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Captain Adam Grim readies his men for a nighttime raid in Mekanik, a gritty neighborhood in southern Baghdad. The target: a suspected militia safe house. Grim's platoon won't be leading the raid, however. Instead, the Americans will be supporting Iraqi forces led by a wiry police commander named Colonel Salih Hashim. Hashim knows the neighborhood well and chose the target himself. Together the two men discuss the plan one last time. Hashim and his men will storm the house while Grim's platoon secures the street outside and provides cover...
...handwritten short story manuscripts by the Argentine modernist writer Jorge Luis Borges, held until recently in a safe in Harvard Square’s Lame Duck Books, have been lost and presumed stolen...
...does a company that boasts the ability to crack any system convince clients that it's safe to hire that firm? Stickley says the company's 50 employees have extensive background checks, supplied to clients if requested. Typically, employees are drawn from lines of work such as corporate security and computer engineering. But hackers need not apply. "We don't hire anyone who we believe was a former hacker," Stickley says. "Someone who can program and do network administration, you can teach them to hack. It's just too dangerous to put a hacker in a bank." Says Ferguson...
While Harvard proved a safe haven for Fujimoto, back home in Seattle things were not so tranquil for Japanese-Americans. Three months after Pearl Harbor, Fujimoto’s family was given orders to abandon its home and business and prepare to be moved into an internment camp, along with the vast majority of all other Japanese on the West Coast...
...doorway before a building search or across a darkened room can help detect nearly invisible trip wires attached to bombs and boobytraps. The old methods to detect trip wires - sweeping the space with a metal grappling hook or getting close enough for a visual inspection - just aren't as safe, Marines discovered...