Al Qaeda wants to build a political operation in Iraq to broaden its campaign against the U.S.-backed government, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday. Citing intelligence mostly gathered since the …
FBI: Not Serious
In a classroom at the FBI Academy in Quantico, instructor Rodney Loose was trying to introduce the history of Islam to a new group of future agents. He had one hour. The 50 men and women would be …
Bearing Gifted Geeks
The great need for qualified computer security personnel is now forcing the government to rethink rigid hiring guidelines. At the Defcon computer security convention in Las Vegas, more than a dozen …
Air Security: Not Serious
A top level security probe is under way after a 12-year-old boy walked on to a plane unchecked with no documents at the height of the terror scare. The boy boarded a plane at Gatwick on Monday despite …
Lesson Not Learned
The director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Tuesday that the spy agency avoids racial profiling because it is "fundamentally stupid'' and does not knowingly use information gleaned …
At the Center of the Storm: Moqtada al Sadr
As Iraq careens toward open sectarian civil war and the sectarian communal identity and power groupings assert their primacy over that of the government, restless calls from Shia leaders for communal …
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The Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Agreement: Obstacles Remain
UN Resolution 1701 is unlikely to produce short or long term stability along the Lebanon -Israel border. Significant obstacles remain in place, threatening to undermine the tenets of the ceasefire …
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DROC’s Election Results Filtering In: More of the Same
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC; has been plagued with ethnic cleansing (Hutu vs Tutsi), human rights abuses, tribal conflict, political upheaval, military mutinies and coups, and …
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Between Two Different Wars
To say that the conflict between Israel and Hizballah is asymmetric is an understatement. Rather, Israel and Hizballah are fighting two different wars, with Israel focused on a military campaign …
Moroccan Authorities Uncover Robust Terrorist Group
On August 7, Moroccan police dismantled a robust network of Islamist militants seeking to perpetrate a number of attacks across northern Africa; the specific targeted locales remain unknown. The …
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