Yemen nuclear material went unsecured for a week

WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured
Source: AP Wikileaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured (AP) – 54 minutes ago Cairo (AP) — A storage facility housing Yemen's radioactive material was unsecured for up to a week after its lone guard was removed and its Surveillance camera was broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable released by WikiLeaks revealed Monday. The message, dated Jan. 9, relates the worries of a Yemeni official, whose name was removed, about the unguarded state of a National Atomic Energy Commission facility. He..

Yemen's nuclear security lax
Published: Dec. 20, 2010 at 12:28 PM LONDON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- There isn't much standing in the way between nuclear material in Yemen and Terrorist groups, leaked U.S. diplomatic cables from January reveal. Stephen Seche, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, wrote in a January cable from Yemen to U.S. intelligence agencies that security at Yemen's national Atomic Energy facility was lax. "Very little now stands between the bad guys and Yemen's nuclear material," the secret cable obtained by Wikileaks an...

Al-Qaeda's dirty bomb source?
Holy crap! No one is guarding the store! (Hat Tip: Elder of Ziyon). ¶1. (S) The lone Security Guard standing watch at Yemen’s main radioactive materials storage facility was removed from his post on December 30, 2009, according toXXXXXXXXXXXX. XXXXXXXXXXXX. The only closed-circuit television security camera monitoring the facility broke six months ago and was never fixed, according to XXXXXXXXXXXX. The facility XXXXXXXXXXXX holds various radioactive materials, small amounts of which are use...

WikiLeaks: Yemen Nuclear Material Was Unsecured
Monday, December 20, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press Cairo (AP) - A storage facility housing Yemen's radioactive material was unsecured for up to a week after its lone guard was removed and its Surveillance camera was broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable released by Wikileaks revealed Monday. The message, dated Jan. 9, relates the worries of a Yemeni official, whose name was removed, about the unguarded state of a National Atomic Energy Commission facility. He pushes the U.S. embass...

WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured
CAIRO — A storage facility housing some radioactive material in Yemen, home to one of the most active branches of al-Qaida, was left unguarded for up to a week, according to a secret U.S. diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks on Monday. The message dated Jan. 9 relates the worries of a Yemeni official about the unguarded state of a National Atomic Energy Commission facility. It said the material was not secured for a week after its lone guard was removed and its Surveillance camera was br...

WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured
A storage facility housing some radioactive material in Yemen, home to one of the most active branches of al-Qaida, was left unguarded for up to a week, according to a secret U.S. diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks on Monday. The message dated Jan. 9 relates the worries of a Yemeni official about the unguarded state of a National Atomic Energy Commission facility. It said the material was not secured for a week after its lone guard was removed and its Surveillance camera was broken. The offi...

WikiLeaks: Yemen Nuclear Material Was Unsecured
Cairo — A storage facility housing Yemen's radioactive material was unsecured for up to a week after its lone guard was removed and its Surveillance camera was broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable released by Wikileaks revealed Monday. The message, dated Jan. 9, relates the worries of a Yemeni official, whose name was removed, about the unguarded state of a National Atomic Energy Commission facility. He pushes the U.S. Embassy to urge his own government to secure the material. "V...

Yemen radioactive stocks 'were easy al-Qaida target'
A senior government official in Yemen warned US Diplomats that poor security at the country's main store of radioactive products could allow dangerous material to fall into the hands of Terrorists, according to a leaked US Embassy cable. The official told the Americans that the lone guard standing watch at Yemen's national Atomic Energy commission (NAEC) facility had been removed from his post and that its only closed circuit TV security camera had broken down six months previously and was never...

U.S. official: Al Qaeda in Yemen bigger threat than in Pakistan
John Brennan, the U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser, says al Qaeda threat in Yemen growing. Washington (CNN) -- The administration's top Counterterrorism adviser said Friday that the al Qaeda group based in Yemen poses a greater threat to Americans than Osama bin Laden's group based in Pakistan. John Brennan, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and counterterrorism, said the Yemen-based group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is "increasingly active" in reaching out ...

British Police Arrest 12 Men in UK Terror Plot
British police have arrested 12 men suspected  of plotting a large-scale terror attack on targets inside the United Kingdom. According to reports, the operation is in its early stages so we are unable to go into detail; however, police swept in and made the necessary arrests to ensure the public protection   The men are thought to be British nationals but with links to Bangladesh and Pakistan and between the ages of  17 to 28. The Raid was thought to be linked

12 Arrested in UK Anti-Terror Raid
The Guardian reports: Counter-terrorism detectives today arrested 12 people amid fears of a Christmas bombing attack in the UK. The men, aged between 17 and 28, were held in Birmingham, Cardiff, London and Stoke-on-Trent on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of Terrorism in the UK, police said. Searches at several properties began after the arrests, with detectives and forensic experts looking for any scientific evidence of materials that could be used to make ex...

12 men arrested over suspected UK terrorism plot
London — In the biggest anti-terrorist sweep in Britain in nearly two years, police today arrested a dozen men accused of plotting a large-scale terror attack on targets inside the United Kingdom. The suspects, who ranged in age from 17 to 28, had been under Surveillance for weeks and were believed to have links to Pakistan and Bangladesh, security officials said. Police swooped in before dawn in coordinated Raids on houses in four cities — London, the Welsh city of Cardiff and the...

12 arrested in UK for large-scale terrorist plot
British authorities rounded up a dozen suspects in a Conspiracy to launch multiple-point attacks around the UK.  According to authorities in the UK, the plot was in its “early stages,” but apparently advanced enough to have conspirators established in three different cities: British police on Monday arrested a dozen men suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack — the biggest anti-terrorist sweep since April 2009, when 12 men were detained over an alleged al-Qaida bomb pl...

WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured
CAIRO (AP) — A secret U.S. diplomatic cable released by the Wikileaks website reveals that for at least a week a facility housing radioactive material in Yemen was completely unprotected. The cable, dated Jan. 9, cites an unnamed Yemeni official expressing concern to a U.S. Embassy official about the storage facility after the lone guard was removed and the closed circuit camera had been broken for months. Yemen’s Foreign Minister told U.S. officials a week later that the material ha...

WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured
A secret U.S. diplomatic cable released by the Wikileaks website reveals that for at least a week a facility housing radioactive material in Yemen was completely unprotected. The cable, dated Jan. 9, cites an unnamed Yemeni official expressing concern to a U.S. Embassy official about the storage facility after the lone guard was removed and the closed circuit camera had been broken for months. Yemen's Foreign Minister told U.S. officials a week later that the material had been moved to Syria, ac...

WikiLeaks: US tapped Delhi Police officers
New Delhi: Wikileaks, the Whistleblower website, has thrown up more embarrassing details claiming that US Embassy officials befriended Delhi Police officers to gain intelligence inputs. According to a diplomatic cable sent from the US Embassy in New Delhi in April 2006, American Embassy officials had tapped an anti-terror Special Cell official of Delhi Police to gather information regarding investigations into Terrorism related cases, bypassing the official route. Government sources say Union Ho...

Brennan Calls Yemeni Al-Qaida Greater Threat
Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen poses a greater risk to Americans than the founding branch in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan told a forum at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Dec. 17. "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is now the most operationally active node of the al-Qaida network," Brennan said. Although the Terrorism potential of al-Qaida in Yemen has risen through international attacks, Brennan explai...

Biden Says Al Qaeda in Pakistan Is Weaker
WASHINGTON — In the view of American spy agencies, Osama bin Laden and a dwindling cadre of Al Qaeda operatives hiding in Pakistan no longer “have the capacity” to carry out a terror plot similar to the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Sunday Mr. Biden’s comments provided the latest snapshot of assessments by American intelligence agencies about the shifting landscape of international Terrorism. Qaeda operatives in Pakistan have, over the past th...

Airports on alert after dummy bomb
Counter-terrorism officials have warned that Airport Security is being tested by terror scouts, amid fears that regional airports have been targeted for dummy bomb runs. The Guardian has seen x-ray scans of two suspect packages at a regional airport, picked up in the last three months, that show items officials fear have a similar profile to improvised Explosive Devices. One, concealed in a box inside a passenger's carry-on luggage, consisted of a BlackBerry attached to a bottle of baby "gripewa...

WikiLeaks: Yemen radioactive security so poor, material could fall into wrong hands
Security at Yemen's main radioactive material storage facility was so lax, that the one guard on duty had been removed, while its only security camera had been broken for six months, according a leaked US Embassy cable....

WikiLeaks CableGate: December 20, Day 23
Check and update this page often for the latest news and views on the Wikileaks saga, as well as our special report. DECEMBER 20, DAY 23 [CBS/AP] A storage facility housing Yemen's radioactive material was unsecured for up to a week after its lone guard was removed and its Surveillance camera was broken, a secret U.S. State Department cable released by Wikileaks revealed Monday. The message, dated Jan. 9, relates the worries of a Yemeni official, whose name was removed, about the unguarded s...

WikiLeaks: U.S. Diplomats Confront Black Market for Nuclear Bomb Material
The aftermath of the atomic bomb exploding over Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945 (Credit: National Archive) The Wikileaks news site of record, the Guardian, outlines the efforts of U.S. Diplomats to deal with the challenge of keeping nuclear materials out of the hands of Terrorists intent on adding atomic bombs to their arsenals. "The leaked cables tell hair-raising tales of casks of Uranium found in wicker baskets in Burundi, a retired Russian general offering to sell 'uranium plates' in Port...

U.S. Concerned About Terror Attacks During Holidays
Counterterror officials are tracking threats to the United States and Europe from Al Qaeda and affiliated groups during the Holiday Season, authorities said. They have not yet seen evidence of specific plots aimed at U.S. targets. The FBI and the Homeland Security Department have alerted state and local law enforcers to be wary of suspicious behavior and to change security measures regularly to interfere with any Terrorist plans. The warning was sent in a bulletin Wednesday, obtained by The Asso...

Inside Yemen: Britain's woman on the frontline of the new war on terror
When Fionna Gibb arrived as deputy British ambassador to Yemen, she expected it to be quieter than her previous job in Iraq. Seven months on, she has already had one attempt on her life, and fears Yemen's Al-Qaeda threat may yet get worse....

Police arrest 12 men in counter-terrorism raids
London | Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:54am EST London (Reuters) - British police said on Monday 12 men suspected of preparing a Terrorist Attack had been arrested in a series of dawn Raids across England and Wales. West Midlands regional police said they had detained five men from Cardiff, four from Stoke-on-Trent and three from London. "They've all been held on suspicion of the commission, preparation, or instigation of an act of Terrorism in the UK," a police spokesman said. The suspects, aged betwe...