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Archive for category Threat Watch
Mexico: the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Aug/2010 23:37
El jefe de jefes Marcos Arturo Beltran Leyva
The Beltrán-Leyva Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva) is a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime synidicate founded by the five Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, Mario Alberto, Carlos, Alfredo and Héctor.
The cartel is responsible for cocaine transportation and wholesaling, marijuana production and wholesaling, and heroin production and wholesaling, controls numerous drug trafficking corridors, and engages in human smuggling, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, murder and gun-running.
The Beltrán Leyva brothers, who were formerly aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, have been allies of Los Zetas for some time.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/beltran-leyva-cartel.html
Car Bombs in Tamaulipas, Mexico -near site of the massacre of 72 U.S-bound migrants
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Aug/2010 23:34
Mexican policemen and a soldier stand guard next to remains of a parked vehicle outside a studio of top broadcaster Televisa in Ciudad Victoria, the Mexican state of Tamaulipas August 27, 2010. A car bomb exploded outside the TV studio early on Friday, but there were no injuries, Mexican media and witnesses said.
Two bombs went off early Friday in the capital of the violence-wracked northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where 72 U.S.-bound migrants were slaughtered by gunmen earlier this week.
Neither bombing caused any casualties.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/bombs-go-off-in-mexican-cities.html
Slavery in Mexico – stories from the inside
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Aug/2010 23:30
The horrifying massacre of 72 Central and South American immigrants by the hands of Zetas shocked the world. Preliminary investigations, based on testimony by the sole survivor of this attack, report the immigrants were first given the option of paying their ransoms in cash or as cartel slaves. Having no cash and refusing to join Zeta forces, the 58 men and 14 women, were blindfolded and bound before being executed on spot.
We know what happened to them, but what about the others? What happens to those who are unable to pay, but still desperately wish to survive?
Below you will read the story of Marisolina, a young immigrant from El Salvador who’s only dream, like many before her, was the American dream. An immigrant who, with no means to pay ransom, was forced into the dark world of Zeta slavery.
Marisolina didn’t have relatives in the United States, much less in El Salvador, who would or even could pay the Zetas, who kidnapped her, the $3000 dollars they demanded to release her.”You’re going have to come up with another way to pay us, Guerita”, they repeatedly threatened her in the first few days of her captivity.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/zeta-slaves-story-from-inside_28.html
14 Men Executed in Acapulco
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Aug/2010 23:27
Acapulco- Attacks on suspected members of the Cartel del Pacifico Sur headed by Héctor Beltrán Leyva left 14 men dead in execution style slayings in four different locations around the tourist destination of Acapulco, Guerrero during the morning hours of Friday, August 27.
The murders may have been a reprisal for the executions and public display of 4 mutilated bodies of men belonging to Edgar “la Barbie†Valdez Villarreal’s organization in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/14-executed-in-acapulco.html
According to the state of Guerrero’s Public Security Secretariat, the victims were beaten and tortured before being executed by gunfire from the usual weapons used by organized criminal gangs: .233 (AR-15), 7.62 x 39mm (AK-47) and 9mm calibers.
Three of the victims were identified as municipal policemen and one victim was a state government employee. As of late Friday evening the identities of the other victims had not been released.
Trial For USS Cole Bomber Delayed
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 27/Aug/2010 15:51
From the Washinton Post:
The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
We can’t prosecute an obvious act of war against a United States warship, it’s no wonder we can’t rebuild the World Trade Center.
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.”
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/
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.
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.
Failed bomb attempts kill 11 militants in Somalia
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 22/Aug/2010 15:56
(CNN) — Two failed bomb attempts by the Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab killed 11 militants around Mogadishu, Somalia’s transitional government said Saturday.
In the first incident, militants were working on a car bomb in a house near Shirkole, north of the capital, when the device detonated, killing 10, the government said in a news release Saturday.
Another Al-Shabaab member was killed while planting a roadside bomb on Mogadishu’s Ansaloti bridge, according to the release. Authorities arrested two other individuals suspected of guarding the militant who died.”
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/08/21/somalia.al.qaeda.blast/index.html
2,076 Policemen killed in Mexican drug war.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 19/Aug/2010 02:29
According to a report released today by Mexico’s cabinet level Federal Police Ministry, the SSP, organized crime and drug cartel attacks and executions have killed 2,076 policemen since President Calderon launched his offensive in December 2006.
Municipal policemen accounted for 915 deaths, followed by state policemen with 698 deaths and the federal police with 463 deaths. The total of 2,076 police deaths accounted for 7.3% of the figure of 28,228 total deaths attributed to organized crime from December 1, 2006 to July 29, 2010.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/lives-of-policemen-in-mexico.html
Hunting Party of 8 killed in Oaxaca State
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:26
by Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
The victims were out hunting when they were intercepted by an armed commando in a dirt road located in the Ejido Tierra Alta, two of the bodies showed the coup de grace (shot at point blank to the head).
The Secretary of Public Security of Oaxaca, Javier Rueda, confirmed that the group of people went out hunting, when they were caught by an armed commando.
Two of the victims were shot execution-style and the rest were sprayed with gunfire to avoid leaving witnesses.
WARNING: Disturbing photos:
Narco-Censorship: Under threat from Mexican drug cartels, reporters go silent
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:20
Placards with pictures of slain journalists are seen this month at a Mexico City rally by journalists protesting the violence they face. (Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP/Getty Images / August 7, 2010)
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Journalists know drug traffickers can easily kidnap or kill them — and get away with it.
A new word has been written into the lexicon of Mexico’s drug war: narco-censorship.
It’s when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth in a country where members of the press have been intimidated, kidnapped and killed.”
Juarez Cartel Trains Beautiful Women as Sicarios (hired assassins)
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:16
“The armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel (La Linea), which operates on the border of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso is recruiting and training dozens of young, pretty women as sicarios (hired assassins), said a captured sicario hired by the criminal organization.
“They are beautiful teenagers, to deceive the enemy even more,” said the suspected member of the organization of La Linea, Rogelio Amaya, to an investigative team of the federal Public Security Secretariat (SSP).
This criminal organization has between 20 and 30 women, mostly “pretty” between 18 to 30 years old, trained to kill, he said.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/juarez-cartel-trains-beautiful-women-as.html
The Body of Cavazos, Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Found
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:12
by Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
“This one hit hard, don’t ask me why, it just did. Today I am writing this the day they found the body of the Panista Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, who had been abducted two days ago by an armed commando.
U.S. educated Cavazos Leal, 38, and father of three children was abducted Sunday night from his residence in the Division of Cieneguillas. Alejandro Garza Garza, the Nuevo León state attorney, said Monday that the mayor was abducted by a commando wearing fake uniforms of the federal police of the attorney general (PGR).
Medina said this week that Cavazos, who took office last year, was probably targeted for his efforts to clean up Santiago’s corrupt police force, part of a nationwide effort to curb endemic police graft.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/body-of-cavazos-found.html