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Iranian talk of an attack on America By Steven Stalinsky It's out in the open and they aren't joking There are growing indications that Iran may be planning an attack on American soil. These indicators are not secret — they appear in speeches, newspaper articles, TV programs, and sermons in Iran by figures linked to the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other government officials, all discussing potential Iranian attacks on America, which will subsequently lead to its destruction. A report on May 28 in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that an Iranian intelligence unit has established a center called...

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<p>June 20, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - The nation's eavesdropping agency intercepted ominous messages on Sept. 10 - "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero day" - but nothing was done until it was too late, sources said yesterday.</p> <p>The National Security Agency didn't translate the pair of pre-9/11 Arabic-language messages until Sept. 12, the day after the terror attacks, intelligence officials told a congressional panel.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department probe of the leak of classified information about intercepted messages prior to the Sept. 11 attacks is focusing on Sen. Richard Shelby, former chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The newspaper cited a law enforcement official and congressional sources as saying that the probe has focused on the Alabama Republican who was head of the intelligence panel at the time of the disclosure. The FBI is trying to determine the source of the leaked information that the super secret National Security Agency (NSA) had intercepted two messages...

Here is a cultural mystery to solve: It has sold over 7.5-million copies in just over a year. The author has claimed on national TV interviews and on his web page that this piece of fiction contains fact when it comes to theories about art and the Christian faith. It has spawned more than a dozen response books. What is it? Of course, it is the best-selling mystery thriller, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. This novel is a good read. The mystery, which I will not give away, is tied to the idea that the church suppressed the...

June 3, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — FBI agents are focusing on a Pentagon intelligence-gathering unit in their probe into who told Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi that the United States had broken Iran's secret communications codes, The Post has learned. Word of the probe came as serious new allegations surfaced about the Iraqi National Congress, the exile group he heads. U.S. officials said the FBI counterintelligence investigation into the code breaking security breach is centered on a handful of civilian hard-liners in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, a policy- and intelligence-analysis shop set up after 9/11.

Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code By JAMES RISEN and DAVID JOHNSTON Published: June 2, 2004 ARTICLE TOOLS Email This Article E-Mail This Article Printer Friendly Format Printer-Friendly Format Most E-mailed Articles Most E-Mailed Articles Reprints & Permissions Reprints & Permissions The Struggle for Iraq MULTIMEDIA Page One: Wednesday, June 2, 2004 Video: Page One: Wednesday, June 2, 2004 ........... READERS' OPINIONS . Forum: Join a Discussion on The Struggle for Iraq TIMES NEWS TRACKER Topics Alerts Iran Espionage Chalabi, Ahmad United States International Relations WASHINGTON, June 1 — Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader and former ally of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. ally Ahmad Chalabi told Iran that the United States had broken secret communication codes used by Tehran's spy service, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The paper quoted unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying Chalabi, an anti-Saddam Hussein Iraqi exile who has now fallen out with Washington, had betrayed "one of Washington's most valuable sources of information about Iran." It was widely reported last month, after the Bush administration cut off funding for Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, that Chalabi had provided Iran with American secrets. But the report published by the New York...

Specialists from the Buckinghamshire code-breaking centre hope to decipher words etched on a garden ornament at Shugborough in Staffordshire. The Shepherd's Monument in the grounds of the stately home displays an inscription that has never been solved. Second World War veterans using the celebrated Enigma machine are joining Bletchley's current team of experts. 'Unusual challenge' The code breakers are at Shugborough, the ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield, on Tuesday. Christine Large, Bletchley Park's director, said: "This is such an unusual challenge that my colleagues and collaborators, who include veteran code breakers and modern day decoding experts from Bletchley...

Britain's WWII code-breakers tackle inscription mystery By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) -- The experts who cracked Nazi Germany's secret codes are tackling a 10-letter enigma that has stumped fine minds for more than 250 years -- D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. Former code-breakers from Britain's World War II intelligence center at Bletchley Park set out this week to decipher a cryptic inscription on an 18th-century monument at an English country estate. Legend says it reveals the location of the Holy Grail. Some believe it is a private message to a deceased beloved. No one knows for sure. "The inscription is obviously...

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A secret Israeli intelligence unit, known as Unit 8200, broke a sophisticated Iranian code enabling Israel to monitor communications, including contacts with Pakistan regarding the development of Iranian nuclear weapons, the New Yorker magazine reported on Tuesday. "On a trip to the Middle East last month, I was told that a number of years ago the Israeli signals-intelligence agency, known as Unit 8200, broke a sophisticated Iranian code and began monitoring communications that included talk between Iran and Pakistan about Iran's burgeoning nuclear-weapons program" Investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh wrote in the article. According to the report, Israeli intelligence has...

IX. AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE One of the most insightful—and disturbing—windows on the view of the legal profession (at least some very influential members of it) on marriage, comes through in an examination of the recently approved Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (“Principles”) put together by the American Law Institute (“ALI”).332 The historic contributions of the ALI towards legal changes have not necessarily been salutary.333 But aspects of the recent Principles are particularly troubling. One disturbing part of the Principles is chapter 6, which recommends the creation of certain rights to be made available to unmarried couples on the...

Net File-Swappers Snap Up Windows Source Code Fri Feb 13, 3:50 PM ET By Bernhard Warner and Lucas van Grinsven LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Internet users on Friday were ferociously downloading pirate versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows source code, stoking concerns hackers and virus writers could use it for a new wave of cyber attacks. The world's largest software maker alerted the public on Thursday that parts of its valuable source code for its Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems had been leaked to various online file-sharing networks. Microsoft said the released code amounted to a fraction of the entire...

Raising Cain's ID: The pizza man says, 'Let's you and him fight; I'll just sit here in the television set.' Political Insider (Galloway and Tharpe) AJC http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/insider/index.html Herman Cain might be the least-known candidate in the Republican race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, but on Monday he became the first candidate out of the gate with statewide television ads. Cain, the former chief executive officer of Godfather's Pizza, began running a series of televised ads in which he introduces himself to Georgia voters and blasts "liberal judges," the current U.S. tax code and the "Hollywood crowd attacking our president."...

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<p>WASHINGTON -- Your driver's license soon may become a lot smarter, and a lot more worrisome.</p> <p>State motor vehicle agencies want Congress to standardize the license, share more driver data between states and mandate techniques such as biometrics to "uniquely identify" each of America's 228 million drivers.</p>

Scientists hail new 'map of life' By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor A fruit fly and its protein interaction map Biologists have produced a detailed map of protein interactions in a complex organism - the fruit fly. Proteins, which are made by genes, are the building blocks of tissues as well as the basis for molecular interactions that enable an organism to live. The protein interaction map will allow a new insight into a highly complex metabolic system, similar in many ways to the human one. The research is to be published in a future issue of...

Stone Age Code Red: Scarlet symbols emerge in Israeli cave Bruce Bower The Qafzeh Cave in Israel contains skeletal remains of modern Homo sapiens that are more than 90,000 years old, as well as more-recent signs of human occupation. Investigators now say that red ocher found in Qafzeh Cave's oldest sections supports the controversial theory that symbolic thinking, a hallmark of modern-day human thought, arose deep in the Stone Age. HUE CLUE. An ancient lump of red ocher excavated at Qafzeh Cave contains evidence of scraping by stone implements. G. Laron, Inst. of Archaeology/Hebrew Univ. Archaeologists traditionally have held that...

Historical Perspective: Intelligence and the 1944 Election [Title Not in Original] (On Screen): On December 7 1941, six Japanese aircraft carriers moving under strict radio silence reached a point northwest of Oahu and launched several hundred planes to make a strike against the American fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The strike leader radioed back "Tora Tora Tora", a predetermined message which meant that they had achieved surprise and the Americans were not ready. Two major strikes over the course of a couple of hours sank or badly damaged the majority of America's battleships in the Pacific, and caused much other...