U.S. Marshals Prison Transport Plane Returns to OK Airport Because of Smoke

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A U.S. Marshals Service prisoner transport plane taking off from Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport Tuesday morning and headed to various stops, had to return to Oklahoma after experiencing problems, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Airport spokeswoman Karen Carney told the Oklahoman that the MD-80 airplane returned after…

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Column: America Needs to Better Educate Citizens on Basic Counterterrorism

Erroll G. Southers is the Associate Director of the DHS National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and adjunct professor of homeland security and public policy at the University of Southern California. He is also the Managing Director of Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection for the San Jose-based international security consulting firm…

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Recent Deaths of 3 Fed Agents Highlight Growing Danger of the Job

By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The shooting deaths of two federal agents last week and three in two months highlight the heightened risk to federal investigators who are confronting increasingly violent fugitives, drug traffickers and other criminals, authorities said. The killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Mexico…

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