by Galen Petruso | Sep 13, 2012 | Monitor
13 September 2012 Mexico ‘Gulf cartel boss’ Jorge Eduardo Costilla caught BBC News Latin American and Caribbean Mexican marines have reportedly captured Jorge Eduardo Costilla, a suspected leader of the Gulf cartel. The cartel has engaged the Zetas cartel in a...
by Galen Petruso | Sep 11, 2012 | Monitor
11 September 2012 Tariq al-Hashemi: Turkey ‘will not hand over’ Iraq VP BBC News – Middle East Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey will not hand over former Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who has been sentenced in absentia to death for...
by Galen Petruso | Sep 10, 2012 | Monitor
via Office of the Navy On September 8th, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus authored an op-ed touting the success of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) in the U-T San Diego News. While the piece does not discuss any new policy concerning the Navy’s alternative...
by Galen Petruso | Sep 10, 2012 | Monitor
via Secretary of Defense Following a high profile meeting between the Chinese and Indian defense ministers, both countries announced that they would further expand and deepen their defense cooperation, a move that further complicates the United States’ role on the...
by Galen Petruso | Sep 7, 2012 | Monitor
An Afghan girl covers herself during a dust storm at a hilltop in Kabul (Reuters) Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s column for The Atlantic This week marks two watershed events in the war in Afghanistan: suspending the police training mission and...
