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Man makes bomb threat, drives truck through Coast Guard Station in Michigan

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A Michigan man, who claimed to have a bomb with him, drove his truck into the U.S. Coast Guard Station on Lake Michigan early Sunday morning.

The man who remains unnamed, but according to CNN, is 34-years-old, drove his truck through the fence and onto the Grand Haven Coast Guard Station. After breaking into the station, the man supposedly told Coast Guard personnel there a bomb was in his truck. No bomb was found at the scene, but officials were still investigating the area.

No Coast Guard or other personnel were injured during the incident, partially thanks to a phone call intercepted by an Ottawa County dispatcher, according to the AP. The intercepted call was allegedly from the driver of the truck who stated during the call he had a bomb in his truck and planned on blowing up the Grand Haven Coast Guard Station.

Senior Chief Petty Officer Justin Olson said, according to MLive, the phone call allowed the station to enact their “in-place bomb threat procedure,” which “assured the safe evacuation of all” within the station. “We would like to thank the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety and our other partner agencies for their assistance and quick response to the incident,” said Olson. 

A report from the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety stated, according to the New York Daily News, “The incident was initially investigated as a potential act of domestic terrorism due to the circumstances.” The report then claimed the investigation had so far revealed no link to any foreign or domestic terrorist organizations.

The Grand Haven police have also indicated the man is a suspect in an Oceana County house fire. The home supposedly belonged to the driver. All investigations are currently ongoing.

International, US

Former scientist jailed for attempting to sell nuclear bomb secrets

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A former scientist who worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, has been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to give nuclear secrets to Venezuelan operatives.

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 79, pleaded guilty in 2013 to charges of espionage for delivering the nuclear plans to FBI agents. Mascheroni, who thought the FBI agents were with the Venezuelan government, also said he would build 40 nuclear bombs for Venezuela in exchange for “money and power,” according to St. Louis Today.

“I’m going to be the boss with money and power,” Mascheroni, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, reportedly said in recordings the FBI released Wednesday. “I’m not an American anymore. This is it.”

According to the BBC, Mascheroni said Venezuela would be able to establish a secret underground nuclear reactor in order to enrich plutonium, and he said the country would be able to produce a nuclear power plant as well.

John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security, told the Telegraph, “The public trusts that the government will do all it can to safeguard ‘Restricted Data’ from being unlawfully transmitted to foreign nations not entitled to receive it.” 

The “Restricted Data” included information concerning the manufacturing, design, and use of atomic weapons, as well as information involving the production of special nuclear material to create energy.

New Mexico US Attorney Damon Martinez also said, “Those who work at our country’s national laboratories are charged with safeguarding that sensitive information, and we must and will vigorously prosecute anyone who compromises our nation’s nuclear secrets for profit.”

Mascheroni is sentenced to five years in jail, while his wife Marjorie, who also worked for LANL and pleaded guilty to similar charges, will face one year is jail.

Politics, US

Bombers Kill 26 Near Iranian Embassy in Beirut

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This article was submitted by guest Contributor Jason Ditz.

At least 26 people were killed, and 140 others reported wounded when a pair of suicide bombers detonated outside of the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut.

Though the initial assumption would’ve been the attack was more spillover from the Syrian Civil War, this does not appear to have been the case, as a domestic al-Qaeda faction, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claimed credit for the strike, saying it was an attack on Lebanese Shi’ite faction Hezbollah, a close ally of Iran.

Of course it’s impossible at this point to fully disconnect Syria’s war and Lebanon’s growing sectarian tensions, but the al-Qaeda group’s  has repeatedly blamed Hezbollah for the assassinations of Sunni politicians inside Lebanon.

Iran condemned the attacks as having been carried out by “Zionists and their mercenaries,” and insisted that they will not be chased out of their embassy by such attacks. It isn’t clear how many Iranians were among the slain, but Iran’s cultural attache to Lebanon, Ibrahim Ansari, was confirmed to have died of his wounds shortly after the attack.

 

 

 

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