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Kids TV Praises Gaza Mom's Suicide Bombing
By Paula Hancocks , CNN
 It's meant to be a children's program, but "Young Pioneers" on Hamas-run television is well-known for pushing the boundaries of what most people would deem suitable content for children.
One episode raised eyebrows when it first aired two years ago on al Aqsa TV, featuring two young Palestinian children being shown a re-enactment of their mother's preparations for and execution of a suicide bombing.
The show was recently aired for the children of the bomber and other youths in a studio audience.
The young anchor sounds a defiant note: "And here we say to the occupier that we will follow her doctrine, the doctrine of the martyr mujahida Reem Riyashi, until we liberate our homeland from your illegitimate hands."
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Approved for Academic Credit through Saint Leo University
Message from SSI President, Henry Morgenstern:
Unfortunately, after November, with the growing demand on other SSI projects, I will no longer be in a position to put my contacts and knowledge of Israel at the disposal of SSI's Homeland Security Training Program in Israel. Of course, I want to continue. We have taken more groups to Israel during the past 6 years than any other group and have a trained a cadre of more than 400 people on how that country deals with the terror threat. This means that there are no further trips scheduled for the 2010 period.
I am urging you to enroll now in the November trip because it seems like it will be the last. This will be your last opportunity to allow the experts to show you how to deal with the threat of terror in your jurisdiction.
My best wishes to you and stay safe,
Henry Morgenstern
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In Jakarta, a New Terrorist Tactic Revealed
By Bahukutumbi Raman
How hotel attacks are changing.
According to Indonesian Security Minister Widodo Adi Sucipto, nine persons were killed and at least 42 injured in two powerful blasts that hit the Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels in the Mega Kuningan business area in Jakarta early on the morning of July 17. Widodo told reporters that six of the victims were killed at the Marriott hotel, two others at the Ritz-Carlton hotel and one died in the hospital. Of the 42 injured, 13 were foreigners.
The explosion at the Marriott hotel occurred at 7:47 a.m. at the Restaurant Syailendra in the hotel's basement, two minutes before the explosion at the Ritz-Carlton. At the Ritz, windows were blown out in a restaurant on the second floor. It appeared that the improvised explosive device (IED) had been placed inside a restaurant there too.
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August 17-21, 2009
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Revenge of the 'Shoe Bomber'
By Debra Burlingame
The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in.
 Last May at the National Archives, President Barack Obama warned that "more mistakes would occur" if Congress continued to politicize terrorist detention policy and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. "[I]f we refuse to deal with those issues today," he predicted, "then I guarantee you, they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future."
On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities. Eight days earlier, the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver filed notice in federal court that the Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) which applied to that prisoner-Richard C. Reid, a.k.a. the "Shoe Bomber"-were being allowed to expire. SAMs are security directives, renewable yearly, issued by the attorney general when "there is a substantial risk that a prisoner's communications, correspondence or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others.
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Indonesian Police Closer to Identifying Bombers
They have taken DNA samples from the families of the suspected bombers.
 JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Indonesian police were closer Tuesday to identifying the two suicide bombers in last week's Jakarta hotel attacks, as they questioned staff at an Islamic school and took DNA samples from relatives.
A teacher at the school confirmed that police had been questioning staff at the Al-Mukmin school in Ngruki, Central Java, following Friday's twin suicide bombings of luxury hotels popular with Westerners.
'The police came yesterday and today. It's just ordinary chat. The police checking on us is normal,' Al-Mukmin deputy principal Muhammad Sholeh Ibrahim told AFP.
The coordinated blasts at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in a central Jakarta business district killed seven people including three Australians, an Indonesian and a New Zealander.
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Houston, Do We Have a Problem?
 After a 2007 Houston TV news report, entitled Is Houston a Sitting Duck for Terrorism, which alleged lax security at Houston-area regional airports, the House Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection called on DHS's Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate.
Last week, Carlton Mann, assistant inspector general (AIG) for the OIG, appeared before the subcommittee to discuss the TV news story and the subsequent OIG report on TSA's role in general aviation security.
That OIG report examined security at 10 airports in all, the three regional airports mentioned in the original TV news report (Sugar Land Regional Airport in the town of Sugar Land, about 25 miles southwest of Houston; David Wayne Hooks Airport in Spring, 30 miles northwest of the city; and Lone Star Executive Airport in Conroe, 45 miles to the north), as well as at comparable airports near Los Angeles Chicago and New York City.
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Terrorist Attacks Subject of Dundee Scientist Research
 A method of identifying victims of a dirty bomb attack or nuclear disaster is being developed by scientists in Dundee.
A method of identifying victims of a dirty bomb attack or nuclear disaster is being developed by scientists in Dundee.
Experts at Dundee University are looking at ways of using CT scans to identify bodies which have been contaminated.
The work has been ordered by the Home Office so the UK is prepared should such an incident take place.
The Dundee University team have just been boosted by a £7,000 donation from three charitable trusts.
Dr Roos Eisma said: "What the Home Office has decided to try is to scan the remains using a CT scanner, so only a small number of people will go into the disaster area.
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Radar Technology Helps Homeland Security Find Border Tunnels
 A tunnel under construction was found on a house 40 yards from the border with the US in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
U.S. Border Patrol agents plan to implement radar technology to locate underground tunnels along the U.S. border with Mexico, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In the past fiscal year, more than 22 underground tunnels have been discovered by various agencies, including U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It is the highest number of tunnels found in one year, said DHS public information officer Steven Cribby.
Since 1990, more than 101 underground tunnels have been found.
Cribby said the tunnels operate as an underground passageway for drugs, people and weapons.
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Forging Ahead: 1-67 Soldiers Hone Their Skills in Gauntlet II Exercise
By Staff Sgt. Carlos Burger
FORT CARSON - Warhorse Soldiers quickly disembarked from the landing CH-47 Chinooks and moved into a simulated town in Iraq. Their mission: to work with Iraqi nationals in an attempt to seize a high value target.
At the same time, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Abrams tanks stormed over the ridgeline and formed a perimeter around the city. As the Soldiers began their search, they knew that they needed to put all their training to the test if they were going to capture their target and earn a passing grade.
The 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment experienced this scenario as they participate in the Gauntlet II exercise here from March 2-21. The three-week event tests units from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division on their overall capabilities and prepares them for their upcoming exercise at the National Training Center, in Fort Irwin, Calif.
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Al Qaeda Priority: Western Targets
By Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank
Between late July and early December of 2008 four members of a Belgian-French group returned to Europe from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. On December 11, Belgian counter-terrorism  police launched one of the largest operations in the country's history, arrested six people and charged them with participation in a terrorist group.
According to Belgian counter-terrorism sources, the trigger for the Brussels arrests was an intercepted e-mail sent by one of the alleged recruits, Hicham Beyayo, in early December shortly after he returned to Belgium.
The e-mail allegedly suggested that Beyayo had been given the green light to launch an attack in Belgium. However no explosives were recovered by Belgian police, and some terrorism analysts are skeptical that an attack was imminent.
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White House Homeland Security Council Urges Nuclear Attack Response Planning
By Arnold Bogis
 Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill famously remarked, "All politics is local."
The same holds true for nuclear terrorism.
The recently released Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation, developed by the White House Homeland Security Council, stresses that it's "incumbent upon all levels of government" to prepare "through focused nuclear attack response planning." Mayors, governors, emergency managers and first responders will be the first to deal with the consequences, and according to that same guidance, "local and state community preparedness to respond to a nuclear detonation could result in life-saving on the order of tens of thousands of lives."
Ready or Not?, a yearly analysis of preparedness for health emergencies that's released by the nonprofit Trust for America's Health, found that "surge capacity remains the largest threat to the nation's ability to respond to a major catastrophe." Local, and specifically, regional abilities to care for the wounded will be vital just after a nuclear terrorist attack. Unfortunately many communities haven't gotten the point.
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