Homeland Security News

At least four Yemeni presidential guards were killed on Friday during a gun fight with militants who tried to storm the presidential palace in Sanaa, Al Arabiya correspondent in Sanaa reported Friday.  Heavy gunfire was heard in the area surrounding the presidential palace, and witnesses said the clashes were ongoing, Al Arabiya correspondent Hamoud Mansour said.

Meanwhile, an explosion was heard near a government building housing political security staff in the capital Sanaa, Reuters reported.  The violence in the capital flared just hours after the government announced the killing of a foreign militant and the capture of two others in the southern province of Shabwa.  The militant was who was killed was of Saudi citizen and those who were captured held French citizenships and were identified as Mourad Abdulla Abad and Taha al-Issawi.

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An alleged supporter of foreign terrorists came within a whisker of bailing out of jail Wednesday before a Sacramento judge stayed the release order pending the government’s appeal.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Allison Claire ordered Nicholas Michael Teausant released on $200,000 bail under restrictive conditions. But then she granted the request of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hitt to hold up the release while prosecutors take the matter to U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez.

That may come as early as Tuesday, when Teausant is scheduled to appear before Mendez for a status conference.  Teausant, a 20-year-old community college student and National Guard washout from Acampo, near Lodi, is charged in a one-count grand jury indictment with attempting to provide support and resources to a rebel group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

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