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Daniel Williams is a senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch.

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Israel Hack: Officials Vow To Hit Back After Credit Card Security Breach

951 Comments | Posted January 7, 2012 | 01/07/12 12:33 PM ET


* Deputy foreign minister likens cyber-attacks to terrorism

* Hamas urges more "virtual resistance" against Israelis (Adds Hamas comment)

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Israel said on Saturday the online publication of thousands of its citizens' credit card details by a hacker who says he is based...

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"Eye-Hunting" in Cairo: The Military's Assault on Reporters

Posted December 2, 2011 | 12/02/11 01:32 PM ET

(Cairo) -- Dozens of eye injuries from rubber bullets have marked the crackdown on protesters in Tahrir Square. "Eye-hunters," Egyptians are calling the armed police who aim at head-level.

Besides the physical damage, there's a sinister symbolism about it. Egypt's military rulers have been on a persistent campaign of trying...

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Pledging Allegiance in Bahrain

Posted July 19, 2011 | 07/19/11 02:23 PM ET

Since mid-April, the government of Bahrain has urged its citizens to sign pledges of allegiance to the country's "wise leadership," saying the signatures would be inscribed on a golden sword whose existence would then be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records, in the category of... well, "sword bearing...

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