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‘Anonymous’ Hacks Security Firm That Probed Its Membership
Post Date: 2011-02-08 19:07:37 by Brian S
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The online group of hacktivists known as "Anonymous" infiltrated the network and websites of an Internet security company after learning the company planned to sell information about the group to the FBI. The website of Washington DC-based HBGary Federal was hijacked Sunday along with the Twitter account of CEO Aaron Barr. The company's website was defaced with a message that read, "This domain seized by Anonymous under section #14 of the rules of the Internet." "Your recent claims of 'infiltrating' Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself," the messaged continued. ...
U.S. Slaps Down Suleiman, Call Comments "Unhelpful"
Post Date: 2011-02-08 15:09:10 by Brian S
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Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has ticked off the Obama administration, but the White House is sticking to its position that he's in charge of the transition to a new government that it won't determine. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made it clear at his daily briefing for reporters that the administration strongly disagrees with Suleiman's contention that Egypt isn't ready for democracy, calling them "particularly unhelpful comments." In the language of diplomacy, that's a major slam. In case anyone doubted what that meant, Gibbs declared: "I speak for the president of the United States." He went on to say, however, that ...
Egypt Protests Draw Biggest Crowd Yet
Post Date: 2011-02-08 15:03:13 by Brian S
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CAIRO – Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square and towns across Egypt on Tuesday, in the biggest show of defiance to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak since the revolt began. In Cairo, the immense crowd hailed as a hero a charismatic cyberactivist and Google executive whose Facebook site helped kickstart the protest movement on January 25 and who has since been detained and held blindfolded for 12 days. AFP journalists overlooking the square confirmed it was the biggest gathering yet in a movement which began on January 25. Witnesses in Egypt's second city Alexandria said a march there also attracted record numbers. Many protesters carried ...
Dan Quayle Urged President Obama To Release Imprisoned Spy-For-Israel Jonathan Pollard
Post Date: 2011-02-08 14:53:41 by Brian S
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February 7, 2011 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Dan Quayle urged President Obama to release imprisoned spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard. Quayle, who was U.S. vice president from 1989 to 1993, is the highest-ranking former official to call for the release of Pollard, the civilian U.S. Navy analyst who was sentenced to life in 1987. "I believe that a life sentence for the crime committed is very extreme," Quayle wrote in his Jan. 31 letter, which was made public Monday. "Though his crime was very serious, I hope you will once again look very carefully at this pending request." Quayle's letter also is significant because it adds to the growing list of former Republican ...
Iran Unveils New Satellites, Rockets, To Boost Scientific Might
Post Date: 2011-02-08 14:49:35 by Brian S
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By IBTimes Staff Reporter | February 8, 2011 6:29 AM EST Iran has unveiled domestically manufactured satellites and a satellite-carrier rocket and would launch several new locally built satellites within the next 13 months, the local satellite Press TV reported. Four national satellites, Fajr (Dawn), Rasad (Observation), Zafar (Victory) and Amirkabir I, and a satellite carrier Kavoshgar 4 (Explorer 4) were unveiled on Monday by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the report said. The first-stage and second-stage engines of the Safir-e-Fajr satellite carrier and a space recycling and environmental station were also unveiled during the ceremony. The new landmarks in the space ...
Obama's Fantasies, Egyptian Reality
Post Date: 2011-02-08 11:51:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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One can take heart from this week's Wikileaks revelations about how intensely Omar Suleiman, Egypt's new vice-president and former intelligence chief, dislikes both homegrown Egyptian and Iranian Islamists. Regarding the domestic Muslim Brotherhood, Suleiman in 2006 told FBI director Robert Mueller that they had spawned "11 different Islamist extremist organizations" and that "the principal danger…was [their] exploitation of religion to influence and mobilize the public." As for Iran, in 2007 and 2008 Suleiman called its regime "devils" and "a significant threat to Egypt" and said "Iran is supporting Jihad and spoiling peace, and ...
Little Evidence For Iraq WMDs Ahead Of 2003 War: U.S. Declassified Report
Post Date: 2011-02-08 11:44:32 by Brian S
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By Gerald Helguero | February 8, 2011 9:57 AM EST Six months ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the United States had little hard evidence and relied heavily on analytic assumptions and judgment in assessing what it knew about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, according to declassified U.S. intellilgence report. The September 5, 2002 report from the Glen Shaffer, the Director of Intelligence - which was initially classified as "secret" - at the time showed the U.S. knew about Iraq's internal expertise in building nuclear weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. The letter, which was declassified on January 6, 2011, was available ...
Egypt VP Favored By Israel To Succeed Mubarak, WikiLeaks Cables Show
Post Date: 2011-02-08 11:41:26 by Brian S
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Israel has long seen Omar Suleiman, Egypt's recently appointed vice president, as the successor to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, US State Department cables released by secrets outlet WikiLeaks show. One document detailed Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak's 2008 meeting with Suleiman, the then-Egyptian spy chief, as recalled by Israel's Arab Affairs Adviser David Hacham. "In terms of atmospherics, Hacham said the Israeli delegation was 'shocked' by Mubarak's aged appearance and slurred speech," the cable noted. "Hacham was full of praise for Soliman, however, and noted that a 'hot line' set up between the MOD [Ministry of Defense] and ...
Two severe Amazon droughts in five years alarms scientists
Post Date: 2011-02-08 10:50:59 by go65
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New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region’s rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event. Analyses of rainfall across 5.3 million square kilometres of Amazonia during the 2010 dry season, published in Science, shows that the drought was more widespread and severe than in 2005. The UK-Brazilian team also calculate that the carbon impact of the 2010 drought may eventually exceed the 5 billion tonnes of CO2 released following the 2005 event, as severe droughts kill rainforest trees. For context, the United States emitted 5.4 billion tonnes of CO2 from fossil fuel use in 2009. ...
Report: Obama Spiriting Mubarak to Cozy German Exile
Post Date: 2011-02-08 10:34:43 by Happy Quanzaa
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U.S. officials have hatched a secret plan to end the deadlock between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and opponents of his regime, according to various media and intelligence sources. The scheme being discussed would have Mubarak leave Egypt for specialized treatment at a German health clinic near Baden-Baden. His stay would be extended through the September elections, providing a face-saving way to end the impasse and Mubarak’s 30-year reign. “The United States government's scenario for an end to the political chaos in Egypt appears to be this: President Hosni Mubarak travels to Germany for a ‘prolonged health check’ that would offer the 82-year-old a dignified ...
‘Metrosexuals’ on the rise in Pakistan
Post Date: 2011-02-08 09:16:59 by Happy Quanzaa
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Pakistani beautician apply facial beauty treatments on male customers at a beauty salon in Karachi on January22, 2011. - Photo by AFP LAHORE: In Pakistan, as militant wage war on anything smacking of Western culture, “metrosexual” man is quietly on the rise. Confounding expectations in a country where most street scenes are filled with men wearing the traditional shalwar kameez, a simple cotton tunic, male grooming salons are springing up in the main cities. Despite Pakistan’s dire economy and widespread poverty, rich urbanites have more disposable cash than ever and are now spending it on their image, says Hassan Kilde Bajwa, of Synergy advertising agency. Bajwa says the ...
Hussein Obama cut Bush's funding for Egyptian democracy & human-rights groups
Post Date: 2011-02-08 08:50:06 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON -- Before anti-government protests swept across Egypt, the Obama administration cut funding for democracy and human-rights groups there, potentially burning bridges with leaders who could be called upon to help form a new government in Cairo, Mideast experts said. "It left a bad taste in the democracy and human-rights community in Egypt. They really felt like Obama came to power and immediately he sought to engage the Egyptian regime," said Jennifer Windsor, a dean at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. "The Egyptian groups were just stunned," she continued, adding that robust support of democracy movements had been one of the "bright ...
Concerns Grow Over Egypt's WMD Research
Post Date: 2011-02-07 18:11:24 by Brian S
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With Egypt in revolt and the country’s future uncertain, concern is growing over whether a new government in the Arab world’s most militarily and industrially advanced country could accelerate an arms race in one of the world’s most volatile regions. At the heart of the concern is intelligence indicating that Egypt has quietly carried out research and development on weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, biological and missile technology. The research and development has continued virtually without pause over the past three decades, according to interviews with U.S. officials and a review of intelligence and other government documents by NBC News. ...
Mrs. Clinton welcomes islamo-terror organization Islamic Brotherhood
Post Date: 2011-02-07 16:09:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Clinton cautiously welcomes Brotherhood talks US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cautiously welcomed Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood's involvement in political dialogue in Egypt, saying Washington would "wait and see" how talks develop. "Today we learned the Muslim Brotherhood decided to participate, which suggests they at least are now involved in the dialogue that we have encouraged," Clinton told National Public Radio (NPR) from Germany. "We're going to wait and see how this develops, but we've been very clear about what we expect." Vice President Omar Suleiman met on Sunday with opposition groups including the Muslim Brotherhood, a ...
CRISIS IN EGYPT: Coptic Christians shoulder to shoulder with Muslims in Tahrir Square
Post Date: 2011-02-07 14:37:53 by Godwinson
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CRISIS IN EGYPT: Coptic Christians shoulder to shoulder with Muslims in Tahrir Square SONIA VERMA CAIRO— From Monday's Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Feb. 06, 2011 7:45PM EST Last updated Monday, Feb. 07, 2011 2:40AM EST At Sunday Mass in Tahrir Square, thousands of Christians swayed to the sound of hymns blasted from a pair of tired speakers, not far from a makeshift trauma unit used to tend to the injured and count the dead on earlier, more violent days. Above the faithful, an effigy of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak swung ever so gently in the breeze, dangling from a red noose that has already begun to fray. The mass, which followed a Muslim prayer, was dedicated to ...
Hussein Obama sees progress in Egyptian Islamic revolution
Post Date: 2011-02-07 13:58:47 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama sees 'progress' on Egypt (AP) – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Egypt is "making progress" toward a path forward out of the political crisis enveloping the country. Obama didn't elaborate Monday in response to a reporter's question on the talks taking place in Egypt, where Vice President Omar Suleiman met several major opposition groups for the first time Sunday. U.S. officials have indicated support for the talks, even though they don't meet protesters' demands for President Hosni Mubarak's immediate resignation. And some in Egypt see the U.S. support as contradicting Obama's repeated call for a ...
Torture Complaints Hit Bush On Ninth Anniversary Of Key Decision
Post Date: 2011-02-07 10:44:48 by Brian S
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Nine years ago today, the Bush administration decided that international law does not apply to prisoners of war. It was a watershed moment in US history, resulting in a policy of torture that pervaded and darkened the Bush years, and inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad. To mark that grim anniversary, two men who claim to have been victims of torture filed official complaints in Geneva, Switzerland, seeking a ruling on universal jurisdiction. If the court sides with their complaints, US President George W. Bush likely would not face arrest; he would not, however, enjoy free travel around the world. That was evidenced over the weekend, when the media speculated on why the former ...
State multiculturalism has failed, says David Cameron (Diversity sux) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-06 12:09:53 by Hondo68
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David Cameron has criticised "state multiculturalism" in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism. At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism. He also signalled a tougher stance on groups promoting Islamist extremism. The speech angered some Muslim groups, while others queried its timing amid an English Defence League rally in the UK. As Mr Cameron outlined his vision, he suggested there would be greater scrutiny of some Muslim groups which get public money but do little to tackle extremism. Ministers should refuse to share platforms or ...
Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend, U.S. ally
Post Date: 2011-02-06 10:31:02 by go65
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(CNN) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a good friend and U.S. ally, but declined to predict whether the embattled leader would heed protesters' calls to step down. Cheney made the comments Saturday night at a ceremony honoring former President Ronald Reagan in Santa Barbara, California. Protesters have pledged to stay on the streets of Egyptian cities until Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power. Mubarak, who has led the north African nation for three decades, has said he will stay in power until September, and will not run for re-election. Cheney said the Egyptian leader should be treated with respect. "He has been a good man, a good ...
Egypt Protests: Muslim Brotherhood 'To Join Talks'
Post Date: 2011-02-05 20:39:06 by Brian S
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Egypt's most influential opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, says it will enter talks with officials on ending the country's political crisis. The group told Reuters the talks would begin on Sunday and would aim to assess how far the government was "ready to accept the demands of the people". The Brotherhood had earlier said it would not take part in the negotiations with Vice-President Omar Suleiman. President Hosni Mubarak has rejected protesters' demands that he quit now. He has said he will not seek re-election in elections in September, but huge crowds have been on the streets of Cairo and other cities in the past few weeks to demand his resignation. ...
Egypt Unrest: US Disowns Envoy (Wisner) Comment On Hosni Mubarak
Post Date: 2011-02-05 20:37:02 by Brian S
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The US state department has distanced itself from comments by a US special envoy, to the effect that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should stay in office during a power transition. Spokesman Philip Crowley said Frank Wisner's views were his own, and not co-ordinated with the US government. Hundreds of protesters are refusing to leave Cairo's Tahrir Square. Mr Mubarak has vowed to stand down in September. Earlier, he replaced the leadership of his ruling party. The entire politburo including his son Gamal lost their jobs. Hossam Badrawi, a reformer and top physician, took the post of head of the policies committee, held by Gamal Mubarak, and that of secretary-general. On ...
US envoy (Wisner): Mubarak has to lead Egypt to transition
Post Date: 2011-02-05 18:01:55 by Hondo68
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MUNICH (AP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's leadership remains crucial for now as the country heads into a transition to democracy, a U.S. envoy who met him this week said Saturday, cautioning that the situation remains precarious. Frank Wisner, who was dispatched to Cairo on Monday, said he is increasingly hopeful that Egypt can manage a peaceful and orderly transition to democracy. He said by video link from New York to a security conference in Munich that "the flexibility is there, the imagination is there." But he cautioned that "this is a very volatile and dangerous time." Wisner, a former ambassador to Egypt, said that the president's departure ...
PolitiFact: Rand Paul Says Israel's Per Capita Income "Is Greater Than Probably Three-Fourths Of The Rest Of The World."
Post Date: 2011-02-05 13:28:56 by Brian S
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House Republicans have released a plan to cut the budget, but Rand Paul says they need to cut even more. House GOP leaders proposed cuts of $58 billion per year. Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky and a tea party favorite, has a plan that cuts $500 billion. Paul's plan includes cutting all foreign aid, including about $3 billion in annual aid to Israel. Cutting aid to Israel has got some of his fellow conservatives unhappy, but Paul isn't backing down. "I'm not singling out Israel. I'm a supporter of Israel," Paul said. "I want to be known as a friend of Israel, but you can't give money you don't have. We can't just borrow from our ...
Russian-US New START Treaty To Take Effect Saturday
Post Date: 2011-02-05 13:03:06 by Brian S
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MUNICH, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian-American New START treaty is formally entering into force. This will happen after the representatives of the two signatories - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exchange the instruments of ratification. The Lavrov-Clinton meeting, to be held in Munich on the sidelines of the Conference on Security Policy, has already been described by the participants as the key event of three days of discussions and consultations. In fact, this is an event of global proportions: the Treaty will determine the parameters of strategic nuclear weapons reductions for the next ten years. The agreement on measures for ...
Gaza Feeds Hungry Egyptian Troops In Role Reversal
Post Date: 2011-02-05 12:59:45 by Brian S
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Egyptian soldiers isolated on the Gaza border by 10 days of internal upheaval are getting bread, canned goods and other food supplies from the enclave, which is usually on the receiving end of food aid. A source in the border town of Rafah said security forces of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza, had been providing the troops with supplies for the past three days. Israel has blockaded Gaza for over three years with the assistance of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government, and half the population depends on handouts of staples from the United Nations. With mass protests demanding Mubarak should quit, sources in Rafah said north Sinai was tense. Angry ...
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