TERRORISM and COUNTERTERRORISM: News, INFORMATION & Analysis #2

Free Republic | 4/11/2010 | FReeper Collaboration

[Velveeta]

Obama amputates our nuclear arms

By: Charles Krauthammer

...snippet...

Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.”

Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)

However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.

This is quite insane. It’s like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets hanged or 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.

Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?

The naivete is stunning.

link

Image by Cool Text

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6631/pub_detail.asp

uly 2, 2010
Exclusive: US Justice Dept Failed to Issue Warrants for Al Qaeda Member Linked to NY plot

Paul Williams, PhD

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://gulftoday.ae/portal/46ce27b7-4d4b-4201-9330-8d0e2b596625.aspx

Farc plants landmines in Panama: Official

July 04, 2010

PANAMA CITY: Colombian drug-running rebels are planting landmines in
neighbouring Panama along cocaine smuggling routes between the two countries
shared border, a top Panamanian official said on Friday.

[PGalt]

Yeah #836 & #880 are very good. Thanks for all of your links, granny. (Just now catching back up.)

[nw_arizona_granny]

You keep pushing to work faster, for when I get ahead of you, you always catch up.

Thank you for reading them.

Happy 4th of July.

[PGalt]

Thanks for your great posts also, WestCoastGal. (revisiting thread this a.m. to see what I might’ve missed)

BTTT!

[PGalt]

Quite a story at #835 granny...Brian Patrick Regan (codes, spy). Thanks for that link.

[WestCoastGal]

Big problem loophole re: private planes and no-fly list! One almost collided with passenger jet Reagan Intl

A 120-seat United Airlines plane bound for Reagan National Airport from Chicago narrowly avoided colliding with a business jet departing from Dulles last Monday, the latest of 22 recent potentially dangerous mistakes by air traffic controllers who command the skies above Washington.

The United Airbus 319 was within 15 seconds of colliding with a 22-seat Gulfstream jet before, an internal FAA document shows, an onboard warning system ordered the pilots to take evasive action. The United pilot reported seeing the smaller jet pass just behind him.

“It’s the air traffic controller that’s supposed to control this situation, not” the onboard warning system, said John DeLisi, deputy director of aviation for the National Transportation Safety Board. “When it had to kick in and do its thing, that wasn’t a good controller.”

The number of times planes have come too close for comfort in the region in the past six months has surpassed the total of 18 the previous year. Nationwide, air traffic controllers committed 949 errors last year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/04/AR2010070404538.html

[PGalt]

Thanks for that link to Mark Siljander in post #864, granny. I was wondering what happened to him (I googled and read some recent stuff about him last night and forgot to thank you).

Nice work, as always, granny. (I re-read the thread several times to see if there’s anything that I’m overlooking.)

[PGalt]

Huge loophole, ‘Gal. That needs to be closed for many reasons. Thanks very much for the ping.

[nw_arizona_granny]

July 5, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks

Newslinks:

Pakistan: Govt makes conditional talks offer to Taliban
— Pakistan Daily Times: “Information minister says militants would have to lay down arms, accept writ of state”
— “Rehman Malik rules out military operation in Punjab”
— “Says Punjab govt will take required action, federal govt will provide assistance”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\06\story_6-7-2010_pg1_1

Pakistan to launch peace conference as Taliban insurgency revives
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/World+Today+July+Pakistan+launch+peace+conference+Taliban+insurgency+revives/3237504/story.html
— After Lahore, Gilani calls all-party meet on terror
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/After-Lahore-Gilani-calls-all-party-meet-on-terror-/articleshow/6132615.cms

Pakistan renews call for dialogue with some Taliban
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100705/ts_nm/us_pakistan_violence

Pakistan clerics accuse Punjab leaders of Taliban link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/10511046.stm

Pakistan army finds Taliban difficult to root out
Pak army finds Taliban difficult to root out

Pakistan: Top Taliban commander ‘killed’
— Ameerullah Mehsud
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.642225180
— Comment: notably no matter how many “top Taliban commanders” are “killed,” another takes his place

Pakistan: Suicide quartet hit Pakistan troops: officials - Lower Dir
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gxE0k0ECxyfF6Jgh-jeeuVJhugIg

Pakistan: Suicide attack foiled at Timar Garah, four militants killed
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/06-twelve-injured-in-lower-dir-suicide-attack-rs-09

Pakistan: Suspects arrested over Lahore shrine attack last week
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.640022796

Pakistan: Police arrest 12 for May Lahore attacks
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.639825105

Pakistan: Karachi - Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrests Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Zahid Khan alias Shakeel
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\06\story_6-7-2010_pg12_3

Pakistan bans 23 militant organizations after bloody shrine suicide blasts
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2098925&Language=en

Afghanistan: Canadian ambassador worries Taliban talks ‘going too far, going too fast’
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/canadian-ambassador-worries-taliban-talks-going-too-far-going-too-fast/article1628408/

Afghanistan: Taliban beheads headmaster in Afghanistan
— Sify News: “Suspected Taliban militants beheaded a headmaster and torched two schools in southern Afghanistan”
http://sify.com/news/headmaster-beheaded-schools-torched-in-afghanistan-news-crime-kg1rEDhabjd.html

Afghanistan: Haqqani militants present new threat in border region
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.640023517

Afghanistan: Karzai appoints new intelligence chief
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.640237538

Afghanistan: British soldier killed in an explosion Afghanistan — ministry
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2099031&Language=en

Afghanistan power station on hold because of security fears
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7872705/Afghanistan-power-station-on-hold-because-of-security-fears.html

India: Taliban justice in Kerala: Lecturer’s hand cut off
-— T.J. Joseph
-— Asian Tribune: “In a sign of growing Islamic fundamentalism in Kerala, Muslim fanatics in Kerala on Sunday chopped off the right hand of a college lecturer, accusing him of setting a question paper with a derogatory reference to the Prophet.”
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/07/06/taliban-justice-kerala-lecturer%E2%80%99s-hand-cut

(UK) The Guardian’ Mark Curtis: “Bin Laden, the Taliban, Zawahiri: Britain’s done business with them all”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/bin-laden-radical-islam-collusion

(UK) Mehdi Hasan: “Why Muslims must speak out against terrorism”
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/07/muslims-terrorism-condemn

(UK) Terrorism in Britain ‘mostly home grown’, report says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/7871139/Terrorism-in-Britain-mostly-home-grown-report-says.html
— Majority think Islam related terror offences carried out by Brits
http://www.hillingdontimes.co.uk/news/asianspotlight/spotlight/8254403.Majority_think_Islam_related_terror_offences_carried_out_by_Brits/
— Centre for Social Cohesion study: “Islamist Terrorism: the British Connections” by Robin Simcox
— Adobe Acrobat Preview of Report
http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/uploads/1278089320islamist_terrorism_preview.pdf

(UK) Al-Qaeda biggest threat to UK: report
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/europe/Al-Qaeda-biggest-threat-to-UK-report/Article1-567876.aspx

(UK/Libya) Dying Lockerbie bomber ‘could survive for 10 years or more’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/7871234/Dying-Lockerbie-bomber-could-survive-for-10-years-or-more.html

(UK) Guardian on 7/7 Bombing Anniversary: “Muslim and British: how 7/7 changed my world”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/05/british-muslims-after-july7-attacks

(U.S.) President Obama’s nighthawks: Top officials charged with guarding the nation’s safety
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070202983.html

(Iran) UK, Germany, and UAE Airports refuse to refuel Iranian passenger planes after sanctions
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Middle-East/Post-curbs-Iran-jets-in-refuelling-row/articleshow/6132631.cms
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Official-Iranian-Planes-Refused-Fuel-in-UK-Germany-UAE-97800669.html

Syria: The prospect of war grows
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180514

Israel: Mastermind of Park Hotel terror attack: No regrets
— Ynet: “Abbas al-Sayad, who was sentenced to 35 consecutive life sentences for planning two terror attacks that killed 35 Israelis, arrives in court for hearing on his appeal’”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3915448,00.html

Israel to allow most goods into Gaza
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38097614/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
— Israel unveils new blockade rules for Gaza
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/israel.gaza/?fbid=AY1wgJx0efT

Hamas, Jihad say Barak meeting a mistake
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=297001

Nigeria: Farmer killed in fresh attack on Nigerian Christian village
— Jos: “A farmer was killed and two others are unaccounted for after around 200 people raided a Christian village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, burning and looting, the military said Monday.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-tY8DSP1ecvCbyHrCadkMNaS4rA

‘Somalia is in the hands of al-Qaeda’
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-07-05-somalia-is-in-the-hands-of-alqaeda

(Yemen) Two Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes with Qaeda
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/07/06/113116.html

(Yemen) Verdict date set in Yemen trial of Qaeda suspects
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hbS8d_VLXf7-l4uihHNYyC4vaSOQ

(Canada) Court ruling may force feds to bring Omar Khadr back from Guantanamo
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Feds+face+Khadr+deadline/3238341/story.html

(Canada) Bomb threat empties Montreal’s HEC school
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Bomb+scare+empties+Montreal+school/3234872/story.html

Russia: Two Russian soldiers killed in Ingushetia
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2098932&Language=en

Turkey to cut ties unless Israel apologizes over Gaza flotilla raid
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Middle-East/Turkey-to-cut-ties-unless-Israel-apologises-over-Gaza-flotilla-raid/articleshow/6131015.cms
— Lieberman: No apology to Turkey
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180491

Women’s News:

Iran: Human rights activist tries to stop death by stoning for Iranian woman
— Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/index.html?hpt=T1&fbid=AY1wgJx0efT
— DC: Protests Outside Iranian Interests Building: Stop the Stoning of Sakineh Ashtiani
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/07/dc-protests-sakineh-ashtiani/
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/92/492/DC:_Protests_Stop_the_Stoning_of_Sakineh_Ashtiani.html

Pakistan: Woman and daughter stripped, thrashed
— 50-year-old Allah Wasai and her 14-year-old daughter Ashraf Mai
— Dawn: “Fourteen people are reported to have stripped naked a woman and her daughter on Saturday and thrashed them in the presence of a large number of people in Shehr Sultan, a town near Mirwala. “
— “Sources said the suspects got hold of 50-year-old Allah Wasai and her 14-year-old daughter Ashraf Mai when they came out of their home in Berwali to go to their fields.”
— “They then proceeded to teach the women ‘a lesson for the wrongdoing of Allah Wasai’s son’”
— “SHO Mahboob Tangwani said the main accused, Safdar, alleged that Allah Wasai’s son Saddam Husain had an affair with his daughter. He and his 13 accomplices held the woman and her daughter at gunpoint, stripped them naked and thrashed them.”
— “A large number of people were there but none of them came forward to rescue the women from the assailants.”
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/06-woman-and-daughter-stripped,-thrashed-570-rs-07
— Woman and daughter stripped, thrashed in Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Woman-and-daughter-stripped-thrashed-in-Pakistan/articleshow/6130976.cms

Nigeria: No case against senator with child bride
— AP: “Nigeria’s anti-human trafficking agency says it lacks enough evidence to criminally charge a senator who allegedly took a child bride.”
— AP: “the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters said it had concluded its investigation against Sen. Ahmad Sani Yerima”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLblNs3s4jk_xGFP5ut23lEMLphQD9GP0U0G5
-— May 1, 2010: Nigeria: Senate may ‘bury’ Ahmed Sani Yerima, matter — marrying 13 year old Egyptian girl
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/nigeria-senate-may-bury-ahmed-sani-yerima-matter-marrying-13-year-old-egyptian-girl/

India: 2 teenagers tortured to death in ‘honour killing’
— another report on Hindu girl and Muslim boy killed - allegedly by Hindu girl’s uncle
— “17-year-old Shah Mohammad and 15-year-old Reena”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/2-teenagers-tortured-to-death-in-honour-killing/articleshow/6129210.cms

India: Another ‘honour killing’ in Delhi; woman, lover murdered
— PTI: “the victims have been identified as Uttam Kumar and Anju”
http://www.ptinews.com/news/765694_Another—honour-killing—in-Delhi—woman—lover-murdered

EU: Somali girls lured into sex-slave rings
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/07/eu-somali-girls-lured-into-sex-slave.html

Other News:

Indonesian Islamists open front against Christians
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h4oRG_Htk45NcsMaBQOM8KDZISqwD9GOAM982

Indonesia: “When Hard-Liners Get a Free Pass, Moderates Are Part of the Problem”
— Jakarta Globe’s James Van Zorge asks “Is Indonesia’s democracy and long tradition of secularism under threat from an onslaught of Islamic fundamentalism?”
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/opinion/when-hard-liners-get-a-free-pass-moderates-are-part-of-the-problem/384346

Pakistan: Sectarianism has poisoned Pakistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/pakistan-terrorism

Iran presents ‘Islamic haircut catalogue’
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3915447,00.html

Australia: “Police on guard as anti-Islamists stage protest”
— in Australia Hizb ut-Tahrir is protested by a group called “Australian Protectionist Party” (APP)
— The Australian reported that APP group chanted “Islam must go”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/police-on-guard-as-anti-islamists-stage-protest/story-e6frg6nf-1225887774328
— Inner West Courier reports that APP, led by Nick Folkes, has been distributing leaflets calling for end to “African crime” and members are concerned about homosexuals
http://inner-west-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/protecting-australia/
— Google search on “Australian Protectionist Party” “African crime”
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22Australian+Protectionist+Party%22+%22African+crime%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=c401d881a5ff002f

Tennessee: “1 for All helping freedom resonate”
http://www.dnj.com/article/20100705/OPINION01/7050314/EDITORIAL++1+for+All+helping+freedom+resonate

(U.S.) “NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/

(U.S.) Chicago: Female leaders speak at largest Muslim convention in U.S.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/04/female-leaders-speak-at-largest-muslim-convention-in-u-s/
— no context on ISNA provided on role in HLF trial
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/Attachment+A+(List+of+Unindicted+Co-conspirators).pdf

(U.S.) Florida: Gainesville Church Protests Islamic Center
http://www.news4jax.com/news/24148793/detail.html
— Florida: Dove World Outreach Center Touts Shirts, Banners Claiming “Islam is of the devil”
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/11/dove-world-outreach-center/
— Florida: Dove World Outreach Center Views Westboro Baptist Church as Ally
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/04/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group-finds-ally-in-dove-world-outreach/
—— WBC also protests Jewish synagogues, praises terrorism against Christians, attacks on police officers
http://www.realcourage.org/category/westboro-baptist-church-hate-group/

__._,_.___

If reposting elsewhere, please credit source of this research as UnitedStatesAction.com

[nw_arizona_granny]

Quite a story at #835 granny...Brian Patrick Regan (codes, spy). Thanks for that link.<<<

You are welcome.

Now, if you want codes, do you ever catch the long lists of codes that are read over the short wave radio’s?

Usually a long list of number clusters, sometimes hours long, it has been going on for years.

There is someone who reports them from Michigan, and other places around the world, and of course there are folks attempting to break the codes.

Russia, Cuba and others are still using them.

I found a group that collects them and follows them, LOL, I subscribe to the list, but don’t understand the codes.

They sometimes mention a bit of history and google will fill it in.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Big problem loophole re: private planes and no-fly list! One almost collided with passenger jet Reagan Intl<<<

That leaves open all kinds of possible attacks, rather scary.

There has been an increase in the google alerts for small planes that almost and do collide...

Thanks for the report, as I had not read it.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks for that link to Mark Siljander in post #864, granny. I was wondering what happened to him (I googled and read some recent stuff about him last night and forgot to thank you).<<<

It is a shame that they will sell their souls for a few dollars.

I would love to know how many of our politicians really should be in jail?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Reconciliation or Extremism?: Tracking the Divisions among Egypt’s Jihadi Leaders
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 26
July 1, 2010 04:16 PM Age: 4 days
Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Terrorism, Africa
By: Hani Nasira

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri

Some time has passed since the May 30 death of al-Qaeda’s chief of operations in Afghanistan and third-in-command Mustafa Abu al-Yazid. Surprisingly, however, no eulogy has been issued by al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Yazid and al-Zawahiri shared the same cell in Egypt for being involved in the plot to assassinate President Anwar Sadat in 1981. His death similarly went unremarked by former and current jihadis still in Egypt.

Al-Zawahiri’s silence after al-Yazid’s death triggered questions within jihadist internet forums, not only because of the historic relations between the two Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) leaders, but also because of al-Yazid’s status and important role within al-Qaeda for over 22 years. Al-Yazid was a member of al-Qaeda’s Shura Council, responsible for many of the group’s largest operations, such as the 9/11 plot in which he was actively involved. Al-Yazid was also directly involved in the planning of the December 30, 2009 suicide bombing of the CIA’s forward operating base in Khost, an operation that killed seven CIA officers and a senior Jordanian intelligence officer (see Terrorism Monitor, June 12).

snip...

http://www.jamestown.org/programs/gta/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=36560&tx_ttnews[backPid]=457&no_cache=1

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15444532?nclick_check=1

Ailing Chicago flight diverts to Sioux Falls, SD
The Associated Press
Posted: 07/05/2010 05:04:42 PM PDT
Updated: 07/05/2010 05:04:43 PM PDT

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.—A mechanical problem forced a United flight bound for Chicago to land at Sioux Falls Regional Airport.

United Flight 158 from San Francisco landed without incident around 4 a.m. Monday. No injuries were reported.

Passenger Claire Carmichael told station KDLT that fire was coming out of the left engine of the jet, a Boeing 757.

snip.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.merip.org/mero/mero070510.html

Obama’s Nuclear Postures

Zia Mian

July 5, 2010

(Zia Mian is a physicist with the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and an editor of Middle East Report.)

[This is a report on ‘o’ and the nuclear disarmament plans.

Well written, even I understood it and pulls in President Bush ‘s 2002 plans and the Clinton plans.

granny]

[nw_arizona_granny]

[You started it, be sure to check the posts above this, airplanes are in my mail box tonight....this is a long and interesting article]

http://thecitizen.co.tz/news/4-national-news/2810-plane-nearly-hit-our-bus-says-driver

Plane nearly hit our bus, says driver Send to a friend
Monday, 05 July 2010 09:46
0diggsdigg
By George Sembony, Tanga

The driver of a bus that was narrowly missed by a military aircraft, which crash-landed on the Segera-Chalinze highway on Tuesday, says he came close to death.

But the pilot, Major Cuthbert Leguna and his trainee Lt Andrew Yohana Kijanga of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force (TPDF), died.

“It missed the bus by a whisker. It’s terrible. I saw death and I still see it whenever I think of the accident,” 60-year-old Abdallah Hamimu Kaborogo told The Citizen on Wednesday. “It just appeared from nowhere and descended dangerously towards our vehicle.”

Mr Kaborogo is the driver of the 60-seater Simba Coach Bus, popularly known as Simba Mtoto, which plies the Tanga-Dodoma route.

He has been driving vehicles for years and has never come across such a horrifying incident before. He worked in several countries including Saudi Arabia.

He and his passengers live to tell their story, but the two pilots perished. Maj Leguna, 41, and Lt Kijanga, 31, were buried at their home areas in Mpwapwa and Singida respectively.

snip...

[nw_arizona_granny]

Russian police to ‘check’ officer allegedly involved in large theft and murder

Sunday, July 4, 2010
Russia
Related stories

* 4 July 2010: Russian police to ‘check’ officer allegedly involved in large theft and murder
* 2 July 2010: Progress spacecraft fails to dock with International Space Station
* 29 June 2010: Eleven alleged Russian spies arrested in US
* 19 June 2010: Russia’s main airport faces high danger from dump birds
* 12 June 2010: Kyrgyzstan: Ethnic unrest continues, government asks Russia for help

One of the recent buyings of Kuznetsov’s mother, a pensionary, is an apartment worth $1,640.000 in this luxury house in Moscow.

Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry’s Department for Own Safety says it will begin a “check” on Russian Militsiya lieutenant colonel Artem Kuznetsov, who is publicly accused by a group of American lawyers of illegitimately imprisoning and then torturing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to death. Later, head of Investigating Committee of the Prosecution Office Alexander Bastrykin said he will “personally check” the course of investigation into actions by Kuznetsov and his coworkers. In 2007 and 2008, Magnitsky worked in Russia for American investment fund company Hermitage Capital Management and was involved in the disclosure of a large-scale corruption among several top law enforcement officials in Moscow.

Lawyers concerned with the death of Magnitsky, which occurred in Butyrka prison on November 16 of last year, started the bilingual website russian-untouchables.com, where they presented evidence of Artem Kuznetsov’s alleged efforts to cloak the crimes. As reported by the website’s authors, Kuznetsov was a key player in a US$230 million theft from the Russian government and then successfully brought criminal charges against everyone who reported his theft.

snip.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Russian_police_to_%27check%27_officer_allegedly_involved_in_large_theft_and_murder

[nw_arizona_granny]

Massive fire consumes San Jose school

snip...

building at Trace Elementary, destroying about 19 classrooms and the school library. The fire spared two newer school buildings that housed classrooms, performance stages and a cafeteria — completed at the end of 2008 — and a few portable buildings. Although the cause of the fire remains under investigation, San Jose fire officials are treating the blaze as suspicious.

snip...

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15443399?source=most_viewed

[nw_arizona_granny]

How about a little conspiracy to go with the news?

Remember the white vans, seen in large numbers in Texas?

LOL, story and photo, plus links and MUCH more will be found here, interesting news site.....

http://silencedogood2010.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/why-are-100s-if-not-thousands-of-vehicles-on-the-tarmac/

[Hey don’t blame me, Milford sent it to me with todays news link, all full of maybe’s.]