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Report: Enrique Marquez Built Pipe Bombs with Terrorists

A new report on Friday suggests that Enrique Marquez, the neighbor and relative-through-marriage who bought the long rifles used by terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik in their attack on the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino last week, also helped them build pipe bombs.

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Swiss Islamist Terror Threat ‘Unprecedented’

The imminence and severity of the terror threat currently facing Switzerland by Islamic jihadists is without precedent, according to Jean-Paul Rouiller, the creator of the counterterrorism unit of the Swiss Federal Judicial Police (PJF). “To my knowledge, and after twenty

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Teenager On Australia Terror Plot Charge Denied Bail

A 15-year-old charged over a terror plot used coded text messages to try and avoid detection, an Australian court heard as he was denied bail on Friday over fears he could commit serious crimes. The teenager, who under Australian law

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Poll: Terrorism Beats Economy as Top Concern for First Time in a Decade

For the first time since 2006, terrorism ranks higher than the economy as a concern for voters, according to a new CBS News poll. These are red-alert crisis numbers for Democrats going into the 2016 election. Conversely, a CBS poll conducted with the New York Times this morning cited mounting concerns about terrorism as one reason for Donald Trump’s commanding lead in the Republican primary.

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Media Jump on El Chapo-ISIS Bandwagon Again

A blog about Mexican drug cartels reported on December 7 about a leaked encrypted email supposedly sent by notorious Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to prominent Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. In the email, Guzmán allegedly threatens to retaliate against ISIS for destroying drug shipments and interfering in cartel business. Despite numerous mainstream media outlets reporting this “story” on December 10, the sole unverified source for this information is an unidentified Mexican blogger.