They have a plan, they have a pattern . . . Armed with details of billions of telephone calls, the National Security Agency used phone records linked to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to create a …
Jihad via PSP
Gamers quibble over trees while missing a forest: Was an elite congressional intelligence committee shown video footage from an off-the-shelf retail game and told by the Pentagon and a highly-paid …
Preparing to Fail
A long post derived from Inside the Pentagon (subscription): Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, who led a “red team” of notional enemy forces at the outset of JFCOM’s Millennium Challenge …
Hamas pulls private militia off streets
With the intensifying internecine conflict between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the bankrupt Palestinian Authority unable to pay its 165,000 employees for three months running, Palestinian …
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Fighting spreads across Somalian capital
Somalia has struggled through at least 14 attempts to form a government since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown by warlords in 1991. The result has been a stateless-state (aka failed state) …
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Afghans Riot After Deadly Crash by U.S. Military Truck
The explosive ferocity of this weekend?s riots in Afghanistan , coupled with the existing anger that followed a recent US air strike against anti-government militants that reportedly killed at least …
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Canada Fraud Scheme Linked To Terrorist Activities
As the article suggests, criminal organizations in Canada , acting as the financial broker of various unnamed terrorist organizations throughout the world, have become increasingly adept at elaborate …
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International troops arrive in East Timor
With a population of just over one million and an economy based almost entirely on coffee exports, unrest in East Timor should not intuitively be of much significance to western interests. …
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German Women Vowed to Mount Suicide Attacks in Iraq
As has been posited in these pages for over a year, the threat of female suicide bombers originating from Europe seems to be taking a hold. The Spiegel Online article announced Germany's first …
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Armed Groups Propel Iraq Toward Chaos
The New York Times report offers compelling insight into the opaque and amorphous array of militant groups operating within and alongside official government security forces in Iraq and underscores …
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