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Expert Panel Says Homeland Security Department and Iraq Top Issues for 2003 30 December, 2002
Arlington, VA – There are two predominant themes experts see as major impacts to the war on terror in 2003, the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and a possible war in Iraq. These comments came from a panel of top internationally known experts drawn together by the International Center for Terrorism Studies at The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies in a seminar at the National Press Club this morning. Potomac Chairman and CEO Mr. Michael S. Swetnam offered a ‘report card’ on 2002 along with his thoughts on what 2003 may bring. Mr. Swetnam is the co-author of Usama bin Laden’s al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network. He serves on the Defense Science Board and is a member of the Technical Advisory Group to the U.S. Senate Special Select Committee on Intelligence. Prof. Yonah Alexander, Director of the International Center for Terrorism Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and Co-Director of the Inter-University Center for Legal Studies, who has authored nearly 100 books on terrorism in the past 60 years, opened the panel. Prof. Edgar Brenner, Co-Director, Inter-University Center for Legal Studies served as the moderator. The distinguished panel included: Amb. Philip Wilcox, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace; Amb. Richard Kauzlarich, Director of the Special Initiative on the Muslim World at the United States Institute for Peace; Eugene Fidell, Esq President of the National Institute of Military Justice; Steven Hildreth of the Congressional Research Service; Dr. David Kay, Senior Research Fellow at The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, he served as the UN’s Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War; Amb. Paul Bremer, Chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting; and Bruce Zagaris, Esq., a partner at the law firm of Berliner, Corcoran, & Rowe LLP who specializes in international and tax law. The event was broadcast live by CSPAN. A transcript of the event will be made available at www.PotomacInstitute.org.
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