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"The Kite Runner" will change how you think about Afghanistan

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2008-04-29 11:16:44 by HASH0x8acb904 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Afghanistan all the way up to the year 2000, with a pre-9/11 Taliban regime in charge. You can read the Wikipedia article I linked to or better yet go rent the movie or read the book (I am going to read it next) for all of the dramatic details. However, let me talk a bit about my take away from this film. First of all, like many Americans I...
 
Tags: people, afghan people real, muslim world, world, afghanistan, movie tells, movie, kite runner, american view
 
 
 
 
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Marines Land in Afghanistan -- with Biometrics

2008-05-22 22:30:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...Afghanistan expecting an easy victory over impoverished villagers. Instead, they met heavy resistance from scores of uniformed Afghan men Those so-called Afghan National Auxiliary Police (ANAP), all formerly in the service of local warlords, had received two months of training by Dutch and American soldiers and were now the first line of...
 
Tags: afghan, afghan government, seditious afghan cops, afghanistan, cops, afghan loyalties, nato commanders, nato, warlords
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...Afghanistan Ex-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is helping broker deals between Russian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments through his company, Defense Solutions Photo: H. Rumph Jr/AP The Russians want to sell weapons to Iraq directly, but "must go slow on Iraq because of political reasons" and want to work with an...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Afghanistan, Palestine, Kashmir and elsewhere Many non-Muslims specially jews, Christians and hindus are working in different web groups and communities (like yahoo groups and msn communities) and spreading propaganda against us Muslims. There is a strong need to join such groups and try to refute them. At the moment, the cyber space is free...
 
Tags: anti-islamic web sites, islamic web sites, web, jihad, electronic jihad program, campaign, electrnic jihad campaign, web sites, cyber jihad
 
 
 
 
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If you are headed to Pakistan - watch your back

2008-06-27 03:20:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Afghanistan's President Karzai to Pakistan. President Karzai has been very vocal regarding Pakistan's involvement in his country's border area and his warnings suggesting Afghanistan's intent to attack their neighbor seems to be starting to agitate the Paskistani authorities. Which makes me wonder....is Karzai's theatrics a way to open the...
 
Tags: pakistan, president karzai, afghan border, karzai, border, pakistani border, murky world, world, nuclear weapons capability
 
 
 
 
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Barak Obama Discusses Security Trade-Offs

2008-10-27 06:31:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Afghanistan, which includes the costs to our image in the middle east, to the continued occupation, which includes the financial costs of our occupation, which includes what it is doing to our military. So I said look, I described in my mind at list an analogous situation where I am sure he has to deal with situations where the commanding...
 
Tags: security, airline security, national security, security system, strong pitch inaudible, inaudible, job, airplane security systems, maximum flexibility
 
 
 
 
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Swedish Army Loses Classified Information on Memory Stick

2008-01-09 13:46:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Afghanistan I wrote about this sort of thing two years ago: The point is that it's now amazingly easy to lose an enormous amount of information. Twenty years ago, someone could break into my office and copy every customer file, every piece of correspondence, everything about my professional life. Today, all he has to do is steal my computer....
 
Tags: stick, memory stick, public computer center, computer, public computer, information, armed forces, swedish army, stick belongs
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #19 - Roadside Surprise

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2008-02-18 00:01:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...Afghanistan. Your truck is stopped by U.S. military forces who are in the process of clearing a landslide from the road. A soldier tells you it should be less than 15 minutes before the road is opened. You decide to wait. It's a warm day and you have the windows rolled down. Click the play button below to see what happens next What do...
 
Tags: soldier tells, play button, warm day, military forces, road, steps, incident, windows, project
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Afghanistan. Only two lasted the six-week course; the rest pretended to be hurt or left early. Despite extensive surveillance, the FBI found no evidence that the men ever discussed, let alone planned, an attack -- but that didn't stop federal agents from arresting the suspects with great fanfare and accusing them of operating an "Al...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents