31/10/2006 |
HONDURAS-Honduras' Operation Thunder: The Effort to Stem Rising Crime
Stratfor Staff | Stratfor
The number of reported kidnappings involving the children of wealthy families in Honduras increased from three in 2005 to 18 during the first eight months of 2006. Despite a government crackdown on crime, a lasting solution to the problem is unlikely -- leaving potential victims to fend for themselves. ...
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30/10/2006 |
Haiti: Security and the Reintegration of the State
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
Security remains Haiti’s top challenge, and the new president has only a small window of opportunity to re-establish the state’s authority. ...
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30/10/2006 |
Book Paints Escape-Artist Houdini As Spy
Larry McShane | My Way
Eighty years after his death, the name Harry Houdini remains synonymous with escape under the most dire circumstances. But Houdini, the immigrants' son whose death-defying career made him one of the world's biggest stars, was more than a mere entertainer. ...
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30/10/2006 |
Islam, Terror and the Second Nuclear Age
Noah Feldman | NY Times
For nearly 50 years, worries about a nuclear Middle East centered on Israel. Arab leaders resented the fact that Israel was the only atomic power in the region, a resentment heightened by America’s tacit approval of the situation. ...
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30/10/2006 |
Al-Qaeda warns Canada: Quit Afghan mission or endure attack like 9/11, threat says
Stewart Bell | National Post
An al-Qaeda strategist has warned Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or face terrorist attacks similar to 9/11, Madrid and the London transit bombings. ...
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30/10/2006 |
CIA(R) MidEast Officer Ray Close on:
Ray Close | Offnews.info
This is an expanded and more explanatory version of a confidential memorandum that I sent last week to my fellow members on the "working" level of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group (ISG). (Which is not to imply that the principals are not working very hard, too! They most certainly are!) ...
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28/10/2006 |
Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb
Robert Fisk | The Independent
Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians? ...
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28/10/2006 |
VENEZUELA- Zona de guerrillas
Elías Pino Iturrieta | El Universal (Ve)
¿No saben, Chávez y su ejército "nacionalista", lo que saben y comunican los jesuitas? ...
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28/10/2006 |
IRAN-acelera su programa nuclear con la puesta en marcha de más centrifugadoras
Ethel Bonet | La Razón
Bush responde que es «inaceptable» la idea de que el régimen islámico tenga armas atómicas. La producción industrial del uranio enriquecido iraní se dobló ayer sin que Occidente pueda verificar el estado real del programa. ...
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27/10/2006 |
Hezbolá. Un rearme consentido
Libertad Digital Staff | Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos
"Las tropas internacionales serán bienvenidas siempre y cuando no intenten desarmar a Hezbolá". Las palabras pronunciadas por Hassan Nasrallah, entre advertencia y premonición, definieron muy bien cuál iba a ser la misión de la UNIFIL 2 en Líbano, incluso mejor que la propia ONU. ...
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