Thursday, August 14, 2008

Somali Man Found Dead with Cyanide

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The Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota is back in the news again. A year ago, on 24 August 2007, the St. Paul police were...

Libya In From the Cold: At What Cost?

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Libya and the U.S. signed a compensation deal for American victims of Libyan attacks and U.S. reprisals, paving the way for full normalisati...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Sobering Assessment of Counter-Terrorism

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On August 12, 2008, U.S. national intelligence officer (NIO) for transnational threats Ted Gistaro addressed The Washington Institute's ...

Cyberwarfare is Here to Stay: Georgia

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The defacement of Georgia President’s official web site. Graphic source: ZDNet In the wake of the recent cyberwar, the pattern of attack ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

How American is Obama?

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The recent revelation, and reservations expressed in a policy memo by Hillary Clinton's one-time chief strategist Mark Penn, challenging...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Let's Get Accustomed to Cyber War

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As documented by The Shadowserver Foundation, while Russian troops advanced into Georgia they were preceded by attacks on Georgian governmen...

Russia Imitates the Cold War

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Graphic source: BBC As Russian troops invade Georgia the French and the Germans, who import a great deal of their energy supplies from Russ...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Note on Ralph Peters, New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy

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Although much of what Ralph Peters states, as a retired Lieutenant Colonel and intelligence officer, makes sense, his argument is lost by a ...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Islamofascist Hiding in Plain Sight

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Graphic source: FBI Shouldn't something about the Aafia Siddiqui (Arabic: عافية صديقي‎) case dispel the lie that Islamofascists are poo...
Friday, August 8, 2008

The Good German Review

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Why didn't someone warn me about this clunker? The pace is ponderous, the story predictable, and it displays none of the charm of "...

Free Security Tools

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Campus Technology ran a helpful story about free security tools. If you enjoy free technology the article is helpful and informative since ...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Note on Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational

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This is a classic. Although at points it sounds dated, written as it was in an age dominated by Freud, the central thesis holds up well and ...

Note on Creel, Richard, Religion and Doubt: Toward a Faith of Your Own

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This is really an excellent short work introducing undergraduate students to the study of religion. The author does not assume students hav...

Thug Propaganda

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One of the posts by an independent journalist on a counter-terrorism blog commented on thug insurgent propaganda. I want them to remain anon...
Monday, August 4, 2008

August Order of Battle

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Graphic source: The Long War Journal The Order of Battle for August has been released. There were major changes in July mostly due to new f...

Olympic Ordeal for China

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Kashgar in China's Xinjiang province Graphic source: ©AFP/Graphic Things heated up again in China as insurgents in the western area of ...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Acts of Savagery and Barbarity

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Graphic source: BBC One person is stabbed repeatedly on a bus in Canada and is then beheaded; in India a stampede at a temple kills 140, th...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Peters Re-Drawing of the Middle East

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Graphic source: Ralph Peters, "Never Quit the Fight" Who is to say that the Middle East might be better off looking like Ralph Pe...

Middle East Lukewarm or Hostile About Obama

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As summarized by the BBC, the Middle Eastern reaction to Obama's visit was lukewarm at best, at worst it was skeptical of any change in ...
Friday, August 1, 2008

Pakistani Intelligence Supports Insurgency

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The New York Times ran another outrageous story charging that Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) aided insurgents in the Kabul, India embassy bomb...