Monday, January 31st, 2011

Law Enforcement »

U.S.-Mexico border violence is diminishing, Napolitano says.

The U.S.-Mexico border is more secure than it has been in years, resulting in less violence and illegal immigration, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
U.S. border communities are not “out of control or overrun with violence,” she said today in a speech at the University of Texas at El Paso. “Illegal immigration is decreasing. Deportations [...]

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

Reward offered for info in death of former Pentagon official.

The family of former Pentagon official John P. Wheeler III is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in Wheeler’s slaying.
The Delaware medical examiner’s office announced Friday that Wheeler “died of blunt force trauma after being assaulted.”
“The family is distraught,” said Colm Connolly, the former U.S. attorney for Delaware, [...]

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Law Enforcement »

ATF fears budget cuts would imperil gun-trafficking fight at Mexico border.

About three weeks before the deadly shootings in Tucson renewed a national debate about gun control, the White House budget office proposed steep cuts for the agency charged with enforcing federal gun laws.
When officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives saw the proposal, they concluded it would effectively eliminate a major initiative [...]

Related Topics: ATF, Border, Mexico

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Military »

Marine Corps considers two pistols for new MARSOC .45.

Image Dan Lamothe: Springfield Armory’s Full-Sized MC Operator pistol, left, and Colt Defense’s prototype, adapted from its 1070RG Colt Rail Gun are seen.
The competition to provide Marine special operators with new .45-caliber semiautomatic pistols is beginning to take shape, with at least three companies submitting samples to the Marine Corps and others bowing out.
Colt [...]

Monday, January 31st, 2011

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

Military »

U.S. praises Egyptian military’s ‘professionalism.’

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mullen thanks Egyptian military chief of staff for not turning army’s U.S.-funded firepower on demonstrators.
The highest-ranking U.S. military officer praised the “professionalism” of Egypt’s armed forces in a phone call with a top Egyptian commander on Sunday, as Egyptian troops refrained from a crackdown on protesters.
Egypt receives about $1.3 billion [...]

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

Egypt’s opposition calls for 1 million on streets.

A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo’s streets Tuesday to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak, the clearest sign yet that a unified leadership was emerging for Egypt’s powerful but disparate protest movement.
In an apparent attempt to show change, Mubarak named a new government Monday. But the [...]

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Monday, January 31st, 2011

FBI charges Ohio man with possessing toxin ricin.

Federal law enforcement officials on Friday announced the arrest of an Ohio man for possessing a toxin that can be used as a biological weapon.
FBI officers arrested Jeffrey B. Levenderis, 54, after tests showed that a substance removed from the Coventry Township man’s home was ricin. Ricin is a poison manufactured from castor beans.
Levenderis was [...]

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Saturday, January 29th, 2011

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