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Indonesia Probes Email Threatening Further Attacks
By Telly Nathalia 
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police are investigating an email sent to a local website claiming to be from fugitive Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top and threatening to carry out more attacks.
Top is the suspected mastermind behind last month's twin suicide bomb attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, killing nine people and injuring 53.
Police initially thought they had killed Top during raids last weekend in Central Java, but forensic tests later identified the body as that of a suspected accomplice.
Police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri said on Friday authorities were investigating the email sent to local website Bagustv.com which claimed that the militant had been at the scene of Friday's raid in Temanggung, Central Java, but had escaped.
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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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India to Re-examine Student Death
The killing of a student and three others by police in the Indian state of Gujarat is to be re-investigated by a court-appointed committee.
 Ishrat Jahan Raza was one of four people shot dead by Gujarat police in 2004 on suspicion of being part of a banned Pakistani-based militant group. But the victims' relatives say they were killed in a staged clash during a so-called "fake encounter".
The Gujarat police have denied the allegation levelled at them. They say the victims were members of the banned Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Gujarat state government was last week ordered by India's Supreme Court to compensate the relatives of a Muslim man killed by police in a staged clash in 2007.
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August 17-21, 2009
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New Product from SSI: BlastSax®
Security Solutions International is proud to introduce BlastSax® TMD (Transportable Mitigation Device). The patent pending BlastSax® devices are engineered for the military, private industry and public safety to save lives in the field during wartime, training, industrial construction and homeland terrorist attacks. BlastSax® are extremely lightweight, portable and always ready to deploy in seconds.
When dry, each is less than 1 lb. They activate in less than three minutes with water and deploy to a 50 lbs blast absorbing cushion. BlastSax® can provide protection against incendiary devices and can stop a variety of firearm rounds.
In addition to suppressing shock waves from an explosion, BlastSax® can assist in containing the flash, smoke and most importantly the fragmentation or "frag". A unique feature that was engineered into BlastSax® is its capability to "capture" and "cool" hot frag pieces to assist in forensic analysis for a more complete reconstruction of the device.
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L.A.'s New Disaster Response Center Officially Opens
 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today officially opened the city's new $107-million, high-tech Emergency Operations Center, the nerve center where officials will coordinate the city's response to major earthquakes, wildfires, acts of terrorism and other potential disasters and public safety threats.
"The greatest responsibility entrusted in our government is to ensure the public safety of our constituents," Villaraigosa said. "Today, the city of Los Angeles has a 21st century facility ready to respond to 21st century threats."
The new downtown building replaces the cramped, outdated operations center that was in the basement of a City Hall building. The new center on East Temple Street, east of the federal courthouse, was paid for with funds from Proposition Q, a $600-million public safety bond measure approved by L.A. voters in 2002. |
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U.S., Mexico Aim to Stop Weapons Flow
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice and Homeland Security departments and Mexican officials vowed Thursday to work more closely to combat cross-border weapons trafficking.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora signed a letter of intent to work together to build a "coordinated and intelligence-driven response" to fight international drug cartels and the cross-border trafficking of weapons and ammunition that supports them, Justice Department officials said in a release.
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By Keith R. Lavery
Knowing What To Look For
 My partner and I were sitting in our local coffee shop taking a breather between calls shortly after the newly formed U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security unveiled their color coded Thread Advisory System to the public. I recall a woman walking up to us to ask, "What does it mean to you when the colors change from Orange to Red?" Cynically I responded, "Lady, that means we drink two cups of coffee instead of one." With a perplexed look on her face she walked away.
I often think back to that moment and wonder why I made such a remark. Was it the typical veteran street cop response - sarcastic but to the point? Was I disgusted with how the feds create something but always fail to tell their partners in policing what they were doing or what we should have been doing? Maybe I was just on the job to long. It was probably all of the above. That particular day, there had been a suicide bomber terror alert for the nationwide transit system that accounted for the threat elevation. Regardless of the security increase in posture, we, like every other uniform cop around, were not doing anything other than the ordinary. Why? We were never trained in anti-terrorism and that was the bad news. Worse than that, it was 2005 - a full 4 years after 9/11. Shockingly, nearly 8 years later some of you reading this (if not most of you) will learn about homicide bombers for the first time.
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Blasts Kill 21 at a Cafe in North Iraq By MARC SANTORA
BAGHDAD - Two bombers wearing suicide vests blew themselves up in a popular cafe crowded with young people in northwestern Iraq on Thursday evening, killing 21 and wounding 30 others, according to local hospital officials.
It was the third major bombing in a week in a stretch of Iraq in and around Mosul, where ethnic tensions, insurgent activity and political disputes have created a volatile mix that threatens the security gains made elsewhere in the country.
The attack on Thursday was carried out in the city of Sinjar, which is populated primarily by Yazidis, Kurdish-speaking followers of a pre-Islamic faith with its roots in Zoroastrianism that is based in an area near the border with Syria.
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Ex-Armenian Consul Among Five Arrested in Alleged Deportation-Blocking Scheme
By Anna Gorman and Alexandra Zavis
Norair Ghalumian and four others are accused of obtaining and selling letters from the consulate that allowed immigrants convicted of murder, robbery and other crimes to avoid deportation.
 Five people, including a former Armenian consul, have been arrested in alleged schemes to block the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of murder and other serious crimes, federal immigration officials announced Tuesday.
The defendants allegedly obtained letters from the Armenian Consulate in Los Angeles and then sold them -- for as much as $35,000 each -- to at least two dozen convicted criminals facing deportation, officials said. The letters, which were sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the Armenian government could not verify that the immigrants were citizens and therefore could not let them back into the country.
Unable to deport the immigrants, U.S. officials were forced to release them. By law, the immigration agency cannot keep criminals in detention for more than six months beyond their prison sentences if deportation is unlikely.
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Universities, Businesses Offer Solutions for Dealing with Hurricanes
Three universities are busy offering solutions which better predict hurricanes and cope with the damage they cause; a Bill Gates-supported company is more ambitious: it proposes to kill hurricanes by placing giant ocean-going tubs in the paths of storms
In the quest more accurately to predict and prepare for hurricanes, some Florida universities are stepping up their game.
Florida State University has developed a computer model that promises unprecedented accuracy in projecting how many storms will arise each season (see 16 July 2009 HSNW).
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CBP Agents Test New Marine Vessel
By JAVIER CAVAZOS
 U.S. Customs and Border Protection is testing a new high-speed marine vessel in Port Isabel in hopes of developing a new interceptor for its aging fleet.
The 43-foot vessel, which is designated as the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator, is in the testing phase as agents from CBP Air and Marine evaluate it to determine specifications and operational requirements.
The vessel is loaded with advanced-concept tools to help agents protect the border, neutralize threats, and ward off terrorists and their weapons, according to a CBP press release.
The interceptor uses a 1,400 horsepower engine that can reach speeds of 75 miles per hour, and a powerful optical system named FLIR, which can spot a target up to 6 miles away, the press release states. It also features infrared sensors and night-vision.
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Eleven Questions to Ask -- and Answer -- About Your Organization's Crisis Plan
 The H1N1 influenza virus has caused anxiety as businesses, schools, and governments contemplated the prospect of widespread quarantines and shutdowns; other disasters may have similar consequences; is your organization ready?
The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, or swine flu, has caused anxiety as businesses, schools, and governments contemplated the prospect of widespread quarantines and shutdowns. Many organizations which already have crisis-response plans used the occasion to dust off these plans, and many that do not have such plans used the pandemic prospect to start creating one. Preparedness is a good thing -- especially as pandemics are only one kind of crisis that can disrupt an organization on such a scale.
CDW Government, Inc. (CDW-G), a supplier of IT to governments and educators, says that with an adequate technology and communication infrastructure, most organizations can redeploy staff and maintain at least essential functions in an emergency, if not full-scale operations. The challenge for many top, nontechnology executives and administrators is simply what to ask about telecommunications and information technology (IT) during crisis planning.
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