From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, was once used for nuclear testing, and now includes a counterintelligence training facility and a private airport capable of handling Boeing 737 aircraft. It’s a restricted
By G.F. | PRAGUE LEONID SHEBARSHIN, who died last week aged 77, was no ordinary KGB officer. The dark-haired graduate of Moscow's prestigious Institute of International Relations had risen to head the service's foreign intelligence directorate in 1991 when his boss, KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, took part in the coup d'état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. Shebarshin declined to back the plot
Abu Aardvark The battle's done, and we kind of won, so we sound our victory cheer: where do we go from here? ... a blog by Marc Lynch This afternoon I spoke at a standing room only panel discussion in the Congressional office buildings about U.S. policy towards Egyptian democracy hosted by the Project on Middle East Democracy. I don't think I made any new friends in the Egyptian embassy (althou
Camila Vallejo speaks with television crews during a demonstration on March 15.Credit...Alejandro Kirchuk for The New York Times The hotel had a musty, Pinochet-era atmosphere — dark bar, heavy furniture, bartenders in white shirts and black ties — and drew mostly businessmen. But when the bartenders found out that my friends and I were going to the student march, they cut lemons for us and put th
BEIJING — Chinese security officials have issued a list of six men suspected of being members of a militant group that they said used Asian nations as staging grounds for terrorist attacks in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang. The group, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, has claimed responsibility for a series of knifings and explosions that killed at least 18 people last July in Xinjiang,
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