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July 2008 |
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Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
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From all of us at SSI, we wish you and your families a happy and healthy Independence Day!
We'd also like to express our appreciation for all those who continue to protect that independence and the safety of America. |
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SUICIDE TERROR AND THE THREAT OF EXPLOSIVES
Seattle, WA - July 16-17, 2008
Boston, MA - July 21-22, 2008
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U.S. Homeland Security Seeks to Adopt Israeli Airport Standards 
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday he will seek to adopt novel Israeli methods, like behavior-detection
technologies, to better secure America's airports.
"That's a scenario where Israel has a lot of experience," Chertoff said in an interview with Reuters. "I think that it is of interest to us to see if there is any adaptation there."
Ben-Gurion International Airport, known for its strict security measures, relies heavily on techniques that detect suspicious behaviour among travelers.
Chertoff said such methods, as well as Israeli technologies that detect explosives, are some of the things that may help protect U.S. airports and other public places against attacks.
Read on...
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FBI 'Ill-Equipped' for Terror Threat
 By Jason Ryan and Jack Date
The FBI is "ill-equipped" to handle the current terror threat, an agent embroiled in a whistleblower case with the bureau, claimed to a congressional committee today.
"My greatest goal today is to be able to get the message across to Congress, to this distinguished committee, that the FBI's counterterrorism division is ill-equipped to handle the terrorist threat that we're facing," Bassem Youssef told the House Judiciary subcommittee.
"We have agents who are highly dedicated within the counterterrorism division who want to do a very good job," he continued. "But they're unable to because they're not given the tools or the assets that they need to actually understand the enemy."
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Virtual Jihad
By Scott Louis Weber
The United States has been threatened and attacked by organized, equipped and trained foreign terrorist groups on many occasions. The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, bombings of U.S. embassies abroad, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have resulted in a focus on the prevention of the "outsider" or foreign terrorist threat. Terrorist planning, training and operations abroad are widespread and ever-evolving.
The counter-terrorism community is now doubling its efforts to detect and prevent a more recent trend--homegrown terrorists--violent extremist who live legally in Western countries. The threat of homegrown extremists commands pre-emptive action by corporate America.
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The Evolution of Terrorism as a Global Test of Wills By Dr. Stephen Sloan
Threats, acts and campaigns of terrorism remain a central concern for those responsible for domestic, regional and international security.
Moreover, immediately after each incident the public feels more vulnerable and uncertain, as traditional and new threats impact the
perception of their security as individuals, families, friends, communities
and members of the public. While people will naturally seek to return to a
sense of normalcy after an attack, the next bombing, hostage taking or
other form of terrorist violence will add yet another sense of physical and
mental vulnerability to the next potential victims of terrorism. Despite the
rhetoric of determination that "the war on terrorism" is slowly being
"won," the politics of anxiety are manifestations of success by those who
have declared their own war against all. Terrorists have continued to
enhance their ability to intimidate a global audience.
When one considers that despite its ancient lineage modern terrorism
was only initiated in the 1960s, it is shocking to see how it was refined
with murderous efficiency in the decades that followed. Moreover this
new century unfortunately has all the hallmarks of becoming a new era of
terrorism that may guide the directions of political and civil life in the
years to come. Despite the evolution of terrorism, there is a lack of clarity
much less consensus on what should be done to prevent or counter this
"clear and present danger." The current debate, especially in the U.S.
Presidential race, demonstrates the failure to fully comprehend the nature
of the threat. As a result, all the candidates have failed to enunciate well
thought out and cohesive policies that they would act on if elected. At
this time there is no reason to believe that a major incident before or
immediately after the election would not again lead to an overreaction by
national, state and local governments as well as the public at large.
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SSI has launched a custom intelligence service designed for companies and agencies that want to stay ahead of the terror threat. Based on the work of veterans of Israeli Military intelligence and with more analysts than our Federal Government agencies, Terrogence/SSI provides you with what is happening in the virtual jihad.
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.
Anyone that is a bona fide member of an intelligence service that would like to receive a copy of the pilot should contact:
Solomon Bradman 305.302.2790
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The Strategic Threat of Nuclear Terrorism
 By Richard A. Michau
On June 16, 2006, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence addressed The Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum. The following is the prepared text of his remarks.
In 1998, Osama bin Laden said that it was an Islamic duty to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and it is through this prism that most people view the threat of nuclear terrorism. The post-9/11 successes against the Taliban in Afghanistan yielded volumes of information that changed our view of al-Qaeda's nuclear program. We learned that al-Qaeda wants weapons to use, not a program to sustain and build a stockpile, as most states would. Al-Qaeda obtained a fatwa in May 2003 from Saudi cleric Naser al-Fadh that attempted to justify the use of weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, al-Qaeda spokesman Suleyman abu Ghayth said in 2003 that it is al-Qaeda's right to kill 4 million Americans in retaliation for Muslim deaths that al-Qaeda blames on the United States. In January 2006, bin Laden threatened that "operations are being prepared and you will see them in your own backyard," and past experience strongly suggests that they will strive to conduct an attack more spectacular than 9/11. Based on such information, most people would agree that al-Qaeda personifies today's nuclear terrorism threat.
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Inside a 9/11 Mastermind's Interrogation
 By Scott Shane
WASHINGTON - In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new motives for havoc. If anyone knew about the next plot, it was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
The interrogator, Deuce Martinez, a soft-spoken analyst who spoke no Arabic, had turned down a C.I.A. offer to be trained in waterboarding. He chose to leave the infliction of pain and panic to others, the gung-ho paramilitary types whom the more cerebral interrogators called "knuckledraggers."
Mr. Martinez came in after the rough stuff, the ultimate good cop with the classic skills: an unimposing presence, inexhaustible patience and a willingness to listen to the gripes and musings of a pitiless killer in rambling, imperfect English. He achieved a rapport with Mr. Mohammed that astonished his fellow C.I.A. officers.
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ORMAC - Broward Community College, FL - August 4-5, 2008
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Who Becomes a Terrorist Today?
 By Scott Atran
Since the invasion of Iraq, and with the rapid spread of Internet access, the world has witnessed a more egalitarian, less-educated and -materially well off, and more socially marginalized wave of would-be jihadi martyrs. Although millions of people support violent jihad, very few are willing to do it. Those who do pursue violent jihad usually emerge in small groups of action-oriented friends. They come from the same neighborhood and interact during activities, such as soccer or paintball. Often they become camping and hiking companions who learn to take care of one another under trying conditions, which causes them to become even more deeply attached. Increasingly, they may first meet in a chat room where the anonymity of the World Wide Web paradoxically helps to forge intimate emotional ties among people who might otherwise physically intimidate or put off one another. They learn to live in a parallel universe ? a conceptually closed community of comrades bound to a cause ? which they mistake for the world.
These young people self-mobilize to the tune of a simple, superficial, yet broadly appealing "takfiri" message of withdrawal from impure mainstream society and the need for violent action to cleanse it. It is a surprisingly flat but fluid message pre-adapted to any new event in the world, which is readily shared by young people I have interviewed from the remote Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta (Septa) in North Africa, and in places scattered throughout Pakistan, Palestine, and the suburbs of Paris.
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Defendants in JFK Terror Plot Head to U.S.
By Susan Candiotti
Three men accused last year of a plot to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport were headed to the United States late Tuesday after their fight against extradition from Trinidad and Tobago was rejected by an appeals court there, Trinidad and U.S. officials said.
Kareem Ibrahim, Abdul Kadir and Abdel Nur are accused of a plot to blow up fuel lines and tanks at the airport. They were jailed in Trinidad and Tobago while a fourth defendant, Russel DeFreitas, already has pleaded innocent in New York.
A Trinidad and Tobago judge ordered the three to be extradited in February, but it was delayed until this week when the appeals judge rejected their appeal on a technicality, said David West, an attorney in the office of the Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General.
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Sarasota FL, September 15-19, 2008
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Terrorists: De Facto U.S. Citizens?  By Arnold Ahlert
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 that terrorist suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. Apparently the phrase, "the Constitution is not a suicide pact," no longer applies.
The MSM characterized the ruling as a "blow to the Bush administration." Wrong. It's a blow to every American for whom national security takes precedence over the "rights" of non-American, non-uniformed, enemy combatants. And it raises some troubling questions:
Will terrorist defense attorneys now get access to top-secret information that details who is involved in protecting us and how they do so? If so, what will stop that information from getting into the hands of al Qaeda operatives and other terrorist organizations throughout the world? Is every terrorist individual American troops do battle with now a "de facto" American citizen who must be informed of his Miranda rights upon his capture? Will American troops who kill terrorists in the field of battle have to "collect evidence" justifying that decision in order to escape being charged with murder?
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The Flight Watchmen
 By Laura Blumenfeld
Nearly seven years after 9/11, Americans may feel like safe is normal again. But, to the counterterrorism experts who scour the nation's airspace, safety is hard-earned every minute of every day.
Chan Browne is standing in his girlfriend's kitchen, making a sandwich for his girlfriend's daughter's lunch. He wants to get it right. Strawberry jelly, not grape, creamy peanut butter, not crunchy, spread thin, not thick, on wheat bread, not Italian, cut in rectangles, not triangles. The crusts are trimmed.
It is dark out still, but Chan's girlfriend, Kathy, has left for work. Chan, a thickly built federal air marshal from Alabama, an expert marksman wearing flip-flops and jeans, picks up a pen: Jamie, Have a good day. Do well in school and mind your manners. Mom and Chan. He folds the note and closes the 7-year-old's Hannah Montana lunchbox. He hopes it's good enough. He hopes he's good enough. He opens the lunchbox and adds Oreos.
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July 29 -31, 2008 - Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami Beach, FL |
September 19-27 2008 - November 14-22 2008
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