by Noah Shachtman | Dec 31, 2012 | Monitor
Drones may be at the center of the U.S. campaign to take out extremists around the globe. But the Pentagon says there’s a “pervasive vulnerability” in the robotic aircraft — and in just about every car, medical device and power …
by Charles Cameron | Dec 30, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on blowback, in praise of a Gregory Johnsen post, and literacy ] . William Blake, The Lord Answering Job Out of the Whirlwind. ED Hirsch and Joseph F Kett‘s New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy doesn’t appear to have an entry...
by The Long War Journal | Dec 30, 2012 | Monitor
The Taliban executed 21 Pakistani policemen last night after capturing them during a series of raids at checkpoints outside the northwestern provincial capital of Peshawar last week. The Taliban have now conducted three mass executions of Pakistani security personnel...
by The Long War Journal | Dec 30, 2012 | Monitor
Four suspects sentenced to death for the January 2008 assassination of a US diplomat and his driver in the Sudan are depicted escaping from a maximum security prison during the summer of 2010. The newly produced video was disseminated by a jihadist media group calling...
by The Long War Journal | Dec 30, 2012 | Monitor
US drones struck for the fourth time in Yemen in less than a week, killing three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in an attack in central Yemen today. The remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired missiles at a group of al Qaeda in the...
