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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS "detachment fracture". The survey voyage, taking place during March and April, is led by marine geophysicist Professor Roger Searle, from Durham University. The team intends to use sonar to build up an image of the seafloor and then take rock cores using a robotic seabed drill developed by the British Geological Survey in conjunction with Dr MacLeod. (Source: BBC News, I March 2007, http://tinyurl.com/24twf6) attack on a civilian entity designed to suspicious movement before sending the romote fear or alarm and further a data to onboard software which will check articular political agenda. The study only __ it against individual passenger profiles. included attacks that caused at least one Scientists from Britain and Germany are atality and were attributed by RAND toa spending £25 million developing a system nown jihadist group. In some terrorist which they hope will make it virtually attacks, especially the case in Iraq, RAND impossible to hijack an airliner, by as not been able to attribute a particular _ providing pilots and cabin crew with an attack to a known jihadist group; thus the — early warning of a possible terrorist attack study likely understates the extent of jihadist such as 9/11. terrorism in Iraq and around the globe. They say that rapid eye movements, Their study yields one resounding _ blinking excessively, licking lips or ways finding: the rate of terrorist attacks around of stroking hair or ears are classic the world by jihadist groups and the rate of _ symptoms of somebody trying to conceal atalities in those attacks increased something. A separate microphone will dramatically after the invasion of Iraq. hear and record even whispered remarks. Globally there was a 607 per cent rise in Islamic suicide bombers are known to the average yearly incidence of attacks whisper texts from the Koran in the (28.3 attacks per year before and 199.8 moments before they explode bombs. after) and a 237 per cent rise in the average The software being developed by the fatality rate. A large part of this rise scientists will be so sophisticated that it occurred in Iraq, which accounts for half of _ will be able to take account of nervous the global total of jihadist terrorist attacks flyers or people with a natural twitch, in the post-Iraq War period. But even helping to ensure there are no false alarms. excluding Iraq, the average yearly number "We're trying to develop technologies of jihadist attacks and resulting fatalities that indicate the differences between still rose sharply around the world by 265 normal passengers and those who may be a per cent and 58 per cent respectively. threat to others or themselves," said (Source: Mother Jones, March/April 2007, | Catherine Neary of BAE Systems. http://tinyurl.com/yszrdh) (Source: Mail on Sunday, UK, 1] Feb 2007) WAR ON TERRORISM BREEDS MORE TERRORISM? study by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, research fellows at the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law, shows that the Iraq War has generated a stunning sevenfold increase in the yearly rate of fatal jihadist attacks, amounting to literally hundreds of additional terrorist attacks and thousands of civilian lives lost. Even when terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is excluded, fatal attacks in the rest of the world have increased by more than one-third. The study shows that the Iraq conflict has greatly increased the spread of the Al- Qaeda ideological virus, as shown by a rising number of terrorist attacks in the past three years from London to Kabul and from Madrid to the Red Sea. The study draws its data from the MIPT- RAND Terrorism database (available at www.terrorismknowledgebase.org), which is widely considered to be the best publicly available database on terrorism incidents. RAND defines a terrorist attack as an CAMERAS TO SPY ON AIRCRAFT PASSENGER BEHAVIOUR iny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers are to be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the War on Terrorism. Cameras fitted to seat-backs will record every twitch, blink, facial expression or HIGH-RESOLUTION BRAIN SCAN CAN READ INTENTIONS team of neuroscientists from Germany and the UK has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act. The scientists are from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, the University College London and Oxford University. The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists’ ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and it raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future. The team used high-resolution brain scans to identify patterns of activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, revealing what a person planned to do in the near future. It is the first time scientists have succeeded in reading intentions in this way. The research builds on a series of recent studies in which brain imaging has been used to identify tell-tale activity linked to lying, violent behaviour and racial prejudice. The latest work reveals the dramatic pace This new water filer G eliminates all chemicals = =] } but doesn't seemto deal : ‘W) yath Hamsters very well , a eo Samearwilte 8 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com