Homeland Security

Further Reading

• Iran criticizes US dual standard on terrorism IRNA 30 Sep 2012 -- Slamming US for removing MKO from terrorist blacklist, Iran's Foreign Ministry strongly criticized US dual standard on fighting against terrorism.
• Last Western Detainee Leaves Guantanamo Prison RIA Novosti 30 Sep 2012 -- A Canadian citizen, who was the last Western prisoner at the U.S. Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba, has been transferred to Canada after a decade in custody on terrorism and murder charges, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
• Detainee Transfer Announced DoD 29 Sep 2012 -- The Department of Defense announced today that Omar Ahmed Khadr was transferred from the detention facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Canada.
• Iran Condemns US Decision to Take Exiled Group Off Terror List VOA 29 Sep 2012 -- Iran has condemned the U.S. government decision to take an Iranian militant opposition group off its terrorism list.
• Delisting of the Mujahedin-e Khalq US Dept. of State 28 Sep 2012
• Background Briefing on an Announcement Regarding the Mujahedin-e Khalq US Dept. of State 28 Sep 2012
• Officials Discuss Cybernet Transformation Efforts AFPS 28 Sep 2012 -- Defense officials gathered at the National Press Club yesterday discussed DOD efforts to transform its cyber operations into cloud computing technology that's envisioned to provide added agility, security and cost effectiveness.
• UN officials call for stronger global measures to counter nuclear terrorism UN News Centre 28 Sep 2012 -- The consolidation of strong international mechanisms is vital to combat nuclear terrorism, senior United Nations officials stressed today, warning that countries must urgently act to tackle one of today's most serious global threats.
• Army readies for upcoming influenza season Army News 28 Sep 2012 -- The Army has ordered nearly 2 million doses of vaccine to immunize all Soldiers, their families, civilian employees and retirees for the upcoming flu season.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 28 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Secretary Clinton Remarks at her Meeting With Central American Foreign Ministers US Dept. of State 27 Sep 2012
• Drug trafficking threatens rule of law in Central America – UN report UN News Centre 27 Sep 2012 -- Drug trafficking and related violence constitutes a serious threat to the rule of law in Central America, a new United Nations report states, stressing the need to strengthen institutions so they are not exploited by cross-border criminals.
• Mexico Arrests Drug Lord 'El Taliban' RIA Novosti 27 Sep 2012 -- Mexican law enforcement has arrested drug kingpin Ivan Velazquez Caballero, dealing a serious blow to the nation's biggest drug cartel, Los Zetas, the government said.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 27 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Air Force's top scientist unveils Cyber Vision 2025 AFNS 26 Sep 2012 -- The Air Force's top scientist presented the service's science, technology, engineering and mathematics developments here Sept. 18 at the Air Force Association's 2012 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition.
• Spokesman: US dual behavior on terrorism is not new IRNA 26 Sep 2012 -- In reaction to the US government move to remove MKO from terrorist group list, Foreign Ministry Spokesman said US dual behavior on terrorism and manipulating MKO for their political interests is not a new issue.
• International aid sought in fight against terrorism, Yemen's President tells UN debate UN News Centre 26 Sep 2012 -- Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Yemen's President Abdrabu Mansour Hadi today appealed to Heads of State and Government for more help in combating terrorism in his country where he said that Al-Qaida, although weaker, is still capable of desperate acts.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 26 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Official Reaffirms DOD Commitment to Cybersecurity AFPS 25 Sep 2012 -- The Defense Department remains vigilant and committed to cybersecurity, especially since its cyber operations present a target for hackers, a senior Pentagon official said here today.
• More Airports Offer Streamlined Security Screening AFPS 25 Sep 2012 -- Active duty service members and other eligible travelers now have more opportunity to take advantage of streamlined security check-in, as Transportation Security Administration officials have added two more airports to the program.
• Benghazi Attackers Struck Against U.N. Ideals, Obama Says AFPS 25 Sep 2012 -- The assault on the U.S. Consulate earlier this month in Benghazi, Libya, was an attack not only on America, but also on the ideals of the United Nations, President Barack Obama said in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly today.
• U.K. To Extradite Radical Muslim Cleric To U.S. RFE/RL 25 Sep 2012 -- Britain is preparing to extradite radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that he can be sent to the United States to face terrorism charges.
• Kenya's Terrorism Bill Faces Rejection VOA 25 Sep 2012 -- Kenya's terrorism bill, due to be brought to parliament for debate this week, faces rejection as Muslim leaders and legal experts call for changes to some clauses that they say infringe on their constitutional rights.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 25 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Clinton: Extremists Threaten New Democracies in North Africa, Mideast VOA 24 Sep 2012 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says new democracies in North Africa and the Middle East are threatened by extremists exploiting old divisions. Clinton is meeting with foreign leaders before the U.N. General Assembly.
• Clinton: Extremists Threaten New Democracies in North Africa, Mideast VOA 24 Sep 2012 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says new democracies in North Africa and the Middle East are threatened by extremists exploiting old divisions. Clinton is meeting with foreign leaders before the U.N. General Assembly.
• WHO: SARS-Like Illness Surfaces in Qatari Man VOA 24 Sep 2012 -- The World Health Organization says a Qatari man is critically ill in a London hospital after displaying symptoms similar to the deadly SARS virus.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 24 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• US Names 55 Guantanamo Detainees Cleared for Release VOA 22 Sep 2012 -- The list represents about a third of the 167 terrorist suspects still in detention at Guantanamo more than 11 years after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
• US Lawmaker Blames Iran for Cyber Attacks on US Banks VOA 22 Sep 2012 -- The head of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee says he believes Iran is behind cyber attacks this week on U.S. banks.
• US to Remove Iran Group Off Terror List VOA 21 Sep 2012 -- U.S. officials say the Obama administration is planning to remove an Iranian militant group once allied with former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from the U.S. terrorism list.
• U.S. Reportedly To Remove Exiled Iranian Group From Blacklist RFE/RL 21 Sep 2012 -- U.S. officials say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will tell Congress she intends to remove the Iranian exile group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations.
• Threat of Terrorist IED’s Growing, Expanding, General Says AFPS 21 Sep 2012 -- The threat posed by crude homemade bombs known as improvised explosive devices is growing and spreading across the globe, and will be the terrorists’ weapon of choice for decades.
• US Urges Greater Sahel Cooperation Against AQIM VOA 21 Sep 2012 -- The Obama administration says West African leaders should work with Mauritania and Algeria to help stop the spread of al-Qaida affiliated terrorists in Mali.
• U.S. Official Calls Consulate Attack Opportunistic 'Terrorism' RFE/RL 20 Sep 2012 -- A senior U.S. counterterrorism official has said that the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was "a terrorist attack" but was most likely not planned in advance.
• US Envoy Visits Libya Following Ambassador's Death VOA 20 Sep 2012 -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns is in Libya for meetings with top officials about last week's deadly attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
• Italian Court Upholds Abduction Convictions Of 23 CIA Agents RFE/RL 20 Sep 2012 -- Italy's highest court has upheld the convictions in absentia of 23 CIA agents convicted in connection with the 2003 abduction and extralegal extradition of an Egyptian terror suspect in Milan.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 20 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Statement by Attorney General Eric Holder on the Office of the Inspector General’s Report on Operation Fast and Furious US Dept. of Justice 19 Sep 2012
• Italian Court Upholds CIA Rendition Sentences RIA Novosti 19 Sep 2012 -- Italy’s highest appeals court upheld on Wednesday the convictions against 23 CIA agents involved in kidnapping a terror suspect in 2003.
• USS Carr Offloads Drugs in Costa Rica After Seizure in Caribbean NNS 19 Sep 2012 -- USS Carr offloaded 4,134 pounds of marijuana, worth 4 million dollars recovered during Countering Transnational Organized Crime operations.
• Carter Urges Stepped-up Progress on Cyber Defense AFPS 19 Sep 2012 -- Even as the Defense Department increases investments in cyber capabilities, officials are working to reduce vulnerabilities in their own networks and in those of contractors who build sensitive defense systems.
• Conference Highlights Cyber’s Role in National Defense AFPS 19 Sep 2012 -- The Defense Department is embracing cyber technologies that enhance its combat effectiveness.
• Air Force officials outline cyber capabilities in today's fight AFNS 19 Sep 2012 -- The Air Force's chief information officer discussed the service's cyber capabilities and their importance in the joint fight.
• New Defence Reference Laboratory Commissioned in Nigeria AFRICOM 19 Sep 2012 -- The government of Nigeria commissioned a new Defence Reference Laboratory that was built in partnership with the Department of Defense Walter Reed Program-Nigeria.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 19 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• U.S. Says "Small Minority" Behind Mideast Protests AFRICOM 18 Sep 2012 -- Pending the final results of an investigation, the Obama administration believes the attack that killed four American diplomats in Libya on September 11, 2012 grew out of a spontaneous protest in Benghazi that a handful of well-armed extremists were able to exploit and escalate.
• Sudanese President Firm against Allowing U.S. Troops RIA Novosti 18 Sep 2012 -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has confirmed that his country will not allow US troops, reiterating that Sudan is capable of providing security at American and other foreign diplomatic missions.
• UN Envoy Calls U.S. Consular Attack A 'Wake-Up' Call RFE/RL 18 Sep 2012 -- The outgoing United Nations representative in Libya, Ian Martin, says the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi last week was a wake-up call for the North African country to improve security.
• Two Aircraft Grounded in New York after Terrorism Threat RIA Novosti 18 Sep 2012 -- Two passenger aircraft were grounded and searched at the JFK airport in New York after an anonymous telephone call about explosives and hijackers on board of the jets.
• Joint Statement of the Merida Initiative High-Level Consultative Group on Bilateral Cooperation Against Transnational Criminal Organizations US Dept. of State 18 Sep 2012
• Secretary Clinton Remarks With Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Patricia Espinosa After Their Meeting US Dept. of State 18 Sep 2012
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 18 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Libyans Revise Down Arrest Figure From Benghazi Attack RFE/RL 17 Sep 2012 -- Libya's interior minister, Fawzi Abdel A'al, has clarified the number of arrests so far in connection with a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi last week.
• Protests Grow Against Anti-Muslim Film RFE/RL 17 Sep 2012 -- Protests against a privately-made film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad have continued to rock the Islamic world.
• Coca crop cultivation falling significantly in Bolivia – UN survey UN News Centre 17 Sep 2012 -- The cultivation of coca bushes in Bolivia decreased by around 12 per cent in 2011.
• Forest Service deactivates C-130 firefighting operations AFNS 17 Sep 2012 -- The U.S. Forest Service has deactivated the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped military C-130 Hercules as fire conditions in the West have improved.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 17 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Iran: Blasphemy does not warrant assassination of ambassadors IRNA 16 Sep 2012 -- Iran said on Sunday that sacrilege of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) does not warrant deaths of ambassadors.
• Libya, U.S. Give Conflicting Accounts Of Benghazi Attack RFE/RL 16 Sep 2012 -- The United States and Libya have offered conflicting accounts about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, last week in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
• Sudan Rejects U.S. Assistance With Embassy Security RIA Novosti 16 Sep 2012 -- Sudan has rejected a U.S. request to send a team of 50 marines to bolster security at the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Khartoum, following an attack on the building by Muslims angered by U.S.-made anti-Islam film, the state news agency SUNA reported.
• Top U.S. Officials Honor Americans Who Died in Libya AFPS 14 Sep 2012 -- As they touched down for the last time on U.S. soil, four Americans killed during attacks this week at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were honored with eulogies today by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
• Obama: Nation Must 'Carry On' Work of Fallen Heroes AFPS 15 Sep 2012 -- As the loss of four Americans serving at a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, resonates globally, President Barack Obama in his weekly address today thanked the fallen for their service and pledged that their killers will not escape justice.
• State Department Identifies More Americans Who Died in Libya AFPS 14 Sep 2012 -- The State Department has identified the two security officers who died Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya, while helping to protect their colleagues.
• Remarks on the Deaths of American Personnel in Benghazi, Libya US Dept. of State 14 Sep 2012
• Remarks by the President at Transfer of Remains Ceremony for Benghazi Victims The White House 14 Sep 2012
• DOD Sends Marine Team to U.S. Embassy in Yemen AFPS 14 Sep 2012 -- A Marine Corps fleet antiterrorism security team, called a 'FAST team' is now on the ground in Yemen to help with security at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today.
• Libya Makes Arrests Over U.S. Embassy Attack RIA Novosti 14 Sep 2012 -- Authorities in Libya have arrested four men in connection with the attack on the U.S. consulate, in which the U.S. ambassador and three embassy staff were killed, al Jazeera television reported.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 14 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Security Council strongly condemns 'heinous' terrorist attack in Yemen UN News Centre 13 Sep 2012 -- The Security Council today strongly condemned the terrorist attack that occurred in the capital, Sana'a, on 11 September that caused numerous deaths and injuries, including among the security detail of Yemen's defence minister.
• Obama: Diplomats' Deaths Won't Deter US VOA 13 Sep 2012 -- President Barack Obama is monitoring the situation in the Middle East, North Africa and other areas of the world amid anti-U.S. demonstrations sparked by a film mocking Islam. Obama says the killing of U.S. diplomats in Libya will not deter the United States from projecting its core principles.
• U.S. Takes 'Precautionary' Measures, Vows Justice After Libya Attack RFE/RL 13 Sep 2012 -- Washington has deployed two U.S. Navy destroyers and 50 Marines to Libya in response to the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 13 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Embassies Around the World on Alert, Marines Sent to Benghazi VOA 12 Sep 2012 -- The killing of the ambassador and three diplomats in Libya and the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Egypt are raising concerns worldwide as all overseas embassies review their security practices. The events occurred on the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, which leads many to believe they were pre-planned.
• Panetta Strongly Condemns Benghazi Attack AFPS 12 Sep 2012 -- Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta condemned yesterday's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in the 'strongest possible terms,' a senior government official said.
• Official Details Benghazi Attack, Vows to Support Libya AFPS 12 Sep 2012 -- A senior government official revealed details of yesterday's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four State Department officials and wounded three others.
• Benghazi attack a 'sobering reminder' of Libya's challenges, UN official tells Security Council UN News Centre 12 Sep 2012 -- Yesterday's attack on the American diplomatic presence in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the United States ambassador and three other diplomats, was a 'sobering reminder' of the serious security challenges that persisted even as the country made steady progress toward democracy, the United Nations' top political official told the Security Council.
• Ban, Security Council condemn 'in strongest terms' attack on US consulate in Libya UN News Centre 12 Sep 2012 -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council condemned 'in the strongest terms' yesterday's attack against the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the deaths of four US diplomats, as well as Libyan employees of the Consulate.
• Obama Condemns Libya Attack That Killed US Ambassador VOA 12 Sep 2012 -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on Tuesday. Obama also responded to criticism from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
• UN Condemns Killing of US Diplomats VOA 12 Sep 2012 -- The United Nations Security Council and the secretary-general have added their voices to those strongly condemning the killing of four U.S. diplomatic staff members in Libya, including the ambassador.
• Clinton: Libya Attack Should Shock Conscience of All Faiths VOA 12 Sep 2012 -- The United States ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed after a mob angered over an amateur American-made short film that mocks Islam's Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern city Benghazi late Tuesday.
• Remarks by the President on the Deaths of U.S. Embassy Staff in Libya The White House 12 Sep 2012
• Statement by the President on the Attack in Benghazi The White House 12 Sep 2012
• Attack in Libya Should Shock World's Conscience, Clinton Says AFPS 12 Sep 2012 -- The attack in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the deaths of four Americans should 'shock the conscience of people of all faiths around the world,' Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said here today.
• U.S. Ambassador, Staff Killed In Attack On Benghazi Consulate RFE/RL 12 Sep 2012 -- President Barack Obama has confirmed that U.S. Ambassador John Christopher (Chris) Stevens and three other State Department officials were killed when an angry mob stormed the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
• U.S. Ambassador 'Killed in Libya' - al Jazeera RIA Novosti 12 Sep 2012 -- The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff have been killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, al Jazeera television reported, citing local officials.
• Obama Directs Security Boost at U.S. Diplomatic Posts AFPS 12 Sep 2012 -- The United States condemns in the strongest terms the outrageous and shocking attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other American personnel, President Barack Obama said this morning.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 12 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• US Official Killed in Protest in Libya VOA 11 Sep 2012 -- Demonstrators angered over an amateur American-made film that mocks and insults Islam's Prophet Muhammad shot at and set fire to the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi Tuesday, killing a State Department officer.
• Author Broke Promise to Country, Panetta Says AFPS 11 Sep 2012 -- Military personnel who take part in sensitive operations like the one that took out Osama bin Laden must stand by the promises they made to the United States, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said during an interview broadcast on 'CBS This Morning'.
• September 11, eleven years of war against Islam IRNA 11 Sep 2012 -- What US has done after the 9/11 terrorist attacks have been a war against Islam rather than a war against terrorism, wrote an Iranian daily on Tuesday on the occasion of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks against US twin trade towers in New York in 2001.
• U.S. Marks 11th Anniversary Of September 11 Attacks RFE/RL 11 Sep 2012 -- The United States is marking the 11th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
• Five Dead as Yemen Defense Minister Survives Bombing RIA Novosti 11 Sep 2012 -- Yemen's defense minister survived a car bomb attack on Tuesday, but the blast killed at least five of his bodyguards, regional media said on Tuesday.
• Senior Al-Qaeda Commander Killed in Yemen RIA Novosti 11 Sep 2012 -- The second in command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been killed by government troops in Yemen, SABA news agency reported citing military officials.
• Obama: Americans Resilient 11 Years After Attacks VOA 11 Sep 2012 -- President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama participated in observances at the White House and the Pentagon marking the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 al-Qaida terrorist attacks on the United States.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 11 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, Pa. DoD 10 Sep 2012
• Presidential Proclamation -- Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, 2012 The White House 10 Sep 2012
• Al-Qaida's Second in Command in Yemen Killed VOA 10 Sep 2012 -- The Yemeni government says its forces have killed the second-in-command of al-Qaida's Yemen-based network.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 10 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Drug Trafficking Rising in Central Africa, Warns Interpol VOA 08 Sep 2012 -- In Cameroon, officials with the International Criminal Police Organization,Interpol, blame a surge in the drug trade on an an ongoing crackdown on traffickers in neighboring West Africa.
• DOD Welcomes Designation of Haqqani Network as a Terrorist Group AFPS 07 Sep 2012 -- The Defense Department has welcomed the decision by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to designate the Haqqani network a terrorist organization, Pentagon Spokesman George Little said today.
• Napolitano Honors Outgoing National Guard Bureau Chief AFPS 07 Sep 2012 -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano honored the outgoing chief of the National Guard Bureau, Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley here today, presenting him with the Homeland Security Department's Distinguished Service Medal.
• Statement by George Little on the Haqqani Network DoD 07 Sep 2012
• Marines Aid Fight Against Drugs, Transnational Crime AFPS 07 Sep 2012 -- Officials at Joint Interagency Task Force South are welcoming the contributions that a 200-member Marine Corps detachment is making toward tracking drug traffickers and other transnational criminals.
• US Designates Pakistan's Haqqani Network as Terror Group VOA 07 Sep 2012 -- The U.S. is declaring the Pakistan-based Haqqani network a terrorist organization, a move that paves the way for tough financial sanctions against the militant group.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 07 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Evidence of US Waterboarding Discovered VOA 06 Sep 2012 -- A human rights group says it has uncovered new evidence that U.S. personnel used torture, including waterboarding, while interrogating Libyan Islamists during the Bush administration.
• Pakistan Expels CIA-Linked Charity's Foreign Staff VOA 06 Sep 2012 -- Pakistan has ordered Save the Children's foreign staff members to leave the country.
• Pakistan Expels 'Save The Children' Foreign Staff RFE/RL 06 Sep 2012 -- Pakistani authorities have expelled foreign staff of the Save The Children aid group, apparently in connection with government suspicion about U.S. spy links.
• Pakistani Cabinet Approves New Draft Counterterrorism Laws RFE/RL 06 Sep 2012 -- Pakistan's cabinet has adopted new draft counterterrorism laws aimed at making the financing of terrorism a crime punishable by the freezing of bank accounts and property seizures.
• Delisting of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) US Dept. of State 06 Sep 2012
• US Removes Nepal's Maoists from Terror List VOA 06 Sep 2012 -- The United States has removed the Communist Party of Nepal from its list of terrorist organizations.
• Nepal Maoists Taken off U.S. Terror List RIA Novosti 06 Sep 2012 -- The United States has removed the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) from its list of terrorist organizations, the State Department said.
• 16 African Nations, AFRICOM Gather for Africa's Largest Pandemic Response Planning Conference AFRICOM 06 Sep 2012 -- Representatives from 16 African nations and the United States came together for the largest pandemic conference ever conducted among African nations.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 06 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 05 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• NORAD Exercise Planned for National Capital Region DoD 04 Sep 2012
• Two firefighting C-130s head home AFNS 04 Sep 2012 -- Two C-130 Hercules from the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing were deactivated Sept. 2, and returned here from Boise, Idaho.
• DHS-IAIP Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report 04 Sep 2012 [PDF]
• Clinton Condemns Attack on US Personnel in Pakistan VOA 03 Sep 2012 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is condemning the attack on U.S. consulate personnel in Pakistan, deploring what she called a "cowardly act of suicide bombing and terrorism."
• U.S. Says Consular Workers Hurt In Peshawar Blast RFE/RL 03 Sep 2012 -- The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan says two Americans working for the U.S. Consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar were wounded in a bomb attack that targeted their vehicle.
• Car Bomb Targets US Consulate Vehicle in Pakistan VOA 03 Sep 2012 -- A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a U.S. government car in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar.
• 2 Americans die as bomb hits US consulate car in Pakistan IRNA 03 Sep 2012 -- A bomb hit an American consulate car in the Pakistani northwestern city of Peshawar and killed two Americans and three other people.
• Russian Activists Accuse Kremlin Of Trying To 'Forget Beslan' RFE/RL 03 Sep 2012 -- September 3 was a solemn day in Russia - the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Terrorist Attacks.
• Clinton Facing Deadline on Terrorist Designation for Haqqani VOA 02 Sep 2012 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing a Congressional deadline for deciding whether the Pakistani Haqqani network meets the definition of a terrorist organization.