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...current conflict), with no more segue than a slight deepening of their frowns. I flicked through the channels, but each of the morning shows featured the same peculiar pastiche of weather reports, human-interest stories and war. Every time the migration of little cartoon suns across the weather map lulled me into a comfortable state of sloth, the camera cut to a clip of bombs exploding over nighttime Iraq...
...treated as a fifth column in the West. U.S. and British officials condemned it for airing footage of allied POWs' corpses, and the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ have ejected al-Jazeera reporters. Hackers attacked its English-language website, replacing it with a red-white-and-blue U.S. map and the slogan LET FREEDOM RING. What better motto for people who shut down a news outlet...
Then there is Blue Force Tracking, a computer system that collects coordinates from transponders on allied vehicles and creates a moving battle map. The good guys are marked in blue; enemy coordinates, called in from the battlefield, are plotted in red. But not all vehicles in each unit have a computer screen to display the information, and the data aren't updated in real time. The Holy Grail of identification systems is an encoded radio signal sent from a vehicle to a target which, if friendly, will automatically reply in milliseconds. Despite years of research and negotiations, it will...
...believe al-Qaeda is using the shipping business - with its lax regulations and virtually non-existent security - to transport men and materiél, and fears remain high of "the equivalent of a truck bomb at sea," a senior U.S. Navy official confirmed to Time. "Basically, look at a map, and anywhere you see the word strait is a point of concern." - By Jeff Israely Ansar Loses Twice ITALY Police arrested six men in three northern Italian cities on charges of running operations for Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group based in northeastern Iraq with suspected links to a-Qaeda...
This latest venture, a seven-part series called “The Whole Wide World,” is ambitious in scope, striving to “decode the riddles of the new race, the new map, the post-Cold War 21st century...