Wikileaks Round II (Iraq) Rolling Update 20101105

NOTICE: Within DoD, at least all elements of the Army as well as the Marine Corps Reserve have been given direct, unqualified, written orders not to access the Wikileaks site or read the Wikileaks document via any Government **OR** non-Government computer.  This Rolling Update complies with the DoD guidance. Friday 5 November 2010 WikiLeaks Incidents May …

Journal: Bottom-Up Counter-Terrorism…At No Cost!

Police, Public Vigilance Foiled 80 Percent of Terror Plots Homeland Security Today by Anthony L. Kimery  Tuesday, 02 November 2010 Citizens, state and local law enforcement play vital role in uncovering attacks More than 80 percent of foiled terrorist plots between 1999 and 2009 resulted from observations by citizens or law enforcement officials or from law …

Journal: Putin to Obama–Stay in Afghanistan + RECAP

Mikhail  Gorbachev, who has been neutralized by the succession of Russian rulers, especially Putin) has just advised President Obama to get out of Afghanistan.  Jonathan Steele suggests here (also attached below) that Obama ought to heed that advice, because Obama is in a similar albeit somewhat worse position than Gorbachev was in 1985-6. Analogies are dangerous, because …

NIGHTWATCH Extract: Mexican Cartels Threaten Massacres

Mexico: For the record. Suspected members of the Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel warned that they would kill 135 people after security forces seized 134 tons of marijuana last week in Tijuana, Baja California state, Milenio reported today, 25 October. The warning was made over a police radio frequency late on 24 October reportedly minutes after …