President Trump & Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[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).