„Keine Soldaten, keine Hilfe“

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Hier spricht ein Mann auf einer Mission.

(20.12.) „It is extremely unfortunate and burdensome that a sovereign nation and ally of the United States will continue to have to litigate this matter more than 10 years after it was filed,“ attorney Michael Kellogg said.

The lawsuits were brought in 2002 and afterward against countries, companies and organizations accused of aiding al-Qaida and other terrorist groups. They sought billions of dollars in damages.

The decision by U.S. District Judge William Pauley contrasts with a ruling earlier this month by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon and increases the likelihood that the issue will go before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Das Gutachten sei aus dem Jahre 2009, aber erst jetzt bekanntgeworden, schreibt das Blatt.

Until a doctor determines if he is mentally fit to stand trial, no other pretrial issues can be addressed in the case. „You‘ve raised that in good faith and that‘s got to be resolved before anything else,“ Pohl told the prosecutors.

The judge adjourned a pretrial hearing that had been scheduled to run through Friday and said the court would tentatively re-convene for the next scheduled hearing in February.

(17.12.) At issue is the long-running complaint by Bin al Shibh that guards cause vibrations and other noises at his Camp 7 cell in a form of military orchestrated sleep deprivation. Prosecutors deny the misbehavior has occurred at the clandestine prison camp run by a special guard force called Task Force Platinum.

This summer, Pohl ordered the prison to stop it, if it was happening. (..)

After Tuesday afternoon’s outburst, judge Pohl put defense attorneys on notice that there was a risk that a defendant who says anything more than “yes” and “no” could spill classified information during the court proceedings.

December 21, 2013

Yesterday, the Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) announced the declassification of the existence of collection activities authorized by President George W. Bush shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Starting on October 4, 2001, President Bush authorized the Secretary of Defense to employ the capabilities of the Department of Defense, including the National Security Agency (“NSA”), to collect foreign intelligence by electronic surveillance in order to detect and prevent acts of terrorism within the United States. President Bush authorized NSA to collect: (1) the contents of certain international communications, a program that was later referred to as the Terrorist Surveillance Program (“TSP”), and (2) telephony and Internet non-content information (referred to as “metadata”) in bulk, subject to various conditions.

President Bush issued authorizations approximately every 30-60 days. Although the precise terms changed over time, each presidential authorization required the minimization of information collected concerning American citizens to the extent consistent with the effective accomplishment of the mission of detection and prevention of acts of terrorism within the United States. NSA also applied additional internal constraints on the presidentially-authorized activities.

Over time, the presidentially-authorized activities transitioned to the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). The collection of communications content pursuant to presidential authorization ended in January 2007 when the U.S. Government transitioned the TSP to the authority of the FISA and under the orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”). In August 2007, Congress enacted the Protect America Act (“PAA”) as a temporary measure. The PAA, which expired in February 2008, was replaced by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which was enacted in July 2008 and remains in effect. Today, content collection is conducted pursuant to section 702 of FISA.

It won‘t be long before you can download video of Earth from hundreds of miles above, thanks to Canadian company UrtheCast, which is providing a camera currently being installed by a pair of Russian astronauts outside of the International Space Station. According to George Tyc, Chief Technology Officer of UrtheCast, the camera will function as a „nearly live Google Earth,“ featuring continuously refreshed video of interesting areas where interesting events are going on, showing you what is changing, what is going on.“

The decree comes after five are wounded in a bus bombing, amid escalating rhetoric against the Muslim Brotherhood

„Dieser Termin ist nach dem jetzigen Stand mit dem Außenministerium Russlands abgestimmt“, teilte Badr Dschamus, Generalsekretär der Nationalen Koalition, RIA Novosti telefonisch mit.

Wie er weiter ausführte, wird die Delegation vom Chef der Koalition geleitet, der bei einem Kongress der syrischen Oppositionskräfte Anfang Januar in Istanbul gewählt werden soll.

Egypt stepped up pressure on the Muslim Brotherhood a day after declaring it a terrorist group, using the new classification to detain dozens of its supporters on Thursday, while one person died in street clashes ignited by political tension.

Egyptian police have raided Cairo’s al-Azhar University as the military-appointed government continues its violent crackdown on anti-coup student protesters.

The Palestinians have said any further expansion of Israeli settlements on land they seek for a state could derail U.S.-brokered peace talks that resumed in July after a three-year break.