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Read More »The KGB Manual on How to Spot a Foreign Spy: Vodka Martinis, Impeccable Manners, and Eavesdropping
by Nikolay Shevchenko Back in the USSR, the KGB wrote a manual describing what a foreign spy would look like. Some of the characteristics were intriguing… In the midst of the Cold War, security services on both sides of the Iron Curtain had to stay vigilant and look out for …
Read More »‘Going Dark’: Urban Maze Shoot-House Training With 10th Group
WATCH: Soldiers from Army Special Forces 10th Group enter an urban maze, “Going Dark” while a heat-seeker tracks them from above.
Read More »The Dangers of Being a Cartel Prison Snitch: ‘There’s Nothing Worse Than a Rat’
by Ivan / Borderland Beat There are only two inmates that everyone wants to kill: protected witnesses and child rapists, reveals a U.S. Marshal interviewed by the author. The list seems endless. All of them high-level members of the Sinaloa Cartel, who after having every imaginable luxury and in almost …
Read More »Sniper Shoots Through Computer Monitor, Kills Suspect in Florida Hostage Standoff
Inside the bank, the suspect was armed with a knife, and claimed to have a bomb. He took hostages. The incident ended when a law enforcement sniper shot through a computer monitor, and killed the suspect. Newly released footage from the Lee County Sheriff in Florida gives more context behind the …
Read More »The Gruesome Fate of Surgeons Who Built New Face For Mexican Drug Lord
by “Sol Prendido” One of the most influential capos in Mexico’s history met a tragic end – and so did his doctors, according to authorities. One of the most powerful drug lords in Mexico was Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who was born in Navolato, Sinaloa, in 1956. El Señor de los …
Read More »Chinese ‘Punishment’ Military Drills Were a Test for Taiwan
Taipei criticized Beijing for damaging stability across the Taiwan Strait with “irrational provocation.” TAIPEI, TAIWAN — China wrapped up a two-day, large-scale military exercise Friday after its forces sent 111 aircraft and 46 naval vessels to areas around Taiwan. Taiwan’s National Defense Ministry said 82 Chinese military aircraft crossed the median …
Read More »The Mobster Who Knew Too Much: Death of a Bulgarian Crime Boss
by Tony Wesolowsky He was one of Bulgaria’s most notorious mafia kingpins, who rose through the ranks in the chaotic 1990s, acquiring along the way an empire of businesses — some legitimate, many not — from fruit markets, parking lots, to a stake in a business at a key border …
Read More »Beyond Eagle Pass: Bodies and Gunfire in the Texas Wilderness
by Susan Katz Keating The cowboys were out on the range on a Texas morning, fixing fences that were cut down the previous night by intruders. Bobby, a “lifelong ranch hand” at age 28, was alone on his horse in a remote pasture. He heard a scream; a weird, piercing …
Read More »Mullahs Tell Iranians to Stop Celebrating Death of Raisi, ‘The Butcher of Tehran’
Raisi was aboard a helicopter that crashed in Iran’s mountainous northwest on its way back from the border with Azerbaijan. The ruling mullahs in Tehran have demanded that people in Iran stop behaving gleefully over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi and other senior officials when their helicopter crashed …
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