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CALW, Germany — As Germany emerged from its coronavirus lockdown in May, police commandos pulled up outside a rural property owned by a sergeant major in the special forces, the country’s most highly trained and secretive military unit. They brought a digger. The sergeant major’s nickname was Little Sheep. He was suspected of being a neo-Nazi. Buried in the garden, the police found two kilograms of PETN plastic explosives, a detonator, a fuse, an AK-47, a silencer, two knives, a crossbow and thousands of rounds of ammunition, much of it believed to have been stolen from the German military. They...

ICANN has scheduled the Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover for today, and it could affect some DNS users all over the world. By Rolling the KSK, ICANN implies that a new cryptographic public and private key pair will be generated and the private key will be distributed to internet service providers, enterprise network administrators, and Domain Name System (DNS) resolver operators. KSK Rollover operations began in October 2016 and were scheduled for October 2017. However, ICANN announced that the rollover has been postponed due to the fact that “a significant number of resolvers used by Internet Service Providers...

New probe into German soldiers pictured driving 'Nazi' emblem army car Last updated at 17:14pm on 1st November 2006 The German defence ministry has launched an inquiry into a report that soldiers used a car with a Nazi-era emblem, adding to fears over the conduct of its troops after a scandal over desecrating human skulls in Afghanistan. In an article to be published by weekly magazine Stern shows a photo of an off-road vehicle used by German soldiers with a palm tree and iron cross on it. The vehicle with the palm tree emblem was used by members of the...

BERLIN -- Friday – Germany’s intelligence service was aware of Kosovo Albanian plans for the violence which swept Serbia’s southern province in March, according to German media. Television ZDF claims that intelligence agents had the information several weeks before the outbreak which left 19 people dead, a large number injured and hundreds of houses and church buildings destroyed. Three weeks before the violence, intelligence services intercepted a conversation in which an Albanian spoke about preparations for an attack on Serbia, said ZDF, quoting intelligence documents. The same person, according to the report, claimed to be in contact with Al-Qaida and...

Having seen the defense exhibits, General Reinhardt changes his original views and concludes that General Hadzihasanovic took substantial steps to discipline the perpetrators of crimes from the ranks of the BH Army. The prosecution military expert, however, believes that the 3rd Corps "had ways to discipline a hundred or so mujahedin" with whom the BH Army, in his view, had been "cooperating closely." THE HAGUE, 7.5. (SENSE) - At the end of his five-day testimony at the trial of the BH Army commanders accused of crimes in Central Bosnia in 1993, German Army General Klaus Reinhardt changed his original views...

BERLIN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Germany is to withdraw troops of its elite KSK commando unit from Afghanistan, where they have been engaged in the U.S.-led campaign against remnants of the Taliban regime and al Qaeda forces, the weekly Der Spiegel said. In an extract from an article issued on Saturday, the magazine said the mandate for deployment of the troops, who have been taking part in the "Enduring Freedom" operation for the past two years, would run out on November 15 and could only be extended by parliament. A Defence Ministry spokesman said it was govrnment policy not to...

BERLIN: Germany plans to beef up its special forces units (KSK) to strengthen its role in the international "war on terrorism" and its ability to free citizens taken hostage abroad, Defence Minister Peter Struck said in a Sunday newspaper interview. "We plan to boost the number of men serving in the KSK to 1,000 from 450," Struck told the Welt am Sonntag. "We don’t need any Rambos but rather responsible soldiers for difficult tasks, such as liberating German citizens," Struck said, referring to the renegade US soldier in the American action film series. Struck said that the KSK had conducted...