Why do we get started. Im professor wallace and i want to welcome you to the International Institute which i am a chairman and a colleague of yonah. I will introduce you all in one moment. First the topic of this program, terrorism captives, tactical legal and strategic implications. Those of you who have come to other programs of the institute and ourselves will know that yonah been that yonah unbearably says we shouldnt forget the victims of terrorism and this is a program about victims in a way. Maybe the first one we have had. One of my colleagues pointed out that i think its isis in egypt is the croatian i think is working in egypt. So tack ticks and strategy. I think yonah mentions in this write up the best practices. One of our colleagues who you will hear has written a book which i happen to have read at this time and he makes the point that we are not very good on strategy and i suppose its a real test it seems to me in this area. How does one formulate a strategy, what might
Didnt sink in that we were the prisoners of war spent wednesday, cspans tour of recovery at st. Bernard parish in louisiana speak you cant describe it. Your whole life is gone, completely. Nothing but rubble. Not on your house but a whole community for all your friends, family, everybody is going. Now its going to be a year later and you still coming at them and friends, they dont see anymore that you used to see. Hell of a feeling. You will never forget the rest of your life. Followed at nine with a town hall meeting in new orleans. I am relying on you. I know august is state level, federal level at all difficult to i dont care. I voted for you to represent me on the local level. I dont know where else to go. I dont know what else to do. Thursday night startin startt eight more from the conference in new orleans with craig fugate and others. And nine bush of president obamas trip to the region as well as remarks for the recovery effort 10 years after katrina. Hurricane katrina anniver
Committee, and that money is actually paid by fifa money. So it is the other 11 billion that goes into the infrastructure and half of that is being paid by the federal government of russia. Now, in russia its a little bit different because you say, the other half comes from sponsors and other private citizens, from what i learned in sochi, many of those private companies that sponsor were actually governmentbacked there you get a little bit, unlike the United States, germany and others where you have true commercial entities, i find many of these private companies have some Government Support in the back. Also what happens is, i again learned, correct me if im wrong here, is that many of those hotels were built in sochi and maybe this will happen for world cup, many of the hotels are built based on loans guaranteed by the federal government. So if they default on those loans, because those hotels arent being filled up and theyre not making revenue, who is really paying that . It is the
Ladies and gentlemen, landseer of the Potomac Institute and it is my privilege to welcome you here today with the seminar on combating biological terrorism. I am proud to report for now almost exactly 20 years the Potomac Institute has been involved in the study of this issue of bio terrorism has only grown worse over time and is more threatening and more imminent and certainly those tools for dealing with this is inadequate today is 20 years ago the most political people are distracted from the threats which ships running over each other the pacific that the threats are more as long wolf driving cars to open spaces in your opinion United States and they forget the potential of a lone wolf with the biological realm is still quite possible in some would say likely in the future. The newsletter for eating less and terrorizing as the we are here to take a moment to see if we cannot refocus on the issue of biological terrorism. The works that summarized a lot of activities over the last 20
Ladies anladies and gentlemen mikes what pimco ceo the Potomac Institute for policy studies, and is my privilege to welcome you all here today to a seminar on combating biological terrorism. Im proud to report that for now almost exactly 20 years the Potomac Institute has been involved in the study of this issue. Unfortunately, the issue of bioterrorism has only grown worse over time. Its more threatening. It is probably more eminent, and certainly the tools we have for dealing with it are, as inadequate today as they were 20 years ago. Almost, also like 20 years ago, more and more the political people in the world are distracted by so many other threats from nuclear north korea, tehran, the ships run into each other in the pacific to Political Division in this country another, economic disruption around the world that the threats posed by tear are seen more and more as lone wolf driving cars through open spaces in europe and in the United States and other places. And many seem to forg