Has some estimates of costs in it, which are always useful. I havent had time to go through it in detail, but it isnt just about compliance with FATF directives, for a change. Some useful stuff in here which will have to be engaged with by anyone writing on terrorist financing.
Attacks on a group campaiging to save Darfur. The cui bono test can only point to the Sudanese government or to China. Article refers to what it calls a “near decade-old pattern of cyber-espionage and cyber-intimidation by the Chinese government against critics of its human rights practices, experts said”. No expert named or quoted. The … FBI OPENS PROBE OF CHINA-BASED HACKERS
Washington Post article about Uruzgan province Afghanistan. Beware the production figures. Not too long ago, the DEA site actually showed Burma well out-producing Afghanistan. It’s only since the West decided to try to stop opium production that the figures have increased logarithmically. Either: the West has the worst policies in the world for drug eradication, … STRUGGLING FOR SOLUTIONS AS OPIUM TRADE BLOSSOMS
I would have thought you were either a skinhead or you weren’t. Fairly easy to tell. Members of neo-Nazi group suspected of hate crimes including murder arrested in Moscow. Gives figures for numbers killed by skinheads [allegedly, presumably]
The trouble is, the intelligence agencies would say that anyway, if they had an agent in place, and would sy they did if they didnt, too! Smoke and mirrors eh? A few agents in the Pakistani ISI might prove just as advantageous…. Treatment of captured insurgents was key according to Kitson. You have to turn … AFTER A DECADE AT WAR WITH WEST, AL QAEDA STILL IMPERVIOUS TO SPIES
This is the Guardian version. An “art forgery ring” it calls it. How about “An organised crime gang of counterfeiters”. Let’s not mince our words here, just because it’s art! Art dealers in Chicago and Florida sold forged artwork supposed to be Picassos Dalis and Warhols to gullible customers. Ebay was also used. At least … ART FORGERY OPERATION BROKEN UP BY JOINT FBI-SPANISH OPERATION
This piece contains the immortal line: “Theft of metal has been described as the most serious threat to Britain’s railways apart from terrorism.” Now managerial incompetence, poor maintenance, the absence of investment in high-speed trains and john Major’s weird choo-choo fantasies from his childhood are far more serious in my real world…But copper theft really … INTERNATIONAL COPPER THEFT
The headline is irresistible and once you’ve read it, then the necessity for the next post becomes clear
You have to say, these must be the world’s richest terrorists. They deal in oil and art! Look guys, you have an organised crime problem. Stop pretending you haven’t!
Russian government about to create a Russian equivalent of the FBI…but the small print makes it look awfully like the return of the KGB….with powers over criminal investigation as well as security. Hmmmmmmm…plus ca change….
