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“Service Members, Civilians from 20 Nations Deploy for FA PANAMAX 2008”
Posted On: Aug 13 2008 7:54AM
By Eric N. Atkisson
U.S. Army South Public Affairs
COMALAPA AIR BASE, El Salvador (Aug. 12, 2008) –
NEWS RELEASE SNIPPET: “PANAMAX began in 2003 with just three participating nations and has grown significantly over the last five years to include this year’s roster of 20 nations: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, the United States and Uruguay.
France, Mexico, Paraguay, and Spain are scheduled to participate as observers, and the three participating international organizations are the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the Conference of Central American Armies.”
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http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1551557520080816
“Troops try to thwart simulated Panama Canal attack”
Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:13am EDT
By Andrew Beatty
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “ABOARD THE USS TARAWA (Reuters) - Troops from countries across the Americas started a major military exercise on Friday to defend the Panama Canal from an attack by a fictional terrorist group bent on damaging the world economy.
The U.S.-led exercise will pit more than 30 ships, dozens of aircraft and some 7,000 troops over the next week against the Liberation Martyrs’ Brigade, an imaginary group with access to nonconventional weapons and perhaps even a nuclear device, officials said.”
“One- man cell, the new face of Al Qaeda terror”
August 15th, 2008 - 5:04 pm ICT by ANI
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Washington , Aug 15 (ANI): The creation of one-man cell seems to be the new strategy of Al Qaeda terrorists.
According to the FoX News, intelligence officials have discovered an online Al Qaeda manual that prescribes that group leaders should training new recruits to operate as smaller cells around the globe.
The manual, called Method for Building the Personality of a Terrorist Mujahid and written by an Islamist forum contributor nicknamed “Shamil al-Baghdadi,” encourages militant followers to stop focusing on pulling off attacks on the scale of 9-11 and to start executing numerous smaller attacks.
If for some reason the mission fails, the Jihadi must not abort, but instead carry on alone, as a one-man cell, the paper quotes New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly as saying while quoting from the manual.
It advocates assassinations by shooting, poisoning and booby-trapping cell phones and computers.”