A man from Saudi Arabia was carrying a pressure cooker when reportedly arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport on May 11. Hussain Al Kwawahir flew from his home country and through Amsterdam before reaching the United States. Kwawahir supposedly told law enforcement officials that he was in America to visit a nephew attending the University of Toledo. Hussain Al Kwawahir was scheduled to appear in federal court on charges related to allegedly lying to a Customs and Border Protection agent. The Saudi Arabian man allegedly told the agent that he had packed a pressure cooker
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Beijing, China – With a very real threat from North Korea looming, Secretary of State John Kerry chose to focus on what he called “anthropogenic” global warming during talks in Beijing. During the talks, Kerry and his hosts agreed to raise the matter of climate change to the ministerial level in bilateral discussions. Kerry said this move will send the rest of the world a “significant message.” “We are seeing the science of climate change come back to us now at a rate that is far faster and with far greater levels of damage than
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security recently released its final report on Customs and Border Protection’s strategy in which it says that “tunnel activity” has been increased by 80% since 2008. “Since 1990, law enforcement officials have discovered more than 140 tunnels that have breached the U.S. border, with an 80 percent increase in tunnel activity occurring since 2008,” the report stated in its executive summary. The summary statement also stated that, “illicit cross-border tunnels along the southwest border of the United States represent a significant and
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A recently published survey that was conducted internally in the Army in 2011 shows that only 26 percent of active-duty Army officers believe the Army is headed in the right direction. Many of those surveyed identified “political correctness” imposed by both outside policymakers and senior Army leaders as the driving factor in what they perceived as a decline in their branch of the U.S. military. The 26 percent that said the Army is headed in the right direction reflects a significant drop from the 33 percent that thought the Army was heading
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A recent study funded by the Department of Homeland Security identifies potential threats to national security as including Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty” and “suspicious of centralized federal authority.” The study was produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, an organization launched with the aid of $12 million of DHS funding. Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States essentially omits Islamic terrorism, failing to even mention the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and focuses
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