**September 5, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) BIOTERRORISM:

Orient, Wendy. \"Bioterrorism Is No Match For Natural Selection - Germs
Often Take Eons to Mutate, So What Will the Feds Accomplish With Their
Expensive New Bioterror Defense Lab?\" Los Angeles Times, September 3,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-orent3sep03,0,2688169.story?track=tottext>

\[Excerpt: \"The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
is a potential boondoggle - and a dangerous one. Its work, even if done
by our best scientists, isn\'t likely to produce any genuinely
threatening new germ - and thus no new means of defense. The likelihood
that rogue scientists elsewhere could do better is vanishingly small.
But if we keep our enemies wondering what the new biodefense center is
up to, they may be disposed to try themselves. Secrecy can only make an
arms race more likely - a race in which both sides are running after
chimeras, where there\'s plenty to lose in time and talent and money,
and little or nothing to be won.\"\]

\[Note: Wendy Orient is the author of: Plague: The Mysterious Past

and Terrifying Future of the World\'s Most Dangerous Disease. New York
and London: Free Press, 2004.\]

\(2\) DISASTER ASSISTANCE:

White House. \"Executive Order: Improving Assistance for Disaster
Victims.\" Washington DC: Office of the Press Secretary, August 29,
2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060829-9.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060829-9.html)

\(3\) DISASTER FILM AND VIDEO ANNOTATION PROJECT:

Received today, from project developer Rich Weber, the final copy of his
annotation of selected disaster related films and videos for the FEMA EM
HiEd Project. The 94-page document was forwarded to the EMI Webmaster
for upload to the FEMA EM Hi Ed Project website \-- Free College
Courses, Books and Materials section \-- where it should be accessible
shortly. A second component of this project \-- a compilation of clips
from the FEMA Mitigation Division, selected by Mitigation Division staff
for this project \-- has also been completed and is in the hands of
Admin Support. DVD\'s containing the selected video clips will be
produced, noted as available in this activity report, and made
available, free of charge, from the EMI HiEd Project website \-- in the
relatively near future I understand \-- so stay tuned.

\(4\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT BOOK DEVELOPMENT SOLICITATION:

Received today a message from Taylor & Francis, CRS Press:

Invitation to Publish with CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group: Here at CRC
we are always looking for new authors and projects. As the demand for
reliable, expert information in emergency management grows and the need
for textbooks, both introductory and advanced, increases we hope to
provide the latest information available from the experts in the field.

If you have an idea for a textbook or project in this area please
contact me at:

Carolyn Spence, Editor

CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group

6000 Broken Sound Parkway, Suite 300

Boca Raton, FL 33433

561-998-2515 fax_561-998-2559

Carolyn.spence@taylorandfrancis.com

[[www.crcpress.com]{.underline}](../www.crcpress.com)

\(5\) GLOBAL WARMING:

Moore, Curtis. \"California\'s Bold Plan to Protect the Planet - A
Republican Encourages the Governor to Sign Global Warming Bills that
Could Revolutionize How the World Addresses Climate Change.\" Los
Angeles Times, September 2, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-moore2sep02,0,852238,print.story>

\[Note: Author was Republican counsel for Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works, 1979-1989.\]

\(6\) HAZARD MAPPING AND MODELING \-- COLLEGE COURSE DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT:

Received from Dr. John Pine, Louisiana State University, and lead course
developer for the Hazard Mapping and Modeling course, 16-page review
document of this draft course prepared by Dr. Tom Cova, Department of
Geography, University of Utah. Thus draft course is currently undergoing
internal and external review. The deadline for review comments to be
received here is next Monday, September 11, 2006.

\(7\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Harris, Shane. \"Five Years After 9/11, Question Is: Could It Happen
Again?\" National Journal, September 1, 2006, 11 pages. Accessed at:

[[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34922&dcn=e_gvet]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34922&dcn=e_gvet)

\(8\) KATRINA:

Barnes, Fred. \"After Katrina: Three Things President Bush Could Have
Done to Curb the Political Fall-Out.\" Weekly Standard, August 29, 2006.

Accessed at:

<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/632dobdj.asp>

National Disabilities Rights Network. \"One Year Later, People With
Disabilities Still Left in Wake of Hurricane Katrina\" (Press Release).

Washington, DC: NDRN, August 28, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.ndrn.org/media/default.htm]{.underline}](http://www.ndrn.org/media/default.htm)

White House. \"Ask The White House. Desiree Sayle, Deputy Assistant to
the President and Director of USA Freedom Corps, Discusses Volunteer and
Community Service Opportunities To Help Rebuild the Gulf Coast Region
One Year After Hurricane Katrina.\" August 28, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20060828.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20060828.html)

White House. \"Fact Sheet: A New Mississippi: Rebuilding In The Wake Of
Hurricane Katrina.\" August 28, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060828-2.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060828-2.html)

White House. \"Fact Sheet: Keeping The Promise of Jackson Square: A More
Hopeful Louisiana.\" August 29, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060829.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060829.html)

White House. \"In Focus: Hurricane Katrina.\" August 29, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/katrina/]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/katrina/)

White House. \"President Bush Discusses Gulf Coast Recovery. August 28,
2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060828-5.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060828-5.html)

\(9\) PANDEMIC:

CIDRAP. \"Avian Influenza (Bird Flu): Agricultural and Wildlife
Considerations.\" Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy,
University of Minnesota, August 31, 2006, 23 pages. Accessed at:

<http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/biofacts/avflu.html>

CIDRAP. \"Pandemic Influenza.\" Center for Infectious Disease Research &
Policy, University of Minnesota, August 26, 2006, 44 pages. Accessed

at:

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

\(10\) PREPAREDNESS:

Engelhardt, Tom. \"Tomgram: Rosner and Markowitz, 9/11 as the First
Katrina Moment.\" TomDispatch.com, September 5, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=118304]{.underline}](http://www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=118304)

Lister, Sarah A. The Public Health and Medical Response to Disasters:

Federal Authority and Funding. Washington DC: Congressional Research
Service, CRS Report for Congress (Order Code RL 33579), August 4, 2006,

32 pages. Accessed at:
[[http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33579.pdf]{.underline}](http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33579.pdf)

Newton, Jim. \"Five Years After: Regional Officials Take on a Simulated
Terror Attack in L.A.\" Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2006. Accessed

at:

<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-terror4sep04,0,6093768.story?track=tottext>

Protecting America.org. \"ProtectingAmerica.org Launches National
Education and Advertising Campaign\" (Press Release). August 29, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.protectingamerica.org/?PFID=21]{.underline}](http://www.protectingamerica.org/?PFID=21)

\(11\) WAR ON TERROR:

Anderson, Ross C. \"Challenging the Culture of Obedience.\" The Nation,
September 1, 2006, 7 pages. Accessed at:

[[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/moral_compass]{.underline}](http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/moral_compass)

\[Ross Anderson is Mayor of Salt Lake City.\]

Coghlan, Tom, and Kim Sengupta. \"The War on Terror, Five Years on: An
Era of Constant Warfare.\" The Independent (UK), September 4, 2006.

Accessed at:

[[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1359854.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1359854.ece)

Fisk, Robert. \"\`America\'s Aggression is Fuelling Extremism\', Says
Iran\'s Ex-President.\" The Independent (UK), September 4, 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1359829.ece]{.underline}](http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1359829.ece)

Marshall, Paul. \"A Conversion You Can\'t Refuse and the Western Media
Can\'t Comprehend.\" The Weekly Standard, Vol. 11, Issue 48, September
11, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/651hkpos.asp>

\[Excerpt: \"\...Centanni and Wiig remain at risk\--like the writer
Salman Rushdie, marked for death by Islamists who deem his writing
blasphemous, or Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert forced to flee
Afghanistan earlier this year. The two journalists, having announced
their conversion, now must live as Muslims lest some imam declare them
apostate and his followers take it upon themselves to carry out a
sentence of death\....

We can expect to see more forced conversions, and other travesties, as
spreading radical Islam shapes not only terrorist groups but also
governments, and we need the religious education to understand it.\"\]

Meyer, Josh. \"A Mystery Man Who Keeps the FBI Up at Night - Officials
Hunting Virtually Full Time for a Florida Computer Technician \-- See
Him as the Ultimate \'Sleeper Agent\' in Post 9/11 World.\" Los Angeles
Times, September 3, 2006, 7 pages. Accessed at:
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-manhunt3sep03,0,2212564,full.story>

Molavi, Afshin. \"Saudi Arabia\'s Moment of Redemption?\" International
Herald Tribune, 1 Sep 2006. At:

<http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/09/01/opinion/edmolavi.php>

Murphy, Caryle. \"For Conservative Muslims, Goal of Isolation a
Challenge - 9/11 Put Strict Adherents on the Defensive.\" Washington
Post, September 5, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090401107.html>

Pitt, William Rivers. \"Fascist Appeasers.\" Truthout.org, September 1,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106R.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106R.shtml)

Rich, Frank. \"Donald Rumsfeld\'s Dance With The Nazis.\" New York
Times, September 3, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090306Z.shtml]{.underline}](http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090306Z.shtml)

Robinson, Eugene. \"Who Set The Wayback Machine for 1939?\" Washington
Post, 5 Sept. 2006. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400698.html>

\[Excerpt: \"With George W. Bush talking so much about Nazis and
fascism, Donald Rumsfeld warning ominously against lily-livered
appeasement and Dick Cheney quoting Franklin Roosevelt on the \"dirty
business\" of war, one might worry that this direction-challenged
administration has wandered into some sort of time warp. Somebody\'s
going to have to break it to them that Churchill and Stalin are gone and
the Dodgers don\'t play in Brooklyn anymore. Condi Rice seems to be the
only one of the so-called Vulcans who missed the memo that it\'s 1939.
When she made her obligatory pilgrimage to the American Legion
convention in Salt Lake City last week, she referred to the enemy in the
war on terrorism as \"violent extremists,\" which sounds so 2006.\"\]

Rutten, Tim. \"In Verbal Chess, Who\'s Appeaser?\" Los Angeles Times,
September 2, 2006. At:
<http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-rutten2sep02,0,4010690.story?track=tottext>

\[Excerpt: \"This sequence of speeches with their carefully chosen
audiences has nothing to do with fascism - Islamo or otherwise - and
everything to do with introducing the word \"appeasement\" into our
domestic debate over the war in Iraq. So far, of course, no elected
lawmaker or official has proposed negotiating with Osama bin Laden or
any other Islamofascist terrorists, as the historical appeasers did with
Adolf Hitler. Rather, the entire debate so far has been about whether
the war in Iraq has advanced the struggle against Islamic radicals.\"\]

Schwartz, Stephen. \"The Origins of British Jihad: The Problem -
Deobandism - Comes From Pakistan.\" The Weekly Standard, August 31,
2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/605jeg]{.underline}](http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/605jeg)

wd.asp

\[Excerpt: \"CONTRARY TO COMMON WISDOM, Muslim radicalism in the United
Kingdom is not rooted in grievance against British, American, Israeli,
or other Western policies. Nor is it a reaction to fear or prejudice by
non-Muslims. It originates in a specific ideology imported to the
country by two generations of Sunni Muslim radicals from Pakistan. The
domination of British Islam by that ideology, generally known as
Deobandism, produced the 7/7 bombings and the trans-Atlantic airline
terror plot, and has made Britain the epicenter of jihadist violence in
Europe.\"\]

Schwartz, Stephen. \"What is \'Islamofascism\'? A History of the Word
From the First Westerner to Use It.\" TCSDaily.com (Technology,
Commerce, Society), August 16, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=081606C]{.underline}](http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=081606C)

Shahzad, Syed Saleem. \"Inside the Anti-US Resistance.\" Asia Times,
July 8, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HG08Df01.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HG08Df01.html)

Sheridan, Mary Beth. \"Hardball Tactics in an Era of Threats - To the
Government, They Were a Terrorist Risk in the Washington Area. To Local
Muslims, They Were Unfairly Singled Out for Prosecution and Severe
Sentences in a Post-9/11 World.\" Washington Post, September 3, 2006, 8
pages. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090201096.html?referrer=email>

Washington Post. \"Sept. 11 - Five Years Later.\" September 5, 2006.

Accessed at:

[[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/nation/special/6/index.html]{.underline}](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/nation/special/6/index.html)

\[Note: This is a \"special edition\" collection of articles relating to

9/11 and War on Terror.\]

Weisman, Jonathan. \"GOP Focus on Security Issues to Sideline Other
Matters.\" Washington Post, September 3, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090200451_pf.html>

White House. \"Fact Sheet: Winning The Struggle Between Freedom and
Terror in the Middle East.\" August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060831.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060831.html)

White House. \"In Focus: National Security.\"

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/nationalsecurity/]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/nationalsecurity/)

White House. National Strategy for Combating Terrorism. September 2006.
Accessed at:
[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nsct/2006/index.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nsct/2006/index.html)

\[Excerpt: \"This updated strategy sets the course for winning the War
on Terror. It builds directly from the National Security Strategy issued
in March 2006 as well as the February 2003 National Strategy for
Combating Terrorism, and incorporates our increased understanding of the
enemy. From the beginning, we understood that the War on Terror involved
more than simply finding and bringing to justice those who had planned
and executed the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Our strategy
involved destroying the larger al-Qaida network and also confronting the
radical ideology that inspired others to join or support the terrorist
movement. Since 9/11, we have made substantial progress in degrading the
al-Qaida network, killing or capturing key lieutenants, eliminating
safehavens, and disrupting existing lines of support. Through the
freedom agenda, we also have promoted the best long-term answer to
al-Qaida\'s agenda: the freedom and dignity that comes when human
liberty is protected by effective democratic institutions.\"\]

White House. \"President Bush Addresses American Legion National
Convention.\" August 31, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060831-1.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060831-1.html)

White House. \"President\'s Radio Address.\" September 2, 2006.\"

Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060902.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060902.html)

\[Excerpt: \"We\'re approaching the fifth anniversary of the September
the 11th attacks \-- and since that day, we have taken the fight to the
enemy. Yet this war is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive
ideological struggle of the 21st century. On one side are those who
believe in freedom and moderation \-- the right of all people to speak,
worship, and live in liberty. On the other side are those driven by
tyranny and extremism \-- the right of a self-appointed few to impose
their fanatical views on all the rest. We did not ask for this war, but
we\'re answering history\'s call with confidence \-- and we will
prevail.\"

White House. \"Vice President\'s Remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars
National Convention.\" August 28, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060828-4.html]{.underline}](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060828-4.html)

Zinn, Howard. \"War Is Not A Solution For Terrorism.\" Boston Globe,
September 2, 2006. At:

[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09
/02/war_is_not_a_solution_for_terrorism/](http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09 /02/war_is_not_a_solution_for_terrorism/)

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

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