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Security Management News
| Rat-like Robot to Aid Disaster Response A British research team is developing a rat-like robot that may one day help first responders search and rescue victims of man-made and natural disasters, reports The New Scientist. |
| SPLC Lists Right-Wing Terrorist Plots and Actions Since 1995 There have been 75 right-wing extremist plots or actions since 1995 to slaughter people they viewed as targets, according to a list compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). |
| UK: White Supremacist Wanted to Throw Tennis Ball Bombs at Asian Neighbors A British court has heard testimony against Neil Lewington, an alcoholic 43-year old white supremacist, who allegedly conspired to unleash terrorist bombings against his Asian neighbors and others not considered British enough. What's interesting about Lewington's plan, reports BBC.com, was what material he planned to make his improvised incendiary devices with. |
| United States and Spain Formalize Program to Identify "High-Risk" Travelers The United States and Spain today formalized a program that identifies high-risk travelers at Madrid Barajas International Airport before they can board a flight to the United States. |
| Four Elite Counterterrorism Bases Set up Across India The Indian government has established four bases around the country to house its elite counterterrorism teams as part of its promise to increase the country's security in the aftermath of the November 2009 terrorist attack in Mumbai. |
| China Delays Online Filtering Plan The Communist Party's controversial plan to force computer manufacturers to include Internet filtering software in the machines sold inside China, slated to start tomorrow, has been called off indefinitely, delighting critics. |
| Cigarette and Tobacco Smuggling Finances Terrorism Worldwide, Says Report A new report from the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism outfit, details how terrorists and insurgencies the world over have smuggled cigarettes to finance their organizations and their missions. CPI's investigation concentrates on seven groups which range from Marxist insurgencies to jihadist terrorists and from republican terrorists to profit-driven Congolese rebels. |
| Administration Plans to Send National Guard to Mexican Border? The Obama administration is planning to seek as many as 1,500 National Guardsmen to secure the nation's border with Mexico, according to the San Antonio Express-News. |
| Drug-Resistant Swine Flu Arises and Then Dies in Danish Patient A drug-resistant strain of swine flu appeared in a Danish patient and then apparently died out before the infection could spread. |
| New CBP Rules Will Redefine Many Knives as "Switchblades" Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) proposal to designate any knife that opens using a spring- or release-assisted mechanism a switchblade, thus barring its import into the United States, has provoked outrage on Capitol Hill as well as among sportsmen organizations and knifemakers. |