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Reynosa and Monterrey: citizens using Twitter to alert fellow residents
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 9/Sep/2010 00:51
Narcos hijack buses to block an intersection in Reynosa.
In Reynosa and Monterrey, citizens have begun to use the online social networking service Twitter to alert fellow residents of potentially dangerous situations such as shootouts and blockades.
Twitter allows users to send out 140-character messages to their “followers.” It also allows users to create topics called “hash tags” by preceding words with a hash symbol (#). The way in which Twitter organizes information allows users to communicate and disseminate very short messages very quickly.
Afghan Taliban leader says his fighters close to victory in driving foreign forces out of Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 9/Sep/2010 00:23
Mullah Omar said the withdrawal of foreign troops would be the "best option for regional stability" [GALLO/GETTY
“The Afghan Taliban leader has said his fighters were close to victory in driving foreign forces out of the country.
In a message on Wednesday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month Ramadan, Mullah Omar called on Afghans to redouble their struggle and push for foreign troops to withdraw, saying the Nato-led coalition was losing the war.
He said victory “over the invading infidels is now imminent” attributing the progress to “belief in the help of Allah and unity among ourselves”.
He said “those military experts who have framed strategies of the invasion of Afghanistan or are now engaged in hammering out new strategies, admit themselves that all their strategies are nothing but a complete failure”.
The Taliban leader added that the occupying foreign forces “are now under pressures from their people due to the growing and heavy military expenditures, casualties and the fruitlessness of the war”.
Mullah Omar called on Barack Obama, the US president, to withdraw troops “unconditionally and as soon as possible” saying it is “the best option for regional stability”.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/09/2010990391117976.html
BREAKING: Firearm Regulation Hearing Set for the 14th
The U.S. Senate has scheduled a hearing for the 14th of September titled “Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process”
Does that sound good to anyone? If you live in or near D.C. I urge you to sit in on this hearing and report back what was discussed. It sounds to me like another improper use of the “commerce clause”.
Additional Info: The hearing was called by the chairman of the committee Senator Leahy of Vermont.
Lance Cpl. Nicole Nelson, a radio operator with 8th Communications Battalion
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 8/Sep/2010 01:39
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Lance Cpl. Nicole Nelson, a radio operator with 8th Communications Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group (Forward), finishes her drawing of a scorpion that will don her battalion's deployment T-shirt aboard Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, July 29. Nelson has been drawing since she was three years old and spends her free time during the deployment refining her art skills.
School – and hopefully a Future – Built for Afghani Children
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 8/Sep/2010 01:37
Students watch as one of their peers read from the board on the first day of school at the new Marjah Central High School, Helmand province Afghanistan, Sept. 5. The school is a symbol of the growing influence the Afghan government has in the Marjah District. Photo by Lance Cpl. Jeremy Fasci
In Tamaulipas, Mexico, violence consumes everyone.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:35
In Tamaulipas, violence consumes everyone. Terror paralyzes the authorities, businessmen, politicians and all its citizens. The war between the Gulf Cartel and its rival Los Zetas has the border state on the verge of collapse.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas .- The news of the murder of 72 Central and South American migrants on a ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, which appeared on Tuesday, August 24, shocked the world, but not Tamaulipas. The locals say that this case is not even 10% of what happens in the state and is covered up by the authorities.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/terror-and-silenced-screams-violence.html
Mexican Drug Cartels Cripple Mexico’s biggest natural gas fields
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:31
“The meandering network of pipes, wells and tankers belonging to the gigantic state oil company Pemex have long been an easy target of crooks and drug traffickers who siphon off natural gas, gasoline and even crude, robbing the Mexican treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Now the cartels have taken sabotage to a new level: They’ve hobbled key operations in parts of the Burgos Basin, home to Mexico’s biggest natural gas fields.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/mexican-drug-cartels-cripple-pemex.html
Mexican Senate: drug gangs dominate or influence 71% of municipalities in Mexico.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:28
A Mexican Senate committee reported last Tuesday that drug gangs have dominated the mayors of some 195 municipalities and influence another 1536, which account for a staggering 71% of the total two thousand 439 municipalities in Mexico.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/senate-narco-controls-71-of-mexican.html
Mexican Military opens fire on innocent family in tragic mistake – kills Father and Son
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:25
“In what has been deemed a tragic and fatal error, elements of the Mexican Army opened fire on a vehicle whose driver ignored orders to stop in a military checkpoint.
The incident resulted in the death of a father and son and five family members injured.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/fatal-error-military-open-fire-on-nuevo.html
Mexican who ordered assassinations of U.S. consulate and her husband appears in TX court
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:22
Jesus Ernesto Chávez Castillo, known as "El Camello," or the camel,
“Jesus Ernesto Chvez Castillo, who told Mexican authorities that he ordered the assassinations of a a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, appeared in U.S. District Court in San Antonio on Friday after his extradition.
A man suspected of ordering the assassination of a U.S. Consulate worker and her husband in Juárez in March appeared Friday in a San Antonio courtroom under tight security and a shroud of secrecy.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/consulate-slayings-mastermind-in-texas.html