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  • Inside the Ring: Terrorists' antics

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The Washington-based legal group Judicial Watch earlier this month sent an investigator to Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, Cuba, to watch the May 5 arraignment of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad (aka KSM) and four others accused of plotting and executing the Sept. 11, 2001, airline attacks.

  • Inside the Ring: PLA general denies cyberwar

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Aggressive Chinese cyberespionage and digital warfare capabilities were major topics this week during talks between senior U.S. and Chinese defense officials.

  • Inside the Ring: China launcher proliferation

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    China Defense Minister Liang Guanglie will visit the United States this week and is expected to face questioning on the presence of a Chinese-made mobile strategic-missile launcher that was spotted carrying a new North Korean long-range missile in Pyongyang on April 15.

  • Inside the Ring: Brotherhood threat

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Islamists linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups are working to undermine the U.S. government through "civilization jihad" aimed at imposing Islamic law rule in the United States.

  • Inside the Ring: Aegis Ashore moves ahead

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said Wednesday that the military is moving ahead with deployment of modified sea-based anti-missile interceptors on the ground in Central Europe, something likely to further upset Russia, which opposes U.S. deployments.

  • Inside the Ring: Counter-space battle craft

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The head of the Air Force Space Command recently made cryptic comments about some aspects of one of the military's most cutting edge and secret weapons, the X-37 space plane.

  • Inside the Ring: New North Korea ICBM

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Details of a new North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) surfaced this week with a report from Asia that U.S. spy agencies spotted what appears to be a larger long-range missile than the one now being readied for launch in the next two weeks.

  • Inside the Ring: Nuclear risk

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The commander of U.S. strategic nuclear forces told a Senate hearing this week that defense budget cuts are undermining the urgently needed modernization of strategic nuclear forces through delays in planned upgrades.

  • Inside the Ring: Beijing coup rumors

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China's Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup.

  • Inside the Ring: Space tech to China

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    A senior Pentagon official told Congress last week that the U.S. government is concerned about the leakage of embargoed U.S. space technology to China.

  • Inside the Ring: North Korea's ICBM

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Recent congressional testimony confirmed North Korea's development of a new long-range, road-mobile missile that can reach American shores, increasing the threat of a nuclear attack on the United States.

  • Inside the Ring: State blocks grant to Russia

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The State Department recently denied $2 million in grants to a Russian research institute over concerns the money would be used to boost Moscow's advanced nuclear missile work.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    Chinese cyberattacks and electronic intrusions into U.S. computer networks in peacetime are part of the preparations for a future high-technology war against the United States, according to the U.S. Pacific Command's new commander.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The Pentagon's plan to shift the focus of U.S. military forces to Asia after disengagement in Iraq and Afghanistan got mixed support in the defense budget request released this week.

  • Inside the Ring

    By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

    The Pentagon's senior weapons-buying official said this week that a program for purchasing offensive and defensive military equipment for cyberwarfare is still being worked on.

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