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Rice reviews Iraq security plan
Date: 2007-02-18 Posted By:
Topics: Secretary of State
: Iraq : Security
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said Iraq's leaders are "off to a good start" with a new security plan intended to cut violence.
On an unannounced visit to the capital, Baghdad, she said she was "very impressed" with Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's leadership.
Region: Middle East
Read It At: BBC (Mirrored Copy)
Helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
Date: 2007-02-18 Posted By:
Topics: Afghanistan
: United States : Helicopter Crash
The US-led coalition has said one of its helicopters has crashed in south-eastern Afghanistan after reporting engine failure.
The helicopter is reported to be an American Chinook, but the coalition did not give any more details.
Region: South Asia
Read It At: BBC (Mirrored Copy)
Open-Source Spying
Date: 2006-12-05 Posted By:
Topics: Open Source Intelligence
: Intelligence : United States
When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had long been interested in international relations: he had studied Russian politics and interned at the U.S. consulate in Ukraine, helping to speed refugee applications of politically persecuted Ukrainians. But he was also a big high-tech geek fluent in Web-page engineering, and he spent hours every day chatting online with friends and updating his own blog. When he was hired by the D.I.A., he told me recently, his mind boggled at the futuristic, secret spy technology he would get to play with: search engines that can read minds, he figured. Desktop video conferencing with colleagues around the world. If the everyday Internet was so awesome, just imagine how much better the spy tools would be.
Region: Americas
Read It At: New York Times (Mirrored Copy)
14 contractors kidnapped in Iraq - ABC News
Date: 2006-11-16 Posted By:
Topics: Kidnapping
: Nasiriyah : Iraq
Up to 14 people, including four American contractors, were kidnapped in an ambush of a convoy near the southern Iraq city of Nasiriyah on Thursday, ABC News reported, citing defense officials.
Region: Middle East
Read It At: Reuters AlertNet (Mirrored Copy)
Claim al Qaida 'planted evidence'
Date: 2006-11-16 Posted By:
Topics: Al-Qaeda
: United States : Iraq
A senior al Qaida operative deliberately planted evidence to encourage the United States into war against Iraq, it has been claimed.
Region: Europe
Read It At: ic Uxbridge.co.uk (Mirrored Copy)
NYPD says al-Qaida operative favored limo bomb for U.S. targets
Date: 2006-11-16 Posted By:
Topics: Al-Qaeda
: Terrorism : United States
An al-Qaida operative conducting surveillance on U.S. soil in 2000 favored using a limousine packed with explosives or a hijacked oil tanker truck to attack financial institutions in Manhattan and New Jersey, police officials said Thursday.
Region: Americas
Read It At: Staten Island Advance (Mirrored Copy)
Iraq issues an arrest warrant for a top Sunni cleric
Date: 2006-11-16 Posted By:
Topics: Sheik Harith al-Dhari
: Arrest Warrant : Iraq
Iraq's Shiite-led Interior Ministry on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for one of the country's most prominent Sunni Muslim clerics, charging him with violating antiterrorism laws.
Region: Middle East
Read It At: Macon Telegraph (Mirrored Copy)
Canadian authorities hold 'Russian spy'
Date: 2006-11-16 Posted By:
Topics: Spy
: Canada : Russia
CANADA announced overnight the arrest of a foreign man using a fake Canadian identity, who media said is a suspected Russian spy.
Region: Americas
Read It At: news.com.au (Mirrored Copy)
Israel uncovers secret cell making explosive belts in West Bank
Date: 2006-11-16 Posted By:
Topics: Explosive Belts
: West Bank : Israel
Israeli security forces had uncovered a West Bank militant cell manufacturing explosive belts with liquid material, which cannot be detected by metal detectors, Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday.
Region: Middle East
Read It At: Xinhua (Mirrored Copy)
Iran: Israel will regret striking against us
Date: 2006-11-16 Posted By:
Topics: Iran
: Israel
According to the Iranian news agency IRNA, the Iranian Defense Minister Mustafa Mohammed Najjar said Thursday, “If Israel takes any stupid action, Iran’s reaction will be so painful and swift that Israel will regret it forever.”
Region: Middle East
Read It At: Ynetnews (Mirrored Copy)
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