On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:03 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> According to the ITRR's Web site:
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> The Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR) is an American and Israeli nonprofit corporation created to help organisations succeed and prosper in a world threatened by terrorism.
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> ITRR's Israeli and American experts provide counter-terrorism training, seminars and security specialisation in dealing with threats such as weapons of mass destruction (WMD), suicide bombers and other forms of international terror striking both the public and private sector.
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> The revelations about the Philadelphia-based ITRR emerged as part of a scandal involving the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, an office of the Department of Homeland Security, which gave a no-bid $103,000 contract to ITRR to gather information on various community groups.
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> http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2010/10/20101012111034580809.html
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