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The Hunt: FBI Searches for American Hostages in Haiti

By J.J. Green

An FBI tactical team has been sent to Haiti to assist in the search for 16 Americans and one Canadian who were taken hostage by a criminal gang.

In this week’s episode of “The Hunt, with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” retired FBI Special Agent Tom O’Connor, now head of Fed Squared Consulting, explains how the team does its work.

Ukrainians warn Russian invasion would trigger ‘largest Molotov cocktail party in the world’

By J.J. Green
A retired U.S. Navy cryptologist, crisscrossing Ukraine while mapping the possible routes a potential Russian attack might take, has warned Russia’s military that “Kyiv is not Beirut in 1983," and that Ukrainian forces — and civilians — could mount a formidable defense. “There's a misimpression that this capital, this country, is a country under siege, like Damascus or Tripoli, Libya or Benghazi," said Malcolm Nance, Executive Director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideologies. "It’s not. This is a city the size of Chicago. There are three-and-a-half million people in this city alone, and they will fight.”
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