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Join the 12th mission June 6th, through the 14th, 2008
Participants on 11th Homeland Security Training Mission acclaim changes to program
"It was one of the greatest experiences of my life" said a participant returning to the US on Saturday, March 1st. The SSI Homeland Security mission garnered a lot of praise from participants that included the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Sheriffs Offices, and NYPD personnel, Fire personnel and First Responders and Security professionals from all over the USA and even from Iraq .
The program, held during a tense situation in Israel, was nonetheless a very safe and pleasant experience. One of the participants remarked that she had never felt safer than when she was in Israel. At the same time, participants were able to visit the tense border and were shown highly secret details of the Border Crossing technology as well as participation in a complete program about the safety of Governement buildings given by the head of the Israeli Government's Special Event Security and the man responsible for the security at the Government complex.Participants visited the Port of Ashdod, the Hebrew University, Malls, schools, infrastructure and learned about dignitary protection, aviation security and had special bomb classes.
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A toxic biological agent was found in a suite on Valley View Boulevard near Flamingo Road on Thursday afternoon, but Las Vegas police said they were not searching for a suspect and nobody was harmed by the substance.
Ricin, a substance used for cancer research that has "no other medical use," was discovered about 3 p.m. by a man who was cleaning out a suite at the Extended Stay America at 4270 S. Valley View Blvd., Joseph Lombardo, a Las Vegas police captain and Homeland Security Bureau chief, said at a news conference about 9:30 p.m.
The man, who told police the toxic agent did not belong to him, took the powdery substance to the manager's office, and the manager called police.
PINE BROOK, N.J., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- New Jersey-based Smiths Detection has been contracted by Amtrak for the recently announced planned upgrade of passenger screening procedures.
Under the contract Smiths Detection will supply Amtrak the company's Sabre 4000 detection systems for the quick detection of explosives, narcotics, chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals among other threats.
"We are pleased to provide Amtrak with an explosives detection solution that has a proven track record, which immediately adds a sophisticated and portable layer of security to help keep passengers and busy commuter areas safer," Stephen Phipson, Smiths Detection group managing director, said in a statement.
The Homeland Security Bulletin Of Open Source Threats HS BOOST
SSI is taking orders from Intelligence agencies around the country for its brand-new workshop, Jihad 2.0 from Virtual to Physical. The workshop, created by Gadi Aviran, the founder of Terrogence, the content providers for SSI's new monthly Intelligence Subscription service HS Boost has already been ordered in Florida, Boston, Denver, Anaheim and many more cities. The workshop increases awareness of the entire Terror threat life cycle without undue focus on any one aspect or modus operandi. This gives Homeland Security an advantage in understanding phenomena like Suicide Terror which far too often are treated as independant threats.
The last Intelligence bulletin drew attention to the threat to US railways, and indeed there was an incident this month in Virginia. Anyone that is a bona fide member of an intelligence service that would like to receive a copy of the pilot should contact Henry Morgenstern 305.401.6906 (cell).
Terror Trial Exposes Network of Terror Camps in Picturesque Rural England
The Associated Press
LONDON: Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslim men trained in picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings.
Tourists and others who stumbled across this sight - described by eyewitnesses in a London courtroom over recent weeks - struggled to stifle laughter.
But a four-year inquiry, which came to a close Tuesday with guilty pleas from the last two of seven gang members, has exposed a network of alleged British terrorism training camps with a serious intent to prepare recruits for mass murder.
Security officials believe hundreds of men - including a gang that made a failed attempt to bomb London's transit network - passed through camps across the English countryside.
COUNTER-TERRORISM agencies fear that local extremists are increasingly using mobile phones connected to overseas networks to thwart investigators and spread hardline propaganda.
Agents from Victoria Police and ASIO are investigating the sale of mobile phones within Melbourne's Somali community that are being used to receive al-Qa'ida-linked motivational videos of Islamic extremists torturing and beheading "infidels".
The connection of mobiles to overseas networks is frustrating police as bugging telephones has been a good method of tracking and infiltrating suspected extremists. The Weekend Australian understands the mobile phones are being sold at some hardline Islamic prayer halls and mosques in Melbourne for between $500 and $1000.
It is believed the phones are connected to telephone networks in Lebanon and Syria.
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Analyst Warns of Third Islamic Terrorist Wave, Enabled by Internet
By Greg Grant
Al Qaeda is not the central planning, recruiting and organizing force for global terrorism it once was, but has become more of a brand name that leaderless terrorist groups around the world assume to gain recognition and notoriety, according to a leading terrorist expert.
The third wave of terrorists comprises mostly "terrorist wannabes," said Marc Sageman, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, who was a CIA case officer in Afghanistan in the 1980s. They are a post-Iraq terrorist generation made up predominately of Muslims in Europe who feel shut out of the labor market, said Sageman, speaking in Washington on Feb. 20 at an event sponsored by the New America Foundation. They become increasingly radicalized by shared group discontent and join the terrorist jihad in a quest for glory and heroism, he added.
By Robert Windrem NEW YORK - London's Scotland Yard on Friday released a series of videos, maps and attack plans for a plot to assault New York's financial district, prepared by al-Qaida operatives six months before the Sept. 11 attack.
While some parts of the videos and some of the attack information - prepared for Osama bin Laden himself - were previously made public, today's release is the most detailed regarding the attack plans.
The materials were released today after seven members of a terror cell run by al-Qaida "general'' Dhiren Barot were sentenced in London to a total of 136 years in prison. Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, Junade Feroze, Zia Ul Haq, Abdul Aziz Jalil, Omar Abdur Rehman, Qaisar Shaffi and Nadeem Tarmohamed were vital to his deadly plans to attack targets in the United Kingdom and United States, Woolwich Crown Court was told.
The top ranking official in the Homeland Security Department's national protection division called the agency's efforts in cybersecurity satisfactory, assigning a grade of 'C' during congressional testimony Thursday. But members of Congress called the grade inadequate, emphasizing the need for better collaboration with agency technology leaders, real-time response to system attacks, and metrics that measure the ability to protect networks from specific threats rather than system compliance.
DHS officials didn't reveal too many specifics regarding the much anticipated but highly classified initiative during a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee. Robert Jamison, undersecretary for national protection and programs directorate at DHS, described plans to enhance federal cyber-situational awareness, intrusion detection, information sharing and response capabilities.
Service on Google Inc.'s YouTube Web site was disrupted around the world for several hours Sunday after a botched effort by the Pakistani government to block access to a video clip critical of Islam.
The story began unfolding Friday when the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, the nation's telecom regulator, ordered Pakistan's Internet-service providers to immediately block access to a specific YouTube video, which it said was so incendiary it could trigger riots. A senior official at the authority said it also contacted YouTube, requesting that the site remove the video. The authority argued the clip was a violation of YouTube's terms of service, which ban hate speech. YouTube has since removed the clip but says it doesn't comment on reasons for removing specific videos.
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.
State Preparing for Worst as 2010 Winter Olympics Approach
By Rachel La Corte
OLYMPIA - With the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., just around the corner, Washington state is using its partnership with British Columbia to prepare for bioterrorist attacks and other public-health emergencies.
That cross-country partnership, which has already led to sharing of information on severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and a salmonella pet-food problem, was noted in a new federal report on health-emergency preparedness.
Wednesday's report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention takes a national look at how states have improved their readiness for public-health emergencies and the challenges those states still face. It was the government's first assessment of the payoff from its investment of more than $5 billion since the terrorist attacks of 2001 to make the country better prepared for a variety of public-health emergencies.
The United States government has installed scanning equipment at a Hampshire container port to monitor shipments bound for its shores.
The hi-tech equipment at Southampton Port scans lorries and containers for radioactive materials that could form part of a bomb.
The data is then sent back to the US as part of its counter-terrorism measures. Southampton is the UK's first port to trial the American Secure Freight Initiative (SFI) system.
It is also being tested at Port Qasim in Pakistan and Puerto Cortez in Honduras.
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