Terrorism

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE ATTACK

HERITAGE FOUNDATION Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons: Congress Must Understand the Risk Published on March 3, 2010 by Baker Spring WebMemo #2822 In 2004, the congressionally mandated Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack released an unclassified executive report on its broader study of the U.S.’s vulnerability to EMP weapons

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Al Qaeda’s English Language Internet Magazine

JULY 15, 2010 Al Qaeda Goes Viral The terrorists’ latest recruiting device: an English language Internet magazine. By PETER HOEKSTRA Earlier this month, the full version of Inspire, a new English language journal, surfaced on the Internet. It’s publisher? The Yemen-based terrorist organization, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Although al Qaeda has long

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TALIBAN PROFITS FROM U.S. FINANCED POWER PLANT IN AFGHANISTAN

JULY 13, 2010 U.S. Rebuilds Power Plant, Taliban Reap a Windfall By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan—The U.S. has poured more than $100 million into upgrading the Kajaki hydropower plant, the biggest source of electricity in south Afghanistan. And it plans on spending much more, in an effort to woo local sympathies away from the

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