The Wire Pulwama Terror Attack Preceded by 'Massive Intelligence Failure' The CRPF inquiry showed though intelligence agencies had alerted the force about a general IED threat, it did not have any “input” regarding a “threat from a car-borne suicide bomber”. New Delhi: In what could deeply embarrass the Union government, a CRPF internal report, according to India Today, stated that the February 14 terrorist attack on its convoy that killed 40 jawans in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir was preceded by a “massive intelligence failure”. The findings of the report belie the claims of the Union home ministry, which, in June denied an intelligence failure. “All agencies are working in a coordinated manner and the intelligence inputs are shared among various agencies on real time basis. The investigation by NIA into the Pulwama terror attack so far has resulted in identifying the perpetrators,” minister of state for home G. Kishan Reddy...

  Coast Guard makes contact with 4 missing crew members inside overturned cargo ship, rescue planned FOX 5 Atlanta ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. - The Coast Guard says they have been able to make contact with crew members trapped inside a cargo ship after their vessel overturned and caught fire.Officials said that salvage crews have made contact with at least the four missing crew members inside the Golden Ray. An extraction is being planned, though officials say the crew members' conditions are unknown.According to South Korea's Foreign Ministry, the four crew members are in the engine room of their overturned cargo ship awaiting help from a U.S. Coast Guard rescue team.The foreign ministry's statement also says the fire that prevented a rescue attempt is now extinguished. Coast Guard Lt. Kit Pace said Monday that rescuers have been able to board the ship.The statement says 10 South Koreans, 13 Filipinos were...

American Airlines Mechanic Accused of Sabotaging Flight With 150 on Board KTLA by Associated Press Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani appeared in federal court in Miami on Friday on a charge of willfully damaging or disabling a plane. Federal investigators say he admitted to tampering with a part that provides vital flight information to pilots.The pilots aborted the July 17 flight before takeoff in Miami. Alani, 60, was arrested Thursday. He had worked for American since 1988 but was suspended after his arrest.Court records from a lawsuit in California indicate that for some years, Alani worked both for American and Alaska Airlines until Alaska fired him in 2008 after several errors including failing to verify that repairs were working and installing the wrong battery on a plane. The Federal Aviation Administration suspended his mechanic’s certificate for 30 days, according to court documents.Alani, who was born in Iraq and became a U.S....

Homeland Security To Begin Testing New Drone Fronteras: The Changing America Desk By Michel MarizcoThe federal Homeland Security Department will begin testing a small drone to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.The department recently awarded a San Diego company Planck Aerosystems $200,000 to begin testing its small drone design along the border.The Border Patrol has flown the far larger MQ-9 Predator B drone since 2006 when Arizona topped the nation with illegal border crossings.Homeland Security predicts this new drone will be far more agile. Both the department and Planck claim the drone can land and take off from the bed of a moving vehicle. It will also be able to detect what the agency refers to as "targets." Read more: https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1155361/homeland-security-begin-testing-new-drone...

newKerala.com Sanaa (Yemen) Sept 4 : Many evidences have emerged from the role of terrorist outfits in the recent escalation in conflicts in Southern Yemen, via social media, the sources have confirmed. The concerted propaganda effort is targeted against the country's counter-terrorism forces, particularly those which cooperated with the UAE in their fight against Al Qaeda and the Islamist State.Several Yemeni social media accounts reveal a rather open coming together of Al Qaeda and ISIS elements on the one hand and Al Islah (Muslim Brotherhood's Yemen arm) activists on the other.Most of the propaganda and modes of escalation over the past few weeks are aimed at weakening UAE built counter-terrorism capabilities in South Yemen.The Al Islah call for military escalation originated in Ma'rib and Ibar and was directed to their forces known to have close links to AQAP and ISIS.The Governor of the Ma'rib province is an Al Islah leader....

EU launches counter-terrorism judicial database Business StandardAFP  |  Brussels  The European Union's judicial cooperation arm, Eurojust, launched a shared counter-terrorism database Thursday that officials said would be "crucial" for judicial action against terrorist suspects and organised crime.The Counter-Terrorism Register, operational from this month, will give investigators and prosecutors an overview of criminal proceedings made against suspects in other EU countries and in a few, data-compliant partner countries, Eurojust's chief, Ladislav Hamran, told a media conference."Now that terrorists operate more and more in cross-border networks, the EU must do the same," he said.The EU laid the groundwork for judicial data cooperation back in 2005 but the project stalled when some national law enforcement bodies in member states jealously guarded information.That changed in 2015, when jihadists staged attacks in Paris, killing 130 people in a concert hall, a national stadium and in several cafes, said Frederic Baab, a French former member at...

Taliban blast kills US soldier, several civilians in Kabul By Tameem Akhgar and Cara Anna KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban car bomb exploded and killed U.S. and Romanian service members and 10 civilians in a busy diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday, the second major attack this week as the Afghan government warned that a U.S.-Taliban deal on ending America’s longest war was moving at dangerous speed.U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, under pressure after announcing earlier in the week that “on principle” he and the Taliban had reached an agreement, returned abruptly to Qatar, site of the talks, later Thursday, officials close to the negotiations said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.The NATO Resolute Support mission, whose offices were near the blast, said the two service members were “killed in action,” without providing details or releasing...

Voice Of America Turkey Bracing For New Jihadi Threat By Dorian Jones ISTANBUL - Thousands of jihadis are set to seek sanctuary in Turkey with Damascus' forces laying siege to Idlib, the last Syrian rebel enclave. With Damascus determined to take control of all of Syria, analysts warn it's only a matter of time before Turkey faces an exodus of not only refugees, but also the arrival of extremist fighters, posing a significant security threat to the country.Syrian government forces are steadily tightening their grip on Idlib province, the last pocket of the rebel resistance. It's estimated about 3 million Syrians are holed up in the enclave, of which half have fled fighting in other parts of Syria."It poses a huge threat, roughly half-a-million refugees are piled at the border in ramshackle refugee camps," said analyst Atilla Yesilada of Global Source Partners. "If [Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-] Assad moves...

CBS Los Angeles ‘Terrorist’ Bomb Threat Forces Evacuations, Cancels Classes At Cerritos College NORWALK (CBSLA) – A suspect has been detained in connection with a bomb threat which forced evacuations at Cerritos College in Norwalk Tuesday, and later prompted the school to cancel classes for the day.Just before 2 p.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported that a suspect had been detained and all remaining classes for the day had been canceled. The all-clear was given around 2:10 p.m. and the campus was declared safe.The incident began nearly two hours earlier, when Cerritos College first reported that it had received a possible threat focused in the “drop-off area near theAdministrative Building” at the campus in the 11000 block of Alondra Boulevard.It all started when a suspect “walked into one of our classrooms and said that he was a terrorist and had a bomb with him,” college President Jose Fierro...

Washington Examiner Federal prosecutors charge New York man with joining ISIS by Tim Pearce Federal prosecutors have charged a New York man with aiding and joining the international terrorist group ISIS.The Department of Justice filed five charges against Ruslan Maratovich Asainov in a Brooklyn court on Tuesday. Asainov allegedly provided material support for ISIS while receiving training to become a sniper. He is also charged with obstruction of justice.Asainov was born in Kazakhstan but lived in Brooklyn from 1998 to 2013 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen before allegedly traveling overseas to join ISIS.The 43-year-old operated under two aliases, "Suleiman Al-Amriki" and "Suleiman Al-Kazakhi," according to the indictment.Asainov requested nearly $3,000 from a source to purchase a rifle scope in March 2015. He apparently received the money and later sent two photos to the source with him holding a rifle with a scope attached.Read more: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/federal-prosecutors-charge-new-york-man-with-joining-isis...

Asharq Al-Awsat US Treasury Sanctions 4 People For Funding Hamas by Heba El Koudsy -  Washington The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blacklisted four people for their affiliation with Iran.They facilitated the transfer of millions of dollars between Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and Hamas’s operational arm, the Izz-Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, to carry out terrorist attacks originating from the Gaza Strip, it said.“OFAC designated Muhammad Sarur, Kamal Abdelrahman Aref Awad, Fawaz Mahmud Ali Nasser, and Muhammad Kamal al-Ayy for providing financial, material, technological support, financial or other services to, or in support of, Hamas,” the Treasury announced.It pointed out that the financial facilitators are based in Lebanon and Gaza and are critical intermediaries between the Iranian regime and the Izz-Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades and end users in the West Bank.In partnership with the Sultanate of Oman, the Treasury sanctioned the four individuals under...

FOX 8 FBI: Teen Charged With Attempting To Provide Material Support To ISIS by Tribune Media Wire NEW YORK — A 19-year-old has been charged in federal court after he was arrested in Queens during an FBI national security investigation, officials and law enforcement sources said.Awais Chudhary, a naturalized American citizen born in Pakistan, is charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Chudary was arrested Thursday and made his first appearance in court Friday before being held without bail.“As alleged, Awais Chudhary planned to kill innocent civilians on behalf of ISIS and record the bloodshed in the hope of inspiring others to commit attacks,” United States Attorney Richard P. Donoghue said. “This office, together with the FBI, the NYPD and all members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force will continue working tirelessly to identify ISIS sympathizers like the defendant and prevent them...

Clarion Project Back to School: Islamist Indoctrination for US Kids? By Sarah Bandujo The new school year is upon us and Access Islam, a program backed by the Department of Education, is under fire again after being accused of being an Islamist indoctrination program. This program claims to educate school children about religious diversity, but it is specifically geared toward Islam. Children in grades 5 through 12 are required to learn about the Five Pillars of Islam then asked to make posters about them, read and interpret Islamic scripture from the Quran and provide examples on how Muslims implement these lessons into their everyday lives. In Virginia, students in the program were required to copy the shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, which declares, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” In New York, students were shown videos of Islamic terrorists justifying their attacks...

Police: Texas gunman was fired from job, called FBI before shooting By Paul J. WeberAssociated Press ODESSA, Texas - The gunman in a spate of violence after a routine traffic stop in West Texas had just been fired from his job and called both police and the FBI before the shooting began, authorities said Monday.Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator had been fired over the weekend from Journey Oilfield Services. He said both Ator and the company called 911 after being fired Saturday but that Ator was gone by the time police showed up. FBI special agent Christopher Combs says Ator's statements on the phone were "rambling."Authorities said Ator killed seven people and injured at least 22 others Saturday before officers killed him outside a busy movie theater in Odessa.FBI special agent Christopher Combs said Ator "was on a long spiral down" before the shooting on...

NBC Miami Woman Tosses Molotov Cocktail Into South Florida Citizenship Office The woman, Cellicia Hunt, was charged with maliciously attempting to damage or destroy a government building by fire By Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo A woman tossed a lit Molotov cocktail into the lobby of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Oakland Park, Florida. No one was reported injured, according to a report of the incident sent to Trump administration officials and viewed by The Associated Press.The woman walked into the office Friday afternoon and hurled a bottle filled with gasoline and a lit fuse. The fuse disconnected from the bottle and did not ignite, according to the report. Law enforcement officials believe the woman intended to cause harm but the incident wasn't related to other ones where Homeland Security agencies were targeted.Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, which handles legal immigration, said in...

BBC Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel from Lebanon The Lebanese Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah has fired several anti-tank rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a reported Israeli drone attack in Beirut last week.Israeli military sources confirmed rockets had been fired at an Israeli army base and military vehicles.The Israeli army responded by attacking targets in southern Lebanon.Hezbollah sources reported several Israeli casualties, but Israel said no-one had been injured on its side. The Lebanese military earlier said an Israeli drone had entered its airspace and dropped incendiary material on a forest along the border.The Israeli army has acknowledged it started a fire. Tensions on the frontier escalated in recent days. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49544819...

Texas shooter who killed 7 in Odessa identified by Perry Vandell, Arizona Republic PHOENIX – The mass shooter who killed at least seven people and wounded 22 in the Midland and Odessa area of Texas has been identified as 36-year-old Seth Ator.At a Sunday afternoon news conference, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said police knew the shooter's identity, but refused to release it to the media. Gerke said he wouldn't give the mass shooter additional notoriety. The shooter was later named in a Facebook post by the Odessa Police Department.The incident began when a gold-colored car was stopped by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper for failing to signal.Police say the shooter grabbed a rifle and shot at a pair of troopers through the rear-view window – wounding one – before driving away. He then sped off and continued his rampage, firing at motorists and pedestrians before hijacking a...

ABC News 10 teens shot at high school football game in Alabama, 17-year-old arrestedBy Emily Shapiro and Justin Doom A 17-year-old was arrested after 10 people were shot following a high school football game in Alabama, according to police.The victims in the shooting, which happened in Mobile, ranged in age from 15 to 18. They were rushed to area hospitals, officials said.No one died, according to authorities.Deangelo Parnell, 17, has been arrested and charged with nine counts of attempted murder, Mobile Police Department spokesman Laderrick Dubose told ABC News Saturday morning. Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste didn't confirm to reporters the shooting stemmed from an altercation, but he did admonish young people for "bringing their beefs that they have with each other in their neighborhoods" into public settings and "putting people in harm's way." Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-teens-shot-high-school-football-game-alabama/story?id=65309106...

Iranian satellite launch failed due to technical issues: Official Saudi Gazette DUBAI — An Iranian rocket exploded on its launch pad at Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran before its scheduled launch on Thursday, an Iranian official said.The launch was due to have taken place despite US warnings to Iran that it should avoid such activity."It was due to some technical issues and it exploded but our young scientists are working to fix the problem," the Iranian official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. He gave no further details.A US official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, also said that Iran suffered a satellite launch failure.The United States, Iran's long time foe, fears long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be used to launch nuclear warheads.Tehran denies the US accusation that such activity is a cover for ballistic missile development.Satellite imagery published by the...

Killer Drone Boomerangs Back to Kill ISIS Fighter Clarion Project A plan to attack Allied forces in Iraq backfired when a commercial drone outfitted with explosives by an ISIS fighter boomeranged back to kill him, reported The Sun.Drones are programmed to fly back to their owners if they aren’t sufficiently charged, which was apparently the case in this incident.Although the story was just released, a UK security source told The Sun that incident occurred after the battle for Mosul.“We learned this idiot had wired up his drone with explosives but was killed when its batteries ran low and it flew home. With a weak signal for some reason it detonated over his head,” the source said. “This caused quite a laugh for us, but the drone threat is very real.”Drones have been at the forefront of battles recently, with Iranian proxies in Yemen targeting Saudi Arabian civilian airports and military...