Transnational Threats Update August 2007 - Vol. 5, No. 06

In this issue:

• Turkish Hijacker Went to al Qaeda Camp
• United States Considers Labeling Eritrea a "State Sponsor of Terrorism"
• First Foreign National to Be Convicted under the Arms Export Control Act
• China Hacks Germany’s Chancellery
• Mafia’s First “Hits” on Foreign Soil
• Japan Seizes Largest Drug Haul Ever
• Brazil Captures Colombian Cartel Leader
• Italy Uncovers Arms-to-Iraq Plot
• Russian-Chinese Counterterrorism Exercise
• Piracy in Malacca Straits after Hiatus
• Chinese Search for Missing Uranium
• Saudis Set Up Oil Infrastructure Protection
• Forty-seven Indicted for Money Laundering