This week's Recommended Reading features the controversial allegations in "The One Percent Doctrine". Surveillance, privacy and data protection arise in several of the news stories, including multiple data breaches, US congressional hearings on data protection, and the disclosure of another secret US surveillance program, this one leveraging an international financial transaction network.

---

3. AML/CFT Monitor

The AML/CFT Monitor is a monthly 16-page print publication. News highlights from the past week are provided in this free email update, but detailed analysis, background information and source documents are only available to subscribers. Purchase a subscription at our online store:
TAMNI Publications

--------------------------------------------------
AML/CFT Incidents/Cases
--------------------------------------------------
The UK Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has frozen some GBP 750,000 in assets of Gerard John Mulligan, who is suspected of deriving the assets from fraud, tax evasion, false accounting, and criminal activities.
http://www.octf.gov.uk/index.cfm/section/News/page/details/key/mulliganfraudcase

Mark Selby has been sentenced in UK court to six years is prison for customs and tax fraud in a carousel scam involving mobile phones.
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=208454&NewsAreaID=2

Ata Abdoulaziz Rashid and Mazen Ali Hussein have been charged in German court with financing Ansar al-Islam, in connection with a 2004 plot to kill former Iraqi Prime Miniter Iyad Allawi.

Celebrity jeweler Jacob Arabov ("Jacob the Jeweler") was charged in New York with money laundering charges stemming from a drugs case in Detroit.
http://www.nationaljeweler.com/nationaljeweler/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002689281
http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5791
http://www.jacobandco.com/

Italian police launched a major anti-Mafia operation Sicily that has led to at least 45 arrests for association with the Mafia and extortion. The arrests, including 13 alleged Cosa Nostra leaders, came after investigations connected with the April arrest of Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano.
--------------------------------------------------
AML/CFT Legislation and Regulation
--------------------------------------------------
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held a Plenary meeting 20-23 June. Among issued discussed were expansion of membership, enhanced roles for similar regional bodies, new modalities, and links to corruption.
http://www.fatf-gafi.org/dataoecd/16/23/36174130.pdf

During the session Nigeria was removed from the list of non-cooperative countries and territories (NCCT). Only Burma (Myanmar) remains on the list, which once included 23 jurisdictions.
http://www.fatf-gafi.org/dataoecd/13/54/36995060.pdf

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal revealed details of a secret US counterterrorism program that uses data from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), based in Brussels, to examine US and others banking records.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/washington/23intel.html?ex=1151208000&en=5521f14ba35f7ecc&ei=5087%0A
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060623-4.html
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/js4332.htm
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/js4334.htm
http://www.swift.com/index.cfm?item_id=59897

US President Bush issued an executive order to extend economic sanctions against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, in addition to the travel ban imposed in May.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060619-3.html

Indonesia plans to freeze the accounts and impose a travel ban on radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060621.H03

The US Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on Reauthorization of the Iran Libya Sanctions Act, which focused on the perceived threat from Iran.
http://banking.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=222
Philippine Army Chief Generoso Senga said that New People's Army (NPA) extortion must be stopped by increasing pressure on the communist rebels while continuing to address the root causes of rural poverty and economic and political reforms.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2006/06/25/news/rebel.extortion.must.be.stopped.army.chief.html

The Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) published a report on the Czech Republic that indicates corruption remains a serious problem. To address this requires measures to address conflicts of interest, competitive hiring of public sector employees, whistleblower protection, legal provisions on interim measures and forfeiture, and establishing liability and sanctions of legal persons for offenses of corruption, money laundering and trading in influence.
http://www.greco.coe.int/

South Korea has amended foreign trade laws to control exports or transshipments of "strategic goods" that could be used in WMD.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/06/21/200606210002.asp
--------------------------------------------------
AML/CFT Modalities
--------------------------------------------------
The UK's Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) released the Annual Report and Threat Assessment 2006. Among its findings, it cites the cost of fuel smuggling and laundering in Northern Ireland: GBP245 million in lost tax revenues in 2005 alone.
http://www.octf.gov.uk/index.cfm/section/publications/

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published a report on Trade-Based Money Laundering that examines aspects of international commercial activity that can be used for laundering criminal funds. Other new typology studies are under way to consider new payment methods, misuse of corporate vehicles, and other issues.
http://www.fatf-gafi.org/dataoecd/16/23/36174130.pdf

Philippine priest Father Romeo Intengan reports that communist rebels are not only extorting big traders, but have also targeted small, struggling entrepreneurs and local officials, who will pay to ensure they will not become targets.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ilo/2006/06/25/news/rebels.extorting.dev.t.funds.from.poor.local.units.group.html

Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has indicted the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) for failing to regulate advance fee frauds associated with internet service providers and cyber cafes that permit use by 419 fraudsters.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/nationalx/nr424062006.html

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime presented the 2005 Andean Coca Survey, which shows that overall figures remain nearly a third below their peak of 2000. However, coca cultivation in the region, which accounts for the entire global output of cocaine, rose 1 per cent to 159,600 hectares from 2004. This reflected an 8 per cent increase in Colombia, while cultivation in Bolivia and Peru fell by 8 per cent and 4 per cent respectively. Global cocaine production fell 3 percent to 910 metric tons in 2005. International aid to farmers will help provide alternate sources of livelihood, but requires a 10-fold increase in the amount of aid.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press_release_2006-06-20.html

---

4. Emerging Threat Monitor

For detailed analysis, background information and source documents consider subscribing. Subscriptions to Emerging Threat Monitor can be purchased at our online store:
TAMNI Publications

--------------------------------------------------
ETM Corruption and Transnational Crime
--------------------------------------------------
The Bank of Japan is conducting an internal review of investment rules and a parliamentary committee is independently investigating the connections between the bank's governor, Toshihiko Fukui, and fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami, who has been arrested for insider trading. Fukui says he will give any profits made from his investment in the fund to charity, and apologizes for any unwitting role in the fraud.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060623TDY03004.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=abRK_eokax3s&refer=japan

Juan Carlos Robinson, expelled from Cuba's Communist Party politburo in April, has now been sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33712

Former Bush administration official David Safavian was found guilty of obstruction and lying in connection with his ties to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=67813

David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby have failed in their attempt for the UK Law Lords to hear an appeal against their extradition to the US, where they are wanted on wire fraud charges in connection with the collapse of Enron.

In the US state of California, San Jose Mayor Ronald Gonzales has been indicted on seven counts of bribery and corruption that allegedly cheated the city of more than $11 million.
http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/index.php/2006/06/24/san-jose-mayor-gonzales-indicted-on-six-counts/
http://www.sjmayor.org/

India's Central Bureau of Investigation has filed charges against two former Ministers, a senior police officer, and six other people in connection with prostitution and related offenses that have led to widespread protests in Indian-administered Kashmir.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200606201401.htm

A Turkish court has suspended corruption charges against former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz, paving the way for his return to politics.
http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-9476.html

Indonesia's legislature has accused the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of illegally wiretapping their phone conversations.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060621.H01

Following the results of an audit, Transparency International has dismissed Kenya Executive Director Mwalimu Mati.
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143954446
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Economies and Financial Systems
--------------------------------------------------
"Middle East and North Africa Region: Financial Markets in a New Age of Oil" is a new report from the World Bank that examines key economic developments, underlying regional forces, structural reforms, and development particular to the region. While record oil prices, turmoil in Iraq, and political upheaval in Lebanon made the headlines, other developments were equally important. These include the deteriorating impact of high oil prices on non-oil producers, increasing moves by oil producers to channel windfalls into longer-term assets, and progress with structural reforms.
http://www.worldbank.org/mna

Denmark has agreed a welfare reform bill with multiparty approval to changes in retirement, which has been raised, as well as education and integration.
http://denmark.dk/portal/page?_pageid=374,610566&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&ic_itemid=925663

Martin Wolf, commenting in the 21 June issue of the Financial Times, writes of "Ten days that could shake the World Trade Organisation". He says, "if negotiators do not agree on how to go about liberalizing trade in goods, the round and possibly the World Trade Organisation itself may founder".
http:/www.ft.com/cms/s/9c3b879c-0081-11db-8078-0000779e2340.html
http://www.wto.org
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Environment and Climate Change
--------------------------------------------------
The National Academies of Sciences conducted an independent review of global warming, concluding that the "hockey stick" projection of sharp temperature rises in the last 400 years is accurate.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11676
http://fermat.nap.edu/catalog/11676.html

International Whaling Commission delegates supported a resolution calling for the eventual return of commercial whaling in a 33 to 32 vote, with China abstaining. Lifting the ban on commercial whaling requires a three-quarters majority.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/meetings/meeting2006.htm

The US Supreme Court indicated possible limitations on the Clean Water Act that could open more developments in wetlands. However, the conflicted court left no clear result, with four justices voting to restrict severely the scope of regulation, four to maintain the current aggressive regulation, and one to decide cases individually.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-1034.pdf

The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting held its annual meeting, emphasizing the need to maintain the unique environment.
http://www.atcm2006.gov.uk/

The US House Committee on Resources, subcommittee on forests and forest health, held an oversight hearing on the growing problem of invasive pests. They focused on a Government Accountability Office report, "Invasive Forest Pests: Recent Infestations and Continued Vulnerabilities at Ports of Entry Place U.S. Forests at Risk". The report finds that invasive pests have seriously harmed the environment and imposed significant economic costs. Greater monitoring efforts, regularly updated and published plans, and other measures are necessary to reduce this serious threat.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-871T
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Human Rights
--------------------------------------------------
Philippines President Gloria Arroyo has signed a law abolishing the death penalty, thereby commuting sentences of 1200 inmates to life in prison.

Barbados has appealed to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to overrule the Privy Council, which CCJ replaced, that a death penalty must be carried out within five years of conviction. Barbados wants to hang two men convicted in 1999 of murder.
http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=26418

The appeals chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ruled that the systematic mass slaughter in 1994 established beyond dispute and not requiring proof. This landmark ruling effectively ends the efforts of some defense attorneys who challenged whether the killing of around 800 000 people met the legal definition of genocide.
http://69.94.11.53/ENGLISH/PRESSREL/2006/481.htm

An international symposium has pointed to worsening violence against women in conflict situations, to call for urgent action to prevent and respond to the problem, including zero tolerance, a UN declaration, and appropriate funding, among other actions.
http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=819

Thailand's Chiang Mai University researcher Nongyao Naowarat released "Child Labor in the Farming Sector", which warns of chemical exposure to children and its serious consequences.
http://www.thailabour.org/news/file.php?id=06061902

Humberto Fernandez Vargas is a Mexican citizen who, despite multiple deportations, stayed in the US for more than 20 years, married a US citizen and started a company. When he applied for citizenship he was deported. The Supreme Court has now upheld a lower court ruling upholding his deportation, and dealing a blow to long-term illegal immigrants in the US.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-1376.pdf

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has amended its statutes to incorporate a new red crystal emblem, having the same status as the red cross and red crescent. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PCRS) and the Israeli National Society, Magen David Adom (MDA) have been admitted as members, bringing the number of societies in the federation to 185.
http://www.ifrc.org/

The Pew Research Center reports on "The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other". They introduce the report by saying:
" After a year marked by riots over cartoon portrayals of Muhammad, a major terrorist attack in London, and continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, most Muslims and Westerners are convinced that relations between them are generally bad these days. Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance. Meanwhile, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia generally see Westerners as selfish, immoral and greedy - as well as violent and fanatical".
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253

Ruhr-Universitat Bochum's Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict issued two briefing notes that discuss overlapping jurisdictions between the International Criminal Court and with ah hoc international tribunals or hybrid international tribunals.
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ifhv/

The new UN Human Rights Council held its inaugural session on 19 June.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18909
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Infectious Diseases
--------------------------------------------------
Dr. Wu-Chin Cao, a researcher with China's State Key Laboratory of Pathogens and Biosecurity, and colleagues describe a human case of H5N1 avian influenza that precedes by a month the first report of human infection and by two years the first official report from China. Earlier warning could have helped officials in Thailand and Vietnam when they began reporting cases of human infection, perhaps saving some lives. There is confusion regarding communications attempting to withdraw the report. The World Health Organization has requested a meeting and explanation for the startling revelation, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (22 June issue).
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/25/2731

Cumulative confirmed cases of reported H5N1 infections through 20 June have reached 228, of which 130 proved fatal.

Indonesia held urgent consultations with international experts following identification of the largest cluster of H5N1 infections. The World Health Organization now confirms limited human-to-human transmission in the case, but says it does not signal a major change in the spread of the virus.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2006_06_20/en/index.html
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2006/np14/en/index.html

European farmers have been offered up to EU 65 million in compensation for tackling avian influenza.

A new strain of HIV was identified in a Thai woman. The cross between the A/E strain widespread in Thailand with C strain, common in Africa, China, and India, is being monitored but is not seen as a major threat.
http://nationmultimedia.com/2006/06/21/national/national_30006927.php
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Legal Systems
--------------------------------------------------
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for re-balancing the criminal justice system and addressing the gap between where it is and what the public expects. Note expert papers, including a criminologist Ian Loader's criticism, submitted to the Prime Minister.
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page9700.asp

Northern Ireland Justice Oversight Commissioner Lord Clyde released his sixth and final report on progress on implementation of the Criminal Justice Review. Although he oversaw many reforms, he expressed regret that community restorative justice programs had not progressed further.
http://www.nio.gov.uk/media-detail.htm?newsID=13192
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Populations
--------------------------------------------------
The World Urban Forum was held 19-23 June. At current rates, more than half of the world's population will live in urban areas by the end of next year, many in slums. This dramatic shift to urban areas raises serious challenges of poverty, environment, health, safety and security.
http://www.unhabitat.org/wuf/2006/default.asp

Note BBC coverage in "Urban Planet", which includes personal stories from urban migrants around the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2006/urbanisation/default.stm

Every country in Europe has a total fertility rate of less than two children per women, which means that by 2050 one in three Europeans will be over 65 years of age. "Should ART Be Part of a Population Policy Mix?" is a new briefing from Rand Europe. It finds that in countries where IVF is widely available, overall fertility rates rise, and says that this should be considered among other policy measures to address demographic imbalances. This report supplements "Low Fertility and Population Aging: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options".
http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB507/
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG206/

World Refugee Day on 20 June was marked with calls for long-term support for refugees returning home. It is necessary to address the transition from relief and development to reconstruction, and that the international community remembers that peace alone does not resolve the problems left by legacies of conflict.
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/events?id=3e7f46e04
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060620-refugee-video.html
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Social Responsibility
--------------------------------------------------
South Africa released "A Nation in the Making: A Discussion Document on Macro-Social Trends in South Africa". It finds that race remains a key factor:
"In terms of ownership and control of wealth and income, access to social services such as health, water, housing, electricity and education; the character of civil-society structures to which individuals belong; and public opinion on various aspects of government activity, this profile is all still too obvious".
http://www.info.gov.za/otherdocs/2006/socioreport.pdf

In the US, the average CEO is paid in one day about as much as an average worker earns in a year: a salary 262 times the average worker's/ This is among the findings of a forthcoming Economic Policy Institute report, "The State of Working America, 1006/7".
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20060621

Merrill Lunch and Cap Gemini report a sharp increase in the millionaires clubs of Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
http://www.ml.com/index.asp?id=7695_7696_8149_63464_67074_67212
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Technology
--------------------------------------------------
Leading scientists with the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues have released a statement calling for the teaching of evolution. They say, "within science courses taught in certain public systems of education, scientific evidence, data, and testable theories about the origins and evolution of life on Earth are being concealed, denied, or confused with theories not testable by science.... We urge decision makers, teachers, and parents to educate all children about the methods and discoveries of science and foster an understanding of the science of nature. Knowledge of the natural world in which they live empowers people to meet human needs and protect the planet."
http://www.interacademies.net/?id=6176

The European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology held its annual meeting. Among the findings presented are:
* IVF has resulted in more than three million babies worldwide since Louise Brown was born on 26 July 1978
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1094702.ece
* Very young and very old mothers are an evolutionary consequence of improvements in health and commensurate longevity.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=45440
* There is a risk of identity fraud by patients, switching partners or sperm
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-06-20T135029Z_01_L19829430_RTRUKOC_0_US-FERTILITY.xml
* Vasectomies can contribute to genetic defects
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-06-21T113048Z_01_L21419074_RTRUKOC_0_US-FERTILITY-VASECTOMY.xml

Danish company Medical Prognosis Institute has announced a new DNA test that could help match genetic profiles to prescription dosages.
http://www.medical-prognosis.com/

The RoboBusiness Conference was held 20-21 June. US General Cartwright urged attendees to help make robots safe, while Bruce Boyes called for industry standards.
http://www.robobusiness2006.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/21/army_fcs_robot/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/22/robotics_standards/

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area, which could offer protection from clandestine photography or covert recordings in cinemas or other larger areas.
http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1017
--------------------------------------------------
ETM Weapons (WMD, Proliferation)
--------------------------------------------------
UN Security Council members and Germany have presented an offer of capacity, economic and security incentives to Iran in the ongoing negotiation regarding Iran's nuclear programs. Iran will respond in August, but talks continue in the meantime.

Reports that North Korea was preparing to test a long-range missile caused an international flurry of warnings that the country must abide by the nuclear test ban treaty, and threats of consequences if it did undertake a test. Later reports suggested that such a test was not imminent.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/23/korea.missile/
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200606/kt2006062517395054050.htm
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/764881
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-23T112824Z_01_SEO56650_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-MISSILES.xml&archived=False

Amnesty International, the Defense Manufacturers Association, Oxfam, and others have agreed to work with the leadership of the UK Foreign Office to lead an effort for an international treaty to regulate arms sales, replacing disparate export control regimes around the world.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029391638&a=KArticle&aid=1150455150855
http://www.controlarms.org/
www.the-dma.org.uk/
http://www.iansa.org/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/press/releases/ca_guncrime_190606.htm

The international symposium on Minimization of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) in the Civilian Nuclear Sector was held 17-20 June. Facing an increased threat of nuclear terrorism, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei emphasized the urgent need to minimize and eventually eliminate civilian use of HEU, converting existing facilities to run on low enriched uranium (LEU).
http://www.nrpa.no/symposium/
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2006/minimizingcivilianuses.html

Ten US security experts released a letter to Congress describing how the proposed US-India nuclear cooperation agreement violates the non-proliferation treaty (NPT). Other concerns were raised regarding the possibility that the agreement could prove a catalyst to a new arms race between India and Pakistan, particularly after reports that India could produce as many as 50 new warheads a year.
http://www.npec-web.org/Frameset.asp?PageType=Single&PDFFile=20060620-LetterOnArticleOne&PDFFolder=Essays
http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1739&Itemid=125
http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/19/stories/2006061904331200.htm

Manoj Bhayana has been indicted in a Pennsylvania US court for conspiracy to falsify documents in a shipment to the United Arab Emirates that had potential nuclear and military applications.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-062.html

Russia and the US have agreed to extend the Cooperative Threat Reduction agreement.
http://www.ransac.org
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901380.html

Egypt and Jamaica have agreed to cooperate in the US Container Security and Megaports initiatives against nuclear smuggling.
http://www.nnsa.doe.gov/docs/newsreleases/2006/PR_2006-06-22_NA-06-18.htm
http://www.nnsa.doe.gov/docs/newsreleases/2006/PR_2006-06-20_NA-06-16.htm

Required military vaccines might have killed a 26-year-old U.S. Army soldier in 2005, t
The US Defense Department acknowledged that required smallpox, anthrax, influenza and other vaccinations could have been responsible for the December death of Christopher Abston. Many troops have questioned the safety of required vaccinations, and some have been discharged after refusing to be vaccinated.
http://www.dod.gov/releases/2006/nr20060622-13316.html
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-06-23T000733Z_01_N2272318_RTRUKOC_0_US-ARMS-USA-VACCINE.xml

National University of Singapore researchers has developed a nanofiber material that neutralizes chemical agents.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/213827/1/.html

Antigua and Barbuda have established a national authority in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
http://www.opcw.org/pressreleases/2006/PR34_2006.html

---

5. Critical Infrastructure Monitor

Critical Infrastructure Monitor gives you the background and analysis missing from these news briefings. Subscriptions can be purchased from our online store:
TAMNI Publications

--------------------------------------------------
CIM Agriculture and Food
--------------------------------------------------
The European Commission has "called for a root-and-branch reform of the Common Market Organization for wine. The plan aims to increase the competitive ness of EU wine producers, strengthen the reputation of EU wines, win back market share, balance supply and demand and simplify the rules, while preserving the best traditions of EU wine production and reinforcing the social and environmental fabric of rural areas".
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/capreform/wine/index_en.htm

Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has warned of widespread counterfeit alcohol that kills 42,000 people per year.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10561485&PageNum=0
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Banking and Finance
--------------------------------------------------
Deloitte's 2006 Global Security Survey provides benchmarks for information security in financial services. This year the report highlights a surge in attacks, with over three-quarters confirming external and nearly 50 percent internal breaches. Most attacks are for monetary gain, including more organized crime rather than the nuisance hackers.
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/dtt_fsi_2006%20Global%20Security%20Survey_2006-06-13.pdf

Deloitte CEO William Parrett called for enhanced transparency and making it a crime to lie to an auditor.
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/press_release/0,1014,sid%253D1018%2526cid%253D122137,00.html

Bangladesh Bank (BB) took control of Oriental Bank in connection with a massive capital shortfall attributed to the bank owners and directors siphoning off cash in the form of dubious loans. A day after BB assumed control, the Securities and Exchange commission suspended trading to prevent to owners from selling their shares, hindering the investigation.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/06/22/d6062201033.htm
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=6/21/2006§ion_id=4&newsid=28416

In Canada, Quebec police broke up a criminal ring in which debit and credit cards were cloned at more than 40 convenience and small grocery stores, defrauding some 18,000 people with millions in fraudulent transactions. Nine people were arrested.
http://www.suretequebec.gouv.qc.ca/accueil/communiques/2006/20060620_01.html (in French)
http://www.desjardins.com/en/a_propos/salle_presse/la_une/communiques/2006062001.jsp
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=9919da2d-cf8e-47a7-84de-66d9e260facb&k=33938

In Nigeria, Zenith Bank PLC launched the first chip-enabled Visa Automated Teller Machine in the country, providing much stronger transaction security.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/business/june06/22062006/b222062006.html

The US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia threw out new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations on hedge funds.
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200606/04-1434a.pdf
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006/2006-101.htm
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Chemical
--------------------------------------------------
The US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a full committee hearing on "Inherently Safer Technology in the Context of Chemical Site Security", where it was suggested that the Department of Homeland Security be given new authority for monitoring and oversight of chemical plants.
http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=257471
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Cybersecurity
--------------------------------------------------
British Labor MP Angela Eagle called for action against hate sites after one of her constituents was attacked and nearly blinded when his address and that of other leftists was published on the Redwatch neo-nazi site. The site is hosted abroad, and the UK Home Office has been in contact with the US Department of Justice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5102836.stm
http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1585265
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwatch

Verizon has lost records of nearly a year of 911 calls to the Massachusetts State Police. These records are often important in criminal cases. Although the data is inaccessible, Verizon is investigating whether it may be recoverable.
http://www.policeone.com/communications/articles/137205/

An ING US employee's computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees. The data was not secured, and ING will pay for a year of credit monitoring and identity fraud protection.
http://app.cfo.dc.gov/CFORUI/news/release.asp?id=146

The US Navy discovered a civilian website containing Social Security numbers and other personal data for 28,000 sailors and their families. A criminal investigation is under way.
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=24327

Oregon's Department of Revenue was infected with a Trojan that recorded confidential information of more than 2,000 taxpayers.
http://www.oregon.gov/DOR/webtrojan.shtml

NTT Card Solution suffered a security breach in which the identification numbers of more than 30,000 Net Cash electronic payment customers were stolen.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/technology/article_21224136.shtml
http://net-cash.jp/news/20060619_systemerror.html (in Japanese)

KDDI, an NTT competitor, suffered a serious data leak the week before, involving personal information on nearly four million internet customers.
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=telecomm&storyID=nT280958

The US Federal Trade Commission reported that about 110 individuals' personal information was compromised by the theft of a laptop.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/06/fyi0640.htm

More than a thousand customers of National Australia Bank were caught in a phishing fraud that used the hook of a forthcoming bankruptcy to scare readers into clicking on a link for more information, thereby downloading a Trojan.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/06/19/bank_details_aussies/
http://www.national.com.au/Internet_Banking/0,,60615,00.html

Deloitte's 2006 Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Security Survey reports poor system security, and a serious problem from insiders.
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/nl_nl_tmt_securitysurvey_20060606%281%29.pdf

The major breach of information security at the Department of Veterans' Affairs continued to draw scrutiny, including another congressional hearing on data security procedures and past deficiencies related to the Veterans Benefits Administration. The government agreed to provide free credit monitoring to the millions affected. This major incident has sparked a flurry of legislative activity.
http://veterans.house.gov/news/109/6-21-06a.html

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce held hearings on "Internet Data Brokers and Pretexting: Who Has Access to Your Private Records?" and "Privacy in the Commercial World". The hearings revealed data mining practices that many representatives suggested could be - or should be - illegal.
http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/06202006hearing1938/hearing.htm
http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/06212006hearing1916/hearing.htm
http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/06222006hearing1943/hearing.htm

In addition to such growing data vulnerabilities, fresh attention has turned to Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) industrial monitoring systems.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11396

Copies of three fingerprint expert reports prepared in the Shirley McKie case, which involved false identification of fingerprints, have been released. Another report written by former deputy chief constable Mackay is being withheld.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-comm-06/cj106-003.htm

Scotland's University of Abertay has launched a degree course in Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, which requires background screening of applicants.
http://www.abertay.ac.uk/News/NewsDetails.cfm?NewsID=1038&Key=005.001
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Defense Industrial Base
--------------------------------------------------
The Indian Express reports on a sensitive Defense Research and Development Organization project compromised by using a key supplier that had previously been blacklisted.
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/6803.html

The increasing threat from improvised explosive devices in Iraq has led to great interest in critical force protection equipment. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has examined issued affecting production and installation of armor for the Army's medium and heavy trucks. Their latest report, "Defense Logistics: Lack of a Synchronized Approach Between the Marine Corps and Army Affected the Timely Production and Installation of Marine Corps Truck Armor" calls for a process to share information and clarify where joint requirements processes are needed.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-274
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Energy
--------------------------------------------------
The US Energy Information Administration's annual report predicts a 37 percent increase in global demand for oil by 2030.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/index.html

Beginning in 2011 DONG Energy (Denmark) will purchase a minimum of one billion cubic meters of gas each year for 20 years from Russia's Gazprom, delivered via the North European Gas Pipeline. In addition, DONG will sell gas to a Gazprom subsidiary in the UK.
https://www.dong.dk/portal/page?_pageid=217,42036&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&next_page=/tridion_impl/com/DONGUK_PG_PRESS_NEWS/0300_NEWS_ARCHIVE/0320_NEWS_ARCHIVE06/060619_Gazprom_to_deliver_gas_to_Denmark.jsp

Reinstated as Ukraine's Prime Minister following agreement on a new coalition government, Yuliya Timoshenko has raised concerns across Europe with her call for fresh negotiations into the Russian gas agreement. Observers fear this could negatively affect European supplies of natural gas, as had been experienced during a prior disagreement between Russia and the Ukraine.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8,00.html
http://euobserver.com/9/21933
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Information Technology
--------------------------------------------------
The Business Roundtable warns that the US is poorly prepared for a major disruption of the internet. Gaps and ambiguities would make recovery following a catastrophe problematic, and these weaknesses could have serious impacts on security and the economy, in both the public and private sectors.
http://www.businessroundtable.org/newsroom/Document.aspx?qs=5936BF807822B0F1AD2428022FB51711FCF50C8

Jupiter Research, Sunbelt Software, and others have accused Microsoft of predatory pricing of its new security products, which compete with its own partners and could stifle industry innovation in security.
http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/016106.html
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/microsoft-practices-predatory-pricing.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Microsoft_swims_upstream_on_security/0,2000061744,39260874,00.htm
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1979952,00.asp

A Dutch court, overturning a lower court ruling, has determined that providing links to illegal MP3 files online was illegal, even though the company -zoekmp3.nl - did no host the content itself. The site has been closed down, and the operator, Tech Design Internet Programming has been fined.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2158618/dutch-mp3-linking-site-shut
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste
--------------------------------------------------
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a license to Louisiana Energy Services (LES) to construct and operate a gas centrifuge uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2006/06-084.html

The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, held a hearing to review oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). NRC has used feedback from stakeholders and independent reviewers to develop a new Reactor Oversight Process, and is working on improving the culture of safety in nuclear plants.
http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/06192006hearing1937/hearing.htm
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Public Health and Healthcare
--------------------------------------------------
Australia's Minister for Health and Aging, Tony Abbott, released the agency's annual report. He points to Australian's having among the top five life expectancy rates, and other positive indicators. Then he turned to the indigenous population, where he highlighted a dramatic difference in circumstances, before recommending a return to paternalism:
"Although health spending per Indigenous person is 18 per cent higher than health spending generally, on almost every indicator Indigenous people?s health outcomes are dramatically worse. Indigenous people have twice the rate of hospitalization for injury or poisoning, Indigenous children are three times as likely to have ear and hearing problems, and Indigenous people have three times the general rate of diabetes. Fifty per cent of Indigenous people smoke tobacco (compared with 17 per cent for Australians generally). Indigenous people are one-and-a-half times as likely to be physically inactive, and are twice as likely to have experienced victimization, with 24 per cent reporting physical or threatened violence in a 12-month period."
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/health-mediarel-yr2006-ta-abbsp210606.htm?OpenDocument&yr=2006&mth=6
http://www.smh.com.au/news/health-and-fitness/blackwhite-health-chasm-widening/2006/06/21/1150845234635.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19558359-29277,00.html
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/still-blaming-the-victim/2006/06/21/1150845241163.html

A month after Namibia's first outbreak of polio in ten years, a mass vaccination drive has targeted all 2.5 million residents and visitors. Most of the 15 recorded deaths were among people over 20 years old, who did not have childhood vaccinations, which have been carried out since independence in 1990.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200606220017.html

The UK's largest public sector union, Unison, warns that outsourcing of medical records can be life threatening. Transcription of medical notes has led to errors such as confusing "hypertension" (high blood pressure) with "hypotension" (low blood pressure); "A septic" (infected) with "aseptic" (not infected); and mixing up "15mg" and "50mg" drug dosages.
http://www.unison.org.uk/conference2006/news_view.asp?did=2694
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Telecommunications
--------------------------------------------------
Standard and Poor's predicts that competition, debt and consolidation costs from mergers will lead to slow growth in the telecommunications industry over the next year.
http://www.standardandpoors.com

Responding to recent law enforcement cases stemming from the revelation that some US telecommunications companies cooperated with a secret National Security Administration (NSA) surveillance program, AT&T has revised its privacy policy to define subscriber information as business records belonging to the company that can be shared.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201742.html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2006-06-21-privacy-usat_x.htm
http://att.sbc.com/

Kazakhstan has launched the KasSat-1, its first communications satellite. It supports television and other communication signals in the region.

The British Medical Journal warns of the danger of lightning strikes while using a mobile phone outside during stormy weather.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/332/7556/1513-b
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Transportation
--------------------------------------------------
South Africa has designated hypodermic needles as dangerous items on passenger aircraft following an incident last week in which a passenger used a syringe to threaten the crew and demand the plane fly to Mozambique. Other passengers overcame him and the plane returned to South Africa, where the Zimbabwean student was arrested.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=275314

In his latest report on the operation of Britain's Terrorism Act 2000, Lord Carlile of Berriew remarked on the terrorism threat posed by executive jets and the often vulnerable corporate aviation industry. (Paragraphs 119-120)
http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications1/publication-search/independent-reviews/tact-2005-review?view=Standard&pubID=356988

The US House Committee on Transportation, Subcommittee on Aviation, held a hearing on air traffic control modernization. This has been listed as a high-risk program for more than a decade due to systematic problems with management and acquisition. With coming retirements, the air traffic control system faces serious challenges.
http://www.house.gov/transportation/aviation/06-06-21/06-06-21memo.html

Chile and Denmark are the first International Maritime Organization states for formally join the Voluntary IMO state Audit Scheme.
http://www.imo.org

In the Malacca straits no cases of piracy have been reported in Malaysian waters since two pirate gangs were dismantled last year, reducing from six to zero the number of cases.
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=204403

The UK House of Commons debated the issue of rerouting southern rail services over concerns that rising sea levels and recent storm damage could overcome sea wall defenses. Rail Minister Twigg acknowledged the vulnerability, but said this was not a problem in the "foreseeable future".
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060620/halltext/60620h0210.htm#06062029000601

Rail security in South Africa has been increased in the face of possible threats from striking security workers, many whom are armed.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=275323

In the US, at least six large cities are considering bans or limits on rail shipments of chemicals. The rail industry has responded to such concerns by calling for liability limits or giving it the ability to turn away such shipments, which are currently mandated under government rules. Some companies want to implement new technology that would reduce the crew of cargo shipments to one. Such proposals have raised additional security concerns.
http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=28817
http://www.aar.org/Index.asp?NCID=3764
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/14896883.htm

Bomb components were found in a backpack on a train in Utah. The incident is being investigated.
http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=28823
--------------------------------------------------
CIM Water
--------------------------------------------------
The Republic of Korea's Water Resources Corporation (K-water) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for regional cooperation in water resources and risk management in natural disasters. This is the first such agreement between UNESCAP and a national enterprise from a member country.
http://www.unescap.org/unis/index.asp

The US House Committee on Resources, subcommittee on water and power, held an oversight hearing regarding protection of dams and reservoirs from terrorist threats.
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/Press/releases/2006/0622security.htm

---

6. Disaster Reduction Monitor

News highlights from the past week are provided in this free email update, but detailed analysis, background information and source documents are only available to subscribers. Disaster Reduction Monitor subscriptions and other titles can be purchased here:
TAMNI Publications

--------------------------------------------------
DRM Incidents
--------------------------------------------------
More than 200 people have died in floods and landslides caused by heavy rain on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

A ferry sank of Sumatra, Indonesia. 94 passengers were rescued and 39 are still missing.

A bus and a truck collided at high speed in Cameroon, killing at least 30 people.

In Indian-administered Kashmir, a bus plunged into a gorge, killing at least 25 of the 48 passengers on board.

Mudslides following torrential rains in Romania killed seven people.

PT Lapindo Brantas, a subsidiary of PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk, was prospecting for gas in East Java, Indonesia, when a drill penetrated the underground mud and blew out, causing a massive flow of hot toxic mud. Farms and villages have been flooded, and more than a thousand villagers treated for respiratory and other problems. The uncontrolled flow is now in its third week, and has caused serious financial losses to the affected areas. Food shortages and other aid have been hindered as roads are cut off and heavy rains limit access by air.

The drought in east Africa has created a shortage of food for lions, leading a pride to attack villagers in Kenya, killing at least three people. Rampages over the last two weeks have killed 50 goats and forced pastoralists to flee to safer locations.

A barge carrying over 1.200 tons of sulfuric acid sank in the Philippines. The environmental impact is being assessed.
--------------------------------------------------
DRM Response and Recovery
--------------------------------------------------
The Ece, a French freighter, sank in January while laden with thousands of tons of phosphoric acid. Over the summer, it will be slowly released into the water, which French and British experts believe will avoid harmful environmental impacts.
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/index.php?pagetype=display_news&idx=311
http://www.premar-manche.gouv.fr/ (in French)

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended evictions of Katrina evacuees living in FEMA trailers in Mississippi.

Residents in the vicinity of Indonesian volcano Mount Merapi have been forced to sell off cattle because the ashfall and evacuation make it impossible to feed and care for them. Although the volcano has cooled, the situation is still considered the highest level of alert, with ash and debris daily.
--------------------------------------------------
DRM Risks
--------------------------------------------------
Thai geologists studying the mudslides in Laplae district recommend permanently relocating villages that are too close to flash flood and mudslide prone mountain ranges.

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography released a new study presenting a clear picture of fault movement that demonstrates the southern part of California's San Andreas fault is overdue for a large earthquake. The San Jacinto Fault is similarly vulnerable.
http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=736

Italian scientists have identified a massive underwater volcano, which remains dormant off the coast of Sicily.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5108360.stm
--------------------------------------------------
DRM Mitigation
--------------------------------------------------
Thailand plans to install early warning systems in 51 provinces prone to flash floods and mudslides within three years. Systems have already been installed in 321 vulnerable villages.

AT and T's 2006 Business Continuity Study finds that:
* Nearly 30 percent of those surveyed said that their company has suffered from a disaster.
*  Eighty-one percent of executives surveyed say that cyber security is part of their overall business continuity plan in 2006, up from 75 percent in 2005.
*  Eight out of 10 companies that do have a business continuity plan have updated it in the past 12 months, including 48 percent that say that it has been updated in the past six months.
*  Of those companies with business continuity plans in place, 40 percent say that they have not tested their plan in the past 12 months.
http://att.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=5097&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=22345

Joseph Treaster describes hurricane-resistant home building in "Let a Hurricane Huff and Puff" (New York Times 22 June).
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/business/22fortress.html?ex=1308628800&en=54b79504c6c02b66

---

7. Recommended Reading

Hot off the press is "The One Percent Doctrine" (Simon and Schuster). Author Ron Suskind relies on current and former government officials to portray the "invisible battlefield" in the "war on terror" -- a secret and far more ruthless program than has been made known publicly.
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=524051

The title comes from Vice President Dick Cheney's November 2001 instruction to the CIA that even if there is a one percent chance that al Qaeda could obtain a weapon of mass destruction, it must be treated as a certainty. Regarding Cheney's pivotal role, also check out the Frontline television documentary, "The Dark Side". This title is inspired by a Cheney interview, where in discussing responses to terrorism he said that in addition to the military response, "We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will".
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/news-speeches/speeches/vp20010916.html


The book is recommended here because it includes two major disclosures that have sparked a strong public response.

The first, excerpted by the Times (London) has raised more calls for a public inquiry into the 7 July bombings. It claims that the leader of the 7/7 bombers, Mohaqmmad Sidique Khan, was known as early as 2003, and had connections with Islamic extremists in the US. This report contradicts past and current evidence from British domestic intelligence service MI5, and they have dismissed the suggestion they received advance warnings.
Articles:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2232289,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1804919,00.html
Excerpt
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2232281,00.html

Time magazine provides details on the second disclosure, regarding a plot to fill the New York subway with cyanide gas. According to Suskind, al Qaeda was 45 days away from launching the attack, when it was called off. This report has fueled calls for more funds to secure high profile targets in New York and other locations where homeland security funds have been cut.
Excerpt:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1205478,00.html
Interview:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1205352,00.html
Analysis:
http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=185

Other items revealed in the book include:
* bin Laden's October 2004 message was designed to assist President Bush's re-election
* The US has a source in al Qaeda from late 2002-5 but stopped using him for protection
* al Qaeda had stocks of anthrax in Afghanistan prior to 9/11, that could be weaponized
* Credit card processor First Data Corp and other financial services operations made data available to the FBI, which used the transaction details to complement NSA surveillance

Here are links to reviews of the book:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/books/20kaku.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,,1803468,00.html
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_carlson&sid=av4WDK2YA2nQ
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/06/23/suskind/index_np.html
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/opinion/article_21224246.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901211.html

Author interview:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5498114

Ron Suskind's personal page, including information about his other books:
http://www.ronsuskind.com/

Also note this summary of related recent or forthcoming titles:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-06-14-terror-war_x.htm

---

8. Asset Management Network News

Visit our online store to purchase subscriptions to the Monitor series as well as our Special Reports, including our new Special Report "Trends in Terrorism: 2005".

Email [email protected] for details about the new products, publications, and information about services, including custom research.