22/05/2008 |
Moroccan Arrests and the Security of Militant Recruiters
Fred Burton and Scott Stewart | Stratfor
Moroccan security services recently dismantled an 11-member militant jihadist network that operated in the cities of Fez and Nador, the official Moroccan government news agency Maghreb Arabe Press (MAP) reported May 19. ...
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22/05/2008 |
SOCOM Leads the Way? A special operations transformation.
Stuart Koehl | Daily Standard
Two weeks ago, Admiral Eric T. Olson, former Navy SEAL and commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), complained in an interview that U.S. special operations forces are overcommitted and stretched too thin. ...
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18/05/2008 |
El apoyo de Chávez y Correa a las FARC
Andrés Oppenheimer | Miami Herald
El presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez y su colega de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, podrán gritar todo lo que quieran, pero lo cierto es que han sido atrapados in fraganti apoyando a un grupo terrorista que está tratando de derrocar al gobierno democráticamente electo de Colombia. ...
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17/05/2008 |
México - Ligan a taxis de DF con FARC
Alejandro Jiménez | El Universal
Enviados colombianos organizaron talleres políticos para Los Panteras. Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), grupo considerado guerrillero y terrorista, han organizado talleres políticos para los taxistas del Distrito Federal conocidos como Los Panteras, pertenecientes al Frente Popular Francisco Villa. ...
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17/05/2008 |
Real spies grow harder to find
Christopher Caldwell | Financial Times
New details emerged this week of how Syria managed to conceal the secret nuclear plant it was building with North Korean help, and how close to producing plutonium it was before it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike last autumn. ...
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17/05/2008 |
U.S. Department of State - Country Reports on Terrorism 2007
US Department of State Staff | US Department of State
“With persistence and transparency, Colombia will overcome terrorism, which is financed by illicit drugs…To fight them (terrorists), we deepen democracy instead of restricting it, protect liberties instead of suppressing them, stimulate dissent instead of silencing it. ...
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15/05/2008 |
México - Hay nexo FARC-APPO, acusan
José Melendez | El Universal
El “activista” mexicano Glen Cristopher Cerda Guajardo reveló ayer en un centro de detención de migrantes en Costa Rica que existen nexos entre organizaciones políticas del sur de México, como la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO), y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). ...
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15/05/2008 |
México - Se rompe el cártel de Sinaloa
Pablo César Carrillo | Excelsior
La guerra del narcotráfico en Sinaloa y Ciudad Juárez se desató primordialmente por un pleito entre Arturo Beltrán Leyva y Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, dos viejos amigos que trabajaron juntos durante años, pero que ahora son enemigos, según una sólida hipótesis de los investigadores de la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR). ...
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14/05/2008 |
The Philippines: Counter-insurgency vs. Counter-terrorism in Mindanao
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
“The ‘Mindanao model’ of combining military operations with civic action operations against the ASG has been widely heralded as a success, but the gains could be short-lived”, says Kit Collier, a consultant for Crisis Group. “The model involves using counter-insurgency techniques for counter-terrorism goals, but the only way the Philippines will effectively manage domestic terrorism is to secure the cooperation of the MILF and MNLF – and that requires concrete progress toward formal peace agreements.” ...
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13/05/2008 |
Lebanon Nearing Civil War Following Weekend of Violence
Global Insight Staff | Global Insight
From a position of weakness the Lebanese government last week dismantled Hizbollah’s telecommunications network and sacked a pro-Hizbollah army chief charged with airport security, setting the stage for a bloody showdown which has so far left over 50 people dead. ...
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