The Change Mariner: Category: Theme - 'Response to Terrorism'

May 14, 2004

Terror Fears Push Oil Prices to New High

Yahoo! News: Oil prices soared to a record Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, crossing $41 a barrel and settling at the highest point in the 21-year-history of crude futures trading in New York. June light, sweet crude oil...

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Shaking The Timbers Of The House Of Saud

Business Week Online: It is dawning on everyone who does business with the kingdom that the Saudi government is locked in a long, vicious struggle with Islamic militants that threatens to send wave after wave of jitters through the oil...

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May 11, 2004

U.S. Training African Forces to Uproot Terrorists

The New York Times: The American campaign against terrorism is opening a new front in a region that military officials fear could become the next base for Al Qaeda -- the largely ungoverned swath of territory stretching from the Horn...

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May 9, 2004

Threat of 'Dirty Bomb' Growing

Los Angeles Times: Concerns are growing that Al Qaeda or a related group could detonate a "dirty bomb" that would spew radioactive fallout across an American or European city, according to intelligence analysts, diplomats and independent nuclear experts. Although safeguards...

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April 16, 2004

FBI Buried by Security Demands

The Washington Times: The number of secret surveillance warrants sought by the FBI has increased 85 percent in the past three years, a pace that has outstripped the Justice Department's ability to process them quickly. Even after warrants are approved,...

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April 14, 2004

CIA, FBI Need 5 Years to Make Post 9/11 Changes

CBC (Canada): Enormous intelligence and law enforcement gaps that contributed to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are being filled, but it will take years more for America to build the needed systems to effectively combat terrorists, the heads of the...

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April 12, 2004

Reject Terror's 'Logic of Death,' Pope Urges

New York Times: Under heightened security that included airport-style metal detectors at the gates of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II used his Easter message on Sunday to plead for the world to unite to overcome terrorism and "the logic...

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April 3, 2004

Stricter Rules on Foreign Visitors

San Jose Mercury News: The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it planned to require travelers from 27 industrialized nations -- including longtime allies like Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Australia -- to be photographed and electronically fingerprinted...

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March 24, 2004

New French Terror Threat: AZF

My Way News: AZF's threats, first disclosed earlier this month, appeared in at least three letters sent to the offices of President Jacques Chirac and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Dec. 10, Feb. 13 and Feb. 17. The letters, demanding...

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U.S. Puts World Ports On Notice

New York Times: The response to this threat is a new law of the sea, spurred by Admiral Loy, passed by Congress and signed by President Bush 16 months ago. A parallel global code was adopted days later under American...

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March 14, 2004

Cracks In U.S. War Machine

Times Picayune: Since toppling Saddam Hussein last year, a number of cracks have developed in the U.S. war machine: -- The Iraq invasion caught the Pentagon so short of military cargo planes that it had to hire Russian aircraft to...

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February 29, 2004

Bee Flight Could Inspire Miniature Spy Planes

Yahoo! News: LONDON (AFP) - British scientists say they are studying the flight of bees to see whether a tiny plane could be built with flappable wings for military or industrial spying. "Researchers here are quite confident that they can...

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February 22, 2004

Security Efforts Turning Washington, D.C. Into Armed Camp

New York Times: Day by day, the nation's capital is becoming a fortress, turning a city known for graceful beauty into a virtual armed camp. In response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, federal security agents along with their...

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January 27, 2004

Continued Defense Realignment

KRT Wire: The Pentagon is gearing up for a sweeping round of base closures that could shutter as many as one-fourth of the country's 425 military installations over the next few years. Defense officials and analysts say the move next...

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January 12, 2004

Army War College Study Blasts U.S. War on Terrorism

Yahoo! News: The Iraq invasion was "an unnecessary preventive war of choice" that has robbed resources and attention from the more critical fight against al Qaeda in a hopeless U.S. quest for absolute security, according to a study recently published...

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Feds seek wiretap access via VoIP

MSN Tech & Gadgets: The FBI and the Justice Department have renewed their efforts to wiretap voice conversations carried across the Internet. The agencies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to order companies offering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service...

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January 11, 2004

Big Brother Britain, 2004

The Independent (UK): More than four million surveillance cameras monitor our every move, making Britain the most-watched nation in the world, research has revealed. The number of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras has quadrupled in the past three years, and...

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January 6, 2004

U.S. Begins Screening Program for Monitoring Foreign Visitors

New York Times: United States immigration officers began fingerprinting and photographing tens of thousands of foreign visitors required to have visas on Monday, in what federal authorities described as a sophisticated new security measure to monitor who enters the country...

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January 4, 2004

115 U.S. Airports & 14 Seaports To Track Foreign Visitors

FoxReno.com: San Francisco and Oakland international airports will be among 115 airports and 14 seaports implementing a new system that is designed to confirm the identity of arriving foreign visitors, and to better track their whereabouts while they are in...

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December 19, 2003

Libya to End Arms Program, U.S., U.K. Say

Guardian Unlimited (U.K.): Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has admitted trying to develop weapons of mass destruction but now plans to dismantle all such programs, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday. Bush said Libya's decision - which...

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December 18, 2003

Delta Air Lines Triples Kiosk use in 2003

thewisemarketer.com: More than 20 million customers have chosen to use the Delta Air Lines self-service kiosks to check-in for their flights during 2003, almost tripling the kiosks' usage from 2002's total of 7.4 million kiosk check-ins. According to Delta, two...

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December 6, 2003

The Tide Turns In US Legal War On Terror

CBSNews: ... This week we may have seen the turning of the tide in the legal war on terror. For the first time since the Twin Towers fell, the federal judiciary began to push back against the executive branch along...

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November 27, 2003

Olympics to have unprecedented security

WashingtonTimes: Greece will provide an unprecedented 50,000 police and soldiers for next summer's Olympic Games in Athens, a newspaper reported Monday. The country will deploy 10,000 soldiers in support of the 40,000 police, including a battalion trained in dealing with...

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November 24, 2003

'Phase shift' in terror's war on West

CSMonitor: "...But the recent bombs bear traces of known Al Qaeda tradecraft. There is a pattern emerging, say some experts, that indicates the terror group is determined to wage a sort of world war. "This feels like a strategic shift...

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Al Qaeda's reach grows, with help from Web

CSMonitor: "...From Turkey to Iraq and beyond, there are signs that Al Qaeda has become extremely proficient at getting its message out - through television, newspapers, and the Internet, officials say. Websites continue to crop up more quickly than the...

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Blasts in Turkey trace new pattern: Attack Economic Targets

CSMonitor: "... For Al Qaeda, we can understand why Turkey makes sense. It is the only well-functioning country in the Muslim world, and the Islamists who lead the government are trying to take Turkey into the European Union," says Soli...

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November 20, 2003

Sheep contamination is 'eco terror'

News.com.au: THE alleged contamination of feed for 70,000 Middle East-bound sheep was economic terrorism, a federal government backbencher said today. David Hawker, whose electorate of Wannon takes in the port of Portland where the sheep are being held, said Australia's...

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U.S. food system said to be vulnerable to terrorism

USAToday: Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, government officials have secured cities, airports, harbors, government buildings and tourist sites, but food experts say more attention should be focused on the country's food supply. "We have become a nation concerned about receiving...

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Terrorism May Lead to Research Regulation

Jane's.com: Amid mounting concerns that some areas of scientific research might be exploited by terrorists planning biological attacks, the British government is likely to consider moves to regulate certain types of research, particularly in the field of immunology. JID asked...

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November 16, 2003

Rise of Life Style Terrorism

NYT: It has been a busy year for what you might call lifestyle terrorism. S.U.V.'s were blown up, set ablaze and otherwise vandalized in Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Texas. A homemade incendiary device was found at a spring-water pumping station...

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November 14, 2003

Effort in Netherlands to Halt Spread of Islamic Schools

RNW: It probably won't win a majority in parliament, but a bill on halting the rapid spread of Islamic schools is causing uproar here in the Netherlands. The bill's been tabled by the right-wing VVD party, one of the partners...

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November 12, 2003

Think tank debate focuses on counterterrorism tools

GovExec.com: The September directive on the integration and use of screening information worries Dan Gallington, a senior research fellow at the Potomac Institute, because "it may be the first step in the creation of a terror watch list that would...

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November 11, 2003

British Government Wants Compulsory ID Cards

My Way News: The British government said Tuesday it wants to introduce compulsory identity cards to protect against illegal immigration, welfare fraud and terrorism -- though implementation is years away. Home Secretary David Blunkett said the government would introduce the...

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November 3, 2003

FBI Has Doubled Agents Assigned to Terror

Guardian Unlimited: The number of FBI agents assigned to terrorism more than doubled just after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, reversing a long trend in which traditional crime dominated the FBI's work, according to a Justice Department report released...

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October 31, 2003

Author Details Drug/Terrorism Link in Post-9/11 World

CNSNEWS.com Narcotics trafficking, organized crime, money laundering and terrorism are inextricably linked and coordinated on American soil and in many countries allied with the U.S., according to the author of a new book on the financing of terrorism. Rachel Ehrenfeld,...

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October 26, 2003

Athens security budget leaps 25 percent

Sports Illustrated Greek security preparations for the 2004 Games will be without precedent in Olympic history both in scale and price, organizers said Thursday, adding however that the festive atmosphere of the event will be maintained. "Our strategic decision, from...

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October 21, 2003

Arab governments adopt reforms

SFGate In the six months since Arab governments warily watched the fall of Baghdad, Arab leaders have opened the door to unprecedented political reforms. Though still a far cry from the sweeping democratic transformation activists seek, reforms in Egypt, Saudi...

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October 15, 2003

A Deadly Change In Irsaeli-Palestinian Tensions

Komo News BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA STRIP - A remote-controlled bomb exploded under a U.S. diplomatic convoy Wednesday, ripping apart an armored van and killing three Americans in an unprecedented attack on an official U.S. target. The bombing, which also wounded...

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October 14, 2003

Saudis trumpet first elections

The Globe and Mail: In an unprecedented move that could lead to a form of limited democracy, Saudi Arabia's absolute rulers announced yesterday that the kingdom intends to hold its first-ever elections � a vote for municipal councils. The decision...

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OIC Chief: Muslims Face 'Unprecedented' Dangers Since 9/11

VOA News: The head of the world's biggest Islamic organization is warning that Muslims are facing "unprecedented" dangers around the globe. Speaking at a key meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Abdelouahed Belkeziz said that since the...

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September 11, 2003

America's Growing Network Of Bases

The Telegraph (UK): For a symbol of the way that America's overseas presence has changed since September 11, 2001, look no further than the Peter J Ganci air base. Named after a New York fire chief killed when the World...

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September 7, 2003

Terror War Just Beginning

Beacon Journal: What is clear, analysts say, is that the nation is closer to the beginning than to the end of a global anti-terror campaign that some now liken to the Cold War, the simmering U.S.-Soviet conflict that divided the...

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August 31, 2003

Huge drop in foreign students on campus / Post-9/11 security discourages many from coming to U.S.

San Francisco Chronicle: As the fall term begins at colleges and universities, fewer international students will be attending campuses in the Bay Area -- and around the nation. And some foreign students who were expected to start classes have been...

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August 26, 2003

RFID (Radio-Frequency ID Tags) Gussied Up With Biosensors

Wired News: Still stinging from failed attempts to introduce radio tags to consumers, retailers and their suppliers are now adding features to the technology to make it appear essential to the safety of the nation's food supply. ... But many...

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August 4, 2003

Israeli High Tech Targets U.S. Security Market

Reuters: From software that can "translate" a guard dog's bark to lasers that sniff out explosives, Israel is banking on years of defense expertise to give it an edge in a burgeoning U.S. security market. Israeli ingenuity in cross-the-board technologies...

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August 2, 2003

Business takes off at airport restaurants

Charleston.Net: As airlines increasingly cut in-flight meal service and charge for anything more substantial than a bag of pretzels, remodeled restaurants and snack bars at the Charleston airport are doing more business than ever. ... Along with cuts in in-flight...

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July 30, 2003

Is a Futures Market on Terror Outlandish?

Fortune The Defense Department announced yesterday that it is canceling a controversial program to develop a futures market that would allow traders to bet on wars, assassinations and terrorism in the Middle East. The plan, which FORTUNE first reported on...

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July 23, 2003

Protecting Food Suppy From Terrorists

Wired News The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it hired the Institute of Food Technologists to evaluate ways food processors can prevent or reduce the risk of deliberate contamination. The review by the scientific group will look at chemical...

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Post office unveils anthrax detector

SunSpot.net As technical challenges go, it's a doozy: With 202 billion pieces of mail posted each year, design a machine that will detect a single letter containing anthrax spores so tiny that thousands could be piled on the period at...

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July 16, 2003

New Sensor Developed at UC Santa Barbara Can Detect DNA in One Step

AScribe Newswire Imagine that your doctor, using a small hand-held sensor, could detect from a drop of your blood if you carry the gene for cystic fibrosis, or whether or not you have HIV. Or on the battlefield, a soldier...

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