| | The Counter Terrorist
Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security | mid March 2007 |
| Preparing for school attacks
by Richard Fairburn and David Grossman - PoliceOne.com  For those in the emergency response community who thought school attacks were a thing of the past, the recent active shooter incident in Montreal, Canada and disrupted attack in Green Bay, Wisconsin signaled a loud wake-up call. Just a few days later, hostages were taken in a school in Bailey, Colorado with tragic results and a principle was killed by a student in a Sauk County, Wisconsin high school. ___________________________________________________________________ |
Sensitive plans, maps found in OIA dumpster
by by Jim Leusner - Orlando Sentinal  Orlando International Airport officials already scrambling to plug security gaps had a new concern to explain Friday: how sensitive documents detailing the airport's layout, fuel-storage facilities, communications systems and power lines wound up in a dumpster. ___________________________________________________________________ |
DHS To Study UAV For Counter-MANPADS Role
by John M. Doyle - Aviation Daily  The Dept. of Homeland Security is studying the use of high-altitude, unmanned aerial vehicles as airborne platforms to counter small surface-to-air missile attacks on commercial aircraft, the head of the department's research arm said March 13. DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology Jay Cohen said the department plans to issue a broad agency announcement soon, looking for industry suggestions. ___________________________________________________________________
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Civil defenseless: We're not ready for nuclear attack
by Greg Gordon - Seattle Times  Although the Bush administration has warned repeatedly about the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack and spent more than $300 billion to protect the homeland, the government remains ill-prepared to respond to a nuclear catastrophe. Experts and government documents suggest that, absent a major preparedness push, the U.S. response to a mushroom cloud could be worse than the debacle after Hurricane Katrina, possibly contributing to civil disorder and costing thousands of lives. ___________________________________________________________________ |
Terror bulletin flags some school-bus drivers
by Lara Jakes Jordan - Associated Press Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school-bus drivers in the United States, counterterrorism officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. But an FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear." ___________________________________________________________________ |
Former Navy Sailor Arrested for Alleged Spying
By Associated Press  A former Navy sailor was arrested Wednesday for allegedly e-mailing military secrets - including detailed information on Navy battle groups and their missions - to a suspected terrorism financier that were later posted on Web sites used to raise funds for Al Qaeda. ________________________________________________________________ |
Could Al Qaeda Plunge England into an Internet Blackout?
by Simson Garfinkel - Technologt Review blogger  According to an article by David Leppard, Scotland Yard has uncovered evidence that Al Qaeda operatives were going to blow up Telehouse Europe, a large colocation facility in Britain that is the country's largest Internet hub. Suspects who were recently arrested had conducted reconnaissance against Telehouse and had planned to infiltrate the organization and blow it up from inside. ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
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A new face of Al Qaeda emerges in Lebanon
by Souad Mekhennet and Michael Moss - Int. Herald Tribune  Deep in a violent and lawless slum just north of this coastal city, 12 men with their faces shrouded by black and red-and-white scarves drilled with Kalashnikovs. In unison, they lunged in one direction, turned and lunged in another. "Allahu Akbar," the men shouted their praise to God as they fired their machine guns into a wall. |
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