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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Crime: Helicopter Used in Swedish Cash Depot Raid

Filed under: Crime,Sweden — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 7:44 AM

   Thanks to Doug for sending me this.  I think what is interesting about this, is the complexity of the operation.  These are not amateurs, and reading through the little details on this thing, you can’t help but to be impressed.  The question I have, and Doug alluded to this as well, is if this is a state sponsored crime or what?  Is this the act of a state sponsored cell, a terrorist cell, or just some really organized criminal gang?.  What do they plan on doing with the cash, if this is part of  a larger plot?

   One more comment on this.  These criminals were operating within the police and bank’s OODA loop, and defeated them.  With the helicopter, they were able to accelerate the movements and maximize observational capability.  The bag with ‘bomb’ written on it, is what threw the police off operationally, and bought the criminals some time.  That is what is interesting to me about this whole thing. –Matt

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Helicopter used in Swedish cash depot raid

By Per Nyberg

09/23/2009

(CNN) — A helicopter and explosives were used in an early morning raid on a cash depot in Stockholm, Sweden, police said Wednesday.

A helicopter landed on the roof of the G4S cash depot in Vastberga, in the southern part of Stockholm, shortly after 5 a.m. (11 p.m. ET), Swedish police said.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Crime: 8 Killed in $7 Million Baghdad Bank Robbery

Filed under: Crime,Iraq — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 3:19 AM

     Scary stuff and this kind of thing is not cool for the war effort.  Rest in peace to the Iraqi security guards that were gunned down in this.

     Also, the use of suppressed weapons is interesting as well.  Obviously these guys were well equipped and somewhat trained to pull off something like this.  Could it be organized crime, or the insurgency, or a little bit of both?  Who knows, but what pisses me off now is that money will be used to fund future operations, and we will probably see more robberies like this one. Worse yet, this money could be used to fund operations against US troops and the Iraqi forces.-Matt

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8 killed in $7-million Baghdad bank robbery

Iraq police say the overnight robbery appeared to be a sophisticated operation. A recent spate of robberies has aroused suspicion that insurgents are financing their activities through crime.

By Liz Sly and Usama Redha

July 29, 2009

Reporting from Baghdad — Thieves killed eight security guards and made off with nearly $7 million in an overnight bank heist Tuesday that police officials say could have been the work of insurgents.

The deadly robbery came on the day U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates flew into Baghdad on an unannounced visit to get a first-hand look at conditions now that American combat troops have withdrawn from Iraq’s cities.

Gates said he thought the transfer of authority to the Iraqis had gone smoothly.

“I think it’s inevitable given the changes of circumstances that there would be the occasional problem,” he said at a news conference with Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qader Mohammed Jassim Mifarji.

“What I think is remarkable is that you have such a dramatic redeployment of American forces and a dramatic change of the rules of operation, and there have been so few problems along the way.”

Iraqi police said the thieves used guns equipped with silencers to kill three guards outside a branch of the state-owned Rafidain Bank in east Baghdad’s Karada neighborhood during the night. They then killed five guards who were sleeping inside the bank before making off with the cash.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

News: DB Cooper’s Chute?

Filed under: Crime,History,News,Photo — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 10:34 AM

 

Possible D.B. Cooper chute investigated
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Last updated 8:42 a.m. PT

By CASEY MCNERTHNEY
P-I REPORTER

The FBI has obtained a parachute found where hijacker D.B. Cooper is believed to have jumped, and the bureau is seeking the public’s help in what may be a major break in the world’s only unsolved hijacking.

The parachute — similar to the one Cooper jumped with — was unearthed earlier this month after a Clark County man plowed part of the rural property he’s owned for nearly a decade, said Larry Carr, the lead agent on the Cooper case. The man’s children found the parachute when they were playing and Carr, who is based in Seattle, retrieved it from southwest Washington.

“If D.B. Cooper had pulled his chute not long after that jump, he would have landed in that area,” Carr said. “Is this D.B. Cooper’s parachute? We don’t know yet.” (more…)

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