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...investigates economic crime, after an initial probe suggested Hydro had done more business with the consultancy than was previously thought. Packed into a room with reporters in Molde, a short drive and ferry trip from Nyhamna, StatoilHydro's new boss Lund scoffed at any talk that the revelations might disrupt the smooth integration of the two firms. "I'm the strongest guarantor for that," he said, shortly before heading to the Ormen Lange celebrations, "and that is my responsibility." As the head of Norway's new, next-generation energy firm, his responsibilities have only begun...
...this is more than just an argument over semantics. Under Executive Order 13224, the U.S. government can disrupt financial assets of any terrorist organization. Conducting such acts against a sovereign state is essentially an act of war. Labeling the IRG in such a way is potentially tantamount to imposing clandestine unilateral sanctions on Iran using a legal loophole...
...board “has made no showing that permitting the petitioner sixty minutes of additional break time on each testing day will in any way disrupt the national standard for the exam,” he wrote in the opinion...
...station that lies across the street from the site of the first explosion, says he arrived at work just a half hour after a suicide bomber stepped onto a government bus ferrying Pakistan defense department employees to work. The force of the bomb was enough to sever electrical lines, disrupt phone services and shatter the mirrored plate-glass doors of Ahsan's office. His driveway was littered with "pieces of bodies," he says, but fortunately the explosion and subsequent fire did not ignite the wall of gas canisters he stores on the premises. "It was very dangerous. Thanks...
...ultimate goal, of course, is to disrupt the radicalization and recruitment of terrorists to begin with--to fight motives, not just methods. That, most counterterrorism experts agree, is a job we could be doing much better right now by, for example, monitoring and swiftly responding to radical propaganda online. The long-term challenge facing the U.S. and its allies is harder but even more crucial: bolstering the credibility of those within the Muslim world willing to stand against the forces of extremism. Otherwise, says the Rand Corp.'s Brian Jenkins, "we are condemned to stepping on cockroaches...