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Report: Former British Agent Played Match Maker For Top Al Qaeda Recruiter
A former secret agent has described how he played matchmaker for an al-Qaeda leader in a bid to help the CIA track him down and kill him.Morten Storm says he helped a blonde Croatian convert and social...
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Iranian Antivenoms Treat Snake Bites Of US Forces In Afghanistan
U.S. forces in Afghanistan are dependent on a scientific research arm of the Iranian government to treat venomous bites by snakes peculiar to southwest Asia, Michael Phillips and Farnaz Fassihi of The...
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Israel Asked Jordan For Approval To Bomb Syrian Chemical Weapon Sites
Anxiety is increasing about the prospect of a desperate Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his rapidly proliferating enemies. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Assad that such...
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Pentagon's Top Lawyer Spurs Questions About The Fate Of Guantanamo
A speech by the Pentagon's top lawyer about the continuing war effort in the Middle East has led to speculation about the fate of America's most debated prison.In a speech at Oxford University on...
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REPORT: Anonymous Hacks Top Nuclear Watchdog Again To Force Investigation Of...
It appears the hacking collective Anonymous has compromised the internal computer systems of the world's top nuclear watchdog for the second time in two weeks, Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon...
View Article'I Learned In Afghanistan That Everything I Thought I Knew About Humanity Was...
When I met Karim Delgado, we were both already out of the Marine Corps, though I felt I already knew him well from seeing his byline. A fellow combat correspondent, essentially a writer/photographer in...
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Hillary Clinton Is Absolutely Dominating The Middle East Right Now
As her tenure as Secretary of State draws to a close, Hillary Clinton is going on an absolute tear across the Middle East.She made a number of controversial comments during a foreign policy forum in...
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The 'Nastiest Town In Iraq' Is Working On A Very Cheap Helicopter
As Iraq buys up foreign arms and aircraft one man in a province northeast of Baghdad has taken an alternative approach to the billion dollar deals.The Associated Press reports Hatim Kadim Salman is...
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The Cover Of This Week's Marine Corps Times Could Offend A lot Of People
The Marine Times is not known for shying away from the occasionally risque cover — one can't help but remember their cover for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell— and they didn't fail to impress with...
View ArticleEurope's New Stealth Drone Will Evade Radar While Carrying A Load Of...
Looking much like the U.S. X-47B currently on the USS Truman awaiting carrier trials, France's Dassault Aviation launched the nEUROn Saturday.The prototype stealth drone flew for 25 minutes and...
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America's Mindless Killer Robots Must Be Stopped
Are we losing our humanity by automating death?Human Rights Watch (HRW) thinks so. In a new report, co-published with Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic, they argue the "case...
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'The Gates Of Hell' Are Opening Around Damascus As Rebels Close In On Assad
For days Syrian warplanes and artillery have been relentlessly bombing rebel-held positions on the outskirts of Damascus as they try to secure that area around the capital, Patrick J. McDonnell of The...
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US Official Believes Syria Has Begun Preparing Deadly Nerve Gas
Reports suggest that the regime of Bashar Al-Assad has begun mixing the two chemicals needed to weaponize sarin gas.An unnamed U.S. official told Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman of Wired that some...
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Colombia Bombs FARC Rebels Despite Ongoing Peace Talks
Just days after closing the current round of peace talks, the Colombian government launched attacks against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.According to the Wall Street Journal, the...
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Polymer Lens Technology Could Give Troops 'Eagle Eyes' On The Battlefield
Anyone who's ever strapped on a set of military Night Vision Goggles knows that an aching neck is imminent.Michael Keller of the GE-sponsored blog Txchnologist reports that engineers have made a string...
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How US Weapons Are Fueling Mexican Gang Violence
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — After a drugs gang murdered his son last year, the poet Javier Sicilia decided the best way to help staunch the flow of American guns fueling the horrific violence wracking his...
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Meet The Washington Think Tankers Who Have Their Hands In Operations In Kabul
Amid the media frenzy over former CIA director David Petraeus' extramarital affair, we were struck by a quick reference in a Washington Poststory about Petraeus' time running the war in...
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A Swiss Spy May Have Stolen Millions Of Classified CIA Documents
Secret information shared by U.S. and UK spy agencies may have been compromised when a senior IT technician for Switzerland's intelligence service (NBD) stole a massive amount of internal data, Mark...
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LAWYER: Bradley Manning's Treatment Is A Stain On US History
David Coombs, the civilian lawyer representing Bradley Manning at his court martial for supplying WikiLeaks with a trove of US state secrets, has described the soldier's treatment in solitary...
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Obama's Cadillac Is Basically A Tank
At a cost of over $300,000 and enough armor to stop an RPG, the President's ground vehicle is a very resilient ride.It looks like a Caddy STS on the outside, but on the inside it has everything the...
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