Reuters | A train station in the southern Dutch city of Den Bosch was evacuated after a bomb threat on Tuesday and a man has been arrested, police said.

ABC News | Brennan writes that politics “should never get in the way of national security.”

Times Online | US airstrikes in Pakistan, launched from unmanned drones, are now averaging three a week, triple the number last year.

Independent | Britain’s armed forces could be used on a regular basis on the streets of Britain to confront the threat of terrorism, under the terms of a strategic defense review announced yesterday.

American Everyman | They created this guy to use for political gain right from the start and they have been glomming onto the Fizzlepants story to bleed it for every ounce of propaganda they could get from it.

WeAreChangeVancouver | WeAreChangeVancouver takes you on a Police State Security tour of Downtown Vancouver BC a week before the Olympic Games.

truthout | After 2009 – a year when federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism than in any year since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress will begin again this month to consider reauthorization of key parts of the USA Patriot Act.

Raw Story | The family of a former Gitmo detainee are still waiting years later for answers regarding the events leading up to their son’s death.

WSWS | A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Kenneth J. Theisen | Many people in this country are aware of the atrocious conditions and treatment of adult prisoners in the U.S. war of terror. But few are aware that thousands of children have also been taken by the U.S. and its allies in this war of terror.

Bloomberg | Republicans say they see weakness in President Barack Obama’s approach to fighting terrorism — and a winning issue for themselves in the November congressional elections.

Press TV | The US has refused to share details about the past records of a key terror suspect of the 2008 Mumbai attack, Indian intelligence sources say.

Global Research | There are several factors that influence terrorism and they’re all connected and manipulated to serve political purposes, in order for the elite to increase their wealth, power, and global domination.

International News | Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successful drone strikes killed three al-Qaeda leaders.

Molly Johnson | The Army Research Laboratory Project is a $35.5 million collaboration that involves researchers from 10 different universities and organizations nationwide.

ABC News | Admission contained in article warning about female suicide bombers from Yemen.

Terence P. Jeffrey | Top Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee publicly reprimanded Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today for failing to show up at a hearing on the attempted Christmas Day suicide bombing.

New York Times | A convoy of trucks carrying supplies destined for NATO forces in Afghanistan came under attack on Thursday in the southern port city of Karachi.

Raw Story | In a little-noticed report, the Defense Department’s powerful Defense Science Board recommended creation of an entity designed solely for “strategic deception” against US adversaries.

LA Weekly | A man who has repeatedly claimed he performed counter-terrorism spy work for the FBI in Southern California mosques is suing the agency essentially for cutting him off and failing to pay him what he says he was promised.

The Canadian Press | A Liberal MP says he believes the federal government should investigate whether the pieing of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a woman opposed to the seal hunt constitutes an act of terrorism.

ABC News | White House lawyers are mulling the legality of proposed attempts to kill an American citizen, Anwar al Awlaki.

English Islam Times | Having denied it for a long time, the Pentagon eventually acknowledged that the USS Bataan had in fact been used as a prison in December 2001.

New York Times | The Central Intelligence Agency has struck back against militants in Pakistan with the most intensive series of missile strikes from drone aircraft since the covert program began.

Reuters | Notorious and dead CIA asset said the attempt to blow up the plane as it neared Detroit was a continuation of al-Qaeda policy since September 11, 2001.

Raw Story | The Pentagon has gone into damage control mode after Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared to confirm that security contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan.

Reuters | Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to ’severe’ — its second highest level of terror alert — from ’substantial’ on Friday, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said.

Wall Street Journal | The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group will consist of three to five teams of interrogators based in Washington and largely drawn from the ranks of the FBI, with some from the CIA and the Defense Department.

Matthew DeLong | Make no mistake — when Sessions is talking about “proper interrogation,” this is a euphemism.

Matt Cover | Erroll Southers, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), said the war on terror should be given “some parity” with other national priorities such as global warming, education, and the economy.

Russia Today | As Hamid Karzai swears in members of his new cabinet, the Taliban take the opportunity to show their presence with a major bombing in downtown Kabul.

Campaign for Liberty | In the post-9/11 era, federal officials are treating cash as they would a suspected weapon of mass destruction.

Jerry Mazza | Coups, instability, insurgencies, counterinsurgencies, warlords, clans, pirates and now Blackwater’s newly-minted Blackwater/Ex.

NBC News | The Department of Homeland Security is further increasing aviation security in response to intelligence indicating Islamist terrorists were planning another attack on the United States.

ABC News | Using sophisticated digital enhancement techniques, the FBI today published “aged progressed” mug shots of Osama bin Laden and 17 other top terrorists wanted by the U.S.

Press TV | Yemen’s Houthi fighters say Saudi war planes have once again pounded civilian areas in the country’s north, killing three members of a family.

The Siasat Daily | Mottaki said the United States invaded Afghanistan eight years ago under the pretext of fighting extremism and drug production in the war-torn country.

You Tube | Man confronts Bush senior on his role in killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

Finian Cunningham | What is even more disturbing is that the official figures only count victims of suicide among serving personnel. Not included are the many more veterans — officially classed a civilians — who take their own lives.

Daily Telegraph | Militants had joined homegrown Yemeni radicals both from Shabwa and other regions of the country.

Jason Rosenbaum | If Blackwater gets this contract, which hopefully they will not, I can only see more anger from the Afghan people directed at America in the future.

AFP | The reliance on the unmanned, remotely controlled aircraft risks fanning Islamist violence.

Tennessee Sons of Liberty | Is there a more sinister meaning to this story? Was the young man in Photo 1 a baby-faced patsy coerced into being the fall guy?

BBC | Two more men have been arrested in the US in connection with an alleged plot to bomb New York City last year.

The Gazette | It has been almost two weeks since Shama Chopra witnessed the failed attempt to blow up a plane en route to Detroit.

New York Daily News | Top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation.

RTE | A quantity of explosive, found in a flat on Dorset Street in Dublin this morning, was brought into the country following a failed security operation in Slovakia.

Jerusalem Post | Says hard-line Islamist militia known as Al-Shabab is capturing key areas throughout Somalia.

Los Angeles Times | Yemeni officials on Sunday dismissed the threat posed by Al Qaeda in their country as “exaggerated” and downplayed the possibility of cooperating closely with the United States.

New York Times | U.S., British, French, German and Japanese embassies are closed.