**September 20, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?:

Agency France-Presse. \"Kissinger Warns of Possible \'War of
Civilizations\'.\" 13 Sep 2006. At:

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060913/ts_alt_afp/usattackseurope&printer=1;_ylt=AgdNMxVKhusZXqdpSSNYrDjZa7gF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYw0bWE->

Associated Press. \"Muslim Countries Ask U.N. Human Rights Council to
Address Pope\'s Remarks.\" 18 Sep 2006. At:

[[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/18/news/UN_GEN_UN_Rights_Pope.php]{.underline}](http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/18/news/UN_GEN_UN_Rights_Pope.php)

Blond, Philip. \"It\'s All About Faith and Reason.\" International
Herald Tribune, September 19, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/19/opinion/edblond.php]{.underline}](http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/19/opinion/edblond.php)

Boston Globe.. \"Bad Words, Worse Reaction.\" September 19, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/19/opinion/edpope.php]{.underline}](http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/19/opinion/edpope.php)

Chavez, Linda. \"The Islamists\' War.\" Jewish World Review, September
20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez092006.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez092006.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"If the pope decides to give another speech in which he
references Islam, perhaps he should quote from Scripture: \'By their
fruits, you shall know them.\' Islamists wage jihad on all, including
other Muslims, who do not share their specific interpretation of G-d\'s
will.\"\]

Egeh, Soleiman. \"It Is Time To Start a Genuine Civil Discourse Between
the Great Religions and Cultures of the World.\" Awdal News Network
(Somalia), September 19, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.awdalnews.com/wmview.php?ArtID=7907]{.underline}](http://www.awdalnews.com/wmview.php?ArtID=7907)

\[Excerpt: \"\...it is time to stop this kind of controversies and
uproars.

Such outbursts of anti-western rallies and rhetoric are unnecessary
also. These angry rallies, in response to Pope Benedict\'s unfortunate
remarks, at this time are nothing but an exercise of futility. These
flare ups won\'t help an already explosive situation. There are plethora
of vital issues and interests; these two great religions of Islam and
Christianity have in common. These occasional controversies will further
aggravate the long lingering suspicion and distrust that has existed
between these two religions for centuries. Moreover, nobody needs more
gaffes that come from men at higher echelons of power, such as the pope,
a misinformed cartoonist or anybody else.\"\]

Freedland, Jonathan. \"The Pope Should Know Better Than To Endorse the
Idea of a War of Faiths.\" The Guardian (UK), 20 Sep 2006. At:

[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1876391,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1876391,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"What makes me shudder about the Pope\'s Regensburg lecture
is that he appears to join Osama bin Laden in this effort to cast the
current conflict as a clash of civilisations. Complicatedly, and dense
in footnotes, he is, at bottom, trying to establish the superiority of
one faith over another. His argument is that reason is intrinsic to
Christianity, yet merely a contingent part of Islam.\"\]

Gledhill, Ruth and Richard Owen. \"Carey Backs Pope and Issues Warning
On \'Violent\' Islam.\" London Times. September 20, 2006. At:

[[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2366419,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2366419,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton
has issued his own challenge to \'violent\' Islam in a lecture in which
he defends the Pope\'s \'extraordinarily effective and lucid\' speech.
Lord Carey said that Muslims must address \'with great urgency\' their
religion\'s association with violence. He made it clear that he believed
the \'clash of civilisations\' endangering the world was not between
Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole.\"\]

Goldberg, Jonah. \"Jihad Enablers.\" Jewish World Review, September 20,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah092006.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah092006.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"\...let us not dare suggest that even a whiff of
intolerance can be detected in the Islamic world. If you say otherwise,
I will cut off your head. It may be amusing to note how so many Muslims
are eager to confirm a stereotype in the process of denouncing that very
stereotype, but it\'s not so funny when they put their jihad where the
mouth is\.... This week, French President Jacques Chirac explained that
everyone in the West must avoid everything that sparks tensions. In
other words, we must forever be held hostage by the tactical outrage of
a global mob. There\'s nothing funny about that.\"\]

Graham, Michael. \"How Not To Offend.\" Jewish World Review, September
20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/graham092006.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/graham092006.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"Ladies, if you were at a social gathering and met a
gentleman who refused to shake your hand because you are a woman, would
you be offended? Well, don\'t be. It\'s only because he\'s a Muslim. And
Professor, if you were giving a lecture on World History and one of your
students jumped up in the middle of your class and began screaming death
threats because you accurately quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor,
would you be offended? Please, professor, relax. It\'s only because that
student is a Muslim. My gay friends, let\'s say you were at Harvard a
few days ago, listening to Iran\'s \'moderate\' former president Khatami
answering a question about the government execution of homosexuals
during his term in office. If you happened to hear Khatami say that
executing homosexuals is appropriate in some cultures - Well, I hope you
weren\'t offended. It\'s not because he\'s homophobic. It\'s only
because he\'s Muslim. It\'s a shame that there are so many
misunderstandings in the world today. We Americans turn on cable news
and see thousands of Arab Muslims marching in the streets or gunning
down nuns over a university lecture, and we tend to think the worst. We
generalize about the state of Islam, or we make judgments about the
sanity of Arab Muslim culture. This is simply wrong. We shouldn\'t be
offended by our Muslim brothers. We should understand them. For example,
should the Pope be beheaded for criticizing Islam? That\'s a silly
question - almost as silly as \'Should a cartoonist be beheaded for
drawing Mohammad?\' The real question isn\'t \'Why behead the Pope,\'
but rather - \'Why not?\'\"\]

Jihad Watch. \"Papal Assassin Warns Pope Benedict His \'Life Is In
Danger\' If He Visits Turkey.\" September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/09/013201print.html]{.underline}](http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/09/013201print.html)

Johnson, Bridget. \"Pontiff Not To Blame in This Flap.\" LA Daily News,
September 18, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.dailynews.com/bridgetjohnson/ci_4359175]{.underline}](http://www.dailynews.com/bridgetjohnson/ci_4359175)

\[Excerpt: \"NEVER ones to miss a golden public-relations opportunity,
and winding down from unbridled furor at Dutch cartoonists, leaders
across the Muslim world and corresponding radicals have picked a new,
nefarious Enemy No. 1: the pope. Oh, and a 65-year-old nun who had
devoted the past 38 years of her life to helping the sick and needy in
Kenya and Somalia and was shot in the back four times Sunday, hours
after a leading Somali cleric condemned the pope. \'I am sure the
killers were angered by the pope\'s speech in which he attacked our
prophet,\' a witness to the shooting told The Associated Press.\"\]

Parker, Kathleen. \"Translating the Pope.\" Jewish World Review,
September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker092006.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker092006.php3)

\[Excerpt: \"In non-news today, Muslims are outraged. Also, the sun rose
at its usual time and the Earth continued to turn on its axis in the
customary fashion\.... My guess is that not many of the outraged Muslims
have actually read the lecture - it\'s not the sort of thing one lightly
skims between effigy-burnings. To understand what the pope actually
said, one would have to stop and think, which is a colossal waste of
time when there are infidels to kill.

Pipes, Daniel. \"Pope Benedict Criticizes Islam.\" FrontPageMagazine,
September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24499]{.underline}](http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24499)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the Muslim uproar has a goal: to prohibit criticism of
Islam by Christians and thereby to impose Shar\'i norms on the West.

Should Westerners accept this central tenet of Islamic law, others will
surely follow. Retaining free speech about Islam, therefore, represents
a critical defense against the imposition of an Islamic order.\"\]

Schwartz, Stephen. \"Pope Benedict and the Muslims.\" TCS Daily,
September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092006D]{.underline}](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092006D)

Smith, Lee. Papal Power: The New Pope Is Fighting For Hearts and Minds
in Europe.\" Weekly Standard, September 19, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/721kosev.asp>

\[Excerpt: \"Let us posit that the Pope himself is a rational man,
moreover that he is also aware of current events and, in particular, the
general tenor of Islamic political activism around the world these last
few years. So, in quoting a text arguing that the Muslim concept of God
is not rational but is rather predicated on violence, what sort of
response would a rational man expect from Muslim masses who, among other
enthusiasms, torched European embassies this past winter to express
displeasure over a series of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad as
a source of irrational violence? Is it not unreasonable to assume that
such a speech would provoke yet more irrational violence?\.... Sure the
European intellectual class believes the Pope is a moron for getting so
many Muslims angry, but the elite is not his primary audience; rather,
he was speaking over their heads to the masses of ordinary Catholics.

What will they believe in? What will they live for and die for? Maybe
the Church.\"\]

Tobin, Jonathan. \"Who Should Apologize? Not the Pope.\" Jewish World
Review, September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0906/tobin092006.php3]{.underline}](http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0906/tobin092006.php3)

\[\[Excerpt: \"The link between faith and violence must not be
ignored\....

the proclivity of Muslims to use deadly violence to register their
opinions and to promote what they think are the interests of their
faith - demonstrates the West\'s dilemma in dealing with the Arab/Muslim
world. The notion that Muslim violence and the rise of Islamist terror
is not a fit topic for public debate is the real problem. The idea that
jihad or an obligation to wage holy war had nothing to do with the
historic spread of Islam is as absurd as the attempt to suppress debate
about contemporary Islamist terror and hate for Jews and other
non-Muslims is dangerous. The violent reaction of Muslim mobs to
anything, whether ironic (as was the case with the Danish cartoons) or
scholarly (as in the Pope\'s speech) that speaks to this issue only
reinforces the cogency of a critique of Islamic culture and politics in
our day\.... appeasing the \'Arab street\'\...will not work. It will
instead just be taken as proof of the strength of their position and
encourage even worse outrages in the future.\"\]

Tooley, Mark D. \"Turn the Other Cheek? Go to\...!\" FrontPageMagazine,
September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24487]{.underline}](http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24487)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the Church of England\'s Archbishop of
York\...suggested that Muslims heed Jesus\' admonition to \'love they
neighbor.\' The head of the Muslim Council of Britain told the
archbishop that British Muslims have absolutely no intention of
\'turning the other cheek.\'\.... \'Just as we could not call on Jews to
turn the other cheek when faced with anti-Semitism, it cannot be right
that we are asked to tolerate anti-Muslim prejudice\...We should have a
zero-tolerance policy towards all forms of prejudice, be it anti-Jewish,
anti-Muslim or anti-Christian. But we cannot just turn the other
cheek\'.\"\]

Turkish Press. \"Pope Says Words \'Misunderstood\' by Muslims.\"
September 20, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=142986]{.underline}](http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=142986)

\(2\) FEMA:

International Association of Emergency Managers. \"FEMA Reform\" (Press
Release), 19 Sep 2006.

\[Excerpt: \"the {IAEM} urges the House and Senate Appropriations
Committees to include the authorizers\' compromise Post Katrina
Emergency Management Reform Bill as part of HR 5441, the Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Bill for FY 2007. \'The results of a
weakened emergency management system have been made clear to all,\' said
Mike Selves, President Elect. \'It is time to restore FEMA\'s resources
and authority before another catastrophic event happens.\'\.... Some of
the key provisions in this bill from IAEM\'s perspective are as follows:

Maintains the FEMA name and identity. FEMA\...was once one of the most
respected agencies in government and with leadership and the help of
Congress it can be again.

Requires\...FEMA Administrator to have\...demonstrated ability in and
knowledge of {EM & HS}.

Elevates the level of the Administrator to Deputy Secretary at Executive
Level II.

Directs the Administrator of FEMA to serve as the principal advisor to
the President, the Homeland Security Council and the {DHS}
Secretary\...for all matters relating to {EM}.

Rejoins preparedness in FEMA. This is vital. Preparedness is what
emergency managers do every day. It is an integral part of the {EM}
system. A coach would not want two teams-one which did\...the training
and exercising\...a separate one\...to play the championship game.

Gives some protection to emergency management functions in FEMA, such as
that given the Coast Guard to prevent people and resources being
siphoned off into other parts of the agency.

Limits the role of the Principal Federal Official. Although we would
prefer\...the position of {PFO} be abolished since it leads to confusion
and bureaucratic layers\...

Strengthens FEMA Regional Offices.

Authorizes the Emergency Management Performance Grant at \$175 million
over the FY 2007 appropriated amount\....

Contains a provision to provide a sliding scale for the Hazard
Mitigation Grant Program which will provide more mitigation
opportunities than currently available to reduce future losses. A recent
Congressionally-mandated study concluded that a \$1 spent on mitigation
saves \$4.\"\]

\(3\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Congressional Research Service (Shawn Reese). Federal Counter-Terrorism

Training: Issues For Congressional Oversight. Washington DC: CRS Report
for Congress (RL32920), August 31, 2006, 20 pages. Accessed at:

[[http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL32920.pdf]{.underline}](http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL32920.pdf)

\[Excerpt: \"This report is an overview of the major training activities
and facilities of the federal departments and agencies that provide
counter-terrorism training. It identifies some of the issues associated
with the training, including the following:

\* possible duplication of federal counter-terrorism training programs;

\* determination of {DHS} counter-terrorism training priorities; and

\* possible redundancy and coordination of DHS counter-terrorism
training programs.\"\]

\(4\) MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW:

Natural Hazards, Vol. 39, No. 1, September 2006. (Journal of the
International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural
Hazards, Kluwer Academic Publisher, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station,
Hingham, MA 02018-0358, URL:
[[www.kluweronline.nl]{.underline}](../www.kluweronline.nl))

\(5\) WAR ON TERROR:

Esman, Abigail. \"Five Years Later - Are We Safer.\" World Defense
Review, September 11, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.reportingwar.com/esman091106.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.reportingwar.com/esman091106.shtml)

Ferguson, Barbara. \"\`West Is Not Fighting Islam\'.\" Arab News,
September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=86831&d=20&m=9&y=2006]{.underline}](http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=86831&d=20&m=9&y=2006)

\[Excerpt: \"\'We respect Islam, but we will protect our people from
those who pervert Islam to sow death and destruction. Our goal is to
help you build a more tolerant and hopeful society that honors people of
all faiths and promote the peace,\' said Bush.\"\]

Hanscom, Aaron. \"Allah\'s Socialists.\" FrontPage Magazine, September
20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24498]{.underline}](http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24498)

\[Excerpt: \"\'2030-then we take over,\' reads a popular T-shirt worn by
Muslims in Stockholm. Recent comments by European politicians might
cause these young Swedes to think about pushing the date forward a
couple of decades. Europe, it increasingly appears, is in fact ready to
be handed over to radical Muslims without a fight.\"\]

Homeland Security Policy Institute and Critical Incident Analysis Group.

Out of the Shadows: Getting Ahead of Prisoner Radicalization.

Washington DC: HSPI, George Washington University, and Charlottesville

VA: CIAG, University of Virginia, September 2006, 38 pages. Accessed

at:

[http://www.homelandsecurity.gwu.edu/reports/rad/Out%20of%20the%20shadows.pdf](http://www.homelandsecurity.gwu.edu/reports/rad/Out of the shadows.pdf)

\[From Executive summary\" \"The potential for radicalization of prison
inmates in the United States poses a threat of unknown magnitude to the
national security of the U.S\.... With the world\'s largest prison
population (over 2 million\...) and highest incarceration rate 9701 out
of every 100,000), America faces what could be an enormous challenge \--
every radicalized prisoner becomes a potential terrorist recruit.\"\]

Kelly, Jack. \"When the \'American Hiroshima\' Comes As Promised, Our
Senators Won\'t Be Guiltless.\" Jewish World Review, 20Sep2006.

[[http://jewishworldreview.com/0906/jkelly092006.php3]{.underline}](http://jewishworldreview.com/0906/jkelly092006.php3)

Kling, Arnold. \"A Military Strategy, Not a Marketing Strategy.\" TCS
Daily, September 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092006A]{.underline}](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092006A)

\[Excerpt: \"\...there is the strategic question of how to win the war
against Islamic fascism. I share the view of those who regard this as an
ideological war. I call it the Battle of the Mosque. The metric that I
would use to gauge progress in this war is the number of mosques and
madrassas that are preaching warfare and hatred against non-Muslims.

When that number shrinks to just a handful around the world, we will
have achieved victory at a strategic level. If Muslim youth were not
taught to hate, and Muslim religious followers were not encouraged to
kill, then the seemingly \'endless supply\' of terrorists would dry up.
That is why the key to long-run victory is the Battle of the Mosque. In
the Battle of the Mosque, we have not yet taken the first step. That is
to identify and publicize in official government publications and web
sites those mosques and madrassas that are spreading hatred and inciting
terrorism.\"\]

Lewis, Bernard. \"Freedom and Justice in Islam.\" Imprimis (Hillsdale
College), September 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/]{.underline}](http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/)

\[Excerpt: \"The outlook at the moment is, I would say, very mixed. I
think that the cause of developing free institutions-along their lines,
not ours-is possible. One can see signs of its beginning in some
countries. At the same time, the forces working against it are very
powerful and well entrenched. And one of the greatest dangers is that on
their side, they are firm and convinced and resolute. Whereas on our
side, we are weak and undecided and irresolute. And in such a combat, it
is not difficult to see which side will prevail. I think that the effort
is difficult and the outcome uncertain, but I think the effort must be
made. Either we bring them freedom, or they destroy us.\"\]

Nason, David. \"West Is Not At War With Islam: Bush.\" The Australian,
September 21, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20448821-2703,00.html]{.underline}](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20448821-2703,00.html)

\[Excerpt: \"GEORGE W. Bush has appealed to the Muslim world to reject
the \'false propaganda\' of extremists who say the West is at war with
Islam\.... Aiming his remarks directly at rank-and-file Muslims rather
than Islamic governments, the US President returned over and over to the
twin pillars of the so-called Bush Doctrine, saying the US would not
shirk from fighting terrorists and was as determined as ever to spread
freedom and democracy, especially in the Middle East.\"\]

Pham, Peter. \"America\'s Somali Policy Still Dangerously Adrift.\"
World Defense Review, September 8, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.reportingwar.com/pham090806.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.reportingwar.com/pham090806.shtml)

\[Excerpt: \"This column is dedicated to the premise that the strategic
neglect of Africa was the weak link in the advancement of American
foreign policy interests in general, and the successful prosecution of
the global war on terrorism in particular.\"\]

Pham, Peter. \"West Africa and the Coming Naval Battle in al-Qaeda\'s
Economic War Against America.\" World Defense Review, 14Sep2006. At:

[[http://www.reportingwar.com/pham091406.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.reportingwar.com/pham091406.shtml)

\[Excerpt: \"The combination of these three factors - threat,
vulnerability, and cost - raises the overall risk considerably. If Osama
bin Laden is serious about waging economic war against the United
States - and, from his record, there is no reason to dismiss his
pronouncements out of hand - and if his minions heed his advice about
hitting one of America\'s vital arteries, then we can expect at some
point a maritime threat, most likely to West African production
facilities, but also possibly targeting shipping in the waters off the
Horn of Africa.\"\]

Trotta, Daniel. \"Ted Turner Says Iraq War Amongst History\'s
\'Dumbest\'.\"

Reuters, 19 Sep 2006. Accessed at:

<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=peopleNews&storyID=2006-09-19T233412Z_01_N19440176_RTRIDST_0_PEOPLE-TURNER-DC.XML>

\[Excerpt: \"Turner called it a \'joke\' that Bush demanded that Iran
abandon any ambitions for nuclear weapons while at the same time hoping
to ban all such bombs. \'They\'re a sovereign state,\' Turner said of
Iran.

\'We have 28,000. Why can\'t they have 10? We don\'t say anything about
Israel \-- they\'ve got 100 of them approximately \-- or India or
Pakistan or Russia. And really, nobody should have them\'.\"\]

White House. \"Vice President\'s Remarks at the National Automobile
Dealers Association 2006 Legislative Conference\" (On War on Terror).
Washington, DC, September 19, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060919-5.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060919-5.html)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the terrorists make no secret of the beliefs they hold.
They seek to impose a dictatorship of fear, under which every man,
woman, and child would live in total obedience to a narrow and hateful
ideology\.... beliefs of this kind can be imposed only through force and
intimidation, so those who refuse to bow to the tyrants will be
brutalized or killed, and no person or group is exempt\.... The
terrorists also have a set of objectives. They want to seize control of
a country in the Middle East, so they have a base from which to launch
attacks and wage war against anyone who doesn\'t meet their demands.
They believe that by controlling one country, they will be able to
target and overthrow other governments in the region, and eventually to
establish a totalitarian empire that encompasses a region from Spain,
across North Africa, through the Middle East to South Asia, all the way
to Indonesia. They have declared, as well, their ultimate aims: to arm
themselves with chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons, to
destroy Israel, to intimidate all Western countries, and to cause mass
death in the United States until this nation is no more\.... The
terrorists regard the entire world as a battlefield. That\'s why al
Qaeda has operatives in Iraq right now. They want to frighten and
intimidate America into a policy of retreat, and bin Laden himself calls
this conflict the \"third world war.\" Americans are fighting there, and
in Afghanistan, because our security demands it. Having liberated those
countries from tyranny, we will not permit new dictatorships to seize
power and give terrorists a base from which they can strike the United
States and other free nations.\"\]

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

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Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

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