According to various reports, Yemeni officials say an American born al-Qaeda member is responsible for trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen this past weekend.

The suspect is being identified as Sharif Mobley, 26, of Buena, NJ. His escape bid apparently was unsuccessful and he is in Yemeni custody.

The FBI has this informative article on its website about the agency's biometric initiatives over the years, and its progress with the Biometric Center of Excellence, established in 2007.

The FBI has this informative article on its website about the agency's biometric initiatives over the years, and its progress with the Biometric Center of Excellence, established in 2007.

According to a report (link below) from Today's Zaman, in a nationwide operation on Thursday Turkish police arrested 23 suspected "hackers" who are accused of working on behalf of the separatist group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the U.S.

A major earthquake and at least two very strong aftershocks struck in the Libertador O'Higgins region of Chile this morning (3/11). The USGS recorded the magnitude of the first quake at 7.2, and the others at 6.9 and 6.0. All three occurred between 55 and 75 miles west of the regional capital Rancagua, and approximately 80 to 95 miles southwest of the national capital of Santiago.

Last Saturday (3/6) federal agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's San Diego Maritime Unified Command arrested four Mexican citizens and seized over a ton of pot on Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Los Angeles.

The smugglers had been making their way from Mexico to southern California in a panga when they ran out of fuel and beached their boat on Santa Rosa. A U.S. Navy helicopter spotted the men and U.S. Customs and Border Protection marine interdiction agents made the arrest and seizure.

Yesterday (3/9) a federal indictment was unsealed charging Colleen R. LaRose, aka "Fatima LaRose," aka "Jihad Jane," with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft. The Pennsylvania resident was arrested in October 2009.

According to the DOJ news release, among other charges, LaRose and five unindicted co-conspirators located in South Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States are accused of using the Internet to recruit men "to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe", and recruit women "who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad."

While U.S. authorities have not publicly confirmed this, it is believed that LaRose was plotting to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, whose infamous 2007 cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog angered Muslims worldwide. Furthermore it seems likely that the timing of the indictment is tied to the arrest earlier this week of seven people in Ireland who allegedly are also involved in a plan to kill Vilks.