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• The Third Jihad Available for Free Online
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• n95 Respirator Masks Best for Swine Flu Health
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• EMP Attack Could Wipe Out U.S.
  
  
• Photos of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed at Guantánamo
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• Cancun – Aeromexico Jet Hijacked, Flown To Mexico
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The Third Jihad Available for Free Online Streaming Posted: 10 Sep 2009 12:36 AM PDT The producers of The Third Jihad are making the full feature-length documentary available to the public for online viewing, free of charge, on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The film is available for free streaming in its entirety from Wednesday, September 9 through Tuesday, September 15. Individuals are encouraged to watch The Third Jihad and share the film with others. The film, narrated by devout Muslim American Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, opens with the following statement: “This is not a film about Islam. It is about the threat of radical Islam. Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical. This film is about them.” 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. The Third Jihad Available for Free Online Streaming

n95 Respirator Masks Best for Swine Flu Health Workers Posted: 10 Sep 2009 12:20 AM PDT Because people can catch the new H1N1 swine flu by inhaling the virus, health-care workers who deal with flu patients should wear properly fitted N95 disposable respirator masks, a new report from the Institute of Medicine advises. These masks are not the same as loosely fitted surgical masks. N95 respirators fit tightly around the mouth and nose and have filters that can block about 95 percent of the flu virus, according to the report released Thursday. Purchasing n95 Masks If you’re contemplating purchasing n95 masks, my suggestion is to purchase them now while the prices are low and there is plenty of inventory. During an actual epidemic supplies can become scarce quickly and prices will no doubt spike. Reliable masks can be purchased through our recommended supplier, Nitro-pak. Nitro-pak Website “The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for protection of health-care workers during an H1N1 outbreak have been that those in close contact with people who have H1N1 flu should wear N95 respirators,” said Dr. Kenneth I. Shine, chair of the Committee on Respiratory Protection for Healthcare Workers in the Workplace Against Novel H1N1 Influenza A. The Institute evaluated the effectiveness of N95 respirators and medical masks in protecting wearers from the H1N1 flu at the request of the CDC and other government agencies. “We saw a fair amount of evidence that suggests that this virus can be transmitted through the air,” said Shine, who is also executive vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Texas. “How much of transmission is due to that is still an unproven issue and needs a lot of research.” Shine noted that the virus is also transmitted by person-to-person contact and by contact with surfaces that have been exposed to the virus. Hence, the advice to wash hands often. Tests showed that the protection provided by N95 masks was eight to 12 times greater than that offered by surgical masks, the report said. In addition, tests of surgical masks show wide variations in protection. They can filter from 4 percent to as much as 90 percent of the virus, but there is no way of controlling leakage around the edges of the mask, Shine said. 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. n95 Respirator Masks Best for Swine Flu Health Workers

EMP Attack Could Wipe Out U.S. Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:41 PM PDT The federal government is doing “nothing” to protect against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that could wipe out American civilization, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a leading expert on the subject, tells Newsmax. For only $200 million to $400 million, the government could protect a key element of the power grid to keep electrical power from being wiped out for years, according to Dr. Pry, a former staff member of the congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack. Yet neither Republicans nor Democrats have been willing to spend that small sum, says Pry, who is president EMPACT America, which is meeting in Niagara Falls, N.Y. this week to spotlight the scandal. A single nuclear bomb exploded over the Midwest would generate an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy the chips that are at the heart of every electronic device. While military and intelligence networks may be shielded against EMP, most of the rest of the country’s technological infrastructure is not. An EMP attack would wipe out personal computers and the internet. Cars would not start, gasoline pumps would not work, and airplanes could not take off. Heat and air conditioning would shut down, supermarkets would have to close, telephones would go dead, water would go out, and radio and television sets would not turn on. Banks and ATMs would shut down, credit cards would become useless, and emergency services and hospital operating rooms would close. In the ensuing chaos, most Americans would die from starvation. “We have a 60-day food supply in big regional warehouses,” Pry says. “Typically when hurricanes take out the electric power grid locally, that food spoils, because it needs temperature control systems and refrigerators to keep it preserved. And if you lose the electric grid across the whole country, you’re going to lose all that food that is the best hope for feeding the American people.” The 2008 report of the congressional commission found that the country is shockingly unprepared for an EMP attack. Terrorists or countries like Iran or North Korea could launch an EMP attack and “possibly end us as a civilization, and take us out as an actor on the world stage,” Pry says. At the least, Pry says, 100 to 200 large transformers used in electrical transmission should be protected against EMP attack. 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. EMP Attack Could Wipe Out U.S.

Photos of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed at Guantánamo Appear Online Posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:30 PM PDT On Wednesday, Jarret Brachman, a former West Point terrorism expert who monitors jihadist Web sites, published images on his blog that appear to be the first photographs of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Mr. Brachman, who was director of research at West Point’s Center for Combating Terrorism from 2004 to 2008, made this image available to The Lede and explained that the photographs were spotted last week on jihadist Web sites by a fellow “cyber monitor,” Leah Farrell. 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. Photos of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed at Guantánamo Appear Online

Cancun – Aeromexico Jet Hijacked, Flown To Mexico City Posted: 09 Sep 2009 12:30 PM PDT UPDATE: Aeromexico Flight 576: Mexican security forces have boarded the hijacked plane and taken 5-7 suspects into custody. Cancun – Mexican Plane Reportedly Hijacked Flown To Mexico City. All passengers have left an AeroMexico passenger plane that was hijacked at the airport in the resort area city of Cancun and flown to the airport in the capital of Mexico City. The hijacked plane, a Boeing 737, landed safely and is on the runway at the airport, according to Mexico’s Transport Minister Juan Molinar. Mexican security forces are at the airport. At least three men, reportedly of Bolivian citizenship, seized control of the plane and threatened to blow it up unless they were allowed to speak to Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon, according to Web sites El Universal and Reforma. Local television reports said that there were explosives onboard the plane. The plane was carrying 104 passengers and was bound for Mexico City, according to Mexican network, TV Azteca. Live Video Stream 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. Cancun – Aeromexico Jet Hijacked, Flown To Mexico City

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