- Canada to provide C$15 million for Ukraine demining
December 5, 2022
The Government of Canada said Monday that it will grant 15 million Canadian dollars (10.5 million euros) to Ukraine for the purchase of equipment needed for humanitarian landmine clearance. Specifically, the assistance will help fund the detection and removal of landmines, unexploded ordnance and other explosive remnants of war, ‘The Globe and Mail’ has reported. In this ...
- Spain tightens security after suspect packages found at government buildings
December 1, 2022
Spain has ordered increased security at government buildings and embassies after the discovery of six letter bombs and incendiary devices over the past seven days, including one that exploded at Ukraine’s embassy in Madrid on Wednesday, lightly injuring an employee. As well as the Ukrainian embassy, devices have been sent to the prime minister, the defence ...
- Military pledged to remove unexploded bombs from this island – native Hawaiians are still waiting
November 29, 2022
For the better part of two years, Liliu Ross had lived in a one-room tin-roofed shack in the rural outer reaches of Hawaii’s Big Island. It had no running water and no electricity. But it provided shelter for Ross as she raised sheep and grew crops on land that her Native Hawaiian ancestors once called ...
- Bomb-sniffing dogs are in short supply across the U.S.
November 29, 2022
It’s no secret that dogs are good at smelling and finding things — food of course, but some are able to track a person’s scent or sniff out illegal drugs like heroin, and some are even good at smelling danger. Like bombs. For decades, dogs have been used by various departments — police, Homeland Security, the ...
- U.S. Transportation Security Administration releases its 2023 explosives detection canine calendar
November 28, 2022
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released its annual calendar today, which honors the agency’s more than 1,000 explosives detection canines working in the United States. TSA’s 2022 Cutest Canine Contest winner, Eebbers, is featured on the cover of the 2023 TSA Canine Calendar. Eebbers, now retired, is an 11-year-old explosives detection canine who worked at Minneapolis-St. ...
- Drones manufactured in China commonly used in America now pose a huge national security threat
November 27, 2022
While Joe Biden apparently cozied up to the Chinese Communist Party in his shady business dealings with his son Hunter, we are now seeing a disturbing trend taking hold in the U.S. as hundreds of so-called “recreational drones” manufactured by Chinese company DJI have found their way into restricted airspace around Washington, D.C., Politico reports. According ...
- Saskatchewan: Traffic Stop Results in Firearms and Explosives Possession Charges
November 21, 2022
On November 20, 2022, at approximately 6:15 a.m. a member of the Regina Police Service Canine Unit conducted a traffic stop in the 200 block of King Street. When officers approached the vehicle they could see the front passenger was wearing a camouflage, bullet proof style vest. When officers opened the front passenger door, they observed ...
- British Columbia: Penticton man who detonated homemade bombs in parks and near elementary school sentenced to nine months behind bars
November 21, 2022
A Penticton man who admitted to placing and detonating homemade bombs in public parks last spring has been sentenced to nine months behind bars. Blair Robert Balch, 50, appeared in Penticton Provincial Court Monday before Judge Gregory Koturbash, having pleaded guilty to exploding multiple improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, in March 2021 that left the community ...
- FBI probing cases of bomb-laden drones in US
November 17, 2022
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday the agency is investigating several cases in which people sought to fly drones equipped with home-made bombs within the United States. “We are investigating, even as we speak, several instances within the US of attempts to weaponize drones with homemade IEDs,” Wray told a Senate hearing, referring to improvised explosive ...
- Canada: Trudeau pledges $1 million for clearing landmines, cluster bombs in Cambodia and Laos
November 14, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has wrapped up his first stop of a tour in Southeast Asia by announcing nearly $1 million to help remove unexploded landmines and cluster bombs from the region. He made the $990,000 pledge at an event focused on women in security as the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations drew ...
- US to reward informant who will help capture 3 al Shabaab leaders
November 14, 2022
The US government has increased the reward for each of the three wanted al Shabaab leaders to $10,000,000 (Sh1 billion). Those who may help capture the three will be relocated if needed. The US embassies in Nairobi and Mogadishu were Monday, November 14, scheduled to announce the reward in Nairobi. Initially, Mahad Karate, also known as Abdirahman Mohamed ...
- Pennsylvania: ISIS supporter sentenced to 17 years for bomb plot targeting Pittsburgh church
November 10, 2022
A Pittsburgh man who plotted to bomb a local church out of a desire to show support for the Islamic State group was sentenced this week to a 17-year prison term. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 24, who is originally from Syria and came to the United States, had shared his plan with an undercover FBI agent who ...
- Pennsylvania: Court sentences man for plotting with ISIS to bomb Nigerian church in US
November 10, 2022
A federal court in the United States has sentenced a Pennsylvania man, Mustafa Mousab Alowemer to 208 months (17 years and 3 months) for plotting with an international terrorist organisation, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to bomb a Nigerian church in Pittsburgh, US. Alowemer’s jail term would be followed by a lifetime of supervised ...
- FDLE Capitol Police introduces new detective K-9
November 8, 2022
The FDLE Capitol Police introduced their brand new detective K-9, Hunter. Hunter joined his Capitol Police handler two months ago. He is a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois-German Shepherd mix from Hungary. Hunter is trained to sniff and detect explosive compounds like black powder and TNT. Hunter will be partnered with Officer Getavius Zachary. To keep the Capitol Complex safe ...
- Texas: Man places object under statue moments before explosion in Downtown San Antonio
November 7, 2022
The FBI, the San Antonio police and fire departments are working to find the person responsible for an explosion that damaged a statue downtown. Around 3 a.m. Monday, authorities received reports of an explosion in the 300 block of West Commerce Street, according to the FBI. Video surveillance footage provided by Texas Public Radio showed a man ...
- American woman gets 20 years in prison for training and leading all-female ISIS battalion
November 4, 2022
A Kansas woman who spent years leading an all-female battalion of the Islamic State group in Syria was sentenced this week to 20 years for providing material support to ISIS. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, organized the “Khatibah Nusaybah,” a unit comprised solely of women married to ISIS fighters. While leading that group, she trained more than 100 ...
- FBI, Police, DM Airmen conduct explosives training
November 4, 2022
Airmen from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base participated in a joint exercise with local law enforcement and emergency responders in Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 2, 2022. The 355th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordinance disposal unit teamed up with the Arizona-based FBI and Tucson Police Department’s bomb squad to test their explosive and weapon of mass destruction emergency response ...
- New Jersey: Bomb Materials Found In Jersey Shore Motel, 1 Charged
November 4, 2022
A Maine man was arrested and charged last week with causing false alarm after improvised explosive material was found in his South Jersey motel room, authorities said. The scare took place on Oct. 28 at around 8:37 a.m. after Wildwood police responded to a call of an unwanted guest at the Mango Motel (209 East Spencer ...
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