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Archive for category News
The Warlord of Tamaulipas: Eduardo Costilla Sanchez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Sep/2010 22:31
Eduardo Costilla Sanchez
“He grew up with Osiel Cárdenas Guillén and since 2003, he has headed the Gulf cartel, the second most powerful cartel in the country. Stealthy, Eduardo Costilla, El Coss, overcame internal divisions and now runs a fierce war in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León against their former allies, Los Zetas, who do not forgive him for his alliance to the Sinaloa cartel.
The PGR and the SSP claim that the capo has a presence in over 15 states and the United States, the DEA, including the Department of the Treasury consider him a threat to the security of the US.
Since late 1996 when Osiel Cardenas Guillen took over as head of the Gulf cartel, Eduardo Costilla Sanchez had a definite place in the structure of this criminal organization. Known as El Coss, he became the man most trusted to Cardenas Guillen and was known as “Mata Amigos” or “Killer of Friends” for his tendency to betray.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/warlord-in-tamaulipas.html
Georgia: Poll results show most in state want illegals barred from public colleges
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Sep/2010 22:21
“Two-thirds of Georgians want to bar illegal immigrants from attending the University of Georgia and other public colleges, even if they pay out-of-state tuition, according to results from a recent poll.
Sixty-seven percent of people polled last week by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research for the Georgia Newspaper Partnership favor a law requiring proof of legal residency to attend a Georgia college or university, while 22 percent opposed such a law and 11 percent were undecided.
“We have a finite amount of classroom seats,†King said. “It’s always been a mystery to me for seats to go to people who are deportable at any time and cannot work upon graduation when unemployment is 10 percent.â€
Illegal immigrants take spots that rightly belong to Georgians, Deal spokesman Brian Robinson said.
http://www.macon.com/2010/09/20/1271249/poll-results-show-most-in-state.html
Conceal and Carry School: full episode
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 20/Sep/2010 22:11
Bill Davison, owner of Tac Pro Shooting Center in Texas, and his instructors teach nine students – some with absolutely no experience handling a gun – how to safely carry and use guns to defend themselves.
See the first episode here:
http://www.spike.com/full-episode/dont-fear-gun/39021
Learn more about Tac Pro Shooting Center here:
Federal agent calls Dallas area a ‘comfort zone’ for gun smugglers arming Mexico drug war.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Sep/2010 22:04
“A federal agency is setting its sights on Dallas as it fights the flow of U.S. guns into Mexico’s violent drug wars.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plans to set up 10-member teams in Dallas and several other cities to catch smugglers who buy guns far from the violent border regions where they end up.
“They’ll come up and purchase guns here, or have someone purchase them for them,” said Tom Crowley, a spokesman for ATF’s Dallas division.
Crowley called North Texas a “comfort zone” for drug cartels that use “straw purchasers” – U.S. citizens with no criminal records – to buy guns in large quantities for smuggling.
Brady Center Files Brief in DC Gun Ban Case
This struggle will never be over. We must remain vigilant and proactive. They love to say that “national law enforcement organizations” agree with their 2nd Amendment stance.
Press Release
Brady Center Urges Federal Appeals Court to Uphold New DC Gun Law
Sep 20, 2010
Washington, D.C. – The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, joined by national law enforcement organizations, filed an amicus brief today in federal appeals court in Washington arguing that the District of Columbia’s new gun laws are constitutional.
Dick Heller, the same person who successfully challenged the District’s handgun ban in the U.S. Supreme Court, is seeking to have the court strike down District’s new gun laws. These new laws were enacted to conform with the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. Although the District’s new laws allow Mr. Heller to have a handgun in his home for self defense (pursuant to the ruling by the Supreme Court), he is claiming that the Second Amendment does not permit the District to prohibit military-style assault weapons, or require proficiency testing, registration and licensing, or to limit his handgun registrations to one per month. These gun laws withstood a constitutional challenge by Mr. Heller in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Heller then appealed the court’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Biggest Newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city will restrict drug war coverage.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Sep/2010 14:20
AP – A man mourns in front of the coffin containing the body of Diario de Juarez newspaper photographer Carlos …
Terrorism wins: Journalism muzzled by fear of violence.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The biggest newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city will restrict drug war coverage after the killing of its second journalist in less than two years, just as international press representatives will urge the government to make security for journalists a national priority.
In a front-page editorial Sunday, El Diario de Juarez asked drug cartels warring in this city across from El Paso, Texas, to say what they want from the newspaper, so it can continue its work without further death, injury or intimidation of its staff.
At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, at least eight of them targeted because of their reports on crime and corruption, says the Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based media watchdog group that plans to present its report to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday. At least seven other journalists have gone missing and more have fled the country, the report says.
Many media outlets, especially in border areas, have stopped covering the drug war. Until Sunday, El Diario was not one of them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_mexico_journalist_killed;_ylt=ArQATucxvqH6bWOxrLzbGWN0fNdF
Mall management calls pro-Arizona shirts offensive
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Sep/2010 14:15
Immigration T-Shirt Spat at Maryland Mall
By P.J. ORVETTI
“Maryland is in the midst of a debate over whether to follow Arizona in adopting a strict new law on illegal immigration. One thing that shouldn’t be up for debate is whether it is OK to express an opinion about whether such a law would be a good idea.
But the management of Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick isn’t so sure. According to the Frederick News-Post, mall owner Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has asked the owner of the Antietam Gallery custom framing gallery to stop selling “Maryland Stands With Arizona†T-shirts out of his shop.
Immigration is a complex issue. Many come to the United States illegally out of desperation, risking a journey that is fatal for some, and taking the least desirable jobs at the lowest pay if they make it.
But nations have the right and the obligation to set limits on immigration — those of Mexico are much harsher than those of the U.S. — and those who have come to the U.S. through legal means are right to be angry by the millions who broke the law to get here.
What is not a complex issue is whether we have a right to talk about it. The mall managers and others who would take offense at Kehoe’s shirts may not like restricting entry into the U.S., but they have a very odd idea about what that same country is all about.
“It’s not about the T-shirt,†Kehoe told the News-Post. “It’s about people being victimized by political correctness and people feeling they are not able to speak the truth about things.â€
Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness Flight
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 19/Sep/2010 23:55
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Vice Adm. Sally Brice-O’Hara (left) watches as the Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice along with the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent approximately 560 nautical miles North of Barrow, Alaska, during an Arctic domain awareness flight Sept. 3, 2010. The Healy is designed to conduct a wide range of research activities, providing more than 4,200 square feet of scientific laboratory space, numerous electronic sensor systems, oceanographic winches, and accommodations for up to 50 scientists. The Healy is capable of breaking 4 ½ feet of ice continuously at three knots and can operate in temperatures as low as 50 below zero. Photo by Air Station Kodiak
Toys and Guns: Behind a Mosque in Khost City
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 19/Sep/2010 23:51
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Afghan shop behind the Khost City Mosque, Aug. 19. Photo by Spc. Matthew Freire
http://www.freemilitaryphotos.com/photo/08-29-2009/toys-and-guns-behind-mosque-khost-city
Stryker Vehicle Convoy heading back to the US
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 19/Sep/2010 23:48
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A convoy of Stryker vehicles heads for the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait, Aug. 26. Soldiers with the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team drove the Strykers onto the backs of the trucks before the convoy left for the port, which is the final location in the process of shipping the Strykers to the United States. Photo by Natalie Cole
Mexico: Four judicial police found decapitated in a truck
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 19/Sep/2010 23:42
An official report says that about three in the afternoon on Saturday at a location known as Acapetlahuaya, in the municipality of General Canuto A. Neri authorities found the remains of six people that had been killed, four of them were dismembered.
State officials confirmed that the victims were identified as part of the group of judicial policemen that were reported missing, two others were killed yesterday and another was wounded.
Four judicial police were found decapitated in a truck belonging to the PIM, that was found abandoned at the intersection of Acapetlahuaya (municipality of Pedro Ascencio de Alquisiras), three more in a nearby gully and two others in the limits of Guerrero and Mexico State, where they also found the injured officer.
Next to the bodies was a sign with the following message: “This is what happens for supporting “Los Pelones.” Berna here I send them to you, although you sent them disguised as judicial police, I am returning them to you.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
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Mexican Drug Cartels, U.S. Corruption
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 18/Sep/2010 18:07
It is axiomatic that organized crime cannot exist without public corruption. Indeed, given that the Mexican drug cartels have well-established supply lines, distribution networks and operational cells in 230 locales throughout the United States from which they pull $20 to $30 billion in cash a year, one can only wonder how they have gotten away with so much for so long without some inside help.
Well, the problem apparently starts — but certainly does not end — at the border where dirty U.S. border agents such as Martha Garnica make a mockery of law enforcement as reported by Ceci Connolley for the Washington Post:
She lived a double life. At the border crossing, she was Agent Garnica, a veteran law enforcement officer. In the shadows, she was “La Estrella,” the star, a brassy looker who helped drug cartels make a mockery of the U.S. border.
Martha Garnica devised secret codes, passed stacks of cash through car windows and sketched out a map for smugglers to safely haul drugs and undocumented workers across the border. For that she was richly rewarded; she lived in a spacious house with a built-in pool, owned two Hummers and vacationed in Europe.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/mexican-drug-cartels-us-corruption.html
Mexican drug cartel infiltrates Australia
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 18/Sep/2010 18:03
“Australia’s surge in cocaine use is being fuelled by highly sophisticated importations by one of the most brutal and powerful syndicates involved in Mexico’s drug war – the Sinaloa cartel.
Police intelligence sources have told the ABC’s 7.30 Report that around half the cocaine now entering Australia is being sent from Mexico, and that the notorious Sinaloa cartel is behind many of the shipments.
The Sinaloa cartel has had operatives in Australia for several years according to the source, and was behind a number of significant cocaine hauls intercepted by Australian authorities.
According to the Australian Crime Commission, the much higher price of cocaine in Australia has made importations here highly profitable.
“If we have a kilo of wholesale cocaine in Colombia it’s worth about $2,100. If that cocaine is successfully imported into Mexico it’s worth $12,500. If that finds its way to the US it’s worth $28,500. But if it finds its way to Australia it’s worth $146,000 – an increase of more than 7,000 per cent in profit,” Mr Lawler told the ABC.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/mexican-drug-cartel-infiltrates.html
Border Patrol agents exchange gunfire across U.S-Mexico border.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 18/Sep/2010 17:21
U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and giving chase to a truck along the Rio Grande, U.S. authorities said Monday.
No Border Patrol agents were hurt during the “fire fight” early Saturday in Mission, agency spokeswoman Rosalinda Huey said. She did not say whether Border Patrol gunfire hit anyone, citing the ongoing investigation.
“The firing they received came from the Mexican side,” Huey said.
Reports of bullets whizzing across the border from Mexico also are on the rise. At least eight bullets have been fired into El Paso in the last few weeks from the rising violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where drug violence has killed more than 4,000 people since 2009, making it one of the deadliest cities in the world.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/border-patrol-agents-exchange-gunfire.html
6 Muslims arrested in alleged terror threat to pope
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 17/Sep/2010 22:08
LONDON – British police staged a pre-dawn raid at a London garbage depot Friday, arresting five street cleaners in a suspected terrorist plot against Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of his state visit to Britain. A sixth person was arrested later in the day.
The Vatican said the pope was calm despite the arrests and planned no changes to his schedule. But the arrests overshadowed a major address by Benedict to British politicians, businessmen and cultural leaders about the need to restore faith and ethics to public policy-making.