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  • Influential AQAP ideologue killed in US drone strike (southern Yemen on Jan. 31)

    02/05/2015 12:49:26 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 9 replies
    longwarjournal.org ^ | February 5, 2015 | By Thomas Joscelyn
    Harith bin Ghazi al Nadhari, a senior AQAP sharia official, was killed in a US drone strike on Jan. 31. A US drone strike in southern Yemen on Jan. 31 killed Harith bin Ghazi al Nadhari, a senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) sharia official. Nadhari's death was confirmed in a "martyrdom" statement issued by the group via Twitter and other web sites earlier today. Nadhari praised the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices just days after the massacre on Jan. 9. He did not claim responsibility for the operation, but another senior AQAP official subsequently did. The...
  • Database program nets arrests of 22,0000 illegal immigrants with criminal records

    11/13/2009 9:17:01 AM PST · by Texican72 · 10 replies · 737+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | November 13,2009 | DIANNE SOLÍS
    More than 22,000 illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions have been arrested in Texas through a 1-year-old program that links FBI and federal immigration databases, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. About 12 percent of them, or 2,700 people, were charged or convicted of what authorities call "level one" crimes such as murder, rape, kidnapping or narcotics violations with a sentence of more than one year. (snip) Under the new system, fingerprints are run simultaneously through a national database to check criminal history and through a Homeland Security database to check the person's immigration status. All those arrested in jurisdictions...