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The Counter Terrorist Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
SSI Announces the Launch of the Counter Terrorist Quarterly Print Magazine
Following on from the phenomenal success of the Counter Terrorist newsletter in helping First Responders stay abreast on counter terrorism news and information, SSI announced the launch of a new addition to the growing media group at SSI. The Counter Terrorist quarterly will be a full color, internationally-distributed magazine that will be published in March of 2008. THE COUNTER TERRORIST WILL INITIALLY GO OUT TO 10,000 SUBSCRIBERS and will be a quarterly publication. However, with distribution of the magazine at all our events and the considerable interest from our mailing list, comprising almost 100,000 first responders, we expect the circulation to exceed 50,000 within the first year.
If you are interested in being one of the first 500 readers of the electronic newsletter to get a COMPLETELY FREE subscription to the magazine please send an e-mail to
and put subscription in the subject line. Please MAKE SURE, you give us your complete mailing address or the mailing address of your agency. We will be sending out the new magazine at the end of March and it will be unveiled in Washington DC in March of 2008. First Come, First Served.
THE COUNTER TERRORIST will join the SecurityEvent.net website, the PoliceTraining.net websites, the SSI website, and the Counter Terrorist electronic newsletter in deepening SSI's commitment to reaching the entire First Responder community. A new website will also be created for the magazine. First class contributors from all over the world that are SME's in counter terror prevention, detection and response will be the people writing the articles - a surefire, SSI quality-assured valuable source of information for those fighting the War on Terror.
SSI has just concluded the appointment of the magazine's editor. We are honored that Ms. Connie Bond, originally from Alabama now based in Idaho Falls, has agreed to edit the magazine. Connie has done excellent work in Law Enforcement publications for the past twenty years and was recently the editor of the popular POLICE MARKSMAN magazine. We welcome her to the SSI team..
During the cold war life was much simpler than today, politically speaking that is, and especially for people fortunate enough to live in the West.
We knew where we, the Western and democratic world, stood vis-a-vis the communist bloc countries made up of the USSR and its eastern European satellite nations. That was simplified even more by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan who referred to the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire."
But these days - beginning when communism was expunged from eastern European countries and Russia almost as quickly as those old children's doodle boards that would instantly erase your scribbles when you tilted the tablet in a certain way - politics has become more confusing.
Back then, when the United States called for an international peace conference on the Middle East, the Soviets and their satellites - mainly the countries of the Warsaw Pact group - would oppose it and join with other countries and organizations in a rejection front.
Imagine that instead of anthrax-laced letters targeted at members of Congress the next bioterrorist attack to hit Washington is a wide-scale release of a toxin in the transit system. But rather than trusting a haphazard series of stationary air sensors installed at likely release points on platforms and waiting areas, first responders minimize the assault using thousands of mobile biodetectors embedded in a standard tool in every commuter's arsenal: the cell phone.
According to such a plan, a portion of the phone-toting population would voluntarily use devices that included minuscule bio, radiation or chemical sensors that could detect dangers in real time. If terrorists released a toxin, cell-phone sensors would detect the substances and signal the threat to District of Columbia police via the Global Positioning System network.
Officials would quickly know the type of outbreak they faced and could pinpoint the release points and map how prevailing air currents were spreading the poison.
New Anti-Terrorism Unit Showcased Locally By Joann Groff
As threats of terrorism continue around the world, a group of Westlake residents are breathing easier after last week's presentation by a unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Chief William McSweeney, head of the sheriff's Office of Homeland Security, led the members of a Westlake service group through the workings of a highly specialized hazardous materials unit, offering a glimpse at the equipment, suits and vehicles that "detect and protect."
The unit, which displayed its wares at the North Ranch Country Club, deals solely with criminal and terrorism-related hazardous materials incidents, including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear substances which can also be considered weapons of mass destruction.
Terrorism Accused Explains Former Islamist Internet Code
Schleswig, Germany - A terrorism suspect on trial in Germany declared Thursday his devotion to Osama bin Laden and explained the code words used by Islamists during internet chat. Moroccan-born Redouane al-H said that when a member of an Islamist internet community was arrested, the others told one another he was "sick."
The codeword for explosives was "dough." He added that a "taxi driver" meant a suicide bomber and to "marry" meant dying as a martyr.
H, who is accused of forming a terrorist group to recruit suicide bombers for Iraq, was giving substantive testimony for the first time at his trial in the German city of Schleswig, near the Danish border.
H, aged 37, confirmed he had sworn a vow of loyalty to Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network which mounted the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
"Osama bin Laden is my religious authority," he said, adding that he had wanted to move to Iraq in summer 2005 to take part in a jihad or holy war against Americans, whom he described as Crusaders.
KCRA 3 Investigates: Material Could Be Used To Create Dirty Bomb
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A radioactive material that's supposed to be under lock and key is going missing and sometimes getting stolen at an alarming rate, leaving some scientists to believe that it is a dangerous opportunity for terrorists trying to make a dirty bomb.
Unlike a nuclear bomb, a dirty bomb uses radioactive material stuck to a conventional explosive such as dynamite. The material is scattered through a building or a city block and over the long term can cause cancer in people who are exposed.
Daniel Cebra, a physics professor who teaches a course on terrorism at UC Davis, said that kind of exposure could cause a maximum economic impact in an area that gets contaminated.
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 electromagnetic wave which is focused on the target circuitry. The Bishop serves as a front line tool in Render Safe operations.
CELL PHONE JAMMERS FOR SWAT and Special Operations Available!
Isla de san andres, colombia | This tiny, palm-fringed island off the Atlantic coast seems like an idyllic Caribbean paradise. Duty-free shops, resort hotels and rustic snack bars line streets filled with European scuba divers on holiday.
But a powerful Arab presence here has led to claims that San Andres is becoming a hotbed of Hezbollah terrorist activity.
Ely Karmon, director of Israel's Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, says that since the 1980s Hezbollah has been recruiting and raising money from Lebanese and Syrian immigrants living in three specific areas of Latin America and the Caribbean: the tri-border area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet; Venezuela's Margarita Island; and the Caribbean coastline of Colombia, including Maicao and San Andres.
"In all three areas you have Lebanese Shiite communities," Karmon said. "Latin America is a soft-belly target because nobody is prepared - not the law enforcement authorities, not the public, not anyone."
Cyberwar sounds like the title of a William Gibson science fiction novel.
But it could become a reality for the U.S. military, which is grappling with the doctrine, policy, strategy and training necessary to fight a cyberwar.
That scenario is far beyond the military's current network defense capabilities. The need has become apparent to many military leaders, however, especially after recent Chinese probes of the Defense Department's Unclassified but Sensitive IP Router Network and coordinated attacks - possibly instigated by Russia - on Estonia's data network infrastructure.
"If you're defending in cyber, you're already too late," Lani Kass, director of the Air Force's Cyberspace Task Force, told the audience at an Air Force Association conference in September.
DHS Driver's License Rules May Come Sooner Than Required By Heather Greenfield
The final rules for stricter driver's licensing standards are being reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget and are not due to go public until March. But the director of the so-called REAL ID program at the Department of Homeland Security offered a few hints on the timetable Thursday as he spoke to technology executives in McLean, Va.
Darrell Williams said OMB officially received the rules Tuesday and has 90 days to respond and another 60 days before the rules could be implemented.
Williams said Homeland Security has worked closely with OMB to show the changes made in response to 21,000 comments from states. He said because the department essentially did a lot of the homework, OMB may finish its review in less than 90 days.
Williams said the 21,000 comments from states included substantive complaints about the cost of implementing the program in less than four years.
Marshall Rickert, a former leader of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, said the problem is that most of the adult U.S. population would have to visit state Department of Motor Vehicle offices to get new licenses within three-and-a-half years, and the infrastructure to handle that does not exist.
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