Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte may have his eye on history as he attempts to secure a prime downtown Washington property - Navy Hill, overlooking the Potomac River - for his …
HLS: Serious
The Transportation Security Administration, which has faced start-up pains for much of the past four years, is expanding career opportunities for passenger and baggage screeners in hopes of reducing …
Now Please
Now is the time to tell our soldiers in Iraq that “hot pursuit” is okay, that the terrorist training camps on both sides of Iraq are legitimate targets, to be attacked in self-defense. Now is the time …
How Soon?
More a current events than an intel post, so pardon the interruption . . . So I’m reading about Hezbollah rocket attacks against Nazareth and for some reason I’m taken back to the spring of 2001 when …
Bassem gets out from under a cloud
An internal investigation by the [FBI’s] Office of Professional Responsibility found "sufficient circumstantial evidence" that Special Agent Bassem Youssef was blocked from a counterterrorism …
Good Points
SOI reminds us that success in this fight means less about territory than some would suggest. The down-side; it means that it'll get uglier before it gets prettier. …
Militia Rebuked by Some Arab Countries
Relatively prosperous and stable Arab countries have blamed Hezbollah for the current crisis in Lebanon and have restrained their criticism of Israel's daily bombardment (Intel Report, Intel Report, …
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Gangs wreak havoc on continent’s largest city
The prolific growth of violent, transnational street gangs throughout Central and North America embodies the main security threat to local law enforcement officials today, as street gangs grow …
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Somali government boycotts talks, blames Islamists
Supreme Islamic Courts Council, an Islamist group that cuts across Somali clans is increasingly consolidating power within the Somali capital Mogadishu and surrounding areas. The ICC seized a large …
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American greases al-Qaida media machine
In an essay detailing his conversion to Islam, Yahiye Adam Gadahn relates how, surfing the Internet at his grandmother's house, he encountered Islam in discussion folders on AOL and in Usenet …
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