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Afghanistan Tech Training Programme Produces First Graduates
News A high-tech training programme set up as a public-private partnership in Afghanistan's capital has produced its first batch of graduates, a third of them women. The programme in Afghanistan seeks to give economic opportunities to those who have...
[April 16, 2003, 12:17]
British Troops Get Free Wi-Fi
News British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will get free access to wireless web services from barracks. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that British troops on service in Iraq and Afghanistan will have a free wireless internet connection...
[October 9, 2007, 14:54]
Hackers Strike At Islamic Web Sites
News Hackers have begun attacking Web sites connected to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and to other Islamic nations including Iran, prompting the FBI to issue warnings to system administrators everywhere to tighten up their security.
[September 18, 2001, 10:13]
Ex-Intel Worker Jailed In Terrorism Case
News Maher "Mike" Mofeid Hawash, a naturalised US citizen, entered a guilty plea last August, admitting to travelling to China with five suspected terrorists and attempting to enter Afghanistan in order to fight against American military forces in 2001.
[February 10, 2004, 7:50]
Intel Worker Charged With Terrorism Offences
News In a 41-page document made public late on Monday, the US government asserts that Hawash travelled to China in the company of suspected terrorists and attempted to enter Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban against the United States in October 2001.
[April 29, 2003, 15:13]
Iridium Sets Up Shop In Iraq
News Iridium rival Globalstar has also offered satellite-phone service in Iraq since mid-April and said it expects usage to rise dramatically with the end of fighting -- as it has done in Afghanistan, where combat ended in early 2002.
[July 22, 2003, 9:17]
Information Sharing In Homeland Security And Homeland Defense: How The Department Of Defense Is Helping
White Papers In Afghanistan, U.S.forces found and hit moving targets in minutes by sharing information. In Iraq, national intelligence moved in minutes to a B-1 bomber that hit the meeting place of senior Iraqis. The military proved adept at developing tactical...
[November 5, 2004, 23:00]
'Minesweeping' Robot Keeps Carpets Clean
News The company has created a number of reconnaissance robots for the military, including the PackBot, a robotic minesweeper being used in Afghanistan. The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner has a new mission: to seek and destroy.
[July 13, 2004, 8:45]
Ex-Intel Worker Pleads Guilty To Trying To Help Taliban
News Maher "Mike" Mofeid Hawash, 38, faces between seven and 10 years in federal prison after admitting that he travelled to China with five suspected terrorists and attempted to enter Afghanistan in order to fight against the United States in 2001...
[August 7, 2003, 12:35]
Free Google Email Service To Launch 'in Weeks'
Talkback hi my name is Saeeid Jahesh and i am from afghanistan i cant find how to sign up for the g mail if and body could help me please send me and e mail i will really appriciate it.thanks
[May 30, 2005, 14:31]
Promise And Progress: Homeland Security One Year Post-9/11
White Papers Despite significant success against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, experts suggest that a new wave of terrorism involving new-and perhaps even more powerful-weapons looms in the nation's future.
[February 7, 2005, 23:00]
US Military Invests In 'active' RFID
Talkback There are too many those things in Afghanistan, Iraq and the like. Here is my suggestion to US DoD: attach RFID to every smart bomb or cluster bomb to make it easy to find blind shells.
[March 23, 2004, 15:54]
From Terror Fallout To Terra Firma - Convergent Focus On Strengthening Homeland Security
White Papers The dark plumes from the collapsed World Trade Center buildings subsequently gathered to form war clouds over Afghanistan and cast a pall of dread over many other parts of the world. The global security climate took a sudden nose-dive - from one of...
[December 27, 2004, 23:00]
Webmaster Accused Of Running 'terrorist' Sites
News The arrest of Syed Talha Ahsan on Wednesday came at the request of the US Government, which released a 14-page indictment accusing him of selling books, videotapes, audio cassettes and CD-Roms that glorified "violent jihad in Chechnya, Bosnia...
[July 21, 2006, 8:55]
The War On Terrorism: Real Or Metaphorical?
White Papers Nobody expected that the ensuing war on Afghanistan would win the "war on terrorism" - even if the US had killed Osama bin Laden. When it was reported that a high-level trans-Atlantic group had just declared war on internet spam, everyone knew what...
[November 5, 2004, 23:00]
Microsoft Opens Door To India
Talkback A senior Microsoft Corp.executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S.war effort in Afghanistan. National Security could be compromised.
[January 27, 2004, 17:57]
Webmaster Accused Of Running 'terrorist' Sites
Talkback Once upon a time there was an excrescence named 'President Ronald Reagan' who lauded the 'freedom fighters' who opposed Soviet control of Afghanistan. It's time to retire the word 'terrorism'. It has come to mean no more than violent resistance to...
[July 21, 2006, 16:07]
Volvo Puts Brakes On Terror Joke Emails
News The Swedish carmaker has told its workers that puns about either the attacks on New York and Washington, or the current bombing of Afghanistan, are unacceptable. Fears of bad-taste humour following September's US terrorist attacks have forced Volvo...
[October 29, 2001, 14:00]
Gmail: A First Look
Talkback Saeed Noory Afghanistan Herat Hello Dear Gemail Staffs Hope to be fine and doing well Then could please kindly advice me, when Gemail account providers would be accessible? We heard that it would be able to give 1 GB of storage is that correct?
[July 15, 2004, 11:10]
MoD: Tech Scheme Not 'unmitigated Disaster'
News It has told GC News that thousands of new IT terminals are being installed each month, and that changes in the programme have been made to respond to the demands created by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
[November 19, 2007, 10:49]
