The world famous efficient government of Singapore is facing some embarrassment as a wanted terrorist escaped from a detention center and has been on the lose for two weeks.
From the IHT:
Mas Selamat Kastari, alleged to be the leader of a terrorist group here, escaped from a high-security prison two weeks ago in a major embarrassment [...]
Nearly 7 years after the 9/11 attacks, domestic terror groups have been unable to maintain the reach they had in the 1990s.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Many observers attribute that to Sept. 11, for diverting the rage of disaffected Americans away from the U.S. government and toward foreigners, and for fueling the subsequent Patriot Act-driven crackdown. [...]
The United Nations Office on Crime and Drugs released a report on the current drug situation in Afghanistan.
From Bloomberg News:
Taliban insurgents will generate at least $100 million from this year’s opium crop in Afghanistan which will almost match the record harvest in 2007, the United Nations said. Cultivation of opium poppies will remain “shockingly high,” [...]
From the Washington Post:
Telecommunications companies have repeatedly cut off FBI access to wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because the bureau did not pay its phone bills, according to the results of an audit released yesterday.
The report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said that more than half of nearly 1,000 [...]
From the AP:
Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about them. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency has alerted Americans to a threat — information the White House includes on its Web site.
But government experts and intelligence officials say such a threat [...]
From the AP:
In dozens of interviews with Sri Lankan officials, Western diplomats and former rebels, The Associated Press found that the Tigers raise US$200 million (€139 million) to US$300 million (€208 million) a year, mostly through extortion and fraud. They then use front companies or middlemen to buy arms from legitimate weapons makers in [...]
West Africa is becoming a key area for terrorist organizations to raise funds for their operations.
From Reuters:
Militants are exploiting weak law enforcement in West Africa to raise funds from rackets ranging from people smuggling to drug trafficking and even fake Viagra, experts said.
While blacklisted groups like al Qaeda and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia [...]
From the AFP:
Nearly half of the 42 groups considered by the United States to be terror organisations fund their activities through drug trafficking, a top US official said in Israel Sunday. if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); window.yzq_d[\'99hTAdGDJHE-\']=\’&U=13b0ut45h%2fN%3d99hTAdGDJHE-%2fC%3d609439.11344619.11876675.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d4804863\’;
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Michael Braun told a conference on “The Global Impact of Terrorism”, [...]