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December 2008 |
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Your Bi-monthly Homeland Security News Source
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India Faces Questions Over Mumbai Seige
By Madhur Singh and Jyoti Thottam
The siege has ended, but the full picture of Mumbai's three days of terror has yet to emerge. Some of the most basic questions about the mayhem that began at 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday and ended at around 10 a.m. Saturday remain unanswered by the authorities. How many terrorists were there, and where did they come from? How was it possible for so few people to inflict so much damage, and how were they able to sustain their assault over such a lengthy period? Although the investigation is just getting underway, some details emerging on Saturday provide some clues.
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Feds Probing Possible Minn. Terror Group
By Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan
 U.S. Citizen Allegedly in Suicide Attack in Somalia; Might Have Recruited in Minnesota
A naturalized U.S. citizen who reportedly blew himself up in a suicide bomb attempt in Somalia last month might have recruited others to join a terror network, U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.
The officials believe Shirwa Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia, blew himself up in a suicide bombing in northern Somalia Oct. 28.
ABC News has learned that agents from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are investigating whether Ahmed had developed a recruiting network in the Minneapolis area where he had been residing before departing for Somalia.
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Analysts: Homeland Security Spending Likely to Remain Strong under Obama
By Calvin Biesecker
Financial crisis unlikely to impact new administration's security budget
Despite a potential budget crunch stemming from the federal government's ongoing bailout of financial institutions and banks, spending on homeland security is likely to remain strong, according to analysts.
Democrats don't want to be considered soft on defense and homeland security, Ray Shepherd, a partner with the law firm Venable LLP, told Defense Daily yesterday. Democrats have already demonstrated in the two years they have been the majority party in both chambers of Congress that are willing to strengthen port and cargo security, he said.
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US Crackdown on Potential Bomb Material
DHS to Regulate Buying and Selling of Potentially Deadly Ammonium Nitrate
By Megan Chuchmach and Joanna Jennings
DHS to Regulate Buying and Selling of Potentially Deadly Ammonium Nitrate
 In an effort to prevent future terrorist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security has announced new plans to regulate the selling and purchasing of ammonium nitrate. The widely used fertilizer was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 186 people and was the subject of a 2006 ABC News investigative report that found lethal quantities of the fertilizer was frighteningly easy to obtain.
"Terrorist organizations have and will continue to use explosives, including [ammonium nitrate]-based explosive, in future terrorist attacks," the amendment says, explaining that the availability of bags of the fertilizer around the country means the potentially deadly chemical could end up in the hands of terrorists.
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Annandale Man Offers to Sell Missile to FBI Informant
By Gregg MacDonald
 Two Annandale men have been arrested in an FBI sting that uncovered visa fraud, gun smuggling and references to Lebanon, Yasir Arafat and bombing the Pentagon with a missile.
According to a recently unsealed U.S. District Court affidavit, an FBI informant met with Annandale resident Amjad Hamed, a Jordanian native, in April 2006.
Hamed provided the informant with six valid Palestinian passports and asked him to obtain U.S. visas for them.
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Al-Qaeda Increases Efforts to Develop 'Dirty bomb'
By Gordon Thomas
 London-MI6 has issued a global priority warning to all security services that Islamic terrorists are now closer to obtaining material to create a "dirty bomb" to launch against Western targets.
Osama bin Laden has long made this a priority and reinforced it with regular messages from his mountain redoubt in the north-west province of Pakistan. He has repeatedly said every "true Muslim must make it his duty to assist in all ways possible to find the next powerful weapon to destroy our enemies".
After the election of the new Pakistani president, the controversial Asif Ali Zardari, who has served a nine-year jail term on corruption charges he has strongly denied, MI6 fear there will be little ability to provide strong leadership against the new wave of Islamic extremism that al-Qaeda has launched across the country.
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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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Five Convicted in Terrorism Financing Trial
By Gretel C. Kovach
 DALLAS - On their second try, federal prosecutors won sweeping convictions Monday against five leaders of a Muslim charity in a retrial of the largest terrorism-financing case in the United States since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The five defendants, all leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, based in Richardson, a Dallas suburb, were convicted on all 108 criminal counts against them, including support of terrorism, money laundering and tax fraud. The group was accused of funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, an Islamist organization the government declared to be a terrorist group in 1995.
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TSA's Threat Detectors are Taking off at Newark
By Victor Epstein
Bomb, behavior screeners helping to reduce delays
 NEWARK -- Airport screener Rupesh Persaud still remembers the day he first discovered that the behavior detection training he'd received from the Transportation Security Administration actually works.
The 30-year-old used the physical indicators he'd been taught -- deception and fear tells similar to the those studied by professional poker players -- to identify a suspicious traveler passing through a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport.
"He was showing signs of fear and he had some stress factors in there too," said Persaud, who questioned the man after he was pulled aside for a bag search. "When we found the knife, he became irate. It turned out he had a warrant and the police took him away."
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FBI Searches for Last Four ELF Fugitives
By Mark Freeman
Rewards of up to $50,000 are available for information leading to arrests of two men and two women
 FBI agents are soliciting help worldwide in their attempt to find the final four fugitives facing eco-terrorism charges stemming from Earth Liberation Front firebombings in the Pacific Northwest, including Medford and Glendale.
The agency is offering rewards of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of two men and two women who were part of the ELF "Family," whose 25 arsons in five states caused $48 million in damage and earned them the moniker of domestic terrorists.
Agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms made their pitch to international media Wednesday in Washington, D.C., hoping this new and worldwide spotlight might glare on fugitives likely hiding outside the United States.
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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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