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The LAPD's ridiculous-looking hazmat robot.

Of this, the LAPD is well aware. Thus the massive security detail deployed at last night's awards show:

Diabetes Mine

Visual guide: How to distinguish a gun from an insulin pump.

Here's what happened, according to the Los Angeles Times: A woman with an insulin pump on her person was screened with one of those privacy-infringing porn machines the TSA likes to call "advanced imaging technology" body scanners.

Officers reportedly interpreted the shape of the pump as a gun. But before they could search their target, she wandered off to find her gate...

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They're here. And they're smarter than you.

The LAPD has recruited a new class of canine to help hunt terrorists at LAX, and their nose muscles are as hot and rippling as Schwarzenegger's biceps in the '80s.

Raised and trained on what we imagine to be a thriving puppy boot camp at Auburn University in Alabama, the dogs are a product of precise nature/nurture. By the end of their training, the university claims they can track down a bomb just by getting a whiff of the air somebody walked through...

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Trolling for terrorists.

He says the CBS LA piece today on increased TSA presence at Union Station is probably in response to an article the Los Angeles Times ran last week on the federal agency's expansion from airports (where their porn scans and crotch grabs have become something of a terrifying meme) to ground-level transportation, as well.

But it's not exactly a recent development, according to Melendez.

DHS

Say it don't spray it.

The "If You See Something Say Something" anti-terror campaign is now expanding to America's hotels.

Fair enough, but consider that the "See Something" initiative was originally launched in conjunction with the Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, itself an outgrowth of the LAPD's own anti-terror guidelines, which include ...

Though we know that two of the 9/11 attackers spent time in Los Angeles before the events that changed the course of contemporary American history, our city is often though of as a low-on-the-list target for terrorists.

Even so, the LAPD will be on guard this Sunday as the nation observes the landmark 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Chief Charlie Beck told the Police Commission this week that ...

High five!

SoCal's bad little suburban boys (and girls) just keep getting craftier.

Most recently, two teens from Simi Valley (Zachary Jackson, 18, and a 16-year-old accomplice), apparently loopy off some heist-movie binge and bored as hell on summer vacation, allegedly brought out the voice decoders for a string of bomb threats that got them arrested on Wednesday --

L.A. County CEO William Fujioka makes almost $340,000 per year.

We plebeians don't hear much about the suits up at the L.A. County Chief Executive Office -- their jobs are so bureaucratic and paperworky that it's hard to pin them for any specific failures.

Breivik.

Witnesses told CBS2/KCAL9 that a Century City woman who might be the sister of accused Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was paid a visit by authorities over the weekend, though the purpose of what was reported as questioning wasn't entirely clear.

Anders Behring Breivik, alleged to have killed 93 people with bombs and bullets in Norway last week, mentioned Los Angeles in a "manifesto" that came to light after the attack.

Here's what he wrote about L.A. and the sister:

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Wind turbines at the AeroVironment facility in Monrovia. Also pretty cool.

Employees of the Monrovia company tell the San Gabriel Valley Tribune they were called into a meeting Thursday afternoon and warned that the FBI was looking into a terrorist plot against AeroVironment -- part of the retaliation effort against Osama Bin Laden's recent U.S. assassination. Creepy stuff.

After combing an Al Qaeda-linked jihadist hit list online, the Homeland Security Today blog confirmed:

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Bill Warren, 69-year old American hero

And in death, turns out, the Al Qaeda mastermind is still relatively popular:

Bill Warren, an over-the-hill (but very much still kickin') shipwreck diver from Oceanside, California, is planning a two-week mission to recover Bin Laden's bullet-ridden remains at the bottom of the North Arabian Sea.

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Ikram Khan, a relative of the accused, said the charges are false.

Irfan Khan, one of three people arrested for allegedly sending money to the Pakistani Taliban, is due in federal court in downtown L.A. today for arraignment.

On Sunday his brother Ikram Khan called the allegations against 37-year-old Irfan Khan, father Hafiz Khan, 76, and brother Izhar Khan, 24, "100 percent -- no, 200 percent -- a big lie."

Interviewed by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Ikram Khan said this:

LAX.

The announcement of the new, specialized canines -- the first team of dogs in the nation to focus on possible bomb-carriers walking through an airport -- came as news spread that Osama Bin Laden's diaries name-check Los Angeles specifically as a target.

Bin Laden, paraphrased by Associated Press (via LA Observed):

YouTube

Al Qaeda training video.

Fox News this week called out El Segundo-based Internet Brands for its group-discussion platform vBulletin. Of course, blaming a tech platform these days would be like blaming the Alexander Graham Bell for all criminal threats made via telephone.

But Security consult Jeff Bardin claims that ...

Mike Bruggink

Bruggink left no Afghani cave unturned.

However, unlike Faulker, after years of military experience in Korea and Iraq, Bruggink says his approach was a bit more sophisticated.

LAX has been targeted before.

CBS News states that L.A. was listed in the intel along with New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

The network says some details of the data culled from Bin Laden's hideout and leaked to CBS indicate ...

MIT International Review

Boink! Bin Laden.

No joke: A class of undergraduate students at UCLA predicted way back in 2009 that Osama bin Laden, America's most-wanted terrorist for the last decade, was hiding in a non-cave on the border of Pakistan [Science Insider].

Michael Josephson.

But at least one commentator, KNX 1070 Newsradio ethics guru Michael Josepson -- you know, the guy who makes you feel guilty about tipping, your parents, being truthful -- came out and said it today, surprisingly.

Here's what he said:

FBI

Will Obama's demise lead to more terrorism on U.S. soil?

While most Americans today are walking on cloud 9, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, ex- New York Times reporter who has covered the Middle East for seven years says we should be afraid. Very afraid.

Chris Hedges told a group gathered in L.A. Sunday night for a fundraiser for the news site Truthdig that the demise of Osama Bin Laden will only fortify Muslim extremists and inspire them to attack Americans on U.S. soil.

In other words, he argued, Sunday's triumph will only turn around to kick us in the ass. Here's what he said:

Gone.

The LAPD is keeping its guard up despite President Obama's world-shaking announcement that terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan.

Assistant Commanding Officer Blake Chow, the department's counterterrorism commander, told the Associated Press that police will keep a close eye on intelligence chatter for any signs of L.A. connections.

The idea here is that Muslim extremists could plan reprisals in the wake of Bin Laden's death.