more likely impacted by electronic jamming, it said in a statement, without saying what happened to the other three. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said an apartment building was…
Read MoreWeakened Hezbollah expected to return to traditional guerilla warfare tactics
Hezbollah declared a “divine victory” in the month-long 2006 war after successfully ousting Israeli forces from Lebanon. And the Iran-backed group is once again facing off with its arch-enemy – but under very different circumstances. “We want [Israeli soldiers] to enter Lebanese territory (…) if they come to us they are welcome, because what they…
Read MoreRussia has decided ‘at highest level’ to remove Taliban from terrorist list, TASS reports
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations had been “taken at the highest level”, the state TASS news agency reported. The decision needs to be followed up with various legal procedures in order to make it a reality, President Vladimir Putin’s special representative…
Read MoreIsraeli Airstrikes Rock Southern Suburbs Of Beirut And Cut Off A Key Crossing Into Syria
Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in southern suburbs of Beirut and another that cut off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria. The new wave of strikes came after Israel warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a United Nations-declared buffer zone, as the yearlong conflict…
Read More10 Prince George’s students charged with making dozens of school threats
Ten children ranging in age from 13 to 16 have been charged in connection to nearly 50 threats made to Prince George’s County schools over the past several weeks, police say. Investigators linked the 10 students to 47 school-related threats, police said. Four more children who are under 13 years old were also involved in…
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