Background – Piracy – An overview of piracy in Asia.

• Virtual Information Center: Piracy in Asia – Primer

Background – Pakistan – Ahmed Rashid gives insightful background to the 2 recent assassination attempts against President Musharraf of Pakistan.

• The Daily Telegraph: Appeasement is Musharraf’s worst enemy

Background – Intelligence – An interesting Cold War intelligence coup, carried out by the British military intelligence unit BRIXMIS. For more on BRIXMIS, look here.

• The Daily Telegraph: Britain’s secret jet crash Cold War coup