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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 14

Steven Aftergood — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:38:00 +0000

Source: Reuters May 14 (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 1230 GMT on Friday. MOSUL – Gunmen shot dead a tailor specialising in military uniforms inside his shop in central Mosul, 390 km ( …

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INTERVIEW-Africa urged to vet Lat Am investors to curb drugs

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:13:31 +0000

Source: Reuters * West African nations should vet Latin American investors * Drug dealers looking elsewhere in Africa By David Lewis DAKAR, May 14 (Reuters) – West African nations should do more to vet …

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Kyrgyz govt claims control in restive south

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:53:21 +0000

Source: Reuters * Bakiyev accused of organising seizure of govt buildings * Gunfire in Jalalabad, several wounded * Former Bakiyev adviser arrested near Osh (Adds Jalalabad details, death toll, quotes) By …

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Somalia calls for Russian explanation on pirates

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:43:16 +0000

Source: Reuters * Pirates likely dead, source tells Russian media * Pirates vow revenge on any Russians they capture By Abdiaziz Hassan NAIROBI, May 14 (Reuters) – Somalia’s transitional government called on …

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Canadian Faces Prison for U.S. Internet Gambling Role

Thu, 13 May 2010 21:50:29 +0000

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to charges of assisting overseas online gambling sites to process hundreds of millions of dollars in wagers. The conviction of Douglas Rennick, 35, comes as some U.S. lawmakers are looking to tax online gambling revenue rather than criminalizing such wagering. Federal law prohibits financial institutions and individuals from knowingly assisting in collecting and paying bets stemming from online chance gaming like poker, blackjack, slot machines and other games. Clearly, Americans love to gamble online. The United States charged Rennick with processing or “laundering” more than $565 million in gambling payments in the United states through phony companies between 2007 and 2009. “I had a business that transferred money from offshore gaming sites to American players within the Southern District of New York,” Rennick told U.S

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FACTBOX-Incidents and accidents involving Venezuela’s PDVSA

Steven Aftergood — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:04:43 +0000

Source: Reuters May 13 (Reuters) – A Venezuelan natural gas exploration rig sank in the Caribbean sea early on Thursday, less than a month after a deadly explosion in the Gulf of Mexico sank a BP-owned oil rig and …

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Afghan Perceptions Key to Success, McChrystal Says

Thu, 13 May 2010 20:45:00 +0000

By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service May 13, 2010 – Changing the perceptions of the Afghan people about the coalition, their own government and the Taliban will be key to success in that nation, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan said here today. Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal told Pentagon reporters that achieving more progress in the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan will be a slow, deliberate endeavor, because changing perceptions is challenging. Efforts in the country will be directed toward “changing not only the dynamics of security, governance and development, but also the attitudes of a population long pressured by insurgents,” he said. The strategic priority in the country is the development of Afghan national security forces, McChrystal said. “While both the army and police have demonstrated considerable growth,” he said, “significant challenges remain. The bottom line is there’s much more work ahead to mature Afghan security forces

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Pentagon Virus Detector Knows You’re Sick Before You Do

Steven Aftergood — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:12:53 +0000

Imagine knowing you’ll be too sick to go to work, before the faintest hint of a runny nose or a sore throat. Now imagine that preemptive diagnosis being transmitted to a national, web-based influenza map — simply by picking up the phone. That’s the impressive potential of an ongoing Pentagon-funded research project, spearheaded by geneticists at Duke University. Since 2006, they’ve been hunting for a genetic signature that can accurately assess, well before symptoms appear, whether someone’s been infected with a virus. Eight months into a $19.5 million grant from Darpa , the Pentagon’s out-there research agency, the expert behind the program is anticipating a tool with implications far beyond military circles. Dr. Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of Duke’s Institute for Genome Science & Policy , is collaborating with a team of colleagues to create a gadget that can detect viral infection hours before the sniffles. Between 2006 and 2009, his team made rapid strides in identifying 30 genetic markers, found through blood samples, that are activated by a virus. They’ve since moved to human trials, testing 80 people in four studies. Healthy participants were exposed to three different viral strains

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Surprises from the Navy’s Next Generation Jammer Competition

Steven Aftergood — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:46:00 +0000

Clues about secret designs for the Navy’s Next Generation Jammer competition are emerging. Technology involved in the various concepts includes broad-band, electronically-scanned arrays, advanced radars, digitized exciters and techniques generators to produce exotic waveforms and algorithms for electronic warfare. Perhaps most importantly, the concepts and technology maturity being built today are stepping stones to wider apertures, cooler amplifiers and faster processing, say aerospace industry officials involved in the competition. Initial operating capability for NGJ in the EA-18G Growler fleet is 2018. The F-35 is to add its advanced electronic attack capability in a block 5 aircraft sometime after 2020. “The technology suite that goes into Next Generation Jammer [NGJ] is relevant to other solutions,” agrees Rick Martin, Boeing’s director for electronic warfare at Phantom Works. “[NGJ could] be a major improvement because for the first time we [might] bring broadband ESA [electronically scanned arrays] into the [EA-18G Growler] platform,” says Eduardo Palacio, vice president of programs for ITT’s electronic system division

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Confessed Spy Convicted of Exporting U.S. Crypto Gear to China

Thu, 13 May 2010 16:31:52 +0000

A Chinese national was convicted this week of smuggling and other charges over his efforts to acquire sensitive military and NSA-encryption gear from eBay and other internet sources. Chi Tong Kuok, of Macau, told Defense Department and Customs investigators that he had been “acting at the direction of officials for the People’s Republic of China,” according to a government affidavit in the case. “Kuok indicated he and PRC officials sought the items to figure out ways to listen to or monitor U.S. government and military communications.” Kuok was arrested at the Atlanta International Airport last year en route from Paris to Panama, where he planned to meet an undercover federal agent he believed was going to provide him with military radios. He was transferred to California and indicted (.pdf) for money laundering, conspiracy, smuggling and one count of attempting to export a defense article without a license. On Tuesday, a jury convicted him on all counts. The U.S. began investigating Kuok in December 2006, when, using the first of many aliases, the man e-mailed a contact in the defense industry in search of software for a VDC-300 airborne data controller, used for secure satellite communications from American military aircraft. The contact referred Kuok to an undercover agent in San Diego, who began negotiating with Kuok over a shopping list of military technology that eventually grew to at least 43 different items, ranging from a GPS receiver with anti-spoofing defenses, to the NSA-developed AN/CYZ-10 crypto key management device.

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