Thermal-imaging devices have been used to watch the second suspect in this week’s Boston Marathon bombings as he was holed up in his last hiding place, the boat. Authorities said a helicopter equipped with a thermal imager (FLIR — a forward-looking infrared device —) spotted the heat signature of a person inside a tarp-covered boat, sitting [...]
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FIFA is getting nervous with the status quo of violence in Rio and Sao Paulo. Brazil also worries, and therefore the government started to put into place a task of security measures. The first one is the use of drones to secure the next Confederations Cup in June, where all the champions of all continents [...]
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U.S. President Obama nominated John Brennan to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, placing there a trusted aide and one of his inner circle. During the decission making process, key reasons President Obama chose Mr. Brennan are: a) Obama´s close relationship with Brennan, as he has served at Mr. Obama’s side [...]
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Three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement staff members have filed serious complaints alleging that a senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano used inappropriate sexual behavior around them, according to court records and a letter describing the claims submitted to a congressional oversight committee. The complaints are related to [...]
A higher number of foreign spies are active on U.S. soil today than there were during the Cold War, according to a former top CIA officer. Hank Crumpton, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center who led the U.S. response to 9/11, told the CBS news documentary program “60 Minutes” that China is the largest [...]
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In response to growing bilateral and multilateral dialogues on citizen security, Presidents Obama and Santos met today on the margins of the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and agreed to deepen coordination of ongoing security cooperation activities throughout the hemisphere and West Africa. Both presidents agreed to formalize this coordination in [...]
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Forensic experts report that pedophiles are increasingly using gaming systems to prey upon children, while terrorists are now utilizing them for online communication. With this in mind, on April 5 the United States Naval Supply Systems Command contracted a San Francisco company called Obscure Technologies for the research and development of “hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting [...]
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Nearly 20,000 mobilized to guarantee security in Cartagena Careful background checks for every employee at each of the nine hotels hosting heads of state, especially the chefs responsible for their meals, are only one of the strict security measures being taken for the upcoming Sixth Summit of the Americas in Colombia. For the past year, that nation’s police and military have been [...]
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Police in Mexico have arrested an alleged member of the Zetas drug cartel for masterminding a casino fire that killed 52 people in the northern city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday. Jorge Domene, security agency spokesman for Nuevo Leon state, said Baltazar Saucedo Estrada is the lead hitman who was sought on a US$1,000,000 reward [...]
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
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