Gang Threat Could Top Al Qaeda
Danger Room Debrief: Gang Threat Could Top Al Qaeda, Mr. President-Elect by Noah Shachtman at Wired Magazine’s Danger Room
… Today we hear from John P. Sullivan, the co-founder of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group. He’s a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, focusing on emerging threats. Sullivan co-edited Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network.
While the public and media are occupied with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the potential conflict with Iran, the downward spiral in Pakistan, and a global economic meltdown, a new, rapidly-evolving danger – narco-cartels and gangs – has been developing in Mexico and Latin America. And it has the potential to trump global terrorism as a threat to the United States…
Much more at Danger Room.
