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Terrorism expert available to comment on five year anniversary of Sept. 11

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Jonathan White, executive director of the Homeland Defense Initiative at Grand Valley State University will be in New York Sept. 11.

White will be available for media interviews Tuesday, September 5, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in 253 C DeVos, on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus.

White can comment on issues surrounding the five year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and terrorism around the world. After Sept. 11, 2001, White was tapped by the federal government to brief law enforcement officials about terrorism. In the past five years, White has traveled across the country and internationally educating officials and helping to set up terrorism task forces.

For more information, contact Jonathan White at (616) 331-7243, or Dottie Barnes at (616) 331-2221.

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