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Violence and dozens of arson attacks in Copenhagen after anti-Islam politician throws Koran in migrant neighbourhood
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
More details on what Assange was up to with Chelsea Manning
The President of Ecuador may have accused Julian Assange of "spying" on rather dubious evidence, but a grand jury in the United States may be on firmer footing. A federal judge has unsealed the original criminal complaint against the Wikileaks founder, originally filed two years ago. It includes transcripts of online chats between Assange and Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning. And the charges make it sound as if the two of them were certainly conspiring to do something... but what?

A federal judge on Monday ordered the release of previously sealed documents filed in the case against Julian Assange, offering up new details about the U.S. government’s allegations against the WikiLeaks founder.

The original affidavit and criminal complaint were made public in a Virginia federal court for the first time since they were filed in 2017, and they include chat logs between Assange and former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.

Assange was arrested last week in London at the request of U.S. authorities, after the Ecuadorian government decided to stop allowing Assange to remain in their U.K. embassy. The Justice Department later unsealed its indictment against the WikiLeaks founder.


They're citing a number of logs of online chats between Manning and "the individual" cited in the criminal complaint. While Assange isn't named in the transcripts, they point to a number of statements aligning that individual with various events Assange attended and references to his activities at Wikileaks. Also, Manning later went on to say that it took him several months to figure out that he was actually communicating with Assange, but he eventually did.

So what was Assange talking about with Manning? Some of it is just what you would expect, but the portion standing out for the prosecution is an instance where Mr. Wikileaks was offering advice on how to crack a password that would give Manning access to a Defense Department network containing classified information. If true, that sounds like grounds for a conspiracy charge.

The unanswered question is whether or not Manning eventually was able to break into the system and if he extracted any classified documents. If that's the case, the conspiracy charge is taken to a new level. It's probably a fair bet that these are the questions prosecutors wanted Manning to answer before the grand jury last month, resulting in his current confinement in jail after he refused.

Assuming we manage to extradite Assange from London (still a major assumption since the Swedes are asking for him on sexual assault charges as well), it's going to be a barnburner of a trial. Everyone on the left claiming that Assange is a journalist will call this a witch hunt and a threat to the First Amendment. Critics of President Trump will be lined up to see if Assange has any dirt on the alleged Russian collusion story. And the woke protests in support of both Assange and Manning will fill cable news stories for months or years to come.
If Assange was working with Manning (a big if), his goose is cooked as far as the US in concerned. They may even throw more charges at Manning over this.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/16/2019 10:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe they can switch Manning back?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/16/2019 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe they can switch Manning back?

"Dicking the Dickless", so to speak?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2019 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  "what Assange was up to with Chelsea Manning"

No there's a headline to creep you out......8p
Posted by: Blossom the Obscure4695 || 04/16/2019 12:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd understood manning already had permissions and his treason was based primarily on opportunity. He could so he did.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/16/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Manning's lawyers actually put up the crazy plea at one time that all charges be dropped since Bradley Manning was a super-posited gender identity forced upon farm-girl Chelsea and doesn't really exist anymore.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/16/2019 16:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Marine running Boston Marathon for fallen comrades crawls across finish line
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Africa North
Counter-Terrorism Bureau Warns Israelis Of Terrorist Attacks In The Sinai
[Jpost] The Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned Israelis of a serious threat of terrorist attacks in the Sinai as it issued a travel warning, according to Mivzak Live.

The bureau told all Israelis living or visiting the Sinai to leave immediately. The director of the Foreign Ministry’s overseas department toured the Israel-Sinai border on Monday according to the report.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Arabia
Classified note confirms French weaponry in Yemen: Report
I’m not sure if this is important, but Al Ahram is exercised enough on the subject to post an article.
[AlAhram] French weapons are being used by the United Arab Emirates and 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...
in Yemen, according to a classified note revealed by French media on Monday which contradicts the claims of La Belle France's government.

The note from the French military intelligence service, published by new investigative media outlet Disclose, concluded that the UAE and Saudi Arabia deployed French weaponry from artillery to ships in their war against Houthis.

Under pressure from rights groups in La Belle France over the sales, the Gay Paree government has always insisted that French arms are only used in defensive circumstances to deter attacks by the Huthis.

La Belle France, the third-biggest arms exporter in the world, counts Saudi Arabia and the UAE as loyal clients in the Middle East, its biggest regional market in 2017.

Those two countries intervened in 2015 to support the Yemeni government against Houthis, which are backed by Iran, in a war that has left around 10,000 dead and pushed millions to the brink of starvation.

The UN calls the situation in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

ARTILLERY, TANKS, SHIPS, HELICOPTERS
The classified note -- provided to the French government in October 2018, according to Disclose -- said that 48 Caesar artillery guns manufactured by the Nexter group were being used along the Saudi-Yemen border.

Leclerc tanks, sold in the 1990s to the UAE, have also been used, as have Mirage 2000-9 fighter jets, while French missile-guiding technology called Damocles might have been deployed, according to the assessment.

Cougar transport helicopters and the A330 MRTT refuelling plane have also seen action, and two French ships are serving in the blockade of Yemeni ports which has led to food and medical shortages, the DRM military intelligence agency concluded.

Asked for comment by AFP, the French government said that "to our knowledge, the French weapons owned by members of the coalition are for the most part in defensive positions, outside of Yemen or in military bases, not on the frontline."

Disclose is a new investigative website working in partnership with established media companies including public broadcaster La Belle France Info, online brand Mediapart and Franco-German television channel Arte.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  France's primary war item sorely missing. Must be a white flag shortage at home.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/16/2019 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Leclerc tanks have been in Yemen with the first deployment of UAE forces.
Posted by: Pearl Brown6709 || 04/16/2019 22:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Good to know, Pearl Brown6709.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 22:42 Comments || Top||


Israeli delegation pulled out of Bahrain confab after threat from Shia terror group
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli delegation that canceled its participation at a conference in Bahrain this week pulled out of the business confab after a Shia terrorist group released a video directly threatening the Israeli participants.
Video can be seen at the link.
The video uploaded to social media by Saraya Waad Allah Militia showed kabooms targeting the hotel the delegation intended to stay at and the conference center where the Global Entrepreneurship Network was being held.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Europe
Finland’s Social Democrats win slim victory as far-right surges, on trend for European elections to come
[IsraelTimes] Finland’s leftist Social Democrats won a razor-thin victory in Sunday’s general election, holding off the far-right Finns Party which surged on an anti-immigration agenda.

With 100 percent of ballots counted, the Social Democrats, led by 56-year-old former trade union boss Antti Rinne, picked up 40 seats in parliament, after campaigning on a ticket of fierce opposition to the austerity imposed by the previous center-right government of Prime Minister Juha Sipila.

Meanwhile the Finns Party, which won 39 seats, had focused almost entirely on an anti-immigration agenda under the leadership of hardline MEP Jussi Halla-aho, who also decried the "climate hysteria" of the other parties.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Iran tells European partners to abide by conditions of nuclear deal
[Rudaw] Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claimed on Monday that Tehran is not prohibited from enriching uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, UN Security Council resolutions, or a global pact to prevent the spread of atomic arms. His comments come after a French diplomat implied that the Islamic Theocratic Republic is prohibited from enriching uranium.

"Reminder to our E3 partners in #JCPOA: There is NO prohibition on the enrichment of uranium by Iran under #NPT, #JCPOA or UNSCR 2231. Neither now, nor in 2025 or beyond," he tweeted. Iran summoned French ambassador to Tehran on Sunday protesting about the remarks by the French diplomat with Abbas Araqchi, the political deputy at the foreign ministry calling on the French government to make its position clear on the issue.

The "E3" refers to the European Union
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "There is NO prohibition on the enrichment of uranium by Iran"

There is NO prohibition on NOT wanting to trade with you.
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/16/2019 10:32 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IAI Redefines The Future Battlefield With Opal
[Jpost] Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has announced the launch of OPAL, an innovative solution that will redefine the battlefield by connecting all platforms in the battle arena, manned and unmanned alike.

"The OPAL solution provides an unprecedented range of proven capabilities and operational flexibility, which allows for optimal utilization of the available resources to maximize effectiveness for a wide range of missions. OPAL is installed in a variety of advanced fighters, attack helicopters, refueling aircrafts, UAVs, ships, Command and Control centers, as well as mobile and fixed-base stations," IAI said.

In today’s modern battlefield, the ability to share information and maintain continuous communication between different forces is vital for the success of any mission.

For example, the IDF has recently begun practicing on a new four-dimensional combined battle strategy called the "Gideon Battlegroup" in preparation for a possible war on its northern front with Hezbollah.

The Gideon Battlegroup, which was drilled on during the recent large-scale divisional exercise with the 36th Armored Division, will include an invisible battlefield network having 24 intelligence planes that can detect anything that emits a signal. Once that signal is detected and decoded, it’s exact location is found and turned into a target in a matter of seconds by the "smart trigger" system.

If in previous wars troops could visualize the enemy in one clear location, today’s enemy is decentralized and much harder to visualize. They have become time-sensitive targets which challenge the IDF to strike them immediately after they are detected, before they disappear once again.

OPAL is based on forming a decentralized communication cloud for all members to allow real time information sharing, the company said, explaining that the system "allows all members to exchange relevant information in order to achieve a comprehensive, common operational picture of the battlefield."

The system ‐ which is compatible with any platform including fighter jets, tanks, ships or ground troops ‐ relies on a secure and proven communication network that connects different networks and platforms without fixed-base stations.

It provides users with optimized effectiveness in accomplishing their mission goals by generating and sharing a Common Operating Picture in real time ‐ providing interoperability of fifth-generation fighter aircraft with legacy platforms, maximized utilization of resources and the ability to execute multiple missions within a given time frame.

By sharing threat data, ground forces can improve their survivability in danger zones; pilots will have enhanced flight safety with collision avoidance warning indicators, which provide visual avoidance maneuvers.

OPAL also "significantly reduces the time to introduce new capabilities on the platforms from years to months" by enabling users to develop new operational capabilities and rapidly deploy them without having to change any hardware or aircraft avionic software blocks.

"OPAL is a unique and advanced IAI development that has been operational for many years and is a major factor in operational successes. OPAL provides comprehensive interoperability of communications and operational capabilities between air and ground forces, and serves as a force multiplier," said Yossi Melamed, executive vice president and general manager of Aviation Group. "I believe it will be a major asset for air, sea and ground users, and enhance their performance in the future battlefield."
...assuming it isn’t hacked, of course"
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2019 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Reminiscent of Google's federated learning AI.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2019 6:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice but anything can be hacked.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/16/2019 6:50 Comments || Top||

#4  That's what I worry about. Sure these systems are great but they will start to be relied on and then when not if they get hacked, they are going to lose quite a bit of effectiveness. It won't be a massive hit, but it will happen. I expect that the Israelis WILL force their troops to conduct training both with and without for just that reason.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/16/2019 10:55 Comments || Top||


Palestinian security prisoners end hunger strike over cellphones
[IsraelTimes] After weeks of tension over Prisons Service jamming devices, Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, inmates to hand in some 300 smuggled phones, get access to public telephones.

A hunger strike by dozens of Paleostinian security prisoners belonging to the Hamas terror group has come to an end after Israeli officials reportedly agreed to install public telephones in their prison wards.

"An agreement in principle has been reached between the prisoners and the management of the occupation’s prisons regarding their demands," the Paleostinian Prisoners Club said on its Facebook page on Monday.
"And we were hungry. But mostly because we got hungry"
According to representatives of the prisoners who spoke with Hebrew media, the hunger strike, launched by some 150 Hamas prisoners on April 8, formally concluded after Israel agreed to install public telephones in the 44 prison wards where the security prisoners are kept, and to allow prisoners to make regular, supervised calls to their families.

Citing Israeli officials, Channel 12 said Monday the agreement only permitted calls to first-degree relatives, and prisoners have accepted the condition that the calls would be listened to by security officials.
"ombBay the oolSchay usBay"
The strike began after the Israel Prisons Service installed cellular jamming devices in the wards to prevent prisoners from using smuggled cellphones. The IPS said some 300 contraband cellphones, some carrying messages between terror cells, had been smuggled into the wards in recent months. The cellphones were being used to coordinate terror attacks, and had been implicated in at least 14 recent attempts at coordinating attacks from inside Israeli prisons, the IPS said.

Reports on the agreement Monday were not entirely consistent. Some Paleostinian sources suggested to the Haaretz daily that Israel had agreed to remove the jamming devices in wards where cellphones were handed over to prison officials. Israeli sources told other outlets the jamming devices would not be removed, as future phone smuggling could not be ruled out, but public phones would be made available to prisoners.

In exchange for the installation of the public phones, the prisoners have agreed to hand over all smuggled cellphones, the reports said.

When the strike began, prisoners were also demanding the reinstating of family visits from the Hamas-ruled Gazoo Strip. It is not yet clear if Israel has acquiesced to this demand in the new agreement.

The hunger strike began in Ketziot and Rimon prisons after talks to avert it collapsed.

The PLO’s Prisoners Affairs Commission said in a statement last week that additional groups of prisoners in other prisons would join the initial group of striking prisoners "in the coming days," the PA’s official Wafa news agency reported.

The row over incarceration conditions has recently sparked violence, including riots at Ketziot Prison that, according to the Paleostinian Prisoners Club, left 120 prisoners hurt in altercations throughout February and March.

Twice last month, Hamas prisoners violently attacked guards at Ketziot Prison, with one guard sustaining serious injuries from a stab wound to his neck on March 3. In the second attack, inmates used shanks to stab guards while the prisoners were being moved between cells, sparking a riot in the prison.

The Prisoners Club said the Israel Prisons Service responded by completely isolating several prisoners involved in the post-stabbing riot in "very dire conditions," stripping them of their personal belongings, family visitation rights and interactions with other prisoners.

The IPS said that 11 prisoners were maimed and hospitalized after security forces quelled the violent March 3 riot. Seven of the prisoners were airlifted to hospitals by the IDF, the Haaretz daily reported at the time.

In late February, Hamas prisoners in Ramon Prison torched 14 beds, setting a fire in the wing. The blaze was quickly extinguished and no injuries were reported. In that incident, too, prisoners were protesting restrictions on cellphone usage.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian border guards opened fire on an Afghan family


Posted by: 3dc || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Home Front: Culture Wars
Sanctuary Cities Welcome Illegal Aliens with ‘Open Arms' While 38K American Veterans Remain Homeless
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/16/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Lib SJWs are not welcoming them. They want someone else to, particularly red states so they can turn blue. The Libs just want Moralistic Preening
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Cher - "We can't take care of our own"
Trump - "I agree with Cher"
Cher - incomprehensible Chernobyl meltdown
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2019 18:09 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2019-04-16
  Violence and dozens of arson attacks in Copenhagen after anti-Islam politician throws Koran in migrant neighbourhood
Mon 2019-04-15
  Notre Dame Cathedral is burning
Sun 2019-04-14
  Taliban’s shadow governor for Helmand succumbs to injuries sustained in an airstrike
Sat 2019-04-13
  Algerian police fire water cannon at protesters
Fri 2019-04-12
  Sudan President al-Bashir officially arrested
Thu 2019-04-11
  Ecuador withdraws asylum from Julian Assange, arrested by UK police
Wed 2019-04-10
  Election Council Rejects Erdogan's Party Demand for Full Istanbul Recount
Tue 2019-04-09
  Maryland man accused of stealing U-Haul truck in 'ISIS-inspired attack'
Mon 2019-04-08
  Major showdown brewing in Tripoli as rival Libyan forces clash near capital city
Sun 2019-04-07
  Libya U.S. forces supporting U.S. Africa Command temporarily relocated
Sat 2019-04-06
  Egypt kills hundreds of suspected militants in disputed gun battles
Fri 2019-04-05
  German police arrest teen who says he planned shooting
Thu 2019-04-04
  Libya’s General Haftar marches on Tripoli
Wed 2019-04-03
  Bouteflika resigns
Tue 2019-04-02
  US suspends F-35 deliveries to Turkey over Russian S-400 deal

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