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Suicide Terror & Threat of Explosives - Seattle, WA - July 16-17, 2008
ORMAC - Broward Community College, FL - August 4-5, 2008
Gulf Coast Terrorism Prevention Conference - Sarasota, FL - Sept 15-19, 2008
HS Training in Israel - September 19-27, 2008
SWAT - Counter Terrorism Operations Camp Blanding, FL - Oct 7-10, 2008
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Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
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Security Solutions International (SSI), Mounts Counter Attack to the "Legal wing of the Jihad" by Taking on the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) after CAIR Pressures to Cancel SSI trainings
"It is inconceivable that a course designed for Law Enforcement and taught by a Muslim, in which we stress that racial, ethnic or religious profiling is wrong but also poor counter terrorism technique, is the subject of political pressure in certain jurisdictions because of CAIR", states SSI spokesman and CEO, Sol Bradman, " and we will continue to organize events - even more than before - in places like Seattle where we can do the most good and help First Responders protect all Americans whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or any other religious belief against the Global Jihad even in its legal form with organizations like these."
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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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National Medical Intelligence Capabilities Expanded
 By Anthony L. Kimery
Growing network of monitoring and surveillance helps provide early warning of potential health threats and risks.
At the dedication Wednesday of the Defense Intelligence Agency's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), Intelligence Community and homeland security officials underscored "the growing integration between homeland health protection and medical intelligence."
Whereas NCMI - previously known as the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center - concerned itself with being the primary producer of all-source medical intelligence for the US Armed Forces deploying overseas, today the agency produces medical intelligence not just for global military force protection, but also for the safeguarding of US interests worldwide and homeland health protection.
NCMI's partnerships with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal departments like Health and Human Services allows it to focus on a broader range of foreign medical threats impacting US military and civilian personnel, allies, and other critical national interests. Examples include pandemic flu and animal diseases that could potentially threaten the nation.
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Khawaja's Jihad e-mails to be Allowed in Trial: Judge
E-mails written by Mohammad Momin Khawaja praising the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as the "most effective and honorable way" of conducting "economic" jihad can be used as evidence in court, the judge ruled Monday at the terrorism trial in Ottawa.
In his decision, Justice Douglas Rutherford rejected arguments from the defence that the e-mails were prejudicial. He said they offer important insight into Khawaja's state of mind.
Khawaja, 29, the first person charged under Canada's Anti-terrorism Act, is on trial on seven charges for his alleged connection to a plot to set off a fertilizer bomb in England. As part of the charges, he is accused of building the remote-control device for detonating a bomb. Khawaja has pleaded not guilty.
Five of Khawaja's alleged co-conspirators were convicted last year by a British court and sentenced to life in prison.
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| Wireless Surveillance Catching on in US Cities
By Brian Davidson
BUFFALO, N.Y.--The same night this city attached a surveillance camera to a light post in a crime-ridden neighborhood, a convenience store across the street fell prey to a pack of looters.
Police saw it all happening in real-time video from their new command station and arrived in time to make five arrests.
"It's had an immediate impact," Capt. Mark Makowski said of the wireless video surveillance solution provided by Firetide and Avrio Group, a 60-camera network that cost the city more than $3 million. "I'd say it's been money well spent."
Buffalo is among a host of cities that in the last few years have deployed wireless video surveillance systems in the fight against crime, says Mark Jules, president of business development at Avrio Group.
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A New Book by Bestselling Author Gavin de Becker
JUST 2 SECONDS: Using Time & Space to Defeat Assassins
"The definitive reference for protectors, authoritative, thorough, riveting, and powerful." Col. Dave Grossman, Author On Combat & On Killing.
- New anti-assassination strategies from a study of 1400 incidents
- The Five Essential Lessons for protectors
- Includes a 400-page Compendium of attacks and incidents
"The gold standard for protectors - fascinating and important." Michael Carrington, United States Marshal (1994 - 2002)
Advance copies are available at a substantial discount: www.just2seconds.org
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Counsel for New National Emergency Communications Plan By Peter J. Brown 
The Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) in the Directorate for National Protection and Programs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will soon be releasing the new National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP). OEC's mission is, "to support and promote the ability of government officials and emergency responders to continue to communicate in the event of a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other disaster, and to ensure and advance interoperable emergency communications capabilities nationwide."
The NECP will provide recommendations for ensuring interoperable emergency communications nationwide. At the same time, the ongoing DHS grants process which is driving interoperability at the state and local level in particular has been in motion for many months. First responders, public safety and emergency management personnel are well down the road with respect to ongoing and well-funded interoperability planning, and training, along with related equipment purchases.
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 The Midwest Security & Police Conference/ExpoAUGUST 12 - 13, 2008 ROSEMONT, IL, USARegister Now!
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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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Nation has few WMD Response Teams in Place
 By Stew Magnuson
GALLAGHER, W. Va. - The training scenario the Marines encountered on a crisp spring morning was this: Terrorists traveling in a van through a highway tunnel sprayed nerve gas into the air. Motorists behind them, suffering from the effects, lost control of their vehicles and created two large pileups.
The chemical biological incident response force (CBIRF), a unit of more than 400 Marines and Navy personnel, had the task of rescuing the victims in a contaminated area, or hot zone, where the exact nature of the threat was still unknown.
The training exercise, held in an abandoned tunnel in the Allegheny Mountains, is one of many the unit carries out each year to preparefor the aftermath of an attack.
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Is the Sky Falling? Energy Security and Transnational Terrorism
 By Dr. Michael Mihalka and Dr. David Anderson
This paper will assess the extent to which transnational terrorists, in particular global Jihadists associated with Osama bin Laden, have been interested in attacks against the global energy infrastructure.[1] We then assess the extent to which terrorists have in fact targeted that infrastructure and with what effect. We then place these attacks in the context of other supply disruption events. Finally, we make suggestions about a viable way ahead.
Western fears about the threat posed by transnational terrorists to energy supplies certainly seem warranted. al-Qaeda has repeatedly threatened to disrupt supplies and have followed up on those threats in a few cases. For example, following the attack on the French tanker Limburg in October 2002, al-Qaeda issued a statement that it "was not an incidental strike at a passing tanker but...on the international oil-carrying line in the full sense of the word."[2]
Moreover, al-Qaeda sees the U.S. intervention in Iraq as strongly linked to the supply of oil. A Bin Laden audio tape broadcasted December 19, 2004 proclaimed:
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ORMAC - Broward Community College, FL - August 4-5, 2008
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DOE's Super-Sensitive Explosives Detector
 By Kathleen Hickey
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can now detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards using new photoacoustic spectroscopy methods that use a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound.
The technique involves illuminating a target sample with an eye-safe, pulsed light source and allowing the scattered light to be detected by a quartz crystal tuning fork. The method enabled researchers to detect trace explosive residue using lasers 100 times less powerful than those of competing technologies. By using larger collection mirrors and stronger illumination sources, researchers believe they can achieve detection at distances approaching 109 yards.
"We match the pulse frequency of the illuminating light with the mechanical resonant frequency of the quartz crystal tuning fork, generating acoustic waves at the tuning fork's air-surface interface," said Charles Van Neste of Oak Ridge's Biosciences Division. "This produces pressures that drive the tuning fork into
resonance."
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NYPD now has Own Scholar to Help Review Threats
By Tom Hays
NEW YORK (AP) - He was a flight surgeon with the Navy and a CIA officer in Pakistan. He has also earned a doctorate in sociology and written two books.
Now Marc Sageman can add a new entry to his resume: terrorism guru for the New York Police Department.
Sageman, billed by the NYPD as its first-ever "scholar in residence," has become a key player in a debate over whether the greatest terror threat America faces comes from inside or outside its borders.
His assignment: to teach terrorism workshops to investigators and be a sounding board for a team of NYPD analysts formed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to assess future threats against the city.
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Sarasota FL, September 15-19, 2008
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African Smuggling Rings Possible US Terror Threat  By Eileen Sullivan
WASHINGTON -- The intercepted e-mail was alarmingly matter-of-fact for anyone worried about a new terror attack: "getting into U.S is no problem at all. thats what i do best."
The Ghanaian man who wrote it is in prison, accused of smuggling East Africans into the United States via Latin America for economic reasons. But the government worries such operations also could be used to sneak terrorists into the United States now that passports and other travel documents have become harder to acquire and more difficult to fake.
Intelligence officials are focusing new attention on these networks that smuggle people from Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan - known havens for terrorists, including al-Qaida - according to an internal government assessment obtained by The Associated Press.
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Colleges Slow on Security Efforts
 By Peter Schworm
Massachusetts public colleges and universities have been slow to adopt widely accepted security practices since last year's Virginia Tech massacre, in many cases failing to apply basic measures, according to a critical report that calls for sweeping changes across the state system to avert campus violence.
The report, compiled by a team of specialists and presented to the state Board of Higher Education yesterday, cited numerous safety deficiencies across the state system and urged the 29 public colleges to take immediate steps to rectify them.
Most state colleges do not use security cameras, have gun-carrying police officers, or train faculty and staff to recognize troubled students and employees, the report found. Only a handful have conducted vulnerability assessments, and one-third do not have arrangements with local law enforcement to respond to
emergencies.
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July 29 -31, 2008 - Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami Beach, FL |
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Former Terrorist's Advice for Fighting Jihad: Think Globally, Act Locally  By Rob Margetta
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee received a first-hand account of how young Muslims become radicalized when a former member of an Islamist extremist organization testified Thursday that a combination of a personal crisis of faith and racism he faced as a British teenager steered him toward that ideology.
"The question arose in my mind - was I British? Was I English? Was a I Pakistani? Was I Muslim?" Maajid Nawaz told the committee. Eventually, he said, he met a medical student who introduced him to the idea that he had no national loyalties; he was a member of a worldwide Muslim caliphate.
At 16, Nawaz became a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group associated with the planning and execution of terrorists acts. Nawaz became a leader and recruiter in the organization, and was arrested in Egypt in 2002. He spent four years
imprisoned there until Amnesty International arranged for his release as a "prisoner of conscience."
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September 19-27 2008 - November 14-22 2008
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