All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The Washington Times:

U.S. national security agencies remain woefully short of foreign-language speakers and translators nearly eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks resulted in a war on an enemy that often communicates in relatively obscure dialects, current and former officials say. (read the article)

BBC:

High-profile websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter have been targeted by hackers in what is described as a "massively co-ordinated attack". (read the article)

BBC:

One of five men charged in Australia for allegedly planning a suicide attack on a Sydney army base has denied in court that he was a terrorist. (read the article)

AP:
A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said Monday. (read the article)

AP:
A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.
(read the article)

Washington Times:
Some Taliban fighters have been able to ward off attacks by U.S. aircraft by wearing special infrared patches on their shirts that signal that they are friends rather than foes.
(Read the article)

BBC News:
Mali's security forces have attacked a suspected al-Qaeda base in the Sahara Desert near the Algerian border.
(Read the article)

The Observer:
The wealthy Gulf prince at the centre of a "torture tape" scandal has been accused of attacking at least 25 other people in incidents that have also been caught on film, it has been claimed.
(Read the article)

BBC News:
Egyptian army cadets in plain clothes have been filmed pelting a police station with stones in a town south of the capital Cairo.
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LA Times: With prosecution deadlines looming, Interpol announced an agreement today with Pakistan to aid an investigation into the masterminds behind November's militant attack in Mumbai that killed more than 170 people. (Read the article)