Daily Archives: 30. Dezember 2014


30.12.2014 - 22:35 [ Mondo Weiss ]

Updated Security Council resolution calls for East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital, Israel says UN creating ‘second Hamastan’

Palestinian leaders have maintained the draft resolution will come to a vote before January when the four temporary members of the Security Council rotate. Khatib reiterated this, telling Mondoweiss the leadership hopes a vote is brought Wednesday morning. There is skepticism as to whether they can meet their deadline. In part this is because the Palestinians leaders are subject to Jordan’s decision of when to call the vote, as they are the Arab partner on the Security Council and Jordan has consistently been vague on the time frame. Jordan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Dina Kawar recently said they are now selecting “the best time to pass the vote.”

30.12.2014 - 16:24 [ Radio Utopie ]

Amerikas letzte Hoffnung: ein Mann

Ehemalige führende Geheimdienstmitarbeiter, die sich in der Gruppe Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) zusammengeschlossen haben, schreiben einen offenen Brief an U.S.-Senator Mark Udall mit der Erwartung, dass der Senator Mut und Gewissen zeigt, seinen Worten Taten folgen zu lassen. Udall soll unverzüglich den kompletten Folterbericht Kraft seiner Immunität veröffentlichen bevor er im Januar 2015 aus dem Amt scheidet.

30.12.2014 - 16:22 [ Hurriyet ]

Ankara refutes UN report claiming Turkey route for arms to al-Qaeda

Turkish Foreign Ministry refuted a United Nations report claiming that Turkey is being used as one of the primary routes for weapons smuggling to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Nusra.

“Unfounded claims,” the ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç told reporters on Dec. 30, elaborating on a report penned by the U.N. al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.

30.12.2014 - 16:04 [ Press TV News Video ]

Press TV correspondent Serena Shim killed near the Turkey-Syria border

(19. Oktober) She was going back to her hotel in Urfa when their car collided with a heavy vehicle. Urfa province is near the Syrian border. Serena Shim covered reports for Press TV in Lebanon, Iraq, and Ukraine. On Friday, she told Press TV that the Turkish intelligence agency has threatened and accused her of spying and she fears to be arrested.

30.12.2014 - 15:51 [ Washington Post ]

Decision on Airstrike in Afghanistan Was Based Largely on Sole Informant‘s Assessment

(6. September 2009) Twenty minutes later, two F-15E Strike Eagles arrived. A video camera pod beamed live images to Klein‘s command center. He and his troops could see the trucks — and scores of people around them.

His intelligence chief had spoken to an Afghan source who insisted that everyone at the site was an insurgent. The description of the scene the source provided was similar to what Klein was seeing beamed from the F-15.

„The whole story matched 100 percent,“ Klein said.

30.12.2014 - 15:48 [ Radio Utopie ]

Bundeswehr-Oberst befahl offenbar nach BND-Behauptungen Luftangriff auf sichtbare Menschenmenge: 125 Tote

(6. September 2009) Laut Informationen der “Washington Post” war es ein vor Ort im deutschen Operationszentrum befindlicher Geheimdienst-Offizier, welcher behauptet hatte, er habe am Telefon von einem einzelnen Informanten gehört, dass es sich bei der Menschenmenge um die Tanklaster ausschliesslich um “Aufständische” gehandelt habe.
Dies hätten deutsche Offiziere der Nato berichtet, so die “Washington Post”.

Trifft dies zu, so liegt nahe, dass es bei diesem Geheimdienst-Offzier im deutschen Operationszentrum um einen Angehörigen des deutschen Auslandsgeheimdienstes BND gehandelt hat. Ein anderer Geheimdienstvertreter hätte wohl kaum die Autorität besessen so etwas auf Grund einer einzelnen Information zu behaupten und sich dabei auch noch beim Isaf-Kommandeur durchzusetzen.

30.12.2014 - 15:45 [ BGN News ]

MİT misinformed parliament on Uludere airstrikes, claims CHP deputy

At the center of Gök’s claims is that the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) misinformed the National Security Council (MGK) leading to the decision to conduct the airstrike. As a result 34 civilians including villagers, smugglers, and even children were killed by the airstrike, after being mistaken for armed militants of the Kuridstan Workers Party (PKK). The incident has been coined the Uludere massacre by critics.

30.12.2014 - 15:44 [ Today´s Zaman ]

Responsibility for Uludere killing remains undetermined on third anniversary

(26.12.) On its third anniversary, details surrounding a massacre in which 34 villagers, taken for terrorists, were mistakenly bombed by Turkish jets in December 2011 is still shrouded in mystery, while families of the victims wait for the Constitutional Court to deliver a verdict that will hold to account those responsible.

Right from the start, the government, headed by then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, did not reveal who ordered the attack, which was supposedly carried out based on false intelligence.

30.12.2014 - 15:22 [ Radio Utopie ]

Syrien-Invasion am Hundehalsband

(17. März 2013) Was hinter dieser nicht von alleine endenden Arie von Nebelkerzen, Märchen und Desinformationen der U.S.-Regierung und der C.I.A. (mit dem Bundesnachrichtendienst an der Leine) steckt, ist simpel. Den Befehlshabern und Betreibern dieser Invasion – den Regierungen in Washington und Berlin, London und Paris – geht es darum die Syrien-Invasion erfolgreich abzuschließen. Wie und um welchen Preis ist völlig egal, solange man nur am Ende als Sieger dasteht.

30.12.2014 - 15:20 [ Radio Utopie ]

Ich bin Amerika. Und ich heuchele weiter bis zum Erbrechen.

(16. März 2013) Ich bin Amerika. Ich bin ein Kontinent. Der Rest kann Latein und mich außerdem kreuzjesu. Ich bin mindestens Amerika. Ich bin vereinigt, wenn ich sage, dass ich vereinigt bin. Und wenn Du Dich nicht vereinigen willst, dann tu ich Dir weh. In Afghanistan. In Irak. In Somalia. Im Irgendwo. In Libyen. In Syrien. Und es kümmelt mich einen Dreck, wem ich da weh tue, Hauptsache ich kann mich vereinigen. Und ich muss mich beeilen, weil sonst die dümmste Menschheit, die es je gegeben hat, sich irgendwann daran erinnern könnte was Einstein über den dritten Weltkrieg gesagt hat und begreifen, dass Einstein damit falsch lag. Bisher jedenfalls.

Ich muss, muss, muss. Ich muss da rein, rein, rein. In Syrien. Auch mit Drohnen. Ich kann gar nicht anders. Ich bin Amerika. Ich kann gar nicht verlieren. Aber warum tue ich es dann? Das kann gar nicht sein.

30.12.2014 - 15:16 [ Washington Post ]

Backlash in Berlin over NSA spying recedes as threat from Islamic State rises

the cooperation never really stopped. The public backlash over Snowden often obscured a more complicated reality for Germany and other aggrieved U.S. allies. They may be dismayed by the omnivorous nature of the intelligence apparatus the United States has built since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but they are also deeply dependent on it.

Over the past year, Germany has secretly provided detailed information to U.S. spy services on hundreds of German citizens and legal residents suspected of having joined insurgent groups in Syria and Iraq, U.S. and German officials said.

30.12.2014 - 15:14 [ Hurriyet ]

Turkey a route for arms going to al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria: UN report

Turkey is being used as one of the primary routes for weapons smuggling to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Nusra, according to a United Nations report.

“Most [arms] supplies have either been seized from the armed forces of Iraq or (to a lesser extent) the Syrian Arab Republic, or have been smuggled to ISIL and [al-Nusra], primarily by routes that run through Turkey,” said a report penned by the U.N. al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.