March 24, 2006 • Volume 4 • Number 4
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SPECIAL ISSUE!
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Was Dubai Such A Bad Idea?
 Now that the Dubai ports deal has been squelched, questions remain as to whether Arab management of major U.S. ports constituted a unique threat to homeland security? Or would the Persian Gulf company set to take over operation of shipping hubs been under even greater pressure to install tough new security systems? MORE
Terrorist Hunter Addresses IntelCon, May 7-9
 Rita Katz, the author of Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America will speak at the IntelCon Conference, May 7-9. Katz has operated the Site Institute and its exhaustive www.siteinstitute.org resource since 2002, tracking the online doings of al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups. MORE
Next Generation Intel Now
 In 1994, the US intelligence community (IC) built an extensive intranet to deal with information overload. The “Intelink” is used to integrate and disseminate virtually every piece of information that the intelligence agencies report to their “customers,” from the White House to the warfighter. But that was then, and this is post-9/11. To meet this new challenge, the Intelink Management Office (IMO) has partnered with MetaCarta to build a next-generation intelligence dissemination and collaboration service called Intelligent Delivery Services (IDS). MORE
 Piracy - Down, Up (In Iraq), Foiled by LRAD
The good news is that 2005 marked a significant downturn in piracy events worldwide (but up in Iraq), with 276 total attacks at sea reported compared to 2004, when there were 329. Perhaps the best news about piracy in 2005 followed a November event when a luxury cruise ship reportedly used a newly deployed Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to send an ear-splitting signal to would-be attackers, driving them back in the waters off Somalia. MORE
Freedom vs. Security
 “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” – Benjamin Franklin
In the aftermath of September 11, a consensus quickly emerged that the tragedies were due in part to a breakdown in intelligence. Leaders from across the political spectrum questioned how al-Qaeda—a known terrorist network—had been able to plan and execute the September 11 attacks without attracting the attention of the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Defense, and other agencies charged with tracking terrorist threats. MORE
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