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Archive for category Threat Watch
Suspicious Airline Passenger Results in Emergency Landing
Posted by Gary in Threat Watch on 5/Nov/2010 02:58
From: The National Terror Alert
Suspicious Airline Passenger Results in Emergency Landing
by National Terror Alert on Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 9:49pm
An American Airlines flight carrying 146 passengers to Dallas was grounded in Salt Lake City after a situation involving suspicious acts by a passenger Thursday afternoon. No one was injured in the incident. About 1:30 p.m., the MD-83 jet landed at Salt Lake City International Airport on its way from Portland, Ore., to Dallas, said […]
This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland security news and information.
Suspicious Airline Passenger Results in Emergency Landing
“Diversity starts with the truth,” speaking the truth about jihadist terrorists like Major Nidal Hasan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 5/Nov/2010 01:53
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
“One year ago on this day a Muslim U.S. Army officer known by co-workers for his militant Islamic views killed 13 people and wounded 30 others at Ford Hood in Texas.
Now an association of first-responder officers who say the nation and its political leaders have ignored the lessons of that attack is sponsoring an alternative to today’s official memorial service.
With the theme “Diversity starts with the truth,” the event will feature former jihad terrorists Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem; decorated war hero Gen. William Boykin; Jihad Watch director and author Robert Spencer; and Maj. Stephen Coughlin, a decorated intelligence officer and noted specialist on Islam.
“We dishonor our men and women in uniform, and put them at greater risk by not speaking the truth or facing the facts about jihadist terrorists like Major Nidal Hasan, whose hidden agenda killed 14 and wounded 35,” the ICTOA said in a statement.”
Possible Gunman at Texas A&M
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 28/Oct/2010 17:32
From Star-Telegram
Star-Telegram
COLLEGE STATION — A person armed with a gun has been sighted at Rudder Tower at Texas A&M University in College Station, according to an alert issued by the school.
University officials issued a “Code Maroon” alert at 4:10 p.m. that advised those on campus to seek shelter until further notice.
The Bryan-College Station Eagle reported that the person was described as a white male who was reportedly carrying an AK-47-style weapon.
Former President George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush and Laura W. Bush were scheduled to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the on-campus George Bush Presidential Library Center at 5 p.m.
University spokesman Lane Stephenson told The Associated Press that a campus bus driver was on his route around 4 p.m. Thursday when he reported seeing an individual carrying a weapon, possibly a rifle, near the student union.
The university’s Web site says students should remain indoors while police search the buildings.
This report contains material from The Associated Press.
Would-be Terrorist Arrested in Hawaii
Posted by Gary in Law, News, Threat Watch on 27/Oct/2010 01:24
From: Â FBI
According to the complaint, in early 2008, Shehadeh, at the time a resident of Staten Island, New York, devised a plan to travel to Pakistan in order to join the Taliban or a similar fighting group. In furtherance of his plan, on June 13, 2008, Shehadeh flew on a one-way airline ticket from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, to Islamabad, Pakistan. Upon landing in Pakistan, Shehadeh was denied entry into the country by Pakistani officials, and he returned to the United States. He was questioned by FBI agents and NYPD detectives on multiple occasions about the purpose of his trip to Pakistan, and he told them that he had traveled to Pakistan in order to visit an Islamic university and to attend a friend’s wedding. The complaint alleges that Shehadeh subsequently admitted to FBI agents in Hawaii that the true purpose of his trip to Pakistan was to join a fighting group such as the Taliban. The complaint also alleges that Shehadeh attempted to recruit another individual to join him for this purpose immediately after the two discussed a sermon by the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
According to the complaint, several weeks after Shehadeh was denied entry to Pakistan, he attempted to enlist in the United States Army at the Times Square recruiting station in New York City. Shehadeh’s application was denied when it was discovered that he had concealed his prior trip to Pakistan. Although Shehadeh claimed that he attempted to enlist for career opportunities and benefits, the complaint alleges that his true motive was to deploy to Iraq, where he intended to desert and fight against the United States military alongside Iraqi insurgent forces.
In addition, the complaint alleges that Shehadeh created and administered multiple websites dedicated to spreading violent jihadist ideology. The content of these websites included, among other things, speeches from known al Qaeda leaders such as Abu Yahya al-Libi and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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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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
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
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
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