Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
Wa****ngton Post Staff Writers Monday, December 1, 2008; Page A01
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the
United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials
respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe,
according to Pentagon officials.
The long-planned ****ft in the Defense Department's role in homeland
security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after
years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts
said.
There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil
liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new
homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly
undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law
restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.
But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a
heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade,
saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000
troops to domestic response -- a nearly sevenfold increase in five
years -- "would have been extraordinary to the point of unbelievable,"
Paul McHale, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, said in
remarks last month at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies. But the realization that civilian authorities may be
overwhelmed in a catastrophe prompted "a fundamental change in
military culture," he said.
The Pentagon's plan calls for three rapid-reaction forces to be ready
for emergency response by September 2011. The first 4,700-person unit,
built around an active-duty combat brigade based at Fort Stewart, Ga.,
was available as of Oct. 1, said Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., commander
of the U.S. Northern Command.
If funding continues, two additional teams will join nearly 80 smaller
National Guard and reserve units made up of about 6,000 troops in
sup****ting local and state officials nationwide. All would be trained
to respond to a domestic chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear,
or high-yield explosive attack, or CBRNE event, as the military calls
it.
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Doctors are relying too heavily on narcotic pain relievers for US
troops, says a military pain management specialist, raising concerns
about the drugs=92 potential for abuse and prescription drug addiction.
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ing-In-US-Military/597746
If you or someone you know has a problem with prescription drug
addiction or abuse, something can be done. There are alternative
approaches to managing pain without risking narcotic dependence, and
medical drug detox to safely get off narcotics is the first step.
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Schlessinger?] Fort Stewart, Ga?
In late 2007, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England
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signed a directive approving more than $556
million over five years to set up the three response teams, known as
CBRNE Consequence Management Response Forces. Planners assume an
incident could lead to thousands of casualties, more than 1 million
evacuees and contamination of as many as 3,000 square miles, about the
scope of damage Hurricane Katrina caused in 2005.
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..accounts of illicit drug use;
"The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared
from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder,
torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in
their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee
captioned "My Sweet Little Habib"; accounts of illicit drug use; and a
blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets.
The site is credited to and includes many photographs of Deryk
Schlessinger, the 21-year-old son of the talk radio personality known
simply as Dr. Laura."
Every year drug use and drug trafficking increase, and as a result
every year the global illicit drug trade grows and has been estimated
as the world=92s second largest industry. This is having drastic
consequences on the world=92s economy, health and security. Thus, it is
clear that the current international drug control system has failed to
protect both individuals and society from the drug problem.
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The Senlis Council is working to promote a plan to license opium /
heroin production in Afghanistan for commercial use.
- October 29, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Rice Refuses to Rule Out Deployment of Armed US Agents under Plan
Mexico
Kristin Bricker
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/kristin-bricker/2008/10/rice-refu=
ses-rule-out-deployment-armed-us-agents-under-plan-mexico
During a recent visit to Mexico, the US Secretary of State discusses
Plan Mexico, security cooperation, and the war on drugs
9 headless bodies found in Mexican border city
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9 Severed Human Heads Found In Tijuana, Mexico
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Drug violence claims another 18
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