15/12/2007 |
Inside the CIA's notorious ''black sites''
Mark Benjamin | Salon.com
The CIA held Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah in several different cells when he was incarcerated its network of secret prisons known as "black sites." But the small cells were all pretty similar, maybe 7 feet wide and 10 feet long. He was sometimes naked, and sometimes handcuffed for weeks at a time. In one cell his ankle was chained to a bolt in the floor. ...
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13/12/2007 |
¿Está el Ejército estadounidense en bancarrota?
Moisés Naim | El País (Es)
Jim Conway quiere irse de Irak. Esto no tiene nada de extraordinario; hay muchos con ganas de abandonar ese país. Lo especial en este caso es que el general James T. Conway es el responsable de los Marines de Estados Unidos. ...
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13/12/2007 |
Bolivia - Extraditaron de Brasil a narco del caso Luz de luna
Rubén D. Méndez | El Deber
Preso. John Axe Rivero Antelo fugó al vecino país tras ver por TV que sus familiares y los otros implicados eran detenidos. En el operativo del 1 y 2 de agosto de 2003 la Felcn decomisó cinco toneladas de cocaína ...
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13/12/2007 |
Treasury Designates Financial Empire of Key Mexican Money Launderer Blanca Margarita Cazares Salazar
US Treasury | Offnews.info
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated Mexican money launderer Blanca Margarita Cazares Salazar (Blanca Cazares) and 19 companies and 22 individuals in Mexico that are part of her financial network as specially designated narcotics traffickers subject to economic sanctions pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act ...
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11/12/2007 |
La CIA como arma de destrucción masiva
Rafael L. Bardají | Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos
Un amigo mío de Washington suele decir que sobre el mundo occidental pesan tres amenazas existenciales: Ben Laden, el Departamento de Estado y la CIA. Y que no está claro el orden. Pues bien: con la elaboración y publicación parcial de la Nueva Estimación de Inteligencia (NIE), la CIA, el verdadero motor de la comunidad de inteligencia americana, ha ganado muchos puntos para encaramarse al cajón más alto de ese podio tan particular. ...
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11/12/2007 |
La creciente instrumentalización de las drogas por parte del yihadismo salafista y de otros grupos terroristas
Carlos Echeverría Jesús | Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos
La importantísima producción de droga en Afganistán unida a las evidencias crecientes de la relación entre el mundo de los traficantes de drogas y el terrorismo hacen necesario detenerse en el estudio, de interés en gran medida prospectivo, de una relación fructífera entre delincuentes y de una progresiva convergencia entre ambos. ...
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11/12/2007 |
In Mexico's drug trade, no glitter for grunts
Héctor Tobar and Cecilia Sánchez | Los Angeles Times
Despite being portrayed as hip gunslingers, the unskilled workers who toil for traffickers are an expendable lot who often die in obscurity. ...
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11/12/2007 |
Losing the War of Ideas?
Robert R. Reilly | Claremont Institute
After a short two-year tenure, Karen Hughes now departs as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. She concentrated on the public affairs area of her job by creating the Rapid Response Unit and regional media hubs—things that anyone would find hard to believe the U.S. government was not already doing before her arrival. Hughes inherited the detritus from the 1999 destruction of the U.S. Information Agency, and tried to put back some of the missing building blocks of public diplomacy. ...
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09/12/2007 |
México - Narcopolítica o indolencia gubernamental
Erubiel Tirado | Excelsior
Con la primera remesa de extraditables se fueron a cárceles estadunidenses los líderes del narco con sus secretos que, seguramente, serán moneda de cambio para las autoridades de aquel país. ...
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08/12/2007 |
On Iran, Bolton tells it like it is
CSP | Center for Security Policy
In the December 6 issue of the Washington Post, former U.S. Ambassador the United Nations and former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton cogently articulates the numerous reasons why the "key judgments" of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear weapons program – which state that Iran halted the program in 2003 as the result of diplomatic pressure – should be treated with a high degree of skepticism. ...
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