Category archives for: WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction

Marathon Terrorists: After manhunt, black hut killed, white hut captured.

BOSTON — In a direct appeal for help from the public, the F.B.I. on Thursday released pictures and video of two young men who officials believe may be responsible for the explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 170 during the Boston Marathon. Officials said they have images of one of the men [...]

“War on drugs” is over in Mexico.

Mexico City.- By command of President Peña, and starting immediately, Mexico’s Federal Police and military personnel will read a series of legal rights to suspects — including rights to know the charges against them, obtain free legal counsel and remain silent — from printed cards they carry with them. The announcement Friday by Undersecretary Eduardo [...]

Former CIA official says US overrun with foreign spies

The Americas Post - Hank Crumpton says the United States is infested with foreign intelligence agents

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 [...]

U.S. Feds found corruption among U.S./Mexico border and customs agents. Cartels, specially Zetas, are responsible.

The drug cartels in Mexico have used cash and sexual “favors” as ways to bribe U.S. border and customs agents, an inspector general investigation has found. The corrupted agents allow/protect/escort contraband (allegedly drugs), traffickers or illegal immigrants through inspection lanes, and other crossing points. The bribed agents also -allegedly- leak sensitive information, said Charles Edwards, [...]

U.S. sanctions Venezuela on links with Iran. Chavez will retaliate.

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 [...]

Dangerous Alliance: Iranian missile base in Venezuela in the planning phase

FARC, Cuba, Gaddafi. Chavez like to deal with the wrong guys. Also Iran. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez – according to Die Welt and “World Online”-  has with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on 19 October 2010 closed a secret agreement on strategic cooperation, which provides for the construction of an Iranian-Venezuelan military base on Venezuelan soil. [...]

World Cup 2014: Brazilian Army planning to invest $1.3 billion mainly in signal intel.

The Army has a project of $ 1,3 billion dollars in order to equip the brazilian military with better intelligence systems and preventing and combating terrorism in the country. The aim is to ensure that the military be prepared to act in the safety of World Cup 2014 and 2016 Olympics, to be held in [...]

Iron Dome stop short range missiles.

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 [...]

The story of a teen terrorist, or “The Sting” by the F.B.I.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Somali-born teenager who thought he was detonating a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony downtown here was arrested by the authorities on Friday night after federal agents said that they had spent nearly six months setting up a sting operation. The bomb, which was in a van parked off [...]

Verdict in terror case can close civilians trials in favour of military courts.

What was a very bad day for Ahmed Ghailani, now a convicted felon likely to spend many years in a supermax prison, was also, because of the super-charged politics surrounding Guantanamo Bay, a pretty bad day for the Obama administration. To be sure, the 36-year-old Tanzanian was convicted Wednesday of one count of conspiracy in [...]

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