Using Google Earth and GPS to track Afghan cash
WHATS NEXT FOR OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
Games Train Soldiers in Afghanistan to be Nice
ew Pentagon Sim Teaches Troops to Play Nice
The Dark Side of Wealth Obsessed with Secrecy
The super-rich lost a great deal in 2009, with hundreds of unfortunates losing their billionaire status. A Swiss private banker talks about the ugly consequences of the crisis for his elite clientele and the discreet services he is sometimes asked to perform, such as buying secret apartments for clients’ mistresses. When he speaks, Heinrich Weber …
New Bagram Prison in Afghanistan, inmates buoyant
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers — The bearded Taliban prisoners at Bagram broke off from a spirited game of soccer in the yard to greet a McClatchy reporter, the first journalist allowed into the notorious U.S. jail in Afghanistan since detainees there were moved into a shiny new multimillion-dollar facility. …
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Afganistan Army raises flags in Marjah
Afghan flag flown over Marjah town Ceremony marks return of civilian control, but Taliban influence remains evident. Afghan and international forces have handed over control of the southern Afghanistan town of Marjah to civilian authorities, in the wake of a huge military operation to capture the area from Taliban control. Officials raised the Afghan flag …
HOPE FOR HAITI
Brazil’s Lula visits Haiti troops Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, has arrived in Haiti to see for himself the damage last month’s earthquake caused. He will meet Rene Preval, his Haitian counterpart, and visit Brazilian troops at the UN’s new logistical base there. Even before the earthquake, Brazil had a “special relationship” with …
Israel drones target Iran
The Heron TP drone has a wingspan the same size as a Boeing 737 passenger jet
The curse of Afghanistan OPIUM
With a loud “whoosh” and a blast of hot air, the pile of tires, wood and 2.5 tons of raw opium burst into flames. It’s a government-sponsored “drug burn” in the western Afghan city of Herat, an event intended to reinforce the government’s claim that it is moving aggressively against the opium trade. We flew early Sunday morning from …