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Archive for category News
10 children rescued from smugglers in Phoenix
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 3/Dec/2010 22:09
A member of the Phoenix Police Department S.W.A.T. team stands in front of a home where 10 juveniles were rescued at a suspected drop house Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, in Phoenix.
PHOENIX — Ten children have been rescued from human smugglers who threatened to rape and kill some of them if their parents didn’t pay more money for their entry into the U.S., authorities said Friday.
The smugglers threatened to rape and kill three El Salvadoran sisters ages 12, 14 and 16 if their mother didn’t pay them $10,000, Arizona Department of Public Safety Capt. Fred Zumbo said.
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/03/5576566-10-children-rescued-from-smugglers-in-phoenix
WikiLeaks Reveals Hostilities Between Russia and Georgia
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 3/Dec/2010 16:09
Wired’s Danger Room reports that Russia may have been secretly trying to destabilize Georgia before the battle in 2008.
The brief shooting war between Russia and Georgia in 2008 was just the final, action-packed scene of a years-long drama. As the U.S. Embassy in the Georgian capitol of Tblisi saw it, Moscow spent much of the previous decade destabilizing the former Soviet republic, using “missile attacks and murder plots,†natural-gas “sabotage†and support to Georgian separatists.
Attacks on Nuclear Scientists in Tehran
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 3/Dec/2010 14:15
Attacks on Nuclear Scientists in Tehran is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Ben West
On the morning of Nov. 29, two Iranian scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear development program were attacked. One was killed, and the other was injured. According to Iranian media, the deceased, Dr. Majid Shahriari, was heading the team responsible for developing the technology to design a nuclear reactor core, and Time magazine referred to him as the highest-ranking non-appointed individual working on the project.
Official reports indicate that Shahriari was killed when assailants on motorcycles attached a “sticky bomb†to his vehicle and detonated it seconds later. However, the Time magazine report says that an explosive device concealed inside the car detonated and killed him. Shahriari’s driver and wife, both of whom were in the car at the time, were injured.
Meanwhile, on the opposite side of town, Dr. Fereidoon Abassi was injured in a sticky-bomb attack reportedly identical to the one officials said killed Shahriari. His wife was accompanying him and was also injured (some reports indicate that a driver was also in the car at the time of the attack). Abassi and his wife are said to be in stable condition. Abassi is perhaps even more closely linked to Iran’s nuclear program than Shahriari was, since he was a member of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and was named in a 2007 U.N. resolution that sanctioned high-ranking members of Iran’s defense and military agencies believed to be trying to obtain nuclear weapons. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome Home Blog – celebrating the return of our armed forces
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 2/Dec/2010 01:10
“Regardless of political stance, no one can deny the joy felt upon seeing your loved ones return home safely — WelcomeHomeBlog.com is a site celebrating that amazing feeling. Visit daily for heartwarming stories, videos and pictures of members of our courageous armed forces returning home to their families and friends.”
Massad Ayoob considerations in carrying a second firearm
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 29/Nov/2010 22:52
Dstance Threat – how close can an assailant get before you need to take action?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 29/Nov/2010 22:48
The Swiss vote to deport Criminal Foreigners.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Opinion, Threat Watch on 28/Nov/2010 20:32
“GENEVA — After heated debate and a campaign utilizing controversial “black sheep†posters, Switzerland’s far-right party won voters’ support in a referendum Sunday that calls for the automatic deportation of foreigners who are convicted of serious crimes.”
What resonated with voters were contentions that foreigners accounted for a disproportionate share of Swiss crime. Christian Blocher, the People’s Party leader, asserted at a debate at Geneva University during the campaign that foreigners make up 22 percent of the resident population but account for 54 percent of convictions for grievous bodily harm and 62 percent of robbery convictions. “Prisons do not stop crimes,†he said. “The only way to go about it is to force them to leave the country.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/europe/29iht-swiss.html?_r=1
The question I have is, why would this cause heated debate? If you come to our country, then commit a serious crime, you’re out of here.
What’s complicated about that?
Portland Bomb Plot Thwarted
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 27/Nov/2010 01:40
From OregonLive.com:
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
“This defendant’s chilling determination is a stark reminder that there are people — even here in Oregon — who are determined to kill Americans,” said Oregon U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton. “The good work of law enforcement protected Oregonians in this case — and we have no reason to believe there is any continuing threat arising from this case.”
Since the perpetrator was naturalized I would like him stripped of his citizenship.
Oops – NATO hands big bucks to shopkeeper posing as Taliban commander
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Nov/2010 19:09
“It sounds like the plot from a spy novel or James Bond film.
But NATO chiefs in Afghanistan have been severely embarrassed by a shopkeeper who fooled them into thinking he was a Taliban commander during secret peace negotiations.
Astonishingly, the ruse went on for two months, during which time the ‘contact’ was paid a substantial sum of money.
He was also flown on a British military plane to three meetings designed to end the insurrection.
Despite suspicions about his identity, nobody disputed his claim to be Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, one of the Taliban’s most senior leaders.
It was only months later — and after the handover of piles of cash to keep him coming back — that an old friend of Mr Mansour said they had the wrong man.
They now believe he was nothing more than a shopkeeper from the Pakistani city of Quetta.”
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/11/taliban-mansour-leaders
Military waging war on snakes in Guam – with air drops of poisoned mice
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 25/Nov/2010 19:04
“The United States military is waging war in the Pacific on invading jungle snakes – by dropping dead mice stuffed with household headache remedies on them from helicopters.
Stars and Stripes reports on the airborne murine drug-zombie campaign being waged around US bases on the tropical island of Guam. Guam has been plagued since World War II by an invasion of brown tree snakes, which have swarmed through the local jungles eating everything they can catch and wiping out several kinds of bird.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/23/pacific_zombie_mouse_paratroops/
Mexico sending more troops to zone next to Texas
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Nov/2010 17:19
“MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico will send more troops and federal police to try to control drug violence that has spiraled into warfare in parts of the northeast along the U.S. border, the government said Wednesday.
The goal of “Coordinated Operation Northeast” is to reinforce government authority in the two states most heavily affected by a surge in violence following a split between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs, federal police spokesman Alejandro Poire said.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-11-25-mexico-troops_N.htm?csp=34
San Diego: Massive stash of homebrew explosives found in Serbian’s home
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Nov/2010 01:30
25858335_640X480.jpg (Authorities closed off a nearby freeway so hazmat experts could blow up explosives found at the home of suspected bank robber and prolific bomb maker George Djura Jakubec)
“Hazmat teams are very, very carefully clearing the residence of a Serbian national living in the San Diego County town of Escondido— the home was filled with the “the largest” cache of various varieties of homemade explosives ever found in one place in the US.”
Badass of the Week: Dwight Johnson
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 24/Nov/2010 21:53
Dwight Johnson
“You don’t really think of Vietnam as being a tank warfare kind of affair… mostly because trying to drive a tank through a jungle is a logistical undertaking that borders on being retarded.
Perhaps that’s why Specialist Dwight Johnson of the 1st Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment holds the impressive distinction of being the only tank driver to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in combat during Vietnam.
Although, as you might expect, the actions that led to Spc. Johnson receiving America’s highest award for bravery in combat actually had very little to do with this ultra-over-the-top hardass actually sitting behind at the controls of his M48A3 battle tank, and a lot more with taking on an entire North Vietnamese Army offensive by himself armed with nothing more than a .45-caliber handgun and a complete lack of anything resembling fear or restraint.”
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/dwightjohnson.html
California man gathering signatures for proposed immigration law similar to Arizona’s
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 24/Nov/2010 15:34
“California voters may get a chance to weigh in on a proposal similar to Arizona’s controversial immigration law, after the secretary of state gave the go-ahead to a Belmont man to collect signatures for a proposed ballot initiative.
The proposal would require state law enforcement officials to investigate a person’s immigration status if they are “reasonably suspicious” the person is in the country illegally, and would make it a state crime for undocumented immigrants to “seek work while concealing their immigration status.” It would also make it a crime, under state law, for employers to hire an illegal immigrant either intentionally or unknowingly.
Erickson said he was careful to tailor the California proposal to address some of the concerns expressed by a federal judge over the Arizona law”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/BAPL1GGM7F.DTL#ixzz16EoAzgkt