Posted:Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:38 PM CST
terrorism today
this blog is intended to give those who view it current information on threats to national security as it becomes avalable. this information is intended to be acurate and non-bias but some topics WILL be cotaversial and some mastakes may occur. if you have a problem with that than find another page dont flood the page with complaints. regular postings will begin tusday.
smoky
Unterland, Zrich Switzerland
Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:54 PM CST
Okay, I`m waiting to tusday.
DoDmember
charlottesville, Virginia USA
Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:25 PM CST
topic: self radicalization
self radicalization is the primary terrorism threat in the USA and is a major problem in europe as well. the fort hood attack is a perfect example of this problem. just this year cases of self radicalized individuls have staged at least five attacks in the us four of which caused deaths. these four attacks were the tiller killing may 31, the little rock army recruiting ofice shooting june 1, the holocost museum shooting june 10, and the fort hood attack nov. 5. when people self radicalize they are allready upset at the world for some reasion and reach out to radical groups to express their outrage at the world. usaly they use the internet to do this. as hasan did by emailing a radical claric in Yemen. the holocost museum shooter used the internet to post long winded anti-semidic outbursts for years. ever since the D.C. sniper self radicalization has been a major problem. (he to is an example of this) preventing this is not easy but if we shut down as many extreemist websites as posible we can make it more dificult. we could pass a law that says tose concvicted of hate crimes and crimes against the government can not have blogs or websites. that would help.
DoDmember
charlottesville, Virginia USA
Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:30 PM CST
we already have laws preventing people convicted of certen crimes from doing certen things that the rest of us can. most notably convicted felons cant buy guns so such a plan might work.
DoDmember
charlottesville, Virginia USA
Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:08 PM CST
cyber terror
former head of homeland security michael chertoff stated that cyber attacks are a growing and real threat to national security. posible attacks could be vary hard to stop because we have only resently recognised the threat. firewalls for cridical systems are far too weak. cyber terrorists could distroy or render useless systems such as power stations, oil refineries, security gates, trafic and RR signals, comunication networks and other systems. with out a massive overhaul of cyber security mesures (this will not come cheep) disaster will ocur.