Certificate in Terrorism Studies
The venture, whose homepage is at www.terrorismstudies.com, is billed as the first transnational e-learning course of its kind. It requires about four hours of study each week and is designed to last 16 weeks.
In my experience most of these terrorism studies are obsolete. But it would be interesting nonetheless to see who is involved and what they’re learning.
Toothless Transparency
UPI –
A special panel set up last year to reduce excessive secrecy in government is being labeled toothless after its chairman told lawmakers he could not act except at the request of the president.
“The statute under which we operate provides that the president must request the board undertake such a review before it can proceed,” wrote L. Britt Snider, chairman of the Public Interest Declassification Board to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Water Systems
A foreign hacker who penetrated security at a Harrisburg, Pa., water filtering plant is under investigation by the FBI for planting malicious software capable of affecting the plant’s water treatment operations, ABC News has learned.
The Columbus Day weekend intrusion is the fourth recorded cyber-attack on a U.S. water supply in the past four years, according to the records of WaterISAC, an industry information sharing and analysis center with members from among more than 1,000 drinking water and wastewater systems in the United States.
The Sword That Cuts…
Col. Lang weighs in on American supply lines –
“The Sword that Cuts the Arteries of the Infidels,” referring to supply lines and apostate forces which support American and Shi’ite forces, is the title given to a fifty-two minute video presentation recently issued by Ansar al-Sunnah, one of the primary insurgency groups in Iraq…Abu Hajer explains that the supply lines of the enemies are like the beating heart in the body, and the enemy cannot function without supplies. To cut off the supplies then, is like “stopping the heart beat of the enemy”.
I would bet a lot of my own money that there are no serious and detailed plans anywhere in the command structure designed to cope with a massive and adverse series of events in Iraq.
Dreaming 5GW Should Stay Dreaming
Dreaming5GW –
We need to safeguard 5GW Theory against these twin evils of academic theossophy and marketing buzzwordspeak
It is too early to start labeling and cutting out ideas. 5GW is an incoherent amalgam of a variety of perspectives. (What exactly is Dan is planning on safeguarding?)
Keep it open. We’re all better off that way.