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  • 19
    Jan
    2012
    2:43pm, EST

    Metropolitan Police and the Royal Marines perform security exercises in preparation for London Olympics

    By Jim Seida

    According to The Mirror, about 50 marine police officers in rigid inflatables and fast response boats were joined by up to 100 military personnel and a Lynx Navy helicopter for the familiarization exercises.

    Dan Kitwood / Getty Images

    A security exercise takes place along the River Thames on Jan. 19, 2012 in London. The exercise including around 44 police officers, 94 military personnel, 15 boats and a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter was conducted by both the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Marines and designed to test their joint capability ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

    Crime and Security Minister James Brokenshire said: "This exercise forms part of the comprehensive testing and exercise program that is crucial in securing the Games.

    Alastair Grant / AP

    A police inflatable vessel takes part during a combined Police and Royal Marines security exercise for the London 2012 Olympic Games on the River Thames in London, Thursday.

    Read the full story.

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  • 9
    Jan
    2012
    8:58am, EST

    China Daily via Reuters

    Trainees dressed in swimsuits run through waves under the direction of a trainer from Tianjiao Special Guard/Security Consultant Ltd. Co. during a training session in Sanya, Hainan province, China on Jan. 8, 2012. According to the company, a total of 20 women, mostly college graduates, participated in the training session on Sunday, which was the first open group training for female bodyguards in China. All trainees will have to undergo 10 months of training to develop sufficient skills to serve their clients. The company will offer the best trainee a chance to attend further study at the International Security Academy in Israel.

    Chinese female bodyguards don swimwear for training session

    "Having a female bodyguard is a bit like having a sister," Chinese security entrepreneur Wen Cui told the BBC in November. "They can watch out for you." Read more about a growing trend.

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  • 9
    Sep
    2011
    11:04am, EDT

    Security enhanced as anniversary of 9/11 nears

    Jin Lee / AP

    An Amtrak K-9 division police officer stands guard at Pennsylvania Station in New York on Sept. 9. The city is deploying additional resources and taking other security steps in response to a potential terror threat before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

    Justin Lane / EPA

    New York City police officers search the back of a man's vehicle at a checkpoint on Broadway in New York on Sept. 9.

    NBC, msnbc.com and news services report:

    Security has been enhanced around the country in the weeks leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a date officials have long known could be an appealing time to attack. 

    The FBI and Homeland Security Department issued a joint intelligence bulletin Thursday night to law enforcement around the country urging them to maintain increased security and be on the lookout for suspicious activity. Read the full story.

    Related content:

    • Should you worry about traveling on 9/11?

    New York and Washington are on high alert after United States intelligence officials received information about possible attacks leading up to the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

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    We don't need to know, just do your job and prevent it.

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  • 24
    Aug
    2011
    7:28am, EDT

    Bebeto Matthews / AP

    People pass below a New York Police security camera, upper left, situated above a mosque on Fulton St., in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York on Aug. 18. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the New York Police Department has dispatched teams of undercover officers into minority neighborhoods and used informants to monitor sermons at mosques, even when there's no evidence of wrongdoing.

    With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas

    The AP reports from NEW YORK:

    In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room.

    The panicked superintendent dialed 911, sending police and the FBI rushing to the building near Rutgers University on the afternoon of June 2, 2009. What they found in that first-floor apartment, however, was not a terrorist hideout but a command center set up by a secret team of New York Police Department intelligence officers. Continue reading.

    Related content: msnbc.com's Allison Linn reports on the lasting boom in the surveillance industry that began after the 9/11 attacks.

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  • 23
    May
    2011
    3:41pm, EDT

    Tight security protects President Obama on Ireland visit

    By Rich Shulman

    I don't know if that is a Secret Service agent in the left of this frame, but I think I know what he's thinking: "Don't touch the President."

    The Daily Mail has an excellent story on Presidential security for the visits.

    Full coverage of the Ireland visits.

    Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    A woman puts her hands on the cheeks of U.S. President Barack Obama after he spoke at College Green in Dublin May 23. Obama sipped a pint of stout and cuddled babies on Monday as a tiny Irish village on Monday welcomed home "a long lost cousin" with an outpouring of affection. Hoisting a glass of Guinness at Ollie Hayes pub as fiddle music played, Obama thus began a four-nation tour of Europe with a celebration of his ancestral roots.

    If you watched this on television today, you probably didn't see the bulletproof glass around the podium.

    Peter MacDiarmid / Getty Images

    US President Barack Obama speaks at a rally in College Green on May 23 in Dublin, Ireland. U.S. President Obama is visiting Ireland for one day. Earlier he met with Irish President Mary McAleese, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland Enda Kenny and visited his ancestral home in Moneygall, County Offaly.

     


     

    8 comments

    Oh my GOD I love that picture of Obama getting his face a little smooshed by that sweet lady. He is so friggin' awesome..so great.

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  • 2
    May
    2011
    5:49pm, EDT

    Was Hillary Clinton stifling a cough?

    Pete Souza - White House Photo / via AP

    A detail crop of Clinton from the Situation Room picture.

    Update, May 5, 10:09 a.m.

    The Secretary of State made some comments in Rome today calling the common interpretation of her expression in this picture into question. From the NBC News HOT file:

    THESE REMARKS WERE MADE IN ROME THIS MORNING ABOUT THE PHOTO SNAPPED WHILE WATCHING THE OPERATION TO TAKE DOWN BIN LADEN IN THE SITUATION ROOM...THE QUESTION ASKED WAS WHAT WAS SHE THINKING AT THE TIME:

    06:20:55 --Now with respect to your second question, those were 38 of the most intense minutes. I have no idea what any of us were looking at at that particular millisecond when the picture was taken. I'm somewhat sheepishly concerned that it was my preventing one of my early spring allergic coughs, so it may have no great meaning whatsoever. 06:21:18

    Film at 11. . . Here's the video:

    She also addressed much weightier issues. Read more: Clinton on terror: 'It does not end with one death'

    Original post:

    Pete Souza / The White House

    President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured.

    This image is history in real time.

    As the AP reported:

    WASHINGTON — From halfway around the world, President Barack Obama and his national security team monitored the strike on Osama bin Laden's compound in real time, watching and listening to the firefight that killed the terrorist leader.

    Gathered in the White House Situation Room, members of the group held their breath and barely spoke as they waited to see whether a carefully crafted yet extremely risky plan would succeed, said White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. Obama had been playing golf but returned to the White House for the suspenseful watch Sunday.Related: How satellites helped get Osama.

     

    54 comments

    At the end of the day Osama is gone, wether it happened years ago or days ago it doesn't make a difference, but do you really think your president and government would make something up to increase the US as targets and have the chance a retaliation terrorist attack to make them selves more popular? …

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  • 2
    May
    2011
    2:30pm, EDT

    Terror alert unchanged following bin Laden's death

    By Rich Shulman

    Despite heightened security around the country, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is keeping the terrorism alert level unchanged.

    Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images

    A plane flies above an armored Park Police vehicle waits at the base of the Washington Monument May 2 in Washington, DC. The DC area and other places around the nation have stepped up security after it was announced that Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11th terror attacks, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan.

    Mary Altaffer / AP

    A New York City police patrol dog with Operation Hercules, right, barks at another patrol dog outside the police station in New York's Times Square on Monday, May 2. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night that Osama bin Laden was killed in an operation led by the United States.

    Stan Honda / AFP - Getty Images

    A passenger is patted down by a Transportation Security Administration agent May 2 at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Florida. Security in airports and train stations has been increased in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden.

    Mary Altaffer / AP

    New York City police officers stand guard outside the Armed Forces recruitment center in New York's Times Square, Monday, May 2.

    Related stories:
    How the US tracked bin Laden
    Osama Bin Laden: The most wanted face of terrorism
    Slideshow: World reacts to death of Osama bin Laden
    Photos: We think that bin Laden 'death photo' is a fake

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    This does make one think about the next step in time. Osama has left a wide range of followers. They all think as Osama did. keep the terror alert left in place.

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  • 29
    Apr
    2011
    4:50am, EDT

    Man arrested outside Westminster Abbey

    Lise Aaserud / AFP - Getty Images

    Police officers arrest a man as he tries to get into Westminster Abbey in London, on the day of the royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton, on April 29.

    You can find more royal wedding coverage on our blog, The Windsor Knot.

    And more photo coverage in our slideshows:

    Royal fans flock the streets of London.

    Royal security.
    Preparations for the royal wedding.

    Wacky royal wedding memorabilia.
    The royal guestlist - who's coming to the wedding?
    A royal courtship.
    History of British royal weddings.
    Kate Middleton's style.
    Crown jewels.

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  • 9
    Mar
    2011
    8:06am, EST

    Security warning could deter Spring Break revelers

    Gerardo Garcia / Reuters

    An inflatable doll drifts in the air along a beach in Cancun, Mexico on March 8. Fewer US college revelers are expected in Mexico for this year's Spring Break after Texas officials last week warned co-eds to stay away from beach destinations like Cancun.

    Is this the Spring Break equivalent of tumbleweed? Read more on the security warning to US students or watch the video below.

    State and federal agencies warn students to avoid Mexico during spring break. KXAS' Kim Fischer reports.

    1 comment

    It never ceases to amaze me how gullible many Americans are! In a country where ordinary people are allowed to carry guns and shootings over arguments or parking lots are a weekly occurrence, its an absolute joke to warn people not to travel to Mexico. If in a glass house one shouldn't throw with st …

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  • 1
    Feb
    2011
    10:24am, EST

    AFP - Getty Images

    A villager walks towards the gate of a "Great Wall" in Taizhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on Feb. 1. Residents of Yuhuan village have followed the ancient emperors and built a "Great Wall" around their increasingly well-off community to keep out thieves, state media said.

    Security concerns lead wealthy residents of one Chinese village to build their own 'Great Wall'

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    The crime rate in China has been rising steadily over the past two decades, we reported last year.

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  • 20
    Jan
    2011
    9:10am, EST

    Tunisia protests continue

    By Mish Whalen

    More on this story, here.

    Martin Bureau / AFP - Getty Images

    People demonstrate against Ben Ali's Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) in a new wave of anger about the presence of RCD stalwarts in the transitional government, on January 20, 2011, in Tunis.

    Finbarr O'reilly / Reuters

    A protester gestures in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali during a demonstration in downtown Tunis, on January 20, 2011.

    Finbarr O'reilly / Reuters

    Protesters stand off against a line of riot police (L) during a demonstration in downtown Tunis, on January 20, 2011.

    Finbarr O'reilly / Reuters

    Protesters gesture in front of the headquarters of the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali during a demonstration in downtown Tunis, on January 20, 2011.

    An official investigation has been launched into the assets of ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as unrest continues to roar across the African nation. NBC's Richard Engel reports from Tunis.

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  • 24
    Dec
    2010
    1:12pm, EST

    Truck driver breaks through Secret Service checkpoint

    Chris Carlson / AP

    A U.S. Secret Service agent runs along a street near where President Barack Obama is spending his holiday vacation in Kailua, Hawaii, on Thursday, Dec. 24. A man led officers on a high-speed chase that crossed a security checkpoint near the neighborhood where the president is staying. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said the man was arrested a short time later and incident was not related to the president's visit, in Kailua, Hawaii.

    Rhea Yamashiro / AP

    A Secret Service agent draws her handgun on a man evading arrest by Honolulu police on Thursday.

    By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

    msnbc.com staff and news services report: A man fleeing from local police drove through an outer perimeter checkpoint set up near President Barack Obama's Hawaii vacation home Friday, officials said.

    Photographers took pictures of a Secret Service agent sprinting toward the scene and pointing a gun at a vehicle.

    The driver wasn't trying to get near the president or his family and the incident had nothing to do with his Hawaii visit, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said.

    "Honolulu police was going to arrest someone they had traffic violations for," Donovan said. "He was able to get away from them and led them in a high-speed chase which ultimately led to one of our checkpoints."

    You can read the full story HERE.

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