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Images from 9/11 Memorials World Wide
Associated Press  Mourners of Sept. 11 victims place flowers in the reflecting pool at ground zero during the the eighth anniversary commemoration ceremony, in New York, Friday Sept. 11, 2009.
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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 |
CIA Probe Could Set Dangerous Precedent
by David Broder
 My friend and fellow columnist Eugene Robinson has written a characteristically passionate and well-reasoned piece commending Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by interrogators of terrorist subjects during the last administration.But I think he is wrong.First, let me stipulate that I agree on the importance of accountability for illegal acts and for serious breaches of trust by government officials - even at the highest levels. I had no problem with the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, and I called for Bill Clinton to resign when he lied to his Cabinet colleagues and to the country during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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For Intelligence Officers, A Wiki Way to Connect Dots
By Steve Vogel, Washington Post Staff Writer 
Similarly, a page established in November immediately after the terrorist attack in Mumbai provided intelligence analysts with a better understandinsg of the scope of the i
"There were a number of things posted that were ahead of what was being reported in the press," said Sean Dennehy, a CIA officer who helped establish the site.
Intellipedia is a collaborative online intelligence repository, and it runs counter to traditional reluctance in the intelligence community to the sharing of classified information. Indeed, it still meets with formidable resistance from many quarters of the 16 agencies that have access to the system.
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Abuse Issue Puts the C.I.A. and Justice Dept. at Odds
By PETER BAKER, DAVID JOHNSTON and MARK MAZZETTI
 WASHINGTON - With the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate detainee abuses, long-simmering conflicts between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department burst into plain view this week, threatening relations between two critical players on President Obama's national security team.
The tension between the agencies complicates how the administration handles delicate national security issues, particularly the tracking and capturing of suspected terrorists overseas. It also may distract Mr. Obama, who is trying to move beyond the battles of the Bush years to focus on an ambitious domestic agenda, most notably health care legislation.
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Radiological Counterterrorism Exercise Held At Baylor College of Medicine
 HOUSTON, TX - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) held a table-top counterterrorism exercise today at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. Federal, state and local officials examined security alarm response and crisis and consequence management capabilities in the event
of a terrorist incident involving the kind of medical radiological materials that Baylor regularly uses.
"These exercises illustrate how our investment in nuclear security has provided the technical knowledge and ability to protect our country against terrorist attacks," said Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Counterterrorism Steven Aoki. "Institutions like Baylor College of Medicine understand that along with the benefits of using radiological materials comes the responsibility to protect this material. Our Silent Thunder exercises are critical to improving cooperation among federal, state and local officials. We welcome the opportunity to work with organizations like Baylor College to improve planning, communication and response coordination."
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Al Qaeda-Linked American Terrorist Unveiled, as Charges Await Him in U.S.
By Mike Levine
A week after the 9/11 attacks, a young Muslim at the University of South Alabama told the school's newspaper it was "difficult to believe a Muslim could have done this."
Now, eight years later, he is professing to launch attacks himself and calling on others to join the fight, as terror-related charges await him at home in Alabama, FOX News has learned exclusively.
Abu Mansour al-Amriki - or "The American" - has become one of the most recognizable and outspoken voices of terrorist propaganda.
He has been in war-torn Somalia for several years, fighting the secular government there with a group known as al-Shabaab, which has ties to Al Qaeda and was labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. government last year. Only recently has he taken on a starring - and jarring - role in al-Shabaab's outreach efforts.
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Go Ahead, Make My High Holiday
By Reuven Fenton and Andy Geller
Mazel-tough guys gunning for terrorists
 It's high noon for the high holidays.
Fearing jihadists will attack synagogues during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a group of badass rabbis has developed a program to turn your average shul-goer into a lean, mean fighting machine.
The group, which calls itself the International Security Coalition of Clergy, was founded by Rabbi Gary Moscowitz, who boasts a black belt in karate, teaches martial arts and was an NYPD cop for nine years.
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Keeping Genes Out of Terrorists' Hands
by Erika E Check HaydenGene-synthesis industry at odds over how to screen DNA orders.  A standards war is brewing in the gene-synthesis industry. At stake is the way that the industry screens orders for hazardous toxins and genes, such as pieces of deadly viruses and bacteria. Two competing groups of companies are now proposing different sets of screening standards, and the results could be crucial for global biosecurity. "If you have a company that persists with a lower standard, you can drag the industry down to a lower level," says lawyer Stephen Maurer of the University of California, Berkeley, who is studying how the industry is developing responsible practices. "Now we have a standards war that is a race to the bottom." For more than a year a European consortium of companies called the International Association of Synthetic Biology (IASB) based in Heidelberg, Germany, has been drawing up a code of conduct that includes gene-screening standards. Then, at a meeting in San Francisco last month, two of the leading companies - DNA2.0 of Menlo Park, California, and Geneart of Regensburg, Germany - announced that they had formulated a code of conduct that differs in one key respect from the IASB recommendations.
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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.
For more information on hosting an SSI SWAT Counter Terrorism Course at your agency, please contact Sol Bradman at (305) 302-2790. |
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American Jihad or FBI Blunder? The Riddle of the 'North Carolina Taliban'
Terror trial centres on young 'tourist' - the eighth suspect now at large in Pakistan
 Even by the intrigue-swilled standards of Pakistan's frontier badlands it was a strange case. On a muggy October afternoon last year a battered taxi trundled out of Mohmand, a Taliban-infested corner of the tribal belt, towards the settled area of North-West Frontier province.
In the passenger seat sat a swarthy young man of athletic build wearing a black shalwar kameez, a tight beard and trainers like those favoured by insurgent fighters. At a government checkpoint a suspicious policeman searched him, only to make some startling discoveries.
The man had American dollars in his pocket, a laptop computer in his bag and a cheap Chinese knife tucked into his shoes. He barely spoke a word of Pashto, the local language. And he produced an American passport that identified him as Jude Kenan Mohammad, a 19-year-old student, who claimed to be a tourist.
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Agro-terrorism Threat a Real One
 An author and terrorism expert says as the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks approaches, Americans need to be aware of the threat of agro-terrorism and the impact it could have on the nation's food supply.
Tim Downs is the author of Ends of the Earth (Thomas Nelson, September 2009), a novel which explores the scenario of a terrorist attack on U.S. farms which contaminates the nation's food supply. Downs, who has done extensive research on agro-terrorism, says it is especially difficult to defend against.
"The concern about an agricultural act of terrorism is we just can't defend a thousand-acre farm," he explains. "You can put up a metal detector in an airport -- but how do you protect a thousand acres of corn or wheat?"
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Taliban Threaten Arizona and Nevada September 8, 2009: The U.S. Air Force fears that the Taliban may attempt a terror attack against the U.S. bases (in Nevada and Arizona), where the operators control (via satellite link) Predator and Reaper UAVs flying over Pakistan. These UAVs have killed dozens of Taliban and al Qaeda leaders in the past year. The terrorists have fired mortars at the Pakistani Air Force bases that the UAVs operate from, but these attacks have been too limited to do much damage, much less interfere with flight operations. The Taliban are getting desperate. It's unlikely that the Taliban could carry out an attack on the well-guarded bases, in the United States, containing the UAV operators. But the terrorist chatter (electronic, and on the ground) is getting increasingly nasty and strident. Read On... |
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Chertoff: No Politics in Terror Alert System
By Chris Strohm
 Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Thursday said politics was never a factor in determining whether the nation's color-coded terror-alert level should be raised.
"Politics never entered into raising the alert during my tenure in any way, shape or form," said Chertoff, who led DHS from 2005 until last January.
The issue of whether politics played a role in raising the alert level in the Bush administration came up in discussions about a forthcoming book by Tom Ridge, a former GOP lawmaker and Pennsylvania governor who served as the nation's first Homeland Security secretary.
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