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<p>Though the war on terror continues, the U.S. government has left the public completely exposed to the aftermath of a radiological attack. There is no better evidence of this than the actions of the Department of Homeland Security. The DHS is very focused on interdiction, government continuity and infrastructure protection, but it has not yet prepared for civil defense, which is the protection of civilians in time of war or disaster.</p>

WASHINGTON — Documents seen by FOX News suggest a conflict of interest may exist between Kofi Annan's (search) son, the Swiss company he worked for and the United Nations. Congressional investigators are examining those records and thousands of pages of others as part of their probe into the controversial U.N. Oil-for-Food (search) program. FOX News was permitted to review some documents but not make copies. Kojo Annan (search), the son of the U.N. secretary general, claims he has never been involved directly or indirectly with any business related to the United Nations. And Cotecna Inspection S.A., the company Kojo worked...

When experts from the US and the IAEA came upon blueprints for a 10-kiloton atomic bomb in the files of the Libyan weapons program earlier this year, they found themselves caught between gravity and pettiness. The discovery gave the experts a new appreciation of the audacity of the rogue nuclear network led by A. Q. Khan, a chief architect of Pakistan's bomb. Intelligence officials had watched Dr. Khan for years and suspected that he was trafficking in machinery for enriching uranium to make fuel for warheads. But the detailed design represented a new level of danger, particularly since the Libyans...

HSL-37 commands the high seasSubmitted by: MCB Hawaii Story by: Computed Name: Cpl. Jessica M. Mills Story Identification #: 200412316549 MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii(Dec. 3, 2004) -- Reminiscent of Sinbad or Black Beard the Pirate, Detachment Three of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 47, known as The Pirates of the Caribbean, returned to MCB Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, on Nov. 12, after six months of traveling and pillaging the South Seas completing counter-narcotics operations with the U.S. Coast Guard. The Sailors were deployed to the Eastern Pacific off the coast of South America and the Caribbean on the USS...

Washington D.C. – In the last five days, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agents seized over 10,700 pounds of marijuana and 88 pounds of cocaine along the southwest border stretching from California to Texas. With the increased security along our borders, smugglers of both humans and contraband continue to test our resolve to protect this nation,” said David Aguilar, National Border Patrol Chief. “These significant seizures illustrate our commitment to defend our country against all threats.” On November 15th, a CBP Border Patrol agent assigned to the Nogales, Arizona Station seized 995 pounds of marijuana, valued at...

BERN, Switzerland - Prosecutors on Wednesday opened an investigation into two Swiss citizens suspected of illegally exporting nuclear-bomb-making technology to Libya, a spokesman for the prosecutors office said. The spokesman, Hansjuerg Mark Wiedmer, declined to identify the suspects. But one investigative source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said one was Swiss engineer Urs Tinner, who was arrested in Germany last week. The Swiss agency that polices adherence to international sanctions disclosed in February that it had opened an investigation to determine whether Tinner had broken Swiss law by making precision parts in Malaysia that were destined for Libya. He is...

Two fishing vessels with roughly 27 tons of cocaine aboard were intercepted in the Eastern Pacific, the Department of Homeland Security announced today. Work by a Florida-based multiagency task force investigation led to the two seizures, among the largest maritime seizures of cocaine in U.S. history, and the arrest of 18 individuals. U.S. Navy vessels were among assets used in the operation. On Sept. 17, Navy frigate USS Curts, with a U.S. Coast Guard law-enforcement detachment on board, intercepted the fishing vessel Lina Maria, about 300 miles southwest of the Galapagos Islands. Aboard the vessel, the Coast Guard boarding team...

Bushehr atomic power plant in Iran. (Yandex) E-Mail this article Comments to Editor Discussion Forum Printer-Friendly Advertisement A top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday he hoped Russia would by June 1 join a group of nations prepared to board ships and raid suspect factories in a bid to stem the trade in weapons of mass destruction. But U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton's Russian partner poured cold water on his optimism, saying Moscow still sought answers to a number of questions about President George W. Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Russia is the only member of the Group of Eight...

<p>April 22, 2004 -- A Florida-based arms company is at the center of the international probe into a New York-bound ship seized in Italy while laden with thousands of Kalashnikov assault rifles, The Post has learned.</p> <p>The AK-47s were apparently bound for Vermont.</p>

A Turkish ship headed for New York — and stuffed with thousands of AK-47s (search) and other Kalashnikov assault rifles — was seized en route in Italy, authorities said Tuesday. The ship's deadly hoard of more than 7,500 terrorist-grade rifles and machine guns worth more than $6 million was discovered illegally hidden under piles of properly labeled arms in several massive cargo containers, Italian officials said. The ship MS Adnan Bayraktar, which bears a Turkish flag, had come from the Romanian port of Constanta (search) and was on its way to a stopover in New York when the bust was...

<p>ROME (AP) -- Authorities in southern Italy seized about 7,500 Kalashnikov assault rifles and other combat-grade firearms from a ship headed for New York, officials said Tuesday.</p> <p>The weapons - AK-47s, AKM rifles and machine guns worth more than $6 million - were found mixed in with properly labeled guns in cargo containers on board a Turkish-flagged ship that docked at the port of Gioia Tauro, a police official said.</p>

<p>April 21, 2004 -- A Turkish ship headed for New York - and stuffed with thousands of Kalashnikov assault rifles and AK-47s - was seized en route in Italy, authorities said yesterday.</p> <p>The ship's deadly hoard of more than 7,500 terrorist-grade rifles and machine guns worth more than $6 million was discovered illegally hidden under piles of properly labeled arms in several massive cargo containers, Italian officials said.</p>

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that government agents can search and even dismantle a car's gas tank as part of drug and other smuggling interdiction at the nation's borders. Border officers can randomly search gas tanks, despite the absence of specific indication that a particular car is suspect, the high court said. People crossing the border have less expectation of privacy than elsewhere, and searching the inner reaches of a car is not the same thing as a strip search or other intrusive search of the driver, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the court.

LIMA : US ships nabbed a Peruvian vessel in international waters that was carrying seven tonnes of cocaine for a Mexican cartel, Peru's Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi said. After several weeks of cooperation between Peru's anti-drug trafficking agency and the US Drug Enforcement Administration, US authorities stopped the Peruvian boat "Grinchi" and its cargo after it sailed from the northern Peruvian port town of Chimbote, Rospigliosi said. Advertisement The route taken by the boat "is the one that has been used by drug traffickers to take drugs out of Peru," he said. The cocaine, which was found in 136 bags,...

Story Number: NNS040304-03 Release Date: 3/4/2004 10:10:00 AM From Expeditionary Strike Group 1 Public Affairs SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- The seven ships attached to Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG 1) are returning home this week following a six and a half month deployment in support of the global war on terrorism. USS Greeneville (SSN 772) returned to its Pearl Harbor homeport Feb. 27. USS Port Royal (CG 73), also from Pearl Harbor, is scheduled to arrive home March 10. The remaining ships of ESG 1, USS Peleliu (LHA 5), USS Ogden (LPD 5), USS Decatur (DDG 73), USS Jarrett (FFG...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under its new chairman, Richard Lugar, should make its first order of business an inquiry into President Bush's maladroit and shortsighted decision-making in the So San affair. Our National Security Agency, to its credit, spotted the movement of 15 Scud missiles and 85 drums of chemicals from a factory in North Korea to its secret loading aboard the freighter So San, and tracked the unflagged ship around the world to the Arabian Sea. The C.I.A. was unable to determine the customer of these offensive weapons, unreliable in military combat but useful in striking terror into...

ABOARD USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS, At Sea (NNS) -- USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58), working with Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) 403, recently detained eight suspected drug traffickers and recovered more than 7,000 lbs. of cocaine from an ablaze vessel while at the mid-point of a record-setting counter-drug deployment. Roberts was ordered to intercept and question a suspicious vessel that was being tracked by the ship’s embarked helicopter, Magnum 450, from Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron, Light (HSL) 44 Det. 7. But initial attempts to establish communications received no response. Finally, the suspected vessel sent a message stating there was...

<p>The U.S. Navy has seized another small boat carrying drugs near the Persian Gulf after interrogating smugglers with suspected links to the al Qaeda terrorist network, the military announced yesterday.</p> <p>The boat seized on New Year's Day was the fourth drug-smuggling vessel intercepted by Americans in the past two weeks in or near the Persian Gulf. Pentagon officials say they believe all four boats, which were carrying hashish, heroin and methamphetamines, are part of a drug-smuggling operation that funnels money to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.</p>

US seizes 'al-Qaeda drug boat' The US navy has made a series of arrests on the region's seas The US navy has intercepted a boat carrying drugs near the Gulf in what it says is a suspected al-Qaeda drugs trafficking operation. Fifteen people on board the vessel were arrested and the navy said it had found hashish with a street value of $11m hidden in compartments on board. It is at least the third drug-smuggling boat to have been seized in two weeks in or near the Gulf. A number of arrested sailors are being questioned, the Pentagon said. US...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 January 2, 2004Release Number: 04-01-05 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INTERROGATION OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA AFFILIATES LEADS U.S. AND AUSTRALIAN NAVIES TO SEIZE MORE DRUGS ABOARD USS PELELIU, At Sea (1 JAN 2004) – Fifteen individuals were detained and an estimated 2,800 pounds of hashish (approximately $11 million street value) was seized by U.S. and coalition maritime forces following the interception of a dhow in the North Arabian Sea. These forces were operating in international waters in the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces...