News Updates from CLG
13 March 2015
13 March 2015
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Previous edition: 3,000 troops and military hardware from 3rd Infantry
Division heading to Eastern Europe
US roads have
potholes that could swallow SUVs whole, but the maggots running Ukraine always
get their American fix, so they can continue to carry out war crimes (that the
US media doesn't cover) on a daily basis: Obama approves $75 million in 'non-lethal' aid to
Ukraine | 11 Mar 2015 | The United States
will provide Ukrainian forces fighting Russia-backed separatists 75 million in
'non-lethal' equipment, including small reconnaissance drones, radios and
military ambulances, a senior administration official said. President Obama has
also approved the transfer of 30 armored Humvees and up to 200 unarmored Humvees
under a separate authority, said the official, who was not authorized to speak
publicly on the matter and requested anonymity.
U.S. to send $70 million in 'non-lethal' aid to Syrian opposition
[aka ISIS] | 13 March 2015 | The U.S. State
Department said on Friday it was working with Congress to provide about 70
million in new 'non-lethal' assistance to the Syrian opposition fighting
President Bashar al-Assad. The aid comes as the U.S. military separately
prepares to train and equip Syrian
rebels to fight Islamic State militants in Syria. The 'non-lethal' aid,
announced on the fourth anniversary of the [CIA-backed] revolution against
Assad, brings total U.S. support to the Syrian opposition to nearly 400 million since the start of the
revolution, the State Department said. [See comment on previous story,
in 'Obama approves $75 million in 'non-lethal' aid to
Ukraine' and start reading.]
Canadian intelligence service agent arrested on suspicion of helping
three British girls travel to Syria to join ISIS
| 12 March 2015 | The foreign spy arrested on
suspicion of helping three British schoolgirls travel to Syria to join the
Islamic State was working for the Canadian intelligence service, it has been
reported. Turkish foreign minister Mehmet Cavusoglu earlier said the suspect
works for the intelligence agency of a country that is part of the US-led
coalition fighting ISIS but did not identify the country, saying only that it
was not the United States or a member of the European Union. However, an
Istanbul-based newspaper has reported that the spy was working for the Canadian
government.
Spy from U.S.-led coalition helped three British girls cross into
Syria to join ISIS | 12 March 2015 | A spy
who worked for a country in the U.S.-led coalition that is fighting Islamic
State had helped three British girls to cross into Syria to join the militants
and has been caught, the Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday. The
minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, told broadcaster A Haber in an interview: "He was
caught. It turned out to be someone who works for the intelligence of a country
from the coalition." A European security source familiar with the case of the
three girls said the person in question had a connection with the Canadian
Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) spy agency. [Yup, it's the
US-UK-Canadian I-CIA-SIS pipeline.]
22 Iraqi soldiers killed in 'friendly fire' Anbar U.S. airstrike
-sources | 12 March 2015 | Soldiers from an
Iraqi army unit in the western province of Anbar have been killed in an apparent
'friendly fire' incident, an Iraqi military officer and a police source said on
Thursday. The military source said 22 soldiers had been killed when an aircraft
bombed the headquarters of an army company on the edge of Ramadi city, Anbar's
provincial capital. The source said he believed the bomb was launched from a
U.S.-led coalition aircraft, but coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas
Gilleran said the only strike it carried out in the area did not result in any
"friendly casualties".
Islamic State conflict: Iraqi troops advance in
Tikrit | 11 Mar 2015 | Iraqi government
forces have retaken a large part of north-western Tikrit as they battle IS
militants to recapture the city, security officials say. Soldiers and Shia
militiamen have reportedly raised the Iraqi flag at a hospital in the Qadisiya
district, two-thirds of which is under their control. But they have so far not
made much progress in Tikrit's south and west. The operation to retake the
hometown of Saddam Hussein is the biggest offensive yet by the Iraqi
government.
Australia probes claim teenager was Islamic State suicide bomber in
Iraq | 12 March 201 | Australian
authorities are investigating claims by Islamic State that an Australian teenage
recruit died after blowing himself up in Iraq, and local media reported that
bomb-making materials had been found at his family home in Melbourne. A blog
post believed to be written by 18-year-old Jake Bilardi, written under his
pseudonym Abu Abdullah al-Australi, revealed how he had considered carrying out
attacks on home soil. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters on Thursday
that security agencies were trying to verify reports that Bilardi had carried
out a suicide attack in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
ISIL youngster shoots dead 'Israeli spy':
Video | 10 Mar 2015 | A video released by
the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group apparently shows a young militant shooting and
killing an Israeli man, claimed by the group to be a spy for Israel's spy agency
Mossad. The group released the 13-minute footage on Tuesday. The victim is shown
in the video identifying himself as 19-year-old Mohamed Said Ismail Musallam and
alleging how he was recruited by Israeli intelligence. The video bore the
hallmarks of the group's previous videos, including its dressing of the victims
in orange jumpsuits.
Kerry tells Republicans: you cannot modify Iran-U.S. nuclear
deal --'You don't have the right to
modify an agreement reached executive to executive between leaders of a
country.' | 11 March 2015 | U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told
Republicans who control Congress on Wednesday they would not be able to modify
any nuclear agreement struck between the United States and Iran. Kerry said he
responded with "utter disbelief" to an open letter to Iran on Monday signed only
by Republican senators that said any deal would only last as long as U.S.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, remains in office.
US Army Arrives in Bulgaria --Military drills will take place over the next three months
and involve US armored personnel carriers, helicopters and tanks | 13
March 2015 | NATO allies Bulgaria and the United States will stage a series of
joint military drills over the next three and a half months, the Bulgarian
defense ministry said on Friday, amid increased tensions with Russia over the
Ukraine crisis. Some 350 U.S. Army officers will arrive in the Balkan country to
take part in the bilateral drills, which begin on Sunday and will be conducted
at the Novo Selo training range in southeastern Bulgaria. The exercises will
also involve U.S. armored personnel carriers, helicopters and
tanks.
Eleven U.S. service members presumed dead in crash off Florida
coast: official
| 11 Mar 2015 | Seven Marines and four
soldiers were presumed dead after an Army helicopter crashed during a nighttime
training mission off the Florida coast, where some remains have washed ashore
and search efforts were hampered by heavy fog, U.S. military officials said on
Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the Eglin Air Force Base in north Florida did not
provide details on the remains. "This is still considered a search and rescue
mission," spokeswoman Sara Vidoni said in a statement, adding that heavy fog
hampered search efforts.
Secret Service agents disrupted bomb investigation at White
House | 12 March 2015 | Two Secret Service
agents suspected of being under the influence while striking a White House security
barricade drove through an active bomb investigation
and directly beside the suspicious package, according to current and former
government officials familiar with the incident. These and other new details
about the March 4 incident emerged Thursday from interviews and from police
records obtained by The Washington Post.
Secret Service Investigating Agents' Crash Near White
House | 12 March 2015 | The Homeland
Security Department is investigating two senior Secret Service agents accused of
crashing a car into a White House security barrier, an agency spokesman says.
Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said Wednesday that recently appointed
Director Joseph Clancy has been briefed on the March 4 incident. Clancy has
asked the Homeland Security Department's Inspector General's Office to
investigate the incident.
Julian Assange to be questioned by Swedish prosecutors in
London | 13 March 2015 | Lawyers for Julian
Assange have claimed victory after a Swedish prosecutor bowed to pressure from
the courts and agreed to break the deadlock in the WikiLeaks founder's case by
interviewing him in London. Marianne Ny, who heads the investigation into
accusations of rape, coercion and sexual molestation against Assange, made a
formal request to interrogate him in the Ecuadorian embassy - the first sign of
movement in a case that has been frozen since August 2012. The prosecutor will
also ask the UK government and Ecuador for permission to carry out the
interviews at the embassy in London, where Assange has been staying for more
than two-and-a-half years to avoid extradition to Sweden, from where he fears
being handed over to the US to face espionage charges.
750 tons of Fukushima plant radioactive water leaked -
TEPCO --The leak has likely made
its way to the ground - officials | 12 March 2015 | In yet another
major leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo
Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) reported that 750 tons of contaminated radioactive rainwater
have escaped the plant. The water overflowed from mounds where storage tanks for
radioactive water are located, The Japan Times quoted TEPCO as saying. Rainwater
within that perimeter had up to 8,300 becquerels per liter of beta
particle-emitting radioactive substances, such as strontium-90.
Fukushima disaster: Radiation levels posing cancer risks on fourth
anniversary of triple nuclear meltdown | 11
March 2015 | Four years ago today Japan was hit with a magnitude 9.0 earthquake
and massive tsunami, triggering a[n ongoing] crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear plant. The triple nuclear meltdown was the world's worst nuclear
disaster since Chernobyl.
About 120,000 people still cannot return their homes because of high radiation
levels, but the issue of long-term health implications like cancer are causing
the greatest concern and controversy in Japan. Before the disaster, there was
just one to two cases of thyroid cancers in a million Japanese children but now
Fukushima has more than 100 confirmed or suspected cases, having tested about
300,000 children.
American diagnosed with Ebola to be flown to US from Sierra
Leone | 12 March 2015 | An American
healthcare worker who contracted Ebola while fighting the outbreak in Sierra
Leone will be brought to the US for treatment, the National Institutes of Health
announced on Thursday. The healthcare worker is due to arrive at the NIH
facility in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday. The patient, who has not been
identified as male or female, was volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in
Sierra Leone.
Ebola: British health worker tests positive for Ebola
| 11 March 2015 | A
female Army medic has tested positive for the Ebola virus while serving with the
British military’s aid mission in Sierra Leone. The RAF is preparing to evacuate
the unnamed soldier back to the UK for treatment while another soldier she came
into contact with is also awaiting tests. The medic is being treated in a
British-built clinic on the outskirts of the country's capital, Freetown, and
sources said she was likely to be flown out as soon as
possible.
Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police
Plaza | 13 March 2015 |Computers operating
on the New York Police Department's computer network at its 1 Police Plaza
headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of
alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed. There are more than
15,000 IP addresses registered to the NYPD, which employs 50,000 people,
including uniformed officers and civilians. Notable Wikipedia activity was
linked to about a dozen of those NYPD IP addresses.
Alleged threats to police lead to terrorism
charges | 12 March 2015 | Two Lansing men
face terrorism charges [!?!] after prosecutors say they made
death threats against law enforcement following the recent fatal shootings
involving Eaton County deputies. Both men have been charged in separate
incidents with threatening "to commit an act of terrorism" -- a felony
punishable by up to 20 years in prison...Adam Thaddeus Wood's Okemos-based
attorney, Toby White, said about Wood: "I
don't think what he did qualified as a terrorist act." White
declined to comment further.
3 reportedly questioned in shooting of 2 cops outside Ferguson police
department | 12 March 2015 | Police were
questioning three people in connection with the shooting of two Missouri police
officers early Thursday at a protest outside the Ferguson police
headquarters...The police officers, not members of Ferguson's force, were part
of a 25-man police line at the embattled headquarters, where Ferguson Police
Chief Thomas Jackson had announced his resignation hours earlier. Witnesses
reported hearing as many as four shots and seeing the flash of a muzzle about
125 yards away from the police.
Two officers shot outside Ferguson police
headquarters | 12 March 2015 | Two police
officers were shot during a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri police
headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city's police
chief quit following a damning justice report into his department. St. Louis
County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters that a 41-year-old officer from
his department was struck in the shoulder and a 32-year-old officer from the
nearby Webster Groves Police Department was hit in the face around midnight as
the crowd was starting to break up.
2 police officers shot as Ferguson
protests turn violent | 12 March 2015 | Two
police officers were shot in Ferguson early Thursday morning as demonstrations
that began as a celebration of the police chief's resignation gave way to
violence and gunfire. One, a St. Louis County police officer, was struck in the
shoulder; the other, a Webster Groves officer, was hit in the face, said St.
Louis Police Chief Jon Belmar. The officers were hospitalized and conscious, he
said. [Lest we forget: The protests in Ferguson may have 'turned
violent' -- but Ferguson police have been violent from the
get-go.]
Ferguson, Missouri police chief Thomas Jackson
resigns | 11 March 2015 |The embattled
police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, is to resign a week after his department was
accused of racial bias in a scathing report by the US government, he announced
on Wednesday. Thomas Jackson told colleagues in a resignation letter that "with
profound sadness" he would quit as police chief effective 19 March. Jackson, 58,
is the sixth senior Ferguson official to lose his job since the Department of
Justice last week sharply criticised the city's
criminal justice system. Investigators concluded police and court authorities
targeted black people disproportionately and frequently violated their
constitutional rights.
Giuliani: To Redeem His Legacy, Obama Should Channel
Cosby | 13 March 2015 | Just weeks after
coming under fire for saying he didn't think President Barack Obama loved
America, former New York Mayor [unindicted 9/11 co-conspirator]
Rudy Giuliani (R) is making headlines again for remarks he made Thursday on a
Big Apple radio talk show. Offering advice on how Obama could redeem his legacy,
tarnished in part by the anti-police "tone" he has set [rape is OK;
anti-police tone -not OK] -- resulting in police being shot, according
to Giuliani, the president should take a page from comedian [alleged rapist]
Bill Cosby's book and censure black men "about the large incidence of crime"
they commit, the Washington Post reports.
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