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   KEYWORDS : TERRORISM
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'Dark Web' Project Takes On Cyber-Terrorism -- Steven Kotler  -- Fox News  -- October 12, 2007

Dark Web, a giant, searchable database at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an attempt to uncover, cross-reference, catalogue and analyze all online terrorist-generated content on the at least 7000 to 8000 terrorist sites.

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Lawmakers Urge Delay in Spy Satellite Program -- Leta Hong Fincher  -- Voice of America  -- September 14, 2007

The Bush administration is planning to give domestic law enforcement agencies increased access to powerful spy satellite technology. But some lawmakers and civil liberties groups say that the program may invade the privacy of Americans.

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Scientists Use the "Dark Web" to Snag Extremists and Terrorists Online -- Staff  -- National Science Foundation  -- September 10, 2007

A team of computational scientists have created a new technology they are calling the "Dark Web" which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.

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Domestic Use of Spy Satellites To Widen -- Joby Warrick  -- Washington Post  -- August 16, 2007

The Bush administration has approved a plan to expand domestic access to some of the most powerful tools of 21st-century spycraft, giving law enforcement officials and others the ability to view data obtained from satellite and aircraft sensors that can see through cloud cover and even penetrate buildings and underground bunkers.

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A Missile Strike Option We Need -- Harold Brown and James Schlesinger  -- Washington Post  -- May 22, 2006

The authors, two former U.S. Secretaries of Defense, argue that the U.S. needs prompt global strike capability to provide maximum flexibility for dealing with the threat of global terrorism. They wrote the article in support of a Pentagon proposal to replace the nuclear warheads on two of the Trident D5 missiles on every deployed strategic submarine with a new type of warhead incorporating four highly accurate, independently targetable, nonnuclear reentry bodies.

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U.S. 'Disrupted' al Qaeda WMD efforts -- Bill Gertz  -- Washington Times  -- May 03, 2006

U.S. and international programs to defeat al Qaeda have limited the terrorist group's ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, the No. 2 U.S. intelligence official said.


Hybrid wars and satellite vulnerabilities -- Taylor Dinerman  -- Space Review  -- March 13, 2006

The author explores ways to secure valuable space resources against 'assymetric attack' and suggests that a space surveillance system, similar to the proposed system for observing and tracking Earth-crossing objects, is the best solution.

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An Energy Pearl Harbor? -- Gal Luft  -- Washington Post  -- March 05, 2006

The recently foiled terrorist strike at an oil-processing plant in Saudia Arabia highlights al Qaeda's long-term strategy of attacking the global energy infrastructure.

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Insurgents 'using Google Earth' -- Jasper Copping  -- UK Telegraph  -- December 18, 2005

Insurgents could be using satellite images from a popular website to mount attacks on British and American bases in Iraq, according to defence experts.

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Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan -- Walter Pincus  -- Washington Post  -- September 11, 2005

The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

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