Terror attacks on religious targets are relatively rare, but often deadly, in the United States, according to the University of Maryland-based National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The researchers add that private businesses are the most frequent U.S. target, based on figures compiled from the Global Terrorism Database.
The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute held a forum featuring John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Randy Beardsworth and Dr. Michele Malvesti, the co-chairs of Presidential Study Directive-1 (PSD-1): Organizing for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
The START Center at the University of Maryland releases a report looking at terrorist incidents against religious Figures, Institutions and Military Targets.
A breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology provides new ammunition in the war on terror. Their discovery of six never-before-seen polymorphic crystalline structures of TATP -- the easy-to-make but difficult to detect explosive increasingly used by terrorists worldwide -- will make it easier to detect the explosive even when it is concealed.
Two new forensic camera prototypes were tested in a bombing last month aboard a mass transit bus. They survived. But how did their chips do?
The Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) announces the release of its latest Commentary, "Canada and the United States: Time for a Joint Threat Assessment?" authored by HSPI's Sharon Cardash, associate director; Frank Cilluffo, director; and James Jay Carafano, senior fellow. The authors outline the shape that a joint threat assessment could take in terms of both substance and process.
With each boat passing through carrying precious lives and cargo, along with potential multi-million dollar ransoms, how can new technology help protect the high seas?
A Department of Homeland Security-sponsored environmental health scientist has given some of his best years to spittle.
Stephanie C. Kane, associate professor in Indiana University's Department of Criminal Justice and an expert on port security, discusses piracy, poverty and global trade in the wake of Sunday's dramatic rescue of an American ship captain held hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
The November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, stunned the world. In response, faculty members at Indiana University Bloomington have organized a symposium to address the problem of terrorism from the perspective of three countries hit hard by violence: India, Israel and Turkey.
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate, and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential use as a bioterrorism agent. The report appears as a featured article in the April 12th issue of Analytical Chemistry.
The report is the product of a bipartisan Task Force composed of former senior federal officials, practitioners at the state and local levels, and subject matter experts in the area of homeland security policymaking. Co-chaired by HSPI Director Frank Cilluffo and Deputy Director Daniel Kaniewski, the Task Force identified and reviewed arguments for and against merging the Homeland Security Council and National Security Council, and also assessed crucial factors that merit consideration whether or not there is a merger.
Concerns that terrorists could produce a new and particularly dangerous form of the explosive responsible for airport security screening of passengers' shoes and restrictions on liquids in carryon baggage are unfounded, a group of scientists is reporting. Their study, which demonstrates that a new form of destructive terrorist material is unlikely, is scheduled for presentation at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
"Information warfare" plays a crucial role in the struggle against terrorist organizations, sometimes more so than conventional weapons. Therefore, the information warfare against terrorist organizations ought to be instigated and on the attack, and should continue even when military warring has ended. Thus concludes a new study by Dr. Yaniv Levyatan of the University of Haifa.
Ruggedized, self-contained cameras, similar in concept to the black box used in aircraft, would record video data that could be retrieved by investigators following a catastrophic incident.
Women terrorists are not a new development"”groups like Chechnya's Black Widows and Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have gained notoriety before"”but according to Anita Singh, they represent a misunderstood phenomenon she hopes to clarify.
Immediately after the liquid explosive bomb plot was uncovered in London in August 2006, the Department of Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) looked to to find ways to not only detect liquids in baggage and on passengers, but also to figure out what those liquids are. Now, S&T-sponsored scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a possible solution.
Research has shown that certain marginalized groups fare worse than others in the aftermath of natural disasters, suffering disproportionate impoverishment, injuries and fatalities. Now a new study finds that they also experience greater terrorism-related fears and make more behavioral changes based on those fears.
What's possible when a group of scientists are inspired by a famous superhero and a giant creature from the sea? How about a new technology for stopping the bad guys in their tracks?
"In many ways, the Somali pirates bear a striking resemblance to those of the so-called "˜Golden Age' of pirates in the late 17th and early 18th centuries," says Eric Bowne, a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Wake Forest University who taught the class "Under the Black Flag: the Anthropology of Piracy."
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