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  2006-05-11 -- (Yahoo! News)
Attacks by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan are on the rise and the rebels fighting US forces are increasingly using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and suicide bombings, US Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry said.

  2006-04-17 -- (MSNBC)
Defense lawyers for Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui will have to persuade a jury to spare their client's life without the help of his al-Qaida comrade, would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid.

  2006-03-31 -- (Terrorism Research Center)
Government security experts said Tuesday the United States remains too vulnerable to a nuclear or dirty bomb attack and called on Congress and the White House to increase federal efforts aimed at preventing the smuggling of such dangerous materials.

  2006-03-27 -- (Yahoo! News)
Laying out a stunning new version of his terrorist mission, al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he was supposed to hijack a fifth jetliner on Sept. 11, 2001, with would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid and fly it into the White House.

  2006-02-03 -- (NY Sun)
Nearly a year and a half after a final report from American weapons inspectors concluded they could not uncover evidence of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has reopened the question, launching an inquiry and asking the director of national intelligence to re-examine the issue.

EMRTC Updates:

New Mexico Tech Developing State of the Art Homeland Security Training Center

NM Tech plans to acquire an entire town for controlled training exercises in real time.

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