Reuters is running a fascinating article on venture capital-style investment networks being run by Somali pirates. This implications of this are fairly significant for a number of reasons: It …
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Four Indian army soldiers have died in a powerful explosion at a military base in the northern state of Punjab. - BBC …
Mexico, and the cross-border region that embraces the frontier between Mexico and the United States, are embroiled in a series of interlocking, networked criminal insurgencies. These criminal …
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“I don’t know Hakim. This isn’t typical; it’s spreading. I’ve worked here for a few years now and this is different. The inmates are doing some strange religious stuff. We know they are praying, but …
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In Gaza, a tentative ceasefire has been declared. But the war in cyberspace continues. Israel and its adversaries have taken to the global cyber commons to wage cyberwar against each other, deploying …
We are proud to feature this new paper by John Sullivan: Security and public safety agencies must address a range of current and emerging threats. These range from conflicts, strategic crime, …
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(cross-posted at Haft of the Spear) I don’t get Insight Magazine so I don’t know the full story that goes along with this teaser: The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Osama bin Laden has …
Money quote from the Author's Note: The unavoidable conclusion is that the U.S. government cannot continue to allow a collecting agency to make unilateral originator control determinations regarding …
I used to wax and wane about the need to purge national security functionaries, but I've stopped waning, as my latest commentary at ThreatsWatch indicates. …
(cross-posted at Haft of the Spear) I don’t get Insight Magazine so I don’t know the full story that goes along with this teaser: The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Osama bin Laden has …
