Daily Archives: August 19, 2007 »
Rudy plays the security card: ID for all tourists
By Sarah Baxter EVERY foreigner in America, including British visitors, would be required to carry an ID card bearing photograph and fingerprints under plans drawn up by Rudolph Giuliani, the frontrunner for the Republican
Read More »US agencies train spy satellites on civilians
ERIC SCHMITT FICTIONAL agent Jack Bauer famously uses America’s spies in the sky in his personal war on terror in TV series 24. But that’s make-believe. In real life, US civilian agencies have used
Read More »Police gun that makes you sick
By Justin Penrose The latest weapon in the fight against crime is a “sick gun” that makes you vomit. It looks like a normal torch but sends out rapidly-changing, different-coloured strobelights which blind and disorientate
Read More »Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
By Jeremy Scahill Blackwater is a private company that does the dirty work for America in various wars, both covert and those we know about all too well. It began only 10 years ago
Read More »Terror law puts Britons at risk of surveillance by US agents
Jamie Doward, home affairs editor Sunday August 19, 2007 The Observer A new law swept through Congress by the US government before the summer recess is to give American security agencies unprecedented powers to
Read More »Psychologists group weighs ban on military interrogations
SUDHIN THANAWALA The nation’s largest group of psychologists is set to decide what role, if any, its members can play in interrogating terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. military detention centers. The
Read More »Uncertainty in UK’s ID card plans
CBR The UK government has started the tender process to allow suppliers to join those that will be registered as potentially available to meet the technological requirements of its identity card program. However, there
Read More »Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law
By James Risen and Eric Lichtblau Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court
Read More »Military commanders tell Brown to withdraw from Iraq without delay
By Raymond Whitaker and Robert Fox Senior military commanders have told the Government that Britain can achieve “nothing more” in south-east Iraq, and that the 5,500 British troops still deployed there should move towards
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