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Risk Assessment and Security Measures for Maritime Managers - A Thorough Look at Best Practices for the Maritime Security Industry
Lloyd's MIU Handbook of Maritime Security
Edited by Rupert Herbert-Burns, Sam Bateman, and Peter Lehr
 The safety of ports, ships, cargo, and their personnel is of major importance to all nations. There is, however, little guidance to ensure their safety other than the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS). Using the ISPS as a foundation, Lloyd's MIU Handbook of Maritime Security provides maritime managers with the best practices on risk assessments, security measures, security organization, personnel identification, ship safety, and ship security alert systems. This volume addresses safety concerns that pertain to all ship situations, locations, and facilities.
Cat. #: AU5480 ISBN: 9781420054804 Publication Date: September 2008 Number of Pages: 400
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FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Questions
By Mary Jacoby
 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut off contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) amid mounting concern about the Muslim advocacy group's roots in a Hamas-support network, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.
The decision to end contacts with CAIR was made quietly last summer as federal prosecutors prepared for a second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist group Hamas, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
CAIR and its chairman emeritus, Omar Ahmad, were named un-indicted co-conspirators in the HLF case. Both Ahmad and CAIR's current national executive director, Nihad Awad, were revealed on government wiretaps as having been active participants in early Hamas-related organizational meetings in the United States. During testimony, FBI agent Lara Burns described CAIR as a front organization.
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Building a Defensive Strategy
By Kevin Mayhood
 FREDERICK, Md. -- Fort Detrick Army Base has a fence to keep civilians out. Inside the base, another fence surrounds the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center.
Inside this Department of Homeland Security lab, safety and security systems; supplies of air, water and power; blistering-hot waste incinerators; and much more have one, two or sometimes three or more backups to protect secrets as well as the scientists who will work with deadly biological agents.
The high-security center, designed by the FBI and Battelle and scheduled to open in May, will be used by intelligence agencies and will house a staff of 150.
It's right up Battelle's alley.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, Battelle has grown the decades-old defense and security program at its West Jefferson complex and turned peacetime technology into devices to detect the enemy and protect the troops.
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O'HANLON: Homeland Security Agenda
Michael O'Hanlon
 More than seven years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, where does the United States stand in trying to ensure that such a terrible tragedy - or something even worse - never again befall this country? And what should President Obama's new homeland security team, led by Secretary Janet Napolitano, emphasize in its efforts?
Former President Bush and his associates frequently emphasized, in their last days in office, that they are proud of the fact the United States was not attacked again on their watch after Sept. 11, 2001. Indeed, even for those of us who are critics of much of Mr. Bush's foreign policy, I would argue it is correct to acknowledge substantial progress on the homeland security front - with much better intelligence cooperation domestically and internationally, improved procedures for verifying the movements of people and money, and other important steps having been taken as federal spending on homeland security tripled during Mr. Bush's time in office.
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Air Force to Deploy Turboprop Aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Katherine McIntire Peters
 Air Force leaders on Friday said they would deploy the first of 37 C-12 class aircraft configured with full-motion video and signals intelligence capabilities to U.S. Central Command this spring for use in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The deployment, scheduled for April, will come one year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates established a departmental task force to explore ways to improve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to support ground troops in those combat zones.
Gates has criticized the military services -- the Air Force in particular -- for not embracing the capabilities provided by unmanned aircraft quickly enough and for not exploring more options for using low-cost piloted aircraft to collect intelligence in places where U.S. air superiority isn't threatened.
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Drilling for a Disaster
Written by Nicholas Grube, The Triplicate
Plane crash kicks off simulation
Two surfers were the first casualties in a simulated chemical spill that supposedly released toxic nerve agents into the environment and turned Point St. George into a hot zone Thursday.
In addition to the wave riders, there were at least two other simulated deaths in Thursday's drill, as both the fictional pilot of the plane carrying the deadly cargo and his passenger perished after they crash landed at the Crescent City airport to kick off the event.
"It was a bad surfing day," Del Norte County Emergency Services Manager Cindy Henderson said with a laugh as she discussed the various "victims" of the exercise.
The simulation - which involved more than 40 agencies and around 200 people - was designed to test the region's emergency response to a large-scale disaster and expose any weaknesses that might cause problems during such an event.
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Improving Outdoor Surveillance
By John Honovich
 Government facilities routinely cover large areas requiring protection. Covering such areas with video surveillance can be expensive and difficult. Traditional video surveillance forced a tradeoff between full coverage and massive infrastructure expenses. Megapixel cameras will help government security managers solve this problem by providing full coverage over large areas at significantly reduced costs.
Traditionally, organizations only had two options: fixed analog and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. While fixed analog cameras were inexpensive, they could only provide detail over a small area (maximum of 100 to 200 feet wide). The other option was PTZ cameras that could be controlled to look at specific spots over a very large area. The major drawback of PTZs is that the camera only sees the specific area it is currently looking at; all other areas are essentially blinded. As such, you were forced to either accommodate gaps in coverage (with PTZs) or massive increases in costs (through deploying dozens of fixed cameras).
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August 17-21, 2009
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Obama Pushes Security Upgrades for Seaports and First Responder Communications
By Jacob Goodwin
 As President Obama put some meat on the bones of his promised infrastructure revitalization plan, it became clear yesterday that strengthening security at the nation's seaports and improving first responder communications networks are two areas likely to receive federal funding in the short term.
In his Saturday radio and Internet address on Jan. 24, Obama provided more details than ever on his "American Reinvestment Plan," aimed at creating or saving three to four million jobs.
In addition to repairing traditional roadways and mass transit systems, said Obama, infrastructure revitalization "means protecting America by securing 90 major ports and creating a better communications network for local law enforcement and public safety officials in the event of an emergency."
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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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Next Era in Fight Against Terrorism
by Sean Holstege
Feds face homegrown threats
 An al-Qaida agent conceals a nuclear bomb in a cargo container and detonates it in a major U.S. seaport.
Such an attack invaded R.P. Eddy's sleep cycles when he led the counterterrorism team on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also cited this month a nuclear attack as the scariest terrorist threat to the United States.
But while mushroom clouds haunt their nightmares, many counterterrorism experts agree that the most likely assault to strike the United States next is not a nuclear bomb but a less destructive act of terror.
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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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Blair Pledges New Approach to Counterterrorism
By Scott Shane
 WASHINGTON - Dennis C. Blair, the retired admiral who is President Obama's choice as the nation's top intelligence official, pledged in testimony on Tuesday that he would require counterterrorism programs to operate "in a manner consistent with our nation's values, consistent with our Constitution and consistent with the rule of law."
During a hearing that occurred as President Obama signed new executive orders rolling back Bush Administration detention and interrogation policies, Mr. Blair signaled a new approach on such controversial issues as eavesdropping without warrants and harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency.
"The intelligence agencies of the United States must respect the privacy and civil liberties of the American people, and they must adhere to the rule of law," Mr. Blair said in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Intelligence Agencies' Databases Set to Be Linked
By Siobhan Gorman
 WASHINGTON -- U.S. spy agencies' sensitive data should soon be linked by Google-like search systems, nearly five years after the intelligence community was rebuked by the 9/11 Commission for failing to "connect the dots" and detect the attack.
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has launched a sweeping technology program to knit together the thousands of databases across all 16 spy agencies. After years of bureaucratic snafus, intelligence analysts will be able to search through secret intelligence files the same way they can search public data on the Internet.
Mr. McConnell's new technology program is also addressing a more basic problem: Spies often have trouble emailing colleagues in other U.S. intelligence agencies, because email addresses aren't readily accessible, and messages sometimes get eaten by security filters. Mr. McConnell aims to solve that by uniting the agencies' email systems into a single system with a full directory that links names, expertise and addresses.
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Inauguration Terror Threat Debunked
 WASHINGTON (AP) - A potential terror threat just before last week's presidential inauguration turned out to be a ruse, a top military commander said Tuesday.
However, Gen. Gene Renuart, chief of U.S. Northern Command, warned that ongoing security concerns still face the Obama administration during its early days.
Renuart, the military commander in charge of domestic defense, said reports pointing to a possible threat from an East Africa terrorist group were the result of claims by another faction and turned out to be untrue.
"It was more a function of two factions who didn't like each other setting the other up," Renuart told the Associated Press. He did not identify the other faction.
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