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Article: 'Systemic approach' needed in anti-terrorism. (Security Beat).
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- January 1, 2003
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Despite repeated emphasis on the importance of intelligence sharing, emergency responders are "still waiting for the adoption of a systemic approach to providing the intelligence that is so viral to preventing the next attack," said retired Gen. Dennis J. Reimer.
A former Army chief of staff, Reimer is now director of the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City.
"The $3.5 billion to improve the capabilities to deal with man-made disasters at the local level has not yet made it through the appropriation process and consequently, not one penny has been provided to emergency responders," he said.
Reimer said ...