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"Norway: Lessons from a Successful Lone Wolf Attacker is republished with permission of STRATFOR." ... the lone wolf operational model presents a number of challenges for law enforcement, intelligence and security officers. .. When militants are operating in a cell consisting of more than one person, there is a larger chance that one of them will get cold feet and reveal the plot to authorities, that law enforcement and intelligence personnel will intercept a communication between conspirators, or that the authorities will be able to insert an informant into the group. ... Indeed, from Breivik’s diary, we know he took...

Experts have told us it's only a matter of time until a major earthquake rocks southern California. We begin in Sylmar, 39 years ago. It struck before sunrise at 6:01 a.m. Feb. 9, 1971. Sixty five people died in the magnitude 6.6 earthquake. Most of the deaths came when two big hospitals collapsed. At Olive View hospital, nurse Jim Hazard was on the second floor of psychiatric wing when the first floor disappeared beneath him. "I felt the sensation of falling like in a fast elevator," he said. Three people died in Olive View. "In the ICUs, the people who...

A couple was sentenced to prison Monday for a 2009 hit-and-run crash that killed a University of Southern California student and badly injured another who was trapped in the broken windshield as the car drove another 400 feet. Claudia Cabrera, 31, was sentenced to eight years in state prison and her husband, Josue Luna, 34, got seven years during a Los Angeles County Superior Court hearing. The judge issued the maximum sentence after tearful remarks from the dead student's mother and the survivor, Marcus Garfinkle. Prosecutors say Cabrera, who was driving on a suspended license, had her 7-month-old son in...

SAN DIEGO - Federal and state authorities are conducting a series of anti-terrorism training exercises this week at ports throughout California. The two days of simulations beginning Tuesday include an attack on a container ship at the Port of Oakland and a bomb to be located in San Francisco Bay by sea mammals trained by the Navy. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger started the annual training event in 2004 to improve homeland security and disaster preparedness. This year, more than 3,000 federal, state and local responders are focusing on counterterrorism response at California ports. Officials say there will be simulated attacks at...

Authorities said a woman was injured in an accidental shooting Sunday at a store that specializes in hunting and fishing gear in Rancho Cucamonga. The incident happened at 3:45 p.m. at the Bass Pro Shop when a customer brought two of his own guns to the shop to use at the indoor firing range. As he was checking in the weapons at the front door to verify that they were unloaded and to be trigger-locked, a bullet discharged within the carrying case and struck a customer standing in an aisle about 70 feet away, according to a spokeswoman for the...

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A sad ending, to the saga of a gray whale that captured public attention and concern as it spent several days in and near a Southern California harbor. The approximately 30-foot-long California gray, which had been nickanmed "Lily," died Friday afternoon and its body washed up on Doheny State Beach just south of Orange County's Dana Point Harbor. The carcass was later towed back out to sea, where it was allowed to sink to the ocean floor. The whale had dropped out of the California gray whales' northward migration and was found swimming listlessly in the Dana Point Harbor on...

New evidence filed in a lawsuit today say that in the crash of an LAPD squad car that killed a young Southland woman shows that the squad car was speeding. Seven months ago Devin Petelski, 25, tried to make a right turn from Glyndon Avenue onto Venice Boulevard, but she was broadsided by an LAPD squad car. The officers reported traveling about 40-45 MPH, but we have found convincing evidence that they were actually traveling closer to 80 MPH -- with no lights or siren. The truth according to hand-written accounts by the two officers in the police car that...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to present a revised budget plan Friday that would dismantle some of California's landmark healthcare programs after efforts to scale them back have been reversed by federal courts. The rulings, issued mostly over the last two years, have already forced the state to unwind roughly $2.4 billion in cuts approved by the governor and Legislature and have alarmed other financially strapped states seeking ways to balance their budgets. Schwarzenegger has lashed out at the federal judges, saying they've been "going absolutely crazy" and accusing them of interfering with the state's ability to get its finances...

The catastrophic earthquake that left at least 1.3 million of Haiti's 9 million people homeless was the final push over the edge for families that could barely afford to feed their children before. Now stuck in leaky tents with dwindling aid handouts, Haitian families are abandoning their children in the hope that rescue organizations will offer them a better life, aid workers say. A 4-day-old baby girl was left in a cardboard box outside a hospital. Toddlers are being found alone in hospital waiting rooms. Outside a private clinic, volunteers discovered a 3-year-old holding a bag of carefully folded underwear....

Icelike crystals encrusting a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box meant to contain oil gushing from a broken well deep in the Gulf of Mexico forced crews Saturday to back off a long-shot plan to contain the leak. The latest problem for BP comes as about a half dozen tar balls are washing up on an Alabama island. Coast Guard chief warrant officer Adam Wine said the tar balls had been collected by Saturday afternoon at Dauphin Island. He says the substance needs to be tested, but officials think it came from the oil spill. The buildup on the specially constructed containment box...

We uncovered thousands of unpaid parking tickets issued to personal cars of police officers and other law enforcement personnel ... and most of them never even received a violation notice in the mail reminding them that the ticket is overdue. That is because the license plates are registered to people, like police officers and others in sensitive jobs, who are allowed to hide their home addresses under the state's confidential records program. The license plates look like any others in the state, but if someone has access to a DMV computer, no personal information would show up. It's designed to...

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), senior Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said that provisions in the new financial regulatory bill violate privacy rights by allowing the government to collect any financial information it wants from any financial institution it wants. Shelby, speaking at a press conference outlining Republican concerns about the financial regulatory overhaul, said that the bill violated Americans’ privacy rights by allowing the government to collect any financial information from any financial firm. “I’m sure the ACLU – because we’ve heard from them – and others are looking at this very closely. I believe that it violates a...

The unemployment rate rose for the right reason. Instead of shedding jobs, employers added 290,000 jobs in April, the strongest showing since 2007. The reason the unemployment rate went up is that a lot more people are suddenly looking for work. The government said that the labor force swelled by 805,000 people in April. That's more than three times the number of new jobs, so the proportion of people looking for a job but unable to find one went up. Still, that big increase in the labor force marks an important shift in sentiment among people on the fringes of...

Find out if you are vested. All the money that you deposit into a 401(k) still belongs to you after a layoff. But you can only keep your employer's contributions if they are vested Make your move. You have several options to maintain the tax-deferred benefits of your 401(k) when you leave a job: You can keep the money in your old employer's plan, roll it into another tax-deferred account such as an IRA, or transfer your balance into a new 401(k) when you land your next position. Avoid transfer penalties. If you decide to move your retirement savings, have...

<p>A bad day in the financial markets was made worse by an apparent trading glitch, leaving traders and investors nervous and scratching their heads over how a mistake could send the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a 1,000-point tailspin. The Dow eventually rebounded to close down 347.80 points, or 3.2%, at 10520.32, its worst percentage decline since April 2009. Stocks from Dow components Procter & Gamble and 3M suffered precipitous declines. At one point shares of P&G tumbled 37%.</p>

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Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry and Canadian model Gabriel Aubry have split after four years together, according to multiple reports. TMZ.com reported Friday that the two are in negotiations to arrange a custody agreement over their 2-year-old daughter, Nahla Ariela Aubry. According to the report, Berry and Aubrey have agreed to "several short-term custody arrangements" but no permanent agreement has been struck. A source close to the situation told the website that the two are "working well together" and handling parenting duties "without conflict."

Funeral Services for Daryl F. Gates April 27, 2010 6:30 AM to 12 PM General Info The following is a list of street closures with affected times: Full Closures between 6:30 AM and Noon for funeral service: -Temple Street between Broadway and Grand Avenue -Hill Street between Temple and Ord Streets, and all of Hill Place Local Access Only (Court employees) -Hill Street between 1st and Temple Streets Intermittent Temporary Street Closures between 8:00 and 9:00 AM for the procession: -1st Street between Main and Hill Streets -Broadway between 2nd and Judge John Aiso Streets Suggested detour routes are as...

HAUNTED by the memory of a lost opportunity to kill Osama Bin Laden before he attacked the World Trade Center in New York, US military planners have won President Barack Obama’s support for a new generation of high-speed weapons that are intended to strike anywhere on Earth within an hour. Obama’s interest in Prompt Global Strike (PGS), a nonnuclear weapons programme, has alarmed China and Russia and complicated nuclear arms reduction negotiations. White House officials confirmed last week that the president, who won the Nobel peace prize last year, is considering the deployment of a new class of hypersonic guided...