Monday, June 24, 2013
THE NEW YORK TIMES: WASHINGTON — An increasingly frustrated Obama administration escalated its criticism on Monday of Russia, China and Ecuador, the countries that appeared to be protecting Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive former government contractor wanted for leaking classified documents, who has eluded what has become a global American manhunt.
The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, told reporters that relations with China had suffered a setback over its apparent role in approving a decision on Sunday by Hong Kong to let Mr. Snowden board a flight to Moscow and avoid arrest — even though his passport had been revoked. Mr. Carney also warned the Russian authorities that they should expel Mr. Snowden into American custody. » | Peter Baker and Rick Gladstone | Monday, June 24, 2013
WALES ONLINE: Muslim convert Merryl Wyn Davies calls for better understanding on 9/11 anniversary: On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 Merryl Wyn Davies, Muslim convert and author of Why Do People Hate America?, tells Abbie Wightwick that we haven’t learned enough from the massacre ¶ On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 Merryl Wyn Davies, Muslim convert and author of Why Do People Hate America?, tells Abbie Wightwick that we haven’t learned enough from the massacre ¶ AS a Muslim convert for 30 years Merryl Wyn Davies is sick of having conversations about headscarves. » | Friday, September 09, 2013
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THE MOSCOW TIMES: Edward Snowden is expected to fly from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport to Cuba today at 2:05 p.m., Interfax reported, citing one of its sources.
Snowden, a 30-year-old former U.S. intelligence contractor, is wanted by the U.S. for revealing a highly classified surveillance program, but it appears that calls for Russia to extradite him back to his country of birth have fallen on deaf ears.
Earlier today National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said that the White House expects Russia to consider "all options available" to extradite Edward Snowden.
"Given our intensified cooperation after the Boston marathon bombings and our history of working with Russia on law enforcement matters — including returning numerous high-level criminals back to Russia at the request of the Russian government — we expect the Russian government to look at all options available to expel Mr. Snowden back to the U.S. to face justice for the crimes with which he is charged," the Associated Press quoted Hayden as saying. » | RIA Novosti | Material from The Moscow Times is included in this report | Monday, June 24, 2013
Die Unterstützungs-Kundgebung für den türkischen Ministerpräsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Wien schlägt Wellen in der heimischen Politik. FPÖ-Chef Heinz-Christian Strache empfahl den Teilnehmern via Facebook die Ausreise: "Die Erdogan-Fans, welche heute in Österreich für Erdogan demonstriert haben, sollten rasch in die Türkei heim und zurück kehren und sich vor Ort in der Türkei einbringen". Ähnliches hatte im Vorfeld der Demo bereits Grünen-Bundesrat Efgani Dönmez geschrieben, sich nach Kritik aus seiner Partei aber dafür entschuldigt.
Die Kundgebungen für und gegen Erdogan in Wien sieht Strache als Beweis, dass die Intgerationspolitik versagt habe. Es habe sich eine Parallelgesellschaft gebildet, "die nicht im Traum daran denkt, unsere westlichen Werte zu akzeptieren", erklärte er am Montag in einer Aussendung. Außerdem forderte er VP-Außenminister Michael Spindelegger auf, den türkischen Botschafter zu sich zu zitieren, da auch ein Vertreter der türkischen Regierungspartei AKP an der Kundgebung teilgenommen habe. Spindelegger müsse eine Erklärung verlangen, warum türkische Abgeordnete in Wien demonstrieren. » | Red./APA | Montag, 24. Juni 2013
FOTOGALERIE: 'Allahu Akbar': 8000 Erdogan-Fans demonstrieren in Wien »
SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: The British-American surveillance program Tempora marks a historic turning point. Unnoticed by the public, intelligence agencies have pursued total surveillance. Governments have deliberately concealed from the public the extent to which we are being watched.
The term, "information superhighway" has always been insufficient to describe the Internet. In reality, the Web is a global communication space containing the private information of a large part of the population of every developed country. If someone were able to train an all-seeing eye onto the Internet, the blackmail potential would be almost limitless.
It is precisely this all-seeing eye that the British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the American National Security Agency (NSA) have developed under the name Tempora. An appropriate real-world metaphor for the program might be something like this: In every room of every house and every apartment, cameras and microphones are installed, every letter is opened and copied, every telephone tapped. Everything that happens is recorded and can be accessed as needed. » | A Commentary by Christian Stöcker | Monday, June 24, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
BBC: China's official Xinhua news agency has condemned the US over continuing revelations about Washington's surveillance activities by intelligence fugitive Edward Snowden.
In a commentary, it said the US had turned out to be the "biggest villain in our age".
Washington has often accused China of being behind US cyber-attacks.
But Mr Snowden has disclosed extensive gathering of phone and internet data by US agencies.
His latest revelations, published in the South China Morning Post, suggest a Beijing University was targeted.
He alleged that as recently as January this year the NSA hacked into computers and servers at the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Mr Snowden is reported as telling the paper that on one single day in January, at least 63 computers and servers at the university were affected. » | Sunday, June 23, 2013
THE GUARDIAN: Senator warns Vladimir Putin of 'serious consequences' if country neglects to send NSA whistleblower back to US
US politicians attacked Vladimir Putin on Sunday and called for Russia to hand over Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who admitted leaking top secret spying documents.
As Snowden landed in Moscow after leaving Hong Kong, where the US had requested his arrest, leading Democratic senator Chuck Schumer accused the Russian president of sticking a finger in the eye of the US.
"The bottom line is very simple: allies are supposed to treat each other in decent ways and Putin always seems almost eager to put a finger in the eye of the United States, whether it is Syria, Iran and now of course with Snowden," Schumer said on CNN's State of the Union.
"That's not how allies should treat each other and I think it will have serious consequences for the United States-Russia relationship." » | Dominic Rushe in New York | Sunday, June 23, 2013
There is speculation that he might now fly on to another country.
Hong Kong said Washington had failed to meet the requirements for extradition.
Mr Snowden, an intelligence contractor, fled to Hong Kong in May after revealing details of internet and phone surveillance by US intelligence.
The Aeroflot flight, SU213, landed in Moscow at 17:10 local time (13:10 GMT).
The Russia 24 TV channel has said Mr Snowden does not have a Russian visa, so will stay in the airport overnight before, the channel says, flying to Cuba on Monday.
A source at the airline company was quoted as saying that, from Cuba, he would fly on to Venezuela. Both countries are believed unlikely to comply with any US extradition request.
Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has issued a statement saying that it has helped to find him "political asylum in a democratic country". » | Sunday, June 23, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Politik direkt »
PJ MEDIA: Chrislam gains a powerful new voice, in one of the heads of the Catholic church in the United States.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, made his first visit to a mosque in New York City and it was the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center in Tompkinsville where he met with Muslim and other faith leaders.
The cardinal spent more than two hours touring the mosque and the Miraj Islamic School and having lunch with about 40 clergy and laity.
“I thank God that this day has arrived,” the cardinal said. “I thank you for your welcome, I thank you for making me feel like a friend and a member of a family.”
The cardinal asked questions about the Muslim faith and emphasized throughout his visit how much the two religions and their members have in common.
“You love God, we love God and he is the same God,” the cardinal said of the Muslim and Roman Catholic faiths. » | Bryan Preston | Friday, June 21, 2013
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE: Photos, video: Cardinal Dolan makes first visit to NYC mosque, meets with Staten Island Muslim leaders: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, made his first visit to a mosque in New York City and it was the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center in Tompkinsville where he met with Muslim and other faith leaders. » | Maura Grunlund, Staten Island Advance | Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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