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ty for the ping....I still read, just don’t have as much time to comment or research.
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“When I worked for El Al, we conducted risk assessment on every single shipment,” Brandes declared. “You cannot duplicate the system El Al uses—but you can adopt the principles.” Before getting to those principles, Brandes said, the first day of the class would be not about security, but on “how to be a terrorist. Because first, you have to know how to blow stuff up.”
Terrorism usually involves 1-5 years of careful planning, with terrorists taking the time necessary to learn security loopholes and the operational environment of the target, and rehearsing the plan through dry runs.
All terrorist plots, Brandes claimed, involve eight steps: marking (i.e., determining the time, date, location, symbolic value, and physical features of the target), gathering intelligence, surveillance, planning, tooling up, training/rehearsing, execution, and getaway. “Our focus,” he said, “is on execution, where it is normally too late—our efforts should include the attack’s preliminary phases, which usually take years to accomplish.”
WESTERN governments have concluded that Syria and North Korea were collaborating on a nuclear weapons program at a mysterious site in the Syrian desert bombed by Israel last year, a senior European diplomat said in a rare comment about it by a high-ranking official.
German accused of nuclear smuggling bid
Authorities have arrested a German man of Iranian descent on suspicion of attempting to export materials "relevant to nuclear technology" to Iran, the federal prosecutor's office said Wednesday.
The 52-year-old, identified only as Dr. Ahmad R., was arrested Tuesday in Berlin, the prosecutor said in a statement.
He is being held on charges of attempting to break German export laws for allegedly trying to provide Iran with the materials between August and December 2007.
The government will purchase devices including ``scanners to detect'' attackers with explosive material, Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan told the official Associated Press of Pakistan in an interview in the capital, Islamabad, yesterday. The equipment will be installed at entry and exit points in major cities, he said.
A federal spokesman at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant Wednesday corrected an earlier statement and said at least seven Wackenhut security guards had been caught sleeping on the job at Y-12 or being otherwise "inattentive."
Security forces thwart jihad plan to bomb TA-Jerusalem railroad
All four of the militants are in their twenties. The explosives lab as found in the home of 28-year-old Nahlin resident Razek Jadeh.
An additional suspect is also from Nahlin, while the remaining two are Batir residents. The militants are also suspected among other things of planning to carry out roadside bombings against Israeli cars in the West Bank.
In addition, they planned an attack that would include bombing an IDF jeep, throwing improvised grenades and stealing the soldiers' weapons.
The investigation also revealed that the suspects learned to make bombs via the internet.