British and US security experts believe the hackers are working with the tacit approval - or possibly even direct support - of authorities in the People's Republic of China and are attempting to acquire western technology in a massive hit and run raid on the world's intellectual property to aid their booming economic growth.
In 2001, Limonov and several members of his party were arrested and charged with attempting to acquire weapons, raise an illegal army, and invade Kazakhstan with the goal of setting up a National-Bolsheviks republic in the Russian-populated northern part of that country.
Indeed, its concern about future threats from unpredictably violent countries and people who are attempting to acquire long-range missiles is naturally going to intensify.
Rather, they are attempting to acquire and assert greater power to manipulate the economy and enforce their will on society.
Ms Bishop's speech is the latest concern that Isis is attempting to acquire nuclear and chemical and biological weapons, after India warned the extremists could obtain a nuclear weapon from Pakistan.
As they deliberated on Tuesday, the shrunken jury, five men and six women, resumed sending notes to the judge, including one about the language of one of the charges facing the four defendants: attempting to acquire and use antiaircraft missiles.
He was also a member of the Bush administration which opposed US ratification of various international treaties, lobbied for the sacking of the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and promoted claims that Iraq was attempting to acquire uranium which turned out to be untrue.
To date, therefore, it is unsuited to studies whose primary goal is to measure the function of the hippocampus and surrounding structures, meaning that such studies must persevere with fMRI and the challenges it poses when attempting to acquire data from a non-sleeping infant.
And the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is attempting to acquire the biotechnology company Human Genome Sciences for $2.6 billion.
Even a robust inspection and monitoring regime might not keep Iraq from attempting to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
