OCTOBER 13, 2010 Abducted and Tortured—for Reporting the News ‘This is the consequence of writing against the government,’ my captors said. By UMAR CHEEMA Islamabad, Pakistan Being a journalist, I’m always in search of a juicy story. Last month I happened on one I’ll remember forever: a torture operation conducted presumably by thugs of Pakistan’s […]
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SMALL WARS JOURNAL Book Review: Militant Islamist Ideology By SWJ Editors smallwarsjournal.com Understanding Al Qaeda’s True Center of Gravity A Book Review of: Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat, by Commander Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, USN Reviewed by: Malcolm Nance What steels the heart of educated men to slaughter innocent passengers and fly a jetliner
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Colombia drug trade knows no borders Ecuador a ‘victim of geography’ (Photo: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) A submarine, seized on July 2 in a shallow river inlet close to the Ecuador–Colombia border, was thought to be intended for smugglers to transport tons of cocaine. By Kelly Hearn – The Washington Times September 16, 2010 SAN
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD How Stuxnet is Scaring the Tech World Half to Death BY Jonathan V. Last September 30, 2010 2:30 PM The computer worm Stuxnet broke out of the tech underworld and into the mass media this week. It’s an amazing story: Stuxnet has infected roughly 45,000 computers. Sixty percent of these machines happen
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September 25th, 2010 3:34 pm Cyber War on Iran: the Siemens Connection While the boors and bores of the mainstream media continue to focus on the “crucial matters” of our time such as Stephen Colbert’s tedious appearance before Congress and whether a Delaware senatorial candidate spent two days as a witch in high school, news
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Pentagon Destroys Copies of Controversial Memoir Written by Army Officer Published September 25, 2010 | FoxNews.com The Defense Intelligence Agency has blocked a book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called “Able Danger.” The Pentagon has burned 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s memoir “Operation
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Our Predatory Trading Partners How Russia and China take advantage. BY Irwin M. Stelzer August 9, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 44 America runs large and persistent trade deficits. Our partners figure out how to make lots of things we want, and we can’t figure out how to produce an equal amount of
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DE BORCHGRAVE: World’s first failed nuclear state? Flood-ravaged millions could fall in with Islamic extremists By Arnaud de Borchgrave -The Washington Times September 7, 2010 The United States spent nine years (1980-1989) working closely with Pakistan’s military against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, followed by 11 years (1990-2001) of punishing Pakistan with all manner of
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September 15, 2010 America’s New Terrorist Networks By Tony Blankley While public attention was diverted by whether or not Florida pastor Terry Jones and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf had reached a compromise, a report critical to our national security went virtually unnoticed. Jones, under some pressure from most of the civilized world, offered to withdraw
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 If Saddam Had Stayed Saddam would have joined the nuclear bad-boys club with Iran and North Korea. By DANIEL HENNINGER From the vantage point of history, Barack Obama’s prime-time speech announcing the Iraq war’s end is less important than the speech he gave eight years ago as a state senator in Illinois.
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