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Airport Guard Arrested Over Obama Threats

Fellow NJ worker reportedly overheard him making remarks

Oct 21, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(AP) - A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested on charges of threatening President Obama before the president was to fly there. A Continental Airlines employee reported overhearing John Brek make threatening comments at an airport coffee cart yesterday afternoon. The 55-year-old security guard was arrested several... More »

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(Newser) - The Secret Service is struggling to cope with a huge number of threats being made against President Obama, according to the author of a new book on the agency. Threats against the president have quadrupled since Obama took office to some 30 a day, few of which are publicized for... More »

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(Newser) - A Palestinian militant group mocked in the movie Bruno has warned ominously that it will "respond in the way we find suitable" against the film's star Sacha Baron Cohen. The movie "was part of a conspiracy against the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade," said a statement from the group.... More »

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terrorism • death threats • threats • Sacha Baron Cohen • terrorist attack • Bruno • Martyrs Brigade

NJ Blogger Busted Over Judge Threats

Jurists 'deserve to be killed' for gun ban, said white supremacist

Jun 25, 09 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - A white supremacist blogger and Internet radio host has been charged with threatening three federal judges who ruled in favor of Chicago's handgun ban, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed,” Hal Turner wrote, providing the... More »

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New Jersey • death threats • judge • white supremacism • federal judges • Hal Turner

(Newser) - Chris Brown has beefed up his security detail after receiving death threats over his alleged beating of ex Rihanna, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Insiders say Brown is surrounded at all times by three beefy bodyguards and three or four “incognito” protectors who are often women “easily as tough... More »

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entertainment • crime • paparazzi • death threats • assault • Rihanna • bodyguard • Chris Brown • Women%u2019s Protection Action League

Man Faces Charges in Utah in Obama Threat

Told bank teller he was on mission to kill prez; dad: he's mentally ill

Jun 9, 09 5:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man accused of telling a Utah bank teller "We are on a mission to kill the president of the United States" is in federal custody and will face charges, the Las Vegas Sun reports. Daniel James Murray was arrested outside a hotel in Nevada Friday. He will be... More »

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Barack Obama • death threats • threats • Utah • President Obama • Daniel James Murray

Feds Hunt Utah Man 'On
Mission to Kill' Obama

Multiple gun owner charged with threatening the prez after statements in bank

Jun 5, 09 4:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Secret Service is hunting a man who took all of his money out of a Utah bank and told the teller he was on a "mission to kill" the president, the Salt Lake Tribune. Daniel James Murray has been charged with making threats against the president. ... More »

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Barack Obama • Secret Service • death threats • Utah • assassination • President Obama • Daniel James Murray

 Toxic Teen Website 
 Infuriates Parents, Cops 

On anonymous message board, free speech becomes personal attacks

May 17, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The creator of the online message board Peoplesdirt.com says he's just providing an "avenue for people to express their feelings," but parents and teachers disagree. The website allows teenagers to anonymously post slurs and false rumors about fellow students. Although it's legal, it's also hateful and humiliating,... More »

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Internet • high school • free speech • message boards • death threats • anonymous • teenager • peoplesdirt.com

 Mendes Film 
 Crew Flees 
 Mexican 
 Violence 



Death threats kill
picture starring Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett

Mar 29, 09 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Hollywood film crew prepping to shoot in Mexico has high-tailed it back to the US after receiving death threats, the Independent reports. The film, an adaptation of a novel about a cocaine smuggler, was set to star Eva Mendes, Josh Hartnett, and Ben Kingsley on Mexico's northern coast, a... More »

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film • Mexico • death threats • drug cartel • Ben Kingsley • Josh Hartnett • Eva Mendes

 Pakistan Protests 
 Escalate, Sharif 
 Alleges Death Threat 

Dozens beaten and arrested as 'long march' to Islamabad begins

Mar 12, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani police continued their crackdown on protesters today as Nawaz Sharif, a former PM turned opposition leader, accused the government of conspiring to kill him. Political activists and the country's lawyers defied a ban on protests, facing beatings and arrests in demonstrations from Karachi to Lahore. Sharif said he had... More »

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Pakistan • death threats • Nawaz Sharif • Muslim League • Asif Ali Zardari • Pakistan lawyers • Pakistan judges

Madoff Lawyer Hit by Death Threats

Accused swindler may have hid money under attorney's name

Mar 4, 09 2:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Bernard Madoff's criminal defense lawyer has received several death threats amid more than a dozen emails of a "cursing and screaming" nature, sources tell ABC. "I deeply regret that the Sorkin family did not perish in the Nazi death camps," said one angry email sent to Ira... More »

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death threats • lawyer • Ponzi scheme • attorney • securities fraud • Bernard Madoff • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

(Newser) - Seven French politicians, including President Nicolas Sarkozy, have received death threats accompanied by live ammunition, the Independent reports. The letters, which included 9mm rounds, were signed by an unknown group called Solidarity Earth. Though the name perhaps suggests an environmental group, and anti-terrorism officials are investigating, those in the know... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • death threats • radical • Michele Alliot Marie • eco-terrorism • ammunition • Rachida Dati • leftist

 Octuplet Mom Rules Out 
 Reality Show 

Another PR firm cuts ties, former publicist speaks out

Feb 17, 09 10:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Is a reality show in octu-mom Nadya Suleman’s future? “No, I think that's exploitation of my kids,” she told TMZ. Good thing that's her attitude, because yet another PR firm has denied having ties with the mother of 14, reports Access Hollywood. The president of Ambassador Agency,... More »

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reality TV • baby • death threats • publicity • public relations • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

(Newser) - The octuplets mom now has two fewer people in her life: The husband-and-wife publicity team who represented her has quit because of death threats, the Los Angeles Times reports. "They hope I die, they hope my business goes under, they want to rip her uterus out," said JoAnn... More »

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in vitro fertilization • mothers • death threats • multiple births • octuplets • fertility drugs • Nadya Suleman

 Octuplets' Mom 
 in Hiding After 
 Death Threats 

Flood of hostile messages overwhelm
frightened mother of 14

Feb 12, 09 4:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman and her six oldest children have moved from their California home to a secret location after receiving death threats, Reuters reports. Suleman's publicists said they and their client have been deluged with hostile messages following recent negative media coverage about the divorced mom's inability to financially... More »

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children • mothers • baby • death threats • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

Man Nabbed in Mississippi for Obama Threats

Wisc. native faces
5 years in prison
for online posts

Jan 17, 09 5:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A Wisconsin man was arrested in Mississippi yesterday after posting online threats to kill Barack Obama, the Daily Leader reports. Steven Joseph Christopher, 43, had written “ok we have 9 days until my Presidential Assasination” in an expletive-filled, anti-Semitic posting on the website alien-earth.org. He referred to Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Wisconsin • death threats • assassination • Mississippi • website

German Mayor in Hiding After Neo-Nazi Threat

Stabbing warning delivered on right-wing web site

Dec 31, 08 4:57 AM CST
(Newser) - The mayor of a small German town is in hiding after receiving neo-Nazi death threats on a web site, reports Der Spiegel. The threats follow a near-fatal knife attack on a small-town police chief by a suspected neo-Nazi, and are raising concerns that extreme right-wingers are growing increasingly violent. "... More »

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Germany • death threats • Neo-Nazi • right wingers • Nazis

'Terrified' Tom Cruise Reports Death Threats

Valkyrie star, wife
live apart, travel in bomb-proof vehicles

Dec 28, 08 10:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Tom Cruise has notified the FBI of death threats he’s received from anti-Scientology groups, the Daily Mail reports. The Valkyrie star, 46, has increased security for his family and now lives separately from wife Katie Holmes, 30, and 2-year-old daughter Suri—who all travel in bomb-proof vehicles. Cruise has... More »

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FBI • Scientology • Tom Cruise • Valkyrie • Katie Holmes • death threats

 Threats Against Obama Soar 

Obama threatened more than any previous president-elect

Nov 15, 08 4:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Law enforcement officials say Barack Obama is the most threatened president-elect in history, the AP reports. Potentially threatening writings, Internet chatter, and other activity aimed at Obama has soared since Election Day, accompanied by a surge in racist graffiti. Officials say most of the threats come from ranters lacking the... More »

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Barack Obama • Secret Service • death threats • threats • assassination • white supremacism • hate groups • President Obama

 Letters 
 to Dimon: 
 You'll 'Die 
 in 10 Days' 

Feds hunt author of threats to bank CEO

Oct 23, 08 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A flurry of letters threatening the life of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, as well as an Oklahoma City-style bombing of a bank facility, are being investigated by the Postal Investigation Service. ABC News reports a $100,000 reward has been posted for information about the 45-plus letters, all postmarked last... More »

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death threats • letters • Washington Mutual • FDIC • Office of Thrift Supervision • JPMorgan Chase • financial crisis • Jamie Dimon • U.S. Postal Inspection Service • Oklahoma City bombing

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