Same criticisms could be made of organised crime strategies too. Politicians ignore the academics who have done the research and surround themselves with groupuscules who reinforce their own prejudices. “Evidence-based policy?” “I know best, thank you!”

Title owes more to sub editor than to the article. Some interesting stuff about internal developments in Al-Shabaab.

Call for Panels and Papers Understanding and Tackling the Roots of Insecurity: Terrorism, Transnational Organised Crime and Corruption Following the success of the Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC)’s section at the ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux in 2013, SGOC members have proposed a new section “Understanding and Tackling the Roots of Insecurity: Terrorism, Transnational Organised Crime … CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPERS, 3-6 SEPTEMBER 2014, GLASGOW

Sorry readers. Your blogger has been researching shiftas in Ethiopia. back now and here’s a cracking World bank Report into the financing of piracy.

Note to lazy Independent journalist: cyberwar and cybercrime are not the same thing.

Source in Greek

Nice graphic. Article a bit of a tease.

Well, it had to be going on, given that duty is so high that duty evasion has become very profitable. This article accuses all the players of being involved: the military, the oil companies, the refineries. Didn’t Europol suggest that oil refineries were being bought by organised crime in last year’s report? It seemed odd … £1BN A MONTH: THE SPIRALLING COST OF OIL THEFT IN NIGERIA

Account of journalists use of Tor and the Silk Road. The amount of academics and journalists studying the site makes me suspect that there will be another system already created. Interesting libertarian justification of illegality thrown in!

A tongue in cheek attempt to present a top 5 of the world’s wealthiest terrorist networks. I promise to follow it up with some more serious thoughts on methodology.