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Daily Archives: 8. Mai 2023
BVT-Prozess: „Schwierig, Beamte an Dienstadresse zu laden“
Noch keinen Termin gibt es für die Zeugenbefragung des ehemaligen stellvertretenden Direktors des BVT. Dessen Befragung vor zwei Wochen war nicht möglich, da er eine falsche Dienstadresse angegeben hatte. Auch bei weiteren Zustellungen von Ladungen dürfte es zu Schwierigkeiten gekommen sein, weshalb mit einem Urteil wohl nicht vor Juni zu rechnen ist. „Es ist unglaublich schwierig, Beamte in Österreich an ihrer Dienstadresse zu laden“, sagte die Richterin zu Beginn der Verhandlung scherzhaft.
Gerichtsreportage: Ex-Staatsschutzchef Gridling wusste nichts von Mossad-„Deal“
(20.04.2023)
Aber man traute der CIJA, die sich mit der Aufarbeitung von Kriegsverbrechen in Syrien befasst, nicht.
Vor allem: weil man die Organisation im Verfassungsschutz nicht gekannt haben will. „Wir wollten wissen, wer diese Organisation ist, welche Interessen sie vertritt und wer dahintersteckt“, sagte P. (…)
Stattdessen soll man unter den Angeklagten beschlossen haben, gegen die CIJA zu ermitteln.
Austrians tried for allegedly helping Mossad shield Syrian
(April 14, 2023)
According to an investigation by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine and Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, the Mossad recruited Halabi, a member of the Druze minority in Syria, as an informant. The Israeli prime minister’s office declined to comment.
Former Syrian spy chief ‚who is wanted for war crimes was able to flee to Austria with the help of Mossad after being refused asylum in France‘
(30 November 2020)
France‘s spy agency, DGSE, helped the former general leave Syria for France in 2014, however he was refused asylum in the country in 2015 over concerns he may have been involved in criminal acts.
Mysteriously, he was then taken from France to Austria by Israeli intelligence agents where he was granted asylum, a judicial source told the Daily Telegraph.
‚As he was really peeved not to get asylum in France, he appears to have made contact with Mossad, who got in contact with Austria‘s BVT [the country‘s domestic intelligence agency],‘ the source said.
Netanyahu to Meet Top Biden Advisers After Saudi Talks in Pursuit of Normalization
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet on Monday in Jerusalem with two senior advisers to U.S. President Joe Biden on Middle East affairs, Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, after they concluded talks in Saudi Arabia.
McGurk is responsible for the Middle East at the National Security Council in the White House, while Hochstein serves as Biden‘s special envoy for energy affairs.
Israel optimistic after Sullivan urges Saudi ties
Officials in Jerusalem say the Biden administration will have a 1-year window of opportunity to secure normalization deal after National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says Israeli-Saudi ties are a top U.S. priority
White House national security adviser meets Saudi prince
Saudi state media did not immediately publish either video or photographs of the meetings.
China’s Xi Jinping to chair C+C5 summit with Central Asian heads of state from May 18
President Xi Jinping will chair the two-day inaugural China-Central Asia summit starting May 18, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Monday.
Xi’s counterparts from the five Central Asian states – Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan – will attend the summit in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian, the ministry said.
Kissinger Predicts China Involvement Will Lead to Ukraine Peace Talks
In an interview with CBS News‘ Ted Koppel that aired on Sunday, Kissinger sounded confident that China would help change the tide of the ongoing war.
„Now that China has entered the negotiation, it will come to a head, I think, by the end of the year,“ he said. „We will be talking about negotiating processes and even actual negotiations.“