Kashmir Sutherland huddles with other protesters for warmth in Shemanski Park after police told them to take down tents or be kicked out Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, in Portland, Ore. The Oregonian reports the demonstrators agreed to take down a tent to stay in the park Sunday night. On Saturday night police arrested 19 demonstrators setting up structures in the South Park blocks. Police evicted demonstrators on Nov. 13 from two downtown parks.A woman shouts slogans during a rally in Moscow, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
Several thousand people have protested in Moscow against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged. A group of several hundred then marched toward the Central Elections Commission near the Kremlin, but were stopped by riot police and taken away in buses. A blind woman rests in front of a police line during a protest by Greek blind people outside Parliament in Athens, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
Dozens of people took part in the demonstration, to protest against government welfare spending cuts. Greece is in the throes of an acute financial crisis and has implemented a harsh austerity programme in exchange for international rescue loans. Occupy DC protesters stand inside a structure set up overnight in McPherson Square, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011 in Washington. Protesters are refusing to dismantle the unfinished wooden structure erected in the park.
In this Nov. 17, 2011 file photo, students clash with police during a demonstration in Milan, Italy, as university students protest against budget cuts and a lack of jobs, hours before new Italian Premier Mario Monti reveals his anti-crisis strategy in Parliament. Moroccan pro-democracy activists called for a day of rage on Dec. 4, 2011, a week after legislative elections but few turned out. Animal rights activists of the AnimaNaturalis international organization stage a naked protest in the middle of the Plaza de Espana square in the centre of Madrid on December 4, 2011, to denounce the slaying of animals to make fur coats.
The men and women, covered in red paint that resembled blood, lay down and curled up against each other under a sunny sky in the busy square which is home to several cinemas, cafes and restaurants. GettyParticipants attend the Slutwalk Singapore event held at the Speakers' Corner on December 4, 2011. Supporters of the global SlutWalk movement against sexual violence held a rally in Singapore, attracting dozens to a rare protest in the strictly policed city-state. GettyRussian police officers detain opposition demonstrators during an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. The rally was staged by a few dozen activists of the Left Front opposition group to protest against Sunday's elections.
As of September 2016, SunTrust Bank operated 1,400 bank branches and 2,160 ATMs across 11 southeastern states and Washington, D.C. The bank's primary businesses included deposits, lending, credit cards, and trust and investment services. Through its various subsidiaries, the company provided corporate and investment banking, capital market services, mortgage banking, and wealth management — with nearly 24,000 employees. In 2013, it was ordered to pay $1.5 billion "to resolve claims of shoddy mortgage lending, servicing and foreclosure practices," and it reached a preliminary $968 Million settlement with the US government in 2014. The bank provides a wide variety of financial services to consumers including personal banking, loans, mortgages, credit cards, investment planning, retirement management, small business loans, and wealth management, among others. It also offers customized banking solutions for corporate and commercial needs.
HNT contractors and their private security providers report widespread corruption by Afghan officials and frequent government extortion along the road. The largest private security provider for HNT trucks complained that it had to pay $1,000 to $10,000 in monthly bribes to nearly every Afghan governor, police chief, and local military unit whose territory the company passed. HNT contractors themselves reported similar corruption at a smaller scale, including significant numbers of Afghan National Police checkpoints.
U.S. military officials confirmed that they were aware of these problems. While there has been significant progress in the development of the Iraqi police, there is still much work to be done. Historically, the Iraqi police have been held in lower public regard than other components of the security force infrastructure. The Iraqi public viewpoint toward law enforcement as an agency of public safety, security, and service to the community has been far different than law enforcement in most developed nations. Part of our job is to educate the Iraqi police, and the Iraqi population, about the important role police play in a society governed by the rule of law.
Rule of law enables the framework for national sovereignty and provides restraints that serve as a check against abusive use of power. Without effective rule of law, we will never gain the security necessary for democratic institutions to be successful. A phishing scheme uses the Internet to target large numbers of unwary individuals, using fraud and deceit to obtain private personal and financial information such as names, addresses, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers. Phishing schemes often work by sending out large numbers of counterfeit e-mail messages, which are made to appear as if they originated from legitimate banks, financial institutions or other companies. With over 1,600 branches nationally, the SunTrust Bank offers a variety of financial products including deposit, credit, trust and investment services to a broad range of retail, business and institutional clients.
In this photo taken with a fisheye lens protesters gather during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. More than ten thousands people have protested in St.Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged. Protesters shout slogans during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011.
A protester walks in smoke of a smoke bomb during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. More than 10,000 people have protested in St. Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers say was rigged. A protester holds a badminton racket as he shouts slogans during a rally in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. More than 10,000 people are protesting in St. Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers say was rigged. An opposition activist fights with a police officer during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. More than ten thousand people have protested in St.Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged.
Riot police detain a protester during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. Protesters seen during a rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. The Intelligence Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2004 created the Treasury Department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis and made it responsible for the receipt, analysis, collation, and dissemination of intelligence related to the operation and responsibilities of the Treasury Department. OIA was created to support the formulation of policy and the execution of Treasury authorities by providing expert analysis and intelligence production on financial and other support networks for terrorist groups, proliferators, and other key national security threats. In addition, OIA was charged with providing timely, accurate, and focused intelligence on the full range of economic, political, and security issues. TFI brings a wide range of intelligence and enforcement authorities together under a single umbrella to strategically target a number of threats.
Since its creation in 2004, OIA has accomplished a great deal in the course of meeting ever growing demands from its customers. In its first year of operation, OIA focused on establishing a current intelligence process to meet the day-to-day information needs of decision makers in the Department, while also supporting the intelligence needs of the designation process under EO 13224. INR prepared its India report at a time when secret sources were telling U.S. intelligence that New Delhi was about to test a nuclear device. The "small spate" of reports about a test had such "congruity, apparent reliability, and seeming credibility" that they prompted a review of India's nuclear intentions by INR and other government offices.
In the end, government officials could not decide whether India had made a decision to test although a subsequent lead suggested otherwise. According to the indictment, Samnang and other members of the conspiracy allegedly recruited unqualified buyers—usually individuals with good credit but insufficient assets or income to qualify for a particular loan—and used them as nominal purchasers in residential real estate transactions. The indictment alleges that, in June 2005, one or more defendants sent a spam e-mail to individuals, including a resident of Madison, Conn., which purported to be from Connecticut-based People's Bank. The e-mail stated that the recipient's online banking access profile had been locked and instructed recipients to click on a link to a web page where they could enter information to "unlock" their profile. The web page appeared to originate from People's Bank, but was actually hosted on a compromised computer unrelated to People's Bank. Any personal identifying and financial information provided by the individual would be sent by e-mail to one or more of the defendants or to a "collector" account, which was an e-mail account used to receive and collect the information obtained through phishing.
(U//FOUO) To date, NSM confines its activities primarily to conducting a series of high profile public rallies and marches targeting minority neighborhoods, illegal immigrants, and U.S. support to Israel. In several instances, these activities have triggered violent confrontations between protestors opposing NSM and law enforcement attempting to preserve public order. During an October 2005 march in Toledo, Ohio, police were unable to prevent local residents from rioting for several hours following the NSM rally. The disturbances resulted in the arrest of 120 rioters and the destruction of several local businesses.
According to the addendum, Vaughan was the chairman, chief executive officer, president and majority shareholder of Vaughan Company, Realtors , a business that operated primarily as a residential real estate brokerage and was at one time the largest independent residential brokerage in New Mexico. In 1993, Vaughan began an investment program in which he accepted money on behalf of VCR in exchange for interest-bearing promissory notes. The typical note had a three-year term, an interest rate ranging from 8 percent to 40 percent per year, and provided for interest to be paid in monthly installments. At the end of the note's term, Vaughan either paid off the principal or offered the investor the opportunity to "roll over" the principal into a new note.
Federal and local law enforcement executing a search warrant in July 2010 at Oliveras' apartment found, among other things, credit card encoding equipment and more than 2,300 stolen credit card numbers. According to court documents, credit card companies have identified thousands of fraudulent transactions using the account numbers found in Oliveras' possession, totaling more than $750,000. According to the indictment, members of the conspiracy worked to conceal the illicit payments through various means. For instance, Bock made cash withdrawals from Siemens AG general-purpose accounts in Germany totaling approximately $10 million, transported the cash across the border into Switzerland and deposited the funds into Swiss bank accounts for transfer to officials.
Bock, Truppel, Reichert, and other conspirators also allegedly caused Siemens to wire transfer more than $7 million in bribes to a bank account in New York disguised as a foreign exchange hedging contract relating to the DNI project. Over the duration of the conspiracy, the conspirators allegedly relied on at least 17 off-shore shell companies associated with Sergi, Czysch and other intermediaries to disguise and launder the funds, often documenting the payments through fake consulting contracts. This case was brought in coordination with President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated, and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general, and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources.
Army Private Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, hold vigil outside the gates of U.S. Army Fort George G. Meade where Manning's Article 32 preliminary hearing will begin December 18, 2011 in Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning is accused of disclosing more than 260,000 diplomatic cables, more than 90,000 intelligence reports on the war in Afghanistan and one video of a military helicopter attack to WikiLeaks, a Web site dedicated to publishing secret documents. GettyA helicopter from the Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Office circles above supporters of U.S.
Army Private Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, as they hold vigil outside the gates of U.S. Army Fort George G. Meade, where Manning's Article 32 preliminary hearing is being held, December 18, 2011 in Fort Meade, Maryland. GettyA military personnel directs a group of people outside the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland during the U.S. vs Private Bradley E. Manning Article 32 hearing December 16, 2011. An Army intelligence analyst suspected in the biggest leak of classified U.S. documents in history makes his first court appearance on Friday accused of multiple charges including aiding the enemy, which could bring life imprisonment. GettyJournalists stand outside the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland during the U.S. vs Private Bradley E. Manning Article 32 hearing December 16, 2011.
Bradley Manning, leaves a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md. , Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, during a recess in a military hearing that will determine if Manning should face court-martial for his alleged role in the WikiLeaks classified leaks case. Manning is suspected of being the source in one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in U.S. history. The co-conspirators then used the personal and financial information to access bank accounts and lines of credit and to withdraw funds without authorization, often from ATMs in Romania.
Hazard got its name from a park at the end of Lancaster Avenue and Soto Street. Little Hazard, is that area from west of Soto Street along Norfolk and to the railroad tracks across from Lincoln Park. Robert "Robot" Salas (deceased Dec. '04) was from Hazard and was involved in the first major EME confrontation with the NF at San Quentin Sept. 16, 1968. Old EME shotcaller in the Fed-BOP Adolf "Champ" Reynoso is also from Hazard as is Manuel "Cricket" Jackson. This varrio has also been the focus of much violence over the years.
EME David "Big Smilon" Gallardo from Hazard, "Pee-Wee" Aguire from the Aves, and "Cowboy" Therrien from Big Basset were found guilty of killing "Rocky" Luna who was from Hazard and an advisor on the movie by Edward James Olmos, "American Me." Ana Lizarga, another movie consultant, also was killed. They were angry at her for snitching off a "dope house" and "Charlie Brown" Manriquez for not taking care of business and living like a bum when he got out. "Lives in Hazard" depicts some of these people and also includes a fairly new gang called M.C.
Force, or Michigan Criminal Force, named after a street east of there in East L.A. To effectively defeat an enemy, one must first understand the enemy. Intelligence professionals have forgotten the basic principles on which intelligence analysis is conducted, instead they sub-scribe to the paradigm that the enemy faced in this Global War on Terror has no structure or doctrine. Any organization, military or civilian, must have a structure and a way of doing business if they are to have any chance of being successful.
As previously stated, understanding an enemy is critical to defeating him, but how much do we really understand the Taliban? We know that the Taliban fights in small groups using unconventional tactics that usually manifest themselves in the form of Improvised Explosive Device , Direct Fire , and Indirect Fire attacks against Coalition Forces vehicles, patrols, and operating bases. The Taliban uses fear and intimidation against the Afghan people, collecting taxes, establishing court systems based on Shari'a law and doling out justice when these laws are broken. We also know that the Taliban enjoys sanctuary in regions bordering Afghanistan, such as Pakistan, with most of their senior leadership issuing decrees and orders just across the border.
All of these "knowns" about the Taliban are not new to warfare of this nature, instead many of these same factors have been observed all over the world and throughout time. The military leader and fighter Ernesto "Che" Guevara waged guerrilla campaigns in multiple countries almost forty years ago using many of the same tactics the Taliban em-ploy today. Che's successful war in Cuba and his failed guerrilla movements in the Congo and Bolivia are not the only historical examples of low intensity conflict that resemble our current fight in Afghanistan. Mao Tse Tung, Carlos Marighella and Alberto Bayo are just a few other Guerrilla leaders whose writings were examined and captured in the Guerrilla Hunter Killer Template.
Volumes of source documents exist that can be referenced to help understand and define the enemy. Interestingly, the Guerrilla Hunter Killer Template was written using these source documents almost exclusively, but as you will see the parallels to the Taliban are frightening and therefore applicable to the war in Afghanistan. Truly understanding and defining the enemy as a collective group, not as individuals, is key to defeating him. The GH/K template blends historical writings of Guerrilla Leaders in conjunction with current and past United States Army doctrine to form the "melting pot" that is The Guerrilla Hunter Killer. GDC, based in Long Island City, Queens, is a holding company that owns various subsidiaries, including JDC Lighting, a lighting distributor; Unalite Electric and Lighting, a lighting maintenance company; and Hudson Bay Environments Group, a furniture distributor.
The evidence included the testimony of GDC's former chief financial officer and two GDC accountants, all three of whom had previously pleaded guilty to fraud charges arising from the scheme. At trial, the government proved Dupree and others gave Amalgamated Bank false financial information for GDC in which they had fraudulently inflated the company's accounts receivables in order to obtain initially, and then maintain, credit lines totaling approximately $21 million. For example, the defendant represented to Amalgamated Bank in writing in November 2009 that GDC had $25.2 million in accounts receivables when, in fact, it had only $9 million. The evidence proved that the conspirators inflated the accounts receivables by a variety of means, including by recording fake sales that had never taken place in the corporate books. According to the trial testimony, the scheme unraveled when one of the accountants turned himself into the FBI and cooperated in the government's investigation in an undercover capacity for approximately two months.
Distributed denial-of-service attacks against websites of independent media, human rights defenders, dissidents, whistleblowers and other new media actors are also a matter of growing concern. These attacks represent an interference with freedom of expression and the right to impart and receive information and, in certain cases, with the right to freedom of association. Companies that provide web hosting services lack the incentive to continue hosting those websites if they fear that the latter will come under attack or if their content may be regarded as sensitive. Furthermore, the companies concerned are not immune to undue interference; their decisions sometimes stem from direct political pressure or from politically motivated economic compulsion, invoking justification on the basis of compliance with their terms of service. In addition to opportunities, there are challenges to the effective exercise of freedom of expression and to the right to impart and receive information in the new media ecosystem. Direct or indirect political influence or pressure on new media actors may lead to interference with the exercise of freedom of expression, access to information and transparency, not only at a national level but, given their global reach, also in a broader international context.
Decisions concerning content can also impinge on the right to freedom of assembly and association. The group was charged with various crimes in connection with this racketeering conspiracy, including securities fraud; wire, mail, and bank fraud; extortion; money laundering; and obstruction of justice. In addition to Scarfo and Pelullo, other members of the criminal enterprise included five attorneys, a certified public accountant, and Scarfo's wife. GMI focuses on the military capabilities of foreign countries, organizations, or on topics relating to Armed Forces capabilities, including threat characteristics and area or terrain intelligence. The G-2/S-2 develops initial intelligence preparation of the battlefield products from various GMI databases, and then develops and maintains the unit's GMI database on potential threat forces and areas of concern based on the commander's guidance. This database supports the unit's plan, preparation, execution, and assessment of operations.
