Sunday, February 25, 2007

Sunday Feb 25 2007 Daily News

U.S. and S.Korea set 2012 for military command changes


Truck bomb kills 37 near Sunni mosque


NATO issues warning after Kosovo violence


Re-arming Race In Mideast


Britain to Bolster Afghan Force


Biometrics Track the Bad Guys



"Soldiers might register detainees’ biometrics using a portable scanner. That info, combined with a brief history of the suspect, would be fed into a central database back in the States and analyzed by algorithms endlessly searching for connections between suspects. If, during a future operation, the soldiers happen across any of the same suspects as before, the system would alert them. Over time, the system might accumulate enough data on suspects’ movements to begin drawing conclusions about behavior patterns, allowing intelligence agents to predict suspects’ activities and, if necessary, thwart them."

Israeli troops raid Nablus


More deadly attacks in Baghdad


Friday, February 23, 2007

Friday Feb 23 2007 Daily News

Iraq 101


Pakistan tests long-range missile


Marines kill civilians, claim killing Iraq insurgents


US Democrats draft Iraq challenge



More UK soldiers for Afghanistan



UK armed forces 'face cash crisis'


World's tiniest RFID tag unveiled


"The minute devices measure just 0.05mm by 0.05mm (0.002x0.002in) and to the naked eye look like spots of powder.

They are thin enough to be embedded in a sheet of paper, Hitachi spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi says. "

"They have one major issue, however - they need an external antenna to work, and the smallest antenna developed so far is about 80 times bigger than the tags."


Record power for military laser

"A laser developed for military use is a few steps away from hitting a power threshold thought necessary to turn it into a battlefield weapon."