Archive for December, 2008

Jewish leader banned photos of his building, believing terrorists were seeking intel
By Aaron Klein
Mumbai's Chabad House
JERUSALEM – A rabbi killed in last week's coordinated terrorist raids in India was so fearful his Jewish outreach center would be attacked he forbade media photographers from snapping pictures inside the building, believing...
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The Israeli navy on Monday prevented a Libyan cargo ship from breaking its naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
An Israeli warship contacted the Libyan vessel via radio and convinced it to turn around without the use of force.
Meanwhile, hundreds of spectators, journalists and dockhands at the Gaza City Port...
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By Gary "The G-Man" Toms,
The New York Times, the New York Daily News, Newsday, U.S.A Today, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News and a host of other news organizations recently reported that gun sales across the country increased 10 percent after Barack Obama defeated John McCain. Many of the gun shop owners that...
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Temple of Advanced Enlightenment seeks religious exemption from DEA   
By Judy Harrison
BANGOR, Maine — Every Tuesday and Sunday afternoon the living room in the Rev. Kevin Loring’s apartment becomes a tiny house of worship.
The head of the 3-year-old Temple of Advanced Enlightenment earlier this week stood next to a round table as...
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The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war crimes like their human comrades in arms.  
By Tim Shipman in Washington
 The Pentagon aims to develop 'ethical' robot soldiers, unlike the indiscriminate T-800 killers from the Terminator films
The US Army and Navy have both...
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's state news agency says three days of joint naval exercises with Russia will kick off in Venezuelan waters on Monday.
The state-run Bolivarian News Agency says the operation involving 11 Venezuelan and four Russian ships has been christened Venrus 2008.
Saturday's report said exercises will include anti-aircraft defense and tactics to combat terrorism and...
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By David E. Sanger
President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, introduced in Chicago on Monday, includes two veteran Cold Warriors and a political rival whose records are all more hawkish than the new president who will face them in the White House Situation Room.
Yet all three of his choices - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as the rival...
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By David Wood
On Jan. 20, an unobtrusive military officer carrying a small leather-bound metal briefcase will follow President George W. Bush up to Capitol Hill. After the inauguration ceremony, he will accompany President Barack Obama back to the White House.
Inside the attaché, known as "the football," are the codes to identify and authenticate a presidential...
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By Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.
The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed...
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