Today a suicide bomber detonated at the international arrivals terminal at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow. The location in the airport was accessible to persons that had not passed through security. Thus far, approximately 35 are reported dead and 130 injured.… Continue Reading
Each day brings new revelations from the Wikileaks cables. Each revelation results in reassessments of global geopolitics. Analysis of the repercussions may be clouding a larger issue: Is this the next stage of cyberwarfare? To date, WikiLeaks is believed to… Continue Reading
Not improving…. On Monday, the newspaper Milineo reported hundreds of public and private schools in Tamaulipas, cancelled classes due to bomb threats made by unidentified criminal organizations. The day before, there were four near-simultaneous attacks against police locations in three… Continue Reading
Recently, Mexican officials took offense to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comparison of the country’s drug cartel violence to the Colombian insurgency two decades ago. Homeland security and terrorism fellow Joan Neuhaus Schaan, while recognizing that there are fundamental… Continue Reading
A federal court in New York recently unsealed a superseding indictment related to Najibullah Zazi. Zazi is accused of plotting an attack against the New York subway system, though he was arrested in September before its execution. The superseding indictment… Continue Reading
Joan Neuhaus Schaan, the Baker Institute’s fellow in Homeland Security and Terrorism, testified in front of Congress last week on the issue of terrorism and water infrastructure. At a legislative hearing before the House Subcommittee on Water and Power, Neuhaus… Continue Reading
Joan Neuhaus Schaan, Baker Institute fellow in Homeland Security and Terrorism, was interviewed this week on Channel 11-KHOU discussing the possibility of a wanted terrorist coming across the U.S.-Mexico border to Texas. Schaan was asked about a Department of Homeland… Continue Reading