Obama Is Reported Set to Revise Counterterrorism Efforts
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to scrap the way President Bush oversaw domestic security in the White House and name a former Central Intelligence Agency official to coordinate counterterrorism, people close to the transition said Wednesday......
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/us/politics/08council.html?ref=politics
Mumbai-like attack could happen in U.S.: Bush aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. cities are vulnerable to an attack like the gun-and-grenade assault that terrorized Mumbai for three days and killed 179 people, the White House homeland security adviser said on Wednesday.
Ken Wainstein told a Washington think tank that the Mumbai attacks in November showed the effectiveness of a low-technology coordinated assault on an open city.
“You can envision that happening in any American city, and it’s chilling when you think about it,” Wainstein told policy makers and others in a speech at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “That’s the kind of thing that is all too realistic anywhere in the world.”.......
http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE50707O20090108
***Welcome to the 2009 Counterterrorism Calendar***
The National Counterterrorism Center is pleased to present the 2009 edition of the Counterterrorism (CT) Calendar. This edition, like others since the Calendar was first published in a daily planner format in 2003, contains useful information across a wide range of terrorism-related topics: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical pages on various threat-related issues. The Calendar marks dates according to the Gregorian and Islamic calendars, and contains significant dates in terrorism history, as well as dates that terrorists may believe are important when planning “commemoration-style” attacks.
http://www.nctc.gov/site/index.html