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City of Pewaukee - A group of men reportedly emerged from a wooded area laughing and filmed themselves outside a transmission company less than an hour after the company's electrical towers were found collapsed in Oak Creek, City of Pewaukee police said Thursday. An officer responded to a report of suspicious people at American Transmission Co. after two employees of that company and a security officer at We Energies in Pewaukee told police they saw the men shooting video and taking pictures outside the transmission company, according to a police report. Police said they haven't found the men since they...

<p>U.S. national security agencies are on alert for a terrorist attack after the discovery that a Middle Eastern man carried out suspicious surveillance of the Washington Monument, the Pentagon and other buildings in the area.</p> <p>The man in question videotaped the Washington Monument on the Mall on Sept. 1 and paced off several distances around the monument, according to U.S. intelligence officials.</p>

<p>June 30, 2004 -- Two security guards working at Iran's U.N. mission were kicked out of the country for spying last week after they were caught videotaping New York City landmarks, authorities said yesterday. It was the fifth incident in less than three years involving Iranian guards.</p>

NITED NATIONS, June 29 - The United States has expelled two security guards at Iran's United Nations mission after they were seen filming and photographing New York landmark buildings and parts of the city's transportation system, American officials said Tuesday. "They were asked to leave because we were very concerned about their activities, which weren't compatible with their stated duties," said Richard A. Grenell, the spokesman for the American mission. The language is common diplomatic wording for espionage cases. The two men were ordered out last weekend after pairs of Iranian guards had been seen for the third time in...

Three men are in custody this hour after allegedly photographing sites around the local refineries Wednesday in Delaware County. Police sources confirm that the three men are in custody and are being questioned about their activities. The men were apprehended by Marcus Hook police. The FBI will assist with the investigation. Sources also tell Action News that the alleged suspects were videotaping the refineries and tanker ships.

HOMELAND INSECURITYTexas plant guard sticks to storyMan shot near port facility says FBI doesn't believe him Posted: January 28, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The guard shot at a chemical plant near a Texas port is sticking to his story about a Mideast gunman, but he says the FBI doesn't believe him. The shooting in Freeport at a BASF ammonia depot occurred late Friday night in a muddy lot outside the plant. Robert House was working security when he said he noticed a suspect in a white pickup truck taking pictures of the facility's lights. House says when he confronted the...

The strange case of an Iraqi agent caught operating on American soil. His arrest may be the first of many. KHALED DUMEISI, a newspaper publisher in northern Illinois, was surprised when federal agents showed up at a modest condominium in suburban Chicago to arrest the man known to his colleagues in Iraqi intelligence as "Sirhan." He shouldn't have been shocked. First, the FBI, according to a complaint unsealed Wednesday in Illinois, had the goods on Sirhan. Among his offenses: supplying false press credentials for Iraqi intelligence agents; spying on Iraqi opposition leaders--at times, using a mini-camera implanted in the end...

<p>Three men caught with camera equipment on the grounds surrounding the nuclear power plant were arrested and interrogated by federal and local authorities.</p> <p>The trio, who police say came to the United States as teenagers from Iran, were spotted at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Saturday morning walking along a restricted beach near the plant. They were arrested on trespassing charges. The men told authorities they were hiking.</p>

SEATTLE - Boeing's head of security sent his staff an e-mail this month warning that people had been conducting "very disturbing surveillance" of the company's facilities in Western Washington and elsewhere. The e-mail, as described in Saturday's editions of The Seattle Times, offered no details beyond that "apparent Middle Easterners" were seen conducting the surveillance. Chief Security Officer Greg Gwash urged his personnel to heighten "surveillance detection measures ... especially during hours of darkness, to detect any reconnaissance being done in advance of a future attack," The Times reported. Boeing has been mentioned as a hypothetical terrorist target since Sept....

Three men who were caught videotaping a water filtration plant in Easton, Conn. have been released because there was no evidence that the water supply was tampered with authorites said Friday.According to police and FBI agents, the men, of Indian descent, were just taking shots of the reservior with a new video camera Thursday evening.'We are absolutely certain that the water is safe and that there was no tampering,' said Easton Police Chief John Solomon at a news conference.The men, identified as 21 year old Juned Ahmed Chowdhury, and 19 year olds Hassan Choudhury and Redwander Choudhury, were held overnight...

SWAT Team Takes High Tech Cameras Residents in one downtown Atlanta community called police after they noticed at least two cameras mounted on street lamps near businesses close to West Peachtree and Baltimore Place. The residents say the cameras seemed to have the Atlanta skyline as their focus. Security guard Bernadine Johnson told 11Alive News that a resident pointed the cameras out to her earlier in the day. "And she said, 'Right up here on these two poles.' And I walked up there with her and said OK and called 911," Johnson said. The Atlanta police sent a SWAT team ...

Men filming ferry ride raise suspicion The Associated Press State ferry officials have told the U.S. Coast Guard and the Washington State Patrol about two groups of men taking extensive videotapes on state ferries in the past 10 days. Four men who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent were videotaping, taking notes and talking on cellphones during two round trips June 24 on the ferry Spokane between Edmonds and Kingston, said Susan Harris of the Washington State Ferries. "They seemed to be filming more of the interior of the cabin rather than the normal tourist filming, which is always...

VANITY POST: I have been trying recently to compile any articles of Arabs within the United States or Europe taking pictures of Nuclear Plants, Chemical Plants, large buildings.

Men taking photos at Navy base held by INSBy JACK DORSEY, The Virginian-Pilot© June 27, 2002 NORFOLK -- Five Hispanic men taking photos near a Norfolk Naval Station pier were detained Tuesday afternoon by police and immigration officials after obtaining access to the facility without permission. Four of the men were unable to provide authorities proof of citizenship, or their immigration status. A fifth, who could produce documentation, was released. ``They were down by one of the piers shooting photographs, like they were tourists, or something,'' said Cmdr. Mark McDonald, a spokesman for the Navy's Mid-Atlantic Region, headquartered in Norfolk....

Men Flee Airport After Taking Photos Reported By: Joel Thomas Web Editor: Manav Tanneeru Last Modified: 6/22/2002 12:22:44 PM Fulton County police issued a Be On The Lookout, or BOLO, for two men who were observed taking pictures of the aircraft and facilities of Raytheon Aircraft Thursday at the Fulton County Municipal Airport-Charlie Brown Field. The two men fled when Raytheon employees approached them. The men drove away in a tan PT Cruiser bearing the Canadian tag AMMZ226. One of the men was described as a white male, about 40 years old, heavy set and standing about 5 feet 10...