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UK PM Gordon Brown, 3rd right, and Alan West, left, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Security and Counter-terrorism visiting offices in London of a business & technology consultancy firm, June 25, 2009, as part of the Cyber Security Strategy launch.

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Analysis & Opinions - The Huffington Post

Future Trends and Challenges to UK Security

| June 11, 2010

"Cybersecurity is likely to overtake terrorism as the number one threat to the UK's critical infrastructure over the coming decades, even if lags behind terrorism as a threat in the public mind. This is because of the rise in access to computers and computer literacy around the globe, the relative ease and anonymity of conducting a cyber attack on critical infrastructure, the reduced risk to the protagonist compared to other forms of attack, and the fact that protagonists can attack more flexibly, quickly, and with minimal institutional preparation or a shorter decision-making process than states or formalized terrorist groups require."

An interceptor Arrow missile launched off of Israel's coast. The Defense Ministry said this anti-missile system designed to protect Israel from attack by Iran had been successfully tested, Apr. 7, 2009.

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Why Israel is Safer (from Iran) Than it Might Seem

| November 20, 2009

Most of the arguments that Iran is a threat to Israel center around Iranian President Ahmadinejad's anti-Semitism and holocaust denial. But he does not make Iranian foreign policy, Khameini does. Khameini has been in office since 1989, throughout the period of relative detente with the West during Khatami's presidency, and through the violent and volatile Ahmadinejad years. Yes, there is evidence that Khameini is a tyrant comfortable sanctioning violence to hold onto power in Iran; no, there is no evidence that he is a psychopath whose hatred of Israel would drive him to order the murder of millions. Yes, there is evidence that he sanctions the sponsorship of anti-Israel terrorism to increase his influence in the region, but no, there is no evidence that he values a confrontation with Israel the reprisal from which would inevitably cause Iranian casualties and threaten the regime's already weak power structure (from within even if not from without).