In This Issue
Is al Qaeda Targeting World Energy Sources?
MIPT’s Programs That Protect
Terrorism: Understanding the Threat
Change: It’s Constant & Inevitable
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Is al Qaeda Targeting World Energy Sources? 
Osama bin Laden calls energy one of the “hinges” of the world economy that he has threatened to attack.
 
In a report prepared exclusively for MIPT, former United Nations Counterterrorism Chief Alex P. Schmid discusses the challenges of global energy security. Schmid, currently head of the Scotland’s St. Andrew’s Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, offers effective short-term solutions even as he explains the allure of energy system attacks and the continuing threat of “small deed – large consequence” actions.
 

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Amid renewed threats to world oil supplies from al Qaeda and others, MIPT is pleased to release this special report on terrorist threats to the energy sector.  This piece represents one chapter of a forthcoming compilation by MIPT’s Senior Fellows, scheduled to be released in the first half of 2007.  Watch for its release on www.mipt.org

 

MIPT's Programs That Protect

MIPT offers a powerhouse of information for the first responder and homeland security communities, intelligence analysts as well as instructors.

 

Targeting the emergency response community, LLIS has launched new features:

A redesigned home page, and real-time topics complemented with best practices and lessons learned.

 

What You Get:  Access to over 1,100 emergency operations plans

 
Do the first responders in your community know where to get free equipment? RKB, the Responder Knowledge Base, offers:
  • Information on 100+ grant programs
  • 4,200 products used to protect first responders
  • The only place first responders will find CEDAP, the federal program helping smaller communities get the equipment needed to carry out homeland security initiatives.

Widely considered the "BEST unclassified database on terrorism incidents," TKB offers:

  • 2006 terrorism statistics
  • Group profiles
  • Interactive tools

Terrorism: Understanding the Threat
From Executive Director Donald Hamilton
 
We cannot sensibly discuss the War on Terrorism until we understand something about terrorism. We need to know that the global war on terrorism is really:
  • A geo-strategic struggle around the Persian Gulf, which overlaps with;  
  • A struggle for control of or access to oil and gas, which overlaps in its own turn;  
  • A war between secular governments of many types and Islamic Extremists.
To read more of this commentary from MIPT's Executive Director, please click here.
 

Change: It's Constant & Inevitable
Are You Ready?

From Deputy Director David Cid

 

Global acts of terrorism and the interrelated nature of radical Islamic fundamentalism have created a borderless network of highly motivated adversaries who act unpredictably and with increasing levels of ferocity.

 

The increasing sophistication of criminal enterprises and their wedding of technology with innovative operational models and alliances have also presented law enforcement with new and complex challenges.  These realities require a new level of flexibility and responsiveness within the law enforcement community.

 

Knowing the cycles of change and the implications of each on your department or business is significant.

 

There are six stages in the cycle:

 

Stage 1 – Loss: Employees admit to themselves that, whether or not they perceive the change to be good or "bad," there will be a sense of loss of what “was.”

 

Solution – Communicate frequently with employees, recognizing their sense of loss and validating it as legitimate, while focusing upon the future of the organization and the value of the change.

 

Would you like to learn more? Let MIPT walk you through the rest of the cycle. Click here to learn more about the stages and solutions for your business.