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November Mid-Month 2008 |
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 Security Syolutions Int
Your bimonthly homeland security newsletter
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Next Missions: February 20-28, 2009, June 19-27, 2009
SSI brings another group of American homeland security professionals to Israel. After arriving this past weekend, the group will be participating this week in the extensive and dynamic SSI training.
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Police Officers Attend Homeland Security Training in Israel
There is an overwhelming consensus in the homeland security industry that the Israeli military, police and civilian security agencies are the most efficient in the world at implementing homeland security and counter-terrorism activities. The very survival of their country depends upon it. As a consequence, the Israelis have historically been reluctant to divulge their very successful techniques and methods. A few years ago, however, the Israelis signed an agreement with security ministers from around the world to share technology and information on methods to improve the worldwide homeland security mission. It has been the goal of the Stamford Police Department to take advantage of this opportunity to learn homeland security and counter-terrorism measures from the very best in the world.
Through a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Stamford Police Foundation, the Stamford Police Department was able to realize this goal. The Department utilized this funding to send a delegation of seven public safety officers to Israel for advanced homeland security training in September. The delegation was led by William Callion, the Director of Public Safety, Health and Welfare, and was comprised of six officers from the homeland security and bomb squad units. The training mission was provided by Security Solutions International, a private company with vast experience in the security industry. In fact, the training mission provided by SSI is the only one that has been approved by the US Department of Homeland Security for funding. This was the 12th training mission SSI conducted in Israel.
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Latin American Narco-Dollars Financing Hezbollah's Growing Establishment
By Bernd Kaussler
On October 23, U.S. and Colombian law enforcement agencies announced the break-up of a drug-trafficking ring that channelled part of its profits to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The gang was reportedly involved in distributing cocaine from cartels in Colombia to markets in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, with some of the proceeds going to finance the Lebanese militia (Daily Star [Beirut], October 23). U.S. authorities claimed that the group - a total of 130 suspects have been arrested by Colombian police - was headed by Shukri Mahmud Harb, a Lebanese national who lived in Colombia and allegedly directed laundered money to Hezbollah. A statement issued by the public prosecutor's bureau said that three defendants - Shukri Mahmud Harb, Ali Muhammad Abd-al-Rahim and Zakariyah Husayn Harb - used false fronts to transfer the drug revenues to Hezbollah. The Colombian prosecutor added, "They used routes through Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, the Middle East and Europe, bringing in cash from the sale of these substances." According to Gladys Sanchez, the lead investigator for the special prosecutor's office in Bogota, "The profits from the sale of drugs went to finance Hezbollah" (Al-Jazeera TV, October 23).
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Bethesda Terror Attack Drill Tests Emergency Resources
by Andrew Ujifusa
Simulation involved gas and bomb attack
Hundreds of emergency personnel descended on the National Naval Medical Center last week trying to save 76 victims of a terrorist attack. But Suzanne Patterson just tried to make them look as gruesome as possible.
Patterson was the special effects artist responsible for the "blood and guts" at the Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Drill on Oct. 30, which simulated a Sarin gas and bomb attack outside Navy Med's Uniformed Services University to test the readiness of local, federal and military personnel. Her company, Military Moulage Combat Injury Simulation, has worked for the New York City Fire Department, the Pentagon, and other government and military agencies.
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Prisoner Radicalization: Assessing the Threat
in U.S. Correctional Institutions
by Mark S. Hamm, Ph.D.
Years from now when criminologists write their textbooks on American terrorism, the  name Kevin Lamar James may appear alongside such infamous figures as Timothy McVeigh, Ramzi Yousef and Osama bin Laden.
Kevin James is scheduled to be sentenced in February 2009 for conspiring to wage war against the United States. James pleaded guilty to the charge after he and three other men were indicted in 2005 for plotting to attack U.S. military facilities, Israeli government facilities and Jewish synagogues in Los Angeles.
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The Counter Terrorist will Continue to Exceed Growth Expectations in 2009
The Counter Terrorist, the bi-monthly print publication from leading Homeland Security training providers, Security Solutions International (SSI), is concluding its first calendar year of production and announcing plans for extensive expansion in 2009. SSI takes no time off with its first issue of 2009 already nearing production. Advertisers should take note that advertising opportunities with 2008 options will no longer be available after this issue's advertising deadline of December 1st (Download Media Kit).
SSI made it a point to make The Counter Terrorist available at the most important security events and conferences in its first year and as the audience grows, as do the relationships with the leading event organizers. The conference distribution calendar for 2009 is filling quickly with an estimated five thousand in bonus distribution for each issue.
Expansion of The Counter Terrorist in 2009 will not stop with amplified conference and special event distribution. With its first year of production under its belt and a growing and loyal audience base anxiously awaiting each issue's release, The Counter Terrorist will be moving forward with plans to make the magazine available on a larger scale, domestically and internationally. The first issue of 2009 will coincide with a launch of a number of major new partnerships in retail distribution.
The Counter Terrorist will be introducing its new relationships with three major retail distributors. First, Ingram Periodicals, a very large and well respected organization that distributes to commercial outlets such as Barnes & Noble and B. Dalton Bookseller. Secondly, Media Solutions who distributes to retailers such as Books-A-Million, Dollar General and Sam's Club has signed on as well. The Counter Terrorist will also be working with Benjamin News Group who is responsible for a great deal of retail distribution throughout eastern Canada, expanding the reach of The Counter Terrorist to a global scale.
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Counter Terror Expo is a leading counter terrorism conference , workshop and exhibition event. Held annually in London, Counter Terror Expo brings the world's leading terrorism experts together with other specialist practitioners and systems suppliers for two full days of informed debate, designed to facilitate an open exchange of views and drive forward solutions to counter the threat faced from international terrorism.
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NASA Ames Conducts Earthquake Emergency Drill
By Katherine McIntire Peters
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - In preparation for a major earthquake striking the Bay Area, emergency response teams at NASA Ames Research Center underwent two days of disaster response training this week.
Conducted Nov. 5-6, 2008, the Great Worden Quake II emergency exercise featured several events designed to train and sharpen the skills of the center's emergency and disaster assistance responders. In addition, the drill also provided an opportunity for the entire center's workforce to participate and become familiar with specific procedures they would need to follow in the event of a major earthquake.
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 Homeland Defense Demands Integrated Efforts, NorthCom Commander Says
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2008 - In the six years since the Defense Department stood up a combatant command charged with unifying homeland defense efforts, U.S. Northern Command has moved from a past mixed with tension and friction among commanders and agencies to an international model of integration at all levels, its commander said yesterday.
"The synergy that has been created by this continuum of effort, from warning to consequence management, is what this nation deserves and is maybe one of the best examples anywhere in the world," said Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and NorthCom. "We have created a true team effort."
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Britain's Lords Call for Improved Security in Fighting Terrorism, Organized Crime
LONDON, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Britain's House of Lords European Union Committee warned Wednesday that European Union efforts in tackling serious cross-border organized crime were undermined by member states' failure to engage sufficiently with Europol, the European Police Office.
In a report published on Wednesday, the Committee emphasized the role Europol can play in developing a common understanding of the benefits of intelligence-led policing across Europe based on Organized Crime Threat Assessments.
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5 Held in Terrorist Plot in '05 are Now on Trial in Australia
By Meraiah Foley
SYDNEY, Australia - Five men accused of plotting a terrorist attack went on trial on Tuesday with prosecutors arguing that they were Islamic extremists who had stockpiled weapons and explosive chemicals as part of a plan to wage "violent jihad" against non-Muslims.
After eight months of pretrial arguments and closed hearings, federal prosecutors began laying out their case against the five, ages 24 to 43, before the New South Wales Supreme Court in western Sydney. Strict security measures were in place.
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Gunmen Kill American Aid Worker in NW Pakistan
By Candace Rondeaux and Haq Nawaz Khan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- An American aid worker and his driver were shot dead Wednesday in a neighborhood favored by diplomats in the city of Peshawar, the latest sign of deteriorating security in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
The shooting deaths came a day after at least three people were killed and 17 injured in a suicide car bombing at a stadium in Peshawar. Earlier this week, Taliban insurgents hijacked a convoy of 13 NATO supply trucks in the region.
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Baghdad Suffers Deadliest Day in Months: Blasts
Kill 31
BAGHDAD - A homicide bomber struck a crowd rushing to help schoolgirls trapped in a bus by an earlier bombing Monday, killing at least 31 people - the deadliest in a string of blasts that raise doubts about Iraqi security forces as the U.S. prepares to reduce troops.
The Interior Ministry, which provided casualty figures, said another 71 people were wounded in the twin blasts, the deadliest attack in Baghdad in six weeks. A third bomb exploded several hundred yards from the scene in the mostly Shiite Kasrah section of north Baghdad but caused no casualties, police said.
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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.
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