The UK's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure delivered its annual cybersecurity report to the Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee this week. The Telegraph reports (link below) that in this meeting one of the key pieces of testimony was that "foreign intelligence services have successfully compromised the security of many large British companies".

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Bara has ordered the army to seal off the West Bank and tighten security around the old city of Jerusalem until midnight Saturday (3/13).

Two bombers blew themselves up in a densely populated part of Lahore, Pakistan on Friday. The nearly simultaneous attacks, which have left more than 40 people dead, targeted the Pakistani military.

According to various reports, Yemeni officials say an American born al-Qaeda member is responsible for trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen this past weekend.

The suspect is being identified as Sharif Mobley, 26, of Buena, NJ. His escape bid apparently was unsuccessful and he is in Yemeni custody.

According to a report (link below) from Today's Zaman, in a nationwide operation on Thursday Turkish police arrested 23 suspected "hackers" who are accused of working on behalf of the separatist group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the U.S.

In his book "A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments", investigative journalist H. P. Albarelli Jr. primarily writes about the suspicious 1953 suicide of Frank Olson, a biochemist working for the US Army's top-secret Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Olson supposedly jumped or fell out of a 13th story window after unknowingly taking LSD, a drug he allegedly experimented with for the Army.

However, from this Telegraph.co.uk article we learn another piece of history Albarelli explores is the French mystery of Le Pain Maudit ("Cursed Bread") in which the inhabitants of the village of Pont-Saint-Esprit were suddenly struck down by mass insanity and hallucinations in 1951. Albarelli claims this outbreak was the result of a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the very same Army outpost where Olson worked before his death.

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