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Turkish communist terrorists arrested in Athens after police finds Tunnels packed with military Weapons
Greek authorities have arrested several members of an extreme-left Turkish terrorist organization following a series of raids which led to the discovery of a tunnel in Athens filled with military-grade weapons.
A total of eleven members of the Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party (DHKP-C) – all of whom are Turkish citizens – were rounded up during sweeps carried out by Greece’s...
Pentagon Is Giving Grenade Launchers to Campus Police
In 1968, students at Columbia University staged a mass uprising other college campuses in protesting not just the war in Vietnam, but their school’s collaboration with the Institute for Defense Analysis, a Defense Department affiliate that researches weapons technologies. Today, weapons produced by that institute are used by the US military throughout the world and by campus police forces across...
US Pentagon equips police with military weapons
A rapidly expanding US Pentagon program is equipping police forces, many in small towns, with second-hand battlefield-grade weaponry.
The US Department of Defense distributed USD 500 million worth of used military gear to police forces in 2011, through the “1033 program”, The Daily reported.
The dramatically growing figure sets a new record for the program, in comparison with distributions worth...