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Archive for category Threat Watch
Agents feared Mexican drug cartel attack on border dam
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:23
Falcon Lake Dam
“An alleged plot by a Mexican drug cartel to blow up a dam along the Texas border — and unleash billions of gallons of water into a region with millions of civilians — sent American police, federal agents and disaster officials secretly scrambling last month to thwart such an attack, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
Whether or not the cartel, which is known to have stolen bulk quantities of gunpowder and dynamite, could have taken down the 5-mile-long Falcon Dam may never be known since the attack never came to pass.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7033818.html
Threat grows as Mexican cartels move to beef up U.S. presence
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:16
SAN DIEGO — When a major Mexican drug cartel opened a branch office here on the California side of the border, U.S. authorities tapped into their cellphones – then listened, watched and waited.
According to the wiretaps and confidential informants, the suspects plotted kidnappings and killings and hired American teenage girls, with nicknames like Dopey, to smuggle quarter-pound loads of methamphetamine across the border for $100 a trip. To send a message to a rival, they dumped a disemboweled dog in his mother’s front yard.
But U.S. law enforcement officials say the most worrisome thing about the Fernando Sanchez Organization was how aggressively it moved to set up operations in the United States, working out of a San Diego apartment it called “The Office.”
Municipal Official, Son Murdered in Ciudad Juarez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:08
“A municipal commissioner and his son were murdered over the weekend in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, prosecutors said.
Rito Grado Serrano and his son, Rigoberto Grado Villa, were killed at their house in Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, Texas, on Saturday night.
Several gunmen went to the house after 8:00 p.m. Saturday and opened fire on the 59-year-old Grado Serrano and his 37-year-old son, the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s Office said.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/municipal-official-son-murdered-in.html
The Case of 20 Missing Mexican Tourists Doesn’t Add Up
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Oct/2010 17:04
“It’s one of the more puzzling episodes in a drug war heaped with unsolved cases: 20 Mexican men travel to Acapulco together and are kidnapped en masse as soon as they arrive.
Two weeks later, there has been no trace of the men. Investigators have yet to announce any good leads, even though two others from the group were not taken.
Against the backdrop of Mexico’s extraordinary drug violence, it’s tempting to write off the Sept. 30 disappearance as another grim skirmish between rival traffickers. Group kidnappings have been a common feature of the feuding, though generally with fewer victims.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/case-of-20-missing-mexican-tourists.html
Afghan Rules of Engagement
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 20/Oct/2010 14:49
From the Washington Examiner:
“I don’t think the military leaders, president or anybody really cares about what we’re going through,” said Spc. Matthew “Silver” Fuhrken, 25, from Watertown, N.Y. “I’m sick of people trying to cover up what’s really going on over here. They won’t let us do our job. I don’t care if they try to kick me out for what I’m saying — war is war and this is no war. I don’t know what this is.”
We need to figure out if we want the civilians to like us or if we want to kill the enemy. Right now it seems like we are trying to do a little of both and succeeding at neither.
New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 17/Oct/2010 23:19
‘Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in Pakistan and give rise to speculation that growing American drone strikes and NATO helicopter attacks in that country may be the harbingers of far broader actions: Nothing less than the expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons.
The News International, Pakistan’s largest English-language newspaper, published a report on October 13 based on excerpts from American journalist Bob Woodward’s recently released volume “Obama’s Wars” which stated that during a trilateral summit between the presidents of the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan on May 6 of 2009 Pakistani head of state Asif Ali Zardari accused Washington of being behind Taliban attacks inside his country with the intent to use them so “the US could invade and seize its nuclear weapons”.’
Qari Hussain Mehsud, Taliban Leader Killed In US Drone Attack
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 15/Oct/2010 17:54
“Qari Hussain Mehsud, a top Taliban leader in Pakistan and deputy chief of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban has been killed by a US drone attack.
The drones hit a militant compound in Jungle Khel area near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency, killing four militants including Qari Hussain on October 7.
Qari Hussain Mehsud, specialty was training suicide bombers to conduct missions mainly in Pakistan.”
BREAKING: New Taliban Threat Feared in U.S. After Failed NYC Plot
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 15/Oct/2010 16:31
“Senior U.S. officials are concerned over recent intelligence indicating that the Pakistani Taliban, which orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing, may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States to launch a second attack, sources tell Fox News. Authorities, however, know very little about the potential operative or any possible plot.
“[We] don’t know who it is and don’t know where it is,” one source said. “We know the guy’s here, but don’t know anything about him.” Based on the intelligence, authorities believe the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, would have directed the individual to attempt another Times Square-style operation, but not necessarily in New York City… ”
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7653/pub_detail.asp
Sinaloa, Mexico: Police being killed at soaring rates
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 15/Oct/2010 16:15
“Twenty-five law enforcement personnel were murdered in the state of Sinaloa in 2007, but this year that number has grown more than threefold and has reached 90.
The highest yearly number so far was in 2008, when 112 agents of various law enforcement agencies fell victim to organized crime.”
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloGeneral.asp?IdArt=10288392&IdCat=6087
Monterrey, Mexico: Mexico’s richest city a battleground in bloody drug war
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 15/Oct/2010 16:14
A family walks past soldiers and federal policemen guarding a crime scene after a shooting between rival gangs in Monterrey October 5, 2010. (Reuters/Tomas Bravo)
“Monterrey, Mexico – Once an oasis of calm, Mexico’s richest city has become a central battleground in the country’s increasingly bloody drug war as cartels open fire on city streets and throw grenades onto busy highways.
Escalating violence in Monterrey, one of Latin America’s most affluent cities and seen as a symbol of Mexico’s economic prowess, is arguably the most dramatic development in Mexico’s four-year campaign against powerful drug cartels.
Firefights are spilling into leafy suburbs, putting ordinary Mexicans and foreigners at risk and raising the stakes for President Felipe Calderon as he faces pressure to protect a city generating 8 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product.”
Severed head of Investigator “delivered to military in suitcaseâ€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 14/Oct/2010 11:44
Tiffany Hartley with husband David, who has been missing since September 30. The lead Mexican investigator in his case has been beheaded Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319997/Severed-head-Mexican-police-officer-Rolando-Armando-Flores-Villegas.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz12LuGglMR
Lead Mexican investigator Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was hunting for the men who killed a U.S. citizen, a Texas man who was jet-skiing on Falcon Lake, in Texas.
The Investigator’s decapitation is a ‘message to White House’: Mexican drug cartels are declaring that the U.S. ‘no longer controls border’.
“The lead Mexican investigator hunting for an American man who disappeared after he and his wife were ambushed on Falcon Lake has been beheaded, a Texas lawmaker claimed today.
The severed head of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was delivered to the Mexican military in a suitcase, Aaron Pena said today.
His wife Tiffany has told police she and her husband were ambushed by pirates while jet-skiing on the popular lake on September 30.
They shot her husband in the head, she claimed. She tried to rescue him but was forced to abandon his body when the pirates opened fire at her.
His body still has not been found.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319997/Severed-head-Mexican-police-officer-Rolando-Armando-Flores-Villegas.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
NATO’s Lack of a Strategic Concept
Posted by Brian in News, Opinion, Threat Watch on 12/Oct/2010 16:14
NATO’s Lack of a Strategic Concept is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Marko Papic
Twenty-eight heads of state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will meet in Lisbon on Nov. 20 to approve a new “Strategic Concept,†the alliance’s mission statement for the next decade. This will be NATO’s third Strategic Concept since the Cold War ended. The last two came in 1991 — as the Soviet Union was collapsing — and 1999 — as NATO intervened in Yugoslavia, undertaking its first serious military engagement.
During the Cold War, the presence of 50 Soviet and Warsaw Pact armored divisions and nearly 2 million troops west of the Urals spoke far louder than mission statements. While Strategic Concepts were put out in 1949, 1952, 1957 and 1968, they merely served to reinforce NATO’s mission, namely, to keep the Soviets at bay. Today, the debate surrounding NATO’s Strategic Concept itself highlights the alliance’s existential crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
“Attempted Coup†in Ecuador
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Oct/2010 22:27
“The military rescued President Rafael Correa from the hospital where police where holding him hostage. There was heavy gunfire, and multiple people are reported injured, including at least one soldier.
The government of Ecuador has announced that an attempted coup against President Rafael Correa is underway. Correa brought Ecuador into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, of which overthrown Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was also a member.
The unrest in Ecuador stems from a police protest over bonuses that they allege were taken away from them. The Ecuadoran government claims the police were compensated for this loss of bonuses in other ways.
Correa reports that police are holding him hostage in a hospital where he was being treated after police attacked him with teargas.”
A plea for help from citizens of the city of Monterrey, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Oct/2010 21:15
“To whom it may concern:
We, the citizens of the city of Monterrey, Mexico, are tired of the violence created by the drug cartels and the organized crime. We don’t know where or who to ask for help since our governor and president have failed to protect us.
We have been living in fear since February this year and until now we have no answer on how to stop this. The drug cartels and the organized crime have taken our peaceful city along with its citizens prisoners; they have kidnapped men, women and children.
We never asked for this nor support any group or organization that is in connection with them. We never thought that something like this could happen to us and now here we are living a nightmare, our worse nightmare.
Today we are asking for your help. We know that you have the power to communicate and inform people about our real situation. We as good Mexican citizens are imploring for your valuable help. Please, inform the rest of the world about our current situation and let people know that we are pleading for clemency.
If there is an organization out there that can help us to find a solution, we are in the best position to accept the help. We don’t trust our government since our government has failed protecting us and there are no warranties for our lives.”
Double Homicide in Brownsville, Texas: Mexican drug cartel Executions
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Oct/2010 20:23
The Brownsville Herald
“Authorities have linked Thursday’s double homicide on FM 511 in the northwest outskirts of Brownsville. Texas, to Mexican drug cartels and are investigating the killings as spillover violence from the Tamaulipas war between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.
The bodies of Omar Castillo Flores “El Omarcilloâ€, 25, and Jose Guadalupe Lopez Perez, 38, were found inside a gray Dodge Ram pickup that was riddled with bullets, police spokesman Eddie Garcia said Friday. He said the truck had a Mexican license plate on the back bumper, and he identified both men as residents of Mexico.
At the crime scene, police recovered numerous shell casings of an unknown caliber. The Border Enforcement Security Task Force, a multi-agency group led by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, assisted police in the investigation but deferred all comment to Brownsville police as the lead agency in the case.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/two-zetas-executed-in-brownsville-texas.html