Robots are increasingly taking over more soldier duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, with predictions that as much as 30 percent of the U.S. Army will be robotic by 2020. Two WUSTL scientists, Bill Smart and Doug Few, are on the cutting edge of this new wave of technology.

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1. Aug. 4, 2008 — Military use of robots increases in U.S. in the Xinhua News Agency (China)

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A Nigerian immigrant here facing deportation says he's going to be tortured and killed if he is, in fact, sent back home. Frank Enwonwu was caught smuggling heroin 22 years ago. Since then he's lived the dangerous life of an informant for federal drug authorities.
He claims part of the deal was a promise to allow him to stay in the U.S. and escape revenge from the Nigerian drug dealers. Professor Stephen Legomsky, an immigration law expert at Washington University in St. Louis, comments.

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1. Feb. 7, 2008 — Drug Informant Fights Deportation in the NPR Day to Day

The Department of Homeland Security today awards a multi-billion dollar contract to beef up border security. The anticipated winner is Boeing. Despite the aerospace giant's background, Boeing's border security plan is less high tech than you might expect.
WUSTL computer science professor Robert Pless comments on surveillance technology. He is assistant director of WUSTL's Center for Security Technologies.

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1. Sept. 21, 2006 — U.S. to Deploy Proven Technology on Borders in the NPR - Morning Edition

WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields comments on President Bush's annual State of the Union address and looks back on his previous speeches.

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1. Jan. 27, 2006 — Bush Has Hits, Misses in Annual Speech in the CBS News online

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Gunmen killed a second defense lawyer in the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants on Tuesday, throwing the controversial proceedings into greater turmoil and casting new doubt on the credibility of the tribunal.
WUSTL law professor Leila Nadya Sadat, who helped train Iraqi jurists, comments.

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1. Nov. 9, 2005 — 2nd Hussein Trial Defense Lawyer Slain in the Los Angeles Times

Article updates the CIA leak case and suggests that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald may be piecing together a case that White House officials conspired to leak various types of classified material in conversations with reporters -- including Ms. Plame's identity but also other secrets related to national security.
WUSTL law professor and national security law expert Kathleen Clark comments.

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1. Oct. 21, 2005 — CIA Leak Queries Look at Disclosure of Classified Data in the Wall Street Journal

The war on terrorism is boosting AI research with an infusion of cash. The Defense Department hopes an elite group of AI scientists will develop more tools to help intelligence analysts find terrorists before they strike.
At an artificial intelligence conference in San Jose, Calif., last week, several groups of university researchers presented papers on work they have done in the area of counter-terrorism. WUSTL professor Bill Smart comments.

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1. Aug. 5, 2004 — Defense Department hopes to use 'AI' in terrorism war in the TheState.com

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