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FLAHSBACK: Egypt’s court rules Islamist-dominated Senate and constitution panel illegal
Post Date: 2013-07-05 23:13:57 by A K A Stone
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Egypt’s top court has invalidated the upper house and the panel that drafted the country’s new constitution. The Senate though will only be dissolved after elections, the court said in a ruling that is likely to deepen Egypt’s political instability.
The Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled on Sunday that the laws governing the election of the Islamist-dominated Senate, or Shura Council, and the constitution panel were illegal.
The court said that the Shura should remain in place until a new parliament is elected, but it would reportedly have no legislative authority. So far, no date has been set for the vote. However, earlier Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said that elections ...
Libyan Intelligence: Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi Involved in U.S. Consulate Attack
Post Date: 2013-07-04 09:13:28 by A K A Stone
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According to a Libyan intelligence document, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where several Americans, including U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were killed. On Wednesday, June 26, several Arabic websites, including Veto Gate, quoted the intelligence report, which apparently was first leaked to the Kuwaiti paper, Al Ra’i. Prepared by Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif, Director of National Security for Libya, the report is addressed to the nation’s Minister of Interior. It discusses the preliminary findings of the investigation, specifically concerning an ...
Obama Is Morsi's Bitch: Morsi himself called for foreign intervention in Syria against Assad,
Post Date: 2013-07-03 18:58:56 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Army concern about the way President Mohamed Mursi was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources said.
At the June 15 rally, Sunni Muslim clerics used the word "infidels" to denounce both the Shi'ites fighting to protect Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the non-Islamists that oppose Mursi at home.
Mursi himself called for foreign intervention in Syria against Assad, leading to a veiled rebuke from the army, which issued an apparently bland but sharp-edged statement the next day stressing that its only role was guarding Egypt's borders.
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US orders mandatory evacuation of embassy in Cairo
Post Date: 2013-07-03 18:01:12 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday ordered the mandatory evacuation of its embassy in Cairo, just hours after the Egyptian military ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Asked if reports of the evacuation were true, a US official told AFP "yes." A later travel advisory confirmed that "the Department of State ordered the departure of non-emergency US government personnel and family members from Egypt due to the ongoing political and social unrest." The embassy in Egypt has occasionally been targeted by demonstrators and had already been closed on Wednesday as a precaution. Due to the July 4 Independence Day and the Arab world weekend, it was not due to reopen ...
Sisi: "Egyptian People Were Calling For Help" Morsi is Out
Post Date: 2013-07-03 15:12:06 by A K A Stone
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Sisi says the army attempted to have a national reconciliation that included the presidency. But that the army felt the people were calling for help. He insists the army does not seek to rule but to reset the national course. Morsi is out. Sisi announces a transitional government and new presidential elections.
Live: Egypt protests in Tahrir Square as military deadline closes in (video, updates)
Post Date: 2013-07-03 10:08:01 by A K A Stone
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EGYPT MILITARY TO MORSI: “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool.”
Post Date: 2013-07-03 00:07:41 by A K A Stone
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High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/56a2f8c6-e2e9-11e2-bd87-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2Xx5Xo6MN The government and military in Egypt were set on a collision course early on Wednesday after both sides warned of more bloodshed as they refused to back down over an ultimatum set by the army to resolve the political stand-off in the country. Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president, rejected opposition calls to step down and said he was prepared to die to ...
Contrast of Two World Leaders
Post Date: 2013-07-02 00:30:10 by A K A Stone
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Ed Snowden Statement From Moscow
Post Date: 2013-07-01 22:34:00 by A K A Stone
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Edward Snowden has issued a statement via WikiLeaks Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow Monday July 1, 21:40 UTC... One week ago, I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful. On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do ...
Moscow beefs up air defense with 4 new all-altitude radar stations
Post Date: 2013-06-30 00:17:30 by A K A Stone
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Four mobile radar stations designed for S-300 and S-400 air defense batteries have been added to the shield covering Moscow against airstrikes. The new all-altitude detectors can track up to 100 targets, be they missiles, drones or manned aircraft. The addition of the hardware was announced on Saturday by Deputy Commander of the Aerospace Defense Forces, Major General Kirill Makarov. “Those intelligence systems can detect aerial targets, including cruise missiles, at a long distance. Their use allows timely detection and countering of an enemy airstrike when necessary,” the general, who heads all Russia’s air defense troops, said. The 96L6E target acquisition radar is an ...
Ecuador cools on Edward Snowden asylum as Assange frustration grows
Post Date: 2013-06-30 00:15:24 by A K A Stone
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The plan to spirit the surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden to sanctuary in Latin America appeared to be unravelling on Friday, amid tension between Ecuador's government and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. President Rafael Correa halted an effort to help Snowden leave Russia amid concern Assange was usurping the role of the Ecuadoran government, according to leaked diplomatic correspondence published on Friday. Amid signs Quito was cooling with Snowden and irritated with Assange, Correa declared invalid a temporary travel document which could have helped extract Snowden from his reported location in Moscow. Correa declared that the safe conduct pass issued by ...
The Guardian Revealed A Major NSA 'Scoop' Then Deleted It From Their Website
Post Date: 2013-06-30 00:12:10 by A K A Stone
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The Guardian released another shocking NSA scoop on Saturday, revealing collusion and mass harvesting of personal communications among the United States and at least six European Union countries — only to delete it from their website hours after publication. The article, titled "Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America," was written by Jamie Doward, who reported information from Wayne Madsen, a former Navy Lt. and NSA employee for 12 years. Doward wrote: Madsen said the countries had "formal second and third party status" under signal intelligence (sigint) agreements that compels them to hand over data, including mobile phone and ...
U.S. Bugged EU Offices, Computer Networks: German Magazine
Post Date: 2013-06-29 15:00:02 by Brian S
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine on Saturday, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged U.S. spy programs. Der Spiegel cited from a September 2010 "top secret" document of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) which it said fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had taken with him and which the weekly's journalists had seen in part. The document outlines how the NSA bugged offices and spied on EU internal computer networks in Washington and at the United Nations, not only listening to conversations and phone calls but ...
WikiLeaks: Snowden going to Ecuador to seek asylum
Post Date: 2013-06-23 13:27:19 by A K A Stone
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LONDON (AP) -- Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing highly classified surveillance programs, is going to Ecuador to seek asylum, the South American country's foreign minister and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Sunday. WikiLeaks, which says it is giving Snowden legal assistance, said in a statement his asylum request will be formally processed once he arrives in Ecuador. Ricardo Patino, the country's foreign minister, said on his Twitter account that his government has received a request for asylum from Snowden. "He is bound for the Republic of Ecuador via a safe route for the purposes of asylum, and is ...
AK-47 creator to be flown to Moscow for treatment
Post Date: 2013-06-23 13:20:41 by A K A Stone
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Emergencies Ministry says it has sent a medically equipped aircraft to bring the 93-year-old creator of the AK-47 assault rifle to Moscow for treatment. A spokeswoman for the ministry told Russian state news agencies that doctors will accompany Mikhail Kalashnikov on the flight to Moscow on Sunday from his home in Izhevsk, about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to the east of the capital. Kalashnikov spent two weeks in an Izhevsk cardiology clinic in May. The AK-47 is the world's most popular firearm with an estimated 100 million spread worldwide. Its name stands for "Avtomat Kalashnikova," or Kalashnikov's automatic, and the year it went into ...
Egypt's army says it's ready to save nation
Post Date: 2013-06-23 13:17:15 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's army chief warned on Sunday that the military is ready to intervene to stop the nation from entering a "dark tunnel" of internal conflict. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi spoke a week ahead of mass protests planned by opponents of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. There are fears the demonstrations calling for Morsi's ouster will descend into violence after some of the president's hard-line supporters vowed to "smash" them. Others declared protesters were infidels who deserve to be killed. El-Sissi's comments were his first in public on the planned June 30 protests. Made to officers during a seminar, they reflected the military's ...
Meet the 7 Men Obama Considers the Enemy of the State
Post Date: 2013-06-23 10:51:53 by A K A Stone
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Meet the Seven Men Obama Considers Enemies of the State Posted By Elias Groll Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 4:00 PM Share Late Friday, the Washington Post revealed that federal prosecutors have charged Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor behind a series of revelations about the agency's intelligence-gathering operations, with espionage. As a state senator, Barack Obama made a name for himself as a defender of whistleblowers. And during the 2008 campaign he pledged that his administration would protect those who speak out against government abuse, arguing that their "acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer ...
N.S.A. Leaker Leaves Hong Kong on Flight to Moscow
Post Date: 2013-06-23 09:20:29 by A K A Stone
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HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government announced on Sunday afternoon that it had allowed the departure from its territory of Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has acknowledged disclosing classified documents about United States government surveillance of Internet and telephone communications around the world. The government statement said that Hong Kong had informed the United States of Mr. Snowden’s departure. A Moscow-based reservations agent at Aeroflot, Russia’s national airline, said that Mr. Snowden was aboard flight SU213 to Moscow, with a scheduled arrival there a little after 5 p.m. Moscow time. The reservations agent said that Mr. ...
Mysterious new MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
Post Date: 2013-06-20 21:43:17 by A K A Stone
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LONDON – A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. More than 60 cases of what is now called MERS, including 38 deaths, have been recorded by the World Health Organization in the past year, mostly in Saudi Arabia. So far, illnesses haven't spread as quickly as SARS did in 2003, ultimately triggering a global outbreak that killed about 800 people. An international team of doctors who investigated nearly two dozen cases in eastern Saudi Arabia found the new coronavirus has some striking similarities to ...
Credit markets wary of China crunch
Post Date: 2013-06-20 21:38:16 by A K A Stone
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While the local sharemarket selloff was largely focused on US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comments and the latest in a slew of underwhelming factory data coming out of China, credit markets are engrossed in figuring out whether something altogether more sinister could be lurking around the corner. Interbank lending rates in China's money market have soared alarmingly to record highs, prompting fears the banking sector's liquidity problems could spiral into a full-blown credit crunch. The main driver for tightening credit has been the reluctance of the central bank, the People's Bank of China, to pump cash into the market. This has been seen as a tactic to ...
WikiLeaks says Michael Hastings contacted it just before his death. Are they implying he was murdered?
Post Date: 2013-06-20 21:36:32 by A K A Stone
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WikiLeaks just threw some gasoline onto the conspiracy fire. On Wednesday night, they Tweeted: “Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.” What exactly are they trying to say? Michael Hastings was a much admired freelance journalist who covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and helped to bring down General Stanley McChrystal. He was tragically killed this week in a car crash in Los Angeles, after his car hit a tree. Hastings is believed to have been alone in the vehicle. Hastings has certainly been in contact with WikiLeaks before. In 2012 he wrote a profile of Julian Assange for ...
China Set To Grab UAV Market While US Restricts Sales
Post Date: 2013-06-17 22:11:04 by A K A Stone
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Psst. Hey mister. Wanna buy a UAV? China’s got drones for shooting, drones for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and drones for target practice. Cheap prices and no arms export restrictions. And China may grab a significant share of the international market for just those reasons, according to a new report by the U.S-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Breaking Defense obtained a copy of the report: China’s Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Industry The irony would be, of course, that the United States has largely created that demand by demonstrating the utility of drones (UAVs, Remotely Piloted Aircraft — RPAs — pick your term) in Afghanistan, ...
On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda Addressing many of the issues arising from last week's NSA stories
Post Date: 2013-06-15 00:11:33 by A K A Stone
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I haven't been able to write this week here because I've been participating in the debate over the fallout from last week's NSA stories, and because we are very busy working on and writing the next series of stories that will begin appearing very shortly. I did, though, want to note a few points, and particularly highlight what Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez said after Congress on Wednesday was given a classified briefing by NSA officials on the agency's previously secret surveillance activities: "What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. . . . I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are ...
STEELHAMMER
Post Date: 2013-06-14 23:38:50 by A K A Stone
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13-06-04 "Steelhammer" chart entries U.D.O.'s new album "Steelhammer" with fantastic chart positions. "Steelhammer" entered the official German charts on position 21 and in Sweden on position 23. U.D.O. was never before more succesful in these countries. But also Norway (pos. 67) and Finnland (pos. 38) did it very good and the band is VERY proud about that. Our label is very happy about the newest chart situation as well. U.D.O. is on the lead of all the metal new entries in Germany. Acts like ALICE IN CHAINS, JUDAS PRIEST, DARK TRANQUILITY and BLACK STAR RIDERS released their newest album at the same day and are all behind the new U.D.O. release. This is ...
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