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White House Visitor Tourists Taken Into Custody


Posted: 14 May 2009 11:28 PM PDT



Two people facing deportation from the U.S. were taken into custody at

the White House gate. They had arrived for a tour.


The pair were part of an adult education program, and a routine

background check showed they had an outstanding immigration order

against them. They were taken into custody yesterday before they

entered the compound.


All White House visitors undergo a U.S. Secret Service background check.


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Explorer-Scouts Train To Fight Terrorism And More


Posted: 14 May 2009 11:14 PM PDT



Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border,

and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out
two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the
floor.


In a training exercise run by Border Patrol agents, Explorer scouts from
Visalia, Calif., prepare to storm a “hijacked” bus.


The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 —

face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! —
fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and

masks affixed.


“United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” screams one in a voice

cracking with adolescent determination as the suspect is subdued.


It is all quite a step up from the square knot.


The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America

that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills
used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence —

an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare

youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.


“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J.

Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock,

he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in

with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”


The training, which leaders say is not intended to be applied outside the

simulated Explorer setting, can involve chasing down illegal border

crossers as well as more dangerous situations that include facing down

terrorists and taking out “active shooters,” like those who bring gunfire

and death to college campuses. In a simulation here of a raid on a

marijuana field, several Explorers were instructed on how to quiet an

obstreperous lookout.

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4 U.S. Citizens Found Strangled in Tijuana Mexico


Posted: 14 May 2009 10:24 PM PDT



The bodies of four U.S. citizens were found strangled, beaten and stabbed

in a van in this border city, two days after they reportedly left their

Southern California homes for a night at the Mexican clubs, U.S. officials

said Thursday. The bodies were described as having been tortured;

bludgeoned, beaten and with their skulls crushed. They were found

wrapped in blankets early Saturday morning, according to a news

release from the Tijuana State Attorney’s Office.


The victims were found Saturday, but their deaths were not reported

earlier because they were under investigation, said Fermin Gomez, an

assistant state prosecutor in Baja California.


U.S. consular officials in Tijuana said the victims two men and two

women from the San Diego and Chula Vista areas — were U.S. citizens.

The state attorney general’s office in Baja, Calif., said one of the women

was Mexican.


A spokesman for the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana confirmed the identities

of the dead as Luis Games Chavez, 21; Oscar J. Garcia III, 23; Brianna

Hernandez Aguilera, 19; and Carmen Ramos Chavez, 20. All were U.S.

citizens and Southern California residents, the consulate spokesman said.

He declined to give specific hometowns or say how long the four had

been in Tijuana.


Their deaths are the latest in a string of violence in Tijuana that authorities

blame on a bloody turf war between drug cartels.


“I just don’t think kids should be going to Tijuana right now,” Chula Vista

police Lt. Scott Arsenault told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “They ran into

the wrong people, obviously.”


Bernard Gonzales, a spokesman for the Chula Vista Police Department, said

a friend told the women’s parents they were headed to nightclubs in Tijuana

on Thursday night. They were reported missing the next day when they did

not answer their cell phones.


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U.S. Has Plan to Secure Pakistan Nukes if Country Falls to Taliban


Posted: 14 May 2009 10:06 PM PDT



The United States has a detailed plan for infiltrating Pakistan and securing

its mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads if it appears the country is about
to fall under the control of the Taliban, Al Qaeda or other Islamic extremists.


American intelligence sources say the operation would be conducted by

Joint Special Operations Command, the super-secret commando unit
headquartered at Fort Bragg, N.C. JSOC is the military’s chief
terrorists hunting squad and has units now operating in Afghanistan

on Pakistan’s western border. But a secondary mission is to secure

foreign nuclear arsenals — a role for which JSOC operatives have
trained in Nevada.


The mission has taken on added importance in recent months, as Islamic
extremists have taken territory close to the capital of Islamabad and
could destabilize Pakistan’s shaky democracy.


“We have plans to secure them ourselves if things get out of hand,” said

a U.S. intelligence source who has deployed to Afghanistan. “That is a big
secondary mission for JSOC in Afghanistan.”


The source said JSOC has been updating its mission plan for the day President
Obama


gives the order to infiltrate Pakistan.


“Small units could seize them, disable them and then centralize them in a

secure location,” the source said.


A secret Defense Intelligence Agency document first disclosed in 2004 said

Pakistan has a nuclear arsenal of 35 weapons. The document said it plans to
more than double the
arsenal by 2020.


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Report: CIA Chief Warned Israel Not to Bomb Iran in Secret Visit


Posted: 14 May 2009 09:54 PM PDT



The director of the CIA was recently sent on a secret mission to Israel to

warn its leaders not to launch a surprise attack on Iran without notifying the
U.S. Administration, the
Times of London reported on Thursday.


FOX News could not immediately confirm the report.


As Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, prepares to visit

Washington, it emerged on Wednesday that Leon Panetta went to Israel

two weeks ago. He sought assurances from Netanyahu and Ehud Barak,

the Defense Minister, that their hawkish new government would not

attack Iran without alerting Washington.


Concerns have been rising that Netanyahu could launch a strike on

Tehran’s atomic program, in the same way that Israel hit Saddam Hussein’s
Osirak reactor in 1981.
Israel has been preparing for such an eventuality. It has
carried out long-distance
maneuvers and is due to hold its largest civil defense
drills this summer. The
country’s leaders reportedly told Panetta that they did

not “intend to surprise the U.S. on Iran.”


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