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This just came out about an hour ago: (Pakistan Daily Times)

Airports security beefed up

By Hasan Mansoor

KARACHI: The aviation authorities on Saturday declared a red alert at all airports across the country, which officials said was “a routine practice exercised ahead of Muharram every year”.

“There is no specific threat,” said a senior Airport Security Force official (ASF), who wished not to be named. “We have followed orders from senior officials.”

Keeping in mind the sensitivities surrounding the first Islamic month, the authorities had ordered that security arrangements be intensified at all airports in Pakistan, according to the official.

The official said visitors’ passes were cancelled at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport. Sources said a 72-hour alert had been ordered to thwart possible terrorism. “There will be high alert at airports for the next four days,” the official said.

Special commandos and officials from the ASF are keeping tight vigil at the airports, and luggage and passenger searches have been intensified, the official said.

The Crisis Control Centre, which was closed after the coalition forces completed major combat operations in Afghanistan, has been opened again. The official did not say whether security measures were strengthened after any specific threats were received from terror groups, including Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network.

Thousands of Pakistani military and paramilitary troops have launched a manhunt for Al Qaeda operatives in the country’s semi-autonomous tribal region of South Waziristan.

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http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/

EXCLUSIVE: 28 February 2004; Newburgh, NY-- Douglas Hagmann, director of the Northeast Intelligence Network, and Investigator "Skip" Callahan were in Newburgh, NY probing the unusual incident where the body of an unidentified diver was found in the Hudson River, near the Danskammer Power Plant. The above composite was made during the autopsy of the unidentified man; he is described as a white male, 5'7" tall, 160 pounds, with gold, double loop earrings in each ear. He also has two tattoos on his left chest and shoulder (one is a cross with the initials "C.M.M" and the other is of an angel with yellow hair). The man was wearing a mask and scuba gear when pulled from the icy Hudson River.

Investigators from the Northeast Intelligence Network are investigating the possibility that this man might be part of a larger terrorist operation referenced in a number of jihad forums within the past year. Based on the presence of federal authorities in Newburgh, NY, it would appear that they are considering the same possibilities. Developing...