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Company continues international expansion, aims to provide solutions for small businesses in underserved and emerging markets CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Business Listing, a service of UBL Interactive, Inc., today announced the launch of its new Australian service at au.ubl.org, a supplement to UBL's business profile distribution services in the US, Canada, and UK. In Australia, UBL will provide businesses with two options for claiming and managing...

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Retired Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, the former commander of the U.S. Central Command, will lead a new Stimson Center Task Force on U.S. Drone Policy, Stimson President and CEO Ellen Laipson announced today. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130228/DC68405LOGO ) Abizaid is currently the distinguished chair of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The vice chair of the task force is Rosa Brooks, former counselor to...

Speakers to include Secretary Janet Napolitano, Deputy Secretary Ashton Carter, Admiral William McRaven, and General Mark Welsh WASHINGTON, May 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Program announces the 2013 Aspen Security Forum, its fourth annual forum on national security, homeland security, and counterterrorism issues and policies. More than 80 top-level current and former government officials, industry leaders, noted print and broadcast...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Yet another company with a large public presence saw their Twitter accounts hacked last week. Whereas other hackers have used company Twitter accounts to post homophobic or racist statements, these hackers made comments about the US and their involvement with Al-Qaeda. The so-called Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has claimed responsibility for these digital takeovers as the Twitter accounts for CBS’s “60 Minutes,” (@60Minutes)...

Points to links, recruiting with other militants in region, including from Polisario-run camps WASHINGTON, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ (MACP) -- A new report on terrorism in North Africa warns of a new al-Qaeda hub for jihadi recruits and a potential launching pad for terrorist attacks much closer to US and European shores, along an "Arc of Instability" stretching across Africa's Sahara/Sahel region. The study, "Terrorism in North Africa & the Sahel in 2012: Global...

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Esquire magazine will publish an exclusive in-depth feature story in the March 2013 issue about the former Navy SEAL Team Six member who killed Osama Bin Laden. The 15,000-word story, "The Shooter," is written by Phil Bronstein, Executive Chair of the Center for Investigative Reporting (the piece was reported in cooperation with CIR), and is based on extensive interviews with the man who killed bin Laden. The story reveals untold,...

In the news release, National Geographic Channel Announces Nov. 4 Airdate For Harvey Weinsten Film "SEAL TEAM SIX: THE RAID ON OSAMA BIN LADEN", issued 05-Oct-2012 by National Geographic Channels over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the headline should read "Weinstein" rather than "Weinsten" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: National Geographic Channel Announces Nov. 4 Airdate For Harvey Weinstein Film "SEAL TEAM SIX: THE RAID ON...

Al-Qaeda concerns grow as dozens in Polisario-run camps in Algeria reportedly join Qaeda-linked MUJAO WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ (MACP) -- Following a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad Dine El Otmani in Rabat Wednesday, Senator Joe Lieberman (CT) praised Morocco's peaceful model of political reform and urged speedy implementation of its autonomy initiative for Western Sahara, which he said was a "serious, credible, good, and realistic" proposal that...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ (MACP) -- In a surprise move underscoring the growing danger in Africa's Sahara/Sahel, Spain ordered the evacuation of all its aid-workers from the Polisario-run refugee camps near Tindouf in Algeria. Aid workers from three other Western nations also left. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo cited increased fears for aid-worker safety and "well-founded indications" of possible attack by al-Qaeda-linked groups...

Arizona State University communications study shows 'Verse of the Sword' is practically absent in propaganda A common belief in the West is that al Qaeda wishes to impose Islam everywhere. This might be a pipe dream for the group, but a new study of their use of religious texts suggests that Islamists' goals are much more modest. Researchers with Arizona State University's Center for Strategic Communication (CSC) analyzed more than 2,000 items of propaganda from al Qaeda and related...