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Archive for category News
Texas Ranger Recon Teams battling Drug Cartels in Texas
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 26/Aug/2010 03:19
AP – FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks about border security
The governor hammered the White House this month for not sending enough National Guard troops and Border Patrol agents to Texas. When President Barack Obama signed $600 million in funding for more agents, unmanned drones and customs officers this month, Perry said, “It’s a good step in the right direction. Is it enough? I don’t think so.”
Perry announced the Ranger Recon program in the midst of his re-election primary campaign last September, two months after the program launched. The legislature had allocated about $230 million for border security during its last two sessions, he said.
“Landowners all along our border are finding their farms and ranches overrun by smuggling operations, often by armed individuals with no respect for property, the law or human life,” Perry said during a speech in Houston. “By introducing Ranger Recon teams that can stay on the move, we can stay one jump ahead of the cartels and beat them at their own game.”
Baghdad, Iraq: 64 people were killed and 274 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Aug/2010 03:03
BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — All together 64 people were killed and 274 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks, including suicide car bombings, targeting Iraqi police across the country on Wednesday, a day after the U.S. military announced its troops would drop to below 50,000 ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline for them to end combat operations.
In Baghdad, up to 15 people were killed and 58 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into the entrance of a police station in Qahira neighborhood in north the capital, an Interior Ministry source said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/26/c_13462584.htm
Bullets shot in Mexico reach el Paso, TX
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Aug/2010 03:00
He said the incident is just across the Rio Grande from the old La Hacienda Restaurant at 1720 W. Paisano.
“The Police Department is blocking off Paisano and we’re prepared and we’re going to continue being prepared, and we are going to prevent this from spilling over,” Cordero said.
Residents in the area said they heard the shots being fired from nearby, though it was unclear whether any bullets had crossed the border into El Paso.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/bullets-from-ciudad-juarez-reaching-el.html
Maybe we should be focusing our attentioin closer to home?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 26/Aug/2010 02:57
Debusmann was shot twice in the course of his work -- once covering a night battle in the center of Beirut and once in an assassination attempt prompted by his reporting.
The United States is spending around $6.5 billion a month on the war in faraway Afghanistan, where a large part of its effort is meant to help the government assert its authority, fight corruption and set up functioning institutions.
Closer to home, the U.S. has allotted $44 million a month to help the governments of its closest neighbours – Mexico and Central America – assert their authority, fight corruption and set up functioning institutions.
The two cases raise questions about American priorities. If money were the only gauge, one might draw the conclusion that it is 147 times more important for Washington to bring security and good governance to Afghanistan than to America’s violence-plagued next-door neighbours — Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/07/30/afghanistan-and-americas-troubled-backyard/
Partial list of some of the worst attacks in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Aug/2010 02:54
MONTERREY Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican marines found 72 bodies at a remote ranch near the U.S. border, the navy said Wednesday, the biggest single haul of bodies in an increasingly violent drug war.
Below are some of the worst attacks since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and declared war on powerful drug cartels. Some 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since then.
* Sept 15, 2008 – Suspected members of the Zetas drug gang tossed grenades into a crowd celebrating Mexico’s independence day in the western city of Morelia, killing eight people and wounding more than 100.
* Jan 31, 2010 – Suspected cartel hitmen killed 13 high school students and two adults at a party in Ciudad Juarez.
* March 13 – Hitmen killed three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez in March, provoking “outrage” from U.S. President Barack Obama.
Bodies of 58 men and 14 women found on ranch 90 miles from the Texas border
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 26/Aug/2010 02:51
A ranch is seen in San Fernando in Tamaulipas state, August 24, 2010, where according to a Mexican navy statement 72 bodies have been found, in this handout photo released by the Mexican Navy August 25, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Mexican Navy/Handout CAMPAIGNS
Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican marines found 72 corpses at a remote ranch near the U.S. border, the Mexican navy said on Wednesday, the biggest single discovery of its kind in Mexico’s increasingly bloody drug war.
The marines came across the bodies of 58 men and 14 women, thought to be migrant workers, on Tuesday at the ranch in Tamaulipas state, 90 miles from the Texas border, after a series of firefights with drug gang members.
Afghan Elemetary Education: For Soldiers
From Wired’s Danger Room
Right now, only 18 percent of those 243,000 cops and grunts have more than a Kindergarten-level ability to read. Which means they’ve got major trouble doing everything from keeping track of their gear to following a battle plan to getting paid, the general in charge of the NATO training effort says.
“We’re talking about giving them anywhere from between a first grade-level education to about a third grade-level education. For many back in America, that’s really hard to comprehend. And I understand that. It was for me, too.â€
Why do we have to find this information on a technology website? Why can’t the news networks do this kind of reporting? Why can’t the president explain that this is why it is taking so long for that backward country to pull itself out of the 3rd century?
At Least 30 Killed in Somalia Hotel Attack
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Aug/2010 00:35
Abdirashid Abdulle Abikar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The body of a Somali lawmaker was removed form a hotel in Mogadishu on Tuesday after an attack by insurgents. Six lawmakers were among the dead.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali insurgents disguised in government military uniforms stormed a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and killed at least 30 people, including 6 lawmakers, laying bare how vulnerable Somalia’s government is, even in an area it claims to control.
The insurgents methodically moved room to room, killing hotel guests who tried to bolt their doors shut, Somali officials said. When government forces finally cornered the insurgents, two blew themselves up with suicide vests.
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Open Carry: in the states where it’s legal, is Open Carry Provacative or Positive?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Opinion on 24/Aug/2010 17:07
“OpenCarry.org was founded in 2004 by then Virginia residents John Pierce and Mike Stollenwerk to be a pro-gun Internet community focused on the right to openly carry properly holstered handguns in daily American life.
The idea to establish OpenCarry.org arose in Virginia where state law (now repealed effective July 1, 2010) actually required open carry at restaurants serving alcohol. In July, 2004, Fairfax County, VA police briefly appeared at the Reston, VA Champps restaurant to investigate a 911 call about patrons openly carrying holstered handguns. Mike was at Champps eating a steak and drinking a coke that night while openly carrying and he describes the police response as something Cesar might have said: “They came, they saw, they left.”
But then the Washington Post ran a series of very critical articles and scathing editorials attacking the practice of open carry. Reacting to this “news” coverage, gun owners in Virginia and across the United States naturally wondered about the law of open carry in the fifty states – but gun rights Internet resources at that time focused almost exclusively on “concealed” carry. Research soon revealed that state legislatures and courts have largely protected open carry rights since the time of our nation’s founding, and that most states require no permit to open carry.
So thanks to the Washington Post’s “sky is falling” hoplophobic coverage of the Champps non-incident, OpenCarry.org was born!”
http://opencarry.org/index.html
In addition to being an invaluable “starting point” legal resource and discussion forum for gun owners, OpenCarry.org has grown to become the social networking portal for the open carry movement. Tens of thousands of “OCDO” registered members have already made a difference in their communities! Over the last 6 years, the open carry of handguns has become much more common and less controversial as open carriers’ friends, neighbors and local law enforcement discover that open carry is legal and wholesome. In fact a recent FBI report essentially concludes that criminals don’t open carry handguns.
Anthropologist Charles Springwood sums it up nicely when he commented that open carriers are trying to “naturalize the presence of guns, which means that guns become ordinary, omnipresent, and expected. Over time, the gun becomes a symbol of ordinary personhood.”
OpenCarry.org believes that “a right unexercised, is a right lost,” and increasingly gun owners are agreeing – it’s time gun carry comes out of the closet across America!
New Explosive Being Tested For the Military
From Wired
Called IMX-101 (which stands for Insensitive Munitions Explosive) the explosive is one successful result of a four-year Pentagon-funded effort that sought to replace TNT — military munitions’ longtime staple. First to go will be M795 artillery projectiles: 1,200 produced with IMX-101 instead of TNT will be delivered to the Army and Marine Corps by 2011.
As bad as it sounds war always ends up advancing science.
Chicago Six Flags sponsoring “Muslim Family Day†– the day after 9/11
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Opinion on 24/Aug/2010 00:32
MUSLIM DAY AT SIX FLAGS is being sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America which openly supports HAMAS and Hezbollah and refuses to condemn them. It has been under investigation for fund-raising for and money laundering to Islamic terrorist groups.
Six Flags tells its employees: “Out of respect (to Islam), we request the employees wear their uniform pants, instead of their shortsâ€no matter how hot it is.
Better get used to it: your lives are going to change more and more as we are pushed into showing “respect” for Islam. Muslims in the Netherlands pressured cities to force construction workers to stop wearing shorts, too, because it “offended” them.
Well, it offends me that they would have the gall to put on a special Muslim celebration the day after 9/11. They are not shy about voicing their outrage over the slightest perceived insult, why should we sit quietly and let them insult the memory of those murdered by Islamic Purists?
Read commentary sparked by this event here:
Decapitated bodies of four men hung from a bridge in CUERNAVACA, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 23/Aug/2010 20:22
CUERNAVACA, Mexico (AP) — The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords.
A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general’s office of Mexico state said in a statement.
The beheaded and mutilated bodies were hung by their feet early Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca, a popular weekend getaway for Mexico City residents.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-08-22-drug-war-mexico_N.htm?csp=34
According to the Morelos State Attorney General’s office, the victims’ genitals, index fingers and heads had been cut off and left alongside the highway with a handmade sign which read: “This is what will happen to all those who support the traitor Edgar Valdez Villareal”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/4-headless-mutilated-bodies-hung-from.html
Modified 747 flying to test laser on missile target
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 23/Aug/2010 20:11
Some time between midnight and 4 a.m. Saturday, a modified 747 flying off of the California coast will aim its laser weapon at a missile more than a hundred miles away. The order will be given for the plane to fire a beam of high-powered coherent light. The laser will start burning a hole in the skin of the short-range, liquid-fueled missile as it rises into the sky. Fifty seconds later, the missile will fall into the Pacific Ocean.
That’s if everything goes according to plan, of course.
U.S. Confirms It Shot Down one of Iran’s Drones
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 23/Aug/2010 20:08
Last month, a U.S. fighter aircraft tracked and shot down an Iranian drone. Details — first reported by Danger Room — have been elusive, but the U.S. military has now confirmed the incident.
Multinational Forces Iraq spokesman Col. Scott Maw tells Danger Room that coalition fighters intercepted an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle over Iraqi airspace on Feb. 25. The UAV, an Ababil-3 (pictured here), was “tracked as it crossed the border.”
Coalition aircraft were sent up to visually ID the drone. Finally, they did, and then shot it down “over 25 miles from the Iraq-Iran border.” All told, the UAV was tracked “for an hour and 10 minutes before it was shot down.”
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/03/confirmed-us-do/#ixzz0xTscW8Dm
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad skipped onto a stage yesterday, drew back a blue curtain, unveiled a shiny gold drone, and pronounced it an “ambassador of death†to Tehran’s foes.
Since 2004, a small number of those unmanned aerial vehicles have made their way into Hezbollah’s hands. This, however, would be Iran’s first armed robo-plane. In so doing, state television crows, “Iran broke the military advantage of America†— and prepped the country for the looming days of all-robot warfare.
According to the official word from Tehran, the 13-foot Karrar (’strikerâ€) drone is capable of carrying four cruise missiles. That’s really unlikely. Even smaller-sized cruise missiles, like the Russian Kh-135s, weigh a more than a thousand pounds and are about nine feet long; it’s tough to imagine a relative pipsqueak like the Karrar lugging such a hefty package.