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Middle East Spies: Top 5 List

Foreign Policy | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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In a region known for cutthroat espionage, these five intelligence chiefs have leveraged their skills and connections to gain influence far above thei...

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The Strange Problem of Space Junk - And How It Threatens Our Way of Life

Johann Hari | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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Johann Hari

There is so much space trash that scientists are warning it could be poised to take out the satellites we depend on every day -- and trap us here on a heating earth.

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U.S. Intelligence -- or the Lack Thereof -- on North Korea

Keith Thomson | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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Keith Thomson

How is it -- given a skyful of satellites and legions of human spies -- that we were surprised by North Korea's missile launch? Why is it that we know so little about this country?

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Administration Set To Use New Spy Program In U.S.

Washington Post | Spencer Hsu | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing ch...

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Was The Military's Shooting Of Satellite A Veiled Test Of Space Weaponry?

New York Times | THOM SHANKER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Videotape of the Navy mission to shoot down a dying spy satellite made available Thursday shows an interceptor missile ascending atop a bright trail o...

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Missile Hits Dying US Spy Satellite

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — A Navy missile soaring 130 miles above the Pacific smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday and probably...

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Pentagon's Attempt To Shoot Down Spy Satellite Could Cost $60M

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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The attempt by the U.S. Navy to use an anti-missile missile to shoot down a potentially hazardous satellite will cost between $40 million and $60 mill...

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US: Broken Spy Satellite Will Be Shot Down

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Taking a page from Hollywood science fiction, the Pentagon said Thursday it will try to shoot down a dying, bus-size U.S. spy satel...

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Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March, government officials said Saturd...

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