FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III has named Andrew G. McCabe assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. Mr. McCabe most recently served as the deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division.

Violence in Nigeria continues with the most recent attack coming when a suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed into a police convoy in the eastern part of that country. 11 people were killed and 20 injured in the blast. This attack followed one day after gunmen killed 15 and wounded 20 at a university theatre used for church services in northern Nigeria. Although no one has claimed responsibility for these attacks, most suspect the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.

As a result of an FBI and federal Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation five people were arrested Monday (4/30) for allegedly trying to blow-up a bridge in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Three of those arrested are self-proclaimed anarchists who had hatched a number of plots over the past months. The FBI says the public was never in danger.

Israel's navy escorted a Palestinian fishing boat to a naval port in Ashdod after the boat ignored Israeli orders to return to Gaza's territorial waters on Sunday (4/29)

Yesterday (4/28) the Lebanese navy seized a Sierra Leone-registered ship that was carrying a large consignment of arms and ammunition, possibly destined for Syrian rebels.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is offering a reward of two million hryvni (about $250,000) for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for four explosions in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk on Friday (4/27). No one was killed in the blasts, but some 30 people were wounded.

No group has claimed responsibility yet, and according to a report (link below) from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, there are at least three possible motivations for the attacks - someone is trying to discredit the Vanukovych government ahead of the European soccer championship, the blasts are connected to the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a political opponent of Yanukovych, or maybe it's "terrorism", which is what President Vanukovych labeled the attacks.

Since Thursday, the Police Services of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has discovered and rendered safe two bombs and a cache of weapons in three separate security alerts in Belfast and Newry.

The authorities are blaming dissident republicans and say the largest device was a car bomb that contained more than 250kg of explosives, and if had exploded could have killed everyone within 50 meters of the blast.

The Pentagon has created what is being called the "Defense Clandestine Service" which will focus on intelligence gathering from across the globe. An offshoot of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) the new spy agency will initially be comprised of several hundred officers and is said to be complimentary to the CIA.