Category: Terrorism

April 29, 2008

New checkpoints tested at BWI

Filed under: BWI, Travel, Terrorism, Federal Gov't - 29 Apr 2008

Baltimore Sun
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff today unveiled a new checkpoint screening system being tested at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and announced other measures to make the process of providing identification at check-in less hectic for travelers.

The $2.1 …

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January 28, 2008

Fort Detrick lab 60% complete, won’t be in service until 2009

Filed under: BRAC, Military, Technology, Terrorism, Frederick - 28 Jan 2008

Frederick News-Post:
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is one of several labs planned or being built for the National Interagency Biodefense Campus.

Construction on the $143 million project is on schedule at 60 percent complete, and should be finished …

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July 25, 2007

Baltimore cabbie sentenced to 15 years in terror case

Filed under: Crime, Baltimore City, Terrorism - 25 Jul 2007

A cabbie from Gwynn Oak who pleaded guilty in April to aiding a terrorist organization (Lashkar-e-Taiba from Pakistan) was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison today. Mahmud Faruq Brent Al Mutazzim went to Pakistan in 2002 to a …

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