Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
Man kills himself instead of carrying out US amusement park shooting, police say
A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carrying out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday. The 20-year-old man was found dead at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on Saturday morning before it opened to the public, apparently breaking into the park while it was closed. He…
Read MoreLeeds hospital patient talked down bomber, terror trial told
A patient “saved many lives” by talking down a hospital worker who planned to “kill as many nurses as possible” with a homemade bomb, a court has heard. Mohammed Farooq, 28, brought a pressure cooker device to St James’s Hospital in Leeds on 20 January to “commit a terrorist atrocity,” prosecutors claim. The clinical support…
Read MoreIsrael strikes Hamas terrorists inside Gaza tunnels
Israel has struck Hamas gunmen inside their vast tunnel network beneath Gaza, its military has said. “Over the last day, combined IDF combat forces struck approximately 300 targets, including anti-tank missile and rocket launch posts below shafts, as well as military compounds inside underground tunnels belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation,” the Israel Defense Forces…
Read MoreCops were sent to Maine gunman’s home weeks before massacres amid concern he ‘is going to snap and commit a mass shooting’
The US Army asked local police to check on the reservist who killed 18 people after a soldier became concerned he would “snap and commit a mass shooting,” according to information shared with CNN. Officers from the Sagadahoc County and Kennebec County Sheriff’s Offices responded and tried to contact Robert Card on September 16, less…
Read MoreEx-GCHQ man jailed for life after stabbing US security worker
A former UK intelligence worker has been jailed for stabbing a US government employee. Joshua Bowles, from Cheltenham, attacked the woman in a leisure centre car park, three miles from GCHQ’s base, in March. He pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assaulting a second person, causing actual bodily harm. The 29-year-old was handed a life…
Read MoreAssault in SF leads to police pursuit, ‘suspicious devices’ thrown at officers, officials say
A dangerous police chase took place across the Bay Bridge and into the East Bay, and it all started when a man walked into one of San Francisco’s most well-known churches. ABC7 News spoke to the pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church in SF, right next to Washington Square Park in North Beach. He…
Read MoreUK to hold emergency response meeting on threat of terrorism
Britain will convene a meeting of the government’s COBRA emergency response committee on Monday to discuss the domestic security risk from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents have surged in Britain since a deadly rampage by Hamas gunmen in Israel on Oct. 7 sparked retaliatory attacks on Gaza. Massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been held…
Read MoreIndia police detain man as suspect in explosion that killed 3 people at Jehovah’s Witness gathering
Police in southern India detained a man for suspected involvement in setting off explosives at a Jehovah’s Witness gathering in southern India that killed at least three people and wounded 50 others, authorities said Monday. Hundreds of faithful were at a prayer session Sunday at the Zamra International Convention Center in the town of Kalamassery…
Read MoreHundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel
Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and rushed onto the landing field, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, Russian news agencies and social media reported. Russian news reports said the crowd on Sunday surrounded the airliner, which belongs…
Read MoreMaine shooting suspect found dead in cargo trailer, motive still a mystery
The U.S. Army reservist who sprayed a bowling alley and bar with gunfire this week in Lewiston, Maine, killing 18 people, took his own life inside a cargo trailer parked on the lot of a recycling plant where he once worked, police said on Saturday. Robert R. Card, 40, was found dead on Friday evening…
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