Thursday, August 22, 2013
David Miranda's Lawyer Announces Injunction Outside Court
Outcry as Labour’s Diane Abbott Demands More Migrants Should Come to UK
The shadow Health Minister claimed her leader was shy of publicly standing up to Tory calls for tighter restrictions on the number of newcomers arriving in Britain.
She also claimed Mr Miliband spent too much time worrying about opinion polls which showed that promises to cut immigration were popular with voters.
Her outburst in an interview with a Labour-supporting website intensified the party’s leadership row that has dominated the Parliamentary summer break.
And it provoked fears that many in Labour would reverse the Government’s drive to cut annual net immigration to “tens of thousands” after a mass influx of migrants under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Ms Abbott, a former Labour leadership candidate, told the Progress website: “I’ve spoken to Ed Miliband about this quite a bit.
“I know that, on this issue, Ed’s heart is in the right place and he’s trying hard to position us correctly.
“What weighs with him is the polling, which shows what the Tories are doing on immigration is popular. And it certainly weighs on other members of the shadow cabinet.”
Ms Abbott claimed there was a lack of people at the top of the party willing to make the case for more immigration to the UK. » | Macer Hall | Thursday, August 22, 2013
Nach Regierungsdruck: Britischer „Guardian“ will verstärkt aus Amerika berichten
Der „Guardian“ lässt sich von den britischen Behörden nicht einschüchtern: Stärker als zuvor möchte die Tageszeitung, die zu den größten des Landes zählt, in Zukunft aus den Vereinigten Staaten heraus arbeiten und so dem Druck der Regierung in London entgehen. „Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass irgendjemand in Amerika gegen den „Guardian“ vorgehen wird“, sagte Chefredakteur Alan Rusbridger in einem Interview mit dieser Zeitung. Es beruhige ihn mehr aus Amerika zu berichten, als aus dem Vereinigten Königreich. An den Inhalten des „Guardian“ werde sich nichts ändern: „Wir berichten einfach weiter“, sagte Rusbridger. » | Quelle: FAZ.NET/dpa/afp | Donnerstag, 22. August 2013
'As a Gay Man, I Must Decline' - Prison Break Actor Wentworth Miller Refuses Invitation to Russia over Anti-gay Laws
The actor, 41, who confirmed that he is gay publicly for the first time via the letter, turned down an offer to be a “guest of honour” at the St. Petersburg International Film Festival.
He wrote: "Thank you for your kind invitation. As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline."
"The situation is in no way acceptable," he wrote, adding: "I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly."
Miller stated that he was "deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Russian government.” » | Matilda Battersby | Thursday, August 22, 2013
Bradley Manning Wants to Live as a Woman Called Chelsea
A statement from Manning, read on NBC News's 'Today' programme, said that as he makes the "transition" into the next phase of his life, he wants "everyone to know the real me."
"I am Chelsea Manning," the statement reads. "I am female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.
"I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back." » | Chris Irvine, Raf Sanchez in Washington | Thursday, August 22, 2013
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NBC NEWS – TODAY: Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman: Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman. » | Scott Stump, TODAY contributor | Thursday, August 22, 2013
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Armes chimiques : l'Iran défend le régime syrien
L'Iran, principal allié régional du régime de Damas, a rejeté jeudi les accusations de l'opposition syrienne sur un recours par ce régime à des armes chimiques dans une attaque meurtrière près de Damas, selon l'agence officielle Irna. "Si l'information concernant l'utilisation d'armes chimiques est exacte, très certainement elles ont été utilisées par les groupes terroristes et takfiris (extrémistes sunnites) qui ont montré qu'ils ne reculaient devant aucun crime", a déclaré le chef de la diplomatie, Mohammad Javad Zarif, en allusion aux rebelles qui se battent pour la chute du régime syrien. » Source AFP | jeudi 22 août 2013
Égypte : la justice ordonne la libération de Moubarak
La prison de Tora, au sud du Caire, a reçu ordre de libérer l'ex-président Hosni Moubarak, apprend-on jeudi de source gouvernementale égyptienne. Des instructions écrites du parquet ont été transmises en ce sens à la direction de l'établissement. La libération conditionnelle de Hosni Moubarak a été acceptée mercredi par la justice, toutes les charges justifiant son maintien en détention ayant été levées. Le gouvernement égyptien a précisé que l'ancien raïs, renversé en février 2011, serait assigné à résidence à sa sortie de prison. Le lieu de la mise en résidence surveillée de l'ex-président de 85 ans n'a pas été précisé, mais les responsables ont évoqué son transfert possible vers l'un des deux hôpitaux militaires, l'un au Caire, l'autre dans le nord du pays, où il avait déjà séjourné. » | Le Point.fr | Publié : mercredi 21 août 2013 | Modifié : jeudi 22 août 2013
Little Doubt: Experts Attest to Use of Nerve Gas in Syria
Gruesome scenes played out Wednesday morning in footage of the overcrowded hospitals of Arbeen, a suburb east of Damascus. People writhe on the floor screaming, as more and more dead fill the hallways. Doctors and nurses try to revive the victims with onion juice and garlic. They rub onion halves on their skin, pour cold water over them as they twitch uncontrollably.
"What else can we do? We don't have anything else," says Abu Ahmad, a pharmacist who lives in Arbeen. The area has been under the control of the rebels since the beginning of the year and, for the past few months, almost entirely cut off from the outside world by the military forces under Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad. Some 10,000 people still live there.
As of Wednesday, the death toll in Arbeen was 63. But if what the opposition is reporting turns out to be true, that is only a small sliver of the carnage: Up to 1,300 people were allegedly killed in a toxic gas attack by the Syrian army that day. » | Markus Becker and Christoph Reuter | Thursday, August 22, 2013
Barack Obamas Syrien-Politik: Präsident für Zaudern und Zögern
Es ist jetzt ziemlich genau ein Jahr her, seitdem der US-Präsident dem syrischen Diktator Baschar al-Assad eine rote Linie zog: "Ich habe bis jetzt kein militärisches Eingreifen angeordnet, aber für uns ist eine rote Linie überschritten, wenn eine ganze Menge chemischer Waffen bewegt oder eingesetzt wird", so erklärte es Barack Obama im August 2012.
Das war die erste Warnung an Assad. Im April 2013 dann teilte das Weiße Haus US-Parlamentariern mit, es könne mit "unterschiedlichen Graden an Sicherheit" gesagt werden, dass in Syrien das Gift Sarin "in einem kleinen Maßstab" zur Verwendung gekommen sei. Warnung Nummer zwei.
Warum ignoriert Assad die Drohungen? » | Von Sebastian Fischer, Washington | Donnerstag, 22. August 2013
Cognac: une mosquée vandalisée
Une source proche de l'enquête a confirmé la présence de ces graffitis, sans autre détail ni commentaire. Le parquet d'Angoulême devait communiquer sur cette affaire plus tard dans la journée. » | Par Le Figaro.fr avec AFP | jeudi 22 août 2013
Revolution Reversed: Egypt Winds Back Clock as Mubarak to Be Freed
Price for Truth: 'Manning Gets Harsh Sentence While Exposed Criminals Stay Free'
Manning Asks Obama for Pardon, But Ready to Pay 'Heavy Price for Free Society'
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France Warns Syria of Forceful Response over Chemical Weapon Claims
THE GUARDIAN: Global community will have to act if accusations are proved, says French foreign minister, but rules out ground troops
France has said that the international community will need to respond with force if allegations that Syrian government forces had carried out a mass chemical attack on civilians prove to be true.
But the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said there was no question of sending troops on the ground, in an interview with the television network BFM.
He added that if the UN security council could not make a decision, one would have to be taken "in other ways". He did not elaborate.
Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed in an apparent gas attack on rebel-held parts of eastern Damascus that is thought to be the most significant use of chemical weapons since thousands of Kurds were gassed by Saddam Hussein in Halabja 25 years ago. » | Reuters in Paris, Martin Chulov and Mona Mahmood | Thursday, August 22, 2013
Bradley Manning Appeals for a Pardon from Barack Obama
The 25-year-old soldier released a statement through his lawyer where he compared America's war against terrorism since September 11th to McCarthyism, the slaughter of Native Americans and other "dark moments" in US history.
Manning said that after deploying to Iraq in 2010 he "realised that in our efforts to meet the risks posed to us by the enemy that we had forgotten our humanity."
"We consciously elected to devalue human life in both Iraq and Afghanistan," he added.
Manning said he regretted if his actions "hurt anyone or harmed the US" but said: "When I chose to disclose classified information I did so out of love for my country and a sense of duty to others."
His statement is to be included in pardon request that his lawyer, David Coombs, will forward to the White House. As commander-in-chief of the US military, Mr Obama has the power to pardon convicted troops. » | Raf Sanchez | Hanover, Maryland | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Bradley Manning's Sentence: 35 Years for Exposing Us to the Truth
As of today, Wednesday 21 August 2013, Bradley Manning has served 1,182 days in prison. He should be released with a sentence of time served. Instead, the judge in his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland has handed down a sentence of 35 years. » | Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years behind Bars
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Comment le Qatar et l'Arabie saoudite s'affrontent en Égypte
On comprend désormais davantage pourquoi les États-Unis et l'Union européenne peinent à sanctionner le nouveau gouvernement égyptien après la sanglante répression des manifestants pro-Morsi qui a fait près d'un millier de morts en une semaine. Leur plus grand allié au Moyen-Orient, l'Arabie saoudite, pèse de tout son poids pour protéger l'armée égyptienne, de retour aux affaires un an après l'accession à la présidence du Frère musulman Mohamed Morsi.
"Les positions de la communauté internationale [sur l'Égypte] ont pris une étrange direction", s'est ainsi étonné lundi le chef de la diplomatie saoudienne, le prince Saoud al-Fayçal, qui s'est même montré menaçant : "Nous n'allons pas oublier ces positions hostiles aux nations arabe et islamique si elles sont maintenues", a-t-il ainsi prévenu. Tandis que l'Union européenne discutait au même moment de la possibilité de suspendre l'aide financière de 5 milliards d'euros qu'elle a promise à l'Égypte en 2012, le ministre saoudien a assuré que les pays arabes étaient prêts à compenser toute sanction occidentale. » | Par Armin Arefi | mercredi 21 août 2013
France: Spectaculaire incendie dans le centre de Paris
Un spectaculaire incendie a ravagé le VIIe arrondissement de Paris près des Invalides. Selon Le Parisien, le feu s'est déclaré sur un chantier de rénovation en face de hôtel particulier Bourbon-Condé vers 14 heures mercredi avant d'être maîtrisé sans faire de victimes. » | Par A.B/AFP | mercredi 21 août 2013
Friedensnobelpreisträger ElBaradei angeklagt
Am 19. September soll sich Friedensnobelpreisträger Mohammed ElBaradei vor dem Strafgericht in Nasr-City in Kairo verantworten. ElBaradei war vergangene Woche vom Amt des Vizepräsidenten zurückgetreten. Ein Jura-Professor der Universität Helwan hat nun Klage eingereicht. Er wirft ElBaradei vor, das in ihn gesetzte Vertrauen verraten zu haben. ElBaradei ist inzwischen nach Österreich ausgereist. » | Mittwoch, 21. August 2013
Dangerous Friends: Power Struggle Splits Turkish Ruling Party
The many hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets in Istanbul did not succeed in toppling their country's prime minister or in continuing to occupy Gezi Park on the city's Taksim Square. The protests against the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sparked in late May by plans to level Gezi Park, have subsided. Yet the uprising's effects may last well beyond this summer.
Members and supporters of Erdogan's conservative-Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) have long refrained from expressing any criticism. Now, though, AKP followers are turning against the prime minister, with Erdogan's competitors within the party using the post-Gezi unrest as an opportunity to distance themselves from him.
In the English-language edition of the pro-government daily newspaper Zaman, columnist Yavuz Baydar recently compared Turkey under Erdogan to the United States during the McCarthy era. The conservative-Islamist Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) likewise warns that these current developments in Turkey overshadow any attempts at further democratization. » | Hasnain Kazim and Maximilian Popp | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Black Helicopters: Britain's Blind Faith in Intelligence Agencies
The Snowden affair was actually going pretty well for British Prime Minister David Cameron. After the initial uproar, many of his fellow citizens quickly lost interest in the surveillance scandal and in the fact that the British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had launched what was presumably the most ambitious project ever to monitor global data communications. The opposition helped out by making itself largely invisible. And the Liberal Democrats, in a coalition government with the Conservatives, likewise did nothing despite the party's tradition of being champions of privacy protections.
The United Kingdom is not an authoritarian surveillance state like China. But it is a country in which surveillance has become part of everyday life. The cold eyes of the security apparatus keep watch over everything that moves -- in underground stations and hospitals, at intersections and on buses. The British Security Industry Authority (BSIA) recently estimated that there could be up to 5.9 million surveillance cameras in the country -- or one camera for every 11 Britons. Most were not installed by the government, but by companies and private citizens. One wonders who even has the time to look at these images. » | A Commentary by Christoph Scheuermann | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Druck auf den "Guardian": Cameron soll Schikanen angeordnet haben
US-Militärgericht: 35 Jahre Haft für WikiLeaks-Informant Bradley Manning
Fort Meade - Der WikiLeaks-Informant Bradley Manning muss für 35 Jahre ins Gefängnis. Das Urteil gab eine US-Militärrichterin am Mittwoch in Fort Meade bei Washington bekannt. Zudem wurde er unehrenhaft aus der Armee entlassen. » | fab/dpa/Reuters | Mittwoch, 21. August 2013
Spain's New "Fornicators"
Public prosecutors in Spain have dropped charges of "advocating gender violence" against a Muslim cleric who, on April 2013, preached a two-hour sermon in Spanish, entitled "The Queens of Islam," during which he made a number of pronouncements about the role of women in Spanish society, including: "Any woman who wears perfume and leaves the house and walks past men who can smell her perfume is a fornicator, and every glance she gets is a fornication."
The case involves Malik Ibn Benaisa, a Muslim imam based in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa where Muslims constitute about 50% of the total population.
Benaisa also said that women should be banned from wearing blue jeans and high heels and from leaving the house unless their hands and face are completely covered.
The comments, which were aired on Spanish public television, enraged women's rights activists and triggered a nationwide debate over when religious speech becomes abusive and crosses the line into "sexual discrimination" and "gender violence." » | Soeren Kern | Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Obama Decides to Sidestep Anti-coup Law
Obama’s no-decision policy was announced Monday by Josh Earnest, Obama’s principal deputy press secretary.
“We’ve concluded that it is not in the best interest of the United States to reach a determination on a coup,” he said in the daily press conference.
But that decision clashes with the law governing U.S. foreign aid. » | Neil Munro | Tuesday, August 20, 2013
"Begin on Saturday, Finish on Sunday"
The mood in the Middle East is rapidly changing. The elation of the Arab Spring, which led to prosperity and an economic and social upturn in the lives of millions of Arabs, has now deteriorated into a sense that significant dangers are stalking the Arab-Muslim world. Arabic TV, especially Al-Jazeera, has been broadcasting programs asking if bloodshed is the only mission of Islam, and if jihad [war in the service of Islam] still motivates believers to invade other countries with abandon and indulge in worldwide slaughter.
Given the current situation, the Middle East is obsessed with asking itself: Who is responsible for the Muslims' catastrophe? And what keeps us chained behind, while the rest of the world forges ahead in social, economic and technological progress? Needless to say, the imams do not blame themselves. They claim that to change the situation we need only more and closer study and practice of the Islamic faith.
As always, our Islamic society, constantly at odds with itself, blames everyone for our misfortunes. In the days of the Prophet (S.A.A.S.), we blamed the Jews of Khaybar in the Arabian Peninsula for our ills. Now the imams who head the militant Islamist organizations tell us that the Jews, a tiny people who pose no threat to the might of Islam, are responsible for all our ills and for all our failures.
Islamic radicals, however, hate not only the Jews but also the Christians, who have become, we are told, our sworn enemies. Christianity, like Judaism, is also vilified. The history of our hatred for the Christians began with the Crusades, and over the years the same hated Crusaders became the hated European imperialists and the hated colonialists.
The hatred for the Christian West is founded on a sense of deprivation, of humiliation and inferiority, of being threatened and exploited, all of which cast doubt on the eternal message of Islam as the only up-to-date religion, destined to rule the world and invalidate the other religions. The Islamic sages who interpret the will of Allah say that both Christianity as well as Judaism, while monotheistic, are anachronistic, and while temporarily they can exist -- with the patronage of, and overshadowed by, Islam -- eventually all Christians and Jews will convert to Islam. » | Ali Salem | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
'Sending a Message': What the US and UK Are Attempting to Do
Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger on Monday night disclosed the remarkable news that UK authorities, several weeks ago, threatened the Guardian UK with prior restraint if they did not destroy all of their materials provided by Edward Snowden, and then sent agents to the basement of the paper's offices to oversee the physical destruction of hard drives. The Guardian has more details on that episode today, and MSNBC's Chris Hayes interviewed the Guardian's editor-in-chief about it last night. As Rusbridger explains, this behavior was as inane as it was thuggish: since this is 2013, not 1958, destroying one set of a newspaper's documents doesn't destroy them all, and since the Guardian has multiple people around the world with copies, they achieved nothing but making themselves look incompetently oppressive.
But conveying a thuggish message of intimidation is exactly what the UK and their superiors in the US national security state are attempting to accomplish with virtually everything they are now doing in this matter. On Monday night, Reuters' Mark Hosenball reported the following about the 9-hour detention of my partner under a terrorism law, all with the advanced knowledge of the White House:
One US security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda was to send a message to recipients of Snowden's materials, including the Guardian, that the British government was serious about trying to shut down the leaks."I want to make one primary point about that. On Monday, Reuters did the same thing to me as they did last month: namely, they again wildly distorted comments I made in an interview - speaking in Portuguese, at 5:00 am at the Rio airport, waiting for my partner to come home after finally being released - to manufacture the sensationalizing headline that I was "threatening" the UK government with "revenge" journalism. That wasn't remotely what I said or did, as I explained last night in a CNN interview (see Part 2). » | Glenn Greenwald | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
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Hosni Mubarak to Be Released from Prison
The ruling means that Mr Mubarak could leave prison as early as Thursday.
Leaving the Cairo prison where the court convened, Fareed El-Deeb, his lawyer, said: "The court decided to release him." Asked when, he said: "Maybe tomorrow".
Mr Mubarak, 85, is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall. However, he has already served out the maximum amount of pretrial detention permitted in that case.
He was sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to prevent the killing of demonstrators. But a court accepted his appeal earlier this year and ordered a retrial.
Given his age he is thought unlikely to return to a political role. But the prospect of the former dictator being at liberty once more is likely to spark fresh street disturbances across Egypt, where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand that he step down in January 2011. » | Harriet Alexander, and Colin Freeman | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Kansas Elementary School Removes Board Showing Five Pillars of Islam
The bulletin board at Minneha Core Knowledge Magnet Elementary was intended to aid students’ study of major religions of the world, district spokeswoman Susan Arensman said in an e-mail. It featured five white, construction-paper columns and the words, “The Five Pillars of Islam.”
A photograph of the bulletin board, reportedly taken on the first day of school Wednesday, was posted over the weekend on a Facebook page titled “Prepare to Take America Back.” It has since been shared on several conservative blogs.
“Students at Minneha Core Knowledge Elementary School in Wichata (sic) Kansas were met with this their first day of school,” a caption under the photo said. “This is a school that banned all forms of Christian prayer. … This can not stand.” » | Susanne Perez Tobias | The Wichita Eagle | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Pope Benedict Resigned 'Because God Told Me to Do It'
"God told me to do it," the 86-year-old former pontiff told a friend, six months after his decision to step down shocked the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
God had implanted in his heart the "absolute desire" to resign and to devote himself to a life of prayer and reflection, Benedict told the anonymous confidante, according to Zenit, a Rome-based Catholic news agency.
"It was not because of any type of apparition or phenomenon of that sort," he said, but instead the result of a "mystical experience" received during "a direct rapport with the Lord".
He said the more he sees the "charisma" of Pope Francis, his successor, the more he is convinced that it was "the will of God" that he became the first pontiff in 600 years to resign. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Inside Story: Is the UK Intimidating Journalists?
'Pictures Show Sign of Chemical Attack in Syria'
Reports: Dozens Killed in Gas Attack in Syria
Russia's Far East Hit by Biggest Floods in 120 Years
'Surveillance Can't Be Tolerated' - Correa Exclusively to RT
Government Threats to Journos 'Signalling Rise of Fascism' - WikiLeaks
UK Crackdown on Snowden Files
David Cameron Is 'Stupid' Says Argentine Diplomat
Alicia Castro, who is a close political ally of President Cristina Kirchner, told Argentina's Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Mr Cameron had been ill advised in mentioning Pope Francis's thoughts on the Falklands.
"We had the extraordinary good fortune to have an Argentinian pope, and one who supports our claim to the islands," she said. Pope Francis, known as Jorge Bergoglio when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, said in 2012 that the islands had been "usurped" by Britain.
"When the pope was named I asked one of our people to look into what Bergoglio had said regarding the Malvinas," she said, referring to the Falklands by their Spanish name. "Cameron did the same and was stupid enough to disseminate the information."
Mr Cameron, she said, was an "inefficient" politician for addressing the Falklands question in this way. » | Harriet Alexander | Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Du Nutella au cannabis en vente en Californie
Ce produit a l'apparence du Nutella, un nom quasi-identique, un packaging similaire et un goût sans doute comparable… Mais «Nugtella», la pâte à tartiner «made in California», possède un ingrédient en plus: de l'huile de cannabis. Ce produit un peu spécial est confectionné par la société Organicares, un dispensaire de marijuana médical situé à San José en Californie, révèle le site américain Huffington Post. Illégal en France, ce produit n'est pas non plus vendu dans les grandes surfaces de cet État de l'Ouest américain. Seuls les habitants possédant une «carte de marijuana médicinale» peuvent se le procurer en toute légalité. » | Par Anne-Laure Frémont | mardi 20 août 2013
British Woman's Leg Is Severed after Being Run Over by a New York Taxi
The 23-year-old woman, named locally as Sian Green, was undergoing surgery to save her other leg following the accident near the Rockefeller Centre on Sixth Avenue, in midtown Manhattan.
She was visiting New York from England with a friend, with whom she was walking and eating hot-dogs as the taxi struck. The driver was said to have claimed he swerved to avoid a cyclist.
Dozens of passersby promptly came to the woman's aid including Mohamed Elsayed, a 34-year-old food seller on the same square, who rushed over with a cooler full of ice with which to pack the woman's severed left leg.
"It was a terrible scene," he told The Daily Telegraph. "She was thrown into the bushes. She was screaming. Most of her leg was just there on the sidewalk, underneath the cab. We did all we could to help". » | Jon Swaine, New York | Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Merkel Expresses Her 'Deep Sorrow and Shame’ During Historic Dachau Visit
Ahead of an evening election rally in Dachau, the nearby Bavarian town, she toured the memorial site at the camp and spoke with Holocaust survivors. Max Mannheimer, a camp survivor who invited the German leader to visit, described the gesture as “historic”.
Describing the Nazi era as “a horrible and unprecedented chapter of our history”, Chancellor Merkel linked her act of remembrance to concerns over the rise of new far-Right extremism in Europe.
“For me this is a special moment. The memory of these fates fills me with deep sorrow and shame,” she said.
“At the same time, this place is a constant warning: how did Germany reach the point of taking away the right of people to live because of their origin, their religion ... or their sexual orientation?.”
No German head of government has attended the camp before, although German president Horst Köhler, attended 65th anniversary commemorations in 2010. » | Jeevan Vasagar, Berlin | Tuesday, August 20, 2013
My comment:
I have a lot of time for, and a lot of respect for, Angela Merkel. She is about the only statesman/stateswoman in Europe. I take my hat off to her for visiting Dachau, and expressing her "deep sorrow and shame". Es lebe Angela Merkel! – © Mark
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
David Miranda Heathrow Detention: No 10 'Kept Abreast of Operation'
Mr Miranda was held at Heathrow for nine hours on Sunday, while in transit from Germany to Brazil.
He has launched a legal challenge over the police's use of anti-terror laws to detain him and seize his property.
But Home Secretary Theresa May said the police must act if someone had "highly sensitive stolen information".
Mr Miranda, a 28-year-old Brazilian national, was held at Heathrow on his way from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro where he lives with Mr Greenwald. The Guardian said he had been carrying "journalistic materials" but was not an employee of the newspaper.
Mr Greenwald has broken most of the stories about state surveillance based on the leaks from fugitive Edward Snowden, who used to work at the US National Security Agency.
Mr Miranda said he was held in a room and questioned by six agents about his "entire life". They confiscated his laptop, an additional hard drive, two memory sticks, a mobile phone, a smart watch and a video games console, his lawyers said.
He was required to divulge the passwords to his personal computers, phone and encrypted storage devices, they added. (+ video) » | Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Ägypten: Chef der Muslimbrüder festgenommen
TAGES ANZEIGER: Muslimbruder-Chef in der Nacht aus seiner Wohnung abgeführt: Seit Wochen bestand der Haftbefehl gegen Mohammed Badie, den Chef der ägyptischen Muslimbruderschaft. Nun haben ägyptische Sicherheitskräfte zugeschlagen. » | chk/sda/AFP | Dienstag, 20. August 2013
Provokation durch türkischen Ministerpräsidenten: Erdoğan gibt Israel Schuld an Mursis Sturz
Der türkische Ministerpräsident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wirft Israel vor, in den Sturz des gewählten ägyptischen Präsidenten Mohammed Mursi verwickelt gewesen zu sein. Das berichten die türkische Zeitung Hürriyet und die israelische Haaretz auf ihren Webseiten.
Die Medien zitieren ihn mit einer Aussage, in der er dem Westen indirekt vorwirft, das demokratische Wahlergebnis in Ägypten vom Juni 2012 nicht anzuerkennen. "Jetzt sagt der Westen, dass Demokratie nicht gleichbedeutend sei mit der Wahlurne. (...) Aber wir wissen, dass die Wahlurne den Willen des Volkes zeigt", sagte Erdoğan demnach auf einem Treffen führender Vertreter seiner Regierungspartei AKP.
Dennoch habe man in Ägypten die Sichtweise des Westens durchgesetzt. "Wer steckt dahinter? Israel. Wir haben Beweise.", sagte Erdoğan. Um seiner Aussage mehr Substanz zu verleihen, zitierte er einen jüdischen Intellektuellen aus Frankreich. Erdoğan zufolge habe dieser bereits 2011 gesagt: "Die Muslimbruderschaft wird nicht an der Macht sein, selbst wenn sie die Wahl gewinnen sollte." » | Dienstag, 20. August 2013
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