Pakistans Peoples Suffering Still Grows

This isn't about the flooding, but since these are about events in Pakistan and there evidently isn't another article here today that would be more fitting in terms of topic specifics, I'll post the links and short excperts in this page in order to draw attention to these news pieces.

"CIA used pirated, inaccurate software to target drone attacks: lawsuit"

by Daniel Tencer, Raw Story, Sept. 24th, 2010

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m70096

'They want to kill people with my software that doesn't work,' software exec tells court

The CIA used illegally pirated software to direct Predator drone attacks, despite apparently knowing the software was inaccurate, according to documents in an intellectual property lawsuit.

The lawsuit, working its way through a Massachusetts court, alleges that the CIA purchased a pirated and inaccurate version of a location analysis program, which may have incorrectly located targets by as much as 42 feet.

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Massachusetts-based Intelligent Integration Systems Inc., or IISI, has asked a judge to stop clients of IT firm Netezza from using software IISI says is pirated, reports The Register.

According to IISI, Netezza reverse-engineered a location analysis program called Geospatial and installed it on its own hardware, which it then sold to the CIA. Netezza had contracted IISI to build the software, but decided to create its own unauthorized version after the project suffered delays, the lawsuit alleges.

The CIA accepted the pirated software despite reportedly knowing it "produced locations inaccurate by up to 13 metres (42.6 feet)," reports The Register.

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"Pakistan erupts after US jailing of 'daughter of the nation' Aafia Siddiqui"

by Declan Walsh in Karachi, Guardian, UK, Sept. 24th, 2010

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m70094

Thousands take to the streets to protest as scientist convicted of attempting to kill US soldiers gets 86 years

Pakistan's prime minister hailed a scientist convicted of attempting to kill American soldiers as the "daughter of the nation" today, and vowed to redouble efforts to secure her return to Pakistan.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets after a New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, a US-educated neuroscientist and mother of three, to 86 years in jail.

Police fired teargas and scuffled with protesters surging towards the heavily fortified US consulate in her hometown, Karachi.

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