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Rapid Fire 2/20/07
* Gitmo detainees get no appeal
* Stennis sprints to Gulf
* Shipbuilding plan making sense?
* Raptors arrive in Japan
* North Africa: new Al-Qaeda home?
* STRATCOM chief: cyberwar strategy "dysfunctional"
* Asteroids! Run!
(Big ups: RC)
Rapid Fire 02/14/07
* Centcom targets bloggers
* Blogger arrested for terrorist ties
* Google Earth, Iraqi lifesaver
* Bad turn in Beirut
* 222 "chipped"
* Atmospheric comms field-tested
* Roger Morris vs. Rummy
* WWI's "Tin Noses Shop"
* The "Circus of Detention"
* Joel Johnson 1, gadget geeks 0
* Flipper to the rescue
* Quantum 'puter demo
* Nick testifies
* Raptors break Axe's heart
(Big ups: BP, RC, AT)
Rapid Fire 02/12/07 (Updated)
* Nork nuke pact?
* Must read #1: Iraq's four wars
* Must read #2: NSA cyber-hunter, losing the scent
* Illuminati selling Q-branch stock
* Iran unveils stealthy drone
* FBI's secret laptops gone
* Fallen soldier is a new dad
* Turbine on a chip
* Ospreys grounded
* The science of Godzilla
* New camo: gravy!
(Big ups: EM, BB, RC, MO, JQ)
Rapid Fire 02/07/07 (Updated)
* Sea Knight down; 5th copter in 18 days (background)
* Double the IEDs in Iraq
* Air war picks up; 10K CAS missions in '06
* Early, bad "signs" for would-be killer astronaut...
* ... her sudden descent
* Yikes! Giant cyberattack
* Israel talking up Iran strike
* All kinds of fraud at spy sat agency
* Missile shield growing
* Shady NSA spook caught
* Shocker! Max Boot making sense
* Next-gen body armor, yours for only $10K
* Hellloooooo, Miss Atom!
* 2nd chance at space
* "Tactical assault hand signals"
(Big ups: PG, AT, JQ, RC, Drudge, Blackfive)
Rapid Fire 02/06/07
* Astronaut kidnap!
* "Pimp my cascade"
* Africa Command stands up
* MRE = malnutrition?
* Friendly fire cockpit vid
* GoogleMaps spies Blackbird
* NYT eyes orbital debris
* Contractors gobbling up the gov't
* "The briefcase that changed the world"
* Raptor to Japan?
* "La la la la la! I can't hear you!"
(Big ups: RC, MA, Dad)
Rapid Fire 02/05/07 (Updated)
* Pentagon's tank-sized budget (more to come, later today)
* McMaster, Kilcullen in Petraeus "dream team"
* Troops uncover uniform stash in Iraq
* Anbar's "baking tray" bombs
* NYT flies Iraqi air (background)
* Milblogging king deploys, again
* Welcome home celebrations cut
* Surfers' nuke tech
* Plea deal in MySpace murder (background)
* Mars too far for people?
* Dodgy reports on space station
* "Big Barda's" purse stolen (background)
* Israel's new spysat
* Saudis ban the letter X
* More mercs for Iraq
* Arms control wonks cry in their mojitos
(Big ups: RC, AG, AT)
Rapid Fire 02/02/07
* Pentagon budget $30B short
* Gloomy intel estimate for Iraq
* DHS won't give locals terror info
* $10K rewards to dis global warning
* Israel picks rocket defense
* DoD finagles casualty count
* Boston, city of wimps
* Conventional Tridents, extra dead (background)
* Spec Ops' pack mules
* Tax man kills space dream
* Blackfive vs. Arkin
* Pic: comet, Southern Lights
* Flying car just around the corner... for the 384958736479th time
(Big ups: RC, EH)
Rapid Fire 02/01/07
* House GOP: space weapons, please
* Sat-killer history
* Bush: "That satellite that was blown out of the sky... The Chinese didn't do it. Cheney was out hunting again."
* Security woes at NSA listening post?
* Nuke cage match: Wonk duo vs. Weekly Standard
* "Richter Scale for the Information Revolution"
* Pic: F-15s, MiG-29s duel
* Fallon flunks testimony
* Suuuuuuuuuuure... G.I. Daddy dolls "ease burden"
(Big ups: TH, Wonkette)
Rapid Fire 01/31/07 (Updated)
* AQ big offed in Madagascar
* Gonzales turning over domestic spy docs?
* Vid: Sea Launch explosion
* Tehran behind G.I. kidnapping?
* ...Roggio had the story last week
* More Iranian bombs in Iraq (background)
* "Rogue U.S. attack on Brit convoy?"
* Big corruption in Iraqi police training
* Sadr's rope-a-dope
* Congress slams Los Alamos...
* ...Deepwater cutters up next (background)
* Cold-case cops turn to YouTube
* Plea deal in MySpace murder
* 1672 "folding camera" comes to life
* Inside Putin's jet
(Big ups: BB, DG, RC, EM, Hambling)
Rapid Fire 01/29/07 (Updated)
* Massive battle in Najaf
* Another U.S. copter down
* G.I.s in last week's crash, remembered
* Audio: Reporter's Iraq heartbreak
* Tehran closes in
* 770 contractors dead since invasion
* Pentagon's trash = cops' treasure
* China hits target... on 43rd street
* Remote pilot crashes Predator
* THAAD hits again
* "Homebrew AT-ST walker teaches itself"
* Israeli military blocked missile-finder?
* USAF chief protects his purse
(Big ups: RC, AMP, Haninah)
Rapid Fire 01/27/07
* Wonder of Baghdad, snuffed out
* Abu Ghraib LTC charged
* Roggio vs. the Fobbits
* Iraqi Army getting U.S. gear
* Small-town soldiers bear the brunt
* 63 things to bring when you deploy to Afghanistan
* Murder-by-teapot
* The real hafnium breakthrough
(Big ups: DJE, BK)
Rapid Fire 01/26/07
* U.S. troops nab Iranians; take DNA, retina scans
* Sadr's rope-a-dope
* Russia tracking IDF
* Jamming GPS is easy
* Iran's centrifuge explosion, explained
* Natick's new MREs, clothes on display
* Animated ASAT test
* "Decider," take two
* Rocky spooked by NSA power lack
* Darpa: Ice, ice baby
(Big ups: GG, AE, MP)
Rapid Fire 01/25/07
* Georgia's uranium sting
* NYPD won't use $140M radios
* Tijuana police trade guns for slingshots
* Note to self: don't fly Air China
* Look out below! 35 more Ospreys
* Dems target Iraq contracts
* "Beirut in flames"
* Army IM = "killer app?"
* China hawks strap on space wings
* Store data... on a photon?
* Bonfire of guns
* Defense energy lowdown
* Marines oust medicine man
* Who dares question me?!?!?
(Big ups: BB, JS, RC)
Rapid Fire 01/24/07
* Singapore's street-fighting 'bots
* Sailor Playmate speaks!
* Senate smacks surge
* Armored vehicles in short supply
* Spec Ops loves pack mules
* Army loves open source intel
* Chris Cuomo dodges IED
* Battery breakthrough?
* Hooray! No Kerry '08
* Lame online quizzes were just the start: CIA recruits on Facebook
(Big ups: RC)
Rapid Fire 01/23/07
* Al-Qaeda in Iraq targeting U.S.?
* Insurgents behind copter crash
* Google Earth disappears Iraq bases (background)
* Blackwater buying 767s
* Homeland security tech pageant
* Exploding robots vs. asteroids
* UK cops hack gov't PCs
* "Facial skin signature"
* Spider ship sails thru San Fran Bay
* Inside Darpa's IT push
* Petraeus testifies
* First JTRS radio deploys
(Big ups: RC, NW, /., Kris, Stephen)
Rapid Fire 01/22/07
* Iraqi gunmen impersonate G.I.s, kill 5...
* ...pushes weekend death toll to 27
* WWI echoes for "surge"
* Military dropping out of drug war
* Iran's new missiles
* Vid: Royal Marines swoop in
* Blackwater to Sudan?
* Spycams get lip readers...
* ...ID radioactive poison suspect
* Army vehicles, picked apart
* New ammo for '07
* Gas drone gets jet fuel burst
* B-2 gets super bomb
* "Gonzales' Trojan Horse"
(Big ups: ACE, RC, IM, JF)
Rapid Fire 01/19/07
* Wired 1, DHS 0
* Pentagon made up spy coin story
* Spy oversight shenanigans
* AG hasn't read the Constitution
* Sadr aide nabbed
* Vid: cruise missile formation
* Financial database plan falters
* FedEx's missile-fighter takes off
* Rail gun demo'd
* "The Rebbe and the rocket scientist"
* Predator crashes in Iraq
* Palestinians learn from Hez, make better bombs
* War on Terror scorecard
* Mmmmmmmmmmm... candy
(Big ups: Eric, Hambling)
Rapid Fire 01/17/07 (Updated)
* NSA's cash crunch
* More peaceniks in Pentagon database
* Bush: Iraq policy was "slow failure"
* Afghan attacks was up
* Gaza's tunnellers-for-hire
* Escaped Green Zone prisoner back home
* SpaceX set for second launch
* Apache rescue
* Airport "EZ Pass"
* "Exoskeleton Olympics"
* Iran shoots down U.S. drone?
* Big ripples from LCS shutdown
* Frank D. Hargrove, scumbag
(Big ups: JQP, Hambling, Drudge, JQ)
Rapid Fire 01/16/07
* War spending: borrow now, pay later
* Iran, China buy U.S. gear...
* ...and Russian missiles
* Ousted HP chief now CIA advisor
* No more 'bots for Future Combat?
* JSF production line goes back to the future
* Paintball warriors
* Kidnapping vic's online trail
* Iran nuke program stalling out?
* "Grizzly Suit" maker outfits soldiers
* "Bob Gates' flying fortress"
* Poker cheats go high tech
* FEMA hack in space
* New intel big, former DIA flop?
* Raptors to Japan
* Israeli missile shooter, coming soon
(Big ups: HT, PG, VS, RC, Drudge)
Rapid Fire 01/14/07
* Cheney cops to financial spying
* SBX heads for Alaska (again)
* Patriot destination: still a mystery
* Pentagon: Somalia = blueprint
* Gunboat diplomacy?
* Residents of Earth recruited to Iraq
* Sadr plays possum
* "The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans"
* Germy Judy
* Duuuuuuude.... spiders
(Big ups: AT, JC)
Rapid Fire 01/12/07
* U.S. embassy in Athens shelled
* Inside the anti-Iran raids
* Everyone hates the surge
* Where are those Patriots headed?
* DIA: Iraqi forces can't "stand alone" vs. insurgents
* 1 year at war, 1 million damaged vehicles
* Reserve, guard? You're going back to Iraq
* U.S. troops in Somalia...
* ... don't forget the missiles
* $1.4 billion for spy blimps
* Bad ideas in cyber defense
* Hull issues in Littoral Combat Ship?
Rapid Fire 01/11/07 (Updated)
* "Gated communities" for Baghdad
* Afghan surge, too?
* Carter: "As an Army captain, I learned to take risks, not gambles. And this really looks like a gamble. One where the odds are really long."
* Ricks: Surge "could put U.S. military commanders in exactly the sort of tough urban fight that war planners strove to avoid during the spring 2003 invasion."
* Kaplan: If Bush had delivered the speech "two years ago, he would have deserved praise for candor, equanimity, and breadth of vision. But given its actual timing, one can only wonder about his grip on reality."
* More speech reacts, rounded up
* "Hallucinogenic weapons" Doc speaks
* Canuck coins bugged?
* Privacy showdown looming in Congress
* Gitmo detainee's YouTube defense
* Israeli arms sales: $4.4B
(Big ups: BB)
Rapid Fire 01/10/07
* Bush overrules generals
* Limited role for surge troops?
* "Most intense fight" yet in Iraq...
* ..."Groundhog Day on Purple Heart Blvd."
* iPhone = I.E.D.?
* Stealth fighters to S. Korea
* Insurgent TV coming to America?
* "Homicidal" G.I. returned to duty
* Darpa mini-sats launched
* Grand Challenge 3: real tough
* D'oh! We lost the moon landing tapes!
(Big ups: BWJ, PM)
Rapid Fire 01/09/07 (Updated)
* Surge = guard, reserve? Or more mercs?
* Troops out of Afghanistan for Iraq
* Microsoft, NSA team up on Vista
* Vid: mighty morphin', flying, crawling 'bot
* Creepiest. Poster. Ever.
* More on the Somalia strike
* Israel's giant drone
* Raptor, rockin'
* Liquid armor for sale?
* Sub, ship collide
* Iran's newest 'net crackdown
* Darpa goal: supercomputers for everyone
(Big ups: MA, EM, RC, Eric, NS, BB)
Rapid Fire 01/08/07 (Updated Again)
* Supremes neg ID suit
* U.S. gunship hits Somalia
* Spy chief ousted over Iran?
* Taser's stylish stun gun
* "Surge" picks up steam...
* ...Top general, ex-commanders skeptical
* Missile radar's secret mission
* GPS airdrops about to take off?
* 50 more years for B-2?
* Help us, Japanese laser-men!
* Vid: Warthog gets nasty
* All-seeing blimp moves ahead
* Wikileaks!
(Big ups: Haninah, RC, AT, EM, Ben, Drudge)
Rapid Fire 01/03/07
* Iraq poobah behind Saddam death vid
* Diyala is FUBAR (and Phil Carter is pissed)
* WH: Troop surge "political decision," not "military one"
* Bad data: actually good!
* Worldwide coilgun arsenal
* "Pre-Crime Eye-in-the-Sky"
* Murdoc visits Ford
* Philly spycam 1, serial killer 0
* Vid: Vietnam dogfight
* Open source intel, c. 1945
(Big ups: ACE, RC)
Rapid Fire 01/02/07
* Behind the Bangkok bombings
* Iraq "surge," then a long stay
* Mogadishu starts recovery...
* ...Islamists in retreat
* Russia wins space race
* UFO over Chicago?
* Locals team up on crime data
* New guns for killer drones
* Active duty troops down on Bush, Iraq
* Wanna get cleared? Get in line
* Nuke lab scientists fight polygraph
* Your 50,000,000 horsepower Internet
* Mixed-up "moon dirt"
* 3,081 vials of botulinum toxin? No sweat!
* Oldest spy dies
(Big ups: /., EM, RC, TP, Drudge)
Rapid Fire 12/26/06
* Dems don't spook defense contractors
* Tons of nuke missile tests
* Hot Hornet vid
* Meet the Swiss Jet Man
* "Rosetta phone"
* Scooter of doom
* Nanotech armor
* Ultrasonic mine fighter
* Noonan's close call
* Roggio vs. Muj TV
* Defense Dep't bans HTML e-mail
* U.S. blocks Israel arms sales?
* Sea-Based Radar to set sail? (background here)
* Goodbye, Godfather
(Big ups: AE, RC, KR, MO)
Rapid Fire 12/19/06 (Updated)
* Iraq's economic boom...
* ...and electrical war
* Attacks at new high
* MySpace dealer, caught
* Skype lie detector? (background here)
* 4th time's the charm for spacewalkers
* Sat, jet in laser link
* Ol' Virginny spaceport opens
* Scots forced to share kilts
* Uranium secretly stashed (sweet!)
* DSB hearts nukes
* Insurgent TV
* Big naval buildup to spook Iran?
* What's an Air Force to do?
* 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds
(Big ups: RC, EO)
Rapid Fire 12/18/06 (Updated)
* Spy planes' rescue mission
* Taser vs. snake
* Whistleblower jailed in Baghdad
* Reining in Spec Ops
* "When computer profiling goes bad"
* YouTube vs. crooks
* Spy's $10M poison dose
* One step closer to invisibility cloaks
* Google Earth saves NASA
* Navy intranet flops
* AFN: WTF? (background here)
(Big ups: RC, HuffPo)
Rapid Fire 12/16/06
* Iraqi police get armor
* "Hobbits" vs. insurgents
* Syn-fuel bomber takes off (background here)
* Gates to shake up intel?
* Best. Patents. Ever.
* Ravezooka!
Rapid Fire 12/15/06
* Blair blocks BAE corrpution probe
* Pantex nearly detonates a nuke
* RC tank?
* JASONs loves alt-fuel
* On patrol in Fallujah
* Spy cams wising up
* What every kid needs: toy atomic lab
* NSA construction boom
* "Data spills: 100 mil served"
* Beyond technicolor
* Now that's a tinfoil hat!
(Big ups: AL, War & Piece, RC, Pogo Nick, Haninah)
Rapid Fire 12/12/06 (Updated)
* Hezbollah's URLs
* Joint Strike Fighter deal
* Poisoned spy worked for Brits
* Where'd that polonium come from?
* Israel's wants to hit long-range
* Olmert's nuclear slip
* CSM vs. Roggio
* Sunni, Shi'ite cyberwar
* Personal blimp
* Heisman trophy, blocked by TSA
* Los Alamos #2 gone
* Better late than never
* NSA Di spy deny. Sigh.
* ESPN shows the love
(Big ups: Haninah, EM, MB, RR)
Rapid Fire 12/11/06
* Iraq pullback = lotsa air support?
* Big risks in military switch
* F-16's no-engine landing
* Holy utility belt!
* Nano knife
* Best of Bond's gagdets
* India's IED-bot
* Sedan = LCS?
* Navy's new trimaran (background here)
* Inside the Islamo-hacker bible
* See through walls! (sorta)
* Brits' giant killer drone
* Nuclear consolidation
* Bad news for China's spacemen
* Cash back in Grand Challenge 3
* Chertoff vs. Shane Harris
(Big ups: Murdoc, RC, EM)
Rapid Fire 12/08/06
* Coastie fleet sinking
* Missile interceptor grounded
* More cargo nuke scans
* Saudi military shopping spree...
* ...and insurgent donations
* Iraq HUMINT still sucks
* Naval War College site still down
* Army's new e-warriors
* Flying canister drone takes off
* Darpa vs. wireless hackers
* Itty bitty SAR
* Air Force JAG investigated
* MySpace murder: inside Spokane killer's mind
* Real-time 3D on the way?
* Reading the NSA tea leaves
(Bigs ups: RC, EM, Gizmag)
Rapid Fire 12/07/06
* Ten more GIs dead
* Iraq violence underreported
* Talks with insurgents?
* Senators spank FBI chief
* How secrets left Los Alamos
* "Terror score" illegal?
* 1,000 gov't workers nabbed for corruption
* Rocket patents see light of day
* Pearl Harbor, revisited
* Water on Mars
* Unabomber's code
* How much broccoli does it take to poison a spy?
* Darpa on bees: zzzzzzzzzzz
Rapid Fire 12/06/06
* Poulsen produces: MySpace boots predators
* Martial law gets easy
* Pentagon v. ebola
* Brits' new nukes
* PTSD soldiers dissed?
* JSF ready for first flight
* Giant kites propel boats
* Sandia's cheap sensor array
* Pentagon's junk science confab
* "Electromagnetic Pulse of Doom"
* How many tapped by NSA? White House won't say
* CNETer, found
(Big ups: RC, SW)
Rapid Fire 12/04/06
* Memory drug eases PTSD pain?
* Autopilot vs. terror
* Israel close to deploying RPG shield
* Portable nuke plants for the battlefield?
* "How to tell if your cell is bugged"
* War photog speaks
* No need for new nukes, but build 'em, anyway
* Inside spy blogs
* Snooping on bloggers
* More cash for next-gen carriers
* Fake passport fools Brits
* MPAA = evil
* Future of Soviet space (1987)
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