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What did Joe Biden mean when Chris Wallace asked him about the british hostage crisis and he responded with: "The Iranian are trying to string this thing along for another two weeks until we get to code red"? In 2 weeks 3 carrier task forces will be close to Iran.

THE US Department of Homeland Security is downgrading the threat level for inbound flights from Britain to "code orange" from "code red". The change came as Britain downgraded its security threat level to "severe" from "critical" as it appeared that police had apprehended all of the main figures in an alleged terror plot. "The security measures already taken have allowed us to address an imminent threat of attack for flights between the United Kingdom and the United States," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. "Let me be clear: this does not mean the threat is over. The investigation continues to...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryAugust 12, 2006 President's Radio Address       Audio      In Focus: Homeland Security      THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, America received a stark reminder that terrorists are still plotting attacks to kill our people. Beginning on Wednesday night, authorities in Great Britain arrested more than 20 individuals who we believe were plotting to detonate liquid explosives aboard flights from the United Kingdom to the United States. If these terrorists had succeeded, they could have caused death on a massive scale. The plot appears to have been carefully planned and well-advanced. They planned to bring...

The Brazilian electrician mistakenly killed by police in the aftermath of the second London bombings was being restrained by an officer before he was shot eight times as he was sitting on a Tube train, it emerged tonight. Witness statements and photographs from an independent police investigation leaked to ITV News also show that Jean Charles de Menezes did not run away from police at Stockwell Tube station in South London and was wearing only a denim jacket before he was shot dead on July 22. The evidence contradicts claims from the Metropolitan Police at the time that the Brazilian’s...

U.S. officials have obtained new intelligence deemed highly credible indicating al-Qaida or other terrorists are in the United States and preparing to launch a major attack this summer, The Associated Press has learned. The intelligence does not include a time, place or method of attack but is among the most disturbing received by the government since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a senior federal counterterrorism official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Tuesday. Of most concern, the official said, is that terrorists may possess and use a chemical, biological or radiological weapon that could...

The new message delivery system is far more efficient than the old one and operates at a fraction of the cost. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BROOKSVILLE - The 14-year-old girl vanished from a Bible study group last Wednesday. The only thing left behind was the church's cordless telephone she used to make a call and a backpack filled with her belongings. Racing against time to find a girl they thought was abducted, Hernando County investigators went to CodeRED, a new message delivery system that alerted residents in the area of the girl's disappearance. The system got results. The girl was found early Thursday...

After watching Microsoft stock fall despite this year's tech rally, Microsoft shareholders sharply questioned Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Steve Ballmer during the company's annual meeting yesterday in Bellevue. Investors in general are more skeptical after recent corporate scandals and, after three relatively weak years for Microsoft's stock, there were few cheers from the crowd of 1,250 at Meydenbauer Center. Shareholders did not go so far as to throw out any board members, all of whom were re-elected yesterday, and they approved changes to the stock-option plan that Ballmer proposed in July. But they asked when the company will...

<p>Terrorists are on the loose in New Jersey and some have been secretly locked up, the state's anti-terror czar said Wednesday night as U.S. forces massed to depose Iraq's Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>"Yes," said the state counter-terrorism chief, Sid Caspersen, on New Jersey 101.5 FM radio when asked if terrorists were afoot in the Garden State.</p>

Indications from government sources are that the already heightened Code Orange security alert Washington D.C. is operating under may be increased to 'Code Red' in the next 24 hours because of a heightened concern about a possible terror attack.Whispers learns that lawmakers are being encouraged to send their families back to their home states.Other government sources are freely talking about the increased security alert possbily coming as soon as Friday.Also, Equipment that can detect chemical and biological weapons has been deployed in Washington.And some government workers have been warned that if terrorism strikes, agencies might not be able to provide...

The attack targeted Microsoft database software Experts are warning that a malicious computer code which disrupted the internet may resume its attacks on Monday. In South Korea, which was badly affected by the attack, systems engineers are racing to repair internet networks amid fears Monday would bring new outbreaks as businesses switch on their computers for the new working week. "The problem is not completely resolved and we will have to have more of a sense of the importance of security" Lee Sang-Chul S Korea's Information Minister The South Korean Information Minister, Lee Sang-Chul, said he believed the problem...