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Don't Laugh at North Korea's Drones!
What Happened to MH370? A Look at the Latest Theories
How To Set a Honeytrap: U.S. Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Sharing State Secrets with His Chinese Girlfriend
Why Hezbollah's New Missiles Are a Problem for Israel
Does Burning the Thumb of Your Husband’s Lover Make You a WMD Monster?
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Don't Laugh at North Korea's Drones!
A downed drone believed to belong to North Korea has become an object of international ridicule since its discovery on a disputed South Korean border island this week. Variously described as " toy-like " and " a model airplane ," the...
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Wed, Apr 04 2014 4:34 PM
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What Happened to MH370? A Look at the Latest Theories
It's a general rule of thumb ( Occam's razor , to be exact) that, when evaluating theories, the one with the fewest assumptions is most often correct. Wild and outlandish theories are almost always wrong -- except when they're not. But it's...
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Fri, Mar 03 2014 3:23 PM
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How To Set a Honeytrap: U.S. Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Sharing State Secrets with His Chinese Girlfriend
Theirs was an unconventional love story. He was a 59-year-old, married defense contractor with a Top Secret security clearance. She was a 27-year-old Chinese national with a student visa. They met at a defense conference in Hawaii, where he lived, and...
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Thu, Mar 03 2014 6:02 PM
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Why Hezbollah's New Missiles Are a Problem for Israel
Israeli defense officials have eyed the nearly three-year Syrian civil war warily, concerned that a faltering Assad regime may try to offload some of its advanced weaponry to its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon rather than let it fall into the hands of rebel...
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Does Burning the Thumb of Your Husband’s Lover Make You a WMD Monster?
The Supreme Court has doubts as to whether a domestic, if gruesome, argument is exactly like a full-blown civil war, and whether a scorned wife who burned the thumb of her husband's mistress is in the same category as Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad...
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Tue, Nov 11 2013 2:10 PM
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So, You Captured an al Qaeda Terrorist and Are Holding Him at Sea. Now What?
On Saturday, U.S. Navy SEALs captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas al-Libi, in a brazen raid on his home in Tripoli, Libya. Libi was indicted in New York in 2000 for his role in al Qaeda's bombing of U.S...
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Mon, Oct 10 2013 3:50 PM
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U.S. admits droning four Americans (but just one deliberately)
Ahead of President Obama's big counterterrorism speech tomorrow, Attorney General Eric Holder has written a letter , obtained by the New York Times , to the Senate Judiciary Committee disclosing the four American citizens killed by targeted strikes...
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Wed, May 05 2013 3:00 PM
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Watch the Syrian rebel assault on Aleppo's prison
View the Aleppo Prison battle in a larger map On Wednesday, Syrian rebels in the northeast outskirts of the flashpoint city of Aleppo made an ambitious attempt to storm the city's main prison, setting off two car bombs near the jail's entrance...
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Thu, May 05 2013 12:55 PM
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Wait, the U.S. is making Mexican security officials take polygraph tests?
Fraying cooperation in the drug war will surely be top of mind as President Obama meets with his counterpart Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico this week. And perhaps nothing encapsulates Mexico's growing impatience with America's heavy-handed approach...
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Could John McCain's roadmap for intervening in Syria work?
Amid international accusations of chemical weapons use by Assad government forces in Syria's civil war, Secretary of State John Kerry told NATO members on Tuesday that the alliance should consider contingency planning and prepare for possible threats...
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Wed, Apr 04 2013 12:55 PM
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How worried should we be about Kim Jong Un's youth?
We may not know much about the man currently plowing full speed ahead toward international nuclear crisis, but one thing we do know for sure is that he is young -- 29 or 30. And this, most news outlets seem to agree, is an important factor in understanding...
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Fri, Apr 04 2013 11:00 AM
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Why Japan and China could accidentally end up at war
The Chinese government on Tuesday continued to deny that a Chinese frigate locked its radar on a Japanese destroyer earlier this year. The denial comes a day after Tokyo-based Kyodo News quoted unnamed "senior Chinese military officials" admitting...
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Tue, Mar 03 2013 9:40 AM
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China now considering drone strikes in its drug war
Chinese government officials considered using an armed unmanned aerial vehicle to target a drug trafficker hiding in Myanmar, according to an interview with Liu Yuejin, the director of China's Public Security Ministry's anti-drug bureau that appeared...
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Tue, Feb 02 2013 2:02 PM
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Said al-Shihri, AQAP's #2, is supposedly dead (again)
Said al-Shihri is dead again, maybe this time for good. As the deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, he is the highest ranking official in AQAP to be killed since the organization emerged in January 2009. He's had some near misses since...
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Thu, Jan 01 2013 12:58 PM
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Scud showdown in Sanaa
More than a year after President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down -- and almost two years after protests against his dictatorship flooded the streets of Sanaa -- Yemen's political crisis continues. Saleh was formally ousted in February in a...
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Tue, Dec 12 2012 11:29 AM
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