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| SCI | Grad Student Researches Improvised Explosive Devices by Making His Own
Phillip Mulligan is trying to make improvised explosive devices more powerful with the idea of eventually making them less deadly. | 12-Aug-2009
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| LIF | Indonesian Bombings Halt Downward Terror Trend, Says Research
The coordinated luxury hotel bombings in Jakarta come against a backdrop of declining Indonesian terrorism, according to a new report from the University of Maryland-based National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. “Since 2001, terror attacks in Indonesia have been declining steadily,” says UM’s Gary LaFree. | 19-Jul-2009
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| LIF | Expert in Jakarta and Singapore to Discuss Bombings
Justin Hastings, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech is in Jakarta and available to discuss Friday's bomb attacks. Hasting's expertise is in terrorism, rogue states, nuclear armament and Southeast Asia.
Expert available | 17-Jul-2009
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| SCI | Students Create Portable Device to Detect Suicide Bombers
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have developed a new way to detect them. | 24-Jun-2009
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| SCI | Research Details Mathematical Model for Effectively Screening Airline Passengers
Passenger screenings at the nation’s airports can be conducted more efficiently without compromising aviation security, according to research at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
IIE Transactions, Jun-2009 | 08-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Homeland Security Policy Institute - Combating Spread of Islamist Extremism
The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute
held a forum featuring Dr. Matthew Levitt, HSPI Senior Fellow and Director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, to discuss the findings of WINEP’s Presidential Transition Task Force Report, Rewriting the Narrative: An Integrated Strategy for Counterradicalization. | 04-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Air France Crash: Circumstances Point to Terrorism, Expert Says
A University of Indianapolis professor says the recent opening of a French military base in Dubai may have angered Islamic extremists in South America, sparking plans for attacks against French targets.
Expert available | 03-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Religious Terror Attacks Rare in U.S.
Terror attacks on religious targets are relatively rare, but often deadly, in the United States, according to the University of Maryland-based National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The researchers add that private businesses are the most frequent U.S. target, based on figures compiled from the Global Terrorism Database. | 27-May-2009
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| LIF | Homeland Security Advisor Unveils New White House Organization
The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute held a forum featuring John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Randy Beardsworth and Dr. Michele Malvesti, the co-chairs of Presidential Study Directive-1 (PSD-1): Organizing for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. | 27-May-2009
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| LIF | Terrorist Attacks on Religious Figures and Institutions and Military Targets
The START Center at the University of Maryland releases a report looking at terrorist incidents against religious Figures, Institutions and Military Targets. | 22-May-2009
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