Dan Cunningham e-mailed small poultry farmers on Sept. 8 regarding biosecurity for backyard flocks. Most likely, few of them noted the date and its agroterrorism connection. It has been four years …
Suspected Rebels Kill 10 Colombia Officers
Suspected rebels killed 10 police officers driving down a remote highway Thursday, ambushing their truck with gunfire and homemade gas cylinder bombs, a government official said. The vehicle was …
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NATO Preparing to Deliver Katrina Aid
According to its press release on September 9, 2005, NATO "approved a naval and air operation to bring relief supplies from Europe to the United States, to assist the US in recovering from Hurricane …
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U.S. May Impose New Security Rules on Firms
The Department of Defense is taking a defined posture when it comes to key suppliers of weapons and services. In order to win contracts, production plants must be secured against terrorist attacks. …
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Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan
The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group …
Controlled Chaos
Although the Department of Homeland Security is funding research and development initiatives to improve cyber security, it must be questioned whether these initiatives are properly designed and …
Zotob suspects arrested in Turkey and Morocco
The arrests of Moroccan Farid Essebar and Turk Atilla Ekici for the creation and spread of the Mytob and Zotob malware highlights a number of important trends for both cyber and national …
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Beware the green terrorists among us
Political terrorism, exemplified by 9/11 and most recently in London, may pose the greatest security threat facing most nations. But other terrorists also lurk among us, mostly in the guise of animal …
Jordan hunts 6 suspects in rocket attack
The Jordanian police are continuing to sift through evidence from a rocket attack in this important commercial port, and a nationwide search for at least six suspects continued. Interior Minister Awni …
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Progress reported in Ecuadorian talks to resolve crisis
Leaders of a protest movement ? many of them leading politicians -- in Sucumbios and Orellana provinces of northeast Ecuador were freed from jail late on August 20 after promising to stop their …
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