SF News Get Paranoid: FBI Releases List Of Possible Ways Terrorists Could Terrorize The Super Bowl With tens of thousands of people coming into SF and Santa Clara to watch and/or gawk at the Super Bowl Week festivities starting at the end of next week, there comes the
SF News Feds Accuse Fremont Man Of Attempting To Join Syrian Terrorist Group A Fremont man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists after federal officials stopped him from boarding a Turkey-bound flight at San Francisco International Airport this past June. The
SF News Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will 'Fight To Protect' Rights Of Muslims Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday announced that his company would work to protect the rights of Muslims that use the global social network. His statement can be read as a rebuke
SF News Dianne Feinstein Is Kind Of Blaming Facebook For Not Warning Of San Bernardino Attack Senator Dianne Feinstein is happy that Facebook saw fit to delete the status update of Tashfeen Malik that reportedly pledged her allegiance to ISIS shortly before the gun massacre she allegedly carried out
SF News Two Northern California Men Hailed As Heroes In Thwarting Gunman In French Train Two Northern California men are being hailed as heroes for their role in thwarting a gunman on a train in France. Anthony Sadler—a Pittsburg native and Sac State student—and his friends
SF News BART May Finally Reopen Public Restrooms Shut Since 9/11 Fourteen years on, the BART board is mulling a proposal to remodel and reopen 10 underground BART station restrooms, all of which have remained closed to the public since the week of September
SF News SFPD And Federal Agents May Be Violating Local Civil Liberties Law In Terrorism 'Interviews' A 2012 law passed in San Francisco to protect the civil liberties of residents prohibits participation by San Francisco police in federal investigations as part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. However, as
SF News Local French Community Reacts To Charlie Hebdo Massacre You may not have realized that San Francisco is home to a sizable community of French ex-pats, and the tragic events in Paris yesterday have obviously rippled across their ranks. Hundreds gathered Wednesday
SF News 49er Aldon Smith Arrested At LAX, Claims He Had A Bomb Whether you're a clueless 14-year-old "white girl" or a lauded football star, offhand comedic bits about committing acts of terrorism don't land well with authorities. Take, for example, 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith who
SF News Al Qaeda Magazine Runs Photo Of SFO Tram: 'Assemble Your Bomb' Al Qaeda's english language publication with an in-flight magazine name Inspire, raised some flags in Washington, D.C. this week after it ran a spread featuring man sitting on a tram car from
SF News Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us Around 1 a.m. on April 16th last year, a team of attackers cut phone lines and took out 17 power transformers at a PG&E substation south of San Jose, nearly
Arts & Entertainment Oops: Mayor Ed Lee Refers To World Series Trophies As 'Twin Towers' During the annual San Francisco Chamber CityBeat Breakfast at the Marriott, kicky and acclaimed SFGate scribe Beth Spotswood sat in the audience while Mayor Ed Lee made a minor gaffe onstage. Lucky you.
SF News Oakland Terrorist Bank Bombing Thwarted By FBI A terrorist bombing didn't go according to plans over in Oakland on Thursday night. Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was taken into custody near a Bank of America building at 303
Arts & Entertainment Photos: San Francisco's 9/11 Memorial at AT&T Park Each year during 9/11—which, as you know, is today—AT&T Park plays host to San Francisco's memorial to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that
SF News Piles Of Mysterious White Powder Cause Richmond Hazmat Scare Some dude was spotted running around the Richmond leaving piles of white powder next to telephone poles, all along Balboa from the beach eastward. The SFFD hazmat team was subsequently called in to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Violent Anti-Foie Gras Rhetoric Gives Chefs Goosebumps Chefs and restauranteurs — the sort of people who tend to have more knives and sharp objects on hand than most — are starting to fear the increasingly violent rhetoric that has fattened up as
SF News Jackie Speier Beams Praises Death of Al Qaeda's Anwar al-Awlaki Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo), Member on the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the House Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement Friday after the U.S.-backed assassination of
SF News Threatening Sticker Diverts SFO Flight to Germany A United Airlines flight from SFO to Frankfurt, Germany needed to make an emergency stop in Chicago on Sunday. It seems that a crew member discovered a "sticker with a threatening message in
SF News Man Booted Off BART After Talking About Weapons of Mass Destruction A man was escorted off a BART train this morning after loudly and wildly talking to passengers about weapons of mass destruction. Egads. "BART officers responded at about 9:20 a.m. to
SF News White House Won't Release Bin Laden Corpse Photo The White House decided not to release "gruesome" photos of recently deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. This comes after some debate about whether or not the Obama Administration should make the reportedly
SF News Osama Bin Laden Doll Alive at Local Pet Supply Store Cashing in on the Osama death craze, local pet retailer Best in Show sent out the following mass email this morning. "Osama bin Laden is dead... but Osama Bone Laden is alive and
SF News Meanwhile in Vacaville: Newspaper Bomb Injures Elderly Man An elderly man in Vacaville was injured by an explosive device hidden in his Sunday newspaper yesterday. When the man went to retrieve the paper from his lawn the hidden device exploded, alerting
SF News John Walker Lindh Still Studying Islam, Earning Liberal Arts Degree In part of a "long-running campaign to clear his son's name ", Frank Lindh, father of noted Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh, spoke to law students at University of San Francisco on Wednesday. According
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Don’t Like The TSA' by Jonathan Mann Ever since John Tyner bravely asked a TSA agent not to sexually assault him -- the 31-year-old Oceanside software engineer now faces prosecution and $11,000 in civil penalties -- Jonathan Mann came
SF News Counter-Terrorist Sea Lion Nabs Fake Terrorist You can't make this shit up, folks! Two specially trained sea lions and a dolphin succeeded in "identifying" a suspicious device attached to a concrete pier piling as part of a counter-terrorism exercise
