US intelligence agency FBI has turned its guns towards social networking sites for monioring individuals. It appears that law enforcement officials may use the social networking site as a new source of surveillance. The US Department of Justice sent out a PDF that confirmed that they plan to use Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter as a new way to monitor individuals.

While it is not clear exactly how the government will track criminals on the social networking sites, many believe that they will use fake friend requests to gain information about their targets. Also, in the PDF that was released, the Department of Justice revealed that Facebook is quite open with the government when it comes to releasing information. On the other hand, Twitter has more of a reputation for only releasing information when an individual is facing legal proceedings.

This is obviously not the first attempt by the government to use the internet to follow criminals. In the past, the FBI has followed sexual predators online.

Sparkfun Twitter latest breaking updates :- SparkFun was crashing Thursday as customers swamped the site for “Free Day” where it gives away up to $100,000 of electronic items.

The Boulder, Colorado based site touts itself as an electronic enabler.  It manufactures and sells microcontroller development boards and breakout boards used by hobbiests.

Its Twitter page was updating sales.  The company says it had more than 100,000 customers for the day.

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Thursday morning, Timothy Hendron took the fight against his employer from a federal courtroom to the company’s headquarters, according to law enforcement sources in St. Louis. And instead of using an ongoing class action lawsuit to achieve his goals, Hendron is suspected of using an AK-47 assault rifle.

Authorities now say three people are dead and four are wounded after a man armed with an assault rifle and a handgun opened fire at a St. Louis manufacturing plant.

Police Capt. Sam Dotson confirmed the number but did not have names or details about the victims.

Many of the 40 or 50 employees inside the plant at the time of the shooting hid on the rooftop, in boiler rooms and in closets.

Fire Department spokesman Bob Keuss says at least two of the victims were in critical condition.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: PM Gilani Rejects His Wife Benefited From NRO, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said he will resign if it will be proved that his wife got relief under NRO.

Premier Gilani said efforts are underway to boost capabilities of law enforcement agencies. There was nothing like “Do More” mentioned in Obama’s letter which was delivered by James Jones. He said terrorists are now targeting public. Situation in Waziristan will soon become normal. Gilani said we are fighting war against terror on our own despite lack of resources and relying less on foreign aid.

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information andBroadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that there is no evidence that Osama Bin Laden is present in Pakistan and those making claims of his presence in the country should provide actionable proof of it.

If our coalition partners have any suggestions for improving our actions against the terrorists they should convey it to us instead of making assumptions, he said in response to the statement of a Western diplomat, who had said that Al-Qaeda’’s leader Osama bin Laden and his second in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri might be hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

“Al-Qaeda and Taliban have threatened Pakistan, attacked our security forces, killed innocent civilians and targeted our leadership. We are therefore, combating terrorism in our own interest. We do not want our efforts to be undermined by hypothetical assumptions”, he said.

The Information Minister said that in the war against terrorism Pakistan has sacrificed more in terms of human life than the combined loss of Afghan army and ISAF.

“We have deployed three times more troops on our side of the border to interdict terrorists. Our law enforcement actions in Swatand Malakand have been very successful. We have a record of doing more than any other single country in the war against terrorism”, he added.

Qamar Zaman Kaira said that for the success of Pakistan’’s counter-terrorism endeavours, it is important to focus on effective cooperation and coordination rather than going to press and making hypothetical statements that would further complicate its ongoing efforts to fight Al-Qaeda and other terrorist elements.

The basis of our cooperation with our partners is well-defined and well-understood. All counter-terrorism measures inside Pakistan will be taken by our own security forces, he said.

“We are committed and will take firm action on the basis of information gathered by us through our own means or concrete and actionable intelligence shared with us,” he added.