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Archive for category News
Checkpoint gunfire: between Mexicali and San Luis Rio Colorado
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:44
An exchange of gunfire between soldiers and thugs left one man dead near a checkpoint on the highway between Mexicali and San Luis Rio Colorado. (The area involved is just south of Calexico, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz.)
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/21102010/474737.aspx
Mexico / Texas Border lashed by gunfire and bombing
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:43
“Narco violence†was unleashed again in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas (bordering the Rio Grande River and the Gulf of Mexico). It surged almost simultaneously in the three main cities of this state, where there were attacks on government facilities, shootouts and innocent civilians wounded. In Matamoros (right across from Brownsville, Texas), a grenade was thrown at the military base of this border; four civilians and two soldiers were wounded. Neighboring businesses and a school were forced to shut their doors.
In Nuevo Laredo, shootouts and “narcoblockades†caused traffic chaos. A grenade was also thrown at a police facility, and yesterday afternoon stolen trucks and cars were used to block streets while rival gangs shot at each other. One of the blocked streets was where the U.S. Consulate is located.
And just outside Reynosa (right across from McAllen, Texas), a military convoy and a group of men in light trucks engaged in yet another shootout.”
Ciudad Juarez: 427 women murdered from 1993 to 2007 – but 252 murdered so far in 2010 alone.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:39
“All this, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas
Press records show that murders of women in the Ciudad Juarez area have taken place this year as follows: 16 in January, 9 in February, 28 in March, 15 in April and 17 in May. June closed with 29 victims, July with 25 cases and August ended with 41 violent deaths. The number for September was 44, a new record. October has already had 28 assassinations of women in 19 days. The 23 year old woman whose body was found abandoned on a street in Juarez just a couple of days ago died after a guitar string was wrapped around her neck and then was twisted until her head was severed.
While in fourteen years, from Jan. of 1993 to Dec. of 2007, there were 427 women murdered there, this year there have already been 252 such cases.”
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/10/20&id=ef318ad8e13db62ff513d003a1b946e7
“Women — many as young as fourteen — comprise 70 per cent of the Juárez workforce. They eke out a four-dollar-a-day living in the maquiladoras — sweatshop factories that have mushroomed along the border since Mexico signed up to the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992. Yet in addition to exploitation and squalor, the women of Ciudad Juárez are oppressed by a murder rate that has attracted worldwide revulsion.”
http://backspace.com/notes/2003/11/the-women-of-jurez-demand-justice.php
Texas National Guardsman slain in Ciudad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:20
“The Texas National Guard today has confirmed that a man murdered in Ciudad Juarez this Wednesday, Jose Gil Hernandez, 22, of El Paso Texas, was an off-duty private first class assigned to the Headquarters Battery 3rd Battalion, 133 Field Artillery.
Gil Hernandez and another man, Rafael Ramirez Reza, 43, were gunned down from a moving vehicle by an unknown group of armed men as they spoke outside of a home in the colonia Revolucion Mexicana in south Juarez. Another man, Manuel Galindo, 19, survived the attack and was hospitalized.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/texas-national-guardsman-slain-in.html
Acapulco: Six more people were found murdered and dumped on the side of the road
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:16
“Six more people were found murdered and dumped on the side of the road, this time in near the intersection of San Isidro Gallinero and El Salto streets. The details are scarce, all were found this Friday, with visible signs of torture.
Investigators recovered over 40 shell casings of firearms that ranged in caliber. Again, the corpses were found with a familiar calling card: ‘This happened to us for working with La Barbie. We want your heads, KOREANO and METRO. Atte – Hector Beltran Leyva and friends.’ “
WARNING: Disturbing photo
Acapulco: Former candidate for the municipal presidency and three other men found dead on the side of the road.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 23/Oct/2010 15:05
“On October 22nd, former PRI candidate for the municipal presidency Antonio Valdez Andrade was found dead along with three other men on the side of the road in the resort city of Acapulco. They police found the victims in a garbage heap in the community of EL Bejuco.
Along with the corpses, investigators found a message that read: This happened to us for supporting La Barbie. Atte – Hector Beltran Leyva and friends.
All the corpses had visible signs of torture, including wounds consistent with the use of a bayonet. Valdez Andrade specifically, had an enormous gash on his abdomen, as well as visious stab wound to the face and neck area.
Valdez Andadre left his offices in Aca Tianguis, which is near the boulevard of ViÂcenÂte GueÂrreÂro in CoÂloÂnia PosÂtal, presumably with the men he was found with. They were abducted off the street by armed commandos, who abandoned the initial vehicle they used to commit the crime and transferred the victims to another awaiting truck. The bodies were found hours later on the side of the road.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
WARNING: Disturbing photo
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U.N. says security forces fought off attack in Herat, Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 23/Oct/2010 15:00
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — “The U.N. in Afghanistan said security forces on Saturday thwarted an attack on its Herat compound in western Afghanistan.
A Herat provincial official said three or four armed militants clad in suicide vests were killed Saturday after they attacked the U.N. compound. At least two Afghan security officers were injured in the strike, the United Nations said.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/10/23/afghanistan.un/
DARPA orders miracle motor for its flying car
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Oct/2010 02:48
“Intriguing news today on the flying-car front – and indeed many other fronts. A Californian space-rocket company says it has received US government funding to develop a miraculous engine that would offer as much power-for-weight as a gas turbine, but would be much cheaper and simpler to make and maintain.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/transformer_tx_engine_deal/
Slow Motion bullet impacts
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Oct/2010 02:46
This one has been around for a while, but it’s just so darn fascinating…
Afghan National Police and U.S. Troops Search for Caches in Khowst Province
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 22:42
U.S. Army Sgt. Stephen Olson exits a cave during a mission with Afghan national police to search for enemy weapons caches near Shah Wali Zarat, Khowst province, Afghanistan. Olson is deployed with A Company, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion (Airborne), 4-25 Brigade Combat Team.
Patrol in Khost Province, Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 22:40
U.S. Army Soldiers patrol an area near the village of Kowtay, Khowst province, Afghanistan. The Soldiers are deployed with 2nd Platoon, Company A, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.
Guerrilla Trucks: why the Toyota Hilux pickup is the AK-47 of vehicles
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 22:34
“As the war in Afghanistan escalated several years ago, counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen, a member of the team that designed the Iraq surge for Gen. David Petraeus, began to notice a new tattoo on some insurgent Afghan fighters. It wasn’t a Taliban tattoo. It wasn’t even Afghan. It was a Canadian maple leaf.
When a perplexed Kilcullen began to investigate, he says, he discovered that the incongruous flags were linked to what he says is one of the most important, and unnoticed, weapons of guerrilla war in Afghanistan and across the world: the lightweight, virtually indestructible Toyota Hilux truck.
“In Afghanistan in particular,†he says, “[the trucks are] incredibly well respected.â€
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/14/why-rebel-groups-love-the-toyota-hilux.html
A Year at War
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 22:22
Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division. Over the next year, The New York Times will follow their journey.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT/0