Topic: WAR - on June 11, 2010 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Taliban using HIV bombs
TALIBAN fighters are burying dirty needles with their bombs in a bid to infect British troops with HIV, The Sun can reveal.
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Topic: WAR - on January 1, 2010 at 12:28:00 PM CET
US-Richter stoppt Blackwater-Verfahren
Mitarbeiter der Sicherheitsfirma Blackwater sollen bei einer Schießerei in Bagdad zahlreiche Zivilisten getötet haben. In den USA drohte den Wachleuten ein Prozess wegen Totschlags. Doch jetzt verwarf ein Richter die Anklage - und kritisierte den Übereifer der Ermittler.
Washington - Richter Ricardo Urbina hat sämtliche Anklagepunkte gegen fünf Mitarbeiter der Sicherheitsfirma Blackwater Worldwide wegen des Todes von 14 Irakern bei der Schießerei in Bagdad verworfen. Die Staatsanwaltschaft habe für ihre Anklage zu Unrecht Aussagen der Beschuldigten verwendet, die diese unter Androhung eines Jobverlusts gegenüber Ermittlern des US-Außenministeriums gemacht hätten, hieß es zur Begründung.
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Topic: WAR - on December 11, 2009 at 11:21:00 AM CET
Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the C.I.A.
Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials.
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Topic: WAR - on August 20, 2009 at 1:22:00 PM CEST
CIA heuerte Blackwater-Mitarbeiter für Terroristenjagd an
Sie halfen bei der Planung, beim Training, bei der Überwachung: Der US-Geheimdienst CIA hat laut "New York Times" Mitarbeiter der umstrittenen privaten Sicherheitsfirma Blackwater für die Jagd auf Qaida-Mitglieder engagiert - die Verträge seien inzwischen gekündigt.
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Topic: WAR - on August 14, 2009 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Psychologists made millions designing torture program
Rachel Maddow is joined by terrorism intelligence consultant Malcolm Nance to discuss a report that shows psychologists made millions designing a CIA interrogation plan.
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Topic: WAR - on June 30, 2009 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Hot chilli grenades
Indian scientists are to put one of the world's hottest chilli powders into hand grenades.
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Topic: WAR - on June 4, 2009 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Remembering the Tiananmen Square Protest and Massacre
On the night of June 4, 20 years ago this week, seven weeks of student pro-democracy demonstrations against the Communist government of China came to a violent end in Tiananmen Square. Magnum Photos was there covering the uprisings, and its photographers witnessed the scene of the lone protester—“Tank Man”—who stood bravely in front of the military tanks making their way into the square, which led to the iconic image taken by Stuart Franklin. The world watched as the military crushed the student demonstrations.
todayspictures.slate.com Police surround Tiananmen Square nytimes.com Former Activists Still Hoping the Truth Will Emerge
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Topic: WAR - on November 30, 2008 at 1:13:47 PM CET
Mumbai photographer: I wish I'd had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back
Sebastian D'Souza, a picture editor at the Mumbai Mirror, whose offices are just opposite the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji station, heard the gunfire erupt and ran towards the terminus. "I ran into the first carriage of one of the trains on the platform to try and get a shot but couldn't get a good angle, so I moved to the second carriage and waited for the gunmen to walk by," he said. "They were shooting from waist height and fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs but theydidn't seem to care."
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Topic: WAR - on November 30, 2008 at 1:12:20 PM CET
Mumbai under attack - The Big Picture
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Topic: WAR - on November 1, 2008 at 1:16:00 PM CET
Streit um Biolabor mitten in Hurrikan-Zone
Ausgerechnet im Einzugsgebiet gefährlicher Hurrikane eröffnet in wenigen Tagen ein Hochsicherheitslabor, in dem US-Forscher mit tödlichen Erregern experimentieren wollen. Anwohner fürchten die Freisetzung von Viren, Experten halten diese Ängste für übertrieben.
Die Standortwahl ist alles andere als glücklich: In Galveston, auf einer kleinen Insel vor der texanischen Küste, wird am 11. November ein Biolabor eingeweiht, in dem Forscher nach Abwehrstrategien gegen Bioterrorismus fahnden sollen. Es ist eines der beiden sogenannten National Biocontainment Laboratories der USA, in denen mit hochgefährlichen Erregern wie Ebola und Marburg experimentiert wird.
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Topic: WAR - on October 3, 2008 at 2:48:00 PM CEST
BBC nuclear bomb script released
A script written by the BBC and the government to be broadcast in the event of a nuclear attack has been published.
The script, written in the 1970s and released by the National Archives, included instructions to "stay calm and stay in your own homes".
It said communications had been disrupted, and the number of casualties and extent of damage were not known.
Other papers reveal debates about how to ensure the person reading the script was authoritative and comforting.
The script was discussed from 1973 to 1975, during the Cold War.
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Topic: WAR - on September 24, 2008 at 3:17:00 PM CEST
United States is planing to start a Civil War in Pakistan: Partitioning Pakistan
A new and classified American military proposal outlines an intensified effort to enlist tribal leaders in the frontier areas of Pakistan in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a broader effort to bolster Pakistani forces against an expanding militancy, American military officials said.
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