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Last login: 3 hours agoIgeldard: Ian is a 46 year old married guy from Gillingham, England, UK.; Likes 707 pages, 7 videos, 9 photos • 43 fans • Received 7 reviews; Member since Jul 09, 2006

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1998 Missile Strikes on Bin Laden May Have Backfired: 10:33am 1 review history, afghanistan, al-qaeda, taliban •http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/N...; On the tenth anniversary of U.S. cruise missile strikes against al-Qaeda in response to deadly terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, newly-declassified government documents by the National Security Archive nsarchive.org [nsarchive.org] ) suggest the strikes not only failed to hurt Osama bin Laden but ultimately may have brought al-Qaeda and the Taliban closer politically and ideologically.

Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации: Aug 19, 3:20pm 0 review politics, russia, intelligence, spies, svr •http://www.svr.gov.ru/

Russia leads scramble for Arctic - Telegraph: Aug 16, 1:45pm 1 review politics, russia, arctic •http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world...; With the polar icecaps melting, and oil prices at record highs, a scramble for the Arctic's resources is underway that will transform this forgotten backwater. And Russia is leading the charge, as it signalled last year when a submarine sailed two and a half miles beneath the Polar icecap to the north of Spitsbergen and planted a titanium flag on the seabed.

The great safety camera swindle. - Your Driving: Aug 16, 1:25pm 1 review cars, politics, driving, speed-cameras, safety-cameras •http://www.yourdriving.co.uk/articles...; From the page: "The Governments commitment to using speed cameras, to improve on road safety, was backed by a relatively simple premise - that speed, or safety cameras should reduce accidents and improve safety on the roads. That was the case, right up until the government changed the rules with new legislation that passed virtually unnoticed. "

Has our increasingly paranoid society declared war on the humble weekend snappe…: Aug 16, 1:14pm 1 review photography •http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main....; From the page: "An amateur photographer is chased by the police after taking pictures on the seafront; another man is frogmarched away when using his camera in a town centre. Since when did carrying a camera in public provoke so much suspicion and hostility? "

Blackwaters Not Going Anywhere: Aug 16, 11:59am 2 reviews liberal-politics, blackwater, mercenaries •http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080804...; From the page: "It seems that executives from Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush Administration's favorite hired guns in Iraq and Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up their M4 assault rifles, CS gas and Little Bird helicopters and go back to the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina whence they came. Or at least that's how it is being portrayed in the media. "

Open Europe - independent think tank calling for radical reform of the EU: Aug 16, 10:48am 1 review politics, europe, bureaucracy, eu •http://www.openeurope.org.uk/media-ce...; From the page: "170,000 people now work for the EU institutions. As well as those who work for the EU directly, the study finds that there are many more officials working for the EU indirectly. For example: working for the EU agencies; working for the EU overseas; sitting on EU policy committees; or working in the member states' representations to the EU. In total there are far more people working for the EU (170,000) than in the UK army (107,000)."

Office of Surveillance Commissioners - Home: Aug 16, 10:21am 1 review politics, surveillance, civil-liberties, osc, ripa •http://www.surveillancecommissioners....; From the page: "This website is primarily designed to be used by those who authorise and conduct covert surveillance operations and use covert human intelligence sources (as informants and undercover officers are now known). It shows you how to carry out these activities in compliance with the powers granted by Parliament, and how the OSC monitors the exercise of those powers. By way of practical help we have identified some key points, some sources of advice, and some examples of good and bad practice."

Activists in the US Reaffirm Solidarity with the Cuban Five: Aug 16, 9:56am 1 review politics, cuba •http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/0808l...; From the page: "If the American people knew the real mission of the Cuban Five, they would immediately demand their freedom, said Gloria la Riva, coordinator of the US National Committee for the Release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in US jails for nearly 10 years now."