Kidnap and Ransom – Truth Only Has Few Friends

The Enemy Within: How the Insider Threat Destroys Relationships and Businesses

The mechanics of the insider threat are remarkably similar, whether in a marriage or a multinational bank. It is fueled by access, intimate knowledge of vulnerabilities.

Nigeria’s Kidnap Industry: A Regional Breakdown of Africa’s Most Lucrative Criminal Enterprise

Between July 2024 and June 2025 alone, at least 4,722 Nigerians were abducted across 997 kidnapping incidents, with kidnappers collecting an estimated N2.57 billion ($1.66 million) in ransom payments.

The Asylum Shield: How African Criminals and Terrorists Are Exploiting Europe’s Refugee System

Criminal networks and terrorist operatives from Africa and elsewhere, have discovered that the very systems designed to protect the vulnerable can be weaponized to shield their activities, fund their operations, and destabilize their home countries from the safety of European soil.

NATO’s New Front? Proxy Warfare & The Weaponization Of Jihadism In The Sahel…

The Sahel region has emerged as the global epicenter of terrorism, accounting for over half of all terrorism-related deaths worldwide in 2025.

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Comparing the Kit Carson–Ann White Kidnapping to a Modern Hostage Rescue

Modern hostage rescue has reduced—but not eliminated—the role of luck. But the central fact remains: a hostage rescue is a high‑stakes gamble in which the hostage’s life is the currency.

Mexican Cartels’ Operations in the United States: Intelligence, Corruption, and Political Influence

Mexican drug cartels, primarily the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), represent one of the most significant transnational criminal threats to the United States.

When The Assassins Got Kidnapped in Kurdistan

The 2017 Sulaymaniyah incident underscored the intense intelligence and proxy warfare between Turkey and the PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan, exposing the risks of cross-border operations in a region where PKK presence intersects with Kurdish regional governance.

Hostage Rescue – Think Like The Terrorist

I find amusing the videos online of hostage rescue drills of scenarios where the hostages are being held in buses etc. Think about this from the hostage takers perspective, do you think they would wait for the tactical team to enter the bus, so they could engage in a fair firefight?

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