Recent reports have the U.S. military not quite blaming the Chinese military for a long string of cyber-attacks against U.S. military computers.
It sure sounds like they believe it, but they’re not quite saying it.
Also left unsaid is how much actual damage and compromise has happened already.
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From doctors to opera singers, teachers to truant schoolchildren, the extermination of European Jews was the work of roughly 200,000 ordinary Germans and their helpers. Years of research — not yet complete — reveal how sane members of a modern society committed murder for an evil regime. By Georg Bönisch and Klaus Wiegrefe more…

Landmines in [...]

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DEBKAfile’s Washington sources report that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has put President George W. Bush and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on notice. He has sent them a warning that he means to break off peace talks with Israel unless prime minister Ehud Olmert comes through with concessions by April. After that, he says, [...]

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Now, a few secrets are spilling through a crack in the wall of silence, revealing some of the science and spying that went into the doomsday preparations.
A new book, “Unknown Waters,” recounts the 1970 voyage of a submarine, the Queenfish, on a pioneering dive beneath the ice pack to map the Siberian continental shelf. The [...]

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Switzerland angers the United States by inking an energy agreement with Iran that will see more than five billion cubic meters of natural gas piped annually to Zurich by 2011.
Switzerland will be relying on Iran for a portion of its natural gas supplies under a deal that has raised concerns in the US. Swiss [...]

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Denmark was once a country with an extremely liberal immigration policy. Today it has one of the strictest in Europe. Why? A recipe for social disaster was at play in Denmark. Take a very liberal post-World war II immigration policy, combine it with a very generous welfare program, mix in Muslim immigrants demonstrating a stubborn [...]

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In the United States, the two groups that most ardently support Israel are Jews and evangelical and fundamentalist Christians. Jewish support is easy to explain, but why should certain Christians, most of them politically quite conservative, be so devoted to Israel? There is a second puzzle: despite their support for a Jewish state, evangelical and [...]

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Senior Hamas operative figure tells London Sunday Times’ Gaza Strip correspondent about Iranian and Syria military aid, detailing the training received by hundreds of Hamas terrorist operatives and describing the transmission to Hamas of Iranian technical know-how for the manufacture of rockets and IEDs.
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Islamic Jihad armed of new missiles to hit Israel
Avionews, Italy - 14 hours [...]

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FP: How grave are the dangers facing Israel?
Hornik: Very grave. Recently Israel’s chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenasi, warned in a speech to army officers that war may be imminent. Israel’s intelligence community relates seriously to the genocidal saber-rattling issuing from Iran and Hezbollah particularly since the Mughniyeh assassination. According to not a few intelligence estimates, [...]

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The papers here the other day were full of pictures of Russian soldiers rehearsing for 9 May, when they will commemorate victory in World war II with a parade on Red Square.
The image which especially caught my eye was a row of troops resting their - very shiny, naturally - left boots on the [...]

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Courage or not, China’s rapid and massive military buildup (particularly in terms of its expanding submarine force and progressive aircraft-carrier R&D program) has analysts concerned. And the U.S. Navy — the first line of defense against any Chinese expansionism in the Pacific — continues to struggle with the combined effects of Clinton-era downsizing, a post [...]

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A week of protests in Tibet turned violent last Friday as Chinese security forces clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans. Information was hard to verify — nearly all foreigners are barred from entering and Tibetans have no freedom — but news reports said a market in the capital was burned; at [...]

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