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The Counter Terrorist Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
July 2007
Joe terrorist poses threat as big as Qaida
By Alison Gendar and Tina Moore
The NYPD warned today that homegrown terrorists from the U.S. and other western countries are just as likely as extremists from the Middle East to attack New York.
In a 90-page report released this morning, NYPD intelligence analysts detailed a roadmap to jihad. They described the four phases that "unremarkable" people with "ordinary jobs" go through as they become terrorists.
"While the threat from overseas remains, many of the terrorist attacks or thwarted plots against cities in Europe, Canada, Australia and the U.S. have been conceptualized and planned by local residents," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
"This study attempts to look at how that intention forms, hardens and leads to an attack."
The NYPD said the first-of-its kind report - "Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat" - is based on an analysis of 11 recent terror plots, including Madrid's 2004 bombings, London's July 2005 attack and the Toronto 18 arrested in June 2006. Domestic terror plots thwarted since Sept. 11, 2001, including those in Lackawanna; Portland, Ore.; and Virginia, were also scrutinized.
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Tragically, horrifyingly, but quite predictably, it's going to happen. The only question being which American city or cities?
In a recent conversation with a former high level intelligence operative of our government, I raised the possibility of terrorists successfully detonating a nuclear weapon within the United States. His response was sobering in its hopelessness.
First, he stressed how grateful he was that he did not work in Washington, DC, and that his family lived far enough out to survive the coming nuclear blast. When I pressed him as to why he was so sure that Islamic terrorists - with or without the help of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez - would eventually hit DC or another American city with a nuclear weapon, his anger boiled out.
DEBKAfile Clarifies it's Disclosure of Al Qaeda's Radiological Threat to New York
At midnight Thursday, Aug. 9, DEBKAfile's monitors of terrorist Web sites and forums connected the messages accumulating from midday. They spelled out an al Qaeda threat mentioning New York, Los Angeles and Miami as targets of attacks "by means of trucks loaded with radioactive material." Our counter-terror sources and monitors stressed "there is no way of gauging for sure how serious these threats are, or how real."
Monday, Aug. 13, the chatter continues.
Such disclosures are the daily content of DEBKAfile - not only about al Qaeda, but terrorist organizations in the Middle East and other parts of the world. We believe that holding back such information would be irresponsible and wrong and possibly expose people in targeted countries, most predominantly the United States and Israel, to danger. After this data is aired on our free site, our job is done and it is up to the relevant security authorities to decide how to deal with it.
In this case, the New York Police Department very properly responded.
After 24 hours, during which time the department almost certainly put its vast resources to work to research and assess the DEBKAfile disclosure, security was increased throughout Manhattan and on tunnels and bridges, with radioactivity sensors posted on vehicles, boats and helicopters.
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WASHINGTON -- Next time you go to the airport, there may be more eyes on you than you notice.
The watcher could be the attendant who hands you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the ticket-checker. Or the one next to the curbside baggage attendant.
They're called behavior detection officers, and they're part of several recent security upgrades, Transportation Security Administrator Kip Hawley told an aviation industry group in Washington last month. He described them as ``a wonderful tool to be able to identify and do risk management prior to somebody coming into the airport or approaching the crowded checkpoint.''
For the first time in history, announced researchers this May, a majority of the world's population is living in urban environments. Cities-efficient hubs connecting international flows of people, energy, communications, and capital-are thriving in our global economy as never before. However, the same factors that make cities hubs of globalization also make them vulnerable to small-group terror and violence.
Over the last few years, small groups' ability to conduct terrorism has shown radical improvements in productivity-their capacity to inflict economic, physical, and moral damage. These groups, motivated by everything from gang membership to religious extremism, have taken advantage of easy access to our global superinfrastructure, revenues from growing illicit commercial flows, and ubiquitously available new technologies to cross the threshold necessary to become terrible threats. September 11, 2001, marked their arrival at that threshold.
Airport Screening Not Dependent on Consent, Ninth Circuit Rules
By Kenneth Offgang
The government's authority to screen passengers passing security checkpoints at airports is in no way dependent on the passenger's express or implied consent, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
In a 15-0 en banc decision, the court-which has previously upheld Transportation Security Administration procedures-made it clear that a potential passenger may be subjected to screening even after offering to leave the airport without boarding a flight instead.
The judges affirmed Daniel K. Aukai's conviction for possession of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Aukai pled guilty, but reserved his right to appeal, after U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor denied his motion to suppress.
He was sentenced to 70 months in prison, plus five years' supervised release.
__________________________________________________________________________________________ Visa-waiver program hurts U.S. security By Rosemary Jenks
To fully appreciate the gift Congress just sent al-Qaida, recall the Christmas season of 2001.
On Dec. 22 of that year, American Airlines Flight 63 was somewhere over the Atlantic, carrying 197 passengers from Paris to Miami, when a stewardess noticed a man lighting matches. As strange as it seemed,it looked like he was trying to set his shoelaces on fire. When she tried to stop him, he bit her.
Fast-moving passengers - 9/11 fresh in their minds - flew to the aid of this stewardess. They subdued the match-lighter and lashed him to his seat.
Ten months later, Richard C. Reid - aka the "shoe bomber" - stood in a federal court and defiantly admitted attempting to blow Flight 63 out of the sky. "I'm a member of Al Qaeda," he said. "I pledge to Osama bin Laden and I'm an enemy of your country, and I don't care."
Who gave this murderous fanatic a U.S. visa? Truth be told, no one. Under a loophole in the immigration law called the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), all Reid needed as a British citizen to put himself in a position to murder a plane-full of Americans was to purchase a ticket on a U.S.-bound flight. Read on...
Terrorists' Cyberwar Against U.S. Gathers Steam In Our Back Yard
Recent al-Qaida "recruitment" videos and foiled terrorist plots in the United Kingdom remind us that the effectiveness of terrorism is very much an issue of winning the hearts and minds of those with the proper skills to do serious harm.
It would logically follow that it is reckless to allow terrorists to combine the critical elements of ideology, skills and the technical means of destruction.
Yet, today there is a less discussed conflict -- a "cyberwar" -- where these dangerous elements are indeed coming together in our own back yard.
Regardless of one's position on the war in Iraq or the definition of the "global war on terror," the threat is real.
This cyberwar is embodied by scores of extremist Islamist and pro-terrorist Web sites that spew hatred for America, Israel and others. Some sites train Islamists in Internet hacking skills, while others are more slanted toward military weapons training for jihadists.
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Some cruise-ship passengers will soon face the same security they would get at an airport.
The Port of Halifax recently put out a tender for security screening equipment to scan large bags, and carry-ons, as well as metal detectors for passengers.
"It involves exactly the same type of equipment you'd see at the airport when you're going through passenger screening," said Gord Helm, manager of port security and marine operations.
The heightened security is for homeporting ships only, not for passengers stopping in for the day. "Homeport" stops mean vessels are dropping off or picking up entirely new passengers.
There haven't been many homeport stops this year - just one actually - but Helm said it will pick up next year. He said over a dozen are expected in 2008.
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