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March 16, 2021
Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a group of civilians returning from market day in a volatile corner of Niger, leaving at least 58 people dead and then burning granaries to the ground, the government said Tuesday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Mondays massacres, though extremists belonging to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara group are known to be active in the Tillaberi region where the villages were attacked. The victims were returning home from a large livestock mark...
March 4, 2021
The purpose of Hostile Environmental Awareness Training or HEAT is to create awareness of how to respond to scenarios you are likely to encounter while working in a hostile or hazardous environment. Each course is interactive and requires a participatory approach. We combine theory with group work, audio-visual methods, exercises, and simulations. The training takes place over two half-day online theoretical lessons and two full-day in person simulations. In order to receive your HEAT certifica...
January 25, 2021
The Atlantic The Senate Trial Will Test Whether Republicans Care Even About Themselves The whole American government is premised on the idea that politicians will act in their own interests. A Senate that won’t protect itself from attack can’t protect the country. January 25, 2021 (May-Ying Lam) Last week’s maximum-security inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris rendered all the more surreal the chaos that unfolded on the Hill just weeks before. The assault o...
January 3, 2021
Dozens of people were killed in an attack in Niger on Saturday, in a suspected jihadist attack. The attack took place around 12:00 CET in the Tchomo-Bangou village in Tillabéri, a western region bordering Mali. "The assailants surrounded the village and killed up to 50 people," a local radio journalist said anonymously. "The wounded have been evacuated to the hospital in Ouallam." It came on the day provisional results for the first round of the presidential election, held on December 27, wer...
February 7, 2013
Supposed to do in these countries, and their physical security. we are committed to steps that avoid a bunker mentality and yet we still must afford greater protection from armed attack. we are taking steps along three tracks. first, host nation capacity. we have been able to better assess and build up the capability of host governments to provide security for u.s. personnel and facilities. the fact is, as you all know, that our embassies and consulates depend on host country personnel to provid...
November 2, 2012
The suez canal. the american president at that time, in 1956, was, of course, dwight eisenhower. republican. he was running for re-election against the democratic candidate that year, adlai stevenson. talk about an october surprise. that year it was eight days before election day. both candidates are forced to deal with an unexpected and genuine giant foreign policy crisis. >> on sunday the israeli government ordered total mobilization. on monday, their armed forces penetrated deeply into egypt ...
November 2, 2012
And they did it with the secret support of two major u.s. allies. france and england. it was a fight over control of the suez canal. the american president at that time, in 1956, was, of course, dwight eisenhower. republican. he was running for re-election against the democratic candidate that year, adlai stevenson. talk about an october surprise. that year it was eight days before election day. both candidates are forced to deal with an unexpected and genuine giant foreign policy crisis. >> on ...
November 2, 2012
France and england. it was a fight over control of the suez canal. the american president at that time, in 1956, was, of course, dwight eisenhower. republican. he was running for re-election against the democratic candidate that year, adlai stevenson. talk about an october surprise. that year it was eight days before election day. both candidates are forced to deal with an unexpected and genuine giant foreign policy crisis. >> on sunday the israeli government ordered total mobilization. on monda...
October 19, 2012
Gotten a little frisky. they were under armed attack as they had been before. it was clearly something that only a terrorist group could put together. and i think that that, really, was something that the administration knew in realtime. they had testimony that the security people in benghazi were on cell phones back to the state department. so i think the notion that this was an out of control demonstration was false from the get-go. martha: you know there is a lot of reporting right now about ...