[Libya Herald] Misrata Municipal Council is to investigate the status of people being held prisoner in the city and also that of the places they are being detained as well.
Misrata Mayor Mohammed Eshtewi has appointed a committee to look into the cases both of prisoners who have already spent a period of time incarcerated and of those against whom no clear evidence of guilt has been shown. The aim in to get them released as soon as possible.
The 28-member committee will also investigate the status of prisons.
The existence of militia-run prisons in Libya has come in for strong criticism from human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organizations, with threats that those involved could be referred to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... . The Draft peace plan issued by UN Special Envoy Bernardino Leon also calls for an end to such prisons. Article 28 specifically commits Libya "to ensure that the power to hold detainees and prisoners is exclusive to the competent judicial authorities and in officially recognised facilities".
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... a court in Misrata has sentenced, in absentia, Ahmed Al-Abdali death for incitement to kill protesters in Misrata during the revolution and providing weapons for the task to Qadaffy supporters. Life sentences for using violence against protestors were also handed to Abu Ajila Salem Tibar, Khaled Najeh, Rabih Eshtewi, Ali Abdullah Al-Hais, Abubaker Abdullah Al-Hais and Jadallah Abdulaziz.
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[Libya Herald] Zliten is the latest town to warn that its medical services are under threat because of the political crisis. The municipal council has issued a statement saying that health services in the town are collapsing and that the government (in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ), the Ministry of Health and Audit Bureau were morally and legally responsible for the current astate of affairs. .
It said it was deeply concerned with the situation in Zliten Teaching Hospital which is short of both medical supplies and staff as a result of the crisis. Many nurses and other auxilliary staff have left the country because of the current state of affairs.
The hospital serves more than a quarter of a million people, the council said, both in Zlintan municipality and in surrounding areas.
Last week, the hospital at Esbieh, 15 kilometres south of Tripoli International Airport, announced it was closing its doors to new patients. It cited numerous problems, from the departure of foreign staff and the non-payment of salaries to doctors, resulting in them stopping work, to a lack of medicines and equipment. There were no more laboratory technicians, the X-ray and CT-scan department was unable to work because it had no more film, and the emergency department had no drugs.
The hospital director, Dr Al-Mabrouk Al-Maati, likewise blamed the Health Ministry and the government in Tripoli for the situation.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The man visible on the block's control room monitor, pacing his small cell in uniform grey robe, is one of a rising number of security prisoners in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , where the wars in Syria and Iraq have led to a surge in domestic jihadist activity.
Until last year, the population of inmates at security prisons like Ha'er, just south of Riyadh, had been dropping as those detained during an al Qaeda uprising a decade ago were gradually released.
But as anger has grown in the kingdom over what many Saudis see as oppression of their fellow Sunnis in Iraq and Syria by Shi'ite Moslems, an increasing number of young Saudis have sworn to help by taking up arms themselves.
As of March, nearly 2,300 Saudis had traveled to Syria to join jihadist groups like Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and Nusra Front, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry.
In recent months, fear has grown of attacks at home by Sunni snuffies on Saudi Arabia's own Shi'ite minority, found mainly in Eastern Province where much of the country's oil wealth is found. Islamic State has grabbed credit for two attacks on Shi'ite mosques in eastern Saudi Arabia in May that killed 25 people.
In the security prisons, the number of inmates had fallen by nearly 60 percent to just 2,289 in November 2013 from a high of 5,501 in December 2010. Today, there are 4,209 security prisoners, said Ha'er Prison's director, Colonel Mohammed "Abu Salman", who for security reasons preferred to give his nickname instead of a family name.
Early last year the government, which backs the fight against Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... but regards some of the jihadist groups in the opposition as a threat, decreed tough sentences for any citizens who joined the cause themselves.
"I was just one of the young guys who went to fight. My cousin's mother was Syrian so I wanted to help," said a 25-year old with dark flowing hair and a cheerful face sitting up in bed in the prison's hospital wing.
He was shot in the back by a sniper in Syria's Idlib province after spending two years with Nusra Front and is paralyzed from the waist down. Like other inmates, he was forbidden by the prison authorities from giving his name to visiting news hounds.
YOUNG FIGHTERS
Many of the prisoners sitting on benches in an exercise yard, in the prison hospital, in the library or in shared cells, were young and fresh faced. They said they had gone to Syria by themselves after watching news reports and social media propaganda.
One group, enjoying the night air in a courtyard with high walls and astroturf floor, included a 17-year old with braces still on his teeth and an 18-year old who had started traveling to Syria before changing his mind and turning himself in.
Sitting with them was a slight, bearded 27-year old from al-Kharj, just south of Riyadh, who spent six months fighting with the Muhajirin, a jihadist group formerly associated with Islamic State.
He chose to return because he was worried about his wife and daughters, and was locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on arrival in Jeddah airport, he said.
"It was news and videos online that convinced me to go to Syria. I went from Riyadh airport to Egypt and then, after three days, on to Istanbul. Then I flew to Hatta and the smugglers were waiting there at the airport, asking for money to take us across to Syria," he said.
Another member of the group, who was older and smiled less, had spent 10 years in Afghanistan. He was from an earlier generation of Saudi snuffies whose motives also included a desire to help fellow Moslems, but whose goals were more explicitly anti-Western and rooted in religion.
In a psychiatric clinic in the medical block, a handcuffed prisoner with white skull cap was from the same generation. He had spent 11 years in prison, convicted of terrorism, and had two still to serve. When he rose to shake hands, his skin was clammy and very cold.
NEW TACTICS
Unlike al Qaeda a decade ago, Islamic State does not have an elaborate network of members inside Saudi Arabia, said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst with close ties to the Saudi Interior Ministry.
Instead it plans attacks, like the two May suicide kabooms at Shi'ite mosques, from abroad and then communicates electronically with sympathizers inside the kingdom who provide logistical help to its few trained, committed operatives.
The technique means attacks are less likely to come off because they rely on less-skilled people, but also makes it harder for the authorities to use arrests to roll up an entire group of myrmidons, Alani said.
Several of the bearded young men in the cell block were there not for trying to fight in Syria but for performing just such menial logistical assistance to runaways or other suspected myrmidons, such as giving them shelter or money.
They are now used to the long prison corridors of grey tile and whitewashed walls, the pervasive smell of sweat and cleaning fluids and the food delivered in plastic wrappings through a slot in the cell door.
After release from the prison, they will go through Saudi Arabia's myrmidon rehabilitation program, courses with psychiatrists and religious sheikhs that starts within the security prison itself.
Down another empty corridor a glimpse into one of the half dozen occupied interrogation cells showed a stocky, handcuffed man, his blindfold around his neck, waiting to be interviewed. For him, the gates of Ha'er prison are still opening.
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[RFE/RL] Chechnya's parliament has unanimously elected presidential and government administration head Magomed Daudov as its new speaker. Daudov, aka Lord, succeeds Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, who died last month.
Daudov, one of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's most trusted associates, is a controversial figure. He reportedly fought against Russian forces in the early 2000s under the direct command of radical field commander Shamil Basayev before surrendering in 2004 and pledging his loyalty to Kadyrov. Indeed, Kadyrov himself is said to have told a visiting Russian State Duma delegation in 2009 that Daudov was a former insurgent.
Unconfirmed reports say it was Daudov, then a district police chief, who commanded the operation in June 2006 in which Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, Aslan Maskhadov’s successor as Chechen Republic Ichkeria president, was killed. He has also been implicated in the detention in February 2010 of human rights activists who sought to help the families of Chechens who had been seized by security forces.
It was Daudov who escorted 17-year-old Kheda Goylabiyeva to her controversial wedding last May to a district police chief old enough to be her father. He was subsequently quoted as advocating the legalization of bigamy within the framework of Islamic law.
[DAWN] KARACHI: An eyewitness on Monday picked out Umair Siddiqui -- said to be a Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) worker -- during an identification parade before a judicial magistrate in a case pertaining to the killing of a Rangers man.
Siddiqui, along with several others, is facing trial over the killing of Rangers Lance Naik Shaukat near the Suparco office within the jurisdiction of the Mobina Town cop shoppe in 2010.
Take a look: Paramilitary soldier, two political activists rubbed out in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
The accused was produced before a judicial magistrate amidst tight security today during which an eye-witness identified him as one of the shooters involved in the killing of the Rangers man.
Siddiqui was identified among nineteen others. After the completion of the identification parade, the accused was returned to police custody.
Siddiqui came under media spotlight following his arrest earlier this year after which he allegedly confessed to 120 murders before a joint investigation team.
Siddiqui allegedly also confessed that MQM Sector In-charge Rehman Bhola was the man behind the deadly 2012 Baldia Town fire that consumed at least 258 factory workers.
MQM chief Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... had diassociated himself from Siddiqui, saying that false statements were being coerced out of those locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by the Rangers.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An Iranian nuclear agreement is possible this week if Iran makes the "hard choices" necessary, but if not, the United States stands ready to walk away from the negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said on Sunday.
Speaking during a break from one of his four meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday, Kerry said they had made "genuine progress" in talks over the last few days but "several of the most difficult issues" remain.
"If hard choices get made in the next couple of days, made quickly, we could get an agreement this week, but if they are not made we will not," he said in Vienna, where talks between Iran, the United States and five other powers are being held.
Foreign ministers from Britannia, China, La Belle France, Germany and Russia began arriving on Sunday evening as the major powers make a push to meet Tuesday's deadline for a final agreement to end the 12-year-old dispute.
Kerry said negotiators were still aiming for that deadline, but other diplomats have said the talks could slip to July 9, the date by which the B.O. regime must submit a deal to Congress in order to get an expedited, 30-day review.
The agreement under discussion would require Iran to curb its most sensitive nuclear work for a decade or more in exchange for relief from sanctions that have slashed its oil exports and crippled its economy.
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kerry must not have liked Iran's proposal that he dress up in a chicken suit for the signing of the agreement
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Have the Iranians stopped laughing yet?
ValJar wants Iran to get the bomb. Obama and Kerry want a Legacy so bad they will sell the safety of Millions and consider it a bargain.
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Vienna brothels are claiming that business is great every time the Iranian delegation is in town for the Nuke Talks.
Anyhoo,
* RUSSIA TODAY > IRAN TO [still] FACE RESTRICTIONS ON [Ballistic] MISSLE PROGRAMS [+ also Conventional Weapons Progs] EVEN IFF NUCLEAR DEAL AGREED: US.
versus
* SAME > IRAN, P5+1 TO REACH AGREEMENT NO LATER THAN JULY 8 - IRANIAN DELEGATION.
Iran Officio claims or says the date of July 8th cannot be abridged or amended.
* TOPIX, BIGNEWSNETWORK > IRAN SUPREME AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI TELLS NEGOTIATORS NOT TO SIGN NUCLEAR DEAL UNLESS SANCTIONS LIFTED, i.e. UN Arms Embargo + all Econ Sanctions.
Khamenei wants it all gone.
* MANILA TIMES > IRAN TALKS SET TO MISS SECOND DEADLINE.
versus
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [USNWR] IFF NORTH KOREA GOT NUCLEAR WEAPONS [despite US-led UN, International Sanctions being in place], SO IRAN CAN TOO.
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Vienna brothels are claiming that business is great every time the Iranian delegation is in town for the Nuke Talks.
Well Kerry and the Secret Service are usually there at the same time so between the two groups...
The Iranians are in a win-win situation. If the talks fail they've gained that much more time (and even more because Kerry will beg them to come back to the table) and if the talks succeed they still get to develop nukes.
[WIRED] THE FBI IS one of the clients who bought hacking software from the private Italian spying agency Hacking Team, which was itself the victim of a recent hack. It's long been suspected that the FBI used Hacking Team's tools, but with the publication yesterday of internal documents, invoices, emails and even product source code from the company, we now have the first concrete evidence that this is true.
The FBI is not in good company here. According to several spreadsheets within the hacked archive, which contain a list of Hacking Team's customers, many of the other governments who bought the same software are repressive regimes, such as Sudan and Bahrain. The documents show that the FBI first purchased the company's "RCS" in 2011. RCS stands for "Remote Control Service," otherwise known as "Galileo," Hacking Team's premiere spy product.
RCS is a simple piece of hacking software that has been used by the Æthiopian regime to target journalists based in Washington DC. It has also been detected in an attack on a Moroccan media outlet, and a human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist from the United Arab Emirates.
Once a target's computer has been infected, RCS is able to siphon off data, and listen in on communications before they have been encrypted. According to researchers based at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, who have monitored the use of RCS throughout the world, the tool can also "record Skype calls, e-mails, instant messages, and passwords typed into a Web browser." To top that off, RCS is also capable of switching on a target's web camera and microphone.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
International Criminal Court
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
