A Washington Post article about a political protest on Facebook paints an Orwellian picture of modern day Egypt. Young Egyptians came together in a Facebook group to organize a passive rebellion against the 27 year reign of President Hosni Mubarak. They wore black shirts, stayed home from work, and wrote slogans on currency. Then they [...]
In 2001, Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj was captured on the Afghan-Pakistan border. He was held as an enemy combatant and taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The US military charged al-Haj with being a courier for terrorists, a claim he denies. He didn’t face prosecution.
Al-Haj was just released and returned to his home in Sudan [...]
DHS and the NYPD have collaborated to bring us another taxpayer funded PR stunt. At a cost of $30 million dollars for the next two years, ‘Operation Torch’ will put heavily armed officers in the subways in a mostly futile effort to prevent terrorist attacks.
I’m with them in-so-far as there is a terrorist threat [...]
Washington Post obtained a document describing state-run, federally funded intelligence installations known as ‘fusion centers.’ The document itemizes open-source tools these centers use to collect and analyze the data of millions of Americans. We don’t know the full extent of their capabilities since those are still classified.
The list of information resources was part of [...]
In a trailer for the upcoming release of GTA IV, Rockstar Games takes an appropriate swipe at the NYPD — the force the game imitates under the name ‘Liberty City Police Department.’ Who knew they had it in them?
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Looks like the US is getting serious about knocking off al Qaeda along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan:
The United States has stepped up its use of pilotless planes to strike at Qaeda targets along Pakistan’s rugged border area, a measure that in the past drew protests from President Pervez Musharraf but now has his government’s tacit [...]
Looks like the NYPD has a new measure to fight terrorism:
At the local level, the authorities are experimenting with new ways to keep potential terrorists off guard.
In New York City, as many as 100 police officers in squad cars from every precinct converge twice daily at randomly selected times and at randomly selected sites, like [...]
There’s an ‘airport security’ toy-set on the market. Yes, it really is as creepy as it sounds. Here’s the description:
Scan It® is an educational and creative play toy that helps children become acclimated with airport and public spaces security. The device is both a fun toy and an educational tool. It detects metal objects [...]
A radical allegation has surfaced alleging that the FBI is preparing infrastructure related private businesses for martial law under an organization called InfraGard.
Included in this program are representatives from agriculture, banking and finance, the chemical industry, defense, energy, food, information and telecommunications, law enforcement, public health, and transportation.
Two members of have specifically acknowledged FBI and [...]
NYT is reporting that the Bush Administration is debating exporting the wild successes of its missions in Afghanistan and Iraq to Pakistan:
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas [...]
That’s a big number for not being able to know anything about what it means.
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