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Uighurs explore Pacific paradise with Palau president Koror (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 
Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs freed from Guantanamo Bay were the guests of the president of Palau Wednesday, swimming in tropical waters and enjoying a barbecue lunch at a famous beauty spot. The Uighurs, flown secretly to their temporary Pacific island home on Sunday, spent the afternoon at the Rock Islands, an area dotted with hundreds of foliage-covered limestone isles famed among divers. ... read morePurdue Kicks Off National Center To Visualize Homeland Security Data 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 04, 2009Purdue University will kick off a national center to develop specialized software to help homeland security and emergency personnel respond to and manage a variety of calamities, from disease outbreaks to economic crises. The new center, called Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments, or VACCINE, is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ... more
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Uighurs thank Palau for sanctuary after Guantanamo release
Koror (AFP) Nov 3, 2009Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs on Tuesday thanked Palau for giving them sanctuary in the Pacific island nation after their release from nearly eight years of imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay. Two days after the six men were secretly flown from the US naval base in Cuba, one of the six former prisoners expressed gratitude to the Palau government. "Our overall feeling about Palau is their genero ... more Guantanamo Uighurs go shopping to celebrate freedom 
Koror (AFP) Nov 2, 2009Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs, released on the weekend after nearly eight years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, spent their first day of freedom on Monday shopping in the Palau capital Koror. They have also pencilled in a day's swimming at the spectacular Rock Islands in this Pacific island nation after revealing that was one of life's treats they missed most while detained at the US naval base ... more Report: U.S. must do more on bioterrorism 
Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2009 The United States needs to do more to counter bioterrorism threats to its own interests and international security, says a report from the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. The commission's interim report lauded President Barack Obama's response so far to the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear ... more U.S. again seeks Sudan's help 
Khartoum, Sudan (UPI) Oct 21, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama's White House is finding, as did the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, that it needs the troublesome Islamist regime in Sudan to help in the war against al-Qaida. On Monday, the White House disclosed that it will renew sanctions on Khartoum over the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region but will seek to persuade the government of President Omar ... more |
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Raytheon Delivers Advanced SUV Radiation Detection System To Florida
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Oct 07, 2009Raytheon delivered its Mobile Nuclear Radiation Detection System (MNRDS) to Florida's Department of Transportation. The Florida Department of Transportation took ownership of the system during a ceremony at Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems' Integrated Air Defense Center in Andover, Mass. The MNRDS is a mobile radiation detection system mounted in a sports utility vehicle; it provides ... more Land Rover Launches New 2010 Armoured Range Rover 
London, UK (SPX) Oct 07, 2009Land Rover is enhancing its existing Range Rover armoured vehicle with the release of the new 2010 Armoured Range Rover. The 2010 Armoured Range Rover has been updated to include an array of new technology, luxury features and drive train performance, whilst offering B6 Level ballistic and blast protection in accordance with European standard EN1522 level FB6. "The broad range of ... more Engineers Team Up With Robot At NTC To Clear IEDs 
Fort Irwin CA (AFNS) Oct 06, 2009More than 3,000 Soldiers from 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, just ended two weeks in the box at the National Training Center preparing for an upcoming deployment to Iraq, and a number of them conducted unique route-clearance training there with a robot. Members of C Company, an engineer unit under the brigade's Special Troops Battalion, trained with a Talon robot to ... more Competition grows in security imaging 
Anaheim, Calif. (UPI) Sep 23, 2009 Competition in security imaging technologies is becoming fierce as demand for high-definition surveillance grows worldwide, giving manufacturers the chance to tap lucrative new markets. Several new products will feature at this week's premier network event and exhibition, ASIS International, in Anaheim, Calif., rated as the world's most comprehensive educational and marketing ... more |
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