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Israel launches ground assault on Gaza Strip
The Israeli military has confirmed that their troops have began a ground assault on the Gaza Strip. The assault also includes tanks and more air assaults, according to a statement issued by the Israeli government. For several days, the Israeli military had been massing over 10,000 troops and equipment along the Israel-Gaza border, in... »
New Year’s Eve Security Enhanced in NYC
The following report is based on information obtained by the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police: As New Yorkers and tourists prepare for tonight’s New Year’s Eve celebrations — especially in Manhattan’s Times Square area — law enforcement will be assisted by the citizen soldiers and airmen of the New York National Guard, according... »
Israeli Attacks on Hamas Justified
The Hamas Charter proscribes peace with Israel. Ceasefires are possible only when advantageous to Hamas and always are temporary. Accordingly, as soon as the latest ceasefire expired, Hamas operatives fired a barrage of rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel. On Dec. 27, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) responded with air attacks on specific terrorist... »
Israeli air strikes hit government compounds in Gaza
Israel has launched at least 30 simultaneous missiles strikes on Hamas installations in Gaza City, causing heavy damage. F-16 fighters targeted security compounds in the City’s center. The “massive” air strikes on Saturday have claimed at least at least 170 lives, including Gaza police chief Maj. Gen. Tawfiq Jaber. More than 250 were injured, while... »
Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Improvements Needed to Support Warfighters
(The following commentary is based on material obtained by the National Security Committee of the National Association of Chiefs of Police.) The Department of Defense’s use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) continues to increase. In 2000, DOD components had fewer than 50 unmanned aircraft in their inventory. By May 2008, they had more than 6,000. However,... »
Homeland Security Department Expands Collection of Biometrics for Visitors
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced yesterday to several law enforcement organizations — including the National Association of Chiefs of Police — that it is expanding the categories of non-US citizens required to provide digital fingerprints and a photograph upon entry to the United States through the US-VISIT program. US-VISIT records biographic and... »
Obama v. Russian Bear
I wrote and released this article on November 6. The story got very little coverage by the elite (liberal) news media until today. So here’s the article once again. Now that we know who will lead our nation beginning in January 2009, it’s time to evaluate the problems President Barack Hussein Obama will face... »
Missile Defense Flight Test Results in Successful Intercept
The Missile Defense Agency announced that it has completed an important exercise and flight test involving a successful intercept by a ground-based interceptor missile designed to protect the United States against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack. The flight test results will help to further refine the performance of numerous Ballistic Missile Defense System... »
Homeland Security: US Secret Service and Electronic Crimes
On October 26, 2001, President Bush signed into law H.R. 3162, the USA PATRIOT Act. The US Secret Service was mandated by this Act to establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTFs). The concept of the ECTF network is to bring together not only federal, state and local law enforcement, but... »
‘America’s Battered Image Among Muslims,’ Naturally All Bush’s Fault
-By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press is as much as blaming the victim for the attack again with theirs headlined “Obama says he wants to ‘reboot’ America’s battered image among Muslims.” In this report we get the AP saying that the reason the Muslim world is mad at us is because of George W.... »
Saudi Kingdom Continues to Export Radical Wahhabism
Wahhabism is a fundamentalist movement, named after Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703-1792). It remains the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabis hold that some Muslim groups such as Shia Islam follow novel or non-Islamic practices.Wahhabi theology advocates puritanical and legalistic stances in matters of faith and religious practice. Wahhabists see their... »
ACLU Uses 9/11 Victims’ Families to Challenge Legitimacy of Military Commissions
The shysters at the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday released a statement from 25 9/11 victims’ family members challenging the legitimacy of the Guantanamo military commissions and their ability to achieve justice. Personally, if I had my way, I’d release these terrorist killers into their custody and hold the ACLU legally liable for any... »
Brainstorm Responds to Robot Ethics Challenge
At the dawn of the age of autonomous robots, there has been a sudden surge in concern over the ability of intelligent machines to make ethical choices. Ethics can be challenging, in theory and in practice. But from a technical perspective, things might not be so bad. The Pentagon recently hired a British scientist to... »
21st Century Warfare: US Army Continues Transformation
The United States Army considers the current transformation its most extensive restructuring since World War II. The Army has estimated that restructuring units from a division-based force to a more agile and responsive modular brigade-based force will require a significant investment through fiscal year 2011, according to a Congressional report obtained by the National... »
Homeland Security Experts Offer President-Elect Obama Counseling
The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute today held a transition briefing to discuss the historical context of the US Department of Homeland Security, the evolution of the homeland security mission, and recommendations to the Obama Administration for where the Department should go from here. “Although we are... »
WMD Attack Likely, Says New Blue Ribbon Panel Report
Terrorists are likely to use a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the world in the next five years, a congressional blue-ribbon panel reported. The panel, chaired by former Florida Senator Bob Graham, released a preliminary report on December 1 that created a huge amount of Washington buzz. However, the Graham panel’s report is... »
The Forgotten US Border
Covering nearly 4,000 miles of land and water from Washington to Maine, the U.S.-Canadian border is the longest undefended border in the world. Various Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component agencies share responsibility for northern border security, primarily U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in collaboration with other federal, state, local, tribal, and Canadian... »
World Jewish Congress Outraged by Statements of UN General Assembly President
The president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder, has criticized recent anti-Israel statements by Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, the current president of the United Nations General Assembly. D’Escoto had likened Israel’s actions vis-a-vis the Palestinians to “the apartheid of an earlier era” and called on the international community to consider stricter... »
FBI Agents Set to Fly to Mumbai
For more than six decades, the FBI has stationed agents and other personnel overseas to help protect Americans back home by building relationships with principal law enforcement, intelligence, and services around the globe and facilitating a prompt and continuous exchange of information. Today, the FBI has Legal Attaché offices — commonly known as Legats... »
Physicist Pleads Guilty to Espionage for People’s Republic of China
A physicist in Newport News, Va., has pleaded guilty today to charges that he illegally exported space launch technical data and defense services to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and offered bribes to Chinese government officials. The guilty plea was announced today by Dana Boente, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia;... »
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