June 2010
GCIS ART PROTECTION BRIEFING: Art hot target for...
ISSUED BY:  GCIS ART PROTECTION UNIT FROM:       MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK 31 MAY 2010   7:08PM PST North Attleboro School Committee members would be wise to consider Anthony Amore’s recent cautionary words on art heists before deciding to ferry the town’s valuable “Afghans” painting back here from its storage at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City. Amore has...
Jun 1st
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May 2010
The Bramford Times: Private intelligence brass... →
Deputy Director Alysyn Bourque meets with members of the U.S. Veterans Joint Service Command, (right to left) Capt. Eugenia McQueen, Chaplain, Deputy Director Bourque, Master Sgt. Jesus Rivera, Chaplain and a family member of Sgt. Rivera. Both chaplains trained at Promise Christian…
May 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: US troops in...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Associated Press 31May2010 10:15amPDT By HEIDI VOGT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq remembered friends and colleagues Monday in solemn Memorial Day ceremonies to commemorate all of their nation’s war dead. As some soldiers paused, violence raged on in both places. ...
May 31st
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Obama urges...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 31May2010 9:50amPDT GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday he deeply regretted the loss of life in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla and urged him to collect all the facts about the incident as soon as possible, the White House said. ...
May 31st
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Chabad Rabbi...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Arutz Sheva 31May2010 9:40amPDT by Hana Levi Julian GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi Saturday night as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna, Austria. The attacker hurled himself at Rabbi Dov Gruzman, principal of the...
May 31st
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GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BRIEFING: Taliban stronger...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Counter-Terrorism Unit SOURCE:Reuters 31May2010 9:23amPDT GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM UPDATE: OTTAWA - The Taliban is stronger than NATO expected but the international coalition in Afghanistan will make progress both militarily and politically this year, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday. Thousands of U.S. troops are being deployed in the...
May 31st
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:A brutal ambush at...
Ron Ben Yishai recounts bloody clash aboard Gaza-bound vessel: The lacking crowd-dispersal means, the brutal violence of “peace activists”, and the attempt to bring down an IDF helicopter ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Israel News 31May2010 8:30amPDT By: Ron Ben-Yishai GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Our Navy commandos fell right into the hands of the...
May 31st
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: IDF Video Footage...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:JPOST 31May2010 7:30amPDT GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Watch IDF-released footage of demonstrators aboard the Mavi Marmara using violence against Israel Navy soldiers. The IDF released footage of the Monday raid on the “Free Gaza” flotilla, which depicted passengers upon the ship attacking soldiers with various weapons,...
May 31st
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GCIS SPECIAL: Video: Secretary of Defense Memorial...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Department of Defense Live Blog 31May2010 6:45amPDT Secretary of Defense Robert E. Gates shares a Memorial Day message to pay tribute to those who served and sacrificed in service to our country.
May 31st
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GCIS SPECIAL: DOD CHAIRMAN'S MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Department of Defense Live Blog 31May2010 6:35amPDT Chairman’s Corner: On this Memorial Day Weekend Not long after the Civil War, Americans pledged to honor those who, as Abraham Lincoln put it, gave the last full measure of devotion. Be they from Lexington and Concord; Gettysburg and Antietam; the Argonnes Forest or the beaches of...
May 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: German President quits...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 31May2010 6:30amPDT by Thorsten Severin GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:BERLIN - German President Horst Koehler said on Monday he was resigning with immediate effect due to widespread criticism of comments he made about the country’s military action and commercial interests. The shock resignation came after Koehler, elected to a...
May 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Pakistani jets attack...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 31May2010 6:30amPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:EDTKALAYA Pakistan - Pakistani jet fighters struck militant hideouts in the Orakzai region on Monday, killing 42 insurgents, government and security officials said, the latest in a series of assaults on militants in the country’s northwest. Warplanes attacked militant positions in...
May 31st
GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BRIEFING: Taliban number...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Counter-Terrorism Unit SOURCE:AFP 31May2010 6:25amPDT GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM UPDATE: NATO said Monday that the second most senior Taliban commander in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar had been killed in an air strike. The man, identified as Haji Amir, was targeted in an air attack in the province’s restive Panjwayi district on Sunday, NATO’s...
May 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: White Houses looking...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 31May2010 6:20amPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: CHICAGO - The United States said on Monday it deeply regretted the deaths and injuries caused when Israeli commandos stormed a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships leading to 10 deaths. “The United States deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained, and is currently working to...
May 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: No more "comrades" on...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 31May2010 6:20amPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: BEIJING - China’s bus drivers and ticket sellers have been urged to leave communism behind, with a new training manual instructing them to call travellers “sir” or “madam” instead of “comrade,” state media reported on Monday. Older Beijingers, a...
May 31st
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GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Pakistan lifts...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Cyber-Security Unit SOURCE:Reuters 31May2010 6:15amPDT By:Faisal Mahmood GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE:ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court on Monday lifted a ban on social networking website Facebook which had carried a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad, but access to any “blasphemous” material will remain blocked, officials said. Any representation of...
May 31st
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Barak: Flotilla...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:JPOST 31May2010 5:30amPDT By TOVAH LAZAROFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a press conference on Monday that while he was sorry for lives lost, the organizers of the Gaza-bound protest flotilla were solely responsible for the outcome of the fatal IDF raid earlier in the day. Fifteen...
May 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Paratroopers Teach...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:DOD 30May2010 5:40pmPDT by Sgt. Mike MacLeod GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq – American paratroopers taught Iraqi soldiers how to call in fire from armed helicopters to neutralize targets in a live-fire exercise here, May 21. Fire support specialists with 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division (Advise and Assist), trained...
May 31st
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: 'Obama gave PM...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:JPost 30May2010 5:40pmPDT By DAVID BRINN GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: President Barack Obama gave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “concrete guarantees” that the US will strengthen Israel’s strategic capabilities, sources in Jerusalem said late Sunday evening. Top government officials said there has recently been a “significant upgrade in...
May 31st
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Eli Cohen's voice...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:JPOST.COM 30May2010 5:35pmPDT GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Eli Cohen’s voice was heard Sunday on the radio, 45 years after he was executed in Damascus. The special interview, aired by Army Radio, was conducted with the Israeli spy several months before his true identity was discovered. Cohen could be heard describing the community...
May 31st
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Development Continues...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Press American Forces Press 30May2010 4:25pmPDT By Christen N. McCluney GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON – Servicemembers in Afghanistan are working with the country’s interior and defense ministries to provide legal advice and development in the country. “We’re a little bit different than most of your standard military...
May 31st
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GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Iran outflanks...
  ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:The Independent 30May2010 5:20pmPDT By Rupert Cornwell GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, cornerstone of global disarmament efforts, has gained a new lease of life - but at the price of a small but telling diplomatic victory for Iran, and new strains between Israel and its most important ally, the US. ...
May 31st
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GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BRIEFING: Gen. McChrystal:...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Counter-Terrorism Unit SOURCE:AP 30May2010 4:45pmPDT GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM UPDATE: KABUL, Afghanistan - The commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Sunday there is “clear evidence” that some Taliban fighters have trained in Iran. Gen. Stanley McChrystal told reporters in the Afghan capital that Iran - Afghanistan’s western neighbor -...
May 30th
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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Tech can secure life,...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Press Trust Of India 30May2010 4:40pmPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: New Delhi - With the increasing threat to life and infrastructure due to terrorism and Naxal activities, industry body CII has suggested a concept of ‘safe city’ to ensure protection with the help of technology. The safe city concept, to be implemented under...
May 30th
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GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BRIEFING: 7 policemen...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Counter-Terrorism Unit SOURCE:AFP 30May2010 4:35pmPDT GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM UPDATE:KUNDUZ/KABUL: A roadside bomb struck a police patrol on Sunday in the remote north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, killing seven officers, officials said. Linked to the violence, a police commander said that he was investigating claims by local villagers that NATO forces had...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: China shields North...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:The Independent 30May2010 4:30pmPDT By David McNeill GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: China has swatted away demands from Japan and South Korea to condemn North Korea over the sinking of a navy frigate, saying they should instead stop tensions on the Korean Peninsula from escalating into war. “We have to focus on preventing possible armed...
May 30th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Israel Navy...
  ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:IsraelNationalNews 30May2010 4:25pmPDT by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:The Israeli Navy late Sunday night surprised the flotilla bound for Hamas-controlled Gaza, and the activists reported that three Israeli ships are on the flotilla’s radar screens. Passengers have donned life vests. One of the crew said that...
May 30th
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GCIS CYBER SECURITY BRIEFING: Kidnapped Children...
ISSUED BY:   GCIS CYBER SECURITY UNIT 30 MAY 2010 4:09PM PST GCIS CYBER SECURITY REPORT - Two children kidnapped by their father 14 years ago were found last week after the mother discovered her daughter’s name on a social networking website. The father, Faustino Utrera, took the children – a 16-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter — from their San Bernardino, Calif. home in 1995....
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DC's Union Station...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:AP 30May2010 4:o5pmPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: WASHINGTON - Amtrak says service has resumed at Washington’s Union Station following an evacuation prompted by fumes from a malfunctioning battery backup system. Amtrak says slight delays are expected to be resolved by late afternoon. D.C. fire spokesman Pete Piringer says a security...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: DC Union Station...
30 MAY 2010   3:54PM PST GCIS INTELLIGENCE REPORT - Washington DC area around Union Station is out of bounds for now as the station was evacuated due to chemical odors. Around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, DC Fire Department spokesperson Pete Piringer confirmed to the journalists that the station has been evacuated with the assistance of Amtrak Police and Union Station officials.
 According to sources...
May 30th
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Who is the...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Cyber-Security Unit SOURCE:Washington Technology 30May2010 8:40amPDT GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: PHILADELPHIA - Is there a Smokey Bear for cybersecurity? Maybe there should be, according to a federal cybersecurity official. To raise public awareness about the threat of cyber crime, the government should use public service campaigns or perhaps a mascot to ingrain...
May 30th
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: National Security...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Cyber-Security Unit SOURCE:Washington Technology 30May2010 8:35amPDT By Ben Bain GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: Protecting the United States’ digital infrastructure is a national security priority, according to the Obama administration’s new National Security Strategy released today. That statement came in the “Secure Cyberspace” section of the...
May 30th
GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BRIEFING:'Punjabi Taliban':...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Counter-Terrorism Unit SOURCE:Reuters 30May2010 8:30amPDT By Faisal Aziz GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM UPDATE:DERA GHAZI KHAN, Pakistan - The Pakistan Taliban is not the sole militant group threatening Pakistan and the region. Punjabi groups are deepening their ties with the Taliban, representing a growing threat for a country already hit hard by militant violence. This was...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Ethiopia denies rebels...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 30May2010 8:15pmPDT By Barry Malone GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has rejected a claim by a rebel group that it has taken control of a gas field in the country’s Ogaden region being explored by Malaysian state oil company Petronas. Firms including Petronas [PETR.UL] and Vancouver-based Africa Oil Corporation...
May 30th
GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM BRIEFING:Four Afghans...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Counter-Terrorism Unit SOURCE:dpa 30May2010 6:30amPDT GCIS COUNTER-TERRORISM UPDATE: Kabul -Four civilians were killed in separate blasts in Afghanistan, as Taliban militants torched six fuel tankers destined for NATO forces in southern region, officials said Sunday. The civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed in a total of four separate blasts in eastern...
May 30th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Toll in terror...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Press Trust of India 30May2010 6:20amPDT GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The death toll in the terrorist attacks on two Ahmedi mosques in Punjab’s provincial capital rose to 95 today even as leaders of the Pakistani minority sect said the government’s “going soft” on religious hardliners had resulted in the carnage. ...
May 30th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Pakistan militant...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 30May2010 3:30amPDT By Zeeshan Haider GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: LAHORE/PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani militant groups are increasingly supporting each other and penetrating into the country’s heartland, threatening not only Pakistan but the region. The Pakistan Taliban who attacked two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore on Friday...
May 30th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Police arrest six...
ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:RIA Novosti 30May2010 3:20amPDT GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Security services have arrested six people suspected of organizing and carrying out a recent terrorist attack in Stavropol in southern Russia that killed seven and injured more than 40 people, a police source said on Sunday. A powerful blast went off outside the House of Culture...
May 30th
GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:Israel Submarines...
  ISSUED BY: GCIS/MSS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:IsraelNationalNews 30May2010 3:05amPDT by Hana Levi Julian GCIS/MSS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Israel has allegedly deployed a permanent submarine presence in the Persian Gulf to keep an eye on Iran, according to  media reports published Sunday. The three German-built submarines are reportedly equipped with nuclear cruise missiles. Flotilla 7...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Role Players Provide...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:American Forces Press Service By Donna Miles 29May2010 11:15pmPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:FORT POLK, La. – Enter the tiny, fictional village of West Sangan on this sprawling training base and you’ll encounter a world about as far removed from western Louisiana as one can imagine. The village, one of 22 dotting the Joint Readiness Training...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Marine Corps Tests New...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:American Forces Press Service By Christen N. McCluney 29May2010 11:10pmPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:WASHINGTON – The Marine Corps is conducting reliability tests on its latest expeditionary fighting vehicle prototypes, the service’s program manager for the effort said yesterday during a “DoD Live” bloggers roundtable. “[For] the last couple of...
May 30th
GCIS AIR SECURITY BRIEFING: Ecuador volcanic...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Air Security Unit SOURCE:Reuters 29May2010 9:30pmPDT GCIS AIR SECURITY UPDATE: RUNTUN, Ecuador - An eruption by Ecuador’s “Throat of Fire” volcano abated on Saturday, leading authorities to start allowing 2,500 evacuees to return home and announce plans to reopen a major airport later in the day. “The volcano has lowered its intensity …...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Bamyan residents fear...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:DPA 29May2010 8:50pmPDT By : Can Merey GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Bamyan, Afghanistan - The more the violence in Afghanistan escalates, the more the West clings to the hope that negotiations with the Taliban could solve the conflict and bring within reach the withdrawal of the international troops. While that idea, born out of sheer...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Seven killed as...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:AFP 29May2010 8:40pmPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY - Five members of Turkey’s security forces, a civilian and a Kurdish militant were killed in a string of Kurdish separatist attacks Saturday, officials and media reports said. The clashes came as jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan reportedly decided to abandon...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: North Korea's Exit...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Newsweek 29May2010 7:50pmPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:By all appearances, the Korean peninsula is a tinderbox: since South Korea blamed its northern neighbor for sinking the warship Cheonan in March, the countries have ratcheted up the rhetoric, threatened to blast propaganda across the border, cut off trade, and tried to draw allies like...
May 30th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Netanyahu to ask Obama...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Harretz 29May2010 7:35pmPDT By Barak Ravid, Yossi Melman and Amir Oren GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask for clarifications about the U.S. position on the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference when he meets with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday. Review Conference participants...
May 30th
GCIS ART PROTECTION BRIEFING: Tate makes...
ISSUED BY:   GCIS ART PROTECTION UNIT FROM:           MUSEUM SECURITY NETWORK 29 MAY 2010   1:38PM PST A new exhibition at Tate Modern of images made without their subject’s consent highlights our indifference to surveillance Denis Beaubois’s In The Event of Amnesia the City Will Recall, from Tate Modern’s Exposed exhibition A new show called Exposed: Voyeurism,...
May 29th
GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Raytheon focuses...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Cyber-Security Unit SOURCE:Washington Technology 29May2010 1:00pmPDT GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: Raytheon Co. kept its 2009 revenue footing on increasingly treacherous defense-contracting terrain, with an 11-figure contract backlog of $37 billion, a 7 percent increase in revenue and an earnings per share increase of 24 percent compared to the previous year. In late...
May 29th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Israel rejects call to...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:Reuters 29May2010 11:40amPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: JERUSALEM - Israel on Saturday rejected as “flawed and hypocritical” a declaration by signatories of a global anti-nuclear arms treaty that urged it to sign the pact and make its atomic facilities subject to U.N. inspections. All 189 parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty,...
May 29th
GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Six women among 19...
ISSUED BY: GCIS Intelligence Unit SOURCE:DPA 29May2010 10:40amPDT GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Islamabad - At least 19 people, mostly Taliban militants but also six civilians, died on Saturday in clashes between Islamist insurgents and troops in Pakistan’s tribal region along Afghan border, security officials and media reports said. The killings were the latest in the assaults that...
May 29th