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Archive for category News
Mexican Cartels Purchasing Grenades for $6.50
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2010 20:09
“How much is six dollars and fifty cents? What can you buy with $6.50? Just off the top of my head, in the U.S., I’m thinking I could buy a couple gallons of gas, a pack of smokes, or maybe a value meal from one of my favorite fast food joints.
In Mexico, on the other hand, with roughly $80 pesos, I can buy two packs of smokes and a big bag of chips, a kilo of sirloin, about 9 liters of gas, or a tasty 8 taco breakfast washed down with an ice cold bottled Coca-Çola.
Or, for those same $80 Mexican pesos, according to a report made public in ElNorte, with the right connections, I could buy myself a grenade from Guatemala.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/mexican-cartels-purchasing-grenades-for.html
HIMARS rockets video footage: Afghani locals “talk with awe of a powerful new rocketâ€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 19:40
Amazingly, just a few months after NATO and Afghan troops gradually stepped up operations in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar, the insurgents have fled, with a return unlikely.
If pronouncements like “We broke their neck†from the Afghan police commander of Argandab district seem premature, consider this: The NATO general in charge of the area credits a new miracle rocket with helping turn the tide and it has been in Afghanistan for a while.
The Times‘ veteran Afghanistan correspondent Carlotta Gall writes that locals “talk with awe of a powerful new rocket†that NATO’s used to batter Taliban outposts in Panjwai “with remarkable accuracy.â€
NATO general credits new miracle rocket with helping turn the tide in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 19:37
“HIMARS use is tightly-regulated, precisely because it’s so powerful. Sitting on the back of a 5-ton truck, HIMARS is capable of firing a single, 13-foot ATACMS surface-to-surface missile 100 miles or more away.
Or, it can pound up to half-dozen GPS-guided rockets in a matter of seconds at at a single target more than 40 miles in the distance; that’s more than double the range of a traditional howitzer.
“The advantage of HIMARS is that is can put a lot of firepower downrange very, very quickly,†an Army fire support officer told Danger Room in February.
It’s so much firepower, in fact, that, for a while in Afghanistan, air strikes were easier to authorize than HIMARS. (At least the air assaults had overhead intelligence to back ‘em up.)”
Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/did-a-new-rocket-help-rout-the-taliban-depends-what-you-mean-by-new-and-rout/#ixzz132kbR3YP
$19 Billion Later, Pentagon’s Best Bomb-Detector Is a Dog
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 19:29
“Drones, metal detectors, chemical sniffers, and super spycams — forget ‘em. The leader of the Pentagon’s multibillion military task force to stop improvised bombs says there’s nothing in the U.S. arsenal for bomb detection more powerful than a dog’s nose.
Despite a slew of bomb-finding gagdets, the American military only locates about 50 percent of the improvised explosives planted in Afghanistan and Iraq. But that number jumps to 80 percent when U.S. and Afghan patrols take dogs along for a sniff-heavy walk. “Dogs are the best detectors,†Lieutenant General Michael Oates, the commander of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, told a conference yesterday.”
$19 Billion Later, Pentagon’s Best Bomb-Detector Is a Dog | Danger Room | Wired.com.
The Falcon Lake Murder and Mexico’s Drug Wars
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2010 17:19
The Falcon Lake Murder and Mexico’s Drug Wars is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Scott Stewart
STRATFOR published an analysis last Wednesday noting that a reliable source in Mexico informed us that the Sept. 30 shooting death of U.S. citizen David Hartley on Falcon Lake — which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border — was a mistake committed by a low-level member of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization. The source also informed us that those responsible for Hartley’s death are believed to have disposed of his body and that the Zeta hierarchy was conducting a damage-control operation to punish those responsible for the death and to distance the cartel from the murder. The source further reported that the murder of the lead Tamaulipas state investigator on the case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas — whose head was delivered in a suitcase to the Mexican military’s Eight Zone headquarters in Reynosa on Oct. 12 — was a specific message from Los Zetas to Mexican authorities to back off from the investigation.
Since publishing the report, we have been deluged by interview requests regarding the case. Numerous media outlets have interviewed Fred Burton and myself regarding the Falcon Lake case. During the course of talking with reporters and customers, it became obvious to us that a solid understanding of the context within which Hartley’s killing occurred was lacking in media discussions of the case. Viewing the murder as part of the bigger picture of what is occurring in Mexico makes it far easier to understand not only why David Hartley was killed, but why his body will likely never be found — and why his killers probably will not be held accountable for their actions, at least in the context of the judicial system. Read the rest of this entry »
Coalition Routs Taliban in Southern Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 01:06
Joao Silva for The New York Times An American soldier looked out Tuesday from a guard post in Arghandab, Afghanistan, a strategic district in Kandahar Province north of the city of Kandahar.
“ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces have been routing the Taliban in much of Kandahar Province in recent weeks, forcing many hardened fighters, faced with the buildup of American forces, to flee strongholds they have held for years, NATO commanders, local Afghan officials and residents of the region said.
Some of the gains seem to have come from a new mobile rocket that has pinpoint accuracy — like a small cruise missile — and has been used against the hideouts of insurgent commanders around Kandahar. That has forced many of them to retreat across the border into Pakistan.
Disruption of their supply lines has made it harder for them to stage retaliatory strikes or suicide bombings, at least for the moment, officials and residents said.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/world/asia/21kandahar.html?_r=1
US confirms $60 billion Saudi arms deal
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 01:02
“The United States plans to sell up to $60bn worth of military aircraft to Saudi Arabia, the US state department has announced, the largest US arms sale ever.
The sale, which had been expected, includes 84 Boeing F-15 fighter jets and 70 upgrades of existing Saudi F-15s.
It also includes 70 of Boeing’s Apache attack helicopters and 36 AH-6M Little Birds, lightweight helicopters often used in special operations.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/20101020173353178622.html
Mauritania sentences 3 al-Qaida suspects to death
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 19:09
Nouakchott, Mauritania's capital city, North-West Africa
“NOUAKCHOTT — A court in Mauritania has condemned three alleged al-Qaida members to death, including the former leader of the African nation’s local terrorist network.
Chief judge Khayi Ould Mohamed issued the sentences late Wednesday in the capital, Nouakchott.
The former al-Qaida leader, El Khadim Ould Semene, was accused of helping organize an attack on the Israeli embassy here two years ago.”
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/20/5324487-mauritania-sentences-3-al-qaida-suspects-to-death
How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 20/Oct/2010 18:43
“During World War II, Allied forces readily admitted German tanks were superior to their own. The big question for Allied forces, then, was how many tanks Germany was producing. Knowing that would help them counter the threat. Here’s how they reverse-engineered serial numbers to find out.
Allied intelligence noticed each captured tank had a unique serial number. With careful observation, the Allies were able to determine the serial numbers had a pattern denoting the order of tank production. Using this data, the Allies created a mathematical model to determine the rate of German tank production.
They used it to estimate that the Germans produced 255 tanks per month between the summer of 1940 and the fall of 1942.”
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/10/how-the-allies-used-math-against-german-tanks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
Massad Ayoob talks about current and future CCW Laws in the United States.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Opinion on 20/Oct/2010 18:06
Latest version of Medal of Honor used by Army for training – but does not name the enemy
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Training, Warriors on 20/Oct/2010 17:56
The Army's Joint Training Counter-IED Operations Integration Center uses game software to train soldiers better.
“This past week marked the release of the latest version of Medal of Honor, a videogame that has come under a great deal of fire since it was revealed that in its newest iteration players would be able to assume the role of Taliban fighters and fire on American troops. After fielding protests and complaints, Electronic Arts made a last-minute decision to rename the terrorists in the game, calling them “an opposing force†instead of “the Taliban.â€
The controversy is hardly a surprise, given that the game addresses an ongoing conflict, a fight where moms and dads, brothers, sisters and friends are still in harm’s way. What is surprising is that playing a videogame where players can assume the role of terrorists is something that the U.S. Army not only understands, but actively develops and plays on a regular basis.”
Big British defense cuts weaken Pentagon’s top military partner
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:47
As other European allies have dialed back military spending, Britain has been America’s most reliable and capable security partner. But the British defense cuts announced Tuesday will affect Britain’s ‘long-term ability to fight alongside the US.’
The British government’s announcement this week of a review that calls for the biggest cuts in British defense spending since the end of the cold war is raising questions about Britain’s ability to remain a global security player in coming years.”
Armed gunmen attack police in Durango – one dead
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:45
“Gomez Palacio, Durango – On Monday afternoon, gunmen attacked a group of Preventive Policemen in Gomez Palacio. The gun battle started in Colonia Cinco de Mayo in Gomez Palacio and ended in neighboring Torreon, Coahuila, leaving one policeman dead and five wounded.
Ten policemen from the Public Security Police of Gomez Palacio were reinforced by 12 policemen from Torreon, Coahuila, 10 Coahuila State Policemen and members of the Mexican Army. Three policemen were transported by ambulance to a hospital, one of them critically wounded.
At the scene there was also a wrecked pickup containing the unidentified dead body of a man killed by gunshots.”
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdArt=10302074&IdCat=6087
You Tube Confession of Juarez Female Extortionist (Later Executed) is Revealing
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:41
“Diario today runs a story with a link to a You Tube video in which a woman, flanked by two hooded men with assault rifles, confesses to having been an extortionist for La Linea, on the payroll for $160 per week. A list on notepad paper with the names of businesses she was extorting is shown during the interview.
The video appears to have been taken by a vigilante group that captured her. The woman, who identifies herself as Sanjuana Gabriela EnrÃquez Galván, was later executed and her body was discovered in Col. Melchor Ocampo, face down, with a message on her tee shirt saying “I’m an Extortion(ist) for La Linea.”
A red rose was placed on her back.”
M1-A1 Abrams rumbles across a live-fire range
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:39
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An M1-A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, attached to India Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, rumbles across a live-fire range during a Combined-Arms Live-Fire Exercise conducted as part of Exercise Bright Star 2009 in Egypt, Oct. 14, 2009. The multinational exercise is designed to improve readiness, interoperability and strengthen the military and professional relationships among U.S., Egyptian and participating forces. Bright Star is conducted by U.S. Central Command and held every two years. Elements of the 22nd MEU are currently are participating in the multinational exercise while serving as the theater reserve force for U.S. Central Command. Photo by Cpl. Theodore Ritchie