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(CNN) -- In response to the ongoing situation at Canada's Parliament, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has increased its alert posture, CNN has learned. That means that it has increased the number of planes on a higher alert status ready to respond if needed. NORAD and Canadian law enforcement and Canadian authorities are in contact, an official told CNN.

Al-Qaeda has set up an Islamic emirate in Derna, in eastern Libya, headed by a former U.S. prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, the country's deputy foreign minister told EU ambassadors in Tripoli. However, residents in the city have told reporters there is no substance to these rumors, which they claim the Libyan government is sowing to "scare Europe." "Al-Qaeda has established an emirate in Derna led by Abdelkarim al-Hasadi, a former Guantanamo detainee," Khaled Khaim said. "They have an FM radio station and have begun to impose the burqa" (head-to-toe covering for women) and have "executed people who refuse to cooperate...

Six Arrested in Alleged Fort Dix Murder Plot Tuesday , May 08, 2007 CAMDEN, N.J. — Six people were arrested on Monday in connection with an alleged plot to murder soldiers at Fort Dix, the U.S. attorney's office said. Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey, said the men are from the former Yugoslavia and were planning to "kill as many soldiers as possible." Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, he said. Drewniak said the six were scheduled to appear in federal court in Camden later Tuesday to face charges of conspiracy to kill...

Asia-Pacific | Pakistan | Terrorism An entry by Nitin Pai of The Acorn The jihad of southern Thailand was planned in northern Pakistan Thaksin Shinawatra, the Thai prime minister, has armed himself with emergency powers to tackle the upsurge in violence in Thailand’s southern provinces this month. And here too, the role of Pakistan’s madrassas and terrorist camps stands out. Karachi’s reputation as a training camp of international terrorists has been revealed: not only have the Indonesian bombers been facilitated here, but also hundreds of Pattanis of Thailand. The future map of Thailand was said to have been decided...

The following is report from the website Homeland Security.us... may or not be accurate.... 7 July 2005; 12:54 ET: Preliminary reports from a source inside the Pentagon indicate that one of the operatives involved in this morning's bombings in London was recently released from the prison at Guantanamo. DEVELOPING…

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of Thai school children and air force recruits have loaded an estimated 100 million origami birds onto military transport planes in preparation for a "peace bombing" of the violent Muslim south of the country. The little pieces of folded paper, to be dropped from the air on Sunday to mark the birthday of Thailand's revered king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, are meant to sow peace, harmony and goodwill in the three southernmost provinces, where an 11-month insurgency has claimed nearly 500 lives. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose government has struggled to get to the root of the violence,...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - President Bush (news - web sites) and Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) charged into a sharp final round of argument Saturday over which one can best fight global terrorism, the import of their debate underscored by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s sudden reappearance on tape at "a time of great consequence," in the words of the president. "The person that sits in the Oval Office will determine the outcome of the war on terror and the economy," Bush told supporters in Grand Rapids, Mich., after directing his national security aides to take...

Can we win a war without acknowledging that we are at war. No, we cannot. The quandary in which coalition forces find themselves in Iraq today, is a proof that unless the enemy is totally subjugated, we cannot even pretend that the war is over. And the premature proclamation, "Mission Accomplished," on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, on May 1, 2003, only helped our adversaries. We must know that our enemy, has no scruples. It respects nothing and is totally ruthless. We can not overwhelm it by being scrupulous. We will have to rearrange our priorities by accepting that...

Yahoo! News   Fri, May 30, 2003 Hunt for Iraqi Weapons Shifting Gears 47 minutes ago By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A large new U.S. team heading into Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction will shift its focus away from areas identified as suspicious sites before the war, the Army general heading the effort said Friday. Instead, the searchers will focus on areas where documents, interviews with Iraqis and other new clues suggest biological or chemical weapons could be hidden, Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton said. Dayton leaves Monday for Baghdad, where he will head the...

Heidelberg, Germany (dpa) - A couple go on trial in Germany Friday, accused of conspiring to set off a bomb at a U.S. base on the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.    The Turkish national and his American girlfriend deny any plot, saying chemicals were stockpiled in their apartment to prepare homemade fireworks. But a U.S. woman who was living in Heidelberg insists the girlfriend gave her a veiled tip to stay off the base.    It remained uncertain this week if the crucial witness would show up at the trial. Lawyers said her evidence might possibly be...

New smallpox terror alertby Malcolm Withers and Patrick HennessyA major terrorist alert was sparked today after it emerged the Government has bought 30 million anti-smallpox vaccines, enough to protect half Britain's population from a biological attack. Ministers have spent £32 million bolstering defences against the disease, after a review in the wake of the 11 September assault on the US pinpointed glaring deficiencies in Britain's shield against germ warfare. Today's deal with British company Powder-Ject Pharmaceuticals will help replenish stockpiles so that, within 12 months, health chiefs will have enough vaccine to protect at least half the population - more...