Archive for February, 2010

General Aviation: A Reminder of Vulnerability

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

from STRATFOR.COM
by Scott Stewart
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
 

On Feb. 18, 2010, Joseph Andrew Stack flew his single-engine airplane into a seven-story office building in northwest Austin, Texas. The building housed an office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), along with several other tenants. According to a statement he posted to the Internet [...]

The Utility of Assassination

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

from STRATFOR.com
by George Friedman
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
 

The apparent Israeli assassination of a Hamas operative in the United Arab Emirates turned into a bizarre event replete with numerous fraudulent passports, alleged Israeli operatives caught on videotape and international outrage (much of it feigned), more over the use of fraudulent passports than over [...]

Visa Security: Getting Back to the Basics

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

from STRATFOR.COM
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart 
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
 

Usually in the STRATFOR Global Security and Intelligence Report, we focus on the tactical details of terrorism and security issues in an effort to explain those issues and place them in perspective for our readers. Occasionally, though, we turn our focus away [...]

The Meaning of Marjah

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

from STRATFOR.COM
by Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR“

On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province. Until this latest offensive, the U.S. and NATO effort in Afghanistan had been constrained [...]

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