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April Mid-month 2008 |
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Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
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We would like to thank all our advertizers that have made possible the inaugural issue of the Counter Terrorist to be launched at GOVSEC in Washington DC and the UASI National Conference both from the 21st to the 24th of April, 2008.
As supporters of SSI and The Counter Terrorist, we're including a sneak peak into the Featured Article for the Premiere Issue before it is even off the printing presses!
From Virtual Jihad to Real Jihad
By Henry Morgenstern
The United States has mounted an initiative to reveal how terrorist groups use the Internet. Code named Reynard, this initiative came to light when a recent report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was sent to Congress.
In the report, the initiative is described as a "seedling effort to study the emerging phenomenon of social (particularly terrorist) dynamics in virtual worlds and large-scale online games and their implications for the intelligence community." 
The global Jihad, however, is beyond seedling efforts when it comes to using the Internet to promote, organize, and execute its mission. Despite the paradox of a fundamentalist Jihad, rooted in the 7th century, efficiently using the tools of a secular 21st Century, they are doing this everyday with efficient and lethal results.
Start your own Jihad: everything available on the web, including our web cams... Read on... |
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LAPD Leads the Way in Local Counter-Terrorism 
By Josh Meyer
A commander's checklist is a link from traditional police work to intelligence to combat terror attacks.
Since 9/11, authorities have urged local police to become the front line in domestic counter-terrorism, gathering street-level intelligence about crimes and suspicious activities that could foretell another attack.
But for various reasons it has not worked out that way. The nation's 17,000 local law enforcement agencies have gathered information in their own haphazard ways or not at all, authorities and experts say. Most police officers, after all, are trained to gather evidence to prove crimes, not to cultivate and analyze intelligence to prevent terrorists from striking.
Now, however, a Los Angeles Police Department official has devised a solution that is considered so cheap, so easy to implement and so innovative that federal authorities in Washington are considering making it a national model for all police departments.
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Shin Bet Thwarts Mass Restaurant Poisoning  By Efrat Weiss
Two Palestinian employees detained mere days before they planned to lace food at Ramat Gan grill bar with tasteless, odorless toxin
The thwarting of an alarming terror plot was cleared for publication on Thursday, almost three weeks after a joint Shin Bet and police operation led to the arrest of two Palestinian employees of the 'Grill Express' restaurant in Ramat Gan.
The men, Eihab Abu Rial and Anas Salum, both 21-year-old residents of the West Bank city of Nablus, had planned to lace dishes served at the establishment with a powerful toxin without odor or taste, in the hopes of killing as many patrons as possible.
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Terrorism: Al-Qaeda linked website launches Italian section
By Hamza Boccolini
One of the most popular Jihadist web forums, the al-Qaeda linked Ekhlas website, has launched a section in Italian.
Ekhlas was previously entirely in Arabic.
Ekhlas' Italian section appears to take the place of the blog of the former imam of the northern Italian city of Carmagnola, Abdul Qadir Fadlallah Mamour and his wife, Barbara Farina.
Mamour's blog, which was shut down by the Italian postal police on 22 February, was the first al-Qaeda website in Italian.
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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).
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Jamaican Bomber at Orlando Airport?  By Jim Leusner and Willoughby Mariano
A Jamaican planning to board a flight at Orlando International Airport was detained and questioned by FBI agents Tuesday after they found components for pipe bombs and explosive and flammable liquids in his checked luggage.
The suspect was identified late Tuesday as Kevin Brown, 32, a Jamaican national who was scheduled to fly on Air Jamaica Flight 80 to Montego Bay at 2:55 p.m. Transportation Security Administration officers spotted him acting suspiciously about noon, TSA and law-enforcement officials said. Several officials said the man was "acting strange" and questioned his mental stability.
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Gary Hart: Global Alliances, More Transparency Keys to Homeland Security Success  By Phil Leggiere
Author of famed Hart-Rudman Report sees urgent need to redefine counterterrorism strategically
For most Americans, former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart is remembered mainly for his exciting but ultimately unsuccessful "New Ideas" Democratic party presidential bid of 1984.
But Hart's more lasting legacy may well prove to be his seminal work on the US Commission on National Security/21st Century, also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission - a prophetic and pioneering, though tragically unheeded, 1999 study on national security requirements for the next century.
Well before 9/11 brought the challenges of terrorism to the center of public consciousness, Hart provided one of the first clear road maps of the then radically unfamiliar global and domestic security landscape in which we've come to live.
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Special One-Day: UASI National Conference, Charlotte, April 24th
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Australia Plans Counter-Terrorism Email Checks  By Jay Rey
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian companies providing critical services to the economy will be allowed to intercept the emails and internet communications of their workers under new security counter-terrorism laws.
The government's current Telecommunications Act, which expires in June 2009, only allows security agencies to monitor employees communications without consent.
"I promise we are not interested in the email you send out about who did what at the Christmas party," Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday. Read on...
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CBS Journalist Freed in Iraqi Raid  By Erica Goode and Qais Mizher
BAGHDAD - Two journalists, one the victim of a kidnapping, the other held in jail by American forces, won their liberty on Monday.
Richard Butler, a British photographer working for CBS who was kidnapped two months ago, was freed when Iraqi soldiers burst into a house in central Basra on Monday morning and found him bound and with a bag tied over his head.
On Monday afternoon, American military officials announced that they would release Bilal Hussein, a photographer for the Associated Press who has been in custody for two years on allegations of aiding insurgents. An Iraqi judicial panel on Sunday dismissed the last charge against Mr. Hussein and ordered him released.
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Israeli Leaders snub Jimmy Carter 
JERUSALEM (AP) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is currently an unpopular figure in Israel, though he brokered its first peace treaty with an Arab nation, Egypt, in 1979.
Carter met Sunday with Israel's ceremonial president, Shimon Peres, at the beginning of a week-long Mideast tour, but Israel's political leadership is avoiding him. Israel's perception is that in the 30 years since he got Israel and Egypt together, Carter has turned hostile toward Israel, while favoring the Palestinians.
Israeli and U.S. officials are particularly peeved that he has also chosen to meet in Syria with the leader of the militant Hamas movement, blacklisted by Washington and Jerusalem as a terrorist organization. Read on...
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Iran Says Blast at Mosque Could Be Accidental  By Nazila Fathi
TEHRAN, April 13 - The death toll from a powerful explosion at a mosque in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on Saturday evening rose to 12, the state news media reported Sunday. The number of those wounded had reached 202. A terrorist attack has not been ruled out, but officials said the blast could have been an accident.
Officials said Sunday that ammunition kept at the Shohada mosque for the past five years for an exhibition commemorating the 1980-88 war with Iraq could have caused the explosion.
The governor-general of Fars Province, Muhammad Reza Rezazadeh, told state-run television that investigators had not found any evidence that the blast was intentionally set.
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Hire Illegally, Pay the Price, Homeland Security Official Tells Businesses at Dallas Chamber Event By Dianne Solis
Assistant Homeland Security chief Julie Myers had some tough talk for Dallas business owners Wednesday: The crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants will continue. And just in case they don't believe her, she detailed recent prosecutions of managers.
Ms. Myers, in town for a luncheon hosted by the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, also talked about an initiative aimed at ensuring deportation of criminal illegal immigrants in local jails.
Ms. Myers oversees Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement department, the second-largest law enforcement agency in the nation and one with a portfolio that includes a crackdown on illegal immigrants and those who employ them.
"Ignoring the laws will not make them go away," Ms. Myers told an audience of businessmen and businesswomen.
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