Al-Qaeda: target global oil infrastructure
…US suppliers in the western hemisphere—especially invoking Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. From AFP, Feb. 14: DUBAI — The Saudi branch of Al-Qaeda has called for attacks on oil installations in…
…US suppliers in the western hemisphere—especially invoking Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. From AFP, Feb. 14: DUBAI — The Saudi branch of Al-Qaeda has called for attacks on oil installations in…
…of violent protesters from police stations and other government installations. “Guinean security forces are using martial law as an excuse to terrorize ordinary Guineans,” said Peter Takirambudde, Africa director at…
The New York Police Department is requesting funds to install hundreds more video cameras throughout the city to help fight crime and combat terrorism. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly wants to…
…call for foreign countries to nab Rumsfeld and Bush also seems unlikely to be heeded any time soon. How, physically, could another country arrest Bush, for instance? And which country…
Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a “partial” installation license for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. The license allows the initial…
…will be considered until the FARC releases all its hostages. (Colombia Reports, WSJ, Feb. 3) A Jan. 21 attack by the FARC on a radar installation at Cerro Santana, Cauca,…
…civilian casualties are at near-record levels. With war, a stagnant economy, and chronic instability continuing to drive people out in droves, refugee advocates warn that Afghanistan faces a revolving cycle…
…with both Puntland and Somaliland, and Islamist radicals have taken advantage of this to try to cause instability in the area,” Hogendoorn said. “Moreover, it is likely that there are…
…direct and sustained. Excavations of the “City of David” (in Silwan) are the most obvious and developed instance. And of course, the recent push to more extensively excavate Tel Rumeida…
…crisis remain the main drivers of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in Yemen, further exacerbated by the instability of humanitarian assistance.” The conflict, which escalated with the intervention of a…
On the sixth day of a declared civil strike (paro) in Peru’s Amazon rainforest, hundreds of indigenous protesters armed with spears seized oil installations Oct. 6, effectively shutting down the…
…Dr. Hansen’s case, there were several other instances in which political appointees had sought to control the flow of scientific information from the agency. They called or e-mailed The Times…