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Crash!!! Its Raining Drones


Global Research
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:35 UTC
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© Reuters/Parwiz
Afghans inspect a damaged house after a drone crash in Jalalabad, August 21, 2011.
In the same week that a UK industry insider told a drone conference in the US that the UK is preparing to take preliminary steps in plans that will eventually allow drones to fly in UK civil airspace, three drones on operation in Afghanistan and Somali have crashed.

On 16th August, an RQ-7 Shadow drone, which is about 12 feet long and 20 feet across, crashed into a US military cargo plane in East Afghanistan. There were no reports of injuries and the cargo plane made an emergency landing. According to a report in the Washington Post, a US military official commentating on the drone said (with no apparent trace of irony) "We were in complete control up until the collision."

A few days later, an unknown type of drone crashed in the middle of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. A reporter from Associated Press witnessed the wreckage before it was removed by African Union troops. The drone is suspected, but not confirmed, to be operated by the US military.

Finally a third drone crashed in the Naranj Bagh neighbourhood of the provincial capital Jalalabad in Afghanistan on 20th August, damaging two houses. Local media took pictures of the damage (above) and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) acknowledged the drone was one of theirs.
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US Surveillance Drone Crashes in Pakistan: Officials


Dawn
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:24 UTC
Pakistan drone crash
© AP Photo/Shah Khalid
A Pakistani villager holds a wreckage of a suspected surveillance drone which crashed in the Pakistani border town of Chaman along the Afghanistan border.
An American surveillance drone crashed in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.

"It was an American surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle. It crashed on this side of the border," a security official in the area told AFP.

He said the drone had come down - apparently due to a technical fault - some two kilometres inside Pakistani territory in Chaman town in insurgency-hit Baluchistan province, but had caused no damage.
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Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft Crashes in Cambodia


Phnom Penh Post
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:27 UTC
Cambodia
At least six more fragments of what Prime Minister Hun Sen has called an "unmanned reconnaissance aircraft" were discovered by Preah Vihear provincial authorities in Kulen district on Monday, officials said yesterday.

"Six pieces of the plane have been handed over to national experts for further investigation while authorities are looking for other parts of the aircraft," provincial police chief Mao Pov said, adding that the aircraft had exploded above the province on August 16.
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Pass the sick bag! Actor Jon Voight calls Palestinian "terror" 'new holocaust'


Haaretz
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:35 UTC
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Actor Jon Voight acknowledges the audience during Glenn Beck's Courage to Love event in Caesarea, August 21, 2011.
The Oscar-winning actor is in Israel with Glenn Beck's 'Restore Courage' tour, receives standing ovation for saying 'we will not bend to terrorism in any way, shape, or form for the sake of peace', Israeli media reports.

John Voight, an American Oscar-winning actor who is in Israel with conservative political commentator Glenn Beck on a tour to "restore courage" slammed Palestinians in Jerusalem Monday night, comparing the current political situation to a "new holocaust," the Jerusalem Post reported on Monday.

"How have we come to a time when blowing up babies and cutting their throats are an acceptable means to a political goal?" Voight reportedly asked, referring to the March attack on the Fogel family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
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After a month of intensive diplomatic efforts, two Israeli pilots freed after being held in Eritrea for arms smuggling

Barak Ravid
Haaretz
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:07 UTC
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© Unknown
Yehuda Maoz
After a month of intensive diplomatic efforts, two Israeli pilots who were detained in Eritrea for a month on suspicion of arms smuggling, returned to Israel on Tuesday.

Yehuda Maoz and Vered Aharonson, both worked for an Israeli company called "Gesher Aviri," or 'air-bridge' in Hebrew. They flew to Eritrea to make a delivery which included an envelope containing spare parts. On arriving in Eritrea, the items declared on their customs documents did not match the contents of the envelope.

Foreign Ministry sources stated that the Eritrean customs authorities suspected the pilots of trying to smuggle in spare parts of weapons.
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Big Pharma Discredited by Twitter Drug-Pushing


The Register
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:01 UTC
Not supposed to punt prescription stuff to the public

A pharmaceutical company's use of Twitter to promote medicines discredited the industry, a regulatory body has ruled.

The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA) said that Bayer Healthcare had violated the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry Code of Conduct (ABPI Code). The Code sets rules on what companies can say when informing the public about prescription-only medicines.

Bayer was in breach of the parts of the Code which prohibits the advertising of prescription-only medicines to the public, the PMCPA said. The company also breached a rule that prohibits companies releasing information about prescription-only medicines that would encourage the public to ask their doctor for the product. Bayer also failed to maintain high standards and brought discredit upon, and reduced the confidence in, the pharmaceutical industry - two other rules written into the Code.

An advertisement publicising Bayer's case was published in The Nursing Standard on 17 August. Further adverts will run in the British Medical Journal and The Pharmaceutical Journal on 20 August.
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Insulin pump attack prompts call for federal probe

Dan Goodin
The Register
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:20 UTC
Security of medical devices questioned

The hack of a commercially available insulin pump that diabetics can control wirelessly has attracted the attention of US lawmakers who oversee the safety of the nation's airwaves.

In a letter drafted earlier this week, US Representatives Anna Eshoo and Edward Markey asked members of the Government Accountability Office to ensure that wireless-enabled medical devices "will not cause harmful interference to other equipment" and are "safe, reliable, and secure."
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AntiSec hackers target Vanguard Defense exec

Jonathan E. Skillings
CNET
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:56 UTC
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© CNET
The hacktivist group AntiSec says it has released a gigabyte of private documents from Vanguard Defense Industries, including e-mails from an executive connected with a cybersecurity organization it has targeted previously.

In a post on Pastebin this morning, AntiSec said the e-mails belong to Richard Garcia, a senior vice president at Vanguard who is also a board member at InfraGard, an FBI program that teams up public and private cybersecurity efforts. In June, AntiSec affiliate LulzSec hacked the Web site of InfraGard Atlanta, releasing passwords and other sensitive information.
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Libya: Rebel hackers seize Libyan domain name registry

Brid-Aine Parnell
The Register
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:05 UTC
Also much of meatspace capital

As fighting rages around Colonel Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, hackers have taken the fight online to the country's domain name registry nic.ly.

The site's homepage now hosts an image of the rebel flag and the message "bye bye Gaddafi", as well as the date 17 February, the day Libyan protestors started demonstrations and were shot at by security forces, computer security firm Sophos reported.

libyahack
© The Register
The hackers' flipped bird
Heavy fighting is being reported in the streets of Tripoli today after rebels seized large parts of the city on Sunday. Gaddafi's whereabouts remain unknown, but it has been widely reported that the rebels claim to have captured his son Saif al-Islam.

Today's fighting has followed a sustained push by rebels to topple the Gaddafi regime. Protests in early February in Benghazi turned violent when security forces opened fire on the protestors, leading to the first military action at the end of the month when Anti-Libyan government militias took control of Misurata.

In March, the Libyan National Council declared itself the sole representative for the country and began gaining recognition from Western nations, as well as Middle Eastern states including Qatar. By mid-March, NATO began its military intervention with airstrikes in the country.
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Chinese government caught on film hacking the West


V3
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:21 UTC
chinahack
© v3
The Chinese government has finally been caught red-handed launching cyber attacks against the West, after eagle-eyed security researchers spotted a damning piece of footage in a Chinese military documentary programme.

F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hyppönen explained in a blog post that the 20-minute documentary was aired last month in China on the government controlled channel CCTV 7, Military and Agriculture.

"The programme seems to be a fairly standard 20-minute TV documentary about the potential and risks of cyber warfare. However, while they are speaking about theory, they actually show camera footage of Chinese government systems launching attacks against a US target," he explained.
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