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Sorin Adam Matei

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The fall of Tripoli: the inside story of operation Dawn Mermaid

Abdel Majid Mlegta is the man who single handedly turned the siege of Tripoli by the rebel forces from a stalemate into a quick, over night victory. Operation Dawn Mermaid, a joint operation of rebel forces on the ground and NATO bombing…

Your own personal spy agency: Google Earth

Foreign Policy: It’s way beyond crop circles, blood-red lakes in Iraq, and half-hidden UFOs. Officials from Greece to New York to Switzerland are using the free satellite images to find tax cheats with undeclared swimming pools and illegal pot plantations. Armchair cartographers…