JFK Airport Plot Shows: If you don't Associate Terror with Islam, You're Biased By Julia Gorin
We've all heard the complaints from "moderate" Muslim quarters about terms like "Islamofascism" and "Islamic terrorism" and so on. Such terms, they say, "unfairly associate" the act of terrorism with a single religion.
But one need only pick randomly any terror act or, in the case of the JFK plot, a prevented terror act - and look at the numbers involved. Here we had four Muslim men, two from Trinidad and two from Guyana. Let's look in the CIA World Factbook at the population breakdown in Guyana, specifically the religious groups that the country is comprised of:
Canada's skies are vulnerable to another attack against passenger travel unless tougher cargo controls are implemented on the ground, an aviation security expert testified at the Air India inquiry Wednesday.
"The answer to airline security is on the ground. Once the plane is in the air, it's too late," Kathleen Sweet, a professor of homeland security management at the University of Connecticut and a U.S. army colonel, told the inquiry in Ottawa.
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POLICE CAN KEEP EYE ON SCHOOLS
By JASON NOBLE
The Liberty Police Department may have just one officer on duty in each of Liberty's public schools, but it has many more sets of eyes.
Using technology installed and tested in the last few weeks, police dispatchers and officers can now view live security-camera feeds from area schools and, in some cases, control cameras' movement. District and department officials call the new capabilities a major improvement in law enforcement's ability to monitor and respond to potential threats and yet another example of cooperation between the two entities.
The Liberty school district has long had cameras in its buildings. Some sites - like the sprawling high school - have dozens, which keep constant watch over parking lots, athletic fields, hallways and common areas. Until recently, these feeds were monitored by district technology staff and usually referred to only after an event had happened, district and police officials said.
NYPD turns to high-tech gadgets to protect city from terrorism By Associated Press
NEW YORK - Police helicopters will be able to read license plates. Officers will carry backpacks designed to detect dirty bombs. And blimp-like detectors may hover over the city, scanning for chemical and other threats.
Those are some of an array of high-tech gadgets that will help secure the city against terrorism, the police commissioner said Wednesday.
"There is no environment across the nation that compares to New York City," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a Manhattan forum hosted by the firm CIT Aerospace. "We have the highest number of critical assets in the smallest amount of physical space."
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How They Find Your Credit Card Number Online By Jeff Burnside and Scott Zamost
A common complaint goes like this: "I used this credit card one time. I didn't create an account at the website. It's locked in a safe in my garage. How did someone steal the account number and run up the bill?"
The all-too-common answer? Google.
Good Samaritan Bennett Haselton asks whether credit card companies are doing enough (or really, anything at all) to prevent credit card numbers from making their way online. And why don't they? Credit card fraud costs the card companies millions, but plugging the holes online would cost next to nothing. The problem, it seems, is good old-fashioned laziness.
Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? By k. Dawson
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gives the full-disclosure treatment to the widely known and surprisingly simple technique for finding treasure-troves of credit card numbers online. He points out how the credit-card companies could plug this hole at trivial expense, saving themselves untold millions in losses from bogus transactions, and saving their customers some serious hassles. Read on for Bennet's article.
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The Secrets of Countersurveillance By Fred Burton
Almost any criminal act, from a purse-snatching to a terrorist bombing, involves some degree of pre-operational surveillance. In fact, one common denominator of all the different potential threats -- whether from lone wolves, militant groups, common criminals or the mentally disturbed -- is that those planning an operation all monitor their target in advance. However, while pickpockets or purse-snatchers case their victims for perhaps only a few seconds or minutes, a militant organization might conduct detailed surveillance of a target for several weeks or even months.
Regardless of the length of time surveillance is performed, however, the criminal or militant conducting it is exposed, and therefore vulnerable to detection. Because of this, countersurveillance (CS) -- the process of detecting and mitigating hostile surveillance -- is an important, though often overlooked, element of counterterrorism and security operations. CS is especially important because it is one of the few security measures that allows for threats to be dealt with before they can develop into active attacks.
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Revelations that four terror suspects used Google Earth to allegedly plot an attack on an American airport have raised fresh concerns over the amount of sensitive information freely accessible on the internet.
Abdul Kadir, one of the men accused of plotting to blow up fuel pipelines, fuel tanks, and buildings at John F. Kennedy International Airport, instructed his cohorts to use Google's online mapping software to obtain more detailed images of the airport, court documents say.
The revelations come less than a month after the director of a US spy agency - the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - told the Associated Press that the US Government should consider censoring commercial satellite photos.
New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is safe from Russell Defreitas, a disgruntled former cargo handler charged with a poorly planned but doggedly pursued plot to blow up the airport and maybe start fires that would level Queens. Defreitas and his three accomplices are in federal custody.
"Capability low, intent very high," one law enforcement official said of the alleged conspirators.
Although Defreitas' expectations far exceeded his ability to find the supplies and savvy personnel to carry out his plan, we shouldn't shrug it off.
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NEFA Foundation: The Miami Plot to Bomb Federal Buildings and the Sears Tower
Report #2 in a NEFA series, "Target: America"
U.S.-Based Plotters On June 22, 2006, Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyblenson Lemorin and Rothschild Augustine were indicted in Miami, Florida on four counts, including conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaeda and conspiring to levy war against the U.S. government.1 According to the Department of Justice, five of the men are U.S. citizens, one is a legal permanent resident, and one is a Haitian national in the U.S. illegally.2 When asked during a press conference "did any of the men have any actual contact with any members of al Qaeda that you know of?" Attorney General Roberto Gonzales responded, "the answer to that is no."3 Nonetheless, the men interacted closely with a cooperating government witness ("CW") who posed as a member of Al Qaeda to assist the FBI.
While this is UK, same vulnerabilities exist in US.
Police are stopping and searching petrol tankers coming into London amid concerns they might be used as bombs by terrorists.
A massive 'ring of steel' operation involving motorcycle officers is under way to try to block any al-Qaeda strike involving hijacked lorries.
Anti-terrorist officers fear that suicide bombers in Britain may copy tactics used in Iraq, where tankers have been used to blast petrol or poisonous chemicals in crowded areas.
Police emphasise they have no specific intelligence that UK-based terrorists are planning such atrocities. But Scotland Yard has started making regular heavy goods vehicle stops on routes into the capital.
Specialist traffic officers with a knowledge of hazardous chemicals are also manning the roadblocks.
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