January 6, 2010 - After a 2 hours meeting at the White House with heads of security and intelligence agencies, President Barack Obama declared that the intelligence agencies had gathered enough information on the terrorst to prevent the bombing attempt on the Amsterdam to Detroit flight on Christmas Day, but the information was not shared between agencies.
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UK: Government Anti-Terrorism Strategy 'Spies' On Innocent
The government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to gather intelligence about innocent people who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism, the Guardian has learned.
The information the authorities are trying to find out includes political and religious views, information on mental health, sexual activity and associates, and other sensitive information, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Other documents reveal that the intelligence and information can be stored until the people concerned reach the age of 100.
Tonight Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, branded it the biggest spying programme in Britain in modern times and an affront to civil liberties.
Read more »SKY NEWS: Terror Names Linked To Doomed Flight AF 447
June 10, 2009 - Among all the speculations around the cause of the Air France 447 accident (computer failure, frozen airspeed sensors), the terrorist attack has never been totally ruled out, but as the Sky News journalist says, the finding in the AF447 passengers list of the names of radical Muslims could simply be a "macabre coincidence".
Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged.
Freedom Of Speech At Stake In New York
Satellite TV Peddler to be Sentenced in New York for Letting Customers Get Station Run by Hezbollah.
Javed Iqbal was born in Pakistan and moved to the United States when he was a teenager three decades ago.
He earned his living running satellite TV companies, including the HDTV Corporation, which he started in 2000. Through this company, he allowed some of his customers to get Al-Manar, a station run by Hezbollah.
On August 23, 2006, agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force came to his home on Staten Island before 6:00 a.m. and knocked on his door, and he let them in. His wife was home, and their three young kids were asleep. Some of the agents kept Mrs. Iqbal in a room away from her children for four hours.
The others started to interrogate Mr. Iqbal. He had been in the hospital just two days before for a panic attack, but they initially wouldn’t give him his medication.
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