http://www.gsnmagazine.com en http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1145.html November 14, 2008 Before the suicide bombers of al-Qaeda, before even the Palestinian suicide bombers of Hamas, there were the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the Tamil Tigers, who, according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), “pioneered the use of suicide bombers.” The Tigers have used the tactic “hundreds of times,” the IISS says. More http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1115.html October 26, 2008 It has required more than four years of rule writing and rule revising, but TSA is finally ready to assume responsibilities from commercial air carriers for matching the names of traveling passengers against the “No Fly” and “Selectee” portions of the federal government�s consolidated terrorist watch list. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1113.html October 24, 2008 TSA expects to ask about 200 general aviation aircraft operators who fly into or out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport each year for their fingerprints and personal histories, so the agency can perform security background checks. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1056.html October 2, 2008 The U.S. Government and Estonia have signed an agreement to share fingerprint records and criminal history information, as a big step toward Estonia being admitted to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, under which Estonian citizens could travel to the U.S. without obtaining a visa. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1044.html September 24, 2008 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has tossed out a petition submitted by two nonprofit government-oversight groups that would have required the nation�s nuclear power plants to demonstrate periodically that they�re prepared to withstand severe forms of radiological sabotage inflicted on their facilities by terrorists. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1043.html September 23, 2008 Honeywell International has introduced a new ammonium-nitrate-based agricultural fertilizer that can help cabbage, tomatoes, strawberries and oranges grow, but does not detonate when mixed with fuel oil. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1042.html September 23, 2008 Many of the cyber attacks that were launched against government computers in the nation of Georgia -- which coincided with the real-world military attacks by Russia against that country last month �" were actually carried out by computers sitting in Turkey that had been captured by Russian ™hacktivists™ and drafted into huge, unwitting botnet armies. http://www.gsnmagazine.com/cms/market-segments/intelligence/1039.html September 22, 2008 The FBI expects that by the end of 2008, it will begin rolling out nationwide to 18,000 state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies the same kind of ™connecting-the-dots™ counter-terrorism intelligence information that it has previously restricted to federal FBI field offices and legal attach�© offices overseas. More...