16/08/2009 |
Japan - Secret Syrian-Iranian-NKorean missile-test fails, kills 20 Syrians
DEBKA Staff | DEBKA
Japanese intelligence has learned that in late May, Iran, Syria and North Korea secretly test-launched in southern Syria a new short-range ballistic missile developed jointly by Pyongyang, Tehran and Damascus as a substitute for the outdated Scuds still in use in their armed forces, DEBKAfile's military sources report. ...
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16/08/2009 |
Turkey quietly shakes up military command; alleged conspirator denied promotion
World Tribune Staff | World Tribune
The Supreme Military Council has decided to revise its command for all of the services. The council, known by its Turkish acronym, YAS, appointed new commanders for the air force and navy as part of a plan to restructure the military. ...
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16/08/2009 |
La Familia Grows, Mexico's Drug War Flails
Malcolm Beith | World Politics Review
Francisco Morelos Borja, the Michoacan president of the governing National Action Party (PAN) shifted from side to side, nervously looking at his aides and then the door of the nondescript restaurant in the town of Quiroga. "If you don't open the door to [the drug traffickers], no problem. The difficulty comes when you open the door and have relations with them," he said during our interview back in November 2007. "I can only make sure [members of the PAN] don't open the door. . . . Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't". ...
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16/08/2009 |
Egyptian fishermen net their limit of pirates
Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan | Los Angeles Times
34 fishermen who had been kidnapped near the Gulf of Aden overpower their captors and are now sailing home with 8 marauders in their hold, destined for police. ...
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16/08/2009 |
Crews ¨overpower Somali pirates¨
BBC | BBC
About 40 Egyptian fishermen have escaped from their Somali pirate captors near the northern town of Las Qorey, reports from the region say.A wounded pirate, found on a beach with machete wounds, said the crew attacked him and his colleagues with tools and then seized their weapons. ...
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16/08/2009 |
Mexico - 17 charged in string of brutal kidnappings and slayings in San Diego suburbs
Richard Marosi | Los Angeles Times
In a spillover of Tijuana violence, Mexican gang members posing as U.S. law enforcement personnel abducted and killed 9 victims.Authorities announced charges Thursday against a Mexican gang that took Tijuana-style violence to the upscale suburbs of San Diego County, kidnapping, torturing and killing well-to-do residents, even after some families paid large ransoms. ...
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16/08/2009 |
México - Crimen organizado: Generación Zeta
Diego Osorno | Nexos en línea
Las bandas juveniles de Monterrey han sido absorbidas por el crimen organizado, forman ejércitos invisibles a los que el abandono, la pobreza, el rencor, han convertido en poderosas estructuras sociales al servicio del narco.Nada los impresiona, sólo el dinero. Quieren la Hummer porque la Hummer da vieja. Son batos que no todos son buenos y no todos son malos. Tienen un caló con términos como “dar piso”, que significa “matar a alguien”, u otros como “florecitas”, que es como se refieren a las mujeres de su banda. Cuando acaba un noviazgo, a la tragedia amorosa le dicen: “Aquí murió la flor”. ...
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16/08/2009 |
Italia - Ejército del Bien: Berlusconi prepara un plan contra ¨las fuerzas del mal, el crimen y la mafia ¨
| El Mundo
Italia elaborará un gran plan "contra las fuerzas del mal, la criminalidad común y la mafia" a partir de septiembre, según anunció el primer ministro italiano, Silvio Berlusconi, en una rueda de prensa sobre seguridad. ...
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16/08/2009 |
México - Narcotráfico: La Familia cobra impuestos en pueblos michoacanos
El Universal Staff | El Universal
Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán: El cártel cobra 100 pesos mensuales por un puesto en un mercado callejero, 30 mil por una concesionaria de autos o una proveedora de materiales para la construcción. ...
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15/08/2009 |
México - La guerra al crimen es de todos
María Elena Morera de Galindo | El Universal
La estrategia desplegada por el gobierno del presidente Felipe Calderón en contra del crimen organizado era absolutamente necesaria. Y ahora cobra mayor urgencia, ante los preocupantes niveles de infiltración de grupos delictivos en diversas estructuras del poder público, revelados tras las últimas detenciones. ...
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