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The 'Gangster-Jihadists' Who Run Northern Mali Built Their Empire Off Ransom...
The Islamists that now control northern Mali built a lucrative economy on ransom payments from the West and a booming drug trade, according to a special report by David Lewis and Adama Diarra of...
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New Reports Show The US Paying Dozens Of Afghan Contractors Loyal To The Taliban
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has found dozens of contractors for the U.S. that are actively supporting the Afghan insurgency, Neil Gordon of the Project On...
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The Military Is Losing More Troops To Suicide Than Combat
A startling statistic was released by the Army on Friday: the number of soldiers who have committed suicide between January 1 and September 30 is 247, while the number killed in combat is 222. In...
View ArticleNew License Plate Covers Block Those Orwellian Red Light Cameras
Everyone's experienced the scare of crossing beneath a yellow light the moment it turns red. Was there a camera? Better hope not — unless you have 'nophoto' technology on your license plate. The...
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A Mathematician Hacked Into Google Because He Thought It Was Part Of A Job...
Zachary Harris didn't think he was cut out for the job, but when Google emailed him an offer he figured he'd give it a wack anyway. Or a hack, rather. Kim Zetter of Wired reports that a strange email...
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UN To Investigate Civilian Deaths From US Drone Strikes
The United Nations is to set up a dedicated investigations unit in Geneva early next year to examine the legality of drone attacks in cases where civilians are killed in so-called "targeted"...
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NYU Scientists Are Seriously Working On A Tractor Beam
A couple New York University researchers just published a paper about the possibility of building a real-life, no joke tractor beam. Yes, like in Star Wars, but no, not like in Star Wars. Not so...
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Slain Lebanese Police Chief Gave A Prophetic Assessment Of The Syrian Civil War
Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, the head of Lebanon’s national police intelligence unit who was killed in a car bombing last week, gave The Washington Post a grim and prophetic assessment of the Syrian civil...
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The Air Force Discharged This Woman For Getting Pregnant And Now Wants Its...
CNN reported today that a single woman who was discharged from the Air Force and asked to pay back her $92,000 ROTC scholarship after she revealed she was pregnant is fighting her dismissal. Rebecca...
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The USS Gerald Ford Is The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware...
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive weapon ever created and will run about $11.5 billion, with three ships costing about $40.2 billion. Even given these generous estimates, the Navy figures...
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Only In NYC Could We Be Offered A $2,100 Apartment Still Rigged With A Grow...
We were in Harlem, looking for an apartment, when we ran headlong into evidence of the New York City drug game. The broker met up with us outside an apartment complex. He had a trainee with him. The...
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Cyber-War Is Raging And The Pentagon Has Prepared For An Electronic Pearl Harbor
Senior Army officials said Tuesday that it is working to develop the service’s offensive cyber warfare capabilities to go along with its cyber security capabilities to allow soldier to launch as well...
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Benjamin Netanyahu Just Became The 'Israeli Glenn Beck'
On Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announced he was merging his Likud party with that of his ultra nationalist coalition ally Foreign Minister Avigdor Liebermanith to create a...
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The Iraqi Military Is Going On One Big Fat Shopping Spree
Event The prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, recently visited Russia and the Czech Republic, in the context of US$5.2bn worth of arms deals with the two countries. Analysis The Iraqi military has...
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The War In Syria Has Spread To A Whole New Battlefield
The war has spread to a fertile region east of Aleppo WOMEN, their faces wrapped in scarves to protect them from the sun, bend over in the fields to pick cotton. Flocks of sheep kick up dust from...
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The Private Sector Space Program Is Only Credible Because NASA Bet Over $1...
COMMERCIAL spaceflight start-ups all admit this about their fledgling industry: that the pie remains firmly lodged in the sky. At a meeting of such "astropreneurs" in Seattle on October 16th, Tom...
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This British Terror Cell Was Plotting A Creative Rampage Before Their Arrest
A British terror cell allegedly planned to buy five AK47 assault rifles by borrowing £100,000 in loans, a court heard. The alleged ringleader of a British jihadist group, Irfan Naseer, boasted how he...
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This Attack Plan For Iran Is So Extensive There's No Way The US Could Go It...
With Britain questioning the legality of a strike on Iran, denying the U.S. access to pivotal airbases, and the U.S. presidential election just days away, we wanted to re-examine how extensive an...
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Here's Why Israel (Probably) Bombed A Factory In Sudan
If Israel was behind the bombing of a Sudanese munitions plant on Wednesday—as everyone assumes it was—then it's easy to recognize the motives for such a mission. Israeli military commentators said...
View ArticleJon Stewart Rails On The Absurdity Of The US Health Care System Refusing To...
Jon Stewart, during an exclusive taping which appeared only on the web, interviewed two Army medics with experience in Iraq, who had actually saved lives in combat. Stewart gave them mock job...
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