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Archive for August, 2010
Pakistan Diaster Relief
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 19/Aug/2010 02:35
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Pakistani civilians wait to board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during humanitarian relief efforts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan(formerly known as the Northwest Frontier province, Pakistan). Photo by Capt. Paul Duncan
New grants for maximizing water usage in Maysan, Iraq.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 19/Aug/2010 02:33
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A newly installed drip irrigation system stretches across a field. Drip irrigation is widely recognized as one of the most efficient uses of water for crops, maximizing water usage and conservation by focusing the water exactly where plants are growing with aid of irrigation equipment. Submitted by heather davis
2,076 Policemen killed in Mexican drug war.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 19/Aug/2010 02:29
According to a report released today by Mexico’s cabinet level Federal Police Ministry, the SSP, organized crime and drug cartel attacks and executions have killed 2,076 policemen since President Calderon launched his offensive in December 2006.
Municipal policemen accounted for 915 deaths, followed by state policemen with 698 deaths and the federal police with 463 deaths. The total of 2,076 police deaths accounted for 7.3% of the figure of 28,228 total deaths attributed to organized crime from December 1, 2006 to July 29, 2010.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/lives-of-policemen-in-mexico.html
Hunting Party of 8 killed in Oaxaca State
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:26
by Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
The victims were out hunting when they were intercepted by an armed commando in a dirt road located in the Ejido Tierra Alta, two of the bodies showed the coup de grace (shot at point blank to the head).
The Secretary of Public Security of Oaxaca, Javier Rueda, confirmed that the group of people went out hunting, when they were caught by an armed commando.
Two of the victims were shot execution-style and the rest were sprayed with gunfire to avoid leaving witnesses.
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Narco-Censorship: Under threat from Mexican drug cartels, reporters go silent
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:20
Placards with pictures of slain journalists are seen this month at a Mexico City rally by journalists protesting the violence they face. (Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP/Getty Images / August 7, 2010)
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Journalists know drug traffickers can easily kidnap or kill them — and get away with it.
A new word has been written into the lexicon of Mexico’s drug war: narco-censorship.
It’s when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth in a country where members of the press have been intimidated, kidnapped and killed.”
Juarez Cartel Trains Beautiful Women as Sicarios (hired assassins)
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:16
“The armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel (La Linea), which operates on the border of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso is recruiting and training dozens of young, pretty women as sicarios (hired assassins), said a captured sicario hired by the criminal organization.
“They are beautiful teenagers, to deceive the enemy even more,” said the suspected member of the organization of La Linea, Rogelio Amaya, to an investigative team of the federal Public Security Secretariat (SSP).
This criminal organization has between 20 and 30 women, mostly “pretty” between 18 to 30 years old, trained to kill, he said.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/juarez-cartel-trains-beautiful-women-as.html
The Body of Cavazos, Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Found
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:12
by Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
“This one hit hard, don’t ask me why, it just did. Today I am writing this the day they found the body of the Panista Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, who had been abducted two days ago by an armed commando.
U.S. educated Cavazos Leal, 38, and father of three children was abducted Sunday night from his residence in the Division of Cieneguillas. Alejandro Garza Garza, the Nuevo León state attorney, said Monday that the mayor was abducted by a commando wearing fake uniforms of the federal police of the attorney general (PGR).
Medina said this week that Cavazos, who took office last year, was probably targeted for his efforts to clean up Santiago’s corrupt police force, part of a nationwide effort to curb endemic police graft.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/body-of-cavazos-found.html
Last U.S. Combat Brigade Pulls Out Of Iraq
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 19/Aug/2010 02:04
U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. The soldiers are part of the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
“KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos.
For these troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, it was a moment of relief fraught with symbolism. Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving Iraq”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/us-combat-troops-iraq_n_687019.html
Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 18/Aug/2010 17:25
In this July 25, 2010 photo, crew of the USS George Washington line up on the deck as the supercarrier leaves South Korea's southern port city of Pusan as part of four-day maneuvers, called "Invincible Spirit," involving 20 ships, 200 aircraft and about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean sailors, off the east coast of Korea. Credit: Eric Talmadge
“Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers. Bristling with fighter jets that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America’s virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas.
China may soon put an end to that.
U.S. naval planners are scrambling to deal with what analysts say is a game-changing weapon being developed by China…”
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-08-05/world/22206136_1_carrier-chinese-defense-ministry-north-korea
Mission Spec IAS Irene Adaptive Sling vs Magpul MS2
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 18/Aug/2010 17:16
One-Point to Two-Point Conversion — The IAS main function is it’s ability to convert from a one-point to two-point sling with extreme ease and speed. While in one-point mode the sling can be converted to two-point mode by simply attaching the front hook to the front sling point on a Weapon System. At this point the weapon system can be rotated onto the Operators back.
Wilson Combat 6.8 Project
Posted by Gary in Long Guns, Warrior Tools, Wilson Combat on 18/Aug/2010 16:22
Wilson Combat 6.8
“6.8 SPC was developed for better terminal effects while still having an acceptable long range trajectory. “
After a tremendous amount of research and testing by Bill Wilson and the Wilson Combat team we are excited to announce the availability of our custom AR platform rifles chambered in 6.8 SPC caliber.
The 6.8 SPC (6.8x43mm) was initially developed by MSG Steve Holland and Chris Murray a United States Army Marksmanship Unit gunsmith to offer superior downrange lethality over the 5.56 NATO/.223 Remington in an AR pattern service rifle with minimal loss of magazine capacity and a negligible increase in recoil. When built to the level of quality and precision Wilson Combat has achieved the 6.8 SPC is also capable of outstanding accuracy and reliability.
In our match-grade, Spec II chambered 16†barrels, The 6.8 SPC is capable of pushing a .277 caliber, 85gr bullet to over 2900 FPS. 110gr bullets easily achieve 2500 FPS with factory loaded ammunition. Appropriate hand loading can achieve even higher velocities and enable the use of heavier projectiles up to 130 grains, which dramatically improves terminal ballistics over a 5.56 Nato/.223 Remington at long range.
This added ballistic performance makes the 6.8 SPC perfect for home protection and SRT/SWAT teams. The 6.8 is a truly ideal hunting round for medium to heavy game and turns the AR into a serious hunting rifle.
Today’s Taqiyya: The purpose of the Ground Zero, Cordoba mosque is healing, reconciliation and harmony
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Opinion, Threat Watch on 17/Aug/2010 22:42
“If, as backers claim, the purpose of this Cordoba mosque and community center were healing, reconciliation and harmony, it has failed in its purpose. It has already had the opposite effect, enraging and dividing the city and country.
Why would backers of the project press ahead when its purpose is impossible to attain, unless the real purpose were to impose on the people of New York a mosque they do not want there?
NEW lawsuit filed over Chicago’s gun limits
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News on 17/Aug/2010 22:10
“Only months after the Supreme Court struck down the city’s restrictions on guns, Chicago is the target of a new lawsuit because it now requires gun owners to practice at gun ranges but bans the ranges themselves.”
“While the city has adopted new regulations that make it legal to own handguns,” said Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, “they have crafted this new ordinance to make it virtually impossible for prospective gun owners to meet all legal requirements unless they travel outside the city for mandatory training.
The new ordinance prohibits public gun ranges inside the city yet the city demands that handgun owners get at least one hour of range training time.”
Why the Afghan surge probably will not succeed as well as the Iraq surge
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Aug/2010 21:49
by Omar
“Afghans, while not necessarily fond of the Taliban actions, do not seem to see huge differences between Taliban and government control. In fact sometimes they prefer the former as the Taliban can be better at governance and creating working relations with the population, largely because the government is so incompetent and corrupt. Read the rest of this entry »
Odds of US strike on Iran could rise after Gates departure
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Aug/2010 18:22
Photo by: Associated Press
The chance that the US will take military action against Iran to stop its nuclear program will likely increase after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates steps down in 2011, according to assessments within the Israeli defense establishment.