Another warning that Obama is confusing the media impact in the US of drone strikes with successful counter-insurgency policy. Tthe drones are recruiting for al Qaeda and the taliban, not discouraging potential recruits, th author of the article argues.

It is alleged that they were off to join al Shabaab in Somalia. the only problem is that all the evidence will be from talking to an undercover NYPD officer…On the other hand, there will be evidence as to their preparatory activity. We shall see.

The local rag doesnt seem to know about the earlier post on the CCTV cameras in Muslim areas. Nor can the Birmingham Post do counting…Met report said only one crime per CCTV camera. They then allow the West Mids coppers to get away with three examples of succesful crime solving…and how many cameras, eh? The … WEST MIDLANDS POLICE SAY CCTV EVIDENCE “INVALUABLE”

Clicking on the title will download the newsletter in .pdf format. details of next month’s Summer school on Catania and several fascinating articles: Stefano Becucci on Nigerians and Prostitution in Italy Jean-Louis Briquet and Gilles Favaret-Garrigues “Socio-Historical Analysis of Politico-criminal Configurations” Peter Klerks: exposing Criminal nodes through social network analysis Bill Tupman: Civil Society and … NEW EDITION OF NEWSLETTER NOW OUT!

Weve heard of the submarines going from South to North America before. Now apparentl;y they are crossing to West Africa. this couldnt possibly be part of special pleading not to cut the Royal Navy, could it?

Report drawing together robberies at stately homes and pleading for a national response

Report from Jamaica at begionning of March that US putting pressure on for Jamaica to extradite “Dudus”, who contols Tivoli gardens, an area of Kingston. Subsequent events show that the government had good reason to think twice about going in to arrest him.

BBC produce a rather thin profile of the man wanted by the US

500 arrested too. Wonder if US Justice Department carried out a cost-benefit analysis…No cost to them. High costs to Jamaica. Benefits?? None for anyone as yet. Bit like Mexico really…The police end up illegitimate and the Army has to come in. So what do we do? Cut demand in the US maybe? Nah. Export your … JAMAICA CLASHES CLAIM MORE THAN 70 LIVES

So easy to turn the country of your choice into another Afghanistan or Iraq…Not so easy to rebuild the state and civil society afterwards. So what do we do when organised crime substitutes itself for both state and civil society? This is increasingly an important question that needs answers.