How high up does ‘Project Gunrunner’ go? (Who knew what and when?)

The Project Gunrunner scandal took another step up the government food chain with last night’s disclosure in a CBS News interview with a former senior official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that the operation was approved by someone in the Department of Justice “even higher than ATF Director Kenneth Melson.”

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/how-high-up-does-project-g...

Article by Dave Workman

NAVY DISRUPTS PIRATE ATTACK!
Navy units attached to the USS Enterprise Carrier Strike Group broke up a pirate attack in the Arabian Sea.
http://www.sofmag.com/us-navy-disrupts-pirate-attempt-arabian-sea

3RD LAR TAKES OUT INSURGENT HUB!
Video of Marines taking out a hub for the insurgency in Afghanistan.
http://www.sofmag.com/3rd-lar-marines-strike-key-insurgent-border-hub

NAVY DISRUPTS PIRATE ATTACK!
Navy units attached to the USS Enterprise Carrier Strike Group broke up a pirate attack in the Arabian Sea.
http://www.sofmag.com/us-navy-disrupts-pirate-attempt-arabian-sea

U.S. Naval forces disrupted a pirate attack on M/V Falcon Trader II, a Philippine-flagged merchant vessel, after it reported it had been attacked by pirates March 24.

All 20 Filipino crew members of the Falcon Trader II are safe and in control of the vessel.

Video by 2nd Marine Logistics Group Public Affairs

If one were to click here or here on today’s Northwest Firearms forum, they would find discussions about self-defense against aggressive dogs, and a case scheduled to go to trial.

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Article by Dave Workman

Pakistani officials say gunmen have opened fire on vehicles carrying Shi'ite Muslims in the country's restive northwest, killing 13 people.

Police are blaming Taliban-linked militants.

Authorities say dozens of others were kidnapped during Friday's attack in the Bagan area of the Kurram tribal region, near the Afghan border.

Officials say the vehicles were traveling on the main road that connects Kurram's main town, Parachinar, with Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, when they were ambushed.

Zimbabwe's Energy Minister Elton Mangoma has been arrested for the second time in two weeks on corruption charges.

Officials say he was re-arrested on corruption charges in Harare on Friday for his alleged involvement in a deal to buy electrical equipment. Mangoma's lawyers deny the charge.

Mangoma had been free on bail from his previous arrest on March 10 for allegedly abusing his office during a fuel purchase.

Mangoma is a member of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a power-sharing partner with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in Zimbabwe's unity government.

An Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban leader in a Kandahar province raid today.

The leader was actively involved in vehicle-borne improvised explosive device planning, attacks and assassinations against Afghan civilians, Afghan government officials and Afghan and coalition forces in Kandahar City. He was coordinating the acquisition of uniforms and ID cards to gain access to coalition bases.