Mar 20th, 2010 · The arrest of senior Afghan Taliban figures in Pakistan ended secret talks between the Taliban and the United Nations, according the former head of the U.N. mission in Kabul. U.N. representative Kai Eide, who stepped down this month, says the capture of more than a dozen Taliban members, some through joint U.S. Pakistan operations, effectively derailed the possibility of continuing dialogue about settling the war in Afghanistan. But Pakistan says there was no intention to sabotage anything.
Keywords: Afghanistan · Taliban · senior · Kabul · Pakistan · Secret · Mission · U.N · representative · United Nations · intention · sabotage
Mar 20th, 2010 · For all the talk of unity and reconciliation, many Iraqi citizens are in for a shock when the new parliament swears in. Several of the winners, including top vote-getters, are believed to have committed mass murder during Iraq's sectarian civil war. One of the names bandied about as a compromise candidate for prime minister allegedly managed a secret prison where Sunnis died by electric drill. Another is a famous death squad leader. With the results finally crystallizing, it's not at all clear that this election will heal any of Iraq's wounds.
Keywords: minister · unity · Iraq · Parliament · Compromise · civil · deaths · Sunni · winners · citizen · Secret · Prisons
Mar 18th, 2010 · Until his arrest in 2004, nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan — the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb — ran a vast smuggling network that sent nuclear materiel to Iran and Libya. In his book Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies, weapons expert David Albright explains how Khan's network continues to threaten global security.
Keywords: security · smuggling · Iran · nuclear · global · network · Pakistan · Scientists · Secret · weapons · 2004 · expert
Mar 17th, 2010 · The U.S. and other developed countries have quietly been negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement for several years. But secrecy around the talks has led to speculation about what's in the proposed international pact that centers on intellectual property rights.
Keywords: agreement · countries · Secret · property · Pacts · intellectual · secrecy · negotiators
Mar 15th, 2010 · The New York Theatre Workshop's production of Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, examines the gray area between the rights of the press to publish and those of the government to protect its secrets.
Keywords: products · protections · Secret · Struggle · publishing · Pentagon Papers · emTop · New York Theatre Workshop
Mar 13th, 2010 · Researchers studying the origin of the recent deadly earthquake have found signs of an actual fault rupture offshore, and figured out what triggered a small tsunami. But not all the causes of the natural disaster were, in fact, natural.
Keywords: Haiti · naturalized · Secret · Disaster · original · earthquake · tsunami · Geology · Rupture
Mar 13th, 2010 · The first numbers that come to mind when thinking about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland might be how much money the movie is raking in at the box office. But mathematicians say the books are full of algebraic lessons — such as why a raven is like a writing desk.
Keywords: officer · Secret · money · Math · desks · movies · ingredients · wonderland · Mathematical · Tim Burton · Algebra · emAlice
Mar 12th, 2010 · His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict XVI was in charge, but said he did not know about the transfer. Criticism is also mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he wrote instructing bishops to keep abuse cases secret.
Keywords: Sex · critic · Priest · Secret · bishops · pope · instruction · archdiocese · pedophile · Benedict XVI · 2001 Vatican
