KABUL — One day after a spate of attacks left four civilians and 11 members of the security forces dead, President Hamid Karzai blamed the insurgent offensive on a NATO intelligence failure, which he said should be investigated. Read full article > >

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Afghan President Karzai blames NATO intelligence failure for spate of attacks

BAGHDAD — While U.S. troops left Iraq two weeks ago, Saturday marked the official end of the security agreement between the two countries, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was quick to take political advantage of the occasion via the podium and a text message to citizens. Recipients reported getting their texts over a period of at least 75 minutes. Read full article > >

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DAMASCUS, Syria — U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford has been pulled out of Syria because of concerns for his safety, embassy officials said Monday, citing “credible threats” to the security of the envoy who has led American criticism of Syrian efforts to crush a seven-month-old uprising. Ford, whose high-profile visits to activists and protests had made him a controversial figure in Syria, returned to the United States at the weekend and will remain there indefinitely until “the situation improves on the ground,” said Haynes Mahoney, the charge d’affaires at the embassy in Damascus. Read full article > >

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Sony CEO Howard Stringer says he cannot guarantee the security of his company’s videogame network. The company shut down many of the services of its PlayStation Network when a security breach compromised the personal information of more than 100…

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Sony Can’t Guarantee PlayStation Network Security

LONDON — A British judge ruled Friday that failings in the security and emergency services did not contribute to the deaths of the 52 victims killed in the al-Qaeda-inspired transit bombings during the morning rush hour here on July 7, 2005. While the verdict in the five-month inquest that the victims were “unlawfully killed” was expected, victims’ relatives were anxious to see what role the responses by emergency services and Britain’s spy agency played in attacks on three subway trains and a double-decker bus. Read full article > >

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Judge: Security, emergency services not to blame in London bombing deaths

Hackers have stolen data about the security tokens used by millions of people to get at online bank accounts and corporate networks.

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Hackers tackle secure ID tokens

Seven opposition groups were meeting in Bahrain on Sunday to consider their next steps after an appeal from Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al Khalifa for a national dialogue. Meanwhile, about a thousand protesters remained at the Pearl Roundabout, which has become this island nation’s equivalent of Egypt’s Tahrir Square. Opposition groups are considering a list of demands, which includes an independent investigation into the deaths of at least 10 protesters. They also want answers about people unaccounted for since the security forces moved in to clear the Pearl Roundabout in the early hours of Thursday morning, using tear gas, pellet guns and clubs. On Saturday, joyous Bahrainis retook the Pearl Roundabout after Crown Prince Salman ordered the military to vacate.

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Anti-government demonstrations continued in Egypt Saturday, as protesters, many of whom have given interviews and Tweeted, know they’ll be marked by the security apparatus if they fail. A gas pipeline exploded in north Sinai, sending a massive tower of…

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Obama Admin Mulls Egyptian Options

Barack Obama has urged President Mubarak to deliver on his promise of reforms after the Egyptian leader defended the role of the security forces in suppressing protests which have left dozens dead.

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Watch out, Julian Assange. Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska took the Miss America crown in Las Vegas last night, and she’s no fan of WikiLeaks. “It was actually based on espionage, and when it comes to the security of our nation, we have to focus on security…

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Washington – The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there. In fact, however, NATO was given a central role in Afghanistan because of the influence of U.S. officials concerned with the alliance, according to a U.S. military officer who was in a position to observe the decision-making process. read more

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How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO

Teams of Taliban militants assaulted the Afghan army in the north of the country and in the capital Sunday, killing at least 10 members of the security forces, officials said.

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Militants Kill Afghan Soldiers

A day that dawned with fears of gridlock at the security gates to America’s airports turned into something less than that as a protest against scanners and pat-downs fizzled dramatically Wednesday.

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Airport protests over pat-downs, scanners create little turbulence

The Washington Monument is unlike any other in the capital, so austere and abstract that creating security arrangements for it has dogged the National Park Service for a decade. Fortunately, plans to build a large, underground visitors center, floated in 1993 and renewed in the security panic after…

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The government’s independent advisor on the activities of the security services is to meet the family of Kieran Doherty later on Monday.

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