**October 7, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS \-- EUROPE:

Ibrahim, Youssef. \"Europe Is Growing Skeptical of Dialogue With
Muslims.\" New York Sun, October 6, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=41106]{.underline}](http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=41106)

Moore, Charles. \"My Straw Poll: Extremists Must Be Seen For What They
Are.\" The Telegraph (UK), October 7, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JQPXR2YBL1SV3QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/10/07/do0701.xml]{.underline}](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JQPXR2YBL1SV3QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/10/07/do0701.xml)

\[Excerpt: \"The most interesting thing about Jack Straw\'s
pronouncement on the Muslim veil is that it was made by Jack Straw. No
prominent British politician has been more friendly towards Muslims.
With 25,000 of them in his Blackburn constituency, he has a clear reason
to avoid giving offence\.... I suspect that Mr. Straw is sincere, and
that he is acting because of what is happening within Muslim life in
Britain. There is a struggle for control of Islam in this country, and
for its political exploitation\.... Mr. Cameron\...praised the latest
ideas from the Church of England that it should give a quarter of its
church school places to children from non-Anglican backgrounds. And he
applied the idea to schools of other faiths, too. The ball goes into the
Muslim court: can a Muslim school offer a good education to non-Muslim
British citizens without denying its religious purposes, and, if not,
why not?\"\]

\(2\) GLOBAL WARMING:

AXA Global Group. Climate Change website. Includes \"The Effects of
Insurance Changes and Climate Change on Small and Medium Size
Enterprises in Britain,\" and \"Preparing for Climate Change - A
Practical Guide for Small Businesses.\" 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.axa.co.uk/aboutus/corporate_publications/climate_change.html]{.underline}](http://www.axa.co.uk/aboutus/corporate_publications/climate_change.html)

\[Note: The first report (about 45 pages) shows that the already high
costs borne by small and medium business as a result of climate change
(most clearly manifested in flooding) are set to rise dramatically.
Projected scenarios detailed in this report show that the cost is likely
to rise in the order of 30 or 40 times by 2080 (from Natural Hazards
Center \"Disaster Research\".)\]

\(3\) PANDEMIC:

Journal of Infectious Diseases. \"Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza: At
the Crossroads, A Global Opportunity.\" Supplement No. 2 to Vol. 194,
November 1, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/contents/v194nS2.html]{.underline}](http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/journal/contents/v194nS2.html)

\[Note: This is a special edition containing several articles of
interest, such as:

\* \"Introduction: Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: A
Global Threat.\" Richard J. Whitley and Arnold S. Monto

\* \"Pandemics and Preparations.\" Martin J. Blaser

\* \"Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Science and
Countermeasures.\" Anthony S. Fauci

\* \"Pandemic Preparedness: Pigs, Poultry, and People versus Plans,
Products, and Practice.\" Julie L. Gerberding

\* \"Epidemiology of Seasonal Influenza: Use of Surveillance Data and
Statistical Models to Estimate the Burden of Disease.\" William W.
Thompson, Lorraine Comanor, and David K. Shay

\* \"Epidemiology of Pandemic Influenza: Use of Surveillance and
Modeling for Pandemic Preparedness.\" Arnold S. Monto, Lorraine Comanor,
David K. Shay, and William W. Thompson

\* \"Lessons Learned from Reconstructing the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.\"
Adolfo García-Sastre and Richard J. Whitley

\* \"Prevention and Treatment of Influenza in High-Risk Groups:
Children, Pregnant Women, Immunocompromised Hosts, and Nursing Home
Residents.\" Richard J. Whitley and Arnold S. Monto

\* \"Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza: Recommendations for Preparedness
in the United States.\" Richard J. Whitley, John Bartlett, Frederick G.
Hayden, Andrew T. Pavia, Michael Tapper, and Arnold S. Monto. Abstract
of the Whitley article:

\"There is a continued need to improve the state of preparedness for a
potential influenza pandemic in the United States despite the
publication of a pandemic influenza plan by the Department of Health and
Human Services. Of particular importance are the sense of urgency for a
coordinated response plan, an allocation of adequate funds to deal with
this issue, and the need for a national leader to coordinate the
development and execution of a national plan, including its relationship
to the control of seasonal influenza. In addition, an infrastructure
needs to be established in the United States to enable the rapid
development and large-scale production of a safe and effective vaccine
for new influenza strains; methods to treat influenza pneumonia need to
be evaluated; a coordinated public health response needs to be defined;
a nationally developed blueprint to deal with logistics of pandemic
prevention is required; and there is a need to establish reliable
communication systems on a national and local basis, to provide accurate
information to the lay public, health care workers, and the agricultural
sector.\"\]

\(4\) WAR ON TERROR:

Cook, David. Paradigmatic Jihadi Movements: CTC\'s Jihadi After Action
Report. West Point: Combating Terrorism Center, 2006, 32 pages. Accessed
at: [[http://www.ctc.usma.edu/]{.underline}](http://www.ctc.usma.edu/)

Crocker, H.W. III. \"Message to Islamists: Don\'t Tread on Me. The
American Spectator, October 6, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10457]{.underline}](http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10457)

Smith, Lewis. \"Seizures of Radioactive Materials Fuel \'Dirty Bomb\'
Fears.\" Times (London), October 6, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29389-2391574.html]{.underline}](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,29389-2391574.html)

\(5\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AFGHANISTAN:

Shahzad, Syed Saleem. \"Taliban Lay Plans for Islamic Intifada.\" Asia
Times, October 6, 2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ06Df01.html]{.underline}](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ06Df01.html)

\[Excerpt: \"The {Spring} intifada will be both national and
international. On the one hand it aims to organize a national uprising,
and on the other it will attempt to make Afghanistan the hub of the
worldwide Islamic resistance movement, as it was previously under the
Taliban when Osama bin Laden and his training camps were guests of the
country\.... Key to this mission is Mullah Mehmood Allah Haq Yar\.... A
major first step toward creating an intifada in Afghanistan was the
establishment of the Islamic State of North Waziristan in the Pakistani
tribal area this year. This brought all fragmented sections of the
Taliban under one command, and was the launching pad for the Taliban\'s
spring offensive\.... {Asia Times}: \'What is the role of the tribal
chiefs?\'

Haq Yar: \'The tribal chiefs have always been supportive of the Taliban
and still are. How could they not be? The US bombed and killed thousand
of their people and the puppet \[President Hamid\] Karzai government is
silent. All Afghans are sick and tired of US tyrannies and daily
bombardment, whether they are commoners or chiefs, and that is why they
are all with the Taliban.\'\"\]

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

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