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The Counter Terrorist Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
July 2007
Follow Israel's lead on fixing airport security By George Bornstein
Have you stood in an airport security line waiting for screening and wondered how effective the procedures were? After a recent overseas trip to Israel and several domestic flights, my wife and I do more than wonder: We worry.
The Department of Homeland Security and its component -- the Transportation Security Administration -- have strengthened security at airports since Sept. 11. But America still needs major changes in philosophy, screening and onboard security before our airports and planes are as safe as Israeli ones.
The Israelis became the first victims of Middle Eastern aviation terrorism when an El Al flight from Rome was hijacked in 1968. Strong security measures have prevented a single El Al plane from being seized since, and no commercial airliner leaving Israeli airports has ever been taken over
Chemical Plants Alerted to Spurious Safety Survey BY ALEX NAUSSBAUM
The federal government has warned chemical companies in North Jersey and across the nation about a series ofsuspicious calls earlier this month at plants in the Midwest.
The calls, placed to at least three chemical manufacturers, sought information about safety procedures at thebusinesses and claimed to be from the Center for Chemical Process Safety, an industry group based in New York.
But the center is conducting no such survey, and when the companies sought to track the calls, they traced themback to phone numbers that were either disconnected or non-existent, according to Scott Berger,the industry group's director.
"If you're doing a scientific survey, why would you spoof the number?" Berger said on Thursday."I think that's what got everybody concerned."
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Possible Surveillance at World Trade Center and RTD Light Rail Station in Denver, Colorado
Note: This document is Classified Law Enforcement Sensitive - Published in Newspaper!
(LES/FOUO) On July 11, 2007, at approximately 6:30 pm MDT, a male believed to be of Middle Eastern descent was seen video taping the sidewalk and adjacent building while walking down the sidewalk on Tremont Street between 16th and 17th Street. The man stopped adjacent to the building security desk and video taped the area from the outside through the window. He then proceeded to 16th Street and Tremont Street where he filmed the entire building and the surrounding areas.
When a security officer from the building began walking toward the direction of the individual, he started running down 16th Street and was lost in the crowd. Attached is a snapshot of the surveillance footage that shows the individual.
In June 2007, a citizen observed a suspicious Middle Eastern male standing at the 16th Street and California Street light rail station waiting for the "H-Line" train. The male appeared to be watching people enter the train. He was possibly selling literature in a zip-lock bag. The male did not get on the train. The male watched everyone boarding and then walked across the street as the train departed.
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Expanding on KSM's role (but only identifying him as "the operational leader"), the Department of Justice summarizes the plot as follows: "According to Faris' admission, the operational leader then told Faris that al Qaeda was planning twosimultaneous attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. The al Qaeda leader spoke with Faris about destroying a bridge in New York City6 by severing its suspension cables, and tasked Faris with obtaining the equipment needed for that operation.
A court filing states that the operational planner "described the equipment as 'gas cutters' but instructed the defendant to refer to them in code as 'gas stations' in any subsequent communications
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It used to be that the only people I knew who were concerned about the behavior of fellow mass-transit passengers were Israelis. But that was before Sept. 11, the airline "shoe bomber," the Madrid railway attacks and the 2005 suicide bombings in the London subway.
Like it or not, the mantra "if you see something, say something" is simply part of the reality of life in the age of the war on Islamist terror. Indeed, it was exactly this sort of routine vigilance on the part of a young clerk at a Circuit City electronics outlet store this spring that led to the uncovering of a local Islamist plot to murder U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J.
But while that young man was justly celebrated for his good deed, others with equally reasonable suspicions of foul play can expect something quite different: a lawsuit.
A life-size, robotic fly has taken flight at Harvard University. Weighing only 60 milligrams, with a wingspan of three centimeters, the tiny robot's movements are modeled on those of a real fly. While much work remains to be done on the mechanical insect, the researchers say that such small flying machines could one day be used as spies, or for detecting harmful chemicals.
"Nature makes the world's best fliers," says Robert Wood, leader of Harvard's robotic-fly project and a professor at the university's school of engineering and applied sciences.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding Wood's research in the hope that it will lead to stealth surveillance robots for the battlefield and urban environments. The robot's small size and fly-like appearance are critical to such missions. "You probably wouldn't notice a fly in the room, but you certainly would notice a hawk," Wood says.
Recreating a fly's efficient movements in a robot roughly the size of the real insect was difficult, however, because existing manufacturing processes couldn't be used to make the sturdy, lightweight parts required. The motors, bearings, and joints typically used for large-scale robots wouldn't work for something the size of a fly. "Simply scaling down existing macro-scale techniques will not come close to the performance that we need," Wood says.
Experts say internal locks on classroom doors could save lives By DENA POTTER
BLACKSBURG, Va. - As Derek O'Dell pressed his 145-pound frame against the heavy wooden door, he thanked God it was too cold that April morning to wear flip-flops.
There were no locks on the classroom door, so he wedged his left sneaker under it to keep out the student who had just executed four of his classmates and his German teacher then left the room as calmly as he entered. Other students lay moaning, some unconscious, most bleeding on the floor, including a friend who sat in front of O'Dell who was struck in the head by a bullet but survived.
"I sat there watching him. I wanted to lean over and help, but I couldn't leave the door," O'Dell said, recalling the morning of April 16, when Seung-Hui Cho stormed into four classrooms in Virginia Tech's Norris Hall, killing 30 students and faculty hours after slaying two students in a dormitory. As police closed in, Cho turned the gun on himself. Read on...
Homeland Security warns on US power threat By Andrew Charlesworth
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has set out security requirements for automated control systems, principally in the power industry, to protect installations against physical and cyber-attacks.
Surprisingly for a document dealing with automated systems as opposed to data networks, it includes recommendations about protection against spam and social engineering, threats not normally associated with control systems.
Security firm Verisign expressed fears in its most recent weekly iDefense security bulletin that "so many of the problems that some hoped would either never migrate from the IT world into the control system world (social engineering, spam, etc) or be so rare as to be negligible, are apparently sufficient enough threats to be viewed as issues of concern for control systems."
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With impressive urgency, the Transportation Security Administration dispatched a high-level action team on Monday to clear up a problem with security at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
The problem, we are assured, is cleared up.
And indeed it is. All clear. Clear as the Mississippi River at flood stage.
On Sunday, the ABC-TV affiliate in Phoenix, Channel 15 (KNXV), aired a disturbing segment regarding late-night security at the airport . . . or what appeared to be the lack of same.
The report showed airport employees entering secured areas without their bags being checked through X-ray machines or metal detectors. The guards at the checkpoints waved them through. The videotape showed workers streaming onto the concourses carrying backpacks, suitcases and other packages, none of it examined by anyone. The local report quickly became national news.
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