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Security incidents reported outside London. Coventry, Brighton, Swindon and other English towns affected, some have shut railway stations.

European nations tightened security after today's deadly bombings struck London, fearing more attacks across the continent.Italian Interior Minister Guiseppe Pisanu said all of Europe had raised its alert level.Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero said he had ordered the Interior Ministry to activate 'all of the alert and prevention systems.'Italy's civil aviation authority placed all Italian airports on maximum alert level.French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin but France on the second highest level of security after convening with his defence, interior and foreign ministers.

After the light plane came within three miles of the White House, Scott McClellan held a press conference in which he chronicled the events with the lost pilot. Several of the questions were aimed at when was the President notified that a red alert was declared. Scott was not sure exactly when W. was notified, but today the liberal press starting working him over like a rented mule. The press, most of whom disagree with everything Bush has done, started questioning McClellan about the protocols surrounding the red alert. I am sure all of this was done to once again...

Jerusalem police went on a high state of red alert on Sunday evening following multiple intelligence warnings over Palestinian intensions to carry out suicide bombing in the capital, police said. Police and security officials were stopping cars and erecting checkpoints at the various entrances to the city. Palestinian terror organizations have vowed to carry out a wave of attacks following the killing of two top Hamas leaders, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas' founder, and Abdel Aziz Rantisi, his successor. A total curfew has been in effect on the West Bank since Yassin's assassination.

WASHINGTON -- Some centrist Democrats may fret about front-runner Howard Dean's ability to match up to President Bush in a general election, but his college transcript sure could. Bush, who graduated from Yale University in 1968, had a less-than-stellar record, with what the president described as "gentleman's Cs." Dean's transcript shows the political science major sailing through a slight sophomore slump to earn mostly high marks his last two years. ... The transcript shows Howard Brush Dean III with a Park Avenue address and a course load reflective of those antiestablishment years. Dean took more than one class on Marxism...

“Don’t be surprised if in the coming hours or days we go to Code Red,” Hart said this morning in Washington. “It is almost inevitable.”

<p>TRENTON -- If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, the state's anti-terror czar says.</p>

If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home, the state's anti-terror czar says. "This state is on top of it," said Sid Caspersen, New Jersey's director of the office of counter-terrorism. Caspersen, a former FBI agent, was briefing reporters, alongside Gov. James E. McGreevey, on Thursday, when for the first time he disclosed the realities of how a red alert would shut the state down. A red alert would also tear away...

Lawton: Terror alert will be raised to red _sometime Associated Press The nation's terror alert will "inevitably" be raised from orange to red, signaling imminent attack, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton said Friday after a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. "It will come sometime," Lawton said in an interview on the Wisconsin Public Television program "Here and Now." She said she could not say when that would happen, though. "Not today, and maybe not Sunday, but we don't know when." Lawton met with federal officials as part of the National Lieutenant Governors Association...

If city cops are on edge, they have got good reason. Law Enforcement and city hosptials have been told that the thread of a cynaide attack or something similar is an immediate danger here in New York City.Hospitals across the city are keeping an eye on this new terror warning because of the specific language that the city health department is using. They are talking about a possible cynaide gas attack. All the hospitals in the city are now on 'Code Red' high alert.George Tenet CIA Director: [This Threat] 'It points to a plot to occur at the end of...

Listen to Dan Robinson's Report (RealAudio)  Robinson Report - Download 353k (RealAudio)   The directors of the CIA and FBI say the al-Qaida terrorist organization remains a serious threat to the United States. George Tenet In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Mr. Tenet said information points to the possibility of terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad. "The information we have points to plots, aimed at targets on two fronts, in the United States and on the Arabian peninsula. It points to plots timed to occur as early as the end of the Hajj, which occurs...

The facts are this: a substance was found in Nicholl's shoe, not on her person. the rehab wanted to settle this internally but a patient called the cops......Sounds like a dem plant working overtime to me

Wednesday May 22, 11:02 PM Missile-carrying Indian warships sail near Pakistan, air force on alert Missile-carrying Indian naval warships steamed into the Arabian Sea, closer to Pakistan, as military tensions between the two South Asian nuclear neighbours soared, officials here said."We have moved five frontline ships of the eastern fleet to be cross-deployed to the western seaboard to augment the force levels," Naval spokesman Commander Rahul Gupta said.Highly-placed naval sources told AFP that four of the vessels are armed with missiles but the spokesman declined to elaborate on the redeployment, which comes in the middle of heightening military tensions between...

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