President Trump & Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[AdamG]

An ISIS-inspired terror plot targeting Times Square and the city’s subways — aimed at killing “thousands’’ and making “an ocean out of their blood’’ — has been foiled, authorities said Friday.
A trio of twisted wannabe terrorists, including a US citizen, were planning to strike the city over the summer of 2016, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadhan, officials said.

http://nypost.com/2017/10/06/three-m...to-attack-nyc/

[AdamG]

2013 Historical footnote on the Silicone Valley Network attacks,
link to the locked thread.
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=20044

I suspect we'll see this repeated, hence the position marker.

[AdamG]

2013 Historical footnote on the Silicone Valley Network attacks,
link to the locked thread.
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=20044

I suspect we'll see this repeated, hence the position marker.

I'll just leave this here...

PG&E workers found damaged tower and bullet holes near Camp Fire origin site

A California utility company said its crews found a damaged transmission tower and holes in a power pole at separate locations near the site where the Camp Fire started.

PG&E said in its Tuesday letter that inspectors later discovered that a hook connecting part of the transmission line and the transmission tower was broken. They also found a flash mark on the tower.
The company also detailed a second outage at another location. That incident was reported a few miles away from the first outage and about 15 minutes after the wildfire started.
When crews went to check the outage a day later, the letter states, they "observed that the pole and other equipment was on the ground with bullets and bullet holes at the break point of the pole and on the equipment."
Meredith E. Allen, PG&E's senior director of regulatory relations, explained that details about the incidents are preliminary and they remain under investigation.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/us/pg...ges/index.html

And from PJ Media, as posted in this here thread -
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...l=1#post212469

With a long history of the terror group encouraging wildland arson, al-Qaeda supporters circulated a new poster through media channels highlighting "California burning."

"They will question you about the mountains. Say: 'My Lord will scatter them as ashes,'" says the text citing the Quran, imposed over news photos from the blazes.

The al-Qaeda propaganda comes shortly after one of the many media groups supporting ISIS operations online claimed that the deadly wildfires in northern and southern California are retribution for coalition bombings in Syria.

The image circulated online by Al-Ansar Media uses a photo of a burning building and misspelled the state "kalifornia."

[AdamG]

A wave of bomb threats were reported against businesses, schools, hospitals and other places across the country on Thursday, authorities said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...onwide-n947671

At this time it's unclear if the threats -- which have been received in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Miami, Washington, DC and other locations nationwide -- are connected. The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said they are aware of the threats and are working with law enforcement to provide assistance.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/us/em...ats/index.html

[AdamG]

Al-Qaeda is resurgent and seeking to carry out new terrorist atrocities against airliners and airports, the security minister Ben Wallace warned last night.

The terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks in 2001 poses a growing threat that is keeping ministers “awake at night”, he told The Sunday Times.

Wallace said intelligence had revealed that al-Qaeda was developing technology to bring down passenger jets. Whitehall officials say that could include miniaturised bombs. Islamists have also plotted to use drones packed with explosives to blow up key targets.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...ners-mlj3lgf87

[AdamG]

Federal air marshals are being moved to the back of the plane -- some of them, at least. The undercover agents who are posted randomly to protect U.S. airliners are -- for the first time -- going to be assigned regularly to seats toward the back, sources briefed on the Transportation Security Administration’s plans told ABC News. Until now, the marshals were always assigned seats toward the front of the planes.

The new deployments are scheduled to go into effect Dec. 28.

Officials at the TSA, which controls the Federal Air Marshal Service, declined to discuss specifics, citing policies that require operational details to be kept secret.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-...ry?id=59974300

Seems indiscreet to make this announcement, unless the TSA agents will really be hiding in the overhead compartments (like something Vizzini would cook up).