Tuesday, December 23, 2008

28 Days until Inauguration - Is International Cooperation possible to combat terrorist networks?

An armed British police officer guards the Old War Office in central London on July 3 in the wake of attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland.

Interpol chief presses India to provide evidence (click title to entry - thank you)
By JEAN H. LEE – 7 hours ago
NEW DELHI (AP) — Nearly a month after the Mumbai terror attacks, India has not provided the evidence needed for Interpol to help identify and apprehend the suspected masterminds, the chief of the global police agency said Tuesday.
Ronald Noble, speaking in Islamabad after a visit to New Delhi, said Pakistan has agreed to work with the agency to help investigate the attacks that killed 164 people in India's financial hub last month.
But he said India has provided no names or information that would allow police in other countries to check their databases, calling it "not acceptable" for New Delhi to provide those details to the media first.
India's reluctance to turn over evidence — while demanding that Pakistan crack down on the militant group suspected of hatching the plot — has been a major irritant to Islamabad.
On Monday, Pakistan sent fighter jets screaming through the skies near major cities in a display of military force that raised concerns the two nuclear powers may go to war for a fourth time.
Seeking to temper tensions, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a second visit to Pakistan since the Mumbai attacks and urged the country's leadership to work with India to fight terrorism....

Interpol: U.K. not sharing terror information (click here)
Agency’s chief says London is reluctant to join global anti-terrorism effort
updated 8:02 a.m. ET, Mon., July. 9, 2007
LONDON - The head of Interpol said Monday that Britain has not shared any information gleaned from the investigation of three failed car bomb attacks, which he said is symptomatic of London’s reluctance to join in global efforts to combat terrorism.
“We have received not one name, not one fingerprint, not one telephone number, not one address, nothing, from the UK, about the recent thwarted terrorist attacks,” Ronald Noble, Interpol’s secretary general, said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television.
Detectives on three continents are working to piece together details of the failed attacks on two London nightspots and the airport in Glasgow, Scotland....