NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Old Problems With New Start The Senate shouldn’t ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty without guarantees that the administration will modernize weapons and improve missile defense. By R. JAMES WOOLSEY A number of years negotiating arms-control agreements with the Soviets taught me that, when dealing with Russian counterparts, don’t appear eager—friendly […]
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Five of my colleagues at Novaya Gazeta have been murdered. No one has been brought to justice. By ELENA MILASHINA Moscow As a journalist for Russia’s leading independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, I have been lucky. For over a decade I’ve had the privilege to report extensively on dramatic current events in my
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WASHINGTON TIMES Stopping the Next Stuxnet by Austin Bay October 20, 2010Can a worm bust a hydroelectric dam, on command? The cyber-warrior scenario goes something like this: If the worm is a computer worm (or other digital malware) infecting a dam’s computer system, it might be possible to use the malicious code to take control
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TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 5, 2010 Security Fears Kill Chinese Bid in U.S. By JOANN S. LUBLIN and SHAYNDI RAICE Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. A
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Beijing spying feared in telecom proposal Chinese firm would make parts Washington Times November 5, 2010 by Eli Lake EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: John Tkacik, who was the chief intelligence analyst on China for the State Department during the Clinton administration, said the employee ownership of Huawei does not diminish the company’s close ties to
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Spy agencies infiltrate al-Qaida November 5, 2010 by Paisley Dodds LONDON Months after he was released from Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahman was back in the company of terrorist leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But he was a double agent, providing Taliban and al-Qaida secrets to Pakistani intelligence, which then shared the tips
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In Enemy Hands One man lives to tell a tale of the Taliban. Rosanne Klass October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Captive My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban by Jere Van Dyk Times Books, 288 pp., $25 In January 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street
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Computer worm creates an opening for copycats By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times Sunday, October 10, 2010 **FILE** In this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency, the reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is seen just outside the port city of Bushehr, 750 miles south of
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KAHLILI: Ahmadinejad’s Lebanon victory lap As West sues for peace, Islamic regime boldly advances By Reza Kahlili – The Washington Times October 12, 2010 A giant poster of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on display in the southern village of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, in preparation for Mr. Ahmadinejad’s visit there.
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WASHINGTON TIMES Britain’s spy master goes public Warns of increasing terrorist threats from abroad TOP SPY: “We need to be steady and stand by our friends” in the Islamic world, says British SIS chief John Sawers. (Associated Press) By Shaun Waterman October 28, 2010 Breaking from more than a century of tradition, the serving head
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