Terrorism News

A new edition of an al Qaeda magazine praises the Boston Marathon bombing, blessing the attack and calling the suspected bombers "two great brothers."  "The act of the two great brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar, is but the true image reflected by the bloody deeds of your hands, reflected by the oppressive policies of your downtrodding regimes," the magazine says.  "Americans, you should understand this simple equation: as you kill, you will be killed."

..."The Blessed Boston Bombings (BBB) have been an absolute success on all levels and domains," the magazine says.  "By tracking the course Tamerland and Dzhokhar -- may Allah reward them -- ran along April 15 until they crossed their own finish line... we can confidently say that the real worthy winners of the Boston Marathon were the Tsarnaev mujahideen Brothers."

The magazine also made an apparent reference to its possible link to the attacks, saying that "lone-Jihad is impossible to counter and stop, except when basic cooking ingredients and building material become illegal!" 

Read more:  ABC News

Fort Meade officials plan to close the main gate of the Army base in Anne Arundel County on Saturday, and police could limit traffic on surrounding roads during a mass demonstration for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.  Officials expect hundreds to march in support of Manning, the former Potomac resident and Montgomery College student who has acknowledged giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.

Manning has been charged with aiding the enemy and violating the Espionage Act.  His court martial begins at Fort Meade on Monday.

Read more:  The Baltimore Sun

A letter addressed to President Obama that may have been contaminated with the deadly toxin ricin is similar to two ricin-laced letters recently sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Secret Service said Thursday.  A screening facility for mail sent to the White House intercepted the recent letter sent to Mr. Obama, Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said. The letter has been turned over to the FBI's joint terrorism task force for testing and investigation.  CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports that the letter was postmarked from Shreveport, La.

Shreveport was also the postmark for the two contaminated letters sent to Bloomberg in New York and his gun-control group in Washington.  Orr reported Thursday that, according to two sources, the letter sent to Bloomberg carried the following threat:  "You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns.  Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face.  The right to bear arms is my constitutional, God-given right and I will exercise that right till the day I die.  What's in this letter is nothing compared to what I've got planned for you."

Read more:  CBS News

Anonymous letters sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the director of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns in Washington, DC contained material that preliminarily tested positive for ricin, according to NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne.

According to a statement released on Wednesday, the letters potentially containing the deadly poison were sent to Mayor Bloomberg on Friday and to the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns on Sunday.  It is believed that the letters threatened Bloomberg and made reference to the gun control debate.

Civilian personnel who came into contact with the letters were not presenting symptoms.  However, members of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit who came into contact with the letter sent to Bloomberg were still being examined for minor symptoms of ricin exposure.  The incidents are being investigated by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and the NYPD Intelligence Division.

Source:  Fox News

A Detroit teen has been charged with domestic terrorism for an alleged threat against the St. Mary’s Polish Country Fair.  Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard says the teen was arrested at his home he after allegedly Tweeted pictures of himself posing with weapons and the words: “We can’t wait till St. Mary’s Fair.”

Bouchard said the images, posted via the photo application Instagram, showed the 16-year-old boy with a handgun, an assault rifle, and several fully loaded high-capacity magazines.  “There was pictures, a Tweet, and other kinds of social media that kind of led us to him,” Bouchard told WWJ Newsradio 950?s Sandra McNeil.  Bouchard said the threat wasn’t made public because the teen was arrested and extra security was added at the holiday weekend fair on the Orchard Lake St. Mary’s Campus.

Read more: CBS