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Revolt in ULFA ranks over peace talks
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:36 AM
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- Indian intelligence agencies said a revolt is brewing in the insurgent United Liberation Front of Assam with a faction calling for talks with the government. -
India protests heavy firing from Pakistan
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:29 AM
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- India Friday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan Rangers following heavy firing from across the border that India says was used to send in militants. -
Turkey and Iraq hold bilateral talks
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:24 AM
BAGHDAD, May 9 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed a high-level delegation of Kurdish lawmakers from the Turkish Parliament Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Dogs of War: Inherently governmental?
Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Amid all the polemics over the use of private military and security contractors by the U.S. government there are two words one rarely sees, but they lie at the very heart of the debate: "inherently governmental." -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The Sunni Al Mashriq newspaper said Thursday in an editorial titled "The killing of 15 women" that the problem any militia in the world faces is that no matter how politically professional, organized and ideologically mature they are, they still might be accepted by one country and rejected by another. -
Analysis: Border force seeks recognition
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- An Indian police force that guards the Indo-Tibetan border wants the federal Interior Ministry to give it the same status as other paramilitary security forces. -
Atlantic Eye: Hardly a done deal
Published: May 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM
By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN
UPI International Columnist
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 8 (UPI) -- Most Europeans see the U.S. presidential election as a done deal. They are quite surprised. They were convinced that Sen. Hillary Clinton was the sure thing. Now, and they are confused, they are expecting the inevitable: Sen. John McCain as president. -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
Shebab Al Iraq newspaper Wednesday carried an editorial with the headline "Who is responsible for the atrocities in Sadr City?" -
U.S. looking into Iraq reconstruction contract requiring Iranian parts
Published: May 7, 2008 at 3:23 PM
By BEN LANDO
UPI Editor
WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. forces are investigating two contracts to build schools in northern Iraq that required bathroom fixtures to be supplied by Iran.
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U.S. agencies set up YouTube for spies
Published: March 19, 2008 at 8:52 PM
WASHINGTON, March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence agencies have set up a series of secure Web sites on which analysts and other officials can post and view videos -- a YouTube for spies.
The initiative, dubbed iVideo, is part of an effort by U.S. intelligence chiefs to equip their staffs with Web 2.0 tools and other standard accoutrements of a 21st century workplace. It was discussed by the two CIA officials who shepherded it to fruition at a recent technology conference, reported by Federal Computer Week.
The magazine's reporting was independently confirmed to UPI by U.S. intelligence officials authorized to speak to the media.
According to the officials, Sean Dennehy and Don Burke, three sites exist at different classification levels: top secret, mainly used by intelligence agency staff; secret, also available to many Defense and State Department officials; and sensitive but unclassified, which is open to state, local and federal government employees and law enforcement officials more generally.
The iVideo sites are one of a series of innovations, like the widely reported Intellipedia -- a user-created and edited encyclopedia along the lines of the Web's Wikipedia -- being pushed to encourage more collaboration and creative thinking among staffs of the sprawling and occasionally fractious collection of agencies that insiders call the U.S. intelligence community.
Others include a photo-sharing application similar to Flickr, a tool for bookmarking Web pages that is similar to del.icio.us, and instant messaging and blogging software.
"Just like on the real Web, if you want to upload photos, you tend to go to Flickr. If you want to upload videos, you go to YouTube," Don Burke told FCW. "It's the same thing on the intelligence community networks now."
The officials said the iVideo sites already have hundreds of postings. "It's been pretty remarkable how people have gravitated to it, and it shows that there actually was a need for this capability," said Dennehy. "This is kind of grass-roots adoption."
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Shaun Waterman, UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
The initiative, dubbed iVideo, is part of an effort by U.S. intelligence chiefs to equip their staffs with Web 2.0 tools and other standard accoutrements of a 21st century workplace. It was discussed by the two CIA officials who shepherded it to fruition at a recent technology conference, reported by Federal Computer Week.
The magazine's reporting was independently confirmed to UPI by U.S. intelligence officials authorized to speak to the media.
According to the officials, Sean Dennehy and Don Burke, three sites exist at different classification levels: top secret, mainly used by intelligence agency staff; secret, also available to many Defense and State Department officials; and sensitive but unclassified, which is open to state, local and federal government employees and law enforcement officials more generally.
The iVideo sites are one of a series of innovations, like the widely reported Intellipedia -- a user-created and edited encyclopedia along the lines of the Web's Wikipedia -- being pushed to encourage more collaboration and creative thinking among staffs of the sprawling and occasionally fractious collection of agencies that insiders call the U.S. intelligence community.
Others include a photo-sharing application similar to Flickr, a tool for bookmarking Web pages that is similar to del.icio.us, and instant messaging and blogging software.
"Just like on the real Web, if you want to upload photos, you tend to go to Flickr. If you want to upload videos, you go to YouTube," Don Burke told FCW. "It's the same thing on the intelligence community networks now."
The officials said the iVideo sites already have hundreds of postings. "It's been pretty remarkable how people have gravitated to it, and it shows that there actually was a need for this capability," said Dennehy. "This is kind of grass-roots adoption."
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Shaun Waterman, UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
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