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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On Monday Colombia shut down a controversial intelligence center for surveillance and illegal interception of communications to magistrates, journalists and politicians who opposed the administration of ex-president Alvaro Uribe. President Juan Manuel Santos said that responsibilities of the Administrative Security Department (ASD) will be taken over by other agencies like the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the [...]
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The search for Mr. Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical islamic jihadist cleric and member of al Qaeda , finally ended on Friday. After weeks of surveillance of the al Qaeda leader in Yemen, armed drones operated by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA took off from a American base in the Arabian Peninsula, crossed into northern [...]
The government of Mexico says it is investigating internet videos made by masked men who vow to exterminate the violent Zetas drug cartel, saying it rejects such vigilante methods. So far two videos have been released by a group possibly linked to the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which calls itself the “Mata Zetas,” or “Zeta Killers.” [...]
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On the occasion of the EISIC (September 12-14,2011) held in Athens, we interviewed the Program Chair of the event Dr. Nasrullah Memon, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and member of the Steering Committee of the European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference EISIC on Counterterrorism and Criminology. The event was organized jointly with The [...]
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The CIA Director said al-Qaeda is weaker and US intelligence agencies are smarter since the September 11 attacks 10 years ago, but the terrorists are still there and not defeated. In his first week on the job, CIA director David Petraeus told members of Congress that al-Qaeda’s recent losses of Osama bin Laden and others [...]
This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a) Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas in Thessaloniki, Greece b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]
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On September 12th, and during the first day of the conference EISIC 2011 “European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference, on Counterterrorism and Criminology,” the first keynote speech was given by the expert Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyber Security (BT) (*). The title of his presentation was “Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications”. Among [...]
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U.S. officials warned yesterday evening about “specific, credible but unconfirmed” information on a plot against the United States. This potential attack could coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. According to this information, the potential attack could involve three individuals, including a U.S. citizen. U.S. officials believed the threat could be a [...]
