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Background report: Cuba
Excerpt: Cuba Population: 11,224,321 (July 2002 est.) Government type: Communist state Telephones - main lines in use: 473,031 (2000) Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,994 (1997) Internet Service...

Background report: Burma/Myanmar
Excerpt: Burma Population: 42,238,224 [note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant...

Background report: Nigeria
Excerpt: Nigeria Population: 129,934,911 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher...

Background report: Zimbabwe
Excerpt: Zimbabwe Population: 11,376,676 [note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher...

Background reports
Excerpt:A quick note from your humble editor: Circumstances beyond my control dictate an involuntary break from blogging for a few weeks. Rather than let the weblog sit stagnant, I've prepared a series...

Google hides listings from French and German users
Excerpt: Declan McCullagh reports on the discovery by Ben Edelman that Google has removed 100 or so links from its localized German and French search engines. Google says the removal was not...

Myanmar internet use increasing, but still censored
Excerpt: Internet use in Myanmar is increasing despite strict censorship and a prohibition on purchasing anything from outside the country, according to Reuters. Only 20,000 people from a population of...

Rights groups protest French crime law
Excerpt: Civil rights groups have issued statements opposing a proposed new French law that would extend police search powers and increase DNA testing. Under the proposed legislation, which is...

EU warns Greek government over gaming law
Excerpt: The EU Commission has reportedly warned the Greek government over it's off again , on again ban on computer games. The ban was intented to cover gambling , but is so broadly worded that it...

Australian gun control plan bans self defence?
Excerpt:The Australian Prime Minister has announced a new gun control proposal, which would outlaw handguns except for those on an approved list. The proposal could also prohibit sports shooters from...

New documentary on spies in radical groups
Excerpt: BBC reports on a new documentary, "True Spies", that details British government infiltration of left-wing groups during the 1960s and 1970s. There's no mention of the legality of their tactics,...

Hollywood hacking bill to be revised
Excerpt: Howard Berman's "Hollywood hacking" bill, which would have allowed copyright holders to use denial-of-service tactics against peer-to-peer networks, looks set to be rewritten. Alec...

Bush calls for virtual child pornography ban
Excerpt: US President Bush has urged the Senate to approve a bill outlawing virtual or "morphed" child pornography. Courts have repeatedly overturned previous attempts on constitutional grounds, but...

Australia rushes new anti-terrorism legislation
Excerpt: The Australian government has rushed through new anti-terrorism laws outlawing terrorist groups, and allowing the arrest of suspected members. There are few details on the law; it's not yet...

Australian intelligence failed to make use of eavesdropping capabilties?
Excerpt: New reports suggest Australian intelligence agencies were able to intercept Jemaah Islamiah communications prior to the October 12 Bali bombing , a claim apparently confirmed by ASIO. This would...

Child porn experts meet to swap collections
Excerpt: Law enforcement officials from 34 countries are meeting to exchange their child porn collections and discuss new techniques for downloading porn from the internet. [ed: Ok, so that's not quite...

Houellebecq found not guilty of inciting racism
Excerpt: French author Michel Houellebecq was found not guilty of inciting racism, over comments made in an interview describing Islam a "stupid religion". The article doesn't explain the court's...

Australian gun control advocates seek further firearm restrictions
Excerpt:The Australian federal government has said it will consider further restrictions on firearms following yesterday's shooting at Monash University, in which two students were killed and five injured....

Egyptian court affirms Russian publishing charge
Excerpt: An Egyptian court has upheld a guilty verdict against a webmaster who posted his father's poem online. He is currently residing in Russia. Shohdy's father, the revered Egyptian poet Naguib...

Gang advice still free speech
Excerpt: The US Supreme Court has refused to reconsider an appelate court decision that overturned a conviction for providing advice to gang members. Two appeals courts ruled that abstract suggestions...

UK tobacco ad ban to include web sites
Excerpt: The House of Commons has approved a ban on tobacco advertising in the UK. According to this article the ban will include web sites, but there are no details as to how that will be implemented....

Islamic group requests web site takedown
Excerpt:According to Australian IT, an Australian Islamic organisation has asked Call of Islam magazine to remove material from its web site, including interviews with Osama bin Laden [ cache ] and the...

News in brief - Palladium patented, Google sued, more on Bali
Excerpt: Cypherpunk Lucky Green patents a technique for using Microsoft's Palladium technology to implement software licensing, in order to stop anyone from doing it: Wired . Search engine advertiser...

Finland considers online censorship
Excerpt: More details on proposed Finnish Internet restrictions, following alarm over teenage bomber Petri Gerdt's use of chemistry chat rooms. We reported last week on proposals to monitor internet...

Bernstein challenges remaining US crypto export laws
Excerpt: Wired repots on the tail end of Daniel Bernstein's challenge against the US government's remaining cryptography export restrictions. The latest chapter in his decade-long battle began to...

Opponents warn of overreaction in sniper hunt
Excerpt: The NY Times reports on resistance to the use of increased surveillance in the Washington sniper investigation. The article discusses ballistic fingerprinting proposals, but doesn't mention that...

Nearly half of UK child porn suspects are police officers
Excerpt:45% of British subscribers to a US-based child pornography web site are police officers, according to The Guardian. The names were obtained by US police in a raid on Landslide Productions ....

Iranian electoral reform stumbles
Excerpt:The BBC reports on disagreement in Iran over two bills proposed by reformist President Mohammed Khatami. He says they are intended to reduce the ability of the conservative Council of Guardians to...

Three British men accuse Egyptian authorities of torture
Excerpt: According to the BBC, the Egyptian government has failed to investigate claims of the torture of three British Muslims, members of the banned Islamic Liberation Party Hizb ut-Tahrir, who are...

Bali bombing updates
Excerpt: This is likely to be the last of the daily updates on the Bali bombing. Back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow. Investigators now suspect 3 separate bombs were used: AFP . New...

Bali bombing updates - saturday
Excerpt: Travel warnings upgraded again: AAP . 'significant' new forensic evidence found: AFP . Indonesia's emergency anti-terrorism decrees have been signed, apply retroactively to the Bali attack:...

Fabricated Indymedia quote blames Israel for Bali bombing?
Excerpt: updated : see the bottom of this article. An Indymedia post from Wednesday purportedly quotes an AFP article suggesting the C4 used in last week's Bali bombing originated in Israel: (OCTOBER...

More ASIO amendments proposed despite failure to use existing powers
Excerpt: The Australian governemt has accused the Opposition of unnecessarily delaying new anti-terrorism powers for ASIO. The Attorney-General was reportedly embarrassed at revelations that he failed to...

Bali bombing news - friday
Excerpt: 17:35 : Lawyers for Abu Bakar Bashir say he is not a suspect in the Bali bombing: ABC . 12:45 : Speculation Philipines bombing indicates the beginning of a series of South-East Asia attacks:...

A glimpse of FBI Patriot surveillance
Excerpt: Declan McCullagh details highlights from four letters describing the FBI's use of electronic surveillance under the Patriot Act. Most of the information remains classified. Powers...

Finnish government considers monitoring internet forums
Excerpt: The Finnish government is considering ways of monitoring internet forums and web boards following the closure of a chemistry chat room under investigation for allegedly aiding the teenage...

New ACLU ad campaign
Excerpt: Wired reports on a new ACLU advertising campaign intended to draw attention to civil liberties violations under the Patriot Act. Dubbed Keep America Safe and Free, the...

Voiceprint crypto keys
Excerpt: TRN reports on a new research project investigating the use of voiceprint passwords as crypto keys. Researchers claim resistance against replay attacks from recordings, but it's not clear...

DMCA witnesses denied US visas
Excerpt: Several witnesses in the DMCA trial against Elcomsoft have been denied visas to enter the US. The delays could impact the trial, since Sklyarov's plea agreement is contingent on his testimony....

Vietnam requires licenses for web sites
Excerpt: A new Vietnamese ruling requires organisations with regularly updated web sites to register with the government. It's possible that the regulation is intented to include foreign web sites....

Nigerian customs seizes human rights report
Excerpt: AP reports that Nigerian customs have seized a human rights report on state-sponsored violence in Nigeria. See also the OMCT press release about the seizure. The Geneva-based World...

Cuban shortwave spy gets 25 years
Excerpt: Ana Belen Montes, the US defense analyst who pleaded guilty in March to charges of spying for Cuba, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Montes used shortwave numbers stations to...

Saddam Hussein wins one-horse race
Excerpt: The Guardian reports a unanimous vote in the Iraqi referendum to keep Saddam Hussein as head of state - but glosses over the fact that his was the only name on the ballot. The Iraqi...

Bali bombing updates - thursday
Excerpt: updated 17:45 : Indonesian police spokesman denies earlier reports of the imminent arrest of four people, says there are no suspects in custody: ABC . Australians are being warned to leave...

Forthcoming New Zealand anti-terrorism laws
Excerpt: AP reports on forthcoming New Zealand anti-terrorism laws. Much of the proposal seems redundant - unless NZ law is so relaxed that "terrorist bombing" is presently legal. The laws, which...

Traffic cameras used in other investigations
Excerpt: The NY Times reports on proposals to use traffic cameras, including red-light cameras, to investigate crimes unrelated to traffic laws - a neat example of function creep , as surveillance...

Government censorship limits scientific research
Excerpt: US researchers say that the recent government policy to withdraw sensitive information from web sites and public archives has slowed scientific research. The Federation of American Scientists...

Finnish police arrest chat room participant
Excerpt: Finnish police have arrested one of the participants of an internet chemistry chat room used by the alleged bomber who killed seven people on the weekend. The chat room was shut down earlier...

Finnish chemistry chat room shut down
Excerpt: Finnish police have shut down a chemistry chat room frequented by Petri Gerdt, the only suspect in the weekend bombing of a Helsinki shopping center. Mr. Gerdt, the only suspect, used the...

Celldar real-time mobile phone tracking
Excerpt: The UK Guardian reports on a prototype system called "Celldar" that allows real-time positioning of mobile phones. The project is funded by the Ministry of Defense, which plans to introduce the...

Bali bombing news - wednesday
Excerpt:Today's Bali bombing updates: update : Former Indonesian air force officer confesses to building the bomb, but won't say who ordered the attack: ABC . JI leader Abu Bakar Bashir won't be...

Bali bombing updates
Excerpt:Apologies for the lack of updates today. I'm having network problems, using a text browser over a lagged telnet link to post. Some ongoing Bali bombing news from the past few hours: It...

More Indonesian updates
Excerpt:Some quick updates following the Bali bombing (cheers Angela , who links to various other Australian bloggers): NSW police are on high alert, with increased patrols in public places: ABC ....

Alleged links between Indonesian military and terrorist groups
Excerpt:The Sydney Morning Herald alleges links between the Indonesian military and Islamic terrorist groups, following the weekend bombing in Bali that killed more than 180 people. It's certainly not...

Cuban free speech drive results in arrest, surveillance
Excerpt: The NY Times reports on harrassment and pressure against those organizing a Cuban petition to allow freedom of speech. In Cuba, however, Mr. Payá's efforts have earned him obscene phone...

Finnish police attempt to link bombing to internet
Excerpt: Finnish police say they believe the teenage bomber who killed seven people on Sunday build explosives using instructions found on the internet - despite the evidence that most recipes are largely...

UAE minister calls for end to internet censorship
Excerpt: The UAE Information Minister has argued that the government should stop censoring internet access from within the country. "The government should not enforce censorship on the individual,"...

US copyright office seeking comment on DMCA
Excerpt: The US Copyright Office is asking for public comment on the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA . The law itself won't change, but regulators say they might change the rules to legalize...

FCC censorship of radio shock-jocks
Excerpt:An AP piece on the muzzling of US radio shock-jocks begins by blaming "self-censorship" and management pressure, but then gets to the real cause: fines and licensing threats from the FCC, under...

French clash on pornography, exhibitionism
Excerpt: The NY Times reports on a new French crackdown on prostitution under "sexual exhibitionism" laws, linking it to recent campaigns against pornography and explicit literature . Although...

PGP 8.0 beta
Excerpt:The recently formed PGP Corporation has announced a beta version of PGP 8.0 for Windows and OSX. It's available for download if you check a box promising you're in one of the "EU + 10" nations...

Document describes illegal FBI surveillance
Excerpt:AP details another series of illegal FISA activities by the FBI. This time they've gone beyond merely misleading the FISA court - a document obtained by the House Judiciary Committee and...

Mormon church can't restrict speech on its land
Excerpt: A Denver court has ruled the Mormon church cannot prohibit protesters and pamphleters from using the sidewalk in front of its land. The case is less than clear-cut; while the church owned the...

Man sentenced for email White House threats
Excerpt: A Florida man has been sentenced to six months house arrest and five years probation for sending threats to the FBI to blow up the White House. Despite what the article says, the messages were...

Cuba to "consider" freedom of speech
Excerpt: Fidel Castro has said he will respond to a Cuban petition requesting freedom of speech. The response is likely to be negative, however, given a recent decision to make the constitution...

Email evidence cited in terrorism hearing
Excerpt: Another US terrorism suspect has been released on bail after the government was unable to make a compelling argument of impending danger. Like the bail hearing for the six Buffalo men earlier...

GPL distribution of cryptography impossible in South Africa?
Excerpt: Via Bignose , some analysis on the Debian Legal list suggests South Africa's new cryptography registration law probably prohibits the distribution of GPL'd crypto source in .za. There's also a...

Another French literary incitement trial
Excerpt:Italian author Oriana Fallaci is on trial in France for inciting racial hatred over passages in her book, The Rage and The Pride . Another French author, Michel Houellebecq, is currently on...

Supreme Court skeptical of free speech copyright arguments
Excerpt:According to Wired, US Supreme Court justices hearing the Eldred v. Ashcroft CTEA challenge have reacted skeptically to the notion that copyright term extension is a free speech issue. Note the...

Microsoft licenses RSA authentication tokens
Excerpt:RSA has announced an agreement with Microsoft to supply SecurID authentication software and tokens for Pocket PCs. The RSA press release is here . The Register notes a related development...

Kazaa a moving legal target?
Excerpt:More information on the jurisdictional tactics used by the operators of the KaZaA file sharing network to reduce their exposure to US-based lawsuits. See also this recent article on Sharman...

Govt report says polygraph screening is useless
Excerpt: A US government study on polygraphs has concluded that lie detector testing is too inaccurate to be used for screening purposes, particularly when used with questions about general activity...

UCSD backs down on link ban
Excerpt: The University of California at San Diego has backed down from its earlier order requiring a student group to remove links from its web site. A new order asks the group to remove a collection...

Arab press association accuses members of writing for the enemy
Excerpt:The Arab Journalists Association is considering the expulsion of two members for publishing articles on an Israeli web site. In August the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate banned reporters from...

Nigerian couple's stoning sentence kept secret
Excerpt:The Nigerian couple sentenced under Sharia law to death by stoning for adultery have not been told of their sentence, according to this AP article. President Olusegun Obasanjo announced last...

US appeals court allows secret hearings
Excerpt:A US federal appeals court has ruled the government can continue to hold secret immigration hearings . The ruling conflicts with a 6th Circuit appeals court ruling, which means the Supreme Court...

Judge denies bail, citing weapons training
Excerpt:Five of the six Buffalo men facing terrorism charges for attending an al Qaeda training camp have been denied bail. The sixth was released under house arrest because of his cooperation with the...

Sinn Fein administrator charged with possession of information
Excerpt: Sinn Fein chief administrator Denis Donaldson has been charged with possession of documents useful to terrorists, following a raid that discovered the IRA had gained access to transcripts of...

Webcast deal bypasses CARP royalties
Excerpt: The US House of Reps has approved a deal that bypasses CARP internet radio rates, in favour of a royalty scheme based on the webcasters' income. A last minute amendment ensures royalties will...

Eldred v. Ashcroft as free speech issue
Excerpt: Wired reports pre-trial arguments that the CTEA copyright extension challenge is a free speech issue. Note the MPAA's concern that copyright law could be jeopardized by First Amendment standards...

US court upholds felons' right to publish
Excerpt: Via TalkLeft , the US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal against a California ruling that a law prohibiting convicted criminals from selling their stories is unconstitutional. [ed: at...

Canadian customs holds pro-Israel newsletter as 'hate propaganda'
Excerpt:The National Post describes the temporary censorship by Canadian border authorities of a newsletter, In Moral Defense of Israel , distributed by the Ayn Rand Institute. Customs authorities say...

Anti-gun lobbyists demand tighter controls
Excerpt: Australian anti-gun lobbyists have called for stricter controls on handguns, describing rules that allow licensed shooting club members to purchase pistols as a "dangerous legal anomaly"....

Eldred v. Ashcroft begins this week
Excerpt:NY Times gives some background on the Eldred v. Ashcroft copyright extension challenge, which is due to begin October 9. Under the 1998 law, material whose copyright formerly would have...

Lasers used to blind surveillance cameras
Excerpt: John Markoff reports on an article by artist Michael Naimark that describes the use of laser pointers to partially disable surveillance cameras. In his research, Mr. Naimark discovered...

MI5 state secrets trial begins
Excerpt: The trial of former MI5 agent David Shayler has begun in London. Shayler faces charges of revealing state secrets over a series of newspaper articles about illegal activities in the...

Putin revokes Radio Liberty status
Excerpt:Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked a decree issued by Boris Yeltsin in 1991 that allows Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to broadcast from Russia. The Kremlin says it is merely bringing...

RIAA vs Verizon update
Excerpt: Greplaw has an update on the RIAA suit against Verizon . Verizon is refusing to comply with an RIAA subpoena requesting records about an alleged copyright infringer, arguing that the subpoena...

Infranet update
Excerpt: A fairly lengthy piece from TRN gives some updates and technical details on Infranet, a steganographic system designed to bypass web censorship, first mentioned here in July . There's still no...

'Incendiary' literature cited in bail hearing
Excerpt:Prosecutors have cited casette tapes and papers about jihad and suicide missions in opposing bail for six Buffalo men arrested on charges of providing material support for al Qaeda. Some of...

Australian editor says judges are enemies of free speech
Excerpt:Michael Stutchbury, editor of The Australian, has called for defamation laws to be abolished in the interests of free speech. FOI and military secrecy are also given a serve, but there's no...

Russian police to keep dossiers on residents
Excerpt: The Russian Deputy Interior Minister has announced a new program which will see local police regularly questioning residents of apartment blocks and keeping "house passports" with details of...

Journalists describe arrest at Washington IMF protests
Excerpt: Two student journalists describe their arrest at the Washington IMF/WTO protests , charged with failing to obey a police order. We also didn't know that officers redirected protesters...

Egyptian court bans pro-Israel peace group
Excerpt: An Egyptian administrative court has disbanded a voluntary group that promoted peaceful negotiation with Israel. According to the report, a suit was filed in September, 1998 by attorney and...

California spammers to move offshore
Excerpt: California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is sifting through spam to look for bulk mail sent illegally from within the state. It's a neat example of why anti-spam laws can't possibly work:...

Quantum key distribution without fibre
Excerpt: A British defence research team claims to have transmitted quantum crypto keys 23 kilometers through the air. In July we reported a similar demo over a 67 km fibre link , by Swiss company id...

US lawmakers fight, fund censorship
Excerpt: A new US bill proposes $100 million be allocated to fighting online censorship abroad. Rep. Chris Cox (R-Calif.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would establish an Office of Global...

Espionage charges for possession of maps
Excerpt: Two academics have been charged with espionage after they were found in possession of maps showing Indonesian troop locations in Aceh. They could face up to 20 years in prison. Colleagues say...

Berman defends Hollywood Hacking bill
Excerpt:US Rep Howard Berman defends his Hollywood Hacking bill, which would permit copyright holders to use denial-of-service tactics against peer-to-peer networks. He responds to several common...

Bangladesh shuts down independent TV, deports journalist
Excerpt: The government has asked the managing director of Bangladesh's only independent TV station - which was shut down in August - to leave the country. More articles about censorship in Bangladesh...

Nigerian supreme court will hear stoning appeals
Excerpt:The Nigerian President has announced that those sentenced to be stoned to death by Northern Sharia courts will be permitted to appeal to the Supreme Court. This is a significant move given the...

Boucher and Lofgren's consumer copying bills
Excerpt: Silicon Valley reports on two similar bills introduced by US Representatives that are intended to counter the DMCA's restrictions on fair use. "This would not authorize someone taking...

Iran prosecutes media director over opinion poll
Excerpt: The Iranian state news agency head faces criminal charges for publishing an opinion poll that shows popular support for US policies on Iran. More on Iranian press bans here . The...

worldonline: No more foreign lesbianism, rules Nam's Sam
Excerpt: The Namibian state television broadcaster has dropped all foreign television programs following a Presidential order condemning western values. The government claims the ban is minimal, but...

siliconvalley: Apple stands firm against entertainment cartel
Excerpt: Dan Gillmor suggests Apple may be the one to resist the copyright cartel's pressure to build DRM-enforcing PCs. "Trusted computing" devices like TCPA and Palladium can only succeed in...

wired: Congress: Labels Sell Kids Smut
Excerpt: Wired reports on a US government pressure for recording companies to label potentially offensive CDs, and limit sales of controversial music to children. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Maine), who...

wired: Wanna Play Doom? Not in St. Louis
Excerpt:Wired examines arguments in a challenge to a St Louis law that prohibits the sale of violent video games to minors. A similar Indianapolis law was overturned late last year on constitutional...

economist: Death by slow boiling
Excerpt:The Economist provides some background to the proposed subversion and sedition law announced last week by the Hong Kong government. The problem, however, was that subversion is an alien...

South Africa requests crypto suppliers register with government
Excerpt: Via Slashdot , the South African government has launched a registration program for suppliers of cryptography. I haven't yet read the legislation , but the scheme appears to apply to offshore...

reuters: US House Votes to Block Internet Gambling Payments
Excerpt:The US House of Reps has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that would prohibit banks from processing payments to offshore gambling web sites. The bill seems unlikely to pass the Senate in...

newscientist: New P2P network funded by US government
Excerpt: New Scientist has some more techincal details about the IRIS peer-to-peer network being developed at MIT and Berkley. The developers say they're making the network censorship-resistant, which...

cnet: Standards urged for e-tail commissions
Excerpt: Online merchants are concerned over "parasiteware", a new development in the spyware/adware model that diverts affiliate commissions from online sales. Merchants appear to be looking for...

australianit: Secret web bans in FOI changes
Excerpt:It's slim on details, but this Australian IT article says the government is planning to introduce legislative amendments to ensure its internet censorship activities remain secret. EFA has tried...

westaustralian: Extremist uses Net to bypass anti-racism laws
Excerpt:An Australian neo-nazi has been accused of avoiding local racism laws by publishing material on a US-based web server, just a day after his release from prison. Jack van Tongeren was serving 12...

startribune: Accuser hit with $3 million verdict in Web case
Excerpt:A University of North Dakota has been ordered to pay $US3 million on libel charges over a web site accusing her former physics professor of pedophilia. The student, Glenda Miskin, represented...

llrx: Library Records Post-Patriot Act
Excerpt:Via Privacy Digest , a very interesting article at LLRX gives a summary of the various kinds of law enforcement and government requests for borrowing records and other information that may be...

businessweek: A Case to Define the Digital Age
Excerpt: A background piece from Business Week on the Eldred v. Aschcroft challenge to US copyright term extensions. There's not much new information, but it pegs the hearing at October 9. In...

nytimes: Justice Dept. Denounces Secret Court on Wiretaps
Excerpt: Via How Appealing , the US DoJ has filed a supplemental brief in its appeal to the FISA review court over wiretapping powers. In papers filed on Wednesday with the court of review...

latimes: Vietnamese Actor Under Fire for U.S. Film Roles
Excerpt: Vietnamese actor Don Duong has had his passport confiscated and could face a prison sentence for acting in a US war film. According to the article, one of Duong's alleged crimes was failing to...

wired: Porn Spam: It's Getting Raunchier
Excerpt:This Wired article on porn spam includes some unsubstantiated claims that pornography leads viewers to child abuse. The claims are by Al Cooper, psychologist and author of a book on online...

nytimes: Letter Is Crucial in Lawsuit on Liability of Gun Makers
Excerpt:According to the NY Times, a California lawsuit that seeks to hold gun manufacturers liable for shootings could hinge on one manufacturer's refusal to implement a database to track sales of their...

guardian: Saudi authorities blame alcohol traders for bombing
Excerpt: This Guardian article about a car bombing in Riyadh has a brief update about the six westerners held by Saudi authorities on bombing charges . Canadian William Sampson and Briton Alexander...

telegraph: Even the taint of terrorism sounds alarms
Excerpt:Anecdotal data on the sensitivity of airport explosive detectors: journalist Alan Philps describes his experience at an Israeli airport, where traces of explosives were discovered on his laptop...

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