Nuclear Power, Natural Disasters, and Security
Tweet Nuclear power diminishes National Security and the stability of the electric grid. Consider the Brunswick, Fort Calhoun, Millstone, North Anna, and Oyster Creek nuclear power plants, and the...
View Article"Carlos the Jackal" on trial in Paris
RTE News reports on the trial of Ilyich Ramiez Sanchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” captured by French authorities in 1994, is on trial for bombings in France in 1989. From RTE News, ‘Carlos the...
View ArticleNYPD Shield Assessment for Occupy Wall St, Nov 17
| | Tweet |NYPD Shield, NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau, Terrorism Threat Analysis Group, “Countering Terrorism Through Information Sharing” sent me an email: RE: NYPD SHIELD – Plans for All-Day “Mass...
View Article"Surveillance" doesn't necessarily afford prediction or prevention
The prime suspect in the recent spree of murders in France turns out to have been under police surveillance, in Afghan custody at one point, American military custody at another – none of which seems...
View ArticleAl Qaeda cheats at paintball
“We figured they’d cheat; they were Hezbollah, after all. But none of us—a team of four Western journalists—thought we’d be dodging military-grade flash bangs when we initiated this ‘friendly’...
View ArticleGerman authorities find new al-Qaeda documents hidden in porn files on flash...
Editor’s note: since al-Qaeda and its allied forces claim that pornography is sinful, and that Westerners are obsessed and debased by it, isn’t a flash drive which appears to contain pornography the...
View ArticleImages of London 7 July 2005 bombings
See also German authorities find new al-Qaeda documents hidden in porn files on flash drive: CNN (a related post here on Popular Logistics). The slideshow which follows is a preliminary attempt to...
View ArticleBlast at School in Southern Italy Kills One and Injures Six – NYTimes.com
An unfortunate reminder that in counterterrorism and response preparations, we need to focus on more than just commercial aviation: ROME (Reuters) – A bomb exploded in front of a school in southern...
View ArticleColorado movie theater attack: first reports
Mark Memmott. an NPR journalist who is one of the hosts of the NPR blog “The Two-Way,” and his colleagues at NPR have done an outstanding job reporting this story. We’ll be checking back with NPR and...
View ArticleHow jihadists schedule terrorist attacks – John Hudson at Foreign Policy
Image following, courtesy United States Army, is of aftermath of a bus bombing in Iraq on 17 August, 2005, at about 0750 local time. John Hudson, writing at Foreign Policy, makes a strong case that...
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