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The CS Monitor reported today that Osama bin Laden is still in Afghanistan according to the Taliban’s chief of intelligence, who’s hiding out in Pakistan.

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CNN: the faces of bin Laden. His years as a terrorist have not treated him kindly.

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The Economist has a survey of America’s “homeland security“.

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A Secret Service agent working in President Bush’s security detail was removed from a flight because the flight’s pilot doubted his security credentials. It won’t shock you to learn that this man happens to be of Arab descent.

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OK, here’s something that’s really baffling. A guy hides some sort of ineffective bomb in his shoe and seemingly tries to use it to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight. We know the following things about this person:

He was travelling with a suspicious passport. He travelled using a one-way ticket. He checked no luggage. He had a bomb [...]

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The most troubling news going into the new year has to be the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. Pakistan seems to be trying to cool things down with India, but India is rightfully pissed that terrorists backed by Pakistan’s spy agency decided to try to gun down India’s parliament. Needless to say, the [...]

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I’m back from my brief Christmas trip. On Saturday, I had a connecting flight through Laguardia in New York, and even though I didn’t see the former site of the World Trade Center, just travelling through the city felt somewhat surreal. It brought the depth of the tragedy back to me and I [...]

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I’m going to be travelling for a few days. Updates will resume after Christmas.

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Mozilla 0.9.7 is out, just in time for Christmas.

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Palm is going to appeal the ruling that their Graffiti input system violates a Xerox patent. In the meantime, Dave Sims wonders when Xerox started caring about people stealing from PARC.

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