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September Mid-Month 2008 |
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Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
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The scope of this training is to teach SWAT team members how to conduct an operation with the special characteristics peculiar to terrorist incidents and accomplish the mission, whether there are hostages involved, IED's, booby traps, or suicide terrorists with maximum safety for: citizens, team members and surrounding assets. By nature, the operation may become more similar to a military operation because, as mentioned above, this is a criminal act with a strategic goal. It is part of an ideological struggle against a state or population and may be carried out by a professional team of well equipped terrorist subjects.
Included in the scope are the goals of integrating Bomb technicians/ EOD personnel and K9 units effectively into the operational planning and training for such an incident. Medical, and other support personnel are required to respond to a terrorist incident and should be integrated for training also.
Another important feature in mitigating risk is ensuring each and every team member gains an awareness of: Improvised Explosive Devices, and terrorist methods of operation. It is essential to understand the danger posed by the terrorist methodologies: the prolific use of explosives, networked use of heavy weapons (firearms), concurrent operational acts and motivational factors that make a terrorist incident unique from other criminal acts.
This course showcases tactics, techniques and procedures that have been used successfully throughout the world to resolve terrorist incidents. US, Israeli and many other units have utilized these techniques. This material is not exhaustive. Terrorist techniques evolve and as such Counter-Terrorism Operations must evolve. This course provides proven concepts and ideas. Each agency trained will gain tremendous incite and a platform from which to begin an effective Counter-Terrorism program. Each agency must evaluate and adapt the techniques presented for use within their use-of-force policies and departmental SOPs.
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BOEING TO HOST SSI'S ACCLAIMED
PROTECTING AVIATION
in Tukwila, WA - November 10-11 2008
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Power Grid Vulnerable to Cyberattacks, Committee Told
By Juliana Gruenwald
A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee is aiming to take up legislation next week that would provide the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with additional authority to help protect the nation's power grid from a cyberattack.
During a hearing before the Energy and Commerce Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee, several witnesses and lawmakers argued that the threat to the nation's power grid from cyberattacks is real and urged lawmakers to enact legislation to give FERC additional powers to order utilities to take the necessary steps to address the problem.
"The Department of Energy regularly discovers new vulnerabilities in the control systems employed by many utilities," said Kevin Kolevar, the department's assistant secretary for electricity delivery and energy reliability. "This is not hyperbole ... cyberattacks against control systems have occurred and they are becoming increasingly sophisticated."
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"TRIPwire, the Technical Resource for Incident Prevention (www.tripwire-dhs.net), is DHS's online, collaborative, information-sharing network for bomb squad, law enforcement, first responders and other emergency services personnel to learn about current terrorist improvised explosive device (IED) tactics, techniques, and procedures, including design and emplacement considerations. By combining expert analyses and reports with relevant documents, images, and videos gathered directly from terrorist sources, TRIPwire helps law enforcement anticipate, identify, and prevent IED incidents. TRIPwire integrates information gathered directly from terrorist groups with analysis and collaboration tools to help first responders and law enforcement anticipate, identify, and prevent bombing incidents."
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Authentication Device Reads Palms, not Passwords
 By Trudy Walsh
Fujitsu unveils a device that reads a person's palm-vein pattern to authenticate user identity.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America has announced availability of the PalmSecure LogonDirector, a device that combines vascular pattern recognition technology, a PC mouse and software that works with any vendor's single sign-on tools.
The PalmSecure LogonDirector uses a palm-vein scanner to authenticate users, rendering passwords useless as targets for a potential hacker to steal. The device enables a single sign-on mechanism so employees don't need to remember passwords to access their PCs or laptops.
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UC Davis professor studies Bin Laden's pre-9/11 recordings
 By Eric Bailey
DAVIS, CALIF. -- Heaped haphazardly into twin cardboard boxes, the hundreds of audiocassette tapes looked more like a baby boomer's teenage detritus than a historical link to Osama bin Laden.
Flagg Miller knew their value.
The tapes were the UC Davis Arabic scholar's portal into the early years of the Al Qaeda leader behind the Sept. 11 attacks who became the world's most wanted terrorist.
On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, Miller has pulled back the curtain on the more than 1,500 tapes retrieved after Bin Laden fled U.S. troops advancing on his residential compound in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Read on...
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Funding Terrorism Is Issue in Chicago Case
 By Josh Gerstein
A federal appeals court that includes some of America's most prominent jurists is wrestling with a case that could set an important precedent about when Americans can be held legally liable for funding groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, that carry out terrorist operations and humanitarian aid efforts at the same time.
In Chicago, 10 judges who constitute nearly the entire active bench of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals spent more than an hour hearing lively arguments in a lawsuit brought by the family of an American yeshiva student, David Boim, 17, who was sprayed with gunfire and killed in an apparent terrorist attack at a West Bank bus stop in 1996.
After a trial, a federal court jury found Hamas responsible for Boim's death and returned a $52 million verdict against several Islamic groups based in America and an Islamist activist, Mohammed Salah. The verdict was tripled to $156 million, under federal law. However, in December, a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit overturned that decision, ruling, 2-1, that the plaintiffs did not show an "adequate causal link" between the killing and the donations sent from America. Read on...
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U.S. Scans Incoming Air Cargo
By Mimi Hall
The Homeland Security Department will put all incoming air cargo through radiation detectors at the nation's airports to try to prevent terrorists from smuggling radioactive bombs into the U.S.
The new initiative aims to close what the 9/11 Commission's final report called a major security vulnerability - cargo on airplanes as a potential avenue for terrorism. Any cargo shipped on passenger planes will also be scanned.
Detectors will begin checking packages this week at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. Arriving cargo - whether from Pakistan or Peoria - will be driven through giant detectors called Radiation Portal Monitors.
Although every piece of cargo will be scanned, "our focus is on the international cargo," says Jayson Ahern of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection division.
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Mayor Criticizes Congress Over Homeland Security Funds
 By Benjamin Sarlin
Congress is failing to protect New York City from large-scale terrorist attacks, putting the lives of the city's 8 million residents at risk, Mayor Bloomberg told a federal panel yesterday in Lower Manhattan.
"The people we send to Washington have been too busy spreading homeland security funds around based on votes, not threats, and that is a phenomenally dangerous thing for our country," he said.
In testimony before the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, the mayor said New York remains "a prime - if not the prime - target for terrorist groups," and he cautioned against shortchanging the city's security needs in favor of less populated and more rural cities and states.
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TSA official: Watch list exemption program ready soon
 By Robert Crowe
Homeland Security officials announced Tuesday the department is ready to take over the job of screening airline passengers against terrorist watch lists, marking a major milestone for a controversial program that has been besieged by technical problems, privacy concerns, missed deadlines and congressional criticism.
The Secure Flight airline passenger screening program will be ready in January, Kip Hawley, chief of the Transportation Security Administration, told the House Homeland Security Transportation Security Subcommittee during a hearing.
The department has been prohibited by Congress from implementing the program until 10 privacy and technical conditions are met.
Hawley said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has certified that the 10 conditions have been satisfied.
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September Mission: SOLD OUT!
Space limited for November 14 - 22, 2008 and February 20th - 28th, 2009!
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Widespread cell phone location snooping by NSA?
By Chris Soghoian
If you thought that the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping was limited to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, think again.
While these household names of the telecom industry almost certainly helped the government to illegally snoop on their customers, statements by a number of legal experts suggest that collaboration with the NSA may run far deeper into the wireless phone industry. With over 3,000 wireless companies operating in the United States, the majority of industry-aided snooping likely occurs under the radar, with the dirty-work being handled by companies that most consumers have never heard of.
A recent article in the London Review of Books revealed that a number of private companies now sell off-the-shelf data-mining solutions to government spies interested in analyzing mobile-phone calling records and real-time location information. These companies include ThorpeGlen, VASTech, Kommlabs, and Aqsacom--all of which sell "passive probing" data-mining services to governments around the world.
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Clinic helps fight terrorism
 By Amy Olson
A central Wisconsin medical clinic is playing a key role in helping to protect Americans from terrorism.
Marshfield Clinic Applied Sciences played host Thursday to government officials and researchers from across the state. Organized by the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium and the Wisconsin Technology Council, the forum was intended to help researchers pitch their interests and expertise to government and non-government funders.
This is the second year such a conference has been held, said Dr. Robert A. Carlson, director of Marshfield Clinic Applied Sciences and the president of the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium's board of directors.
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