Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 11:37:00 AM CET
Schwerer Fehler von historischer Dimension - Kritik an deutscher Libyen-Politik
Sie sprechen von "historischem Zynismus", von einem Fehler mit "unvermeidlichen Spätfolgen": Ungewöhnlich scharf kritisieren Unionsvertreter im SPIEGEL das Verhalten der Bundesregierung in der Libyen-Krise.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Anger in Syria
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 10:40:00 AM CET
Three Revolutions, One Photographer
Photographer Reflects on 'Epic' Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World
Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the war in Iraq. Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - was his most dangerous.
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Topic: EU - on March 26, 2011 at 10:18:00 AM CET
Strasser - Affäre: Betrugsbekämpfer und EU-Parlament streiten
Die EU-Betrugsbekämpfungsbehörde OLAF und das Europaparlament streiten über die Durchsuchung der Büros der EU-Abgeordneten, die in den von der „Sunday Times“ aufgebrachten Bestechungsskandal verwickelt sind, darunter der zurückgetretene ÖVP-Delegationsleiter Ernst Strasser.
OLAF erklärte gestern Abend, die Betrugsbekämpfer hätten bereits am Dienstag Beweismaterial in den Büros sammeln wollen, die Parlamentsbehörden hätten den Zugang unter Hinweis auf die vom EU-Parlament eingeleitete interne Untersuchung der Affäre jedoch verweigert. EU-Parlamentspräsident Jerzy Buzek habe am Vortag schriftlich Erklärungen über die Ermittlungszuständigkeit von OLAF verlangt. OLAF habe seine juristische Rechtfertigung für sein Ermittlungsmandat heute dargelegt.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 10:08:00 AM CET
Libya rebels 'recapture key town' - Ajdabiya
Libyan rebels backed by allied air raids say they have seized control of the frontline oil town of Ajdabiya from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
The BBC's Ben Brown in Ajdabiya says there are scenes of jubilation among the insurgents.
Gaddafi loyalists seized the town last week as they advanced east to quell an uprising now in its fifth week.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 9:41:00 AM CET
Das Bombengeschäft - Mehrere neue Systeme, darunter der "Eurofighter", werden erstmals im Kampf eingesetzt - und so im Einsatz vorgeführt.
Die Meldung klang, als wäre ein westliches Kampfflugzeug endlich einem echten Gegner im libyschen Luftraum begegnet: Eine französische "Rafale"-Maschine habe ein libysches Jagdflugzeug abgeschossen, meldete der US-Nachrichtensender ABC. Später entpuppte sich der vermeintliche Jäger allerdings als Soko "Galeb" - ein altes Trainingsflugzeug, das in den sechziger Jahren in Jugoslawien entwickelt wurde und auch als leichter Bomber eingesetzt werden kann.
Die "Galeb" besitzt keinerlei Waffen für den Luftkampf und wäre einer "Rafale" schutzlos ausgeliefert. Doch selbst ein Luftsieg über einen derart unterlegenen Gegner war der "Rafale" nicht vergönnt: Frankreichs Generalstab musste später einräumen, dass die "Galeb" erst nach der Landung durch eine Luft-Boden-Rakete zerstört wurde.
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 26, 2011 at 9:37:00 AM CET
OpenBSD Founder Blames Contractor, Not FBI, For Backdoor Plant
The founder of OpenBSD now believes that a firm was probably contracted to put backdoors in the project code
OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has pointed the finger of suspicion at a contractor, and not the FBI, for planting a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD
The founder of the OpenBSD project said that he believes a firm was “probably contracted” by the government to write backdoors in the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF).
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 26, 2011 at 9:33:00 AM CET
Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries Guess how many Arab countries? EIGHT!
Microsoft appears to have turned off the always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Hotmail users who have set their location to any of these countries receive the following error message when they attempt to turn on the always-use-HTTPS feature in order to read their mail securely:
"Your Windows Live ID can't use HTTPS automatically because this feature is not available for your account type."
Journalists and others whose lives may be in danger due oppressive net monitoring in those countries may wish to use HTTPS everywhere and are also encouraged to migrate to non-Microsoft email providers, like Yahoo and Google." https-everywhere [eff.org]
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 25, 2011 at 6:10:00 PM CET
Libya, Yemen, Syria: The hierarchy of despotism
As we stare at screens lit up by another precision-guided Middle Eastern war — and this has already gone far beyond Washington's "humanitarian no-fly zone" euphemism — take a moment and look to Libya's east.
Yemen's increasingly desperate dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has deployed tanks against his own people. Last Friday, government snipers killed about 50 protesters after midday prayers. The sharpshooters, it was reported, targeted their heads.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 25, 2011 at 5:57:00 PM CET
Canadian to command NATO's Libya mission
A senior White House official says a Canadian will take over command of the NATO mission in Libya.
The official says Lt.-Gen. Charles Bouchard, stationed in Naples, has been designated by NATO as head of the alliance's military campaign in Libya.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 25, 2011 at 5:53:00 PM CET
West strikes Libya forces, NATO sees 90-day campaign
Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi's armor in eastern Libya on Friday to try to break a battlefield stalemate and help rebels take the strategic town of Ajdabiyah.
The African Union said it was planning to facilitate talks to help end war in the oil producing country. But NATO said its no-fly zone operation could last three months, and France cautioned the conflict would not end soon.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 25, 2011 at 5:26:00 PM CET
Bahrain's Foreign Police Add to Tensions
Bahrain's ruling family is moving to shore up its security forces with more recruits from Pakistan, in a move that risks further stoking nationalist and sectarian tensions in the Persian Gulf state. The Al Khalifa family, Sunni Muslims who rule over a Shiite-majority population, have long relied on recruits from Sunni-majority countries such as Pakistan, Jordan and Yemen to fill the ranks of their police forces. As antigovernment protests have flared in Bahrain, culminating in a violent crackdown last week, the monarchy has turned again to Pakistan military-linked foundations to find recruits for its security forces.
This month, Bahrani recruiters for the National Guard, a paramilitary body, signed up 1,000 new security personnel during road shows in Pakistan, according to officials with military foundations in Pakistan that organized the recruitment.
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