Friday, November 9th, 2012

Time	Event
6:41a	How Terrorist Groups Disband Interesting research from RAND: Abstract: How do terrorist groups end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that terrorist groups rarely cease to exist as a result of winning or losing a military campaign. Rather, most groups end because of operations carried out by local police or intelligence agencies or because they join the political process. This suggests that the United States should pursue a counterterrorism strategy against al Qa'ida that emphasizes policing and intelligence gathering rather than a "war on terrorism" approach that relies heavily on military force. This, of course, should surprise no one. Remember the work of Max Abrahms. (Comment on this)
1:32p	How To Tell if Your Hotel Guest Is a Terrorist From the Department of Homeland Security, a handy list of 19 suspicious behaviors that could indicate that a hotel guest is actually a terrorist. I myself have done several of these. More generally, this is another example of why all the "see something say something" campaigns fail: "If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security." (Comment on this)
4:16p	Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink as a Condiment Burger King introduces a black burger with ketchup that includes squid ink. Only in Japan, of course. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. (Comment on this)

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