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Archive for category Threat Watch
‘Iran closer to developing nuclear bombs’ Russia warns
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 12/Jul/2010 18:19
Dmitry Medvedev has adopted a tougher line on Iran in recent months
“Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Iran is “moving closer” to having the potential to create nuclear weapons.
Russia, which has strong economic and military ties with Iran, has traditionally been an ally of Tehran.
“Iran is moving closer to possessing the potential which in principle could be used for the creation of nuclear weapons,” Mr Medvedev told a meeting of ambassadors in Moscow.”
Somalian Al-Qaida affiliate Claims Uganda Bomb Attacks
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 12/Jul/2010 18:09
 A Ugandan man lies injured in the emergency ward at the Mulago hospital in Kampala after bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda's capital late Sunday, killing dozens, 12 Jul 2010 -Photo: AP
“Al-Qaida’s affiliate in Somalia, al-Shabab, has taken responsibility for two separate bombings late Sunday in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The death toll has risen to more than 70 and dozens more remain seriously wounded.”
4 Arrested in South Africa Trying to Sell Nuclear Device
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 11/Jul/2010 15:05
“South African police say they have arrested four men in the capital, Pretoria, for attempting to sell what they describe as an industrial nuclear device to undercover officers.”
“Shootout Drills” for Mexican Schools
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 9/Jul/2010 19:49
“MEXICO CITY – Schools across Mexico are teaching students to dive to the floor and cover their heads as urban gunfights between drug gangs multiply in the violence-torn country.
At least nine shootouts have erupted in school zones since mid-October, three of them in the past month. On June 15, soldiers and gunmen battled for an hour just 60 feet from a preschool in the central town of Taxco.
Several Mexican states are now requiring “shootout drills” and are incorporating them into summer teacher-training courses, which begin next week. School ends Friday in most of Mexico.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/shootout-drills-for-mexican-schools.html
Hezbollah using Mexican nationals to establish a network in South America
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2010 22:00
“Mexico foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in South America, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Hezbollah operatives employed Mexican nationals with family ties to Lebanon to set up the network, designed to target Israel and the West, the Al-Seyassah daily said.
Mexican police mounted a surveillance operation on the group’s leader, Jameel Nasr, who traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive information and instructions from Hezbollah commanders there.
Nasr was living in Tijuana, Mexico at the time of his arrest, the report said.
The report follows warnings from the United States that Hezbollah and its backer Iran are stepping up operations in the region.”
Decapitated Victim Left on Mexican Mayoral Candidate’s Doorstep
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2010 21:27
“In another act of terrorism directed at the electoral process in Mexico a decapitated body was placed yards away from a home belonging to Héctor “Teto†MurguÃa Lardizábal, the PRI candidate for Mayor of Ciudad Juarez.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/06/ciudad-juarez-mayoral-candidate-greeted.html
Mexican killers disquised themselves as Mexican Marines(Graphic Content)
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Jul/2010 21:19
Three vehicles recovered in the murder of Rodolfo Torre Cantú, candidate for governor, were altered to look like military vehicles.
Here’s a news flash: Americans living in border states are not mean-spirited bigots with racist hatred of anyone with brown skin.
They are good, hardworking people who do not want this kind of violence spilling across the border into their back yards, and who object to people showing complete disregard to the laws of the United States.
“Sources close to the investigation carried out by the Attorney General of Tamaulipas and the PGR report that sicarios were disguied as Mexican Marines who apparently had inside information of the PRI candidate [Rodolfo Torre Cantú], and managed to execute the ambush in full military precision.
According to information published by the newspaper Reforma, witnesses report that the candidate’s convoy was passed by a truck that suddenly started traveling at low speed and a a few feet ahead of the the road was tractor trailer that was used to block the road.
Once the procession was forced to stop, two cloned trucks, made to look like military vehicles, came from behind and from inside numerous men that appeared to be wearing marine uniforms got out of their vehicles.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/cloned-marines-responsible-for.html
The 30-Year War in Afghanistan
Posted by Brian in Opinion, Threat Watch on 1/Jul/2010 15:24
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
By George Friedman
The Afghan War is the longest war in U.S. history. It began in 1980 and continues to rage. It began under Democrats but has been fought under both Republican and Democratic administrations, making it truly a bipartisan war. The conflict is an odd obsession of U.S. foreign policy, one that never goes away and never seems to end. As the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal reminds us, the Afghan War is now in its fourth phase.
The Afghan War’s First Three Phases
The first phase of the Afghan War began with the Soviet invasion in December 1979, when the United States, along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, organized and sustained Afghan resistance to the Soviets. This resistance was built around mujahideen, fighters motivated by Islam. Washington’s purpose had little to do with Afghanistan and everything to do with U.S.-Soviet competition. The United States wanted to block the Soviets from using Afghanistan as a base for further expansion and wanted to bog the Soviets down in a debilitating guerrilla war. The United States did not so much fight the war as facilitate it. The strategy worked. The Soviets were blocked and bogged down. This phase lasted until 1989, when Soviet troops were withdrawn. Read the rest of this entry »
CIA Chief: Iran will have nuclear weapons, Taliban not interested in reconciliation
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Jun/2010 23:12
CIA Director Leon Panetta
“We think [the Iranians] have enough low-enriched uranium right now for two weapons. They do have to enrich it, fully, in order to get there. And we would estimate that if they made that decision, it would probably take a year to get there, probably another year to develop the kind of weapon delivery system in order to make that viable.â€
A peace deal in Afghanistan? “The bottom line is that we really have not seen any firm intelligence that there’s a real interest among the Taliban, the militant allies of Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda itself, the Haqqanis, TTP, other militant groups. We have seen no evidence that they are truly interested in reconciliation.â€
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/cia-chief-irans-bomb-two-years-away-sanctions-wont-work/
Ahmadinejad: postponing nuclear talks to “punish the West
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Jun/2010 21:59
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is willing to resume nuclear talks, but not until August, so as to “punish” the West. His comments were included in a flurry of anti-Western rhetoric to mark the anniversary of a 1981 explosion that killed key figures and dozens of supporters of Iran’s revolution.
Mr. Ahmadinejad says Iran is postponing nuclear talks because the West issued a Security Council resolution against it, supposedly to give them the upper hand in negotiations.He says Iran considers it immoral, and for this reason Tehran is delaying negotiations until late August, to “punish the West so they learn how to speak properly with other nations.”
Mexican Candidate for Governor Is Assassinated
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Jun/2010 21:51
“Forensic experts inspected the site where the candidate for governor in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was assassinated, in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.†- EFE, via European Pressphoto Agency
“MEXICO CITY — A popular candidate for governor who had made increased security his prime campaign pledge was killed along with at least four others Monday morning in a brazen attack, rattling a nation already alarmed by surging drug violence.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/world/americas/29mexico.html
Indicators of possible imminent attack on Iran?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Jun/2010 23:26
“Recently Saudi Arabia gave Israel permission to fly over to strike Iran.
A US Carrier group was seen transiting the Suez Canal with IDF naval vessels on their way to the Persian Gulf.
News agencies have reported that IAF jets have landed at airfields in Saudi Arabia and that nuclear armed Israeli submarines are stationed off of Iran.
There are currently as many as three US Carrier groups in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea and US Troops have been reported to be massing in Azerbaijan.”
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/attack-iran-imminent
Or it could just be more rumors.
Failed State Of Kyrgyzstan?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Jun/2010 23:02
Two Uzbek refugees from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh wait for permission to cross into Uzbekistan at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Recent ethnic violence displaced 200,000 people. Sergei Grits/AP
A wave of brutal ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, which officials now admit killed as many as 2,000 people, threatens to turn the mountainous Central Asian nation of 5 million into a failed state. A failed Kyrgyztan could destabilize its neighborhood, offer a target for the region’s Islamist radicals, and provide a haven for narcotraffickers working the opium pipeline from Afghanistan, experts warn.
2 reasons why the Afghan situation is different from the Iraqi surge.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Jun/2010 18:40
“…two major factors distinguish the Afghan from the Iraqi surge. First is the alarming weakness and ineptness — to say nothing of the corruption — of the Afghan central government. One of the reasons the U.S. offensive in Marja has faltered is that there is no Afghan “government in a box” to provide authority for territory that the U.S. military clears.
In Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, after many mixed signals, eventually showed that he could act as a competent national leader rather than a sectarian one when he attacked Moqtada al-Sadr’s stronghold in Basra, faced down the Mahdi Army in the other major cities in the south and took the fight into Sadr City in Baghdad itself. In Afghanistan, on the other hand, President Hamid Karzai makes public overtures to the Taliban, signaling that he is already hedging his bets.
But beyond indecision in Kabul, there is indecision in Washington. When the president of the United States announces the Afghan surge and, in the very next sentence, announces the date on which a U.S. withdrawal will begin, the Afghans — from president to peasant — take note.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/24/AR2010062404870.html
“Jihadi tourists: stay away.” 5 American Muslim men convicted of terrorism by Pakistani court
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 25/Jun/2010 02:25
“KABUL, Afghanistan — A Pakistani court convicted five young American Muslim men of terrorism charges Thursday and sentenced each to 10 years in jail…
The case spotlighted the radicalization of American Muslims and Pakistan’s drawing power to would-be jihadists from around the world. The convictions amounted to an official warning to jihadi tourists to stay away.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/25/1699500/5-americans-convicted-of-terrorism.html