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Blackwater Tactical Weekly
November 08, 2004
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**FROM THE EDITOR:**

BUSH WINS
FOUR MORE YEARS!! HOOYAH!!

Sincerely,
Gary Jackson
President
Blackwater

QUOTE FOR THE WEEK

"One aspect of this election that may have been lost in all this analysis is that we successfully held a national election in the middle of the war on terror -- and while we had a highly negative and immature discourse, no one shied away from speaking out, and we turned out in record numbers (at least it looks that way now), rather than cower under our beds. Democrat or Republican, Libertarian or Green, pat yourselves on the back. You just won a major battle against the terrorists."

Source Unknown

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PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES, EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS

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TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
http://www.terrorism.com/

Advisory/Report:
Bin Laden, on Tape, Reveals Sept. 11 Motive -- Four days before the U.S. presidential election, Osama bin Laden appeared on a videotape broadcast worldwide Friday, describing his motives for plotting the Sept. 11 attacks and telling Americans that they can save themselves from future violence by not supporting a crackdown on his Al Qaeda network.
http://www.terrorism.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Intel&file=index&view=451

Law Enforcement Agencies Learn the Value of Data Mining

The Internet works against - and for - law enforcement and intelligence agencies. On the one hand, it opens new channels of communication for terrorists and gives them, authorities argue, a leg up in the war against their targets. On the other hand, it has populated authorities' databases with reams of information, giving them exponentially more data than they've ever had - and could ever use.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdewk/is_200110/ai_ziff16501

Rural and Suburban Police Leadership Targeting External Funding

By THOMAS E. BAKER, M.S., M.ED., LOREEN WOLFER, PH.D., and RALPH ZEZZA
While budget constraints compel law enforcement administrators to Waccomplish more with a smaller budget, state and federal grants have become important to police agencies faced with diminishing financial resources. Police executives must determine how to increase organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. By improving their grantsmanship skills, police managers can enhance their opportunity to successfully achieve these objectives.
Escalating crime and additional community responsibilities can overwhelm law enforcement executives; however, improving their grant-writing skills can help them finance various opportunities to reduce crime. Large urban departments often are more successful at acquiring grant funding because they have the trained staff and resources to vigorously pursue grant application opportunities. http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2001/november2001/nov01p1.htm


Defensive Tactics / Hand-to-Hand Combat
The next "Complete Combatives and Control (C3) Course"
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BREAKING NEWS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL

Spammer Convicted to Nine Years in Prison
Yesterday the first two spammers ever were convicted of a felony for sending fraudulent unsolicited commercial e-mail - spam. Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, a brother and sister team, were convicted in a Virginia court Wednesday of sending AOL users millions of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages while evading AOL's filters. DMNews report that jurors recommended that Jaynes receive nine years in prison and fined DeGroot $7,500.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=1028

America tells Europe, 'Shove it'
Maybe woolly-minded, gutless, godless, Europeans had it coming
No bright new dawn for those condescending, arrogant limeys who think they know what's best for the world (and look where it got them).
Nor for their "cheese-eating surrender-monkey" neighbors across the Channel in France.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6407893/

Texas serial killer could walk the streets again
Michigan murder trial stands as last chance to put Watts away
When Coral Eugene Watts stood to hear his punishment after confessing to the vicious, random slayings of 13 women, the judge knew the prison sentence he was about to hand down was inadequate.
Sixty years was the most Watts could get, based on the evidence available to prosecutors, Texas Judge Doug Shaver told him in 1982. "Sad to say," he added.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6417091/

Plane passengers shocked by their x-ray scans
AN X-RAY machine that sees through air passengers' clothes has been deployed by security staff at London's Heathrow airport for the first time.
The device at Terminal 4 produces a "naked" image of passengers by bouncing X-rays off their skin, enabling staff instantly to spot any hidden weapons or explosives.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1348172,00.html

Off-Duty Officer Tried to Prevent UK Rail Crash
An off-duty police officer tried in vain to prevent Saturday's crash of a 300-passenger train that hit a car at a rail crossing in southern England, killing six people, police said on Sunday.
The officer had spotted the car sitting stationary on the rural crossing with the road barrier up moments before the high-speed crash, police said.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6736654

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U.N. hostage negotiations reportedly postponed
Militants holding 3 election workers in Afghanistan extend deadline
Taliban-linked militants threatening to kill three kidnapped foreigners said Saturday negotiations with Afghan and U.N. officials had been postponed for another day.
President-elect Hamid Karzai renewed his condemnation of the abduction, and received a promise from his visiting Pakistani counterpart of closer cooperation in combating terrorism.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6342192/

Dutch vow tough measures against 'arrival of jihad'
Politician threatened in letter pinned to filmmaker's body
The government vowed tough measures Friday against what a leading politician called "the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands" after a death threat to a Dutch lawmaker was found pinned with a knife to the body of a slain filmmaker by his radical Islamic attacker.
A five-page letter released Thursday night by the justice minister forced political leaders, including Amsterdam's Jewish mayor and members of parliament, to take on bodyguards.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6410530/

Sharing germ information outweighs risks
Developing vaccines more important, experts say
The value of freely sharing data on dangerous germs so vaccines and treatments can be developed outweighs the danger that bioterrorists may use the information to do harm, a scientific panel concluded Thursday.
Scientists and policy-makers have struggled to balance the needs of researchers for all available information with worries their work might somehow be turned against the public. That concern has increased since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5953908/

Oil-for-Food Scandal Key to CIA Report
The U.N. Oil-for-Food program - already the subject of federal, congressional and United Nations financial abuse probes - took a fresh hit with an explosive new report that said Saddam Hussein was using the program to fund his ambitions.
The report by Charles Duelfer - the special CIA adviser looking into whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction - found that Saddam was able to "subvert" the $60 billion U.N. program to generate an estimated $1.7 billion in revenue outside U.N. control from 1997-2003.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135654,00.html

Afghan Militants Want to Trade Prisoners
Militants threatening to kill three kidnapped U.N. workers said Sunday they handed over a list of 26 prisoners, some possibly held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay (search), who they would take in exchange for the hostages.
A purported spokesman for the Taliban (search) splinter group claiming to hold the three foreigners also said it might drop its other demands, which include a U.N. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137852,00.html

FRANKS REVIEW

Water Work (& Play) Knives

This week we're going to take a look at a collection of different knives. An overview, if you will, of knives that either are made specifically for work in or around water, OR knives that will fit the bill and not suffer too greatly from the environment while getting the job done. Why focus on knives in a water environment? Some of us do work in the water. All of us do work in the rain. Some of the knives we look at were specifically designed for use by those who work in a maritime environment. Others? Well, let's just say this: it would be better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Make sense? Let's take a look.

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/1108frank.html

Frank Borelli
frank.borelli@us.army.mil
frankborelli@comcast.net

CHAPLAINS CORNER

TO AND FOR PEACE KEEPERS OF THE MILITARY AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AT ALL LEVELS AND ALL OF THOSE IN THEIR SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND ALL
WHO CARE ABOUT THEM AND THEIR WELFARE.

I SIT HERE TONIGHT CONTEMPLATING YOUR VALUE.

You have the jobs of community, local, State and National security.
My job in addition to the above is ETERNAL SECURITY.
=============================================================
QUOTE FROM LAST WEEK'S BTW...
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,
while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
Sun-tzu

ANOTHER OF Sun-tzu's QUOTES;
"Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
He will win whose army is animated by the SAME SPIRIT throughout all its
ranks.
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the
sovereign."
Read the rest>>>>http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2004/articles/1108chaplain.html

Be Blessed(a condition to be envied by the world).
Be Successful. Be SAFE.
VSP ALUMNI 757-431-2190
Chaplain D.R.Staton, VBPD (Don, C1)
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BUMPER STICKER (As seen on our highways; send your sightings)

No one is ever old enough to know better

 

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