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USS Cole Bombing Anniversary

It was 10 years ago today, October 12, 2000, that suicide terrorists exploded a small boat alongside the USS Cole—a Navy Destroyer—as it was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden. Two of the suspects, Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi and Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso, are still at large.

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Top Ten Stories of the Week

The sentencing of Faisal Shahzad for trying to set off a bomb in Times Square in May was just one of many big stories this week. Other headlines include our unprecedented police corruption operation in Puerto Rico and bribery charges against lawmakers in Alabama.

The Director on Terrorism

Speaking at the National Security Preparedness Group Conference in Washington, D.C., Director Mueller outlined emerging terrorist threats, the impact of the Internet, the tools the FBI needs to be successful to combat extremism, and the growing challenge presented by rapidly changing technology. 
 
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Historic Corruption Takedown

Early this morning, the FBI launched a massive public corruption takedown in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as our agents fanned out across the island to begin arresting 133 subjects—the majority of them police officers. It has been billed as the largest police corruption case in FBI history.

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Sentencing in Times Square Bombing Case

Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York City on May 1, 2010. Said FBI New York Assistant Director in Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk: "Distinctions between home-grown and foreign terrorists are blurred when a U.S. citizen travels to Pakistan to learn bomb-making from a known terrorist organization, then returns to the U.S. and receives financial backing from the overseas organization. However you define him, there’s no question that Shahzad built a mobile weapon of mass destruction and hoped and intended that it would kill large numbers of innocent people—and planned to do it again two weeks later."

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Global Cyber Fraud Bust

Today, with our law enforcement partners in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and the Netherlands, we announced the execution of numerous arrests and search warrants in multiple countries in one of the largest cyber criminal cases we have ever investigated.

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