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“Apparently drones are used more and more,” said Deschamps, who intimated that he had not been doing anything particularly secretive at the time. “It’s not up to me. Fifa handles this and has been carrying out an inquiry; we don’t want any intrusion into our privacy. It’s very hard to fight this these days.”

„That‘s good food for thought for our Western partners, who give all forms of support to any move by the Ukrainian government, – it‘s a good opportunity for them to see what that government does with the powers it acquired after Maidan,“ the minister said.

As anyone who has worked there knows, Kabul is a tough place, redeemed by the charm of the people and the abundance of cheap taxis. But Trevor Paglen had trouble finding a taxi driver willing and able to take him where he wanted to go: north-east out of the city along an old back road reputed to be so dangerous – even by Afghan standards – that it had seen no regular traffic for more than 30 years.

In all these law enforcement schemes the alleged terrorists masterminds end up seeming, when the full story comes out, unable to terrorize their way out of a paper bag without law enforcement tutelage. („They teach you how to make all this stuff out of simple household items,“ one of the kids says on a recording quoted in the FBI affidavit about a book he has just discovered, The Anarchist Cookbook

Nearly 95 per cent of terrorist arrests have been the result of FBI foiling its own entrapment plots as a part of the so-called post-9/11 War on Terror, a new study revealed.

Es ist mehr als pervers, die derzeitige Katastrophe im Irak nur durch die Brille des Leidens der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika darzustellen, als wenn irakische Leben von zweitrangiger Bedeutung wären. Gemäß der höchst umfassenden Studie (PLOS Medicine, 10/15/13) haben etwa eine halbe Million Iraker ihr Leben verloren aufgrund des Irakkriegs – hundertmal mehr als getötete Amerikaner.

“There’s combination of two things: One to embarrass Obama … and secondly to actually get back and involve in another war so the US can dominate the Middle East and that’s been the long term goal of US foreign policy in that region,” he said on Sunday.

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Ronald Reagan hat einmal gesagt: „Die Wahl eines richtigen Richters zum Obersten Gerichtshof ersetzt 20 Jahre Kongressarbeit.“ Das stimmt.

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(15. Juni ) Der immer intensivere Datentausch mit den USA geht auf eine “Deutsch-Amerikanische Arbeitsgruppe zur Intensivierung des Informationsaustausches” zurück. Dies teilt die Bundesregierung in der Antwort auf eine Kleine Anfrage der Linksfraktion mit. Demnach habe sich der damalige US-Staatssekretär Stewart Baker schon 2006 in Berlin mit dem ehemaligen Staatssekretär August Hanning getroffen, um weitere entsprechende Maßnahmen auf den Weg zu bringen.

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