CLG: Islamic State commander confesses to receiving funding through U.S., Israeli rights group questions legality of targeting Gaza homes in war

News Updates from CLG
29 January 2015

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Google Relegates CLG Newsletter to Spam Bin and Includes Warning: 'Don't Click Links' By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 27 Jan 2015 | CIAssociate Google relegated Tuesday's CLG Newsletter to the sp-m bin. Additionally, Google decided to REMOVE all of the links included in the news summaries, and inserted the following warning: Be careful with this message. Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. [Oh. Do you mean like you do, for the NSA and the CIA?] Unless you trust the sender, don't click links or reply with personal information. See photo, here.

Islamic State commander confesses to receiving funding through U.S. [Yeah, don't forget the multiple food and weapons drops to I-CIA-SIS, too!] | 28 Jan 2015 | Yousaf al Salafi -- allegedly the Pakistan commander of Islamic State (IS) or Daish -- has confessed during investigations that he has been receiving funds through the United States. Law enforcing agencies on January 22 claimed that they arrested al Salafi, along with his two companions, during a joint raid in Lahore. However, sources revealed that al Salafi was actually arrested sometimes in December last year and it was only disclosed on January 22. "During the investigations, Yousaf al Salafi revealed that he was getting funding -- routed through America -- to run the organisation in Pakistan and recruit young people to fight in Syria," a source privy to the investigations revealed to Daily Express on the condition of anonymity.

Pentagon documents: Obama to request big defense budget hike | 27 Jan 2015 | President Barack Obama will ask Congress for a hefty, almost 8 percent boost for the Pentagon, including 5.3 billion to equip and train Iraqi soldiers and moderate Syrian 'rebels' to fight create more Islamic State militants in the Middle East. Obama will ask for 534 billion for the core budget of the Defense Department -- a 38 billion increase -- according to "pre-decisional" Pentagon documents obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday. That means there could be some slight changes when the budget actually comes out Monday...Another 51 billion would go for overseas military missions, including 43 billion for ongoing operations in Afghanistan [to protect the CIA's opi-m production] and 3.8 billion to 'train' Afghan security forces. [Oh-but-another reason to like on Facebook: I Really Hated Bush but Obama is Actually Worse.]

US allocates Ukraine far-right regime $2 billion | 28 Jan 2015 | The U.S. Government provides financial support to Ukraine['s pro-Nazi regime] in the form of government guarantees worth 2 billion. The corresponding declaration has been signed by finance minister of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Joseph Lew, an Ukrinform correspondent has reported.

Israeli rights group questions legality of targeting Gaza homes in war | 28 Jan 2015 | Serious questions have been raised by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem about the legality of Israel's policy of targeting dozens of Palestinian homes during last summer's war in Gaza - a strategy that led to hundreds of civilian deaths. The report is the latest alleging serious breaches of international humanitarian law by Israel during the 50-day conflict. According to B'Tselem, the policy of striking residences led to the deaths of 606 people in 70 attacks on homes that it examined. Among the dead were 93 children under the age of five.

Islamists greater threat than Nazis - Swedish right-wing MP | 27 Jan 2015 | The leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats party has compared Islamists with Nazis, saying Islamism was perhaps a greater threat for the country. The statement has caused controversy with various Swedish religious communities. The leader of the anti-immigration party, Mattias Karlsson, said in interview to Swedish TV that one must take all ideologies seriously and fight them in every way. Nazism was "terrible" but Islamist ideology can even be more dangerous for the world, he said.

Twitter Terror: Nearly 20 Threats Against Planes Since Saturday | 28 Jan 2015 | Since Saturday at least 18 different U.S. passenger planes have been targeted by bomb threats on Twitter, and federal authorities say even more threats were delivered via social media during that same period but were not publicized. At least eight threats were posted on Twitter Tuesday from three different accounts...A second account targeted an American flight from Los Angeles to Chicago with a tweet that said "We are ISIS."

French police question eight-year-old over terrorism comments | 28 Jan 2015 | An eight-year-old boy in France was questioned by police for half an hour Wednesday after he allegedly made comments in school in praise of terrorists, police said. The child triggered concern when he refused to take part in a minute's silence at his school in the southern city of Nice after Islamist gunmen [allegedly] shot dead 12 people at the Paris offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on 7 January, according to Marcel Authier, in charge of the region's public security..."In the current context, the principal of the school decided to report to police what had happened," said Authier, who stressed no complaint had been filed against the boy.

French Police Arrest 5 in Terrorism Raid | 27 Jan 2015 | The French counterterrorism police on Tuesday raided the southern town of Lunel and arrested five people in an operation aimed at rooting out a suspected jihadist network, a senior police official said. Christophe Crépin, a spokesman for the UNSA police union, said that the five people arrested were suspected of being part of a group that had been recruiting people to join militants fighting in Syria. Bernard Cazeneuve, the interior minister, said in a statement that five people ages 26 to 44 had been arrested in Lunel on suspicion of being part of a jihadist network that was indoctrinating youth.

Sydney Café Hostage Killed by Police Bullet - Inquest | 29 Jan 2015 | A hostage who died during a siege in a downtown Sydney cafe was killed when she was struck by fragments of a bullet fired from a police officer's gun as authorities stormed in to end the 16-hour standoff, a lawyer told an inquest on Thursday. Katrina Dawson, a 38-year-old lawyer who was among 18 people taken hostage last month by a gunman, died after being hit by six fragments of a police bullet that had ricocheted off a hard surface, Jeremy Gormly, a lawyer assisting the coroner, told the Glebe Coroner's Court. One fragment struck a major blood vessel and she quickly lost consciousness, he said.

Spy agency employee was flying drone that crashed at White House | 27 Jan 2015 |An employee of a U.S. spy agency has confessed to operating a small drone that crashed on the grounds of the White House, the agency said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of incidents that raised questions about the president's security. A spokesman for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) said that an off-duty employee had told the U.S. Secret Service, which guards the presidential home, that he had been flying the four-propellor drone when it crashed on Monday. The NGA is a Defense Department agency whose principal job is to analyze photographs taken by spy planes and satellites.

Documents Show N.S.A.'s Wiretap Moves Before Congress's Approval | 27 Jan 2015 | A federal judge ruled in 2007 that the U.S.A. Patriot Act empowered the National Security Agency to collect foreigners' emails and phone calls from domestic networks without prior judicial approval, newly declassified documents show. The documents -- two rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- fill in a chapter in the history of the N.S.A.'s warrantless surveillance program. They show the agency's secret moves in the months before Congress authorized the spying by enacting the Protect America Act in August 2007. The disclosure also brought into public view a previously unknown example of how the surveillance court, which hears arguments only from the government before issuing secret rulings, sometimes accepts novel interpretations of the law to bless government requests for spying powers.

Massachusetts Nuclear Reactor Shuts Down During Blizzard | 27 Jan 2015 |A Massachusetts nuclear power plant shut down automatically Tuesday after the blizzard moving through the region interrupted power flow...The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, the state's only nuclear power plant, shut down automatically at about 4 a.m. Tuesday when the electrical connections it uses to transmit electricity to the grid were interrupted, plant management said in a statement. Output had already been reduced to 20 percent because of the storm.

Obama administration proposes oil drilling off North Carolina coast | 27 Jan 2015 | The Obama administration floated a plan Tuesday that for the first time would open up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling, even as it moved to restrict drilling in environmentally-sensitive areas off Alaska. The proposal envisions auctioning areas located more than 50 miles off Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia to oil companies come 2021, long after President Barack Obama leaves office. The [insane] plan, which covers potential lease sales in the 2017-2022 time frame, drew immediate reaction from Capitol Hill...Northeastern Democrats were expected to outline their objections later Tuesday to drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.

Arizona monitoring 1,000 people for measles linked to Disneyland | 28 Jan 2015 | A measles outbreak in Arizona that originated at California's Disney parks is at risk of increasing dramatically in size as health officials keep tabs on 1,000 people, including nearly 200 children who could have been exposed at a Phoenix-area medical center. Those who haven't been vaccinated are being asked to stay home for 21 days [even though those who were already vaccinated might have spread the disease], a standard health practice, or wear masks if they have to go out in public. State Health Services director Will Humble said it's possible but unlikely that the number of cases can be contained at seven. [See: CDC lies: Measles outbreaks confirmed among children already vaccinated 13 Jan 2015.]

Why is Sharyl Attkisson testifying at Loretta Lynch's confirmation hearing? | 28 Jan 2015 | If Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. had an enemies list, it might look a lot like the list of witnesses who will testify at a Senate confirmation hearing for his potential successor, Loretta Lynch. At least the four witnesses have been called by Republicans. That half of the list includes not one, but three people involved in lawsuits against the administration. And among them, none is more well-known than ex-CBS News reporter corporate fraud Sharyl Attkisson, who is a household name among many conservatives.

Supreme Court Halts Oklahoma Execution of Richard Glossip, Two Others | 28 Jan 2015 | The U.S. Supreme Court issued stays of execution Wednesday for three Oklahoma death-row inmates whose challenge to the state's lethal-injection formula will be heard in the spring. The prisoners include Richard Glossip, who had been scheduled to die Thursday night and whose cause has been championed by prominent capital-punishment opponent Sister Helen Prejean. For the first time since 2008, the high court has agreed to hear a challenge to the legality of lethal injection.

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