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, [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Venezuela and Bolivia, which recently announced that they will build nuclear power plants using russian assistance, will not achieve the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, said today the U.S. DoD Defense Undersecretary for Latin America, Frank Mora. “I do not think they have the intention (Bolivia and Venezuela) to acquire the capability to produce nuclear [...]
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 75, is said to have claimed that he could help Venezuela achieve a nuclear bomb within 10 years. He was held following a sting operation in which an FBI undercover operative posed as an agent from the South American country. The US government said that, in reality, Venezuela had not been seeking [...]
HAWTHORNE, Calif., Aug. 31 — Research into detecting nuclear and other materials with potential for use in weapons of mass destruction received more pledges of government support after a Californian security electronics firm received contracts worth up to $12 million for developing new detection devices and techniques, says a report of the international news agency [...]
