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• Online Tabletop Terror Response Exercise July
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• MTA Considers Audio Surveillance On Trains,
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• A Dire Prediction for Swine Flu H1N1 Virus
  
  
  
• China and Russia In Joint Anti-terrorism
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Online Tabletop Terror Response Exercise July 24th Posted: 21 Jul 2009 10:52 PM PDT Terror Response Exercise TSSI (Total Security Services International Inc.) is hosting a FREE multi-modal, tabletop terror response exercise. The tabletop exercise which takes roughly 3 hours to complete plays upon three possible terrorist attack scenarios in a large metropolitan area. The scenarios include: a passenger ferry attack, a large vehicle bomb and a weaponized hazmat incident. These scenarios involve multiple domains and are appropriate for anyone involved in crisis management or civic leadership in trucking, emerging threats, mass transit, law enforcement, critical infrastructure, ports, HAZMAT, and cargo security. The TTX is scheduled for July 24, 2009 at TSSI. If you would like to participate, please contact Ms. Hidemi Stubbs, call 1-301-578-8399 or Email Hidemi Stubbs to register. 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

MTA Considers Audio Surveillance On Trains, Buses Posted: 21 Jul 2009 08:31 PM PDT The Maryland Transit Administration is considering installing audio surveillance equipment on its buses and trains to record conversations of passengers and employees, according to a letter sent by the MTA’s top official to the state Attorney General’s Office. The letter, reported by the Maryland Politics Watch blog, seeks legal guidance on whether installing such equipment would violate Maryland’s anti-wiretapping law. In his letter, MTA Administrator Paul J. Wiedefeld notes that the MTA already uses video cameras for security aboard its vehicles. “As part of MTA’s ongoing efforts to deter criminal activity and mitigate other dangerous situations on board its vehicles, Agency management has considered adding audio recording equipment to the video recording technology now in use throughout its fleet,” Wiedefeld wrote. Read Full Article 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

A Dire Prediction for Swine Flu H1N1 Virus Posted: 21 Jul 2009 08:23 PM PDT Public health officials brace for another, nastier wave of the H1N1 virus. Alarming new numbers outline the worst case scenario when H1N1 returns this fall. The World Health Organization predicts 2-billion people may become infected globally. That’s a third of the worlds total population. Here in the United States, 90-million people could become ill, with 10% ending up in the hospital. Again, it’s a worst case scenario, but local health officials take these numbers seriously. They’re gearing up for what could be the largest vaccination campaign in decades. It’s a tiny bug expected to make a very big return. Health experts are already planning a major attack against the H1N1 virus. They’re worried it may mutate and pack a deadlier punch. Dr. Dean Sienko, Ingham County Health Department: “We haven’t had something like this in quite a while, and the best way to be successful is to begin planning early.” To beat the bug, public health officials are gearing up for a mass immunization campaign, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the polio outbreak in the 1950s. It’s an effort to protect those at highest risk- young children and teens. Dr. Dean Sienko: “This is a major undertaking and that’s why planning now is critical.” via A Dire Prediction for H1N1 Virus – WLNS TV 6 Lansing Jackson Michigan News and Weather – WLNS.COM . 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

China and Russia In Joint Anti-terrorism Exercise Posted: 21 Jul 2009 08:09 PM PDT China and Russia were holding a joint military exercise on Wednesday, with the drill seen as a chance to beef up anti-terrorism cooperation after the recent flare-up of violence in China’s Xinjiang region. The “Peace Mission 2009″ five-day exercise in northeast China comes weeks after China’s worst ethnic unrest in decades between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in the far-western region of Xinjiang that killed at least 197 people. “To some extent, the July 5 Xinjiang riot pushed forward anti-terrorism cooperation between China and Russia,” the China Daily newspaper quoted Major Wang Haiyun, a former Chinese military attache to Russia, as saying. Russia itself has been grappling with rising violence in the North Caucasus regions of Ingushetia, Dagestan and Chechnya. Russia and China are also wary of a rising tide of instability in post-Soviet Central Asia that has spilt over from Afghanistan. “The situation in Central Asia itself, including Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan is not so good, so that’s the most likely area of practical cooperation. And in fact they’re learning new ways to fight against Islamic insurgents and Uighurs,” said Vassily Kashin, a Chinese military expert at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Moscow. via China and Russia in joint anti-terrorism exercise World Reuters. 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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