by etp | Feb 15, 2008 | Counterterrorism, Islam, Military
by Ed Palazzolo Senior Hezbollah leader, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed Tuesday, 12 February 2008, by a car bomb in Damascus. Mughniyeh has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for over 20 years. Mughniyeh was an intelligence leader for Hezbollah’s secretive...
by goodall | Feb 13, 2008 | Government, Media, Politics, Popular Culture, Surveillance, technology
By Bud Goodall Pardon my rant. I say that in advance but without apology. Today’s New York Times article about the United States Senate vote to approve President Bush’s plan to grant legal protection to telephone companies for cooperating with illegal...
by editor | Feb 12, 2008 | Counterterrorism, Media, Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman In an article posted yesterday, The Independent (UK) claims that an alliance of “freelance political agitators” and intelligence agencies in the US and UK are circulating false communications by the Bad Guys. They cite the case of a...
by editor | Feb 9, 2008 | Surveillance, technology, Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman The Daily Princetonian reports an interview with computer scientist Jennifer Rexford who claims that more wiretapping can actually help the Bad Guys and make us less safe. How? By providing a system for them to hack: They can tap into an...
by editor | Feb 7, 2008 | Islam, Sharia
by Steven R. Corman Today the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, said in a radio interview that the adoption of some aspect of Sharia law in the UK is “unavoidable.” A BBC story quotes him as saying the idea that there’s one law for...