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Archive for category Threat Watch
Meet “the snapper.â€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Jul/2011 00:16
by Michael Yon
“The enemy has difficulty hitting our vehicles with RCIEDs (radio-controlled IEDs) because our countermeasures are excellent. Low-tech inexpensive methods, such as land mines, can work against us on roads, but the problem with land mines is that they are dumb and they blow up the first thing that ticks them off, which likely will be civilian traffic. Enemy CIVCAS toxifies their operating environment and also misses their target.
And so the enemy has developed techniques to circumvent countermeasures and reduce CIVCAS. One of those techniques is “the snapper.â€
The snapper uses a tire for a diaphragm in which nails are used for contacts. When a vehicle rolls over a snapper, the circuit closes. To avoid CIVCAS, the enemy waits in hiding with a battery. One of the electrodes is connected. Traffic is allowed to roll over the snapper but there is no explosion. When the target approaches, the enemy attaches the other connection and now the snapper is ARMED.”
Alabama’s new immigration bill
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2011 16:35
“The tough new bill includes strict provisions that go even farther than the controversial Arizona law that sparked national debate last year
Alabama’s legislature has passed a hard-hitting bill that would make it a state crime to be an undocumented immigrant. Inspired by Arizona’s controversial law, the Alabama bill would make cops ask for proof of legal residence from anyone they think might be in the U.S. illegally, with the person jailed until their status is verified.
It would also penalize anyone who hires, shelters, rents to, or gives a ride to illegal immigrants, and bars illegal immigrants from public universities.
http://theweek.com/article/index/216062/alabamas-outrageous-immigration-bill
Taliban Hotel Attack: Low Death Toll, High Psychological Value
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2011 13:54
Taliban Hotel Attack: Low Death Toll, High Psychological Value is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Scott Stewart
At about 10 p.m. on June 28, a group of heavily armed militants attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to government and media reports, the attack team consisted of eight or nine militants who were reportedly wearing suicide vests in addition to carrying other weapons. At least three of the attackers detonated their vests during the drawn-out fight. Afghan security forces, assisted by International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), needed some eight hours to clear the hotel of attackers. One group of militants even worked their way up to the roof of the hotel, where they fired several rocket-propelled grenades.
The attack resulted in the deaths of 12 people, as well as all the militants. The Taliban had a different take on the attack, posting a series of statements on their website claiming responsibility and saying the assault was conducted by eight operatives who killed 90 people and that the real news of their success was being suppressed. (Initially, the Taliban claimed to have killed 200 in the attack but reduced the toll to 90 in later statements.)
NATO and ISAF spokesmen have noted their belief that, due to the location and use of suicide bombers in the attack, the Haqqani network was involved in the operation. On the evening of June 29, a NATO airstrike killed Ismail Jan, a senior Haqqani leader in Afghanistan who NATO claims was involved in planning the hotel attack. Read the rest of this entry »
The Taliban Will Rule Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Jul/2011 20:07
By Walid Phares
The administration’s plan for Afghanistan may include reconciliation with the Taliban, but the latter have no plans that allow American gains, much less bilateral-negotiations to end the conflict.
It appears that the administration is tangoing with an imaginary partner. Neville Chamberlain’s wishful Sept. 30, 1938 proclamation, “I have returned to Germany with peace in our time,†should serve as a chilling reminder to those who are under the illusion that war is receding which in fact, it is about to escalate into global conflict.
The Taliban strategy is not obscure; most of it has been announced, publicized and is based in ideology, as has been the case with totalitarian movements throughout history. U.S. inability to grasp Taliban plans is not due to the jihadists’ highly-developed denial and deception skills, but rather to the unwillingness or inability of the U.S. and its allies to see it.
The Taliban long-term strategic plan is simple: practice taqiyya to gain terrain and power; resume jihad to eliminate the other forms of governance; and implement their version of Shariah to reverse democracy.
http://www.newsmax.com/WalidPhares/taliban-shariah-afghanistan-Taqiyya/2011/07/02/id/402288
In North Korea, Even Army Is Starving
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Jul/2011 12:30
Food shortages in North Korea have become so acute that even the traditionally well-fed military is starving, according to hidden camera footage from inside the impoverished communist state.
Based on the footage, shot by an undercover North Korean journalist, ABC News reports: “It is clear that the all-powerful army, once quarantined from food shortages and famine, is starting to go hungry.â€
One soldier told the journalist: “Everybody is weak. Within my troop of 100 comrades, half of them are malnourished.â€
The regime “used to put the military first, but now it can’t even supply food to its soldiers,†said Jiro Ishimaru, who trained the undercover reporter. “Rice is being sold in markets but they are starving. This is the most significant thing in this video.â€
The Seattle Plot: Jihadists Shifting Away From Civilian Targets?
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 30/Jun/2011 15:53
The Seattle Plot: Jihadists Shifting Away From Civilian Targets? is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Scott Stewart
On June 22 in a Seattle warehouse, Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif pulled an unloaded M16 rifle to his shoulder, aimed it, and pulled the trigger repeatedly as he imagined himself gunning down young U.S. military recruits. His longtime friend Walli Mujahidh did likewise with an identical rifle, assuming a kneeling position as he engaged his notional targets. The two men had come to the warehouse with another man to inspect the firearms the latter had purchased with money Abdul-Latif had provided him. The rifles and a small number of hand grenades were to be used in an upcoming mission: an attack on a U.S. Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) in an industrial area south of downtown Seattle.
After confirming that the rifles were capable of automatic fire and discussing the capacity of the magazines they had purchased, the men placed the rifles back into a storage bag intending to transport them to a temporary cache location. As they prepared to leave the warehouse, they were suddenly swarmed by a large number of FBI agents and other law enforcement officers and quickly arrested. Their plan to conduct a terrorist attack inside the United States had been discovered when the man they had invited to join their plot (the man who had allegedly purchased the weapons for them) reported the plot to the Seattle Police Department, which in turn reported it to the FBI. According to the federal criminal complaint filed in the case, the third unidentified man had an extensive criminal record and had known Abdul-Latif for several years, but he had not been willing to undertake such a terrorist attack. Read the rest of this entry »
Senior Leader of Al Qaeda Group Captured in Afghanistan — Dressed as Woman
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 29/Jun/2011 01:34
KABUL, Afghanistan — A senior leader of an Al Qaeda-linked terror group has been captured in northern Afghanistan dressed up like a woman — the latest in a recent series of cases involving male militants disguised as females, the U.S.-led military coalition said Tuesday.
A joint Afghan and coalition force apprehended a senior figure from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and two of his associates during a nighttime operation Monday in Kunduz city, NATO said.
It said the militant, who also supported the Taliban network, had planned attacks against the Afghan National Police, as well as various suicide bombings and assaults against other Afghan security forces.
The coalition said there also have been a handful of recent reports of female combatants in burqas.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/28/senior-leader-al-qaeda-group-captured-while-dressed-as-woman/#ixzz1Qe02i2ys
Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander claim: his country can produce missiles with greater range
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 29/Jun/2011 01:31
This file photo released June 16, 2011, by the Iranian Defense Ministry, claims to show launching the Safir, or Ambassador, satellite carrier, which carries Iran's Rasad, or Observation, satellite into earth orbit, in an undisclosed location. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/28/guard-chief-iran-can-build-longer-range-missiles/#ixzz1QdzN7OZ0
TEHRAN, Iran — A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander claimed on Tuesday that his country has the ability to produce missiles with an even greater range than those currently in its arsenal.
But Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guard’s Aerospace Force, stressed that Tehran will not manufacture such missiles because Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf are already within reach.
“There is no threat from any country to us other than the U.S. and the Zionist regime,” Hajizadeh was quoted as saying by the semiofficial Fars news agency. “The range of our missiles has been designed on the basis of the distance to the Zionist regime and the U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf region.”
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/28/guard-chief-iran-can-build-longer-range-missiles/#ixzz1QdyzTOuP
Death Toll in Afghan Hotel Raid Rises to 10
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 29/Jun/2011 01:27
Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan.
“Suicide attackers stormed a popular Western-style hotel in Afghanistan on Tuesday, setting off explosions and exchanging gunfire with Afghan authorities for hours until NATO helicopters took out three of the remaining gunmen.
Guests at the Inter-Continental hotel in Kabul hid in their rooms during the attack, which killed 10 Afghan civilians — mostly hotel workers — and wounded 8, according to Afghan officials. The six suicide bombers and four gunmen involved in the raid were killed.”
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/29/death-toll-in-brazen-afghan-hotel-raid-rises-to-10/
Allen West: First Principles for National Security
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 27/Jun/2011 22:34
Allen West spoke at a Center for Security Policy event in New York City on the national security threats America faces, specifically in the Middle East.
Young Mexican Thugs kill migrants
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Jun/2011 18:18
“Responsible for the slaughter of some 70 migrants, mostly from Central America, which appeared in a mass grave in the town of San Fernando, Tamaulipas was a 22 year old who was just arrested. This young man ordered the kidnapping of several buses carrying the migrants, detained and tortured them to find out if they had a relationship with a rival group and finally ordered they be killed.
Also arrested was one of the murderers of two of Governor Rodrigo Medina’s bodyguards, who is 18 years of age. SWAT team members of Nuevo Leon were picked up by police in the municipality of Zuazua, and given to assassins who tortured and killed them leaving a message to the governor.
Also last week, there was a very rough gunbattle on the border between Jalisco and Zacatecas. Gunmen who moved in several trucks with federal forces clashed for hours, ten died and several were arrested, including six girls between the ages of 16 and 21 who admitted being killers and sexual partners of members of the criminal group. They collected 12,000 pesos ($1,000) every two weeks.
Such was the case last week. Before this there have been stories of “El Ponchis†and child assassins of Morelos, or the young girls, almost children, with whom Jesús “El Negro†Radilla, head of the same group which “El Ponchis†was affiliated with, who served as sexual partners, assassins or were hired to leave mutilated bodies in the streets; or the thousands of young gang members in Los Aztecas or Artistas Asesinos, engaged in brutal warfare across the border area of Ciudad Juárez.
The stories are innumerable, but the truth is that every time, the assassins of these criminal groups are younger and crueler with their victims, and more money has less to do with their involvement in these criminal groups. Nothing is more worrisome in terms of social phenomenon which has been done directly, than involving thousands of children and adolescents in organized crime, not as in the past being camels (carriers) or consumers and distributors, but increasingly as killers for trace amounts of money.
2nd Infantry Division Live Fire Exercise in Iraq
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Training, Warriors on 25/Jun/2011 17:45
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U.S. Army Pfc. Robert Parker of Alpha Company, 5/20th Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division provides support by fire as his squad members bound to cover during a squad live fire exercise at Kirkush Military Training Base, Diyala province, Iraq, June 27. U.S. and Iraqi forces trained to clear mined wired obstacles, clear bunker complexes and reaction to contact.Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Ted Green
Alleged Plot Against U.S. Military Base In Seattle Is Eighth in Two Years
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 24/Jun/2011 21:58
“In the latest planned assault on a U.S. military installation – at least the eighth such conspiracy in the past two years — two Islamic converts have been arrested for allegedly plotting a Fort Hood-style attack on a Seattle center for new military recruits.
According to the FBI, Abdul-Latif and accused coconspirator Walli Mujahidh, formerly Frederick Domingue, sought to determine “how they could kill the most military personnel and escape or die as martyrs” during a planned July 5 assault on the Military Entrance Processing Station.
The men discussed using “fragmentation grenades” in the facility’s cafeteria as a way of maximizing casualties, say authorities, and were arrested after they allegedly purchased automatic weapons from an informant for the planned attack.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/feds-seattle-terror-plotter-sought-kill-us-soldiers/story?id=13917700
Mexico Security Memo: Confusing Reports of a Battle in Matamoros
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 24/Jun/2011 16:10
“Mexico Security Memo: Confusing Reports of a Battle in Matamoros is republished with permission of STRATFOR.”
Zetas Raid or Rescue?
Around 5 a.m. on June 17, simultaneous firefights reportedly broke out between elements of the Gulf and Los Zetas cartels in several locations in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, a Gulf stronghold. The Mexican military has confirmed that a gunbattle did indeed take place in the Colonia Pedro Moreno area but has not confirmed media reports of additional firefights in the Mariano Matamoros, Valle Alto, Puerto Rico and Seccion 16 neighborhoods. The military also has not confirmed a reported gunbattle in the rural area of Cabras Pintas, where six Mexican soldiers are said to have been killed.
View an interactive map of hot spots this week in MexicoDetails of the confirmed firefight remain unclear, but from all indications, a large movement of Zeta forces into a Gulf stronghold did occur, and it suggests a heightened operational tempo in the war between these two cartels. In the coming months, this increasing violence is likely to continue in Gulf-held Reynosa and Zeta-held Monterrey as well as Matamoros. Read the rest of this entry »
President’s Address on Afghanistan
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 23/Jun/2011 13:20
President’s speech on Afghanistan from June 22, 2011.