GARFIELD COUNTY, WASH.
2,627 miles: Offi cials in tiny Garfi eld bought a $7,000 ATV and a $30,000 SUV. State offi cials added a $343,000 armored truck and 30 bullet-proof vests.
BUFFALO, N.Y. BOISE, IDAHO
2,469 miles: $1.8 million on body bags, $3.4 million on emergency vehicles by 2007; $41,000 to secure Albertson’s grocery dist. center.
NEBRASKA
1,461 miles: Nebraska’s tiny counties, most with fewer than 1,000 residents, feasted on DHS funds. Some of the expenses: • $5,000 for scuba gear • $500,000 for a fi re-training trailer • A $141,000 bomb robot • $17,000 speakers for police helicopter
BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH
2,220 miles: The $250,000 in DHS funds used to retrofi t a senior center even attracted the ire of neighboring Arizona Sen. John McCain.
GROUND ZERO
374 miles: Offi cials in this upstate city have been asked to explain the $935,000 in DHS funds used to pay for routine police patrols.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
300 miles: DHS funds used for $500 tactical binoculars, $10,000 in police door-busting equipment, $53,000 for gear to protect wastewater plants, and $116,000 for radiation detectors at the DMV.
GEORGIA
895 miles: From 2003-2007, nearly $100 million to upgrade emergency radio systems. Communication between jurisdictions has gotten worse as a result of the projects.
MONTGOMERY, ALA. EL RENO, OKLA.
1,504 miles: Offi cials spent DHS money on items such as a $40,000 decontamination trailer and a $15,000 video security system.
1,049 miles: State offi cials used a $150,000 grant to build a satellite imaging system for fi rst responders. The system uses Google Earth, which anyone can access for free.
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the total since 9/11, but in the fi rst half of 2011 the number of such cases subsided rather dramatically,” he says. By May of this year, there were only six jihadist terrorism cases. Could this downturn be but a
lull as jihadists regroup or their geographic center of gravity shifts? Some analysts think so. Analyst Paul Cruickshank cites the record number of terrorist plots in 2010 — most of which failed or were foiled, fortu- nately — as evidence of this trend. Pakistan, too, deserves special scrutiny. The Pakistani Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Harakat-ul-Jihad Islami, the Islamic Jihad Union, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan all have a signifi cant presence in Pakistan’s tribal regions and have tried to attack American or Western targets. If Pakistan were to collapse,
who would inherit control of that country’s nuclear arsenal, estimated to total nearly 100 bombs, about 30 percent of which are believed to be mobile? And while drone attacks succeeded at fi rst in killing militants in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, Western jihadi recruits have recent- ly told interrogators that they have adapted to the strikes by conducting sessions indoors, Cruickshank says. Another distressing trend, he says, is the increasing ability of such groups to use the Internet to exer- cise greater “command and control” over their trainees through encrypted communications. “Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber, was com- municating with his handlers in real time and was not intercepted,” he says. According to court records, Shahzad used software that was
installed on his laptop while he was in Pakistan to “exchange information about the bomb he was building, the vehicle he purchsed, and other top- ics,” without being detected. According to trial records, Rajib
Karim, a convicted U.K.-based AQAP operative, also used encrypted soft- ware to communicate in early 2010 with Anwar al-Awlaki, the extremist American cleric who fl ed to Yemen, to discuss the importance of attack- ing the United States. Those com- munications also went undetected. Iraq,
too, remains a source of
concern. While al-Qaida in Iraq as of 2008 seemed on the verge of defeat, it still conducted large-scale bombings in 2010 and 2011. Ben Venzke, the founder and director of the IntelCenter, which monitors jihadi videos and Internet communi-
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