The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reports that recently, there has been a series of armed thefts of dangerous explosives from storage sites in Mexico many of these robberies occurred just across the border along the southwest U.S. Mexican border. The (ATF) is reminding all Federal explosives licensees and permittees of the importance of security at their explosives storage sites, and are advising all industry members to take heightened security precautions in light of these thefts. The ATF says "this advisory is a precaution and not due to any criminal intelligence."
Law enforcement on both sides of the border have been notified and alerted to the thefts. The ATF along with licensees and permittees connected to the explosives industry are to protect the public and as part of this ongoing effort, industry members are being commended by the ATF for their voluntary reporting of explosives thefts that occurred in Mexico to the U.S. Bomb Data Center.
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Pakistan ISI top boss met Osama aide
3/1/2009
In a development that reaffirms Pakistan’s duplicity and its links to the top terrorist organisations in the region, TIMES NOW has learnt that one of the top bosses of Pakistan’s intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has held talks with Osama bin Laden’s key aides in Miram Shah in Pakistan’s restive Federal Administered Tribal Area.
In fact, highly placed intelligence sources have told TIMES NOW that around the time when Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi was visiting Washington and meeting officials of the Barack Obama administration and reaffirming Pakistan's determination to fight terrorism, a senior ISI official of the rank of a major-general no less was meeting Sirajuddin Haqqani considered an ally of the Taliban as also al-Qaeda Chief Laden.
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http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=30864
thanks Oorang. As unstable as things are on the mexican side of the border, “losing” explosives is not going to help matters.