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Showing posts with label crimes. Show all posts
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Egypt’s Morsi accused of complicity in protest deaths


Egyptian women from the Muslim Brotherhood shout slogans and hold portraits of ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, as they gather in Cairo to attend a march in his support on August 11, 2013

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/19/319523/morsi-charged-over-protest-deaths/

Ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, has been accused of complicity in the deaths and torture of demonstrators outside his presidential palace in 2012, judicial sources say.

On Monday, Egypt’s prosecution extended Morsi’s detention for another 15 days which starts from next week. He already stands accused of crimes related to his 2011 escape from jail.

In December 2012, violent clashes erupted between Morsi’s supporters and opponents in the capital, Cairo, after he issued a controversial constitutional declaration in November of the same year to expand his powers.

On December 5, five people were killed in the clashes between backers and opponents of Morsi in the capital.

Earlier in July, a court in the Arab country ordered Morsi's detention over allegations of collaboration with Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, “to undertake aggressive acts in the country, as well as attacking police facilities, officers and soldiers.”

On August 12, the Egyptian Judiciary extended the Morsi’s detention pending an inquiry into his alleged links with Hamas.

Morsi was due to be questioned on whether he collaborated with Hamas in attacks on police stations and prison breaks in early 2011, when he and some members of the Muslim Brotherhood escaped from jail during a revolution against the regime of former dictator, Hosni Mubarak.

Hamas reacted to the allegations on July 26 and condemned Morsi’s detention, saying “it is based on the premise that the Hamas movement is hostile.”

The movement’s spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, noted, “This is a dangerous development, which confirms that the current powers in Egypt are giving up on national causes and even using these issues to deal with other parties - first among them the Palestinian cause.”

Egypt plunged into chaos after the head of the country’s armed forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, ousted Morsi on July 3, suspended the constitution and dissolved the parliament.


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Manning US Army like child torturing ants with a magnifying glass’ (FULL LEAKED TESTIMONY)


 

Source: Russia Today
http://rt.com/usa/manning-trial-recording-leak-177/

A speech freedom advocacy group has released audio of Bradley Manning’s testimony about his motives for leaking secret US government documents to WikiLeaks. It marks the first time the public has heard Manning's voice since his 2010 arrest.

Defying the military's ban on making recordings at Manning’s pre-trial tribunal at the military court at Fort Meade, the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has released Manning’s February account to the judge explaining why he exposed military secrets.

"We hope this recording will shed light on one of the most secret court trials in recent history, in which the government is putting on trial a concerned government employee whose only stated goal was to bring attention to what he viewed as serious governmental misconduct and criminal activity," the FPF said in a statement.

While unofficial transcripts of the statement are available, this is the first time anyone outside the court has heard Manning’s own explanation of how and why he gave the Apache helicopter video, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars Logs and State Department Diplomatic Cables to WikiLeaks


Freedom of the Press Foundation
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/

Manning justifies his actions with a firm belief that what he identifies as US government wrongdoings need to be exposed in order to “spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.”

In the recording he goes on to accuse the army of “not valu[ing] human life," comparing servicemen "to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass."

In regards to the “Collateral Murder” video, which shows US Apache helicopters opening fire on and killing civilians, including journalists, Manning said “the most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemingly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have.”

 
The attacks footage received worldwide coverage following the release of 39 minutes of classified cockpit gunsight material in 2010, starting the controversy surrounding WikiLeaks and its whistleblowing founder Julian Assange.

Because recording is prohibited at Manning’s hearings, the Pentagon is pursuing measures that would strengthen security and prevent information leaks from the trial.

Military judge Denise Lind, who is trying Manning’s case, has been informed by the Department of Defense that there was "a violation of the rules for the court," a spokesman said in a statement sent to AFP, and that the “US Army is currently reviewing the procedures set in place to safeguard the security and integrity of the legal proceedings and ensure PFC Manning receives a fair and impartial trial.”

Twenty-five-year-old Private First Class Manning has been held in US military custody following his arrest in May 2010. He has pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges set against him. If convicted, he could face 20 years in jail. He is pending trial as the prosecution still intends to pursue the 12 remaining charges.

Leaked Video by Bradley Manning


 

Saturday, November 17, 2012

World condemns Israeli air strikes on Gaza Strip


 
South Koreans condemn the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip during a protest rally in Seoul on November 16, 2012

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/17/272825/protests-held-worldwide-over-gaza-raids/

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists have staged protest rallies in several world capitals against the recent wave of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

A large number of South Koreans demonstrated opposite the Israel embassy in Seoul on Friday to show solidarity with Palestinians in the latest escalation with the Tel Aviv regime, and urge Israel to stop violence against Gazans.

An unnamed South Korean human rights activist, who took part in the protest said, “You must not force the Palestinians to sacrifice. You must not kill children anywhere. Children are precious whether in Palestine or in Israel. They must not die in a massacre. We are calling on Israel to come back to its senses.”

On Friday, Australians also protested against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

Sylvia Hale, a former parliament member, said, “The Israelis are adopting a policy of slaughtering the people in Gaza.”

Meanwhile, protest rallies were held in Istanbul, Ankara, Rome and Madrid in addition to the Arab world - in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and Algeria.

“I believe that all Muslims should show solidarity. Factions and differences destroy our goal. If we want to answer Israel, we must do it together. We won't achieve anything by condemning Israel. We must take real action,” Ali Golin, a protestor in Istanbul, said.

The new wave of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has claimed at least 41 lives since November 14. Ahmed al-Ja'abari, the popular and influential head of the Hamas military wing, the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, was assassinated in an Israeli attack on his car on Wednesday.

On Friday, Ahmed Abu Jalal, a field commander of the Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza district of Maghazi.

The Israeli military frequently carries out airstrikes and other attacks on the Gaza Strip, saying the actions are being conducted for defensive purposes. However, in violation of international law, disproportionate force is always used and civilians are often killed or injured.

Gaza has been blockaded by the Tel Aviv regime since 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Strike on Gaza, Netanyahu's swan song of rage


 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

By: Gordon Duff

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/15/272432/netanyahus-swan-song-of-rage/

Three missiles have traveled the 50 miles from Gaza to Tel Aviv and Israel’s “Iron Dome” was proven less than promised and the possibility of tens of thousands of missiles from Lebanon became an inexorable reality if the “madness of Netanyahu” goes unhindered.

I understand Netanyahu; I just do not forgive him. Where Gaddafi faced physical danger, defiant to the end, Netanyahu believes himself under similar circumstances.

He sits in Tel Aviv like a spider as he hatches his plots, Romney and the promise of a Greater Israel and a “shock and awe” attack by the US on Iran, those schemes lie in ruins.

Another of the leaders of men, the “Masters of the Universe,” small men, heartless, narcissistic, borderline personality disorder or full-blown sociopaths, they spin from fantasy to rage to self-destruction.

We see the daily attacks on Gaza. We also know of his preparations, a massive armed assault on the world’s largest walled prison, its women and children slated to fall under the cluster bombs, the white phosphorous, the shelling and staffing that Likudist Israel turns to when the world begins to open its eyes to see what is there.

For over six decades, a stranglehold on pop culture, movies, television, movies, even the American congress, creatures like John McCain and Lindsay Graham of the US Senate as examples, all have provided “cover and deception” for genocide.

Small men, small in stature, small in heart, small of intellect do not take the unraveling of their plots easily.

We have seen the rage of Greater Israel before. Were an accurate history to be laid bare before all, it would constitute an act of criminality in many nations, we have sunk that low.

The tendrils that stretch from Tel Aviv have shown themselves of late, not immediately but the mosaic is beginning to come together, the pattern to be seen, understood, its brazenness and hubris grossly contradictory to popular “victimization mythology” used to wage war on the world “through deception.”

BENGHAZI

As the flood of cash from Sheldon Adelson’s worldwide casino empire proved more and more ineffective in overcoming America’s doubts about Romney’s character, a plan was hatched.

We had seen such a plan before; a political party in Norway had stood its ground in support of a boycott of Israeli goods in response to an apartheid society enforced with untold violence.

Anders Breivik assisted by right wing extremists in Norway’s police, murder 77 children, the families of those who stood for freedom and justice. All investigations were suppressed and Breivik will spend a few short years in relative comfort, enjoying the free society he had worked much of his life to deny others.

Breivik is what is known as a “Zionist.”

Benghazi is, in many ways, a very similar incident, clearly the product of a wide-ranging conspiracy of spies, of journalists, of members of congress, of “chat room” trolls and “bloggers.” There were some killers too, we may seek some of them out, but as for the others, they are unlikely to receive the punishment they deserve.

The American president had to be humiliated, not just that, but “set up” as well, accused of endless conspiracies, all equally senseless and asinine but if repeated enough to a nation of “apocalypse junkies” and “birthers,” it might just work.

To pull off the Benghazi killings, assets were called upon, some “dual citizens” within the American Department of State, to make sure the Ambassador was vulnerable at a key time. Thus, those who controlled his schedule, who knew his every move, they are who I would look at first.

Then I would turn to what history has denied, the invisible partnership begun in 2004 between the Bush family, Israel and Gaddafi. While the British built Gaddafi’s military, while Haliburton took over their oil, Israel befriended the Libyan leader.

It was Gaddafi’s belief that, if he let Israel in to set up his intelligence agencies and his communications network, if he allowed secret CIA prisons and America’s rendition program to operate under the cover of Libyan “seclusion,” it would assure the survival of his rule.

Gaddafi had weathered decades of change while others had fallen, he was a survivor, or so he thought.
Hence, when time came to kill an American ambassador, Israel had been in Libya for eight years, establishing themselves among the acolytes of Gaddafi, those who would supply the needed electronic jamming equipment, the heavy weapons and the needed additional manpower for what was a far larger military operation than anyone has yet told the public.

Why are there no photos of Benghazi, no film, in a world where every person carries a phone that records video? It was not just the jamming; nearly a square mile taken down by one of Gaddafi’s many convoy security trucks.
Special teams were infiltrated through Tunisia, through the Tripoli airport. They were seen, French and British intelligence, many were told that there would be a target but none imagined the killing of the lone American diplomat and his tiny security detail, one of the “soft targets” of all time.

This was figured to cost Obama two percentage points on the election, just a few murders, that is all.
This was only the beginning. Not only would Israel unleash her army of former Internet chat room trolls, elevated to the status of “bloggers,” but also an army of journalists, including a mix of pundits, “tea party” extremists and fantasists.

Behind them, on demand, like ordering “take away Chinese,” members of congress would chime in, the dirtiest and those most easily blackmailed would lead the way. Thus, Lindsay Graham, the “homophobic” homosexual Senator from South Carolina and “Hanoi John” McCain, the former POW with a presidential pardon protecting him from life in prison for giving “aid and comfort to the enemy” during his “imprisonment” during the Vietnam War are unleashed.

For that story, names like Colonel Ted Guy, Colonel Earl Hopper and Sgt. Major John Holland, all now deceased, supplied endless fully vetted documentation.

CIVIL WAR OR COUP

The story of former CIA Director, General Petraeus becomes more dark and complex as each hour progresses. When Allen Dulles ran the CIA, he was famous for having had a “relationship” with every woman in the agency.

The story about Petraeus began as a simple affair, took on the perception of a “honey trap,” a typical methodology used in the spy trade where sex and blackmail are used.

Now “informed sources” are saying that things may have gone further, much further.

What we do see, however, is a “second term” presidency where it is a very good guess that a veil has been lifted and those that needed “dealing with” during Obama’s first term, those who helped bring down America through illegal wars, through financial crimes, through espionage, those who were very much “above the law” may very well no longer be so.

Sources within the Department of Justice now indicate that the Israeli lobby, long under investigation for espionage but protected by powerful friends is no longer safe.

Where Gaza will suffer destruction, the plans for America are more complex and, perhaps, even more deadly. Military officers long under the control of Tel Aviv, some willing, some under blackmail, others bought for “30 pieces of silver” stand ready to overthrow the lawful government.

Other groups, millionaires trolling America for damaged and disaffected special operations veterans, trained snipers and bombers, cells of domestic terrorism we have clearly seen in formation, are to be called upon.

The plans are always simple, a template of Bush (43.) We will have an iconic act of terror, an attempt to seize power through “decapitating” the government, Iran will be blamed and a multi-decade war will be waged while America will be gutted of everything but the topsoil.

None of this is conjecture.

REALITY AND DEFLECTION

Mythology is dying. Netanyahu knows this very well. He knew it the second he saw himself on video at the UN, his “Wylie Coyote” poster in hand, a lifetime of lies and dissemblance for nothing, all in ruins, now a “dead man walking.”

He will not go quietly into the night, many will die, as he sees it, all may die except him. He may even see himself as the hero of his own life.

Others place him among the monsters of history but this is always the case.

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Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic representative for UN humanitarian and economic development efforts. Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever


 
Reuters/Rick Wilking

Source: Russia Today
http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-directive-20-cyber-715/

Six years after the White House first started running amok on the computer networks of its adversaries, US President Barack Obama has signed off on a top-secret order that finally offers blueprints for the Pentagon’s cyberwars.

Pres. Obama has autographed an executive order outlining protocol and procedures for the US military to take in the name of preventing cyberattacks from foreign countries, the Washington Post reports, once and for all providing instructions from the Oval Office on how to manage the hush-hush assaults against opposing nation-states that have all been confirmed by the White House while at the same time defending America from any possible harm from abroad.

According to Post’s sources, namely “officials who have seen the classified document and are not authorized to speak on the record,” Pres. Obama signed the paperwork in mid-October. Those authorities explain to the paper that the initiative in question, Presidential Policy Directive 20, “establishes a broad and strict set of standards to guide the operations of federal agencies in confronting threats in cyberspace.”

Confronting a threat may sound harmless, but begs to introduce a chicken-and-the-egg scenario that could have some very serious implications. The Post describes the directive as being “the most extensive White House effort to date to wrestle with what constitutes an ‘offensive’ and a ‘defensive’ action in the rapidly evolving world of cyberwar and cyberterrorism,” but the ambiguous order may very well allow the US to continue assaulting the networks of other nations, now with a given go-ahead from the commander-in-chief. Next in line, the Post says, will be rules of engagement straight from the Pentagon that will provide guidelines for when to carry out assaults outside the realm of what is considered ‘American’ in terms of cyberspace.

“What it does, really for the first time, is it explicitly talks about how we will use cyber operations,” one senior administration official tells the paper of the policy directive. “Network defense is what you’re doing inside your own networks. . . . Cyber operations is stuff outside that space, and recognizing that you could be doing that for what might be called defensive purposes.”

When The New York Times published an exposé on the White House’s so-called Olympics Games program earlier this year, the world became fully aware for once of America’s involvement in international cyberwar, but much to the chagrin of Washington. Officials including members of Pres. Obama’s national security team spoke on condition of anonymity to tell the Times that his predecessor, then-Pres. George W. Bush, began the program in 2006 to target Iran’s nuclear facilities and then passed it along to the current administration to continue under the leadership of the current commander-in-chief.

“From his first months in office,” David Sanger wrote for the Times, Pres. Obama “secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons.”

Congress has fought tooth-and-nail in the months since to plug any leaks that could potentially spill the beans regarding any further secrets with the potential of effecting national security, but those efforts appear unsuccessful given this week’s Post report on Presidential Police Directive 20.

Now take the example of Iran: according to the Post, Pres. Obama’s signature on last month’s directive means the US now has rules and regulations when it comes to protecting its own infrastructure from cyberattack, and can do so by means of launching what appear to be pre-emptive assaults of their own.

“It should enable people to arrive at more effective decisions,” a second senior administration official tells the Post. “In that sense, it’s an enormous step forward.”

That comment echoes US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s insistence earlier this year that “defense alone is not enough” in terms of keeping the country safe. But what it also seems to do is put on the books a presidential policy that equates an overzealous offense with a solid defense. While the US has cited Iranian hackers as the key players behind a recent attack on the websites of Capital One Financial Corp. and BB&T Corp., two of the biggest names in the American banking industry, the US has done little — on the record — to reveal any similar assaults from abroad. Instead, rather, it’s relied on fear-mongering to try and convince the country to accept a cybersecurity legislation that will assure American’s safety from foreign hackers, all for the small price of sacrificing their digital-age privacy.

While the Obama White House has failed to acknowledge the Olympic Games program or any involvement in the Stuxnet or Flames viruses linked to the initiative, computer researchers in both the US and Russia have tied Washington to the cripplingly malicious coding. Earlier this month, California-based Chevron, one of the world’s leaders in the oil sector, went public with claims that Stuxnet had infected — but not affected — their computers after the virus was unleashed.

The ability to slow down or speed up centrifuges in nuclear facilities from thousands of miles away made Stuxnet a virus that had very substantial powers. Refusing to speak of the Olympic Games program specifically, former CIA chief Michael Hayden told the Times, “This is the first attack of a major nature in which a cyberattack was used to effect physical destruction.”

According to the Post’s latest, though, future assaults by way of Stuxnet or similar worms could be considered by Washington as defense mechanisms to make sure Iran doesn’t retaliate for what America has long-been lashing out with. One source tells the Times that, before last month’s directive, severing any link between a US-computer and an overseas server by any means possible would be an act that would put America on the offensive. Now even a preemptive attack that disconnects other countries could be considered a defensive ploy according to the president.

“That was seen as something that was aggressive…particularly by some at the State Department,” one defense official tells the Post. With the signing of Pres. Obama’s latest order, though, the paper writes that the directive “effectively enables the military to act more aggressively to thwart cyberattacks on the nation’s web of government and private computer networks.”

It is thought that, through the directive, any systems linked even remotely with America’s can be fair game for an assault. Given the expansion of cloud computing and the ever-expanding interconnection of communities across the globe on the Web, though, that could essentially enable Uncle Sam’s cybersquad to get away with a whole new slew of tricks to try and topple adversaries of any kind that threaten the American way of life. When and where those actions are necessary, of course, remains another topic of discussion. Will those orders be signed in secrecy as well, though?

 

Friday, October 26, 2012

'Boycott them!' UN rapporteur slams companies aiding Israeli settlements


 
The illegal Ulpana outpost, adjacent to the Beit El Jewish settlement. (AFP Photo / Gali Tibbon)

Source: Russia Today
http://rt.com/news/un-boycott-us-companies-israel-299/

A special rapporteur for the UN’s Human Rights Council has called for a boycott on all companies involved with Israeli settlements until they adhere to international rights standards. Israel and the US have condemned the move.

In a report presented to the UN General Assembly, American professor Richard Falk said that many US, European and Mexican companies appeared to be violating international human rights and humanitarian laws. The companies are allegedly exploiting Palestinian resources, helping Israel construct illegal settlements and providing security for settlers.

Falk said the call for a boycott is an effort to take infractions of international law seriously. He said the pace of Israeli settlement building has accelerated and that Israel has ignored UN resolutions condemning the practice, so “there is a sense that what the UN says doesn't count.”

Although Falk admitted that further investigations were necessary to determine severity of the violations, the US and Israel were quick to condemn the report, accusing the UN special rapporteur of bias against Israel and calling for his removal.

US Ambassador Susan Rice stated, “Mr. Falk's recommendations do nothing to further a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and indeed poison the environment for peace. His continued service in the role of a UN Special Rapporteur is deeply regrettable and only damages the credibility of the UN.”

Spokesperson for the Israeli Mission Karaen Peretz added that, “Israel is deeply committed to advancing human rights and firmly believes that this cause will be better served without Falk and his distasteful sideshow. While he spends pages and pages attacking Israel, Falk fails to mention even once the horrific human rights violations and ongoing terrorist attacks by Hamas.”

The Anti-Defamation League urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to rescind his preliminary endorsement of the report. Ki-moon has previously said that settlement activity is illegal, and “runs contrary to Israel's obligations under the Road Map and repeated Quartet calls for the parties to refrain from provocations.”

Representatives from several countries in the UN General Assembly – including Egypt and Iran – praised Falk's report as fair.

Richard Falk, an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, previously angered Israel by comparing the country to Nazi Germany, and accusing it of crimes against humanity for its treatment of Palestinians.

Since 2008, Israel has barred Falk from visiting the Palestinian territories.

In July 2012, the UN Human Rights Council initiated a probe into Jewish settlements. Israel responded by saying it would bar the Council's experts from accessing the sites.

The vast majority of the international community considers the settlements in the occupied territories to be illegal. The United Nations has repeatedly upheld the view that Israel's construction of settlements constitutes a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The International Court of Justice also said the settlements were illegal. No foreign government actively supports Israel's building of settlements.

Israel disputes the position of the international community and the legal arguments deeming the settlements illegal. The country cites its historical and biblical links to the West Bank, saying the status of the settlements should be decided in peace negotiations.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Syrian president offers amnesty for crimes committed before Oct. 23


 
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (shown) issues a decree to pardon crimes committed before October 23, 2012.

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/10/23/268286/syrias-assad-offers-amnesty-for-crimes/

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has offered amnesty for crimes committed in the country before October 23, 2012, the Syrian state TV reports.

The Syrian president “decreed a general amnesty for crimes committed before October 23,” and not those committed by “terrorists,” the Syrian TV reported on Tuesday.

The amnesty does not apply to those criminals who remain on the run; rather, those who surrender to the government will be pardoned, the report said.

The decree came as an international proposal had been made by UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi for a truce in the Arab country.

Brahimi called for a temporary truce between the Syrian forces and foreign-backed insurgents during the four-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) starting on October 26.

The Syrian government says it will support the truce proposal only if the Western countries and their regional allies stop supporting and financing the insurgents.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. The Syrian government holds some Western countries and their regional allies, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, responsible for arming and funding the opposition and foreign insurgents.