The recent larger-scale, multi-faceted, and relatively tactically sophisticated insurgent assaults in Iraq against hardened military installations?employing integrated small arms assaults, vehicle …
Abbas Tries To Reform Security Services
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is trapped. On one hand, Abbas wants to provide the framework for peace between Palestine and Israel and, on the other hand, reform the Palestinian National …
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Police boss: Al Qaeda targeting UK
With elections due in the United Kingdom on the May 5, any comments from Britain?s most senior police officer on the issue of terrorism were going to be controversial. However, Sir Ian Blair has …
Zaidi extremists pose problem for Yemen
The uprising in Yemen of a small minority religious group in this region or others is not anything new, and perhaps 10 years ago this particular incident would not have captured international …
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Most of Iran?s Troops Withdraw from Lebanon
The rather surprising news that Iran has withdrawn a large compliment of its troops?namely its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)?from Lebanon should be tempered with the knowledge that …
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It’s the Wilderness Years for Militias
The anti-government movement has lost a good deal of steam in the post-9/11 environment, as the national psyche turned to unify against Islamic fundamentalism. As the US marks the 10-year …
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Security Spending Initiates Disputes
Homeland security spending is truly an emotional issue for all parties concerned because the money used to purchase equipment provides citizens with a sense of security, importance, and preparedness. …
U.S. Focusing on Disease Spread Through Air Travel
In the wake of the September 11 hijackings where airliners were used as incendiary missiles flown into buildings, airline and aviation security have undergone a significant overhaul to prevent both …
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Signs of Division Show in Iraq Insurgency
The emergent internecine conflict between certain secular Iraqi nationalist insurgent groups and the more extremist foreign jihadists and terrorists within the ongoing Iraq insurgency and that some …
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Medics Back in Angola after attack
An outbreak of the Marburg virus (see image) in Angola has now killed 184 people out of the 200 who are infected. Initially and before the diagnosis was made, many children (75% of the total …