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Charges dropped against alleged 20th hijacker: Pentagon Washington (AFP) May 13, 2008 
Five alleged co-conspirators in the September 11 attacks have been referred for military trial on capital charges, but charges against a sixth - the alleged "20th hijacker" - were dropped without explanation, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Susan Crawford, the convening authority for the US war crimes trials, "dismissed without prejudice" charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi who was sub ... read more |
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Homeland security: The week ahead
Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 This week the continuing saga of the Democratic primaries means that presidential politics is likely to dominate the news agenda again. But there are some issues and events on the homeland and national security issue list that might make the inside pages. Monday, Patrick Fitch, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center ... more Analysis: Terror lexicon reveals GOP split 
Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 The leak of Bush administration guidelines urging U.S. officials to avoid using terms such as "jihadi" or "Islamic terrorists" to refer to al-Qaida and similar groups has exposed a fault line in Republican thinking about the U.S. war on terror. Last Friday every GOP member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted for an amendment to an intelligence bill that would ... more Analysis: U.S. drops Islam in terror talk 
Washington (UPI) May 6, 2008 U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedin, which "unintentionally legitimize" terrorism. "There's a growing consensus (in the administration) that we need to move away from that language," said a former senior administration ... more IBM Joins The Lockheed Martin Team For FBI's Next Generation Identification Program 
Bethesda MD (SPX) May 05, 2008Lockheed Martin has announced that IBM will join its industry team to develop and maintain the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-the new multi-modal, state-of-the-art biometrics system to be used by state, local and federal authorities. As the prime contractor on the FBI's NGI program, Lockheed Martin will provide program management ... more Researchers Develop New Ultrasensitive Assay To Detect Most Poisonous Substance Known 
Duarte CA (SPX) May 06, 2008Scientists at City of Hope and the California Department of Public Health have developed a new ultrasensitive assay to detect botulinum neurotoxin. The toxin is one of the most poisonous substances known that can cause life-threatening disease, and is considered a major potential bioterrorism threat agent. The research team's work is published today in the online journal PLoS ONE. ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) April 25, 2008It is painstaking work, almost a labour of love, but help is close for the nine people who have spent years sticking together millions of pieces of paper to decipher the workings of East Germany's once-feared Stasi secret police. Almost two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the actions of the communist government still fascinates and scares Germans. Who worked with ... more Analysis: New DHS airline fingerprint plan 
Washington, April 23, 2008 Angry airline executives are criticizing federal rules proposed Tuesday that would make them collect fingerprints from foreigners leaving the United States by air as part of the Department of Homeland Security's biometric border system, U.S.-VISIT. They say the industry, already reeling from higher fuel prices and safety concerns, and beset by bankruptcies and mergers, cannot shoulder ... more UW To Lead Project Creating Electronic Sherlock Holmes 
Seattle WA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008The University of Washington will lead a multi-institutional group pushing the limits of computers' ability to interpret data and ultimately predict the behavior of complex systems. The project, involving seven U.S. universities, has received a $6.25 million, 5-year grant from the Department of Defense. "A complex monitoring system has far too many pieces of information for any one person ... more Analysis: Engaging 'negotiable terrorism' 
Washington, April 21, 2008 Defying U.S. and Israeli warnings, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met twice over the weekend with Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based leader of Hamas, and his deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk, hoping to convince the Palestinian Islamist movement to renege on violence. The United States and Israel consider the two Hamas leaders to be terrorists responsible for attacks that have killed hundreds of ... more World shifts chemical disarmament focus onto rogue attackers 
The Hague (AFP) April 20, 2008The nightmare scenario of a mass-scale chemical attack by extremists and the panic which would ensue has created a new role for the body set up to rid the world of chemical weapons. Diplomats at the 10-day Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) review conference in The Hague this weekend adopted a new target deadline of 2012 for 183 member states to destroy their ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 10, 2008China has cracked two terrorist groups in its heavily Muslim west that were planning attacks aimed at the Beijing Olympics, the nation's security ministry said Thursday. "The terrorists, who numbered 45 in all, had attempted to carry out sabotage to undermine the Beijing Olympic Games," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Public Security Ministry spokesman Wu Heping as saying. In one ... more Analysis: SIMI crackdown helps moderators 
New Delhi, April 10, 2008 The recent crackdown by the Indian police and security agencies against top members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India will help Muslim moderates who have been fighting to marginalize extremists in the community, experts say. "The morale of Muslim religious and political leaders, who are considered to be moderates opposes to SIMI, will go up with the recent arrest of the ... more US Army Awards GD Biological Detection System Contract 
Charlotte NC (SPX) Apr 10, 2008The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Acquisition Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products a contract option worth approximately $43 million to produce and test Joint Biological Point Detection Systems (JBPDS). The contract terms also include field-support packages and user training for the technology. This ... more Raytheon Rolls Out First Increment Of The FBI's N-DEx System 
Reston VA (SPX) Apr 04, 2008Raytheon has achieved a significant milestone for the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division by completing and deploying the first increment of the National Data Exchange (N-DEx) law enforcement information system. N-DEx will enable all law enforcement agencies to share incident reports, correlate crime data and collaborate on criminal justice investigations on a national basis. ... more NIST Shows On-Card Fingerprint Match Is Secure, Speedy
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 03, 2008A fingerprint identification technology for use in Personal Identification Verification (PIV) cards that offers improved protection from identity theft meets the standardized accuracy criteria for federal identification cards according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12), by this fall most ... more
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