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Five-Year Intelligence Assessment: Terror Threat Driven By Instability In Middle East, Africa
WASHINGTON — The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press.  ...
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usatoday.com — USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs... and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA. The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the ... (more) USATODAY.com
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Trouble Brewing
BlondeSense — ... are increasing as the economy lies moribund, and the recent elections were a joke. Mugabe will only leave office feet-first. Please refer to my earlier indication that he is 84 years old. Obviously he doesn't have too much longer to go, and it's only a matter of time before he either goes by natural causes or some member of his own staff puts a bullet in his brain. We'll have to watch this too. And finally, in our "No Shit" Department, we have word that a recent report from the Heimatsicherheitsdiensthauptamt (or Department of Homeland Security) concludes that we can expect ...

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