In real life they are accountants, bankers and business executives. Some have already reached retirement age. Today, these tourists from Hong Kong are pretending to be Israeli army commandos, specialists in counterterrorism.

As their Rambo-like trainer barks out orders, they move their assault rifles into position and, using the Hebrew word for fire, repeat after him: “Esh. Esh.”

“Louder,” he demands. “I can’t hear you guys. Don’t be so politically correct.”

He emphasized that backdoors are not the answer:

„I absolutely don‘t advocate that. Building in backdoors is a threat to everybody, and it‘s not a good idea to weaken security for everybody in order to tackle a minority.“

So what is the solution? This:

„It‘s cooperation to target the people who are using it. So obviously the way around encryption is to get to the end point — a smartphone, or a laptop — that somebody who is abusing encryption is using. That‘s the way to do it.“

„If there are cases requiring probes, we have the willingness to zero in on them beyond the political spectrum of an administration,“ Suh Hoon, new director at the NIS, was quoted by lawmakers as reporting to the parliamentary intelligence committee.

Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner, D-Virginia, said Monday that the public has now seen „clear evidence“ of the Trump campaign meeting with Russian officials in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

„The public has seen clear evidence of at least an attempt by the Trump campaign to obtain information,“ Warner said referencing news of a meeting in which Donald Trump Jr. was promised information from a lawyer connected to the Kremlin. „And again, in this case, from a possible foreign agent that would interfere with the Hillary Clinton campaign efforts.“

Not long before a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner’s real estate company had unsuccessfully sought a critical half-billion-dollar investment from one of the richest and most influential men in the tiny nation, according to three well-placed sources with knowledge of the near transaction.

In late December, Walker returned to London. There was no welcome home party waiting to greet him. Instead, there were three police officers at the airport who swiftly arrested him. The officers took him into custody, interrogated him, searched his apartment, and confiscated his laptop and notebooks. After risking his life to fight against the Islamic State, Walker was charged under British counterterrorism laws — not directly because of his activities in Syria, but because the police had found in a drawer under his bed a partial copy of the infamous “Anarchist Cookbook,” a DIY explosives guide published in 1971 that has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

But U.S. military fuel contracts hint at a sprawling—and likely expanding—complex of bases. A May 16, 2017, solicitation from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, which Trevithick also obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, asks contractors to provide about 5 million gallons of fuel to U.S. bases in Jordan from late 2017 to late 2020.

Im erst eineinhalb Jahre alten Europäischen Antiterrorzentrum in Den Haag gibt es ein Analyseprojekt namens Dolphin. Es soll die EU-Länder dabei unterstützen, alle Formen von Terror und politisch motivierter Kriminalität zu bekämpfen, die nicht in den Bereich Islamismus fallen – wofür das Antiterrorzentrum eigentlich gegründet wurde. Bei Dolphin wird also sowohl linker oder anarchistischer Extremismus als auch Rechtsextremismus behandelt. Über dieses Projekt können Informationen auf internationaler Ebene ausgetauscht werden.

Europol besitzt außerdem weitere eigene Datenbanken:

(27.6.2017)

Pier Luigi Bersani, a leading member of the MDP, a splinter group from the ruling Democratic Party (PD), said Monday that he would vote against if the government adopted PD leader Matteo Renzi‘s proposal for the deficit-to-GDP ratio to be allowed up to 2.9%.

Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi has proposed scrapping the Fiscal Compact and having new EU budget laws that allow deficits of up to 3% of gross domestic product (GDP).

Britain’s High Court ruled on Monday that UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia are “lawful”, after campaigners argued the weapons were used to violate international humanitarian law in bombing Yemen.

Al-Masdar News has obtained rare images of an air field operated by US warplanes in the Sarrin Plains, located in the far eastern countryside of Aleppo near the provincial border with Raqqa.

Zur gleichen Zeit, als in der vergangenen Woche während des G20-Gipfels in Hamburg eine so noch nie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland entfesselte Aggression der Gewalt gegen die Bürger – sei es gegen die Demonstranten oder Zuschauer der Protestaktionen oder sich zufällig auf den Strassen aufhaltenden Passanten – durch die Polizei ereignete, wurde in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ein Urteil gefällt zum Thema „Brutalität der Polizei“.

The long-range anti-aircraft missile battery was brought to the Siauliai military airbase on Monday, ahead of the Tobruk Legacy exercise, and will be withdrawn when the exercise ends on July 22, a Lithuanian defense ministry spokeswoman told Reuters.

Thousands of Japanese have held a rally in Tokyo in protest at a controversial anti-terror law adopted last month, urging the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to step down.