Apache. Hambali and the Guantanamo problem. Hambali was South East Asia's most-wanted man at the time of his capture Many rights activists and politicians hailed US President Barack Obama's decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp - but the case of Bali bombing suspect Hambali shows how difficult a task it could be. In 2003 the US government's "war on terror" was at its height. Saddam Hussein was ousted from power in Iraq, efforts to rid Afghanistan of Taleban militants continued, and the countries on the "axis of evil" were further ostracised. All over Asia, US agents were working to track down insurgents and piece together an emergent network of Islamic militant groups. On 14 August, one of the biggest breakthroughs came almost by accident. The authorities in Thailand had caught South East Asia's most-wanted man - Hambali. He was also said to be the operations chief for Jemaah Islamiah, the militant organisation many blame for the Bali bomb attacks.
But since then very little has been heard of Hambali. An obvious solution? Mugabe calls US envoy 'an idiot' Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has branded a top US envoy "an idiot" with a condescending attitude. He said that Johnnie Carson, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, wanted to dictate what Zimbabwe could and could not do. The two spoke on the sidelines of last week's African Union meeting in Libya.
The Obama administration has been sceptical of the power-sharing government formed between Mr Mugabe and his opposition rivals. Mr Mugabe told the state-owned Herald newspaper in Zimbabwe that nothing came out of his talks with Mr Carson - his first meeting with a US government official for many years. "You would not speak to an idiot of that nature," he said. "I was very angry with him, and he thinks he could dictate to us what to do and what not to do. " Mr Mugabe pointed out that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) supported the unity government. "Who is he? "I hope he was not speaking for Obama. Organizadores de la visita de Bush a Suiza desisten por el ... Why robots can't be trusted with weapons ... THE idea that robots might one day be able to tell friend from foe is deeply flawed, says roboticist Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield in the UK.
He was commenting on a report calling for weapon-wielding military robots to be programmed with the same ethical rules of engagement as human soldiers. The report (www.tinyurl.com/roboshoot), which was funded by the Pentagon, says firms rushing to fulfil the requirement for one-third of US forces to be uncrewed by 2015 risk leaving ethical concerns by the wayside. "Fully autonomous systems are in place right now," warns Patrick Lin, the study's author at California State Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo.
"The US navy's Phalanx system, for instance, can identify, target, and shoot down missiles without human authorisation. " While Sharkey applauds the report's broad coverage of the issue, he says it is far too optimistic: "It trots out the old notion ... UAE Blackberry update was spyware. An update for Blackberry users in the United Arab Emirates could allow unauthorised access to private information and e-mails. The update was prompted by a text from UAE telecoms firm Etisalat, suggesting it would improve performance. Instead, the update resulted in crashes or drastically reduced battery life. Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) said in a statement the update was not authorised, developed, or tested by RIM.
Etisalat is a major telecommunications firm based in the UAE, with 145,000 Blackberry users on its books. In the statement, RIM told customers that "Etisalat appears to have distributed a telecommunications surveillance application... independent sources have concluded that it is possible that the installed software could then enable unauthorised access to private or confidential information stored on the user's smartphone".
The concern over this unauthorised access only came to light when users started reporting problems with their handsets. 'Surveillance solutions' 'I do everything... the bees still die' All over the world bees have been disappearing but nowhere has been more affected than the United States. Scientists there have dubbed the phenomenon colony collapse disorder - but some experts argue that this is misleading, and that what's killing the bees is the way they are being exploited by commercial beekeepers. BBC World Service science reporter Matt McGrath went to meet one beekeeper in California for whom colony collapse disorder is a very real affliction.
On a windy isolated dirt track, in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains sit David Bradshaw's bee hives, hovering between life and death. David scampers around the sick colonies prising off the lids and lifting out the sticky wooden frames on which the bees build their honeycombs. "There should be bees covering two thirds of the frame, that's how you measure colony strength" He holds up the rectangular divider, a few brown shapes crawl around on the comb in the middle. 52-year-old David has beekeeping in his blood. What is going on at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center? A few years ago, they did an analysis of that.
It's way more expensive in day to day costs to boat everything into the Plum Island facility, and it would still be possible, just slightly less damaging, for something released there to get into mainland livestock. That increased cost was more than the increased damaged caused by a release divided by the likelihood of said release.
Amortized over the lifetime of the facility, and taking the possibility of such a release into account, it's still cheaper to do the research on the mainland. agreed the location they are moving it too is crazy. It's like saying they should house a lab that studies the Ebola virus in the middle of New York City. Isn't that also a location of a very strong federal prison?