Al-Qaeda resurgent six years on?
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- RIL spins polyester web with Hualon.
- Letter from Europe: Local terrorism suspects puzzle Germany
- Areva EPR order in China to be signed during Sarkozy visit in Nov -…
- Sun Micro to sell servers with Windows
Al-Qaeda resurgent six years on?
Tehran Times - Sep 12, 2007
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One of the concerns is that while electronic surveillance is technically possible, the most effective form of intelligence gathering would be human surveillance — following people in and out of the country and placing spies within the camps. But human surveillance is considerably more challenging, largely owing to the volume of travel to the region and the scale of resources required to cope with it. For al-Qaeda, using “”home-grown”" suspects is far easier in terms of having them return to their country of origin and put in place planning for attacks. So far this threat may have manifested itself most obviously in European countries, but the U. continues to worry about operatives attacking the U.
A fresh perspective
Guardian Unlimited - Sep 12, 2007
The steam engine was perfected in what is now Handsworth, Birmingham, and later the inventor of the jet engine, Sir Frank Whittle, was born in a terraced house in suburban Coventry. Another Coventrian, Robert Jones, designed the first black cab. Indeed, it’s still manufactured in his home town by London Taxis International. Yet the taxi maker is the last motor manufacturer of any size in what was once the UK’s motor city. Like much of the manufacturing heartland of the West Midlands, Coventry has faced a huge challenge in adjusting to the new realities of post-industrial Britain. Symbolically, the city’s pedestrian precinct that rose from the rubble in the post-war years, considered cutting-edge in its day, has not stood the test of time. But now Coventry’s new energy is embodied in the Belgrade Plaza development, currently being built around an expanded and revitalised Belgrade Theatre that reopened this month… Lovers of visual art can feast their eyes in unlikely places. Walsall now has an iconic gallery worthy of its prestigious Garman Ryan collection. And Compton Verney, a grade- I listed Robert Adam mansion set in 120 acres of south Warwickshire parkland, offers an imposing location for touring and home-grown exhibitions. Meanwhile, Birmingham’s Museum and Art Gallery houses a huge collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and the stunning Ikon Gallery attracts lovers of the best in contemporary art - and Spanish food (its café being one of the tastiest tapas bars outside Seville). Catering is one of the areas in which Birmingham’s many ethnic groups have excelled. Wing Yip is the UK’s leading Chinese and Oriental supplier, and baltis have moved from Sparkbrook to every city and town in the land. A city that was once a gastronomic desert is now stuffed with restaurants rooted in cuisines from around the globe.
RIL spins polyester web with Hualon.
Free with registration - Economic Times - AccessMyLibrary.com - Sep 12, 2007
| Economic Times (New Delhi, India) (September, 2007). 12–Indian promoters love acquiring troubled businesses, using their home-grown techniques to turn units around and succeeding where others failed. Reliance Industries’ acquisition of the poly.
Letter from Europe: Local terrorism suspects puzzle Germany
International Herald Tribune - Sep 12, 2007
Terrorism is coming closer, and it also speaks German. ” This is not the first time that modern Germany has had to come to terms with extreme alienation in its own backyard. On the day that the arrests of Schneider and Golowicz were announced, the country was remembering another bout of home-grown terrorism: the beginning of a terrorism campaign on Sept. 5, 1977, by the Red Army Faction, a group of leftist extremists whose founders were also young middle-class Germans, consumed by ideology and violence. The parallels do not stop there: Like far-left ideologues calling for a fight against capitalism and vowing to unchain the proletariat, jihad ideologues vow to free a global Muslim underclass from Western shackles. In both ideologies, anti-Americanism was a defining characteristic. Now, six years after the Sept.
Areva EPR order in China to be signed during Sarkozy visit in Nov -…
Forbes - Sep 12, 2007
Lagarde will have the duty of resolving a disagreement between the French and Chinese governments about transfers of technology, the report said. French government sources said earlier this year that the order would be signed in July but the signature did not take place. In industry source in China said last month that the authorities have decided to use home-grown CPR-1000 reactors at its Yangjiang nuclear plant in southern Guangdong province because negotiations between China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp and Areva (other-otc:.
Sun Micro to sell servers with Windows
Seattle Times - Sep 12, 2007
Adding Windows, the world’s most popular operating system, will let Sun compete in a faster-growing slice of the market for servers, machines that run networks, which account for almost half of the company’s revenue. Windows Server 2003 will be available in Sun systems within three months, the companies said today in a statement. Sun Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Schwartz, after posting the company’s first annual profit in six years, plans to spur growth by adding cheaper options to its home-grown server software. The Windows agreement expands on a 2004 accord between the former rivals, a truce meant to help Sun stem losses and address customer complaints. “Sun and Microsoft were historic enemies,” said Michael Cohen, director of research at San Diego-based Pacific American Securities. The agreement “creates a new market in enterprise software for Microsoft, and it completes Sun’s transition from a proprietary systems company to a company that embraces all popular operating systems. The partnership follows years of claims by Sun and Microsoft that each of their server operating systems was superior for running corporate networks, applications and Web sites.