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Innocent Targets: When Terrorism Comes to School By Michael Dorn & Chris Dorn
From the brutal May 8, 1970 attack on an Israeli School bus where nine children and three adults were murdered, to the slaughter of hundreds of innocent school children and parents by Chechen terrorists in Russia in September, 2004, there have been a series of devastating school related terrorist attacks in at least 12 countries over the past 40 years. While these attacks have been terrible and traumatic, how likely is it that your child's school or a school in your community will be targeted? Innocent Targets provides a rational and careful analysis by two of the nation's leading experts on school safety to reveal how schools can save limited fiscal resources, dramatically improve the level of safety, and possibly even save the lives of children and those who dedicate their lives to educating them. This advice comes from the expert selected by Jane's, the highly regarded 105 year old defense, intelligence, and school safety publisher, as the lead trainer on school safety to represent their offices in nine countries. The author of twenty books on school safety, Michael Dorn served as the lead expert for the nation's largest state government school safety center and in two key positions in the Terrorism Division of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency - Office of Homeland Security before being selected by Jane's. Michael and Chris Dorn have also produced several training videos, which have been used by the FBI, United States Secret Service, U.S. Department of Education, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Israeli Police and more than 50,000 other public safety and educational organizations in twenty countries. In stark contrast to the alarmist predictions of many self-proclaimed school terrorism experts, this book provides an accurate and fact based view of this important and emotionally charged topic.

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