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Al-Qaida plot against N.Y.
subways uncovered
U.S. officials received intelligence that al-Qaida
operatives had been 45 days away from releasing a deadly gas into the
New York City's subways when the plan was called off by Osama bin
Laden's deputy in 2003, according to a book excerpt released on Time
magazine's Web site.
According to the investigative report by Ron Suskind, an informant close
to al-Qaida leaders told U.S. officials that Ayman al-Zawahri had
canceled the plan in January 2003, despite the likelihood that the
strike would have killed as many people as the Sept. 11 attacks.
The informant said the operatives had planned to use a small, easily
concealed device to release hydrogen cyanide into multiple subway
cars.
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Subways and
buses remain vulnerable, House says
A report from the Democratic members of the House
Homeland Security Committee finds that the department spends just 1 cent
to protect bus and subway riders for every $9 it spends on security for
air travelers -- suggesting that the Department of Homeland Security is
too focused on aviation security.
The report accuses the department and the Transportation Security
Administration of failing to cooperate with state and local governments,
The Washington Times reports.
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San Francisco
airport to pilot cargo screening system
San Francisco International Airport is set to become
the first airport in the nation to screen all passenger cargo for
explosives.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to launch the $30 million
pilot program later this summer at SFO and then expand it to two other
unannounced airports. Roughly half of the money will be spent at San
Francisco.
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Catastrophic event preparedness
can improve, DHS says
While most areas of the country are well prepared to
handle standard disaster situations, the Department of Homeland Security
says that all levels of government across the country should improve
emergency operations plans for catastrophic events such as a major
terrorist attack or category-five hurricane.
Several areas, including evacuation, attention to populations with
special needs, command structure, and resource management, were areas
needing significant attention, as reported in DHS's nationwide review to
assess emergency operations plans in all U.S. states and territories,
and 75 urban areas.
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Bush orders
update of emergency alert system
President Bush has ordered Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff to overhaul the nation's public warning systems,
acknowledging a critical weakness unaddressed since the 2001 terrorist
attacks and exposed again last year by Hurricane Katrina.
The Emergency Alert System, best known for weather bulletins and Amber
Alerts for missing children, should be upgraded to explore communicating
by cellphones, personal digital assistants and text pagers targeted to
geographic areas or specific groups, U.S. officials say.
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Procurement Watch
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- The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a
$27.3 million contract to the military division of Smiths
Detection, Edgewood, Md., for an Automatic Chemical Agent Detector
Alarm (ACADA), a chemical warfare agent detection system that
continuously monitors for the presence of nerve agents and blister
chemicals using IMS (Ion Mobility Spectrometry) technology.
- The U.S. Department of Defense's "Information Assurance Workforce
Improvement Program" manual has named the Certified Information Systems
Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
certifications from The Information Systems Audit and Control
Association (ISACA) among the 13 certifications approved for DoD
information assurance (IA) professionals.
- The U.S. Air Force Academy has selected a unified security system
including software, hardware and video from MDI Security Systems,
San Antonio, under the
NETCENTS Network-Centric Information Technology contract.
- The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach in California,
the largest commercial ports in the U.S., have chosen floating marine
barriers from Wave Dispersion Technologies, Sylvan Lake, Mich.,
which includes the design, fabrication and delivery of 10,000 feet of
floating security barriers.
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