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Continental African Briefing Volume 2, No. 4

2005-01-24 Thread jamboweb . newsletter

Title: Jamboweb - Continental African Briefing Volume 2, No. 4

Continental African Briefing Volume 2, No. 4

AFRICA IN BRIEF

Education

KENYA: TIME NOW FOR UNIVERSAL SECONDARY SCHOOLING?
A recent statement by the Kenyan government that many students who graduated from primary school last year will not find places in the country's secondary schools has generated widespread concern...
Source: IPS Africa

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Human Rights

JOURNALIST FROM "THE STANDARD" NEWSPAPER CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL LIBEL
RSF has voiced concern over the libel charge that was brought against leading investigative journalist Kamau Ngotho, of "The Standard", on 13 January 2005...
Source: Reporters sans frontiÃres - IFEX

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Politics

SUDAN PRESIDENT VOWS TO DEFEND PEACE IN SOUTH
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has vowed to defend a peace deal ending more than 20 years of war in southern Sudan...
Source: VOICE of AMERICA

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Economy, Business, & Finance

ALGERIA: OIL PRICES TO STAY ABOVE $30 IN 2005
Energy and mining minister warns of geopolitical uncertainties that could feed investors' fears, support higher oil prices...
Source: Middle East Online

» more in Economy, Business, & Finance...

UP COMING EVENTS

Explore Zambia 2005
Immediately after February's Indaba mining conference in Cap...
Date: Feb 12, 2005
Organization: The Geologial Survey Department of Zambia

The 2th African Petroleum Congress & Exhibition
The Ministry of Energy & Mines of Algeria and the Africa...
Date: Feb 14, 2005
Organization: The CWC group

BOOKS AND RESOURCES Business Ethics in Africa
Author: Deon Rossouw

Learning to Love Africa : My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back
Author: Monique Maddy

Keeping Your Job Hunt Secret Is Harder Now -- But Here's How to Do It

2005-01-24 Thread R.A. Hettinga



The Wall Street Journal

  January 25, 2005

 MANAGING YOUR CAREER


Keeping Your Job Hunt
 Secret Is Harder Now --
 But Here's How to Do It

By ERIN WHITE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
January 25, 2005


Miserable at work? Ready to jump ship? Thanks to the improving job market,
the likelihood that you will find something has increased.

But you may encounter an unanticipated problem: It's harder than ever to
conceal a job hunt from colleagues and supervisors. Casual dress codes make
your nice interview suit more conspicuous. Many employers are using
monitoring software to track their employees' Web surfing, e-mails and
instant messages. In addition, open-plan office layouts can complicate your
efforts to conduct job-search phone calls discreetly.

Don't worry. There are still plenty of ways to keep your hunt off your
boss's radar screen. And the proliferation of alternate workplace
arrangements -- including companies' more relaxed attitudes toward
telecommuting -- can actually help your covert job search.

Even if you work from home only part-time, you can take advantage of the
extra privacy. Kamela Pancroft, a 40-year-old human-resources executive in
Castle Rock, Colo., tried to schedule job interviews during the two days a
week that she worked from home last year. After several months of
searching, she got a new job in October as an HR vice president for a
mortgage banker. Her old boss didn't have a clue that she had been looking.

Avoiding a common pitfall, Ms. Pancroft used her home computer and private
America Online e-mail account to send résumés and conduct other aspects of
her search. You should never depend on your company's equipment or e-mail
account when you're aiming to job hop, career counselors warn.

Relatively inexpensive computer-monitoring software lets businesses track
and review your office computer use. Your boss doesn't have to catch you
job hunting. He can just ask the information-technology department to
retrieve a record of your computer activities.

Company officials probably don't review your communication constantly, but
it's likely they'll do so if they think you're doing something wrong, says
Donald Harris, president of HR Privacy Solutions, an employee-privacy
consulting firm in New York. "What people are allowed to do [at work] in
the U.S. is pretty much set by the employer," Mr. Harris cautions. By
contrast, workers in Europe have stronger privacy rights on the job.

When posting your résumé in a Web-site jobs database, keep your identity as
secret as possible. Monster.com, for instance, allows you to hide your name
and contact information. The popular Web site sends you an e-mail when
someone shows interest in your résumé.

Describe your employer generically rather than divulging its actual name,
advises Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a San
Diego-based group that studies workplace privacy issues. If you work for
Procter & Gamble, for example, you could refer to it as a "large
consumer-products company" in your résumé.

Advance planning will solve the casual-dress dilemma. In pursuit of a
horticulture research-associate position at a local university this past
fall, Jonathan Ervin didn't want to don the work boots and khaki pants that
he usually wore to work as a manager at a wholesale nursery. So the
31-year-old Stokesdale, N.C., resident left a suit in his car the morning
of the university-job interview. At midday, he drove to a local farmers'
market and hid behind a dumpster to change. He used his car's rear
passenger door to "screen any areas that were not blocked" by the dumpster,
he recalls. (He subsequently quit his job to conduct his search full time.)

Another approach is to alter your daily routine so that your job search
attracts less attention. A 30-year-old book editor in New York grew anxious
several weeks ago when a nosey secretary glanced at her unusually fancy
outfit -- a nice suit for a job interview that day -- and chided, "People
notice things."

The editor says she now wears a suit once or twice a week, hoping that when
she does have an interview, the suit won't stand out as much. Despite the
secretary's warning, she doesn't think her boss suspects that she's looking
for a new job.

You can also lower your risk of exposure by using a cellphone to make
job-search contacts from an isolated part of your workplace. Mr. Ervin, for
instance, placed calls from a secluded area of the nursery. When co-workers
walked past him, he shooed them away. They assumed that he was conducting
an important business call and shouldn't be interrupted.

For the ultimate in privacy during a job search, splurge and book a hotel
room near your office for the day. The unconventional arrangement makes
sense if you can't work from home, dislike using a cellphone to call
potential employers, and lack a private office at work. Lunchtime absences
are less noticeable.

"Yo

Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder

2005-01-24 Thread R.A. Hettinga



The Wall Street Journal

  January 25, 2005

 THE MIDDLE SEAT
 By SCOTT MCCARTNEY



Gripes About Airport Security Grow Louder
More Travelers Are Stopped
 For 'Secondary' Checks;
 A Missed Flight to Atlanta
January 25, 2005

The frequency of secondary security screening at airports has increased,
and complaints are soaring.

Roughly one in every seven passengers is now tagged for "secondary
screening" -- a special search in which an airport screener runs a
metal-detecting wand around a traveler's body, then pats down the passenger
and searches through bags -- according to the Transportation Security
Administration.

Currently, 10% to 15% of passengers are picked randomly before boarding
passes are issued, the TSA says. An additional number -- the TSA won't say
how many -- are selected by the government's generic profiling system,
where buying a one-way ticket, paying cash or other factors can earn you
extra screening. And more travelers are picked by TSA screeners who spot
suspicious bulges or shapes under clothing.

"It's fair to say the frequency of secondary screening has gone up," says
TSA spokeswoman Amy von Walter. "Screeners have greater discretion."

That may explain why passenger complaints about screening have roughly
doubled every month since August. According to numbers compiled by the TSA
and reported to the Department of Transportation, 83 travelers complained
about screening in August, then 150 in September and 385 in October. By
November, the last month reported, complaints had skyrocketed to 652.

To be sure, increased use of pat-down procedures in late September after
terrorists smuggled bombs aboard two planes in Russia undoubtedly boosted
those numbers, though many of those complaints were categorized as
"courtesy" issues, not "screening," in the data TSA reports to the DOT.
There were 115 courtesy complaints filed with the DOT in September, then
690 in October. By November, the number of courtesy complaints receded to
218.

Yet the increased traveler anger at secondary screening hasn't receded.
Road warriors complain bitterly about the arbitrary nature of the screening
-- many get singled out for one leg of a trip, but not another.

For Douglas Downing, a secondary-screening problem resulted in a canceled
trip. Mr. Downing was flying from Seattle to Atlanta last fall. He went
through security routinely and sat at the gate an hour ahead of his
flight's departure. As he boarded, a Delta Air Lines employee noticed that
his boarding pass, marked with , hadn't been cleared by the TSA. He was
sent back to the security checkpoint.

By the time he got screened and returned to the gate, the flight had
departed. Delta offered a later flight, but his schedule was so tight he
had to cancel the trip. Delta did refund the ticket, even though the
airline said it was the TSA's mistake not to catch the screening code. TSA
officials blamed Delta.

TSA screeners often blame airlines, according to frequent travelers. Ask a
screener why you got picked for screening, and they often say the airline
does the selection and questions should be directed to the airline.

But airlines say they shouldn't be blamed, since they are only running the
TSA's programs, and the TSA's Ms. von Walter concurs. "I wouldn't go so far
as to say we're blaming them," she said. "Perhaps some screeners are
misinformed in those cases."

She also says the TSA isn't sure why screening complaints have risen so
sharply since August, although the agency says it may be the result of
greater TSA advertising of its "contact center" (e-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 1-866-289-9673).

If you do get picked, here is how it happened.

The TSA requires airlines to pick 10% to 15% of travelers at random.
Airlines can "de-select" a passenger picked at random, such as a child,
officials say.

In addition, the government's current passenger-profiling system, called
Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS, picks out
passengers. The system, which resides in or communicates with each
airline's reservation computers, gives you a score based largely on how you
bought your ticket. Airline officials say the TSA has changed the different
weightings given various factors, and certain markets may have higher
programmed rates for selectees.

Passenger lists also are checked against the TSA's list of suspicious
names, which has included rather common names and even names of U.S.
senators.

Interestingly, airline gate agents who see suspicious-looking passengers
can no longer flag them for security. Some ticket-counter agents did flag
several hijackers for extra security on Sept. 11, 2001, and were praised
for their work in the 9/11 Commission's final report. At the time, all that
meant was the airline took precautions with the hijackers' checked luggage.
But because of racial-discrimination concerns, airline officials aren't
allowed to single out passengers for scruti

Walter Wriston

2005-01-24 Thread R.A. Hettinga



The Wall Street Journal

  January 24, 2005

 REVIEW & OUTLOOK


Walter Wriston
January 24, 2005; Page A18

One great underlying strength of the modern American economy is its
innovative and competitive financial system, and one of its architects was
Walter Wriston, who died last week at age 85.

As an executive with First National City Bank, and later chairman of
Citicorp, he helped to create products and services that millions of
Americans now take for granted, such as the certificate of deposit and the
automated teller machine. Under his leadership, Citicorp became the largest
American bank and one of the most profitable in the world, with a global
customer base that continues to grow today.

We always thought it a shame he was never Treasury Secretary, though his
intellectual influence was greater than that of most who did serve in that
post. After his retirement from Citicorp in 1984, he wrote widely and
presciently about the way technology was transforming our age. His 1992
book, "The Twilight of Sovereignty: How the Information Revolution is
Transforming Our World," was ahead of its time. He was a major supporter of
the Manhattan Institute and other think-tanks that promoted free market
ideas.

Raised in modest Midwest circumstances, Mr. Wriston was the kind of
creative and public-spirited capitalist that America is so fortunate to
produce and remains one of the secrets of our prosperity.

-- 
-
R. A. Hettinga 
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-24 Thread James A. Donald

--
James A. Donald:
> > Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, 
> > and it's existence was successfully kept secret from the 
> > CIA for this time.  (For had the CIA detected it, they 
> > would have instantly leaked the information, the same way 
> > they have leaked so much other stuff.)

On 24 Jan 2005 at 19:43, Steve Thompson wrote:
> I rather doubt that anyone outside of the CIA could really 
> say what they would or would not do in such a situation.

They would do what they always done in recent decades - suck up
to the Democrat party.  (Which is a major improvement on the
state department which sucks up to America's enemies.)

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Chemical products :

2005-01-24 Thread Mr.Lee

 A: STRONTIUM HYDROXIDE OCTAHYDRATEM
B: Polychloroprene Adhesives

Chongqing huaqi Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. is engaged in the research, development 
and production of strontium salt production series and other mineral fine 
chemicals.
 a Sino-Japan joint venture established in 1995, is engaged in developing, 
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  strontium salt

 1. STRONTIUM HYDROXIDE OCTAHYDRATEMolecular formula: Sr(OH)2.8H2O97% 
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RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Thompson

 --- "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> --
> On 24 Jan 2005 at 10:34, Tyler Durden wrote:
> > "Military and civilian participants said in interviews that
> > the new unit has been operating in secret for two years -- in
> > Iraq (news - web sites),"
> >
> > Well hell, it's doing such a good job already it should
> > definitely be expanded!
> 
> Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, and
> it's existence was successfully kept secret from the CIA for
> this time.  (For had the CIA detected it, they would have
> instantly leaked the information, the same way they have leaked
> so much other stuff.) 

I rather doubt that anyone outside of the CIA could really 
say what they would or would not do in such a situation.  Recall
that people in that world view deceit as much more than a 
skill.  It's more of a way of life to them, and as a result
of so many years of rounds of layerd deceit colouring their 
operations, the analysis of their actions is bound to fail
when approached with that kind of simplicity.

Oh, by the way.  The last post I made in reply to you went
unanswered just when I was starting to make some difficult
points.  Surely that was an oversight?

Regards,

Steve

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RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-24 Thread James A. Donald

--
On 24 Jan 2005 at 10:34, Tyler Durden wrote:
> "Military and civilian participants said in interviews that
> the new unit has been operating in secret for two years -- in
> Iraq (news - web sites),"
>
> Well hell, it's doing such a good job already it should
> definitely be expanded!

Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, and
it's existence was successfully kept secret from the CIA for
this time.  (For had the CIA detected it, they would have
instantly leaked the information, the same way they have leaked
so much other stuff.) 

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NKS Summer School 2005

2005-01-24 Thread NKS Summer School

The 2005 NKS Summer School will be hosted at Brown University
from June 20 to July 8 and we want to make sure that the best
possible candidates have a chance to apply.

This is a unique opportunity for graduate students,
undergraduates, postdocs, teachers, and professionals to carry
out an original NKS project that pursues major educational and
career objectives. Each student will work one-on-one with a
project mentor and interact directly with Stephen Wolfram. This
tuition-free program includes three weeks of lectures, ongoing
informal discussions, and plenty of independent time for
rigorous scientific research and exploration.

We encourage you to apply or to refer anyone who might be
interested in pursuing intensive NKS research. Professors or
instructors recommending students to this program should send
email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let us know a little
bit about each student.

The deadline to apply is March 15.

For more information on the 2005 NKS Summer School, go to:
http://www.wolframscience.com/summerschool

Sincerely,

Todd Rowland, Ph.D.
NKS Summer School Academic Director

Catherine Boucher, Ph.D.
NKS Summer School Program Director

CCNews Alert

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January
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Bontan Corporation Inc. Provides Progress Report On Drilling Program In Papua New Guinea And Gas Exploration Project In Louisiana

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The well is on the Black Pass Prospect in Petroleum Prospect Licence (PPL) 236 in Papua New Guinea and is located approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Port Moresby. The primary target is a limestone reef, which was identified by a recently conducted seismic survey. The depth of this reef is estimated to be 3,937 ft. (1,200 m)... more >>

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HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. (formerly Westrange Corp.) Announces Name and Symbol Change and Completion of Acquisition of HTC Hydrogen Thermochem Corp.

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Re: Vive le rubber 'ose: 'The Interrogators' and 'Torture': Hard Questions

2005-01-24 Thread Steve Thompson

 --- "R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>

> 
> The New York Times
> 
> January 23, 2005
> 
> 'The Interrogators' and 'Torture': Hard Questions
>  By ROBERT D. KAPLAN
[snip]

What a load of shit.

The reality of today is such that the "defense establishment", or rather
it's personnnel will use torture, fraud, and assassination to (a) advance
their Total Police State Paradise, (b) to run their spook schools, (c) to
steal whatever they want, and (d) to bury the evidence of their
malfeasance.  They will steamroller domestic and foreign civilians and
combatants indiscriminately, held in check only by virtue of the
lamentable practical necessity of appearing to have valid reasons for
actions taken.

Because the judicial branch of government is entirely tame, and because
the media is in the habit of obeying, and because there is a secret
history to the military and SpookWorld that is wrapped up in the mythology
of religion and superstition, there is simply no process extant to address
the inequities of the present time.

The only action on the front, as it were, consists of political and
ideological yes-men banging the drum of conformity and assimilation: "join
us and prosper; obey and serve; destroy the reality that does not support
our orthodoxy".  Dissent is marginalised and criminalised, although
provocations are important in order to provide the fearsome spectacles
necessary to encouraging fear and cultivating obedience.

Too bad there are so many dirty hands.  The necessity of protecting so
many actual establishment terrorists from sanction, legal or otherwise,
may kill billions one day.  Or worse, as death isn't the worst thing that
can occur to an individual... as many of you are aware.

Keep up with the bullshit, folks.  Continue to justify all the repressive
and regressive measures.  Legitimise arbitrary human rights abuses.  Keep
training your terrorists.   Pretend you must use slaves.  Keep lying to
yourselves about the rightness of your approach, and the necessity of the
web of deceits necessary to keeping your veil of propriety afloat.

It's been clear to me for a long time that your little club is morally
bankrupt, although we know that such considerations are entirely obsolete
to the modern ubermench.  Arguing on your terms is a losing proposition. 
The game was lost a long time ago: when the taboos on certain kinds of
speech became entrenched.  Recapitulations of traditional religious speech
and action into modern forms, such as "interrogation" simply aren't enough
to undo the damage.

By the way, I really enjoy the drugs used today in the service of official
knowledge acquisition.  I sincerely hope that many more people enjoy them
too.  And I would be remiss if I failed to remind everyone who is a player
in this part of SpookWorld to tounge the peanuts from my shit.  War
criminals and cowards all.

Regards,

Steve

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Securing Wireless Apps Webinar from Unstrung

2005-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden

Should be of interest to someone on this list.
-TD
Dear Colleague,
As an industry professional, you may be interested to know about an 
upcoming online event being presented by Unstrung (www.unstrung.com), the 
worldwide source for analysis of the wireless economy. This free Web 
seminar - " Securing Wireless Apps in Financial, Government & Military 
Markets" - will evaluate recent progress in a critical market.

Keeping information out of the hands of interlopers is an important task 
for any net manager - but it's critical for those with the responsibility 
for keeping financial, governmental, and military applications secure. 
Security issues continue to be the main concern holding back widespread 
wireless adoption in these environments.

During this presentation we'll focus on:
- The critical role of security in these vertical markets - why does it 
matter?
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RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-24 Thread Tyler Durden

"Military and civilian participants said in interviews that the new unit has
been operating in secret for two years -- in Iraq (news - web sites),"
Well hell, it's doing such a good job already it should definitely be 
expanded!

-TD
From: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ronald McDonald's SS
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:15:07 +0100
I'm sure in due time they'll just start calling it Strategic Support, 
period.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&u=/washpost/20050123/ts_washpo
st/a29414_2005jan22&printer=1
Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain
Sun Jan 23, 1:14 AM ET
By Barton Gellman, Washington Post Staff Writer
The Pentagon (news - web sites), expanding into the CIA (news - web 
sites)'s
historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting
U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over
clandestine operations abroad, according to interviews with participants 
and
documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The previously undisclosed organization, called the Strategic Support 
Branch,
arose from Rumsfeld's written order to end his "near total dependence on 
CIA"
for what is known as human intelligence. Designed to operate without
detection and under the defense secretary's direct control, the Strategic
Support Branch deploys small teams of case officers, linguists, 
interrogators
and technical specialists alongside newly empowered special operations
forces.

Military and civilian participants said in interviews that the new unit has
been operating in secret for two years -- in Iraq (news - web sites),
Afghanistan (news - web sites) and other places they declined to name.
According to an early planning memorandum to Rumsfeld from Gen. Richard B.
Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the focus of the intelligence
initiative is on "emerging target countries such as Somalia, Yemen,
Indonesia, Philippines and Georgia." Myers and his staff declined to be
interviewed.
The Strategic Support Branch was created to provide Rumsfeld with 
independent
tools for the "full spectrum of humint operations," according to an 
internal
account of its origin and mission. Human intelligence operations, a term 
used
in counterpoint to technical means such as satellite photography, range 
from
interrogation of prisoners and scouting of targets in wartime to the
peacetime recruitment of foreign spies. A recent Pentagon memo states that
recruited agents may include "notorious figures" whose links to the U.S.
government would be embarrassing if disclosed.

Perhaps the most significant shift is the Defense Department's bid to 
conduct
surreptitious missions, in friendly and unfriendly states, when 
conventional
war is a distant or unlikely prospect -- activities that have traditionally
been the province of the CIA's Directorate of Operations. Senior Rumsfeld
advisers said those missions are central to what they called the 
department's
predominant role in combating terrorist threats.

The Pentagon has a vast bureaucracy devoted to gathering and analyzing
intelligence, often in concert with the CIA, and news reports over more 
than
a year have described Rumsfeld's drive for more and better human
intelligence. But the creation of the espionage branch, the scope of its
clandestine operations and the breadth of Rumsfeld's asserted legal 
authority
have not been detailed publicly before. Two longtime members of the House
Intelligence Committee, a Democrat and a Republican, said they knew no
details before being interviewed for this article.

Pentagon officials said they established the Strategic Support Branch using
"reprogrammed" funds, without explicit congressional authority or
appropriation. Defense intelligence missions, they said, are subject to 
less
stringent congressional oversight than comparable operations by the CIA.
Rumsfeld's dissatisfaction with the CIA's operations directorate, and his
determination to build what amounts in some respects to a rival service,
follows struggles with then-CIA Director George J. Tenet over intelligence
collection priorities in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pentagon officials said the
CIA naturally has interests that differ from those of military commanders,
but they also criticized its operations directorate as understaffed,
slow-moving and risk-averse. A recurring phrase in internal Pentagon
documents is the requirement for a human intelligence branch "directly
responsive to tasking from SecDef," or Rumsfeld.

The new unit's performance in the field -- and its latest commander, 
reserve
Army Col. George Waldroup -- are controversial among those involved in the
closely held program. Pentagon officials acknowledged that Waldroup and 
many
of those brought quickly into his service lack the experience and training
typical of intelligence officers and special operators. In his civilian
career as a federal manager, according to a Justice Department (news - web
sites) inspector general's report, Waldroup was at the

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