U.S. President Barack Obama hit Venezuela and its state-oil company PDVSA with sanctions for sending Iran two tankers of oil in defiance of U.S. sanctions against Iran. There is a risk of escalation of the conflict between U.S. and Chavez. If Chavez decides to keep sending the occasional oil tanker to Iran, or PDVSA carries [...]
Spanish police stopped the illegal sale of nine military transport helicopters – Bell 212- to Iran and chopper spare parts to Venezuela. The police operation, which took place simultaneously in Madrid and Barcelona, led to the arrests of five Spanish businessmen and three Iranian nationals, reports say. The five Spanish businessmen are suspected of trying [...]
Last week, twelve ministers of defense of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) met in Lima. The Summit´s objective was to devise a strategy to protect the region´s environment, how to respond to natural disasters and the end of the so called arms race with the advance of arms control measures. In the agenda, [...]
The commander of the U.S. Southern Command said Friday that the threat to U.S. security in Latin America comes not from any conventional source but rather transnational criminal organizations. Mexican drug cartels have cut a murderous swathe across the United States’ nearest southern neighbor and also threaten Central America, but Gen. Douglas Fraser of the [...]
The third round of wide-ranging Sino-American talks will begin next Monday in Washington. For the first time, they will include a strategic security dialogue that brings together diplomatic and military officials from both countries. As leading officials from the world’s two largest economies meet next week, “strategic security” might become one of the key phrases [...]
Mexican police confiscate a large arsenal of illegal weapons stashed in a hidden room behind the walls of a home gym in a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas. Police say the clandestine arsenal was located in a cartel safehouse, and included three anti-aircraft guns,machine guns, [...]
President Barack Obama’s named expert budget-cutter Leon Panetta to lead the Defense Department. Panetta´s nomination is a clear signal that the White House perceives the nation’s deficit crisis as its toughest challenge. Panetta will replace Robert Gates, asked by Obama in 2008 to remain defense secretary and lead U.S. two wars in Afganistan and Irak. [...]
Panama’s government manages the purchase of 13,000 automatic weapons at the Austrian Glock pistols factory. The objective of the government of panama is to provide security forces with modern weapons to fight drug trafficking and other crimes, local media reported friday, quoting official sources . Panama’s Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino, told the newspaper La [...]
Next April 12-15 at Riocentro Exhibitions Center in Rio de Janeiro starts Latin America Aero & Defence LAAD , an important trade show for the defence and security industry in Latin America. Backed by the Brazilian State and Defense Industry , LAAD takes place every two years bringing together Brazilian and international companies that specialize [...]
An israeli army missile defense batteries system called Iron Dome -placed in the south of Israel - successfully intercepted nine Grad, Katiushka and Kassam missiles from Gaza over the weekend. “This is a historic achievement and the first time in the world that a short-range rocket was shot down in this way,” one defense official [...]
Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.
EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats
Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.
Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.
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