Der türkische Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan hat bekanntgegeben, dass der Jugendliche, der sich auf einer Hochzeitsfeier im südosttürkischen Gaziantep in die Luft gesprengt hat, zwischen zwölf und 14 Jahre alt war.

The government came under increased pressure from local Shi‘ite politicians to execute militants sentenced to death after a massive bombing that targeted a shopping street in Baghdad on July 3, killing at least 324 people.

Claimed by Islamic State, the truck bomb that blew up in the Karrada district was the deadliest since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Discrepancies plague the official account of a deadly assault last year in which Mexican police allegedly executed 22 suspected gang members, burned bodies, manipulated the crime scene and tortured survivors, newly-revealed details show.

Interesting to note that reality has been again turned upside down, with the Syrian government forces becoming “militia” and the US- backed Kurdish “rebels” becoming “forces.”

Jobran Bassil has sent a letter referring to Israel’s violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 regarding the rights of the Lebanese people and Lebanon’s sovereignty. “Since the Israeli occupation forces persist in violating Lebanon’s sovereignty and fail to comply with international resolutions, particularly 1701, we hereby ask you [the diplomats] to inform the concerned authorities in the United Nations, particularly the Security Council, of Israel’s offences in the occupied Lebanese part of Al-Ghajar and Shebaa Farms.”

Germany‘s Interior Minister wants to introduce facial recognition software at train stations and airports to help identify terror suspects following two Islamist attacks in the country last month.

(5.8.2015) “It has now been four years since Extortion 17 was shot down,” said Doug Hamburger, whose Army air crew son, Patrick, was one of the 30 Americans killed. “I find it quite disturbing that the government is not willing to give us the answers we deserve. I find it very irritating that we will not question the Afghans about their knowledge of what took place that night.”

U.S. Central Command’s official investigation concluded that a rocket-launched grenade from a Taliban fighter standing near the landing zone clipped a rotary wing, sending the Ch-47 Chinook into a violent downward spin.

(26.6.2014) There also seemed to be no way for the families to learn why their loved ones had been so helpless, because the black box was nowhere to be found. In the report, one commander said the black box had washed away in the flash flood. Charlie found that unlikely: How often did it rain in Afghanistan?

(25.7.2013) Charles Strange, the father of slain SEAL Michael Strange, told Savage Wednesday night that in June 2011, on at least three separate occasions his son grabbed him by the bicep and announced that he had prepared his will.

The bewildered father finally was able to find out what it all meant.

Michael Strange, his father recalled, said, “Something’s going on with the team. Somebody’s leaking things out. Something’s going on.”

Savage, reacting with emotion, asked: “Your son knew he was being sent to his death?”

“They knew,” Strange replied. “They knew something was up. Every one of them.”

Other families of the victims have reported similar experiences with their sons the last time they saw them, Strange said.

The book is written based largely upon a review of the official, non-classified military record of the crash, which was mysteriously leaked to several family members in October 2011, one month after the official military investigation was closed. Brown believes that the SEAL team may have been sacrificed, either through extreme gross negligence in the mission-planning or for other reasons, and has stated in interviews that the military is covering up key facts germane to the case, including the identities of seen Afghans who slipped on the helicopter without authority, and the true status of the helicopter‘s black box, which has been the subject of conflicting reports by the military.

The firsthand account of the daring raid was one of several high-profile books and movies involving former Navy SEALS that has led to criticism within a community once known for discretion that Mr. Bissonnette and the others were cashing in on their exploits.

Matt Bissonnette, who wrote the book under the pseudonym „Mark Owen,“ also apologized in a statement for not getting the book vetted by the Pentagon before it was published in 2012, the New York Times said.

(15.10.2015) The official narrative of the hunt for and killing of bin Laden at first seemed like a clear portrait, but in effect it was more like a composite sketch from multiple perspectives: the Pentagon, the White House and the C.I.A. And when you studied that sketch a little more closely, not everything looked quite right. Almost immediately, the administration had to correct some of the most significant details of the raid.

According to Lawfare‘s contributors, there are several reasons why the NSA would have kept quiet, even when confronted with evidence that these tools might be in the hands of criminals or antagonistic foreign powers. They claim the entire process — which is supposed to push the NSA, FBI, et al towards disclosure — is broken. But not for the reasons you might think.

(19.August) Die Bundespolizei wird den R&S QPS200 künftig für Sicherheitskontrollen auf Basis von Millimeterwellen-Technologie einsetzen. An Sicherheitsschleusen in Ministerien können die Scanner ebenfalls genutzt werden.
Der Körperscanner detektiert automatisch, ob eine überprüfte Person potenziell bedrohliche Objekte unter der Kleidung oder am Körper mitführt – egal ob hart, biegsam, flüssig, metallisch oder nichtmetallisch.

(5.August) Weitere Bereiche der wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit liegen laut Abkommen im Bereich der Antibiotikaresistenz sowie der Lebensmittelsicherheit von Fisch und Fischereierzeugnissen. Die Vereinbarung ermöglicht den Aufbau einer formellen Zusammenarbeit von FSCJ und BfR sowohl auf dem Gebiet der wissenschaftlichen Risikobewertung als auch in der Forschung sowie in der technischen und administrativen Kooperation in diesen Feldern.