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Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
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Threat of Islamic Jihadists to the World - Seattle, WA - May 22-23, 2008
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The Government's Jihad on Jihad
By Andrew C. McCarthy The Department of Homeland Security (and, by extension, the Bush administration) is on a jihad against jihad - the word, that is. Its mission is to purge such terms as jihadism, Islamo-fascism, and mujahideen from our public lexicon.
Is this a serious strategy or an episode in politically correct indoctrination?
That question is being banged around in several venues, not least National Review Online's "Corner."
Last Friday, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies contended that the DHS gambit is reminiscent of an effort by his nemesis, Linda Chavez, who chairs the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), to douse what she took to be inflammatory expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Mark was not merely straining to find an angle in a story only tangentially related to immigration; he noted that the DHS effort is being spearheaded by Dan Sutherland,
a former employee of Linda's who now heads DHS's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
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Join the 13th mission - September 19-27 2008
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Berlusconi may be Called in CIA 'Kidnap' Trial 
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- An Italian judge ruled Wednesday that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may be called as a witness at the trial of 26 Americans, mostly CIA agents, in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, a Milan court official said.
Judge Oscar Magi ruled Berlusconi's testimony is admissible at the trial, essentially giving defense attorneys the right to call the premier to the witness stand, said the court official, who was not authorized to speak with the media.
Berlusconi is not accused of any wrongdoing, but because he is a witness, he must appear in court. In Italy, only defendants may opt not to appear.
Berlusconi will testify as someone informed about the facts in question because he was prime minister at the time of the alleged abduction more than five years ago. Magi also ruled that former prime minister Romano Prodi may also be called to the witness stand.
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Pentagon: Ex-Detainees Returning to Fight
By Mike Mount
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Kuwaiti man released from U.S. custody at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 2005 blew himself up in a suicide attack in Iraq last month, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi was one of two Kuwaitis who took part in a suicide attack in Mosul on April 26, the officials said. Records show that an attack in Mosul that day targeted an Iraqi police patrol and left six people dead, including two police officers.
An announcement on a jihadist Web site earlier this month declared that al-Ajmi was one of the "heroes" who carried out the Mosul operation. A second man from Kuwait also took part in the suicide attack, the Web site said.
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Radicalized in Ottawa
By Andrew Duffy
The Khadr family's dark journey into terrorism began with its patriarch's experiences at U of O, a new book reveals
Thirty years ago, in 1978, the man who would become the patriarch of Canada's first family of terror was living in Ottawa.
Ahmed Said Khadr, then 30, was a master's student in engineering at the University of Ottawa; his new wife, Elsamnah -- the couple had met the year before at a Muslim summer camp on Lake Erie -- came to join him in the city that spring.
Khadr had emigrated to Canada three years earlier against the wishes of his father, an Egyptian civil servant.
At the time, there was nothing in his sheltered background or shy bearing that would lead anyone to suspect Khadr possessed a radical's mind. But all that began to change in Ottawa.
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 The Midwest Security & Police Conference/ExpoAUGUST 12 - 13, 2008 ROSEMONT, IL, USARegister Now!
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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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Serial Bomb Blasts Leave 60 Dead in India 
DELHI, India (CNN) -- India is on high alert after a series of near-simultaneous explosions killed at least 60 people and wounded 150 others in a top tourist spot, government and local officials told CNN-IBN.
Bicycles and rickshaws were strewn about the streets, with pools of blood nearby, in the northwestern city of Jaipur.
Motorcycles, pieces of which were found at nearly every bomb site, appear to have been used in the attacks, said Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Indian government officials -- including Minister of State for Home Affairs Shriprakash Jaiswal -- were quick to label it a terrorist attack.
The eight explosions started at about 7:30 p.m. (1400 GMT) and detonated within 12 minutes of each other, police said. The bombs exploded within about 500 meters (0.3 mile) of each other in Jaipur's old city, which is frequented by tourists.
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DARPA Plans Cyberwar 'Matrix'  By Thomas Claburn
Police officers practice their firearm skills on a shooting range, so why shouldn't government computer security experts have the same kind of training ground?
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, on Monday issued a call for research proposals to develop the National Cyber Range, or NCR, a virtual network environment for cyberwar simulation.
In other words, Darpa wants to build something along the lines of The Matrix, Star Trek's holodeck, or a Snow Crash-style Metaverse to test cyberwar strategies and drill cyberwarriors. That's not to say Darpa is aiming for a visually immersive world to entertain people; rather, it wants a place to pit hackers against simulated machines.
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ORMAC - Yakima, WA - June 23-24, 2008
ORMAC - Broward Community College, FL - August 4-5, 2008
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MTI Trains Responders for the Worst  By Maura Possley
LAKEWOOD RANCH - "Gas! gas! gas!" echoes a chorus of voices in the crowded classroom of Manatee Technical Institute's east campus on Wednesday.
At once, paper suits are opened, masks pulled on, boots slipped into. In a few moments, it is hard to tell who's who among the 30 or so emergency professionals.
In pairs and breathing through their masks, they try to carefully but quickly tape each other so that no gas or any other contamination would seep through.
There is no threat, luckily, as the group are students, preparing for the worst.
In a two-day course on emergency response to terrorism, students are trained by professors of the University of Miami's Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education. Read on...
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Hackers Hijack a Half-Million Sites in Latest Attack  By Gregg Keizer
May 12, 2008 (Computerworld) More than half a million Web sites have been compromised in a new round of attacks that hacked domains in order to infect unsuspecting users' PCs with a variety of malware, a security researcher said today.
"This is an ongoing campaign, with new domains [hosting the malware] popping up even this morning," said Paul Ferguson, a network architect at antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. "The domains are changing constantly."
According to Ferguson, over half a million legitimate Web sites have been hacked by today's mass-scale attack, only the latest in a string that goes back to at least January. All of the sites, he confirmed, are running "phpBB," an open-source message forum manager. Read on... |
Sarasota FL, September 15-19, 2008
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Audit: DEA Intelligence Analysts Lacking Security Clearances  By Lara Jakes Jordan
WASHINGTON-Twelve percent of the DEA's intelligence analysts last year did not have the security clearances necessary or were otherwise unauthorized to do their jobs, a new Justice Department audit concludes.
The audit released Monday says the Drug Enforcement Administration was slow to complete and share its intelligence reports with other government agencies, despite producing work that generally was praised as useful and effective.
The audit by the Justice Department's inspector general raised concerns about staffing levels at the newest member of the 16 spy agencies that make up the government's intelligence community.
It found that 19 of 699 DEA intelligence analysts surveyed had only low-level security clearances needed to review intelligence, while another 62 had not been reauthorized to keep their top secret clearances, as required every five years. One additional analyst had no security clearance at all as of last September, the audit found.
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DC Council Moves to Block Surveillance Camera Project  By Alice Lipowicz
Privacy advocates are applauding the recent decision by a key committee of the District of Columbia Council to eliminate nearly $900,000 in proposed funding for consolidating the operations of 5,200 city surveillance cameras.
Mayor Adrian Fenty unveiled the Video Interoperability for Public Safety program a month ago to connect the city's surveillance cameras to a single network with an advanced monitoring system to assist in prevention of and response to crimes, terrorism and other emergencies. He requested the $900,000 in funding for fiscal 2009.
But the D.C. Council's Public Safety and Judiciary Committee recently withheld $886,000 for the project and is planning a public hearing later this month to examine the proposal. Privacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), support those decisions. Read on...
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