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Terrorists Could Use Explosives in Breast Implants to Crash Planes, Experts Warn

“Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered. The shocking new Al Qaeda tactic involves radical doctors inserting the explosives in women’s breasts during plastic surgery — making them ‘virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines.’ It is believed [...]

March 26th, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »

Texas office hit by small plane

[Additional reporting indicates that crash was, in fact, deliberate.] “A small, single-engine private plane has crashed into a seven-storey office building in Austin, Texas. Smoke could be seen billowing from the building, which houses offices of the federal tax agency. Most employees have been evacuated but one person is unaccounted for, a spokesman for the [...]

February 18th, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »

Hijack threat, AI planes put on high alert

“Government has put all Air India planes operating in the country’s neighbourhood on high security alert and directed the airlines to deploy sky marshals following intelligence inputs that Pakistan-based LET and other terror groups were planning to hijack a flight. A directive has been issued to all Indian missions abroad to sensitise the staff of [...]

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

Britain Tightens Anti-Terror Measures on Airlines

“Acting on intelligence failures exposed by the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a major tightening of British aviation security measures on Wednesday, including the creation of a new ‘no-fly’ list of terrorist suspects similar to one maintained by the United States.”

January 20th, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »

Man flees in Munich airport laptop explosives alert

“A passenger fled from security officers after his laptop computer bag tested positive for explosives at an airport in Munich, the country’s federal police told CNN on Wednesday. Police said they are searching for the passenger, who fled from the secure area of the airport into the public area of Terminal 2, police said. Part [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Posted in Global Risk News | Read More »