Story Archives of 'Terrorism'

The words “terrorist” and “terrorism” have become ubiquitous to our daily news diet, and its hard to remember sometimes that it hasn’t always been this way. The frequency of terrorist activity has been on the rise lately, but the face of terrorism is also changing. The who and the why are different now than just a few decades ago. And the very definition of terrorism can change, depending on perspective. We'll talk about the evolution and sociology of terrorism with Professor Mike Smith of St. Anselm College.

The essence of women -- their motivations, their disguises, and their status is the foundation of a New Hampshire Theater Project production in Portsmouth. We'll talk with director Genevieve Aichele who brought the unusual concept to the stage, and with actor Lisa Richardson who brings several accents and characters to life.

TONIGHT'S SONG: "Canyon Girl" by the Fruit Bats. It's off their album, "Spelled in Bones"

New Hampshire, by all accounts, has become reluctantly accustomed to living with a high risk of terrorist attack.

Government officials call it level Orange, the fourth most serious of five threat levels.

Residents are less familiar with what would happen if Washington declares a level Red alert. That would be an immediate and severe risk of terrorist attack.

N-H-P-R correspondent John Milne reports

Vaccinations begin on Monday for a select group of health care workers in New Hampshire. In some states the vaccine is controversial, and public officials here are being cautious in their approach. We’ll find out more. Laura’s guests are State Medical Director for NH Health and Human Services Dr. William Kassler www.dhhs.state.nh.us and other guests TBA.

It was eradicated twenty years ago – but this week the government issued a plan to deal with an outbreak due to bioterrorism. We’ll talk about what New Hampshire’s doing. There are some problems with widespread smallpox vaccination. Laura's guest is State Epidemiologist Jesse Greeblatt, NH Department of Health and Human Services www.dhhs.state.nh.us. For more information about smallpox, go to www.cdc.gov.

Congress and many Americans are pretty upset to learn the agency had clues that might have thwarted the September 11th attacks. We’ll look at a new FBI restructuring plan and whether it will make a difference. Laura’s guests are Malcom Sparrow, a professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government www.ksg.harvard.edu. Tanya DeGenova, CEO, TSD Security Consulting Group www.tsdconsulting.com and retired FBI agent, and former US Senator Warren Rudman.