
WASHINGTON —
Improvised explosive devices, like those that killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, pose an increasing threat across Texas and the United States, leading to calls for between the United States and the United StatesS.
Military experts and civil law enforcement officers. Army Lt. Gen.
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In his secret testimony this month, he called to remind Congress of the growing threat of improvised explosive devices in the country.
He also highlighted the challenges his team faced in trying to train US law enforcement agencies to detect, disarm and defeat these devices.
Barbero warned the subcommittee: "The threat of domestic improvised explosive devices from local terrorists and global threat networks is real and a major security for the United States and our international partners
880 terrorist attacks in North and South America last year
Most Mexico and Colombia
109 explosive devices killed or injured 245 people;
18 is carried out by the vehicle
According to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 180 people were killed or injured by improvised explosive devices.
According to NATO' sterrorism, there were 24 terrorist attacks in the United States last year, killing 13 people and injuring 33.
But legal restrictions on U. S. government activitiesS.
Insiders have complained that the armed forces are slowing down key cooperation.
Federal law dating back to the posse Commission Act of 1878 limits the use of the United States. S.
Some lawmakers want to change barriers to domestic law enforcement and training.
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"By teaching the lessons learned from the blood on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan, saving the lives of many soldiers," said Republican Congressman Peter King, leader of the House Homeland Security Committee. “Their hard-
The knowledge gained should now be shared with American legal personnel facing these deadly threats at home.
"It's crazy for me that overseas improvised explosive devices experts can't coordinate with it," McCaul added . ".
"The military's inability to coordinate with state and local law enforcement has left a loophole in our security.
Evidence of the threat has surfaced again and again.
In Times Square, New York, a car bomb was released and explosives were found in the cartridges of two Americans. S. -
Commercial cargo aircraft in 2010.
The improvised explosive device in the underwear of an airline passenger almost closed a Detroit airline.
Flight on 2009.
Suspect in Aurora, Colorado.
Authorities say the movie theater massacre has deployed improvised explosive devices in his apartment.
With Mexican drug cartels using car bombs in cities bordering Texas, officials on the southwest border are increasingly worried about being readyto-
Go equipment smuggled into the United States.
The director, citing the growing threat, pressured the Pentagon to help train officials to detect improvised explosive devices and asked the FBI to approve the Texas Rangers to establish a statewide disposal of explosives.
But according to officials familiar with the matter, his efforts were met with bureaucratic resistance.
"All state police officers must be skilled in detecting and intercepting (devices), precursor chemicals and components," McCraw said . ".
He added that Texas Rangers and DPS criminal investigators received "training in detecting improvised explosive devices and their components, whether targeting Mexican cartels or serial killers," during the investigation . ".
"Deeper cooperation is absolutely necessary," insisted mccaole, former deputy state attorney general.
"I think the military and government lawyers are too cautious.
We want to solve this problem.