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Entries Tagged ‘terrorism’

Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More

New York Times
May 13, 2009
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.
The responding officers — eight teenage boys and [...]

Man Detained As Terror Suspect For Photographing Police Car

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Despite police claiming that an ambiguous section of the UK Counter Terrorism Act of 2008 would not outlaw taking photographs or film of police, a man was detained as a terror suspect this week simply for taking a photograph of a police car in order to document police misconduct.
62-year-old [...]