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In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist incidents, licensed operators of amateur radio stations, also known as "hams," played a public service role by setting up radios at the Pentagon and near Dulles International Airport so that they could communicate when the phone network was jammed and cell phones went dead from too much traffic.

The ranks of hams have diminished, largely because younger people find that using the Internet is easier, but there is a growing role for the amateur radio operators: their service in providing communications during emergencies. In the first days after the terrorist incidents, the radio frequencies on which they operated were not subject to the same frustrating chaos that froze telecommunications lines. Loudoun County, Virginia, home to Dulles International Airport, gives the radio operators space at the county's emergency management center, and county officials are revising their emergency management plan to delineate the role of ham radio operators during a crisis. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national ham radio organization, received a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service to train ham radio operators to respond in emergencies.

Given the potentially important public service role of hams, local and county emergency managers might consider identifying the radio operators in their jurisdictions and enlisting their support for future emergency operations.

Information about amateur radio activities, courses, licensing, and public support is available at the following URL:
http://www.arrl.org/cce/courses.html
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/index.html Public Service Communications Manual

Amateur radio operators among the missing in the World Trade Center

http://www.hfradio.org/

Be prepared to assist in the Homeland Security with a radio scanner!

Many lives were saved during the World Trade Center disaster with help of scanner listeners.

A trainmaster for the New York City subway system (PATH) said he was monitoring the police scanner and heard reports about the World Trade Center explosion. The decisive actions that proceeded saved more than 5,000 lives from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.
http://www.hudsoncity.net/tubes/quickthinkingsaves5000.html
http://www.trainweb.org/espa/espa1201.htm scroll to PATH's Heoric Effort

http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/firefighter-tape.htm
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-tapesgallery.htmlstory
RECORDED EMERGENCY SERVICES RADIO TRAFFIC WORLD TRADE CENTER 9/11/2001

America’s Disaster Communications
http://nydxa.4t.com/WTC.html

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."—Niels Bohr. Bohr was saying that the gain in strength from openness in a democracy exceeded the gains of its adversaries, and thus openness was a weapon.

Secrecy encourages corruption and conceals inefficiency.

We need laws that require public-safety transmissions be open to provide the right of law-abiding citizens and news media to monitor them.

We need laws to control governments abuse of radio encryption when secrecy is unwarranted.

Stop closed government communications
openness/contenta.html

There is a need for open government radio communication!

The requirement for 24-hour coverage places the news media under extraordinary pressure to deliver real-time information to the public. This compulsion can lead to speculation with the potential to endanger critical infrastructures and citizens. Unfortunately, this is a no-nonsense problem, particularly for those communities occupied by a man-made or natural disaster.

Ignorance and misinformation can damage community infrastructure protection, cause paralysis among citizens, and confuse people trying to respond to a crisis. These probabilities make the strength of the news media more important than ever. They are the main communication conduits to the public capable of carrying valuable information from one place to another. With frequent releases of properly guided and packaged information, the news media can be an effective part of a community's response to an emergency.

Unless the public is well-informed, it will not know how to minimize panic and react in ways that preserve life and protect critical infrastructures. Therefore, getting quality information to the public in the midst of a crisis can be essential to the actions of emergency first responders. Since the new media focuses on rapid information dissemination, radio announcers and journalists can significantly contribute to saving lives and infrastructures. By the efficient delivery of completely reliable information fully processed through or coordinated with community leaders, including those of the emergency services, media personnel can provide meaningful assistance to all response and recovery operations.

It is recommended that government keep strong and positive connections with the news media.

It is recommended that government keep radio communications open so the public and the media can monitor to cut through the chaos for information in any catastrophe.

Recommended Federal government initiatives:

Adopt a comprehensive national strategy for the terrorism preparedness effort.
Establish and maintain national training standards for terrorism response.
Create standards for evaluating terrorism response training and equipment.
Develop equipment to detect chemical, biological, or radiological contamination.
Ensure new detection equipment is lightweight, mobile, and easy to use.
Designate one federal agency to prepare and enforce terrorism training and equipment standards.
Guarantee that new training and equipment technology reaches the smaller rural departments as well as those in larger cities.

http://www.counterterrorismtraining.gov/
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/terrorism/
USA Freedom Corps
Citizen Corps
http://www.capnhq.gov/nhq/es/HS.htm Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/
FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters
Advice for Safeguarding Buildings Against Chemical or Biological Attack
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs.htm National Institute of Justice - Publications and Products
http://www.rspa.dot.gov/ Hazmat Safety
http://security.transportation.org/community/security/index.html

http://www.ourpublicservice.org/ The Partnership works to make the government an employer of choice for talented, dedicated Americans through educational outreach, research, legislative advocacy, and hands-on partnerships with agencies on workforce management issues.

An estimated 2,985 people were killed when four hijacked U.S. commercial jets crashed into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Virginia and a field in Pennsylvania. After the 9/11 attacks another 5 people died from Anthrax sent through the mail.
http://attacksvictims.ap.org/totals.asp

One Year later
http://news.yahoo.com/sept11

http://www.pbs.org/whatson/press/sep02/remember.html
http://www.pbs.org/americarebuilds/ America Rebuilds
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heroes/ Heroes of Ground Zero
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/ Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/sept11/index.html Online NewsHour -- Remembering Sept. 11
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/campaign/ A Campaign Against Terror
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/ Why the Towers Fell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/ The Man Who Knew

http://www.ufoa.org/ Uniformed Fire Officers Association of New York City
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/mck_report/toc.html Increasing FDNY's Preparedness

http://september11.archive.org/
http://911digitalarchive.org/
http://terrorists.does.it/
http://worldtradeaftermath.com/
http://www.wplc.org/usattack/other_resources.cfm

http://wtc.nist.gov/

http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-0911.shtml

http://worldtradecenterimages.org/
http://www.webshots.com/search/search.fcgi?words=world+trade+center&search=Search some may be fake
http://www.webshots.com/search/search.fcgi?words=pentagon+crash&search=Search
Pentagon crash photos

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s798.htm
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s798b.htm
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s781.htm

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/sept_11/sept_11.htm

September 1, 2001- Programmed radio scanner to include all commercial air traffic in reception range of my area. Kept those frequencies in the radio scanner through September 11. There were several hints something big was going to happen.

September 4, 2001- US admits the Pentagon built a secret germ factory in Neveda. A puzzling Defense Department program in Nevada was disclosed in a New York Times article by Judith Miller just seven days before the 9/11 attacks and two weeks before the anthrax mailing to NBC.
[Read the stories further down on this page!]

September 5, 2001- The federal government seemed to have advance knowledge of terrorist threats to Americans but denied it. An 80-member U.S. terrorism task force raided the InfoCom Corporation, a web-hosting company and host to Arabic Web sites including Al-Jazeera. The FBI declined to give specific reasons for the raid on the company in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, but did say that the action was part of a two-year investigation by the North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force.
[Read the stories further down on this page!]

The North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force (NTJTTF) is a federal and local multi-agency that involves six federal agencies including the FBI, Secret Service and the U.S. Customs Service. It has been in place since the Dallas FBI formed it in 1995, pooling the resources and intelligence-gathering capabilities of more than 15 federal, state and municipal agencies.

September 7, 2001- A rare warning for Americans in Japan was issued in the U.S. State Department's Travel Warnings.

September 9, 2001- Ahmed Shah Massood, commander of the Northern Alliance, was seriously wounded [He died two hours later but for nearly a week afterward, Massood's aides managed to keep his death a secret.] in Afghanistan from injuries after a suicide attack by two suspected Arab assailants believed to be Algerian posing as journalists. One of the killers died in the blast from the booby-trapped television camera or explosives strapped to his waist. The cameraman survived the blast and was shot dead as he fled. Their assassination of this military commander deprived the West of a potentially crucial ally in the effort to seize Osama Bin Laden.

Post 9/11 it was reported the `journalists' had been waiting for 15 days for the interview. When they finally got it, they admitted they were not really journalists but members of `Islamic Centre' in London. But the commander allowed them to go ahead with the interview. As had been his practice, he asked them what questions they wanted to ask before the camera. They listed 15, seven or nine of them related to Bin Laden. They wanted to know from Massood why the Northern Alliance called Bin Laden a terrorist. What was the difference between moderate Islam and the kind preached by Bin Laden? Wasn't Bin Laden too serving Islam?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1248126340.cms

The two French-speaking fake-journalists carried Belgian passports, and went by the names of Karim and Qasim.

September 9, 2001
KATHY GANNON

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Opposition leader and former defense chief Ahmed Shah Massood was injured and his close aide was killed Sunday in an explosion in northern Afghanistan, said Hajji Kahar, an opposition spokesman.

Two men from Algeria posing as journalists apparently hid the explosive device in their camera, Kahar told The Associated Press in a satellite telephone interview from Khodja Bahauddin in northern Takhar province, where the explosion occurred.

It's not clear whether the two men with the camera were killed. It's believed they were suicide bombers.
"There was a lot of noise and smoke," said Kahar.

Massood has repeatedly accused the Taliban of using foreign warriors, particularly from Arab countries and neighboring Pakistan, on the battlefield. The Taliban deny the charge.

"In the early afternoon we were very afraid" because it was not immediately clear the extent of Massood's injuries, said his ambassador in Paris, Mehrab Mastan, also contacted by telephone.

According to Mastan, Massood received leg injuries.

Kahar said Massood went to Tajikistan after the explosion. It's not known whether he went there for treatment.

Azim Suhail, one of Massood's spokesmen, was killed in the explosion, said Mastan.

There was no immediate comment from Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, who rule most of Afghanistan and are trying to defeat Massood's forces in the northern parts of the country.

Massood heads an alliance of several small parties, largely formed along ethnic lines.

From 1992 to 1996, Massood was the defense minister in ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani's government, which was own out of Kabul by the hard-line Taliban army.

Until last year, Rabbani's so-called government-in-exile was headquartered in Taloqan, the capital of northern Takhar province. The Taliban overran Taloqan last year and drove Rabbani's government-in-exile to one of its last remaining strongholds in northern Badakhshan province.

Since then Massood's forces have tried to retake Taloqan but have been held back by Taliban troops.

In recent weeks fighting in the region has intensified, although neither side has reportedly made any major gains.

Rabbani's government-in-exile operates several embassies, including one in Paris and in London.

The Taliban, who are recognized by only three governments, maintains only one embassy in Pakistan.

September 11, 2001 - Islamic terrorists successfully carry out the biggest attack on American soil to date.

The 9/11 attacks happen to occur before the 9 a.m. ending of the live morning shows. I usually did not watch them but did that morning. The hosts on the shows had no idea that it was a terrorist attack at first. ABC's Good Morning America Show was the first non-cable network to go live then CBS's Early Show and last was NBC's Today Show.
http://client.alexa.com/tvarchive/html/ TV archive

Possible communication intercepts during the hijackings and after the terrorists hit their targets:

Air Traffic Control (ATC) frequencies because pilots can open the microphone during a hijacking
Military frequencies used by fighters scrambled to intercept hijacked aircraft
Aircraft ACARS downlink data for airline flight tracking data and tracking software
Cell phone input or air phone downlink frequencies of passengers calling aboard a hijacked plane
Classified Federal communications
The Federal Government went to great expense to encrypt their communications in the 1980s. When it comes to urgent information government may try to control information so you will not know until they want you to know.
Government emergency radio communications
Of course, tuning to live TV or radio broadcast after the first attack to be aware of possible more attacks. But there can be delays if the network is airing other shows and commercials

You can use a regular telephone or cell phone in an emergency to dial 911 after you have canceled their service. The phone companies are required by law to do that but they do not want to tell you that.

Keep in mind after the World Trade Center disaster or other disasters that cell phones became useless for a long time because the site either was destroyed or overloaded with callers. No telecommunications network can be designed to handle dramatic surges in traffic. That is why the Amateur Radio Service is so important because they are still able to communicate during disasters.

It is illegal [except for government and cell phone companies] to monitor, decode, or decrypt cell phone or air phone calls if intercepted. If you could it would give you advance warning before a terrorist attack and save you and your loved-ones life and help in post attack investigations.

It is illegal to use a cell phone aboard any aircraft but you can of course use the built-in air phones on airliners. Most airliners are fitted with individual telephones at each seat position but they are not of the variety where you can simply pick up the handset and ask for an operator. On many airliners you can talk from one seat to another in the airliner free of charge, but if you wish to access the outside world you must first swipe your credit card through the telephone.

Counterterrorism political information has moved to a new page at America.htm !

After 9/11 five people died from Anthrax sent through the mail. To this date, nobody has been found guilty!

The founder and first director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is Jay C. Davis. Among other things Davis is 30-year associate at the secret Lawrence Livermore weapons lab and a consultant to the CIA.

Davis made the astounding admission that the Pentagon had never revealed the existence of Project BACHUS to anyone at the Clinton White House nor to congressional intelligence committees. The program was started in 1997 under Defense Secretary William Cohen.

Reported on September 4, 2001 before 9/11

New York Times
September 4, 2001
Next to Old Rec Hall, a 'Germ-Making Plant'
By JUDITH MILLER

CAMP 12, NEVADA TEST SITE, Nevada - In a nondescript mustard-colored building that was once a military recreation hall and barbershop, the Pentagon has built a germ factory that could make enough lethal microbes to wipe out entire cities.

Adjacent to the pool tables, the shuffleboard and the bar stands a gleaming stainless steel cylinder, the 50-liter (53- quart) fermenter in which germs can be cultivated.

The apparatus, which includes a latticework of pipes and other equipment, was made entirely with commercially available components bought from hardware stores and other suppliers for about $1 million -- a pittance for a weapon that could deliver death on such a large scale.

The factory was built by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, an arm of the Pentagon that works to contain the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Officials said the project was intended to assess how hard it would be for a terrorist or rogue nation to assemble a germ factory.

The agency also wanted to see if a small operation produced any telltale "signatures" -- sounds, chemical emissions or patterns of operation that could help intelligence agencies find such plants.

"The project also showed us how relatively simple it would be for a terrorist to assemble such a facility without being detected," said Jay C. Davis, the former director of the agency who, with the Pentagon's permission, showed the secret plant to a Times reporter and a team from ABC News.

Officials stressed that the plant never made anthrax or any other lethal pathogen. Rather, it produced only harmless biopesticides during two production test runs in 1999 and 2000. Dr. Davis declined to say how much was made. But if it had been anthrax germs, he said, it would have made enough to kill at least 10,000 people.

Officials said the Pentagon built the plant in this largely deserted camp because it was well guarded. Building 12-7, the former recreation hall and about four dozen other buildings here were abruptly closed in January 1993 after the global moratorium on underground nuclear testing took effect.

Between 1951 and 1963, more than 800 nuclear tests were conducted here at the vast Nevada Test Site, whose parched sands and eerily quiet, sagebrush-covered mesas and mountains are scarred by giant atomic craters.

The interior of Building 12-7 -- 120 feet long and 40 feet wide -- seems frozen in time. Dusty signs warn visitors not to sit on the pool tables or to talk about secret projects with anyone who has no "need to know."

Dr. Davis and other officials said the Defense Department's lawyers had carefully reviewed the project to ensure that it did not violate the biological weapons treaty or American law. Because it was purely defensive and never made deadly germs, it was both legal and appropriate, he and others said.

But apparently few outside of the agency or even in the Pentagon's upper echelons knew much about the secret project. Dr. Davis said the White House was never briefed about it, given its small scale and low cost.

When subsequently told about the germ factory, several former White House officials said they were stunned that the agency's lawyers had approved it without having referred it to the White House or Congressional oversight committees for legal review.

The Pentagon's decision to permit a visit to the site came after The Times requested information about the program, called Bachus.

Some officials said the project, with its fermentation aspect, was named for Bacchus, the Greek god of wine. But an agency spokesman said the name was an acronym for Biotechnology Activity Characterization by Unconventional Signatures.

ABCNEWS
Preparing for Germ Warfare
U.S. Performing Secret Experiments in Case of Attack
By John McWethy

CAMP 12, NEVADA TEST SITE, Nev., Sept. 4 — In a remote corner of the Nevada desert, a highly restricted area once used to test nuclear bombs, the U.S. government has been running a secret experiment called Project Bachus.

It is a small germ warfare factory, set up inside an abandoned government building. U.S. officials say they built it to better understand how to detect similar operations in places like Iraq or Afghanistan or even by terrorists here at home.

The factory, built by the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, has been brought to full production for several weeks on two occasions — in 1999 and again in 2000. Technicians grew several pounds of a harmless bacterium with characteristics similar to deadly anthrax.

"A terrorist could easily grow anthrax in a facility like this," Jay Davis, who was DTRA director at the time the factory was built, said in an interview at the one-time classified facility, "and produce enough quantity in a covert delivery to kill, say, 10,000 people in a large city."

The DTRA team bought all materials for the small-scale laboratory from local hardware stores and the Internet. Included in their shopping list was a 50-liter fermenter purchased "used" from overseas. "Commercial item. Off the shelf," Davis said. "Easy to find."

At no time did any of the purchases cause law enforcement to be suspicious, Davis added.

'Fairly Concealable'

Asked if this was how a terrorist group might put together such a laboratory, Davis said: "A terrorist group would choose to do this, yes … This is the size of thing you would be afraid a non-state group would do, either people in our
country or people in some other country. This is fairly concealable."

The primary reason for conducting the experiment was to place sensors outside of the building to create what the intelligence community calls a "signature," according to intelligence sources. Once in operation, technicians measured heat changes, emissions that could be sampled in the air and soil as well as patterns of energy consumption.

"The ultimate product is knowledge," Davis said. Other officials say the primary customers for the knowledge were the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, both agencies responsible for detecting an operation like this in other countries. Officials say the FBI also was given data from the project.

And according to officials who supervised the project but asked not to be identified, what is so frightening about this top-secret project is that it shows that with the right technical knowledge, it is surprisingly easy to build and operate a small germ warfare factory. And worse, even with the most sophisticated sensors, it is extremely difficult to detect.

Proving Preparedness

The project was conducted in such extreme secrecy that some worry it might be misunderstood and seen as a violation of the international treaty that bans making germ weapons.

"I think there is a very delicate line that has to be drawn between the need to keep some kinds of information secret and the need to allay suspicions about what the country is up to," said Judith Miller, a reporter for the New York Times and co-author of a new book on biological warfare called Germs.

"People overseas will think that the United States may be secretly conducting an offensive weapons program, that we may be secretly trying to develop biological weapons," she said.

As for the Bush administration, Miller said: "I think that this administration wants to not only expand these projects, but intends to keep most of them secret."

Miller and other experts on biological weapons have been concerned that the supersecret U.S. projects would be misunderstood by other governments and might lead those governments to develop offensive biological weapons.

But the Pentagon agreed to show ABCNEWS this once-secret project. Sources say it's part of an effort to anticipate a threat that has the potential to kill on a scale only nuclear weapons could match.

When Is Bomb Not a Bomb? Germ Experts Confront U.S.
New York Times
September 5, 2001
By JUDITH MILLER

A former senior government lawyer yesterday vigorously disputed the Bush administration's assertion that the global treaty banning biological weapons permits nations to test such arms for defensive purposes.

The lawyer, Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes, who was general counsel of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1994 to 1999, said such an interpretation of the 1972 treaty was a "gross misrepresentation" that "risks doing serious violence" to an accord the United States has long championed.

The New York Times reported yesterday that the United States had made and tested a model of a small Soviet-designed biological bomb as part of a series of secret research projects that officials said were aimed at defending against a growing threat of a germ attack.

The projects were begun under the Clinton administration and approved then by Pentagon and Central Intelligence officials, but Ms. Hoinkes said she did not know details of the project at the time. She refused to discuss it further.

The treaty bars nations from developing, acquiring or stockpiling biological weapons to be used for "hostile purposes or in armed conflict." It permits experiments on microbes, provided that quantities are small and the purpose is defensive.

An administration official contended this week that the treaty also allows such experiments as long as the aim is "protective," not hostile.

The distinction, Ms. Hoinkes said, was "too cute by half."

She said the treaty was intended to bar even initial research on munitions that spread disease. The Bush administration's interpretation - apparently shared by the Clinton adminstration - gives nations too much latitude to research offensive weapons in the name of defense, Ms. Hoinkes asserted. "You see a room full of people manufacturing bombs, and they say, `I'm only doing this for defensive purposes and I have no intention of ever doing it for real because my heart is pure,' " she said.

State Department and other administration officials describe Ms. Hoinkes as a leading expert on the germ weapons treaty. She joined the State Department in 1976 and began working in 1981 at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, which was merged into the State Department in 1999.

She was not alone in her dismay.

Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., a deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1977 to 1981, expressed similar concerns about the interpretation of the treaty and how such an assertion would be perceived abroad.

"In the eyes of the world, it's going to look like we've been clandestinely violating the treaty," said Mr. Keeny, who is president of the Arms Control Association, nonpartisan experts who support efforts to curb weapons of mass destruction.

Bill Harlow, spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, which tested the bomb model, said yesterday that the device was not a weapon because it lacked a fuse and did not contain dangerous germs. "Everything we did was in full compliance with the
treaty," he said.

The State Department declined to discuss the experts' arguments. A spokesman said the administration had found that the research programs were "in compliance" with existing treaties and that appropriate legal "mechanisms" were in place to conduct such reviews.

An international conference to discuss how to strengthen the germ treaty is scheduled for November, and Mr. Keeny said the administration could expect accusations that Washington had ignored a treaty that most nations have signed.

"If any other country was found to be doing what we were supposedly doing, they would call it a dangerous violation of the treaty, and it surely appears to be a violation of the treaty in terms of common interpretation," he added.

Victoria Clarke, a Pentagon spokeswoman, also confirmed yesterday that the Defense Department had drawn up plans to produce small amounts of genetically modified anthrax, a deadly toxin, but that the project had been "put on hold" earlier this year to make sure it did not violate international treaties and domestic laws.

Still, she said, the Pentagon intends to press ahead with the anthrax project. Pentagon officials have said that producing the stronger poison would aid in developing vaccines and other defenses.

FBI raids Net business as part of terrorism probe
09/06/2001

DALLAS (AP) - Federal agents continued searching computer files of an Internet company Thursday as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation, the FBI said. Muslim leaders said authorities acted on scant evidence and anti-Arab stereotypes.

InfoCom Corp., based in suburban Richardson, says it sells computer systems and Internet services to many large Islamic organizations in the United States and businesses in the Middle East.

The FBI said the search, which began Wednesday, was part of a two-year investigation by the North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force. The agency did not elaborate on what evidence it sought.

More than 80 agents from the FBI and other federal agencies were searching computer files at the company's headquarters, FBI spokeswoman Lori Bailey said. The search warrant was sealed by a federal magistrate.

InfoCom attorney Mark Enoch said the company had no links to terrorist groups and was cooperating with the FBI, even helping agents navigate the computer system. InfoCom has 15 full- and part-time employees.

Internet service to the company's 500 clients was cut off by the agents, InfoCom's Internet operations manager said.

Displaced employees moved across the street to the headquarters of a client, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a Muslim charity that supporters of Israel charge raises money for Hamas and other Mideast terrorist groups.

The foundation denied the accusations, and Muslim leaders who gathered outside InfoCom's offices charged that the raid was orchestrated by Israeli sympathizers.

Bailey, the FBI spokeswoman, did not immediately return phone calls Thursday for comment on the allegations of anti-Muslim bias.

Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, linked the raid with U.S. opposition to international efforts to criticize Israel's handling of the conflict with Palestinians.

"We suspect that all these attempts are to please the Israeli government but not to protect the U.S. interests," Awad said. "Siding with Israel, a racist country and state, I think does not do us any good."

Others viewed the raid broadly as the product of anti-Muslim bias.

"We have deep concerns that this once again is an attempt to rush to judgment and to marginalize the American Muslim community simply because ... many of them are immigrants," said Mahdi Bray, political adviser to the Muslim Public Affairs Council. "There is a pattern of bias that often permeates all of these types of investigations."

The company has close ties to the Holy Land Foundation. Ghassan Elashi, a company vice president and brother of the owner, Bayan Elashi, is chairman of the foundation.

Holy Land Foundation officials say they provides purely humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories and to refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.

Israel, the U.S. State Department and congressional members have accused it of being connected to Hamas, the Palestinian movement that has taken responsibility for bombing civilian targets in the Middle East. The foundation is outlawed in Israel

Thursday September 6, 2001
FBI Denies Bias as Raid Shuts Arabic Web Sites
By Marcus Kabel

DALLAS (Reuters) - An 80-strong U.S. terrorism task force raided the Texas-based host of Arabic Web sites, including that of the Arab world's leading independent news channel, prompting charges on Thursday of an "anti-Muslim witchhunt."

But the FBI, which took part in the raid on Wednesday at privately held InfoCom Corp., in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, denied any anti-Arab bias and said it was executing an unspecified federal search warrant.

The FBI declined to specify the target of the search warrant, which is under seal in a federal court, except to say in a statement that the search was ``one aspect of a more than two-year investigation that is ongoing.''

InfoCom's owners said the raid resulted in a temporary shut-down of Web sites it hosts for about 500 customers, including that run by Al-Jazeera television and the newspaper Al-Sharq, both based in the Gulf state of Qatar.

Al-Jazeera is a major regional news source for Arabic speakers. Often dubbed ``the Arab CNN,'' it has emerged as a major force in a region where most broadcasters operate under direct state control.

The Web sites were shut down while about 80 agents copied information from InfoCom's Internet servers, said Ghassan Elashi, brother of owner Bayan Elashi.

He said many of the sites were able to start up again on other servers, while the task force continued to copy computerized information on Thursday. The office remained sealed off by FBI agents.

``We have nothing to hide. We are cooperating 110 percent with the FBI,'' InfoCom's lawyer Mark Enoch told reporters.

Enoch said whatever tips had led to the search was ``bad information.''

``If they think they're going to find that InfoCom is associated with terrorism, they're wrong. It's not,'' he said.

Elashi said InfoCom's customers were not solely Arabic or Muslim. ``They are across the board, from Dallas to California to other places around the world,'' he said.

Several American Islamic groups condemned the search as ``an anti-Muslim witchhunt promoted by the pro-Israel lobby in America,'' according to a statement from 10 organizations, including the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

``We are deeply concerned that there is a pattern of stereotyping that permeates all these types of investigations. There is a marginalization of the American-Muslim population,'' Mahdi Bray of the Los Angeles-based council said at a news conference outside the closed InfoCom office.

The FBI denied the raid was any kind of witchhunt.

``We were executing a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation. It had nothing to do with anti-Islamic or anti-Palestinian or anti-Middle East issues or anything like that,'' said special agent Lori Bailey, spokeswoman for the Dallas FBI office.

The search was conducted by the North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force, a multi-agency federal and local grouping which includes the FBI, Secret Service and the U.S. Customs Service.

It also includes the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, an arm of the Treasury Department empowered to freeze or seize the assets of individuals or organizations that have been designated by the government as terrorist.

Government will serve us well only if the citizens are well informed!

The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are resulting in paranoid self-censorship. Censorship is also occurring for non-security reasons. This is only the beginning. We might as well shut down the Internet since terrorist can use it. Online censorship will be futile; it makes no sense. How many mundane pieces of information can be used by terrorist whether they get it from the Internet, library, TV, or other sources? Any piece of information could be used by a terrorist, and much of what is being altered is not directly dangerous. Censorship does not make life harder for the terrorist, it just makes life harder for taxpaying citizens.

The White House ordered all federal agencies to scrub their Web sites of sensitive information. The move alarmed scientists and open-records advocates because the government is withdrawing thousands of documents that have been available to the public for years. They believe a concern about terrorism could be used as a pretext for withdrawing all kinds of information that has little or no national security sensitivity and that is something which is happening now all over the place.

There is nothing wrong with protecting national security but the lockdown of sensitive but unclassified data is questionable because there is nothing in the law that allows the executive branch to create a whole new category called "sensitive but unclassified." It will mean that the judgment is placed on the government to determine whether you do have a need to know. And you have to justify it each and every time. There are things that a terrorist could not use but it would be enormously useful for both congressional and public oversight. The "sensitive but unclassified" category is worrisome. It is potentially a catchall and it could be an invitation to abuse because it is not defined. It could be used to justify the withholding of almost anything and leaves it to the discretion of the individual agencies that will abuse their discretion.

President Bush appointed Richard Clarke to lead a new Office of Cyberdefenses. Clarke said, "If you put all the unclassified information together, sometimes it adds up to something that ought to be classified." Now you know they will unnecessarily censor information on the Internet!

Government Censorship and Secrecy

http://www.ombwatch.org/info Right to Know
http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/213/1/1/ Access to Government Information Post September 11th
http://www.TheNation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011112&s=shapiro
http://www.ire.org/related/records.html
http://www.epic.org/open_gov/
Attorney General John Ashcroft desires to restrict the FOIA Act.
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/antiterrorism_chill.html
http://www.eff.org/Censorship/
http://www.eff.org/Activism/FOIA/
http://www.foiadvocates.com/
http://foi.missouri.edu/
http://www.ncac.org/issues/freeex911.html
http://www.parascope.com/ds/dossier04.htm
http://www.rtnda.org/foi/atp.shtml
http://www.spj.org/foia.asp
http://www.jou.ufl.edu/brechner/infolib.htm - http://www.jou.ufl.edu/brechner/state-access.htm
http://www.fas.org/sgp/index.html Project on Government Secrecy
http://www.rcfp.org/homefrontconfidential/ How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
http://www.rcfp.org/foiact/ A Guide To The FOI Act
http://www.nfoic.org/web/index.htm and http://www.nfoic.org/Members.html
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/Civil_Rights/Freedom_of_Information_Act__FOIA_/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/Civil_Rights/Censorship/Internet_Censorship/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Human_Rights_and_Liberties/Free_Speech/The_Censorship_Debate/Internet_Censorship/

The Justice Department believes that the U.S. Office of Homeland Security is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Justice Department compared the role of Homeland Security to the President's National Security Council, which has been ruled exempt under the freedom of information law.

The FOIA exemptions in the upcoming new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could apply to anything submitted to the government under the heading "critical infrastructure information" such as determined by the public or private entity submitting it. This could extend to recurring safety problems at a nuclear plant or security breaches in a hospital lab and other matters of considerable public interest, especially to citizens living in the area. Any government employee who releases such information would face up to a year in prison, even a well-intentioned whistle-blower. Pretty chilling stuff.

The more a government chooses to provide information to its citizens on a "need to know" basis, the more citizens need to know what their government is up to.
http://www.epic.org/open_gov/homeland/

Secure often means secret Post-9/11, government stingy with information

DISAPPEARING DATA by Marylaine Block
or Vanishing Act: The U.S. Government's Disappearing Data by Marylaine Block

http://www.OpenTheGovernment.org/

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GODORT/ Government Documents Round Table
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ "CyberCemetery"
http://foi.missouri.edu/
http://foi.missouri.edu/openrecseries.html Audits and Surveys of State Freedom of Information Laws
http://ombwatch.org/ OMB Watch monitors the deletion of government web pages.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/ Project on Government Secrecy
http://www.accessreports.com/ Access Reports, Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Issues

http://www.plos.org/news/index.html Public Library of Science a nonprofit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.

http://www.cfac.org/ California First Amendment Coalition

If the Al-Qaeda "had been handed the plans for a nuclear bomb, the worst they could have done is use them as kindling to start a fire," a quote from United States intelligence official.

The Federal authorities not sharing information on terrorism with local officials is "the worst kind of dysfunctional thinking in government", the New York Police Commissioner said.

Declassified Reports and Documents

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=declassified-documents

http://www.globalsecurity.org/
http://www.fas.org/
http://www.blackvault.com/ and http://www.bvalphaserver.com/
http://www.stormingmedia.us/

The American people must have the right to know what their military is doing in their name and it must be recorded, even if it can not be put out immediately, without military surveillance and without military censorship. It becomes more important as the U.S. military becomes involved in America's homeland defense where military actions will directly effect Americans and military mistakes can kill innocent Americans. The government may try to keep secrets to avoid liability, which is a good reason not to allow military censorship.

Mission Creep Hits Home By William M. Arkin

A new Northern Command, the 10th such command in the U.S. military structure, would provide military support to federal, state and local authorities inside the United States of America in the event of terror attacks. It will also cover Canada and Mexico for the first time, being responsible for security and military coordination with the two countries that share borders with the United States. A four-star officer will head the Northern Command, increasing the military's role in homeland defense, but would not be directly connected to the White House Office of Homeland Security established shortly after Sept. 11. The new command will have headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado and start operating on Oct. 1, 2002. The head of Northern Command would also be in charge of the existing North American Aerospace Defense Command, headquartered in Colorado, which currently oversees the defense of American skies in conjunction with Canada's military.

The new leader of Northern Command is Air Force General Ralph Eberhart, who headed the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The four-star status may give the new commander a powerful voice in America's policy and budgetary debates.

The President of the United States of America has the authority to authorize the U.S. military use in civilian law enforcement.

http://www.northcom.mil/
http://www.norad.mil/transitionhomepage.htm

http://www.fas.org/man/index.html Military Analysis Network
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/
http://www.defendamerica.mil/

http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/almanac/people/insignias/

U.S. Air Force Linked to Electronic Warfare Attack in Tennessee By Alfred Webre

The National Attack Warning was not used when America was under attack!

No civil defense for the general public in America!

The NOAA weather radio alarm should have been activated when it was clear our nation was under attack on September 11, 2001. It was not activated although NOAA reserves a message header for National Attack Warning (AWG). Investigations should be done into why the government did not activate the national warning when it was clear the nation was under attack. The NOAA weather warning alarm had better activate nationwide the next time America is under national attack.
http://www.partnershipforpublicwarning.org/reference.html

The U.S. Government needs to send public warnings about nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological hazards via the NOAA weather radio alarm network and send it out fast as they do tornado warnings. It could be a serious mistake if government tries to keep these hazards a secret and should be penalized for doing so.

Data gathered from hospitals, health clinics, and stores with over-the-counter drugs will be used as a new resource for bioterrorism (BT) surveillance. A computer network will allow local, county, state, federal and Public Health organizations access to timely, rich clinical data, which serves as an early warning system for a biological attack or naturally occurring disease outbreaks. It will be shared with government but how well will this data be shared with the public.
http://www.cerner.com/Bioterrorism/

America can develop a good bio-defense system with nanobombs and a network of biosensors. Developments of nanobombs to destroy biological weapons and biosensors for detection are underway. However, would real-time data from biosensors be shared with the public by the government?
http://nano.med.umich.edu/homepage.html
http://www.nanobio.com/

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=syndromic-surveillance

Pre-9/11 United States Intelligence Agencies that failed the American People!

The US "intelligence community," as they call themselves, is officially composed of 13 government agencies, each of which has different (although often interconnected) roles. Meant to oversee and coordinate all of them is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In line with this mandate for managerial oversight, their official website includes an explanation of the organization and grouping of the US intelligence community.
http://www.dtra.mil/lk/lk_dodrel.html

These are the 13 government agencies of the official US intelligence community:

The CIA is not only the central manager of the US intelligence community, but an agency in its own right. The CIA is the US government's foreign intelligence agency, meaning that they are the agency with primary responsibility for acquiring intelligence of the United States, most famously by their covert spies (i.e., by HUMINT). The CIA also produces strategic level intelligence assessments for the US government, drawing upon all available intelligence sources.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the organization with primary responsibility for SIGINT in the US government.
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is the agency of the US government with overall responsibility for reconnaissance satellites.
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) is the more specifically military organization that makes use of the IMINT from the satellites "owned and operated" (as it were) by the NRO.
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA -- not to be confused with the CIA) is the joint (Army-Navy-Air Force-Marines) agency dedicated to providing general intelligence support to the US armed services. It also serves as the strategic-level intelligence agency for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) at the Pentagon.
The US Army Intelligence Center (USAIC), located at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, is dedicated to providing general intelligence support specifically to the US Army. They do things like monitor developments in new land-based weapons and tactics around the world, and issue reports on that sort of thing to US Army units to allow them to train more effectively. The U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), a major Army command, conducts dominant intelligence, security and information operations for military commanders and national decision- makers.
The US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) does the same sort of thing, but concerning naval matters for the US Navy.
The Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), located at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, performs the same functions in air matters for the US Air Force.
The US Marine Corps (USMC) also has an intelligence organization within it.
The US State Department handles America's foreign affairs, and thus is both a consumer of strategic intelligence reports about what the rest of the world is up to, and (from its diplomats abroad) a source of information in their own right. They have their own in-house organization dedicated to intelligence analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).
The US Department of Justice is concerned with some intelligence matters, and they have the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. The US Department of Justice's lead agency for most intelligence work and representative in the intelligence community is the famous Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is primarily concerned with issues relating to terrorism and organized crime, both recent growth areas of intelligence.
The US Treasury Department is also involved, primarily in issues relating to organized crime.
The US Department of Energy is responsible for nuclear issues.

http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/intel.html
http://intellit.muskingum.edu/maintoc.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Government/Intelligence/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Intelligence/

http://www.fas.org/irp/
http://www.tscm.com/intelsites.html

http://www.mi5.gov.uk

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=Mossad Israeli Intelligence Agencies

US Armed Forces Order of Battle
Unified Commands

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=CIA+Special-Operations-Group

Research Organizations
Keep in mind research organizations and policy think-tanks have their agenda to influence politics!

RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
Preparing the U.S. Army for Homeland Security: Concepts, Issues, and Options
ANSER a public service research institute toward building our nations' future. The ANSER Institute For Homeland Security.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) study to improve our Homeland Defense
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute studies in Homeland Security.
Naval War College Joint Military Operations does studies in Homeland Security. THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
Air War College presents The War on Terrorism
Joint Forces Staff College - National Defense University
Institute for Defense Analyses
Foreign Military Studies Office
Defense Technical Information Center
U.S. Commission on National Security
Joint Deployment Training Center

http://cns.miis.edu/ Center for Nonproliferation Studies
      http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/index.htm Center for Nonproliferation Studies
            http://cns.miis.edu/research/terror.htm
            http://cns.miis.edu/research/cbw/cbterror.htm
Center for Defense Information - Terrorism, Military and Security Policy Research Organization
Intelligence Brief
http://www.academicinfo.net/terrorismbio.html Global Terrorism Resources
http://www.academicinfo.net/afghan.html Afghanistan Studies
Combat-Online
http://www.ceip.org/ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
Freeman Center for Strategic Studies
http://www.globalsecurity.org/
      Attack on America
      Weapons of Mass Destruction
America's Response to Terrorism
Foreign Military Studies Office - Research Links
The Intelligence Network
Mario's Cyberspace Station: The Global News Portal
http://www.pircenter.org/english/publications/index.htm Policy Studies in Russia
Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
Cryptome
      http://cryptome.org/cryptout.htm
CARTOME
http://jya.com/nsa-bot.htm
The Federation of American Scientists
     Federation of American Scientists - Intelligence Resource Program
or http://search.cetin.net.cn/internet/DSTI/FAS/irp/ or http://sun00781.dn.net/irp/
           http://www.fas.org/irp/agency
           http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/
           http://www.fas.org/irp/intelwww.html
           http://www.fas.org/irp/world/
     Federation of American Scientists - America's War on Terrorism
Intelligence Online: Global Strategic Information
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/terrorism/
Stimson Center projects
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/1home.htm
http://world-information.org/wio/program/events Surveillance & Control
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/intrel/research/cstpv/Externallinks.htm
The Complete, Unofficial TEMPEST Information Page
ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network
http://www.iptvreports.mcmail.com/
MILNET_ Intelligence Agencies
kim-spy Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
National Terrorism Preparedness Institute
Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies
Loyola Homepage on Strategic Intelligence
http://www.stratnet.ucalgary.ca/research/govusa-terrrorism.html
Terrorism Research Center
    Terrorism Research Center: Documents
ERRI Counter-Terrorism
    Crisis, Conflict, or Disaster...EmergencyNet News Covers the World
http://www.potomacinstitute.com/pubs/pubs.htm
Columbia International Affairs Online
THE PROFILE OF THE "TERRORIST" OR "DORMANT " AND THEIR BEHAVIOR PATTERNS
Bin Laden: Public Enemy Number One
http://www.gspia.pitt.edu/ridgway/viewpoints.htm Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
Strategic Forecasting
Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
http://www.linkvoyager.com/cgi-bin/serve.fcgi/terrorism/
Terrorism Resources
The OSS Convenience Center
Finding Disaster Coverage At Search Engines
America Strikes Back in Context
National Academies Reports on Terrorism and Security
Black Vault FOIA on Terrorism
Dossier offers hundreds of declassified government documents and analysis of covert ops and propaganda campaigns worldwide.
http://www.parascope.com/ds/documentslibrary/documentslibrary01.htm Foreign Operations
Air University Research Net
International Atomic Energy Agency
Center for International Trade & Security
International Relations and Security Network
Contemporary Conflicts
Foreign Military Studies Office
Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces Studies
OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Online Intelligence Project
Intelligence Online: Global Strategic Information
American Society for Industrial Security
Center for Millennial Studies
Marine Corps Intelligence Association
United States Special Operations
Net-based Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
http://www.riia.org/index.php?id=7 Royal Institute of International Affairs - Publications
http://www.rusi.org/ Royal United Services Institute
Jane's International Security Section
Jane's Defence Glossary - Alphabetical Index
http://www.armedforces.com/
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
NATO
The National Security Archive
     The September 11 Source Books
Digital National Security Archive, Collections
InfoManage - Intelligence Resources
http://www.pcis.org/library.cfm?urlSection=WG Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security
Security in the Asia-Pacific Region
International Relations and Security Network
http://www.sipri.se/ Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
UNBSJ Ward Chipman Library Peacekeeping Operations
http://www.jamestown.org/ Jamestown Foundation
http://www.infomanage.com/secrets/
http://www.scip.org/news/newsbriefs.asp
http://www.softwar.net/
http://websearch.about.com/cs/underattack/
http://www.nationalacademies.org/
American Society of Safety Engineers
http://www.researchbuzz.com/911/
http://www.internetnews.com/special
http://www.epic.org/open_gov/foia/secrets.html
National Archives and Records Administration Presidential Materials, Congressional, Executive agency, and Federal court records
http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/ Social Science Research Council
http://www.foresight.org/ to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition
http://www.homelandsec.org/ The Century Foundation Homeland Security Project
http://www.wmrc.com/ World Markets Research Centre

http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/terrorism.htm The Library of Congress Federal Research Division Terrorism Studies
http://www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/govpubs/subjects/crime/terrorgen.html
http://corc.oclc.org/WebZ/XPathfinderQuery?sessionid=0:term=2910:xid=LCP
http://csmail.law.pace.edu/lawlib/government/terrorismresources.html
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/lml/govdocsubj/terrorism.html
http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/crsres/terrorism/home.htm
http://www.unbsj.ca/library/subject/terror.htm
http://users.skynet.be/terrorism/html/terror.htm
http://www.lehigh.edu/~inref/guides/terrorism2.html
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html
http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/terrorism/911.htm

http://www.policeforum.org/newsroom.html
http://www.policeforum.org/legislative.html#terrorism
http://www.nlsi.net/ National Law Enforcement & Security Institute
http://www.afio.com/ Association of Former Intelligence Officers
http://www.ncjrs.org/ National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.law-enforcement.com/
http://www.officer.com/
http://infoguys.com/
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/
http://www.virtualfreesites.com/covert.html
http://www.spy-tools-directory.com/
http://www.spynews.net/
http://www.spy.org.uk/techf.htm
http://www.spyzone.com/ - http://store.yahoo.com/spytechagency/index.html - http://www.uspystore.com/ - http://www.globalspyshop.com/ - http://www.spytec.com/spyshop/index.htm - http://www.spyworld.com/ - http://www.spyshopusa.com/ - http://www.bullnet.co.uk/spyman/Default.htm
CIA Museum Artifacts
Satellite espionage
http://www.tscm.com/reference.html Library of Intelligence and Surveillance Reference Documents
http://www.totse.com/en/politics/index.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/archive.shtml

Policy Think Tanks
Keep in mind research organizations and policy think-tanks have their agenda to influence politics!

http://www.irtheory.com/links.htm International Relations Theory
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=International-Security+links

National Center for Policy Analysis
The Urban Institute
The Heritage Foundation
The National Center for Public Policy Research - Conservative Think Tank
The Brookings Institution
The Hoover Institution
Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.anser.org/docs/aboutanser/sitemap.asp
Center For Strategic & International Studies
American Enterprise Institute
The Cato Institute
RAND
The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Foreign Policy In Focus
Foreign Policy Association
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
http://www.brookingsinstitution.org/ The Brookings Institution
http://www.afpc.org/ The American Foreign Policy Council
http://www.policyalmanac.org/world/index.shtml
Institute for Policy Studies
http://www.nipp.org/ National Institute for Public Policy
http://www.globalpolicy.org/ monitors global policy making at the United Nations
http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/terrorism/terrindex.htm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/
The Independent Institute
http://www.ff.org/ Frontiers of Freedom
http://www.bens.org/pubs.html BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
The Milken Institute mission is to explore and explain the dynamics of world economic structure, conduct, and performance by conducting research in economics, business, and finance.
National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.
http://econ.worldbank.org/ their ideas of a better world for them

http://www.conservativealerts.com/
http://www.landmarklegal.org/latest_developments.cfm
http://www.fed-soc.org/ The Federalist Society
http://www.acslaw.org/ The American Constitution Society
http://www.americanprogress.org/ Center for American Progress

http://www.hpi-tech.org/ Homeland Protection Institute

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Domestic+Preparedness%22+OR+%22Homeland+Defense%22+site%3A.mil
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Domestic+Preparedness%22+OR+%22Homeland+Defense%22+site%3A.gov
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Domestic+Preparedness%22+OR+%22Homeland+Defense%22+site%3A.edu
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Domestic+Preparedness%22+OR+%22Homeland+Defense%22+site%3A.org
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Domestic+Preparedness%22+OR+%22Homeland+Defense%22+site%3A.com
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Domestic+Preparedness%22+OR+%22Homeland+Defense%22+site%3A.net

Freedom House has published Freedom in the World, an annual comparative assessment of the state of political rights and civil liberties in 192 countries and 17 related and disputed territories. Widely used by policy-makers, journalists, and scholars, the 600-page survey is the definitive report on freedom around the globe. Surveys, Essays, Country & Territory Reports, Tables & Charts, Maps
http://www.freedomhouse.org/

http://www.freedominfo.org/
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/ Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
http://www.undp.org/ United Nations Development Programme

http://www.transparency.org/ global non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20 Reporters Without Borders worldwide press freedom index

http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html Resources For Social and Economic Development

http://www.state.gov/travel/index.htm
http://www.travel.state.gov/passport_services.html
http://www.worldtravelguide.net/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Travel/Preparation/
http://www.world-immigration.com/
http://immigration.about.com/
http://www.escapeartist.com/
http://www.joelskousen.com/forums/index.html Strategic Relocation

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress / Federal Research Division)
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ CIA -- The World Factbook
http://www.state.gov/countries/ Country Background Notes

http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/
http://dmoz.org/Regional/

http://www.polisci.com/
http://www.infoplease.com/
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/

http://usembassy.state.gov/ U.S. Embassies
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/directory.htm EmbassyWorld
http://www.embpage.org/ EmbassyWeb
http://www.uia.org/ Union of International Associations

Protect Yourself

http://www.survivalist.info/

Family infrastructure protection minimum essential actions to consider:

Develop and follow a family financial management plan.
Learn and practice the simple steps to avoid identity theft.
Prepare a "Last Will and Testament" document.
Ensure home and car locks are intact and operational.
Draft and rehearse a family emergency plan.
Design and conduct family preparedness and evacuation drills.
Create and enforce recognition passwords for family members and close friends.
Assemble a survival box with food, water, first-aid kit, blankets, lights, etc.
Designate assembly points for all to meet both inside and outside of the home.
Encourage schools leaders to prepare comprehensive emergency response plans.
Help schools leaders to schedule and practice emergency and evacuation drills.
Educate private car and school bus drivers on alternate emergency routes.
Establish an emergency support network with nearby neighbors.
Prepare to offer crisis counseling or refer to those who do.

http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=identity+theft+site%3A.gov
http://www.cfenet.com/resources/fraud.asp

Personal Infrastructure Protection 101:

Guard your Social Security Number and give it only when absolutely necessary.
Ask how it will be used to ensure you agree before giving any personal information.
Read all billing statements with great care to discover any discrepancies.
Keep minimal personal information and only one credit card in your wallet.
Maintain control over receipts, especially those from credit card purchases.
Completely tear or shred paperwork with personal information before disposal.
Consider installation of a locked mailbox to deter mail theft.
Deposit correspondence containing personal checks in an official USPS mailbox.
Arrange to acquire new check books at the bank and not through the mail.
Examine your credit reports no less than annually.

http://helping.apa.org/daily/terrorism.html Mental Health

Basic stress reduction techniques:

Exercise. The endorphins released during exercise inoculate the body and help it to combat the physical aspects of stress.
Relaxation. Genuine relaxation reduces the level of physiological arousal in a person's sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system.
Social Support. Quality talk with family and friends that affirms love and appreciation for the individual can decrease the adverse effects of stress.
Positive Imagery. Stress can be reduced by the person who can routinely imagine being a survivor of the threat and a successful performer as well.
Optimism. The tendency to expect excellent outcomes (positive thinking) and good health are closely related. Optimists cope with stress more adaptively and emphasized the positive in difficult situations.

Nuclear War

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=US+nuclear-targets
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=nuclear-attack+America
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=nuclear-war+America
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=nuclear-war+survival
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=nuclear-attack+survival

Relocation
http://www.radshelters4u.com/
http://www.webpal.org/ Nuclear War Fallout Shelter Survival Info
      Nuclear Survival Resources
http://millennium-ark.net/index1.html
      TERRORISM
      NBC PROTECTION SECTION
      Part 1-Terrorism Here
      Part 2-Who're Players?
      Part 3-Bio-Chem Protect
      Part 4-Nuke Protection
      Part 5-Who's Got What?
      Choosing Where to Live in America
      Relocation Considerations in America
      T HE Greatest Deception of All Time: Fake Alien Invasions!
      Preparedness
How to prepare for Power Outages, Terrorism, War, and Other Threats book excerpts
http://homepower.com/
http://www.backwoodshome.com/
http://www.landrights.org/ American Land Rights Association
http://www.joelskousen.com/forums/index.html Strategic Relocation
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/534189.html Ten Typical Risky Places
http://www.providentliving.org/channel/0,11677,1706-1,00.html Food Storage and Emergency Preparation

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=quality-of-life+cities
http://www.bestplaces.net/
http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/bplive_allcities.html best places to live
http://www.cityrating.com/
http://www.morganquitno.com/ State and City Rankings go to bottom of page

http://www.50states.com/ Information on the 50 States in the US

http://www.taxfoundation.org/statelocal70-02.html Comparing the Total Tax Burden in Each State
http://www.sbsc.org/SurvivalIndex.asp Small Business Survival Index

http://www.ejnet.org/pollution-map/ Pollution Mapping Projects and Toxics Databases

http://www.esri.com/hazards/makemap.html Make Online Hazard Map
http://www.hazardmaps.gov/
http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form
http://seismo.ethz.ch/gshap/ Global Seismic Hazard
http://www.agiweb.org/workgroup/ Natural Hazards Caucus Work Group includes maps
http://www.agiweb.org/workgroup/USHazPosterRGB.jpg
http://www.rms.com/Publications/
http://www.rms.com/Images/CatMapUS_8inch.gif

http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/crimemaps/crimeresources.html

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/movecalc.asp cost of living
http://www.monstermoving.com/Find_A_Place/Calculators/SalaryCalc/
http://www.homefair.com/
http://www.datamasters.com/

http://www.acinet.org/ America's Career InfoNet
http://www.salary.com/

http://www.fedstats.gov/ and http://www.census.gov/
http://factfinder.census.gov/
http://stats.bls.gov/eag/ Economy Stats
http://list.realestate.yahoo.com/re/neighborhood/main.html
http://socds.huduser.org/
http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/zipstats.html Community Information by Zip Code
http://149.101.22.40/dataonline/ Crime & Justice Data
http://www.easidemographics.com/reports/easi_free_reports.phtml
http://mobility.tamu.edu/
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml U.S. Natural Hazard Statistics

http://www.milkeninstitute.org/
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/research/research.taf

More Maps

America's government has not developed a good Civil Defense for most Americans but has plenty of secret underground government shelters for protecting the few, such as America's politicians.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=underground-shelters
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=shelters+%22nuclear+war%22

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Weapons/Nuclear/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Military/Weapons_and_Equipment/Weapons_of_Mass_Destruction/Nuclear_Weapons/
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Weapons/Nuclear/

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22nuclear+terrorism%22
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=nuclear+%22Congressional+Research+Service%22

Those in control will try their best to keep secret any threat of nuclear bomb explosions from the general public!
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=monitoring+%22nuclear+explosions+%22

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Wars_and_Conflicts/World_War_II/Atomic/Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki/
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html the impact of the 2 Atomic Bombs used on Japan
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=atomic-bomb+memorial+site%3A.jp

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=scenario+%22nuclear+attack%22
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=scenario+%22nuclear+war%22
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=nuclear+war+false+alarms
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=accidental+nuclear+war
http://www.parowanprophet.com/Nuclear_War_Comes/fallout_map.htm can vary greatly so it is of little use
http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/lexiquest/search.pl?startnum=0&numresults=100&requery=%28%20nuclear%20OR%20atomic%20%29&raw_query=egg

http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nukexp_query.html previous Nuclear Explosions Database
http://public.ornl.gov/tara/ldbiblio/external/news_topic_action.cfm?topic=explosions

http://www.nti.org/ Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
http://www.iaea.org/ International Atomic Energy Agency - The Nuclear Authority
http://www.bullatomsci.org/ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://www.isis-online.org/ Institute for Science and International Security
http://www.ransac.org/ Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council
http://www.nci.org/ Nuclear Control Institute

http://www.fas.org/nuke/
http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/News/
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/
http://www.atomicarchive.com/sitemap.shtml
http://www.milnet.com/milnet/nuclear.htm MILNET: Nuclear Weapons
http://www.Nuc.Berkeley.EDU/neutronics/todd/frame/weapons.html Nuclear Weapons links
http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/ Nuclear Weapons: History, Technology, and Consequences in Historic Documents, Photos, and Videos
http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/ Nevada Operations Office, News, Publications, Historical Information, Nuclear Test Films, Technical Reports
http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/photos&films/photolib.htm Nuclear Test Photo Library
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/index.cfm National Atomic Museum Virtual Tour
http://www.vniief.ru/museum/museum_e.html Russian Nuclear Weapons Museum
http://www.ida.net/users/pbmck/xsovnuc/text_top.htm ex-USSR Nuclear Technologies and The World
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/ Center For Security Policy
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/nukes.html
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
http://infomanage.com/nonproliferation/
http://www.pogo.org/nuclear/nucindex.htm Project On Government Oversight (POGO) - Nuclear Security
http://www.clw.org/coalition/ Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
http://www.abolition2000.org/ Abolition 2000
http://www.mothersalert.org/moreinfo.html
http://www.cnduk.org/ The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/
http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/index.shtml
http://www.wagingpeace.org/index.html
http://www.cia.gov/search search nuclear
http://www.foia.ucia.gov/frame3.htm search nuclear
http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/fp/projects/nucwcost/weapons.htm The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project
http://www.sgpproject.org/ Strengthening the Global Partnership to reduce the dangers of the Soviet military legacy
http://www.saferworld.org/
http://www.nukefix.org/
http://www.nucleardisarmament.org/
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/
http://www.wagingpeace.org/
http://www.ippnw.org/ International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
http://www.inesap.org/publ.htm International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation
http://www.shundahai.org/

How Col. Stanislav Petrov Saved The World?
http://www.rense.com/general42/saved.htm

http://us.imdb.com/SearchPlots?for=nuclear search for Science-Fiction nuclear war movies
and http://www.emptyworld.info/site_map.html

Nuclear Radiation

Nuclear Explosions by the USA from 1945 to 1998
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/bsv/nuclear_explosions/usa.html
http://rex.nci.nih.gov/massmedia/exesumfig1.gif rads and cancer from above ground tests in Neveda

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=nuclear+rads+cancer

Radiation from a nuclear power plant caused by terrorism or malfunction could be the worst American catastrophe to date. Remember that former President Reagan (R-CA) was very pro-nuclear. Nuclear power plants are costly to maintain and are growing more dangerous as they age. They should guarantee nuclear power plants are protected by anti-aircraft missiles or shut them down for our protection.
http://www.ucsusa.org/energy/0nuclear.html
http://www.dca.state.fl.us/bpr/EMTOOLS/Nuclear/rep.htm Florida Radiological Emergencies
http://www.e-tip.org/ Environmental Database
http://www.e-tip.org/english/level1/npp.html
http://www.ananuclear.org/ The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
http://www.nirs.org/ Nuclear Information and Resource Service
http://www.nirs.org/wassermannukesecurity.htm
http://www.ieer.org/ Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
http://www.ans.org/ The American Nuclear Society
http://www.dnfsb.gov/pub_docs/ Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
http://www.noradiation.org/main.htm
http://www.afrri.usuhs.mil/ Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
http://radefx.bcm.tmc.edu/ Radiation Health Effects Research
http://www.hps.org/ an international professional scientific organization dedicated to promoting the practice of radiation safety
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/radfactsheets/
http://nova.nuc.umr.edu/nuclear_facts/nuclearfacts.html Government pubs
http://public.ornl.gov/tara/ldbiblio/external/news_topic_action.cfm?topic=
http://www.umich.edu/~radinfo/introduction/

The federal government is stockpiling the drug potassium iodide. The drug protects against thyroid cancer from radiation exposure. Potassium iodide protects only against radioactive iodine, just one of hundreds of poisonous radionuclides that people might be exposed to in a nuclear event.
Guidance to Potassium Iodide as a Thyroid Blocking Agent in Radiation Emergencies
http://www.who.int/environmental_information/Information_resources/on_line_radiation.htm
Frequently Asked Questions About the Use of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans
http://www.ki4u.com/ Potassium Iodide Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ. Iodine pills, tablets, sources.
http://www.webpal.org/survival/books/books.htm FREE Survival Books
http://www.oism.org/nwss/ Nuclear War Survival Skills
http://selfsufficiency.freeyellow.com/

Paranoid Internet self-censorship is growing. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission started its censorship on October 16, 2001. Concerns are the NRC might go too far in taking valuable information about the performance of nuclear power plants, including daily plant-status reports, out of the public domain. This is information that has been available to the public for years and it is useful for oversight.
http://1nuclearplace.com/ Nuclear News and Information
http://www.nuclearactive.org/ Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
http://www.radioactivist.org/ The RadioActivist Campaign
http://www.nucleartourist.com/ Nuclear Power Plants Around the World
http://www2.ijs.si/~icjt/plants/ Nuclear Power Plants
http://www.world-nuclear.org/portal/index.htm
http://www.gracelinks.org/nuke/
http://www.ananuclear.org/ Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
http://nucnews.net/nucnews/briefslv.htm
http://www.nukewatch.org/
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
http://www.nukebusters.org/
http://www.prop1.org/nucnews/briefs.htm
http://www.prop1.org/prop1/radiated/drh.htm Deadly Nuclear Radiation Hazards USA
http://www.prop1.org/2000/accident/acclist.htm Nuclear Accident Articles
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PP/index.html Complete Book: "Poisoned Power, The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants Before and After Three Mile Island
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~stm/Downwinders_Homepage.html
http://www.energyprobe.org/
http://www.radwaste.org/news.htm
http://www.trivalleycares.org/ Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
http://gzcenter.org/ Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nukenet/

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/rert/
http://nuclear.gov/
http://www.ig.doe.gov/igreports.htm

Search CDC on radioactive fallout
Search USAToday articles on radioactive fallout
Search Goggle for radioactive fallout or nuclear fallout

http://www.chernobyl.com/
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=Chernobyl
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/chernobyl.htm
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Three+Mile+Island%22
http://www.C-10.org/ health and safety issues related to the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant

International Medcom designs and manufactures high quality instruments and systems for detecting nuclear (ionizing) radiation
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/ndyrvik/nienucl.htm other Nuclear Instrumentation
http://radmeters4u.com/

Yucca Mountain site in Nevada to be developed as the nation’s first long-term geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste. Getting radioactive waste from nuclear plants around the country to a Nevada repository would mean it would pass through population centers on truck, rail, or barge. The Bush administration is looking at possible routes through as many as 45 states. Opponents say everything under consideration would put millions of people at risk in case of accident or terrorist attack. Supporters of the plan to bury and seal the waste in Yucca Mountain say that highly dangerous materials already are transported safely every day. They say opponents are trying to scare the public.
http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/
http://www.ymp.gov/

US scraps nuclear weapons watchdog by Julian Borger

The U.S. Senate endorsed a plan on June 10, 2003, for the government to provide loan guarantees for construction of a half dozen nuclear power plants survival. Critics called the government assistance a giveaway to a mature industry that should be left to succeed or fail on its own. But their attempt to strip the measure from a broad energy bill fell short, 50-48.

Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) the architect of the package of subsidies for the nuclear industry, said the government assistance will jump-start nuclear power. There has not been a new nuclear plant licensed since the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania.

Opponents questioned why nuclear power should be singled out for such largess, which they said could cost taxpayers $14 billion to $16 billion should the future power reactors fail and be abandoned.

"We're trying to jump-start the industry again," says Richard Myers of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry trade group. "We're not looking for a handout. We're not looking for any freebies."
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:S00014:

SENATE VOTES TO INCREASE CORPORATE WELFARE FOR THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
http://www.taxpayer.net/TCS/PressReleases/2003/06-10nukesubsidies.htm

http://www.sierraclub.org/politics/lobbying/lobbying_details.asp

US National Data Center Atomic Energy Detection System
started its censorship after 9/11

http://www.tt.aftac.gov/
http://www.tt.aftac.gov/request/ndc_request.html US National Data Center
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/aftac/index.html Air Force Technical Applications Center
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB7/nsaebb7.htm U.S. Atomic Energy Detection System

http://www.cmr.gov/ Center for Monitoring Research
http://www.pidc.org/
http://www.rdss.info/index_ns.html or http://www.rdss.info/index_ie.html

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/ Seismic Data
http://www.iris.edu/
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/Monitoring/Data/
http://orfeus.knmi.nl/
http://www.imd.ernet.in/section/seismo/dynamic/welcome.htm
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html Seismo-surfing the Internet http://seismo.ethz.ch/seismosurf/seismobig.html

International Monitoring System (IMS) Network
To detect test of underground nuclear explosions

IMS sensor network consist of:

SEISMIC (primary) - 50 stations. The primary seismic network provides the states parties with the capability for initial detection, location, and identification of underground and most underwater events.

SEISMIC (auxiliary) - 119 stations. The auxiliary seismic network provides additional data for events detected by the primary seismic network. Auxiliary seismic stations transmit their data only by request and are used to improve event location and identification.

RADIONUCLIDE - 80 stations. The radionuclide network senses the particulates and gas by-products of nuclear explosions and is the primary method for states parties to detect and identify events which release radionuclides into the atmosphere. It may also support the other networks for detection and location of events.

HYDROACOUSTIC - 6 stations. The hydroacoustic network augments the seismic networks for states parties to detect and identify explosions which are underwater or at a low enough altitude to couple energy into the water.

HYDROACOUSTIC - 5 T-phase stations. The auxiliary hydroacoustic network consists of T-phase stations (seismic stations installed on islands with steep shorelines). These stations detect T-phases generated by hydroacoustic waves impacting a shoreline. T-phase stations are less sensitive, though fully capable of observing underwater explosions at great range, as well as detecting underground explosions. Like auxiliary seismic stations, T-phase stations transmit their data only by request and are used to improve event location and identification for underwater events.

INFRASOUND - 60 stations. The infrasonic network senses the low-frequency acoustic signals resulting from explosions. It is the primary open network for states parties to detect explosions in the atmosphere, and it may augment the seismic and hydroacoustic networks for shallow underground or underwater events.

US Government Science Labs

There is serious mismanagement at Los Alamos National Laboratory, including inadequate physical security, unauthorized shipments of anthrax, missing computers and disks, and firing whistleblowers who are trying to expose corruption.
http://www.pogo.org/p/environment/eo-losalamos.html

Advanced Computing Laboratory (ACL)
Ames Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Bonneville Power Administration
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Center for Computational Sciences
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF)
Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
Hanford Reservation
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL)
Kansas City Plant (AlliedSignal Inc.)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBNL)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LLNL High Energy Physics
Los Alamos Area Office
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
National Renewable Energy Lab
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Pacific Northwest National Lab
Pantex
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Sandia National Laboratories
Savannah River Site (Westinghouse)
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)
University of California (Lab Management Home Page)

Most people think if you want to keep a secret then you are trying to hide sinister behavior!

The government and news corporations are known to use secrecy, denial, and deceit when informing the public. There was deceitful reporting at the start of the anthrax attacks because officials first insisted the victim got anthrax from an animal when hunting and that it was an isolated and accidental incident.

Vagueness, delayed information, misinformation, disinformation, wrong information, and no information are tactics that has been used by government and corporate media. They also misuse information just to create fear to falsely justify more laws and restrictions so to apply more power and control over its people.

The U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Strategic Influence at the Pentagon, provides false information to media organizations. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has planted false information in the press.

The Federal Government went to great expense to encrypt their communications in the 1980s. So when it comes to urgent information, government may try to control information so you will not know it until they want you to know it.
Classified Federal communications

It is wrong for America's government and news media to withhold vital information. In some cases it is done on assumptions that you will be ignorant in your reactions and you could make matters worst. You should consider that an insult to your intelligence and dignity.

We all got to work together to fight terrorism. But America's government will loose Americans' trust and gain their anger if they are not informed, not informed immediately, not informed of the truth, and not informed well enough. America's government will serve us well only if the citizens are well informed.

Veterans of past crises note that the American people do not panic. They have a strong bias toward supporting their governmental leaders, but only when they believe they are being told the straight story.

In October of 2001 an intelligence alert by a group of U.S. officials believed a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb would be detonated in lower Manhattan. It could kill at least 100,000 civilians, irradiate 700,000 more, and flatten everything in a half-mile diameter. It was kept secret from the public and many other political leaders. The alert went out only to the "shadow government" and a small number of government agencies, including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) based in Nevada. Also there was a nuclear bomb threat to Washington, D.C. on the Potomac River.
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22shadow+government%22&n=20&c=news
Can We Stop the Next Attack?
Congress Not Advised Of Shadow Government
Fears Prompt U.S. to Beef up Nuclear Terror Detection

From the story above, many political leaders were left out of the loop and got a taste of their own secrecy medicine. They said we should have been told that New York City and Washington, D.C. was secretly being searched by the federal government and military for nuclear weapons. That was their comments to the press. So the control freaks left out of the loop, who also love to keep secrets, did not like it. So does the American people not like it because they deserve the right to know.

ADVANCE WARNING COULD HAVE MOBILIZED NY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ASSIST SEARCH FOR ATOMIC DEVICE.

The Bush Administration has quietly ordered NEST to do periodic searches in large U.S. cities.

Would the president delegate on-scene commanders to make a decision that might result in nuclear detonation?
Which officials should be evacuated?
Would government inform the public of the threat?

Hundreds of sophisticated radiation sensors have been deployed to US borders, overseas facilities and choke points around the US capital. The sensors are imbedded around some fixed points and temporarily at designated special events. There is a crash program to build next-generation devices at the three national nuclear laboratories to address the technological limitations of current sensors. If the sensors detect anything you will not know, it will be a secret to a select few giving them time to take survival actions.

U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (SFOD-D), Combat Applications Group (CAG), Delta Force - Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Delta Force commando unit has the mission to kill or disable anyone with a suspected nuclear device and turn it over to the NEST scientists to be disarmed.
http://www.specialoperations.com/usspecops.html

Secrecy is a formula for inefficient decision-making!

Leaking information is necessary to counteract government secrecy and it is a good thing. Leaking may be a pain for decision makers but it is necessary for a democracy in a government that is becomes more and more secretive. Leaking information is a lot better in the long run than the "no comments" and deceptions of those who use national security as a shield to push their own agendas or discredit any and all questioning and dissent. Leaking information is also a useful way to uncover incompetence and irresponsibility.

If America's leaders actually care and trust the American people they would do a better job of getting information about terrorism out to the public. They should be sharing information openly. An informed citizenry aware of new dangers are more capable of defending themselves.

In the United States of America the people are suppose to rule but the people are effectively cut out of the process by a secrecy-addicted national security establishment of only a few hundred people. That is the problem, so the solution is leaking information sooner rather than later.

There is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by major press organizations, but there should be. The Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.

Always keep in mind that governments, the news media, anybody can and will use technology to fake things. You can not believe everything you see, hear, or read. Live or recorded video can have areas removed with fake inserts and it still looks just as real.

Scientists have recently created the first realistic videos of people saying things they never said. Scientists warn this technology will also provide a powerful new tool for fraud and propaganda and it will eventually cast doubt on everything from video surveillance to presidential addresses. Scientists involved see ways it could be misused: to discredit political dissidents on television, to embarrass people with fabricated video posted on the Web, or to illegally use trusted figures to endorse products. There is a certain point at which you raise the level of distrust to where it is hard to communicate using video. We will have to revert to eyewitness testimony if video authentication can not be proven.

"In March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests -- the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations -- got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press ...They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." - U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address before that organization in June of 1991

John Swinton, the former chief of staff of THE NEW YORK TIMES, called by his peers, "The Dean of his profession," was asked in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club. He rose and gave this toast: "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Search for secret societies and secret clubs that have demoniac rituals whose members included wealthy and powerful people.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22secret+societies%22
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Skull+and+Bones%22
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22Bohemian+Grove%22

New World Order

Cronkite - Media Mergers Threaten Democracy By John Nichols

http://tvnewslies.org/

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