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Senate ups ante on whether to build more F-22s - Yahoo! NewsCongress and the White House are heading toward a showdown over the future of the F-22 jet fighter, as the Senate plans to consider adding seven more of the planes while the Obama administration warns that a veto is likely over the issue. "If the final bill presented to the president contains ...
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Senate Panel Votes for More Stealth Jets, Defying Gates | Danger Room | Wired.comSenate Panel Votes for More Stealth Jets, Defying Gates The White House and the Pentagon leadership couldn’t be clearer: they don’t want any more of the controversial F-22 stealth fighters. But Congress now seems ready to pour billions into extra jets, anyway. The Senate Armed Services ...
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Russia's cyber blockade of Georgia worked. Could it happen here?The Russian and Georgia war last August began in cyberspace with sporadic denial-of-service attacks, targeted primarily at news and government Web sites weeks before the shooting started. And at first, says Eka Tkeshelashvili, secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia, the government ...
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Report Links Russian Intelligence to Cyber Attacks - PC WorldA follow-up report authored by a group of cyber-security experts claims that Russian intelligence agencies were probably involved in the 2008 cyber attacks on Georgia. The report, released Friday, concludes that there is a "strong likelihood" that the Foreign Military Intelligence agency (the ...
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Russian Coder: I Hacked Georgia's Sites in Cyberwar | Danger Room from Wired.comGovernment and independent investigators are still trying to figure out who, exactly, hit Georgia's websites during its August war with Russia. Now, one of the hackers who claims to be behind some of the cyberattacks is telling all. When the online assaults against Georgia began, everyone from ...
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Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on AmericansDespite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security ...
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Finding common ground - International Herald TribuneThe crisis over Georgia raises an issue familiar from history: In 1914, an essentially local issue was seen by so many nations in terms of established fears and frustrations that it became global in scope and led to the First World War. There is no danger of general war today. But there is the ...
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Russia-West crisis enters 'breathing period' | csmonitor.comThe effort to resolve the Russia-Georgia war and its fallout is entering a period of uneasy waiting and testing in Europe, the United States, Russia, and the Caucasus. All sides are entering what some diplomats call a "breathing period" amid the global credit crisis. Conflicting messages are ...
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Mikheil Saakashvili - Answering Russian Aggression - washingtonpost.comWhen tens of thousands of Russian troops and armored vehicles overwhelmed our country last month, the international community rallied to support us. Had Georgia been just another autocracy on Russia's border, it is unlikely that so many world leaders would have traveled to Tbilisi to stand with ...
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Poland Is Warned by Russia on Pact - NYTimes.comMaking his first visit to a European Union country since the war with Georgia last month, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, told Polish leaders Thursday that their decision to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory posed a threat to Russia’s security.“We cannot ...
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