Security and Intelligence
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Enabling JavascriptWhoever caused the contamination of a drinking water dispenser at the state-run Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka could have been either a permanent or a contract worker, an official said Monday. This would make it more difficult to nail the man who had added radioactive Tritium to the ...
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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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Changes to USPS Letters to Santa program upend charities' plans - Yahoo! NewsA US Postal Service revision to its decades-old Letters to Santa program has some charities scurrying to figure out if and how they can continue giving to needy people who write in to ask for help. Take organizers of a holiday benefit at Chicago's famed Second City theater. For each of the past ...
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Russian patriarch seeks "powerful reply" to train bomb - Yahoo! NewsThe head of Russia's Orthodox Church Sunday called on authorities to give a "powerful reply" to the people behind a train bombing that killed 25 people, as police probed whether Islamist rebels were involved. A blast derailed a high-speed Russian train Friday night on the main line between ...
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Somali pirates hijack oil tanker going to US - Yahoo! NewsSomali pirates seized a tanker carrying more than $20 million of crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat. The Greece-flagged Maran Centaurus ...
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Reviews for The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." – Nietzsche. After a web search for detective novels, Amazon automatically recommended this double-sized title and the American edition of “Defend the Realm” became a Black Friday transaction. Intelligence is claiming its ...
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Couple Crashes White House Party, Posts Photos to FacebookCrash State Dinner, Post Photos to Facebook … Go to Jail? The story of Michaele and Tareq Salahi should serve as a lesson in the wrong way to seek fame. The couple, which is being considered by Bravo for the DC version of The Real Housewives series, somehow managed to make it past a security ...
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60 Years Later, Everyone's Still Loving the AK-47 | Like It or Not | Fast Company"Does this AK make my ass look big? As if!" Designed for soldiers wearing gloves in arctic cold, 60 years later the AK-47 is the brand of choice in deserts, the tropics, and urban jungles, too. It's one of the best tools ever manufactured, a masterpiece of the Industrial Age. My nephew, just ...
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Danger RoomAt the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in ...
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