“EMIR OF THE SOUTH” ABU ZEID POISED TO TAKE OVER AL-QAEDA IN NORTH WEST AFRICA
Hostage taker in the Sahel increases in importance.
Hostage taker in the Sahel increases in importance.
BKA and FBI excited. CIA, BND and BfV not quite so excited.
Biker gang membership growing in Europe. Are they involved in organised crime? The Independent muses on the subject.
time to police computer generated alterations to reality. this will start in the stock market, but expect to see the computer in court more and more regularly as US lawyers work out how to bring cases.
OLAF is the EU anti-fraud unit. It struggles! The EU Observer article reviews the arguments about its role, powers and supervision.
Strange story of an undercover journalist and Venezuelan escapades.
The original headline is just too silly to use. An account of the changing Hamas policy against drugs, with a very small account of the nature of the problem, which is then tied into Hamas opposition to alcohol and moves against smoking in public places.
More Liverpudlians nicked, this time in Spain. This gang allegedly selling drugs in holiday resorts including ecstasy in Ibiza. There’s a bit more information in the Liverpool Echo: http://tinyurl.com/3399997
book by Mitchell T. Reiss on negotiations with Terrorists: IRA, ETA, HAMAS, the Awakening in Iraq and the Tamil Tigers. What lessons can be drawn?
Piece by Simon Jenkins, reminding us that during the 70s, very real bombs went off in the UK regularly, but there wasnt the massive apparatus of “security” specialists trying to terrify the population on a daily basis. he asks the proper policing question: cui bono?