Forty-four percent of countries have an identifiable risk of terrorist attack, according to Aon P.L.C.’s 10th annual terrorism and political violence map.
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Aon Risk Map shows that 44% of countries have terror risk
Thursday, May 16th, 2013Boston shows advantages and disadvantages of camera surveillance systems
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013After last week’s bombings at the Boston Marathon, authorities had to sift through a mountain of footage from government surveillance cameras, private security cameras and imagery shot by bystanders on smartphones. It took the FBI only three days to release blurry shots of the two suspects, taken by a department store’s cameras.
Compare their quick turnaround with the 2005 London bombings, when it took thousands of investigators weeks to parse the city’s CCTV (closed-circuit television) footage after the attacks. The cameras, software and algorithms have come a long way in eight years.
Arrests foil terror attack on Canadian train
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013Two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaeda, police said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, who live in Montreal and Toronto areas, were conspiring to carry out an attack against Via Rail, but posed no immediate threat.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10879208
26 killed in Baghdad suicide bombing
Friday, April 19th, 2013A suicide bomber has detonated explosives at a Baghdad cafe crowded with young people, killing at least 26 and wounding dozens ahead of provincial elections scheduled for the weekend.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/8571310/Scores-killed-in-Iraq-attacks
FBI releases surveillance camera footage of Boston bomb suspects
Friday, April 19th, 2013The FBI has released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10878458
Ricin in letters to Obama and US Senator
Thursday, April 18th, 2013Letters sent to President Barack Obama and a Mississippi senator have tested positive for poisonous ricin in preliminary checks, and authorities chased reports of other suspicious mail at a US Capitol already on edge.
An FBI intelligence bulletin said the letters to Obama and Senator Roger Wicker were postmarked Memphis, Tennessee.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10878232
2 killed, 23 injured, in Boston Marathon bomb attacks
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013Two bombs have exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing two people, injuring 23 others and sending authorities rushing to aid wounded spectators.
A senior US intelligence official said two other explosive devices were found nearby, and a third explosion was reported at JFK Library.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10877808
Attack on Afghan court leaves biggest death toll since 2011
Thursday, April 4th, 2013Nine Taliban suicide bombers killed themselves and 44 others today in an attack on a courtroom in western Afghanistan where 10 of their comrades were on trial, a local official said.
Causing the biggest death toll in a single attack since 2011, the militants, strapped with explosives, stormed the governor’s compound in the capital of Farah province, bordering Iran, where the trial was taking place.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/8506222/Insurgent-attack-in-Afghanistan-kills-44
NZ Sikh communiity leader arrested in India on historic terror charges
Thursday, March 28th, 2013A New Zealand Sikh community leader has been arrested in India on terrorism charges.
Manpreet Singh, a former president of the New Zealand Sikh Society Auckland and a JP, faces multiple charges including alleged involvement in seditious activities, masterminding a jailbreak and attempted murder of a jail staff, Punjab police said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10874109
UK faces a planned 7/7 level attack every year
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Islamist militants are less capable of organising plots on the scale of 9/11 but small groups of jihadists returning from Syria pose a grave threat to British security, the country’s two most senior counter-terrorism officers said on Thursday.
Every year, Britain’s security services are faced with at least one plan to carry out an attack on the level of the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings on London, known as the 7/7 attacks, which killed 52 commuters, the officers said.