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Volume 15 Issue 1: February 2009
The Counter Terror Issue
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The Last Word: a personal view . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD:
Dominique R. Antonini: Director, Business Development,
Counter Terror Articles
AVS&C, Geneva, Switzerland
Geoff Askew: Group General Manager, Qantas
Explosives:
Airways Ltd, Australia
for sale in the 21st Centrury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Andy Blackwell, Head of Aviation Security, Virgin
Atlantic Airways Ltd., UK
Detonators:
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Sidney Chau: General Manager, AVSECO, Hong Kong
a guide to the blasting cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Yves Duguay: Vice President, Operations, Canadian
Be Prepared:
Air Transport Security Authority, Canada
Matthew Finn:
valuing the first responder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Managing Director, Augmentiq,
Switzerland
Squawking 7500:
Rear Admiral (Retired) Cathal “Irish” Flynn: USA
a Turkish aerial hijack exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
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Georgina Graham: Director Security & Facilitation,
International Air Transport Association, Canada
Industry Articles
Abdulla al Hashimi: Chief of Group Security, Emirates
Airlines, U.A.E.
Checkpoint Ancillaries:
Tom Jensen: President/CEO, National Safe Skies
enhancing the screening operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Alliance, USA
Omer Laviv: Chief Executive Officer, Athena GS3 Airport Staff Access:
Security Implementations Ltd., Israel
controls a necessity to mitigate risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Banu Nair: Cabin Training Chief, Turkish Airlines, Turkey
Robert Raffel: Associate Professor, Homeland Security
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