Transcript INTRODUCTION - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Terrorism Introduction
John T. Hoffman
Director, Threat & Mitigation
[email protected]
Meg Scott Phipps, Commissioner
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services
Terrorism Introduction
 Terrorists are capable of employing chemical weapons and have
employed biological weapons.
 Pre-incident intelligence is important, but may not prevent a terrorist
attack.
 When an attack comes we must be prepared.
 To become prepared we must understand the threat
 assess both the threat and our own vulnerabilities
 threat scenarios provide focus
 analysis uncovers gaps and shortfalls
 Develop Plans and threat Reduction measures
 Increasing our preparedness means taking actions that eliminate the
current gaps and shortfalls.
 The goal is to minimize loss of life, capability, and property
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services
General Threat Posture for NC
Low in general
– Direct Destructive Attack
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Fuel / Haz-Mat Storage
Prominent facilities
Large Gatherings
Military
Banking
– Bio Attack
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Facilities
Food Chain
Water Systems
High risk Personnel
– Prominent Persons
– Media Personalities
– High Technology
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& Consumer Services
Groups That Threaten
Lone individuals
Identified groups
Non-aligned groups
State sponsored
Transnational
Organizations
Doomsday cults
Insurgents
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& Consumer Services
How They Operate:
 Political/Ideologically driven
 Small Cells:
 Leadership
 Planning
 Logistics
 Intel/recon
 Rehearsal/training
 execution
 May be very well financed
 Very Patient
 Seek visibility for a cause or to intimidate
into action
 Focus on targets that yield maximum effect
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& Consumer Services
POSSIBLE
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:
B-NICE
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Biological
Nuclear
Incendiary
Chemical
Explosive
Terrorist may weaponize a conventional resource!
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& Consumer Services
Other Mass Destruction
Weapons
 Infrastructure attacks
 CyberTerrorism and Information
Warfare
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& Consumer Services
Potential Biological Agents:
Alphavirus
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucella
Cholera
Plague
Q Fever
Ricin
Smallpox
Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B
Tularemia
Trichothecene Mycotoxin (T2)
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& Consumer Services
Other Potential Animal Disease Threats
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Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
Hog Cholera
African Swine Fever
West Nile
Avian Influenza
Hendra
Nipah
Ebola
BSE
(Emerging Zoonotic Diseases)
Foreign Animal Diseases = Global Diseases
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& Consumer Services
Assessing Threats
Is A Given Threat Credible?
Intent
Capability
Vulnerability
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& Consumer Services
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services
Is Our Food Chain Vulnerable?
What Do You Think?
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& Consumer Services
Is Our Water Vulnerable?
160,000 public water systems in the US.
54,000 community water systems
serving 264 Million.
300 serve major metro areas.
Almost 50% receive their water from very
large utilities.
Yet most systems are small
(99% serve < 100,00)
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& Consumer Services
Is Our Water Vulnerable?
Potential Vulnerabilities:
•Physical Destruction
•Interdependencies
•Biological and Chemical Contamination
•Cyber Attack
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& Consumer Services
Is North Carolina Water Vulnerable?
2374 Community Water Systems
Serving 5,794,107 people
658 Non-Transient Non-Community Water Systems
Serving 193,761 people
4479 Transient Non-Community Water Systems
Serving 412,002 people
6955 Ground water systems
Serving 1,942,355 people
556 Surface Water Systems
Serving 4,457,515 people
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& Consumer Services
CHEM/BIO-Security Considerations:
Employee Background Checks
External Facility Monitoring
Physical Security
Language/Cultural Issues
Immigrant Workers
Employee Bio-Security Training
Transportation Security
ORM
Terrorism Vulnerability Self Assessments
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& Consumer Services
How To Reduce Exposure to
Terrorism
Assess threat and vulnerabilities
Implement Threat Reduction steps
Develop Crisis Management Plan
Develop Consequence Management
Plan
Train your team & Exercise the plans
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& Consumer Services
Why go after the lions
when there are plenty of sheep.
PLO Terrorist Dr.George Habash
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
& Consumer Services
We will be the lions!
Ten Tasks:
Preserve the ability of the NC Agriculture Community to produce stable supplies
of food, feed and forest products.
Diagnose and investigate infectious animal and livestock disease, intentional
plant pest introductions, unauthorized biological control agent releases, and
environmental health problems and health hazards in the NC agriculture
community.
Provide the full resources of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture &
Consumer Services to support the State of North Carolina in any emergency
situation.
Reduce the vulnerability of the staff, vital assets, services and operations of the
North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services.
Reduce the vulnerability of the animal, and livestock, plant, crop, and other
beneficial organism populations of the state from the effect of a multi-hazard
event.
Ten Tasks: continued
Support the partners and customers of the North Carolina Department of
Agriculture & Consumer Services in reducing their vulnerability to and recovery
from the effects of a multi-hazard event.
Inform, educate and empower people about specific agricultural community
issues pertaining to a threatened or actual Multi-Hazard emergency event.
Enforce laws and regulations that protect public, animal, and livestock, plant,
crop and other beneficial organism health and insure their general safety in case of
a Multi-Hazard emergency.
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility and quality of departmental and community
based agricultural services available to respond to a Multi-Hazard emergency.
Develop and maintain policies and plans that support the agricultural community
efforts in preparing for and responding to a Multi-Hazard emergency event.