Carrying a ''Fisher Island Chief of Police'' badge and claiming he was a U.S. air marshal, Mark Rimkufski convinced Miami airline employees to allow him on a flight after the gate had closed, police said. The ruse landed him in jail, Miami-Dade police said, when he was confronted -- by real air marshals on the plane. Rimkufski, 49, was later charged with falsely impersonating a law enforcement officer. He was scheduled to appear in Miami-Dade court Thursday but did not because he was hospitalized for unspecified reasons. There is no Fisher Island police department.
Rimkufski, a former island resident who also goes by the name Harry Henry Rimm, also faces a federal charge of impersonating an air marshal. When arrested, he was carrying nearly $14,000 in cash and had plans to travel to Los Angeles, Hawaii and Dubai.
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DHS to miss cargo screening deadline
2/25/09
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency cannot meet its 2012 deadline for radiological and nuclear screening of all cargos coming into the United States.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reports that recently, there has been a series of armed thefts of dangerous explosives from storage sites in Mexico many of these robberies occurred just across the border along the southwest U.S. Mexican border. The (ATF) is reminding all Federal explosives licensees and permittees of the importance of security at their explosives storage sites, and are advising all industry members to take heightened security precautions in light of these thefts. The ATF says "this advisory is a precaution and not due to any criminal intelligence."
Law enforcement on both sides of the border have been notified and alerted to the thefts. The ATF along with licensees and permittees connected to the explosives industry are to protect the public and as part of this ongoing effort, industry members are being commended by the ATF for their voluntary reporting of explosives thefts that occurred in Mexico to the U.S. Bomb Data Center.
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Pakistan ISI top boss met Osama aide
3/1/2009
In a development that reaffirms Pakistan’s duplicity and its links to the top terrorist organisations in the region, TIMES NOW has learnt that one of the top bosses of Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has held talks with Osama bin Laden’s key aides in Miram Shah in Pakistan’s restive Federal Administered Tribal Area.
In fact, highly placed intelligence sources have told TIMES NOW that around the time when Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi was visiting Washington and meeting officials of the Barack Obama administration and reaffirming Pakistan's determination to fight terrorism, a senior ISI official of the rank of a major-general no less was meeting Sirajuddin Haqqani considered an ally of the Taliban as also al-Qaeda Chief Laden.
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