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Boston Officer's Son Pleads Not Guilty to Terror-Related Gun Charges

The police captain contacted the FBI saying that his son had become “obsessed with Islam” 18 months earlier. Capt. Ciccolo has cooperated with investigators assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force since, senior BPD commanders told ABC News.

July 30, 2015

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Shots from Chattanooga Police Ended Last Week's Active Shooter Attack

Fletcher said his officers — in an act he described as heroic — engaged the gunman "immediately, aggressively" with the sole intent that he harm as few people as possible.

July 20, 2015

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Who Was the Chattanooga Shooter?

A few months before Thursday’s shootings, he had a scrape with the law. In April, he was charged with driving under the influence in Chattanooga, according to court records. A booking photo from the arrest shows him with a half-smile and a full beard. He was to appear in court July 30.

July 17, 2015

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Military Recruiting Centers Make Tempting Targets for Terrorists

“Recruiting offices have been kind of on the leading edge of targets simply because they are both ubiquitous and they’re vulnerable,” Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president of Rand Corp.

July 17, 2015

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Chattanooga Gunman Identified, Believed from Kuwait

A U.S. official says the gunman in the shootings in Tennessee has been identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, according to the Associated Press.

July 16, 2015

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Law Enforcement on High Alert for Fourth of July Weekend Because of ISIS Threats

Law enforcement will be on high alert this Fourth of July weekend from coast-to-coast over fears ISIS supporters in the United States may heed the group's call to carry out attacks. More Here.

July 2, 2015

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Video: Law Enforcement on High Alert for Fourth of July Weekend Because of ISIS Threats

Law enforcement will be on high alert this Fourth of July weekend from coast-to-coast over fears ISIS supporters in the United States may heed the group's call to carry out attacks.

July 2, 2015

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Terror Suspect Killed in Boston Planned to Behead Officers

Boston police and FBI agents had been tracking Rahim around the clock. As the 26-year-old walked outside a Roslindale CVS on Tuesday, officers approached him.

June 4, 2015

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Boston Officer, FBI Agent Kill Knife-Wielding Terror Suspect

The FBI had been tracking the man for several weeks, and authorities are looking into whether he may have been radicalized by ISIS propaganda online.

June 2, 2015

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Texas Gunman Planned To Join ISIS, Messaged Recruiter On Social Media

One of the gunmen who targeted a Muhammed cartoon contest in Texas planned to join the Islamic State and purportedly messaged a recruiter in the weeks prior to the attack.

May 7, 2015

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Video: Texas Officer Who Stopped Garland Terror Attack was Outgunned, But Prevailed

Authorities have not released the name of the overmatched Garland, Texas, police officer who stopped a pair of gunmen Sunday night outside that city's Curtis Culwell Center, where people had gathered at an event featuring controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. But they have described what he did, actions that could be characterized as equal parts skillful, heroic and miraculous.

May 5, 2015

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ISIS-Inspired Terror Plot Targeted Australian Police

“At this stage, we have no information that it was a planned beheading,” a terrorism expert for Australia's federal police said. “But there was reference to an attack on police. Some evidence that we have collected at a couple of the scenes, and some other information we have, leads us to believe that this particular matter was ISIS-inspired.”

April 19, 2015