ISIS is planning to kill thousands of people by sending drones delivering radioactive material over Western cities—or so British Prime Minister David Cameron warned last week at a summit on nuclear terrorism in Washington. Rather than carrying a “dirty bomb” to disperse material with explosives, the drones would work like toxic crop sprayers—”dirty drones” perhaps—and…
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Military Defense News: USMC Implements New Security Guard Detachments after Benghazi
It has always been said that New Regulations in the Military are Written in Blood and are Painfully Slow to Happen…This is a CLASSIC Case in Point. -SF The Marine Corps is taking big steps to help prevent another attack like the one on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 that left…
“No Yoga On the Plane Dude”: USMC Saves The Day (Again)
Marines Take Down Unruly Man Who Tried To Do Yoga On A Plane After a passenger became disorderly on a Tokyo-bound flight, a group of Okinawa-based Marines intervened. A Tokyo-bound United Airlines flight was forced to return to Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 26 after a man became violent, shouting “there is no god” while resisting…
Crusader Corner: The Islamic State in Europe; Terrorist Without Borders, Counter-Terrorist With All Borders
Belgian investigators have taken a beating since failing to disrupt the Brussels bombings last week. They took more than four months to locate Salah Abdeslam in the very neighborhood he grew up in. Belgian investigators also missed the network’s talented bomb maker, Najim Laachraoui, who escaped arrest on Friday only to resurface the following Tuesday…
Examining Terrorist Tactics: Soft Targets of Terror
ISIS has “upgraded”the Al Qaeda playbook and determined that several teams of shooters and bombers or suicide bombers working together and attacking multiple SOFT targets simultaneously is much more effective than one big operation against a hard target. Tactically, attacking multiple targets in unison let’s the terrorist take advantage of the mass confusion and the…
ERMAHGERD! Phone Gun!
I was ROLMAO as I read this….still am actually. Great Concept, but No thanks. -SF All the usual suspects are having a hissy fit because a company called Ideal Conceal has created a two-shot derringer that looks an awful lot like a smart phone. Oh noes!!! A concealed carry gun is coming out this year…
Security News: Dozens of New Car Models Can be Unlocked and Started with a Cheap Radio Amp
A group of German researchers from ADAC have published their work on extending last year’s amplification attack that let thieves steal Priuses with a $17 gadget that detected your key’s unlock signal and amplified it so it would reach the car. The researchers have shown that at least 24 different car models from 19 manufacturers…