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How To Survive A Nuclear Attack Posted: 18 Feb 2009 12:18 AM PST The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster-medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history’s farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack. Dr. Irwin Redlener spends his days imagining the worst: He studies how humanity might survive natural or human-made disasters of unthinkable severity. After 9/11, Irwin Redlener emerged as a powerful voice in disaster medicine — the discipline of medical care following natural and human-made catastrophes. He was a leading face of the relief effort after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now. He’s the associate dean, professor of Clinical Public Health and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Watch Video On Our New Community Network Site This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

al Qaeda Operative Plots Poison Terror Strike From Prison Cell Posted: 17 Feb 2009 03:07 PM PST Osama bin Laden’s “master poisoner” is planning terror outrages from his jail cell. Home Office documents seen by the Mirror reveal Kamel Bourgass is recruiting extremist prisoners to communicate with undercover al-Qaeda operatives. Bourgass, 33, is already serving life for murdering a police officer. Held in segregation at a topsecurity jail, Bourgass is being monitored by secret services after evidence was found of a plot involving a “quantity of cyanide”. Reports suggest he was using other inmates at Wakefield prison, West Yorks, their relatives and friends to link with al-Qaeda terrorists in London, where the poison was hidden. A source said: “Bourgass has tried to use cyanide before and appears intent on masterminding another attack, even from behind bars. “He was taken out of circulation on the wing because we believe he was using others to get information to al-Qaeda operatives on the outside. “Even locked up he remains a real threat to the public.” He is also linked to Abu Musabal-Zarqawi, who beheaded Briton Ken Bigley in Iraq. Convicted of killing Det Con Stephen Oake, 40, during a police raid on a flat in Manchester in 2003, Bourgass is still described in Home Office reports as a “risk to life and state”. Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

Where Is Bin Laden - Science May Hold The Answer Posted: 17 Feb 2009 03:01 PM PST Fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden is most likely hiding out in a walled compound in a Pakistani border town, according to a satellite-aided geographic analysis released today. A research team led by geographer Thomas Gillespie of the University of California-Los Angeles used geographic analytical tools that have been successful in locating urban criminals and endangered species. Basing their conclusion on nighttime satellite images and other techniques, the scientists suggest bin Laden may well be in one of three compounds in Parachinar, a town 12 miles from the Pakistan border. The research incorporates public reports of bin Laden’s habits and whereabouts since his flight from the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in 2001. The results, reported in the MIT International Review, are being greeted with polite but skeptical interest among people involved in the hunt for bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader behind 9/11. Bin Laden’s whereabouts are considered “one of the most important political questions of our time,” the study notes. “I’ve never really believed the sitting-in-a-cave theory. That’s the last place you would want to be bottled up,” Gillespie says. The study’s real value, he says, is in combining satellite records of geographic locations, patterns of nighttime electricity use and population-detection methods to produce a technique for locating fugitives. Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

Amtrak Train Stops To Remove Suspicious Passenger Posted: 17 Feb 2009 02:37 PM PST Amtrak officials say they removed a passenger who was behaving suspiciously from a train in North Carolina on Monday. The Silver Star was headed to Miami from New York when it stopped in Garysburg, N.C., near N.C. 64. That happened just before 7 p.m. about 30 miles east of Rocky Mount. Officials declined to say what the passenger was doing. About 250 people were allowed to get back onboard about four hours later. No injuries were reported. This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

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