Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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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.


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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”.


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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 y
ou 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.


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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.



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