TacOps Security Network

Black Hawk helicopters buzzed downtown Denver and other neighborhoods Monday evening in a training exercise to prepare for a possible terrorist attack.
The flights had people all over town calling authorities to find out what was going on.
“It’s nothing more than Special Operations Command training with local authorities,” said Lt. Nathan Potter, with Special Operations Command, [...]

Several people are being treated after a suspicious package made them sick. It happened at Red Rock Hotel and Casino in northwest Las Vegas.
Metro Police officials say just after 7 p.m., casino security found a pillowcase in the garage. They said an unusually order was coming from the pillowcase, so they took it into the [...]

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a prominent Italian journalist who recently converted to Christianity, are the targets of new death threats posted on one of the most popular Islamist websites said to be close to al-Qaeda, on Tuesday.
The threats are aimed at Berlusconi and Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born newspaper editor who converted from Islam [...]

A massive car bomb ripped through a crowd of evening shoppers in a busy Baghdad, killing 51 people and wounding more than 70, the deadliest strike in the Iraqi capital in months.
As US generals pointed to the fragile security gains in Iraq, terrorists sent a pick-up filled with explosives into the mainly Shia area of [...]

The United States has warned its citizens about the potential danger of terrorist attacks in the United Arab Emirates just days after Britain upgraded its UAE terrorism threat level to “high”.
The US cautioned Americans “that potential exists for terrorists to plan and carry out violent actions in the region, including the UAE”, it a posting [...]

A man, apparently known to police, Ziad Mohamad Jeha was arrested at the Calgary International Airport Tuesday after a handgun was detected in his carry-on luggage.
Security officers in a pre-boarding screening area at concourse D noticed the gun inside the luggage and alerted police just after noon Tuesday.
Police arrested the man without incident and seized [...]

On Saturday, El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents discovered that they may have been the target of more acts of violence after discovering an apparent booby trap made of wire on a remote border road near Deming.
On June 14, agents assigned to the Deming Border Patrol Station received a call from a local rancher who [...]

The Palm Beach County Bomb Squad safely removed what they’re calling a “suspicious live device” from a white Ford Bronco at a residence on Patricia Drive near West Palm Beach around 10 pm Sunday.
A call came into 911 after a young man and his father spotted the device attached to the Bronco in the driveway [...]

A suspicious device found at an apartment complex in East-Central El Paso on Tuesday was a makeshift explosive device, El Paso Fire Department officials said.
At about 11 a.m., firefighters were called out to Linda Vista Apartments located at 1500 Magruder. The device was placed on the patio of an unoccupied apartment. It was later taken [...]

UPDATE: There are reports that the release or rescue has already taken place.
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Director General Avelino Razon has claimed television reporter Ces Drilon and two companions held hostage by alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf will be released “within 24 hours.”
“Payag na silang palayain sina Ces [Drilon],” said Razon in a [...]