**October 5-6, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) AUBURN UNIVERSITY, AL \-- PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:

Talked today with Maria Folmar, Center for Governmental Services at
Auburn University, today, concerning their proposal to develop an
Emergency Management for Government and the Public Sector Certificate
Program. Was asked if the EM HiEd Project could provide a letter of
support for the proposal package and readily agreed. Dr. Folmar noted
that several individuals had contacted her in response to Activity
Report items noting their search for an adjunct faculty member to teach
a distance learning course on \"Resource Management\" beginning this
November. For additional information, Maria Folmar can be reached at:
<folmama@auburn.edu>

\(2\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

Ash, Timothy Garton. \"Censoring Ourselves Is No Way To Fight
Terrorism.\" Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct 2006. At:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ash5oct05,0,6339754.story?track=tottext>

\[Excerpt: \"Fanatiques sans frontieres are on the march\.... if you
think we are not engaged in a struggle against manifold enemies of
freedom as potentially deadly as those we faced in the 1930s, you are
living in a fool\'s paradise. In the first decade of the 21st century,
the spaces of free expression are being eroded and - if we don\'t summon
ourselves to the fight - will continue to be eroded\.... The future of
freedom depends on words prevailing over knives.\"\]

Sayyed, Tashbih. \"Why Is The World Afraid Of Muslims?\" Muslim World
Today, October 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://muslimworldtoday.com/tashbih.htm]{.underline}](http://muslimworldtoday.com/tashbih.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the world has grown increasingly fearful of Muslim
rage.

Political Islam, as is obvious by the reactions of the socio-cultural
and political institutions in countries of Europe, Britain and the U.S.
has come of age. It has been allowed to establish itself into a position
from where it can manipulate the host country\'s social and political
systems to its advantage\.... Political Islam\'s disabling fear has
already deprived the West of its ability to stand up and defend its
values.\" Note: Tashbih Sayyed is the Editor in Chief of Pakistan Today
and The Muslim World Today, and is President of Council for Democracy
and Tolerance.\]

\(3\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- AUSTRALIA?:

The Australian. \"Editorial: Brave Stand on Muslim Honesty.\" October 5,
2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20525659-7583,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20525659-7583,00.html)

\(4\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- FRANCE?:

Rennie, David. \"Muslims Are Waging Civil War Against Us, Claims Police
Union.\" Telegraph (UK), 5 Oct 2006.

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/05/wmuslims05.xml>

\[Excerpt: \"Radical Muslims in France\'s housing estates are waging an
undeclared \"intifada\" against the police, with violent clashes
injuring an average of 14 officers each day.\"\]

\(5\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- POPE\'S REMARKS?:

Gatsiounis, Ioannis. \"Badawi\'s Interfaith Talk Faces Test At Home.\"

Aljazeera.net, October 3, 2006. At:

<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AC70B8CD-374F-438B-A5F7-A23D2A5EC254.htm>

\[Excerpt: \"Days after Pope Benedict XVI quoted a Byzantine emperor
likening Islam with violence, Abdullah Badawi, the Malaysian prime
minister, landed in Finland to discuss his country\'s success in the
areas of race relations and inter-faith issues at the Sixth Asia-Europe
Meeting.\"\]

Gerges, Fawaz. \"Echoes of the Pope in al-Azhar Mosque.\" Aljazeera.net,

26 Sep 2006. At:

<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/62D31317-C2E9-43EF-8766-4437A014954F.htm>

\(6\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- THE NETHERLANDS?:

Expatica. \"Radicals Winning in Dutch Mosques, Government Warns.\" June
7, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=30605>

\[Excerpt: \"Radical Muslims are gaining influence over their moderate
co-religious at an increasing rate in the Netherlands. This was the main
finding of the fourth progress report on combating terrorism which
Interior Ministers Johan Remkes and Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner
presented to parliament on Wednesday. It said that ultra-orthodox
Salafism in particular was making its presence felt in an increasing
number of mosques. This is a radical branch that seeks to return to the
\"pure Islam\" of the days of Mohammed. Adherents often shun western
society and criticise efforts by other Muslims to integrate into Dutch
society. The movement has been linked to the Wahhabism of Saudi
Arabia.\"\]

\(7\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- TURKEY?:

Bekdil, Burak. \"Is There an Islamic Fundamentalist Threat in Turkey?\"

Turkish Daily News, October 4, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.turkishnews.com/NewsNetwork/]{.underline}](http://www.turkishnews.com/NewsNetwork/)

\[Excerpt: \"There isn\'t, according to the prime minister, parliament
speaker, deputy prime minister, probably the rest of the Cabinet and
government benchers in Parliament. And there is, according to the
president and head of the military and three service commanders.\"\]

\(8\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- UNITED KINGDOM:

Holden, Michael. \"UK Minister\'s Veil Comments Stoke Muslim Ire.\"

Reuters, October 6, 2006. At:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600279_pf.html>

\(9\) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY:

Marino, Jonathan. \"TSA Advised to Strengthen Emergency Operations
Plan.\" Government Executive, October 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1006/100506j1.htm]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1006/100506j1.htm)

White House. \"President\'s Statement on H.R. 5441,\'Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007\'.\" 4 Oct 2006. At:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061004-10.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061004-10.html)

\(10\) FEMA:

Savage, Charlie. \"Bush Cites Authority to Bypass FEMA Law - Signing
Statement is Employed Again.\" Boston Globe, October 6, 2006. Accessed
at:

<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/10/06/bush_cites_authority_to_bypass_fema_law/>

\(11\) GLOBAL WARMING:

Hotz, Robert Lee. \"Western Warming Warning.\" Los Angeles Times,
October 6, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-warming6oct06,0,448762,print.story>

\[Subtitle: \"Climate change will worsen droughts, wildfires and
die-offs in the region\...\"\]

McCarthy, Michael. \"Global Warming Will Threaten Millions Say Climate
Scientists.\" New Zealand Herald, 4 Oct 2006. At:

[[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10404255]{.underline}](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10404255)

\[Excerpt: \"The findings represent the first time that the threat of
increased drought from climate change, long feared, has actually been
quantified with a modern supercomputer climate model such as the one
operated by the Hadley Centre\"\]

National Wildlife Federation. \"Hurricanes and Global Warming.\" October
5, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nwf.org/hurricanestudy/]{.underline}](http://www.nwf.org/hurricanestudy/)

Sims, Ron. \"Remarks of King County {WA} Executive Ron Sims, African
Cities Symposium on Climate Change, September 20, 2006, Nairobi,
Kenya.\"

Accessed at:
[[http://www.metrokc.gov/exec/speeches/20060926.aspx]{.underline}](http://www.metrokc.gov/exec/speeches/20060926.aspx)

\[Excerpt: \"Emergency preparedness will be critical during this global
climate change.\"\]

\(12\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Government Accountability Office. Terrorist Watch List Screening:
Efforts to Help Reduce Adverse Effects on the Public. Washington DC: GAO
Report to Congressional Requesters, September 29, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-1031]{.underline}](http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-1031)

\(13\) MITIGATION:

Singer, Stacey. \"Corps Embraces Aggressive Dike Fixes\" {Lake
Okeechobee, FL}. Palm Beach Post. October 6, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/local_news/epaper/2006/10/06/m1a_dike_1006.html>

\(14\) PANDEMIC:

Roos, Robert. \"Groups Call for Pandemic Flu Vaccine \'Master Plan\'.\"

CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, University of

Minnesota). October 4. 2006 Accessed at:

<http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/oct0406pandemic.html>

\(15\) RECOVERY:

Swope, Christopher. \"Mississippi\'s Urbanist Odyssey: The Ravaged Gulf
Coast has a Rare Opportunity to Recreate Itself - But it Has to Decide
What It Wants to Look Like.\" Governing.com, September 2006. Accessed
at:
[[http://www.governing.com/articles/9miss.htm]{.underline}](http://www.governing.com/articles/9miss.htm)

\(16\) UNIVERSITY CONTINUING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION PRESENTATION:

Put on a two-hour breakout session on \"FEMA\'s Emergency Management
Higher Education Project\" October 5, 2006 at the Mid-Atlantic meeting
of the University Continuing Education Association meeting I Annapolis
MD. There were about 25 attendees and many questions. Would be surprised
if one or more new collegiate emergency management programs do not
spring from this session. Thanks to Dr. Maureen Connolly, External
Programs Dean, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, for scheduling this
breakout session and extending the invitation. Wagner University is
developing it\'s own emergency management program.

\(17\) WAR ON TERROR:

Rivkin, David B. Jr. and Lee A. Casey. \"Claims and Counterclaims.\"
Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB116001339728883319.html]{.underline}](http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB116001339728883319.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The national \'dialogue\' over how the U.S. should respond
to the threat of radical Islam is replete with claims and counterclaims
about whether the Bush administration has violated the law by holding
captured jihadist prisoners without trial, by intercepting al Qaeda
communications without judicial warrants, by subjecting detainees to
stressful interrogations, and so forth. In fact, almost all of this
clamor arises from a basic dispute over whether the U.S. is \-- or
should be considered \-- at war with al Qaeda and its allies, or whether
it should address the threat of transnational terrorism as a
law-enforcement matter \-- as most of its European allies have done.\"\]

\(18\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AFGHANISTAN:

Deedes, W.F. \"One Day, We Must Talk to the Taliban.\" Telegraph (UK),
October 6, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/06/do0603.xml>

\[Excerpt: \"\'To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war,\" as Winston
Churchill sagely observed in Washington half a century ago, when tension
with the Soviet Union was high.\"\]

Lobe, Jim. \"\'War on Terror\' Returning To Its Cradle.\" Asian Times,
October 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ05Df02.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ05Df02.html)

Miklaszewski, Jim. \"U.S. Is At Critical Crossroads in Afghanistan.\"
MSNBC.com, October 4, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117181]{.underline}](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15117181)

Wiseman, Paul. \"Uncertainty, Violence Darken Afghans\' Hope.\" USA
Today, October 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061005/1a_cover04.art.htm]{.underline}](http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061005/1a_cover04.art.htm)

\(19\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AL QAEDA:

Whitlock, Craig. \"Al-Qaeda\'s Far-Reaching New Partner.\" Washington
Post, October 5, 2006. At:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402006_pf.html>

\(20\) WAR ON TERROR \-- IRAQ:

Engelhardt, Tom. \"Twenty-One Reasons Iraq Is Not Working.\" Asian
Times, October 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ05Ak02.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ05Ak02.html)

Murphy, Dan. \"How Al Qaeda Views A Long Iraq War.\" Christian Science
Monitor, October 6, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1006/p01s04-woiq.html]{.underline}](http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1006/p01s04-woiq.html)

\[Subtitle: \"A letter from Al Qaeda leaders found in Iraq shows that
the group sees the war as a boon for its cause.\"\]

White, Josh. \"Warner Downbeat After Iraq Trip.\" Washington Post,
October 6, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501645.html>

\[Subtitle: \"U.S. at Risk of Losing Bid to Control Baghdad, Senator
Says.\"\]

\(21\) WAR ON TERROR \-- PAKISTAN:

Reuters. \"Pakistan Must Do More on Taliban: U.S. Senator.\" October 6,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-10-06T150148Z_01_ISL91766_RTRUKOC_0_US-AFGHAN-SA.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-3>

\(22\) GILBERT WHITE:

University of Colorado at Boulder. \"Gilbert F. White, \'Father of
Floodplain Management\' And World-Renowned CU-Boulder Professor, Dies at
94.\" October 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2006/331.html]{.underline}](http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2006/331.html)

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, K-011

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu)

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