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...local assets, like the Filipino agents who disguise themselves as ice-cream vendors or beauticians, to track down terrorists. "The feeling here," says a senior French investigator, "is that the Americans are doing an excellent job in police and intelligence terms." Not everything goes according to plan. High-tech listening devices are of no use if nobody sends an electronic message. "The bad guys," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, "have been taught that talking on cell phones or sat phones is a no-no. Now they are delivering messages on motorcycles." Raids on Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan aimed...
...JONATHAN SIMPSON-BINT Tech Publisher...
Where Are They Now? Ever wonder--maybe when you look at your 401(k)--what has become of those dotcommers who were household names during the tech boom...
...WLANS) is that the range is not short enough. As with the Seattle conference-hotel WLAN, anyone with an inexpensive wireless card can access wireless networks from as far as 500 yds. away. Owing to the ease with which they can be installed, wireless networks are among the few tech sectors that continue to grow, according to the Gartner research firm, which estimates that WLAN shipments will rise 73% in 2002, boosting sales to nearly $2.8 billion...
...government handed FARC a huge swath of land in the middle of Colombia, and FARC’s forces are by no means inconsiderable—they are stronger than Colombia’s. FARC’s members are volunteers being well-paid and equipped with high-tech weaponry, all financed by the lucrative drug trade. Colombia’s government relies on the largesse of US taxpayers and the 3.5 percent of its GDP Lee mentions to fund a conscript army with devastatingly low morale. Just what is Lee’s proposal for a resounding defeat...