Black Op´s Flood: Bush´s “global war on terror” is now Obama´s “world war on Al Qaeda”

At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba.
But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the [...]

Brazilian Army can now intervene in Ciudad del Este and Three-Border Area.

The Brazilian Federal Senate this week approved the Bill  in order to grant police power to the Army, Navy and Air Force in the border regions, specially with Ciudad del Este and the Three Border Region.  The project was approved without any legislative change also in the Chamber of Deputies.
After being signed by the President [...]

Washington Post´s report “Top Secret America” is inaccurate says acting U.S. intel chief David Gompert.

The US secret intelligence gathering systems have grown so much since 9/11 that no-one knows their exact cost, nor size, the Washington Post reports.
The newspaper says the system is now so massive and unwieldy that it is impossible to determine its effectiveness in keeping the US safe.
The report, Top Secret [...]

U.S. National Security: Many americans joined global terrorism.

Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the president’s most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security said Thursday in an interview with The Washington Times.
“There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different [...]

U.S. intel told Mexican Navy: Cartel violence will attack Mexico City, aiming to bomb buildings and government officials.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s navy seized 45 pounds (20 kilograms) of powerful explosives Wednesday in a bohemian residential neighborhood in the capital after exchanging information with U.S. authorities.
Four Mexicans suspected of links to organized crime were being questioned after a pre-dawn raid on a hostel in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood, [...]

Human Rights NGO claims U.S. conducted “human experimentation” on detainees in CIA custody.

NEW YORK, Jun 7, 2010  – A major human rights organisation claims it has uncovered evidence indicating that the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush conducted “illegal and unethical human experimentation” and research on detainees in CIA custody, informed the news agency IPS in a recent report.
The group, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), [...]

Only FBI is prepared for WMD attack in the U.S., says official audit.

The FBI appears to be ready for a chemical, biological or radiological terrorist attack, but the rest of the Justice Department “is not prepared,” according to a blistering audit released Tuesday.

The report by Glenn A. Fine, Justice’s inspector general, singled out the department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for particular scorn, suggesting that [...]

U.S. new counter terror policy focalize in homegrown extremism.

WASHINGTON: In its new National Security Strategy, the US will make homegrown extremism an integral part of its counter-terror policy as it specifically named al-Qaida and its affiliates as its “adversaries”.
The strategy to be unveiled by President Barack Obama, for the first time focuses on home grown extremists who turn to Islamic radicalism in America [...]

National Security: Terror attacks in the U.S. warns DHS.

Attempted terror attacks in the United States are on the rise, and it’s only going to get worse, Homeland Security warns.
CNN reported on Thursday that an unclassified intelligence memo states “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year [...]

Obama’s national security strategy: Pros and Cons.

President Obama’s national security strategy released by the White House on Thursday, tackles a delicate but unavoidable question: How do we respond to security challenges in an era of financial distress at home and reordering of political power abroad?
In Obama’s case, his sober and comprehensive 52-page strategy incorporates the new realities and breaks with past strategies [...]