Archive for: January, 2011

Egypt´s Army takes distance from Mubarak.

Egypt’s army has vowed it will not use force against the tens of thousands of people protesting for the removal of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. It said it respected the “legitimate rights of the people”. The statement comes ahead of a massive march planned for Cairo on Tuesday and amid a call for [...]

U.S. in talks for new global “secure” cargo.

The United States is in talks with its allies, airlines and maritime groups about creating a global vetting system for international cargo, Homeland Security Secretary  Janet Napolitano said Friday. The so-called “trusted shipper” program is part of a wider effort to boost the safety of air cargo, whose vulnerability was exposed when terrorists in Yemen [...]

UNODC

UNODC – World Drug Report 2010 In 2009, the United Nations Member States decided to make further and decisive progress, within a decade, in controlling illicit drug supply and demand. Many illicit drug markets have reached global dimensions and require control strategies on a comparable scale. In that context, there is a need to better [...]

U.N. and Mexico will open statistics center on public security and crime.

Public security and justice are matters of national importance in Mexico. In order to promote them, the Government needs statistics in those areas. UNODC and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico have announced the creation of a regional centre of excellence for statistics on governance, victims of crime, public security and justice. [...]

Uruguay: confrontation of military officers with judicial system.

About 30 retired Uruguayan military officers will be summoned to court for their alleged involvement in human rights violations during the 1973-1985 dictatorship, the local press reported on Monday. With the end of the summer holidays, Uruguayan courts will resume their activities between February 7th and 12th, when the Judge Mariana Mota and the prosecutor [...]

U.S. Mexico border security: traffickers used medieval style catapults to launch drugs into the U.S.

Mexican drug traffickers appear to be using medieval-style catapults to lob packets of illegal drugs into the United States , and were seized by Mexican troops, the defense ministry said Friday. One of the devices was discovered Thursday night in the municipality of Agua Prieta (Black Water), while the other was confiscated last week in [...]

Security red alert: Egypt local unrest supported by Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.

The private intelligence agency  STRATFOR announced in a Red Alert report that members of Hamas are coordinating efforts with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in the crisis in Egypt. The information was not confirmed by Stratfor but, nonetheless,  there is a great deal of international concern in particular over the role of the Muslim Brotherhood [...]

Spymaster Omar Suleiman, now Vice President of Egypt.

Omar Suleiman (arabic: عمر سليمان‎; born July 2, 1936) is an egyptian politician and military figure who has been appointes as vice president of Egypt since january 29th, 2011. Previously, he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian general Intelligence Directorate (EGID), the national intelligence agency, from 1993 to 2011. Back to previous [...]

Private U.S. intelligence agency Stratfor.

STRATFOR is a U.S. company specialized in intelligence having  a  global team of intelligence professionals. Stratfor  provides reports with insights into political, economic, and military developments. The company uses human intelligence and other sources combined with analysis based on geopolitics to produce explanations of world events. The company delivers content daily on its Web site, [...]

Mexico: experts criticized Calderon´s anti money laundering policy.

In a academic seminar in Mexico, money laundering specialists criticized the presidential initiative to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, that was submitted by President Calderon last  August. The report made by the experts, mandated by the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY) revealed that the rating assigned to the presidential proposal was 5.6 on [...]

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