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Aussie Hovering Drone is Straight Outta Avatar | Danger Room | Wired.comJamers Cameron’s Avatar opens this week, with trailers featuring some funny-looking aircraft that resemble helicopters, but with ducted fans instead of the traditional rotor blades. While there are no full-size aircraft employing this technology, it’s already in use on small unmanned drones. And ...
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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - WSJ.comWASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed ...
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U.S. charges Chicago man in '08 Mumbai attack - Yahoo! NewsU.S. prosecutors on Monday charged a Chicago man, David Headley, with helping plan the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six Americans. Headley, the first American charged in the plot, was accused of receiving training from the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, ...
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U.S. forces missed chance to get bin Laden in 2001 - Yahoo! NewsThe U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The report, written by staff working for the Democratic majority on the ...
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Calls to reopen CIA abuse casesThe US justice department is calling for about a dozen prisoner abuse cases to be reopened, US media say. The recommendation could lead to the prosecution of CIA employees and contractors over the treatment of terrorism suspects, the reports say. The call comes as justice officials are set ...
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AP Source: Museum shooting suspect is supremacist - Yahoo! NewsA law enforcement official said Wednesday that James Von Brunn, an elderly white supremacist, is being investigated as the prime suspect in the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Another law enforcement official said Von Brunn's vehicle was found near the museum and was tested for explosives. ...
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DAILY NATION - How African civil society can help counter terrorismHow African civil society can help counter terrorism THE FIGHT AGAINST THE WOR-ldwide threat of terrorism has so far been the exclusive domain of military and intelligence operatives. The African Union and UN are embracing civil society, the media and the private sector as partners in a ...
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Nominee for Homeland Security intelligence chief withdraws - Los Angeles TimesNominee for Homeland Security intelligence chief withdraws Reporting from Washington -- President Obama's pick to be the intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security withdrew from consideration on Friday amid signs that he could face opposition on Capitol Hill over his role in ...
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One in 7 who leave Guantanamo involved in terrorism | Politics | ReutersOne in 7 who leave Guantanamo involved in terrorism WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seventy-four, or one out of every seven, terrorism suspects formerly held at the U.S. detention site at Guantanamo Bay are confirmed or suspected of having returned to terrorism, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Of more ...
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian ConflictRocket from the Gaza Strip hits a house in Sderot (Photo: Noam Badin for the Sderot Media Center, May 19, 2009). Overview This past week a rocket hit a house in the southern Israeli city of Sderot . It was the first time since the end of March that a rocket hit was identified there. In ...
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