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Hezbollah uses Mexican drug routes into U.S. - Washington Times
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:32 AM

Works beside smuggler cartels to fund operations



by Sara A. Carter

EXCLUSIVE:



Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.



The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.

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Police One Member News - Week 429
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:38 AM

PoliceOne Exclusive

Countering terrorist teams, part 3: The second wave response

By Richard Fairburn

PoliceOne columnist

In the first two parts of this series, we discussed the new type of threat posed by multiple teams of terrorists attacking a city with small arms (automatic rifles and grenades). A response tactic was also proposed, that being an infantry-style variation of a Rapid Deployment team. So, beyond the team tactics outlined, what can we do to help our Rapid Deployment teams be more successful?

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Related articles:

Countering terrorist teams, part 1: A different threat requires a different response

Countering terrorist teams, part 2: The different response

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Hearing: "The Mumbai Attacks: A Wake-Up Call for America's Private Sector"
Monday, March 16, 2009 2:41 PM


US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee

Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection

PANEL I

James Snyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Infrastructure Protection

U.S. Department of Homeland Security



Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner, New York Police Department



James W. McJunkin, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division

Federal Bureau of Investigation



PANEL II

C. Christine Fair, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation



Brad Bonnell, Director, Global Security InterContinental Hotels Group



William G. Raisch, Executive Director, International Center for Enterprise Preparedness

New York University
FBI Perspective on Threats from Somalia - Congressional Testimony
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:55 PM

Congressional testimony from Philip Mudd, Associate Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, FBI, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affair, concerning the bureau's prespective on threats from Somalia.

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Annual Threat Assessment by Director of National Intelligence - Congressional Testimony
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:38 PM

Statement for the Record by Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence - Annual Threat Assessment Hearing for the Senate Armed Services Committee

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Police One Member News - Week 428
Friday, March 13, 2009 3:36 PM
Featured News from Police One

Illinois man opens fire in church, kills pastor

MARYVILLE, Ill. — A man suspected of killing a pastor with a barrage of shots that ripped through the church leader's Bible was in serious condition Monday from stab wounds he suffered in the confrontation, and authorities expect to charge him soon.



The gunman, identified by authorities only as a 27-year-old from Troy, strode toward the Rev. Fred Winters shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, exchanged words with him, then fired a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol until it jammed ... Full Story


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2009 Overview of the United States Intelligence Community - Congressional Testimony
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:58 PM

Statement for the Record by Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence - 2009 Report: An Overview of the United States Intelligence Community for the 111th Congress

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2009 National Gang Threat Assessment
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:54 PM

FBI's 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment is NOW available online.

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Terror, Again: First-responder lessons from the attacks in India
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:39 PM



Jeff Chudwin

Law Officer Volume 5 Issue 1


Americans only learn by disaster. —Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt's words certainly apply beyond events in the United States. The plague of terrorism is worldwide. It's not new—history is filled with such times. Unfortunately, though, the lessons paid for in blood by one nation or group is forgotten and the outrage visits another, in a different time and location. The proof? The destruction of lives in the terrorist attacks of Mumbai in November.



The after-action information coming from India is troubling. According to reports in The Times of India and Associated Press , in the absence of a firing range and of ammunition for practice in Mumbai, members of the law enforcement agencies have not opened fire in the past 10 years. One senior inspector told the Times , ''I've been in the police force for a long time, but I had no occasion to open fire for practice.''

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FBI's Role in Mumbai Investigation - Congressional Testimony
Friday, March 13, 2009 3:37 PM

Donald Van Duyn, Chief Intelligence Officer, FBI, Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Read the entire congressional testimony here.