30/08/2009 |
Mexico - Prominent defense lawyer is stabbed to death
Ken Ellingwood | Los Angeles Times
Americo Delgado had represented major drug figures, including Tijuana crime boss Benjamin Arellano Felix. Police have not identified a motive.Americo Delgado was ambushed Friday evening by at least three men in the city of Toluca, an hour or so outside Mexico City, police said. ...
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30/08/2009 |
US - Marijuana found in another national park
Ben Conery | Washington Times
The Drug Enforcement Administration Friday announced that it found 14,500 marijuana plants growing in a Colorado national park, the latest in a series of such finds in national parks that authorities say are linked to Mexican drug cartels. ...
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30/08/2009 |
US - How a Detainee Became An Asset
Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate | Washington Post
After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called "terrorist tutorials." ...
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30/08/2009 |
España - Delincuencia: La 'Biblia de los hurtos'
Juan Diego Quesada | El Pais (Es)
No tienen rostro y estudian a conciencia cómo burlar los sistemas de seguridad. Los ladrones de comercios siguen a rajatabla una serie de leyes no escritas. Así son y así actúan.En una vieja pensión de la calle Montera, en el centro de Madrid, sobre una cama de esas que chirrían en la oscuridad, paso de prostitutas y clientes, se apila un puñado de bolsos con el interior recubierto de aluminio. ...
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30/08/2009 |
US - Cheney: Obama Team Should Be Debriefing CIA Interrogators, Not Investigating Them
FOXNews-Staff | Fox News
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday the Obama administration should be debriefing CIA interrogators about keeping the country safe rather than trying to punish them for doing their jobs. ...
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30/08/2009 |
México - Narcotráfico: Procesan a 18 policías ligados a Los Zetas
Maria de la Luz Gonzalez | El Universal
Están acusados de proteger a una célula de este grupo de sicarios en Tabasco, y por su probable relación con el asesinato del coordinador de policía de Huimanguillo. ...
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29/08/2009 |
US looking at Israel, Turkey to house anti-missile bases
Today´s Zaman-Staff | Today´s Zaman
The United States has all but abandoned plans to house anti-missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, according to a senior White House lobbyist, EUobserver news portal reported on Thursday, citing a news report in a Polish daily. ...
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29/08/2009 |
Thailand rattled by reports of secret Burma nuke program
World Tribune Staff | World Tribune
Authorities in Thailand are attempting to verify reports that the military regime in Burma is building a covert nuclear reactor as part of a program to build nuclear weapons within five years. ...
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29/08/2009 |
México - El narco construye una ideología
Diego Osorno | Milenio
No porque haya nacido en Sinaloa, ni mucho menos porque ahora radique en Nueva York, donde prepara un doctorado cuya tesis aborda el mundo del narcotráfico, ni tampoco porque en el nuevo tomo de la Enciclopedia Contemporánea de México, elaborado por el Colegio de México, a él le haya tocado ese tema, no, no es por nada de eso que el investigador Froylán Enciso advierte que el narco mexicano está logrando construir una ideología. ...
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29/08/2009 |
UAE Seizes North Korean Weapons Shipment to Iran
Bill Varner | Bloomberg
The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship carrying North Korean-manufactured munitions, detonators, explosives and rocket-propelled grenades bound for Iran in violation of United Nations sanctions, diplomats said. ...
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