Security Solutions International (SSI) and PoliceTraining.net join forces to createwww.SecurityEvent.Net
New Internet Site will give every public or private security conference a place to publish important, timely and accurate information about training and security events being held in the USA or abroad.
In response to a huge growth in Security conferences, events and training since 2001, Miami-based Security Solutions International (SSI) announced today that it has created jointly with the industry leaders for specific Police Training Calendars - PoliceTraining.net - a specialized listing service for Security events. This site, based on the very popular www.policetraining.net , will be the world's first Internet calendar of events in the Security Sector.
UNTIL DECEMBER 31st, 2007 SSI is offering the service free to all events that are approved as genuine Security Events. THIS IS A FREE SERVICE AND YOU CAN LIST YOUR EVENT UP TO THE DAY OF THE EVENT IN 2007/2008.
Now taking applications for February 2008 - 11th Mission to Israel _____________________________________
National Security Archive: The Pentagon's Counterspies: The Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)
Washington, DC, September 17, 2007 - Today the National Security Archive publishes a collection of documents concerning the organization and operations of the Pentagon's Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) and the TALON/CORNERSTONE database it has maintained. As the Defense Department announced on August 21, today that database will be terminated while work on new procedures for reporting of threats to the Defense Department and its facilities continues. In the interim, threat reports will be transmitted to the FBI.
The declassified documents published today include the key Department of Defense directive on the collection of information about Americans, as well as documents on the organization and missions of CIFA, an evaluation of charges of mismanagement by CIFA executives, and examples of data collected about protest activities as part of the Threat And Local Observation Notice (TALON) system.
Krav Maga - Courses in Miami in November: Expert coming from
Israel: Call 1-866-573-3999 and speak to Henry Morgenstern
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Operation diver alert
MIDDLETOWN - The diver appeared on the sonar display and an alarm sounded.
"I have an underwater contact that's coming toward me, and I don't want it to," Navy Reserve Capt. Keith Bruce said.
The diver was 380 yards offshore and quickly approaching the Navy pier, despite sub-surface alarms and a verbal command to surface. "Arm the gun," Bruce said. "I'm going to engage the contact."
An underwater air gun fired four times, its movements displayed on a television screen, its explosions audible in a tent on the pier.
By the time it quieted, a diver was bobbing on the surface.
In the recent test of a new anti-diver detection system, the diver off the Middletown coast was a Navy volunteer, arriving on schedule and trailing a buoy.
The Bishop, a Time Domain Reduction System, is a unique directed energy platform designed specifically for EOD operations and bomb technicians. The high-frequency generator produces a continuous elctromagnetic wave which is focused on the target circuitry. The Bishop serves as a front line tool in Render Safe operations. Learn More... _______________________________________
DIY lab scanner made from standard CD drive
Fixing two additional light sensors to a normal CD or DVD drive can transform it into a highly accurate scanner for chemical or medical tests, Spanish researchers have shown. The team has developed a modified CD drive that detected tiny quantities of pesticide in samples placed on top of an ordinary compact disk.
Biologists and chemists often detect and measure compounds of interest, such as disease pathogens in blood or pollutants in water, by triggering interactions between these compounds and known proteins and antibodies. These immunoassay tests produce further compounds that can then be measured accurately, typically using light.
However, the machines used for light detection are expensive, normally costing between 30,000 and 60,000 euros, says Angel Maquieira, of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
The Realignment of Iraq: We're winning because the Iraqis want us to--Moqtada al-Sadr included.
The war in Iraq was always going to be won by the Iraqis, and so it has proven. But the Iraqis who have won it are on our side.
It was in the spring of 2004--a month or so before I first arrived in Baghdad in a taxi to stay in a small hotel--that the Sunnis launched their disastrous insurgency. Its defeat is becoming ever more clear this autumn as new reports reach us of the patriotic stand of the Anbar tribes, the pacification and nascent prosperity of Fallujah and Ramadi, the isolation of al Qaeda, and the peace overtures of defeated Baathists.
That first season of serious fighting also included the time of the original uprising by the poor Shiites of Iraq, led by Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army. Six times during that fighting I drove with Iraqis through the so-called Death Triangle of Sunni towns south of Baghdad to cover the events in Najaf. Surrounded on the highway by pickup trucks carrying chanting Mahdi Army fighters and caskets bearing the dead from the Sadr City fighting, one would see the green and black flags of the Shiite saints atop houses and feel safe.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office November 15th and 16th, 2007 _______________________________
Al Qaeda in . . . Mesopotamia?
The recent drop in violence against noncombatants in Iraq occurred during a time when al Qaeda in Mesopotamia had promised to inflict more. Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is a homegrown Sunni Arab extremist group that American intelligence has concluded is led by foreigners.
This is of course good news. And yet this paragraph highlights, as if we needed more evidence, the political bias of the editors of the Times (it is important to note that some of their reporters, like John Burns and Michael Gordon, are first-rate). Instead of referring to al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) as, say, al Qaeda-Iraq-which is how our commanding general in Iraq, David Petraeus, describes it-the Times refers to the organization as al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. And this phrase is always followed up with this formulation: "Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is a homegrown Sunni Arab extremist group that American intelligence has concluded is led by foreigners."
The indispensable James Taranto, who writes the daily online column "Best of the Web," has made merciless fun of the Times for doing this (playing off the Times, he refers to AQI as "al Qaeda Which Has Nothing to Do With Iraq in Iraq Which Has Nothing to Do With al Qaeda"). At the risk of taking the editors of the Times too seriously, it's worth considering what the Times is trying to achieve.
WASHINGTON - The nation is preparing for its biggest terrorism exercise ever next week when three fictional "dirty bombs" go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities and Guam, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.
Yet even as this drill begins, details from the previous national exercise held in 2005 have yet to be publicly released - information that's supposed to help officials prepare for the next real attack.
House lawmakers were expected to demand answers Wednesday, including why the "after-action" report from 2005 hasn't been made public. Congress has required the exercise since 2000, but has done little in the way of oversight beyond attending the actual events.
President Bush is preparing further U.S. sanctions against the dictatorship.
It is 2 a.m. in Rangoon, Burma. In the middle of the tropical night, army troops pour into the neighborhood surrounding a peaceful Buddhist monastery. The soldiers occupy nearby homes, so that residents will not peek through their windows or go outside to witness the raid. Troops then storm the monastery, brutalizing, terrorizing and arresting the monks inside.
Eventually the monks are imprisoned inside Rangoon's former Government Technical Institute. According to one eyewitness, hundreds are crammed into each room. They have no access to toilets or sanitary facilities. Many of the monks refuse food from their military jailers. There is no space to lie down and sleep.
Homeland Security Management Institute November 1st and 2nd, 2007
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New homeland security plan, new DC security leak
The White House maintains that it is "building a culture of preparedness'' with its new national strategy for homeland security.
Yet the new report arrives on a day on which it is reported in Washington that a private intelligence firm which monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new videotape of Osama bin Laden before its official release last month and notified the Bush administration.
The firm gave two senior officials access on the condition that the officials not reveal they had it until the release by al Qaeda, the Washington Post reported today. Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had started downloading the video from the company's Web site. By the middle of that afternoon, the video and a transcript had been leaked from within the Bush administration to cable television news and broadcast worldwide.
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