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Man with gas cans, weapons in car arrested near G-20 site in Toronto

“A man with five cans of gas and an array of weapons in his car was arrested Thursday near the G-20 site in Toronto, security officials said. Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman Sgt. Marc LaPorte said the 53-year-old driver had pellet guns, a crossbow, gas tanks and chemical products in his car, and couldn’t explain [...]

June 24th, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News,Terrorism | Read More »

5 Killed in Turkish Army Bus Attack

“In the latest of a series of attacks on the Turkish military, a remote-controlled bomb killed 5 people and wounded 15 on a busy highway in Istanbul early Tuesday, the governor’s office announced. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, Turkish news reports suggested that the attack might have been carried out by the [...]

June 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News,Terrorism | Read More »

Lots of security incidents at military bases, but no connection seen

“The lockdown Monday morning of a Naval Air Engineering Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the latest in a number of security incidents at the gates of U.S. military bases across the country. While the incidents have been close together, the FBI, local police and the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Command (CID), have found no [...]

June 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News,Homeland Security | Read More »

China says it has cracked ‘major’ terrorist ring

“China said Tuesday that it had uncovered an unspecified ‘major terrorist organization,’ a claim that came just ahead of the anniversary of bloody ethnic rioting in the far western region of Xinjiang. The Public Security Ministry gave little information in its brief announcement, which also coincided with the launch of a government propaganda campaign to [...]

June 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News,Terrorism | Read More »

Three peacekeepers killed in Darfur attack

“Armed men killed three Rwandan peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region on Monday in the latest assault on members of the U.N./African Union (UNAMID) force. More than 20 camouflaged attackers opened fire on the peacekeepers as they guarded civilian engineers building a UNAMID base in the mountainous eastern Jabel Mara area — the site of rebel [...]

June 21st, 2010 | Posted in Dangerous Places,Global Risk News | Read More »