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December Mid-Month 2008 |
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LAPD's Coming to Study Mumbai Attacks
Aziz Haniffa in Washington, DC
 Los Angeles Police Department Counter-Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Commanding Officer Michael P Downing will lead a small delegation, including executive, investigative, and tactical officers to Mumbai, 'to learn, observe, and bring back best practices to LAPD,' and to disseminate to other major cities to help guard against Mumbai-like terrorist attacks on American soft targets.
In an interview with rediff.com, Downing said, "We have got a good team assembled --myself and SWAT members, and an intelligence lieutenant and a detective working in robbery/homicide department who hails from Mumbai, has a family here and knows the language and the lay of the land (Downing was, however, reticent to reveal his identity)."
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Counter Terrorism Units to Visit Local Malls Today
December 10, 2008
Law enforcement officials in Orange and Sullivan counties will conduct checks on commercial vehicles and increase public awareness of terrorist activity in an effort to optimize holiday shopper security.
On Tuesday, Counter Terrorism Zone 4 will deploy its Counter Terrorism Action Teams (CTAT) to shopping areas where they will perform checks on vehicles making deliveries to shopping centers. The teams, made up of 70 law enforcement personnel from 25 agencies, will discuss terrorist indicators with the public and will pass out flyers with New York's anti-terrorism slogan "If you see something, say something."
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Jihadist Urges Facebook Invasion
 An Islamic jihadist forum member who urged supporters to upload propaganda videos onto YouTube has called for a similar "Facebook invasion".
US-based monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group reported that the appeal was made on al Faloja, a password-protected jihadist forum.
The forum member, using the name Omar Abdul Hakim, called on others to use the social networking site Facebook, describing it as "a podium to reach millions of people."
Hakim posted instructions on how to register on and use Facebook.
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NGA Gathering Detailed Geospatial Data on 50 States and Border Areas
By Jacob Goodwin, Editor-in-Chief
 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is looking for vendors who can supply detailed commercial off-the-shelf mapping information about transportation facilities, public venues, water-related areas and geographic boundaries in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and within 100 miles of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada.
The quest will help the NGA build a geospatial database -- accurate within 40 feet in urban areas and within 165 feet in all other areas -- that can support homeland security, homeland defense and emergency response and recovery missions to protect the nation's infrastructure.
The NGA, which operates major complexes in Bethesda, MD, and Arnold, MO, describes itself as "the imagery and geospatial data broker, integrator, and consolidator building a single Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP)."
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U.S. to Use Web 2.0 to Win "War of Ideas":
U.S. Image-maker
Washington (AFP)
 The United States is embracing social networks and other Web 2.0 tools to win the "war of ideas" with Islamic militants and other extremist groups, a top US policy-maker said Monday.
"In the war of ideas our core task in 2008 is to create an environment hostile to violent extremism," said James Glassman, the US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.
"We do that in two ways -- by undermining extremist ideologies and by encouraging young people to follow productive paths that lead away from terrorism," Glassman said in a speech at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank.
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DHS Secretary Warns Against White House Oversight of Cybersecurity
By Jill R. Aitoro
 The head of the Homeland Security Department on Wednesday warned against moving oversight for cybersecurity operations from the agency to the White House, as suggested by a nonpartisan commission this week.
DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, in a keynote speech at a conference in Washington, said putting the White House in charge of governmentwide cybersecurity operations could put top officials at risk.
"First, people need to understand [that] the White House plays a role [in] cross-agency coordination in terms of policy-making. It's hard to envision that wouldn't be the case," Chertoff said during his speech at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's cyberspace conference. "[But] do you want to get the White House involved in operational activity? Traditionally, that is viewed as a risky thing to do. It pulls the White House into areas where it's exposed to legal and oversight issues. Everyone remembers the Iran Contra [Affair]," which exposed Reagan administration officials to using funds from covert arms sales to Iran to finance revolutionaries in Nicaragua.
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Palango shows conclusively how Canada is a country without checks and balances, a third-world-like country where political control is deftly wielded by the government to protect itself and its friends.....
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The Current Crisis in Emergency Care and the Impact on Disaster Preparedness
Robert A Cherry and Marcia Trainer
 The Homeland Security Act (HSA) of 2002 provided for the designation of a critical infrastructure protection program. This ultimately led to the designation of emergency services as a targeted critical infrastructure. In the context of an evolving crisis in hospital-based emergency care, the extent to which federal funding has addressed disaster preparedness will be examined.
After 9/11, federal plans, procedures and benchmarks were mandated to assure a unified, comprehensive disaster response, ranging from local to federal activation of resources. Nevertheless, insufficient federal funding has contributed to a long-standing counter-trend which has eroded emergency medical care. The causes are complex and multifactorial, but they have converged to present a severely overburdened system that regularly exceeds emergency capacity and capabilities.
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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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Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals
By Ryan Singel
 The clothes may make the man, but if a University at Buffalo professor has his way, the shoes will nab the criminal.
Dr. Sargur Srihari, a computer science professor, is building a search engine populated with thousands of shoe images scraped from internet shoe stores that would let police forensics units submit a photo of a shoe print from a crime scene and quickly learn the gender, size and brand of shoe a killer or thief was likely wearing.
Shoe prints are some of the most common evidence left at crime scenes, but there's a limited number of shoe identification experts and the tech tools available to them aren't nearly as good as one might think from watching cops shows and movies. Complicating matters, shoe treads wear down and wear out, and small pebbles lodge in a shoe's ridges, distorting their prints. That's where computational forensics comes in.
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Tips for Getting through Airport Security over
the Holidays
The Canadian Press
 WASHINGTON - If you're flying to a holiday get-together, here are some tips from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to help speed your way through airport security.
-Do not gift-wrap carryon items. Security officers are required to remove the wrapping paper. Wrapped gifts should be packed in your checked bags, according to TSA spokesman Christopher White.
-Do not bring remote-controlled toys as carry-on luggage. "Unfortunately in this world we live in, terrorists have an interest in using remote-controlled detonators," White said. You can put them in checked bags.
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Transition Official Rejects Ties to Controversial
Hindu Group
By Gautham Nagesh
 After weeks of questions, Obama transition team member and former Google executive Sonal Shah renounced on Wednesday her former connection to a Hindu organization accused of fomenting violence against Muslims and Christians in India.
In a statement obtained exclusively by Nextgov and National Journal, Shah said if she could have anticipated the role of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in the 2002 outbreak of communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat, she never would have associated with the group's U.S. branch a year earlier:
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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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