<HTML>Uns liegt ein wichtiges Buch über Terror und dessen Abwehr vor, das u.a. zahlreiche Fakten und Erkenntnisse über elektromagnetischen Terrorismus bzw. Cyberterrorismus und –Kriminalität aufzeigt.
Terrorism: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Improving Responses: U.S - Russian Workshop Proceedings.
Herausgeber: National Research Council of The National Academies (USA) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Verlag: The National Academies Press,Washington D.C., 2004.
Das Buch enthält die Beiträge einer hochkarätigen Expertentagung amerikanischer und russischer Fachleute in Moskau 2003.
Der Buchtext ist auch im Internet abrufbar [
www.nap.edu]
Der Wissenschaftler und frühere Generalmajor Dvorkin spricht von der absolut realen („absolutely real“) Möglichkeit elektromagnetischen Terrors (2004, S. 5): “Significant attention is also being focused on how to counter computer and electromagnetic terrorism. The latter topic merits additional explanation. The possibility of using powerful electromagnetic impulses as a means of attack has become absolutely real because of the development of sources capable of creating peak output on the order of several gigawatts and the miniaturization of the elemental components of military and civilian radioelectronics, which makes these devices vulnerable to extremely low levels of electromagnetic wave energy. ...Unshielded general-use computers were most vulnerable to electromagnetic energy in the frequency range of 1–10 GHz… The example of opportunities for electromagnetic terrorism attests to the expanding spectrum of violent means and methods of attack.”
Angriffe mit elektromagnetischen Pulswaffen werden in einem Atemzug mit herkömmlichen Terrormöglichkeiten genannt und diskutiert. So führt Professor Bugliarello aus (S. 16-17): “The threats that can be aimed at a city are the well-known ones of chemical attacks (explosives and poisons); biological, radiological, and nuclear attacks; and cyber-, electromagnetic, and psychological attacks. These threats find the city a target-rich environment, housing a complex interacting system of people, buildings, infrastructures (utilities, roads, railroads, ports, airports), hospitals, schools, churches, businesses, government, military bases, and also of patterns of work, business, home life, leisure, and shopping activities that, all together, define a city’s way of life. …electromagnetic pulses can be directed at elements of the infrastructure, such as airports or utilities, which in turn can affect the functioning of hospitals, schools, and other institutions…”.
Harvard-Professor Branscomb erläutert, dass elektromagnetische Pulswaffen auch Teil eines integrierten terroristischen Angriffs sein können, bei dem durch solche Waffen zunächst die Informations- und Kommunikationseinrichtungen der Sicherheits- und Rettungskräfte lahmgelegt werden (deren Zerstörung ist hierbei nicht erforderlich) und dann ein weiterer Terroranschlag (mit herkömmlichen Mitteln) erfolgt: “There is another weapon that shares this characteristic: the portable device delivering an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sufficiently strong to damage the operating condition of electronics systems such as computers, digital telephone switches, and the like, but not strong enough to permanently damage the hardware. It follows that emergency operations centers (EOCs), such as those in all major cities, should be protected against both cyber- and EMP attacks on their information systems. We should be prepared for the likelihood that a well-planned terrorist attack might begin with an attack that removes the EOC from effectiveness for a few hours, during which time a major physical (or biological or chemical) attack occurs” (S. 95).
In einer Liste terroristischer Waffen werden elektromagnetische Waffen an fünfter Stelle aufgeführt (Branscomb S. 152):
„The terrorists’ weapons include
· fissile nuclear and radiological materials
· biological organisms used against human and agricultural health systems
· military-type chemical weapons
· inflammable, toxic, and explosive chemicals and materials
· cyber- and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks on electronic targets, such as telecoms, data, or controls
· transportation and industrial materials systems used as weapons
· explosives derived from, for example, fuel oil and nitrogen fertilizer”.</HTML>
