Country Intelligence and Analysis
Pakistan’s War of Choice By MICHAEL E. O’HANLON Peshawar, Pakistan WHAT are Americans to make of all the good news coming out of Pakistan in recent weeks? First, the Afghan Taliban’s military chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was arrested in a raid in February. Around the same time, several of the Taliban’s “shadow governors” who…
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world’s most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
March 22, 2010 — Updated 1639 GMT (0039 HKT) CNN’s Ben Wedeman and photojournalist Margaret Moth, pictured in Gaza in August 2001. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Longtime CNN photojournalist dies of cancer at 59, after surviving wars Shot in Sarajevo, she lived and went back to conflict zone as soon as she could Moth was one of…
The Herald in Scotland reports: Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The paper says it has seen a US Navy cargo manifesto that lists 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs and 192…
Tehran authorities arrest cyber warfare networks
outbreak in violence at the US- Mexico border could pave the way for a raft of new American gun control measures.
Navy SEALs Seek Atheletes Fit for ‘Science of Mental Toughness’
After two weeks battling the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Marjah town in Helmand province, Nato and Afghan forces are setting their sights on their next objective – securing Afghanistan’s second largest city, Kandahar. The city is the place where Mullah Omar founded the Taliban movement and, according to US reports, the impending operation will gain control…
ew Pentagon Sim Teaches Troops to Play Nice