No room for complacency on terror threat: adviser
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- No room for complacency on terror threat: adviser
- Arrest of British terror suspects sows more discontent
- The Age: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technolog…
- Detroit automakers back Bush’s green plan
- India tests Astra missile for second time in two days
No room for complacency on terror threat: adviser
CTV.ca – Mar 26, 2007
26 2007 5:55 PM ETCanadian PressOTTAWA — There’s “no question” that the elimination of terrorist training camps in Afghanistan has made Canada safer, the prime minister’s national security adviser said Monday. But Margaret Bloodworth also said that the terror threat remains and there is no room for complacency because now home-grown radicals could be as much of a threat as international terrorists. Bloodworth, a veteran bureaucrat and a former deputy defence minister, became Stephen Harper’s national security adviser last fall. She is the key conduit linking the country’s security agencies and the cabinet. In her first appearance before the Senate committee on defence and national security, Bloodworth said she believes that the removal of the Afghan terror training facilities protects Canada. Before the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban regime fostered the operations of a variety of terror training operations, including al-Qaida.
Arrest of British terror suspects sows more discontent
International Herald Tribune – Mar 26, 2007
Among them: Who were the masterminds? Did they live in Britain or in Pakistan? Who paid the £8,000, or $15,700, that the British government said in an official account had been the cost of the overseas trips, homemade bomb-making equipment, apartment and car rental, and local travel that went into the operation? From the sketchy backgrounds of the three men taken into custody late last week, it did not initially appear that they were major players themselves, analysts said. But given that the young men of Beeston all know each other – everyone in Beeston, a small enclave, knows everyone else, people said – it was well understood that the three men arrested Thursday knew the four men who blew themselves up in July 2005. Like the four suicide bombers, the three men were of Pakistani descent, the second- or third-generation sons of Pakistanis who came to Britain in the 1960s to work in the mills. The eldest of the men arrested Thursday was Mohammed Shakil, 30, a cabdriver, who lived on Firth Mount in a tidy, two-story attached house on the more affluent side of Beeston.
The Age: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technolog…
The Age – Mar 26, 2007
The fruits of that long process were seen last week. Tasmaniastill has a few interstate imports, but so does every team now. Butthe best thing about this side is that most of the players areyoung, home-grown and talented. Tasmanian players don’t have to live in Hobart these days toenjoy the support of a state contract. But they all do becausethat’s where the coaches are and, more importantly, where theirteammates are. That’s why this side has so much spirit. And it also has a coachwho is Tassie born — Tim Coyle, of Launceston (I might add)— who has brought an extra passion to the job.
Detroit automakers back Bush’s green plan
Earthtimes.org – Mar 26, 2007
“I appreciate very much the fact that American automobile manufacturers recognise the reality of the world in which we live and are using new technologies to give the consumers different options,” Bush said at a joint news conference on the White House’s south lawn. Lined up behind the quartet were late-model alternative-fuel vehicles from each of the Detroit three, underscoring the US auto industry’s effort to meet changing public tastes. Bush, who has recently taken a more active public stance against global warming, says his plan would help wean the US off imported oil, stimulate home-grown production of fuels such as ethanol, and help the environment. “We think this is the answer for America to lower our dependence on foreign oil,” said Tom LaSorda, the head of DaimlerChrysler AG’s US-based Chrysler unit. Electric cars are also making a comeback: GM presented an electric concept car at January’s Detroit Auto Show, though batteries efficient enough to make such cars marketable are years away. “We definitely see a path through to lower oil consumption, lower amounts of imported oil and fewer carbon emissions,” Wagoner said.
India tests Astra missile for second time in two days
Earthtimes.org – Mar 26, 2007
Officials said the Astra, meaning weapon in Hindi, was tested from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in the coastal district of Balasore, about 230 km from here, just a little after 10 a. Scientists had tested the missile, which has a striking range of 25-40 km, from the same range on Sunday as well. Astra has been developed by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and is likely to be ready by 2011-2012.