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At a summit in London Thursday on Somalia one of the most pressing concerns was that Islamist militancy being incubated in the failing state could result in terrorist plots being hatched against the West. Earlier this month the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab formally merged its operations with al Qaeda.
The New York Police Department has been watching "communities of interest" on Long Island as part of its effort to identify places that Muslims frequent in the region, according to internal agency documents and reports published by The Associated Press.
The government is worried that Iran will consider a terror attack on American soil, but it has no specific or credible threat about such a plot. Police from Los Angeles to New York City said they were anxious about the risks, even as a senior U.S. intelligence official reassured Congress that it was unlikely Iran would attack.
WASHINGTON -- After years of delay, the creation of a national broadband network that would allow first responders to easily communicate with each other is on the verge of becoming a reality, New York's senators said Thursday.
WASHINGTON - There's "no credible or specific" evidence of an Iranian terror plot targeting the U.S., but officials are closely tracking the threat, the country's top homeland security official said Wednesday.
A trio of international bomb plots linked to Iran this week only reinforced concerns that the erratic nation could target New York City for attack.
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