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WMD Charge Called Key Tool in Bombing Case

By   /  April 24, 2013  /  Homeland Security  /  No Comments

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Accusing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of carrying out a WMD strike at the Boston Marathon could offer prosecutors a clear route to a conviction, even though the two pressure-cooker devices used in last week’s attack do not fit the accepted definition of a “weapon of mass destruction,” academics and former federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. Read more [...]

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Digital Jihad: Inside Al-Qaeda’s Social Networks

By   /  March 11, 2013  /  Homeland Security  /  No Comments

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Almost a decade after their emergence, Al-Qaeda’s password-protected online forums continue to remain popular. Government officials in the U.S and elsewhere

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Individual Preparedness and Response to CBRN Terrorist Attacks

By   /  January 9, 2013  /  Training, Exercise and Drills  /  1 Comment

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Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation’s strategy for homeland security. This report adopts a scenario-driven approach that provides a rigorous way to identify actions-linked specifically to terrorist attacks-individuals can take to protect their health and safety.

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How vulnerable is the U.S. to agro-terror attack?

By   /  September 28, 2012  /  Homeland Security  /  No Comments

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States has spent billions of dollars to make the country safer from another catastrophic event, but little of that money, and little attention, have been directed toward preventing, coping with, and recovering from an agro-attack. How vulnerable is the United States to an attack on its food system? Newsmagazine [...]

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Are Americans safer today than they were four years ago?

By   /  September 13, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News, Homeland Security  /  No Comments

The presidential campaign is dominated by economic issues, so the question the two candidates invite their audience to ponder is: “Are you better off now than four years ago?”; the question “Are you safer today than you were four years ago” is hardly, if ever, posed; security experts agree that while security challenges posed by [...]

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