Monthly Archives: January 2013

After riots, Mohamed Morsi declares emergency in three Egyptian cities

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“President Mohamed Morsi has announced a state of emergency in three cities near Egypt’s Suez Canal, following four days of civil unrest that have left at least 40 dead and over 500 injured.  Since Thursday, hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in 12 of the country’s 21 provinces, to protest against the Islamist president, the Muslim Brotherhood, and police brutality – exactly two years after the start of the Egyptian revolution. ‘We think the president is totally responsible for the conflict,’ said Khaled Daoud, a spokesman for the National Salvation Front, a disparate collection of liberal and leftist parties opposed to Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/27/mohamed-morsi-declares-emergency-in-three-egyptian-cities/

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US general warns over Iranian cyber-soldiers

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“Cyber-attacks on Iran are turning it into a ‘force to be reckoned with’ America’s top cyber-soldier has warned.  Since 2010, Iran has come under attack many times by malicious viruses written specifically to target key industrial installations in the country.  The repeated attacks have provoked Iran to improve its cyber-capabilities, said Gen William Shelton who oversees US cyber-operations.  That improved capability had helped it protect itself against subsequent attacks on oil terminals and other manufacturing plants. Its capability might well be turned against Iran’s enemies in the coming years, he said.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21075781

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How cigarette smuggling fuels Africa’s Islamist violence

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“The key role cigarettes play in facilitating terrorism has been inexplicably ignored. But it has become of urgent interest to western intelligence agencies as they seek to check al-Qaida’s diverse factions operating across the Saharan region.  The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has concluded that ‘cigarette smuggling has provided the bulk of financing for AQIM’. The total value of the illicit tobacco trade in north Africa is thought to exceed $1bn (£632m). The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that Africans smoke 400bn cigarettes a year, of which 60bn are bought on the black market.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/26/how-cigarette-smuggling-fuels-africas-islamist-violence/

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Peaceful Azerbaijan rally against police violence broken up brutally by police

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“Azerbaijan police on Saturday brutally dispersed an unauthorised rally in central Baku, beating up and arresting scores of people, an AFP correspondent witnessed.  Several dozen protesters briefly gathered in Baku’s central Sahil square to protest against the police using excessive force against peaceful protests.  But police halted the rally within 10 minutes, beating up and arresting dozens of people.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/26/peaceful-rally-in-azerbaijan-broken-up-brutally-by-police/

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Pepe Escobar: Burn, burn – Africa’s Afghanistan

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“Business is good; French president Francois Hollande spent this past Tuesday in Abu Dhabi clinching the sale of up to 60 Rafales to that Gulf paragon of democracy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).  The formerly wimpy Hollande – now enjoying his ‘resolute’, ‘determined’, tough guy image reconversion – has cleverly sold all this as incinerating Islamists in the savannah before they take a one-way Bamako-Paris flight to bomb the Eiffel Tower.  According to the UN Office of Drugs Control, 60% of Europe’s cocaine transits Mali.”

http://atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/OA19Dj02.html

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On To Timbuktu II

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“This bloody action has awoken Algeria’s hitherto quiescent Islamic resistance groups. They waged a ten year war against Algeria’s US and French backed military regime, one of the continent’s most repressive regimes, after Algeria’s armed forces crushed Islamists after they won a fair election in 1991. Over 250,000 Algerians died in a long, bloody civil war. The Algiers government often used gangs of its soldiers disguised as rebel fighters to commit gruesome massacres to blacken the name of the opposition. Algeria may again be headed for a new bloodbath, this time with minority Berber people calling for their independent state.”

http://ericmargolis.com/2013/01/on-to-timbuktu-ii/

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Ben Swann: President Obama Wants To Protect Children? Why Not End U.S. Drone Strikes?

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“Ben Swann of Full Disclosure takes a look at statements by President Obama that he wants to prevent even one more child’s death at the hands of a mass shooter. Ben is asking why the President isn’t ending a drone strike policy that is responsible for 11 times the number of child deaths.”

http://libertycrier.com/government/president-obama-wants-to-protect-children-why-not-end-u-s-drone-strikes/

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Pakistan Unhappy Over Reports US Drone Strikes Will Continue

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“Leaders in Pakistan are outraged at reported U.S. plans to continue controversial drone strikes against suspected al-Qaida-linked sanctuaries on Pakistani soil. They are calling it ‘close to a perpetual war,’ and say it is exactly opposite to what President Barack Obama stated in his inaugural speech on Monday.  U.S. drone strikes on targets in Pakistani regions along the border with Afghanistan remain highly controversial and are deeply unpopular in Pakistan.  Pakistan publicly condemns the drone campaign and wants the U.S. to end it, saying that it not only violates the country’s sovereignty, but that collateral damage caused by the strikes is fueling militancy in the region.”

http://www.voanews.com/content/pakistan_unhappy_over_reports_us_drone_strikes_will_continue/1588925.html

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Africa’s Resources Beckon

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“For the USA, its ambitions have a new locus in Africa. These wars, as in Libya and Mali, have not been joined by this trio of imperialists because of terrorism threatening Europe or the U.S. This is, for one thing, about controlling African governments and enabling the extraction of wealth from resources in this region of Africa. It was Gaddafi’s (Libya’s) sympathy and outreach toward these regions and peoples that helped bring about his downfall. He stood in the way of western business interests, and his ideas for controlling the resources for Africans could not be abided by the western business interests and their allies in government.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/130946.html

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Obama ‘guidebook’ for targeted killings to include exemption for CIA drone strikes in Pakistan

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“The administration of President Barack Obama is completing a counterterrorism manual that will establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations, The Washington Post reported.  But citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the guidebook would contain a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan.  This exemption will allow the Central Intelligence Agency to continue striking Al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in Pakistan for a year or more before the agency is forced to comply with more stringent rules spelled out in the document.  Between 2,627 and 3,457 people have been reportedly killed by US drones in Pakistan since 2004.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/20/obama-guidebook-for-targeted-killings-to-include-exemption-for-cia-drone-strikes-in-pakistan-report/

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