10/08/2005 |
Hemisphere Highlights- Volume IV - Issue 8 - August 2005
CSIS | CSIS
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10/08/2005 |
US plays both Venezuela sides
Mike Ceaser | CSMonitor
While the Bush administration engages in a war of words with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the US government has been giving permits to American arms dealers to sell weapons, tear gas, and other riot-control equipment to Venezuela. ...
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09/08/2005 |
¿Participó ETA en el 11-M?
Luis del Pino | Libertad Digital
"de entre todos los posibles sospechosos de haber contratado a los mercenarios que colocaron las bombas en los trenes, ETA es el único que no tenía nada que perder con la operación y sí mucho que ganar " ...
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09/08/2005 |
La muerte de un rey: la muerte de Fahd brinda una oportunidad a Arabia Saudí y un reto a su sucesor, Abdalá.
Stephen Schwartz | El Reloj
EL REY FAHD BIN ABDUL AZIZ de Arabia Saudí ha fallecido en Riyadh a los 84 años de edad, tras diez años de coma. El príncipe de la corona, Abdaláh, medio hermano de Fahd de 81 años de edad él, ha asumido el trono. ...
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08/08/2005 |
US targets Sahara 'terrorist haven'
Catherine Fellows | BBC
The US military has just concluded a major training operation in the Sahel region south of the Sahara desert, which it describes as its biggest exercise in Africa since World War Two. ...
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08/08/2005 |
Europa podría perder la guerra frente al terrorismo
Melana Zyla Vickers | Diario Exterior
"Las respuestas ilustran la debilidad europea contra el terrorismo: los sospechosos son abundantes, pero los obstáculos políticos y legales son aún más abundantes. Más que nunca, esta debilidad se ha convertido en un problema global. Eso se debe a que el centro de gravedad del terrorismo islámico mundial no es Oriente Medio -- es Europa". ...
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08/08/2005 |
War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S.
Bradley Graham | Washington Post
The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans. ...
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07/08/2005 |
Did DoD lawyers blow the chance to nab Atta?
Jacob Goodwin | Government Security News
In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as “Able Danger,” identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to “take out that cell,” according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees. ...
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07/08/2005 |
The Lugar Survey on Proliferation Threats and Responses - PDF
US Senator Richard G. Lugar | US Senate
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05/08/2005 |
Cell phones, Pagers & BlackBerries on Anti-Terrorist Front Line, Says Expert
PSN Service | PR Newswire
Cell phones, pagers and Black and BlueBerries may soon replace CNN and the radio at the cutting edge of terrorism prevention and response efforts, emergency preparedness expert Michael J. Hopmeier told a recent NATO conference on risk assessment and risk communication related to bioterrorism, held in Ein Gedi, Israel. ...
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