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Murdered: Lawyer for Russian fighter kidnapped, 'drugged, wired to a bomb' in Ukraine

Lawyer Yury Grabovsky
© Stringer / Sputnik
Lawyer Yury Grabovsky
A lawyer who defended a Russian citizen accused in Ukraine of being a Russian terrorist has been killed. His body was found buried in a rural area three weeks after his disappearance in Kiev. The abductors allegedly used a bomb to keep him from escaping.

Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Evgeny Erofeev were detained last May in the rebel-controlled Lugansk Region in Eastern Ukraine. Kiev said they were agents for Russian military intelligence and charged them with a number of crimes, including waging an aggressive war against the country and terrorism, as it considers all rebels terrorists. Both the rebels and Moscow insist that the two Russian citizens were volunteers who joined the Ukrainian civil war after resigning from the Russian military.

A lawyer who defended a Russian citizen accused in Ukraine of being a Russian terrorist has been killed. His body was found buried in a rural area three weeks after his disappearance in Kiev. The abductors allegedly used a bomb to keep him from escaping.

Dollar

US Navy captain convicted in $34 million 'Fat Leonard' scandal

Capt. Daniel Dusek assumes command of USS Bonhomme Richard in this June 2012 file photo by US Navy Specialist 1st Class Terry Matlock.
© US Navy / Flickr
Capt. Daniel Dusek assumes command of USS Bonhomme Richard in this June 2012 file photo by US Navy Specialist 1st Class Terry Matlock.
A sordid tale of bribes, back-room deals, prostitution, and fraud has claimed the career of yet another US naval officer. Captain Daniel Dusek has become the highest-ranking officer to be convicted in what has become known as the "Fat Leonard" affair.

Dusek, 49, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on Friday for accepting cash, luxury travel, and prostitutes in exchange for re-routing his warship to ports controlled by a powerful contractor, Leonard Francis, known to the Navy as"Fat Leonard.

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King Abdullah boasts that Jordanian, Israeli F-16s confronted Russian jets in southern Syria

Jordanian fighter jet
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Military personnel watch a Jordanian fighter jet during a military demonstration at a joint training center in the city of Zarqa, northeast of the Jordanian capital, Amman, March 10, 2016.

King Abdullah II of Jordan has claimed that Jordanian jets helped Israeli warplanes confront Russian aircraft on the southern Syrian border at an unspecified time.

The Middle East Eye (MEE) news portal and Haaretz published the claim by Abdullah on Friday, saying the monarch had made the remarks to US Congressmen on January 11 without disclosing the date of the purported confrontation.

"We saw the Russians fly down, but they were met with Israeli and Jordanian F-16s," Abdullah (seen below) was cited as saying. "The Russians were shocked and understood they could not mess with us."

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SOTT Exclusive: Strategy of tension: Belgian locals report the murder of nuclear site guard & theft of his access key

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In late November of 2015, surveillance footage of a high-ranking nuclear official was found in the apartment of a suspect linked to the Paris attacks. What use ISIS could make of this footage is questionable, but its use for those pursuing a strategy of tension across Europe has become plain to see: Belgium's nuclear power plants are at risk - be terrified.

This is nothing new. Belgium's power plants have a history of being hacked into, shut down, and tampered with. German officials have complained that Belgium's nuclear power plants are 'falling to bits' while their constituents have been justifiably outraged over the sites' numerous failures. The 'incompetence' levels are so high that a former employee who "defected" to ISIS, fought in Syria, then got himself convicted on terrorism charges in 2014, has already been set free. In that very same plant, an unidentified man was able to simply walk up, turn a knob, drain 65,000 liters of oil, and shut down the entire plant for 5 months. With Chernobyl and Fukushima simmering in the mass psyche, this really doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. And, of course, one wonders if this isn't exactly the point.

Because now we see the headline on RT: Guard at 'terror target' Belgian nuclear site killed, access badge stolen - media
A security officer at a nuclear site was killed in the Belgian city of Charleroi two days after the terror attacks in Brussels, local newspaper Derniere Heure reported, citing police sources. The paper added that the man's security pass was stolen.

Snakes in Suits

Is America's top rogue mercenary out of control? Blackwater's Erik Prince is under Federal investigation

Erik Prince
Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor's operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater's top manager there issued a threat: "that he could kill" the government's chief investigator and "no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq," according to department reports.
- From the post: New York Times Reports - Blackwater Threatened to Kill a State Dept. Official and the U.S. Government Did Nothing

Bad Guys

LPR: Kiev inviting foreign mercenaries to take part in illegal war against Donbass

Luhansk After Shelling
© RIA Novosti. Valery Melnikov
Luhansk after shelling
On Wednesday, a foreign unit consisting of 70 people arrived in Stanitsa Luganskaya in eastern Ukraine, the official spokesman for LPR militias says

Ukraine's authorities are inviting foreign mercenaries to take part in the military operation in Donbass as part of Kiev forces, the official spokesman for militias of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic said on Thursday.

On Wednesday, a foreign unit consisting of 70 people arrived in Stanitsa Luganskaya in eastern Ukraine, Andrei Marochko said.

"The military speak a foreign language with each other, wear a black uniform and their faces are covered with a mask. These could be fighters of one of foreign private military companies," he was quoted by the LuganskInformCenter as saying.

Comment: As South Front reports, the military situation in Ukraine is 'detonating' as Kiev escalates their illegal war against the people of Donbass.Foreign mercenaries are an integral component of this, since the Ukrainian army has long since been demoralized by a psychopathic leadership that expects them to senselessly kill their neighbors.


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Ukraine now being compared to Liberia

Petro Poroshenko and Christine Lagarde
© Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
President Poroshenko knows money is needed.
Earlier this month while delivering a public lecture in Kiev, "The Challenges of an Ever-Changing World," former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an inspiring remark for anyone who might have been thinking that life in Ukraine was bad:

"You should go to Liberia where the standard of living is much lower, and then you will be thankful."

Ironically, Forbes Ukraine reacted to this with a slightly perplexed analysis that nonetheless led to a conclusion of flawless logic: "Although Liberia has one of the weakest economies in the world, it lags only slightly behind Ukraine with respect to a number of macroeconomic parameters," and the magazine supported its argument with some anemic statistics (failing however to mention that Liberia's 85% unemployment rate is far worse than Ukraine's, even today).

Comment: It would be an exaggeration to say that only the "love of liberty" has brought the Ukraine to where it is now, as it has been managed by the US State Department and allies for years. Without some financial aid from the IMF, it would probably not have gone this far. Unfortunately it is not even over yet.

The problems in Ukraine are many, for example: Problems in Ukraine are also problems for Europe.


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South Front: The Palmyra strategy in Syria; Kiev's escalation of crisis in East Ukraine

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International Military Review - Syria (Mar. 25)


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Utah teenager injured in Brussels airport bombing was in Boston and Paris when terror struck there

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Mason Wells, who was injured in Brussels Airport attack
The young man was part of a group of Mormon missionaries injured in Zavantem airport when he was caught up in his THIRD terrorist attack

A 19-year-old who was injured in the Brussels terror attacks yesterday had previously been in Boston and Paris when deadly bombings took place, according to his father.

Mason Wells was one of four Mormon missionaries caught up in the blasts in Zaventem airport yesterday, and escaped with a ruptured Achilles tendon, shrapnel injuries and burns, reports ABC news.

His father Chad told ABC that Mason was just a block away from the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon, in which his mother was competing, when a bomb detonated and killed three people - as well as injuring over 260.

The teen, from Utah in the USA, was also in Paris on November 13 when a series of co-ordinated terrorist attacks devastated the city, killing 129 people.

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Trump snuggles up to the Israelis in speech to AIPAC

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Here are the five most important aspects of Donald Trump's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, on Monday.

1 - Trump said he will "dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran."
My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran. I have been in business a long time. I know deal-making and let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic - for America, for Israel, and for the whole Middle East.
However, he stopped short of pledging to immediately nix the international nuclear accord signed in Vienna last year. He stated at AIPAC that "at the very least, we must hold Iran accountable by restructuring the terms of the previous deal."

Channelling the sentiments of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said Iran should suffer immediate consequences for likely violating U.N. Security Council resolution 2231 by conducting a series of ballistic missile tests in recent days. Netanyahu last week called for Western powers to take "immediate punitive steps" against Iran for the missile tests.

Trump stated:
The deal is silent on test missiles but those tests DO violate UN Security Council Resolutions. The problem is, no one has done anything about it. Which brings me to my next point - the utter weakness and incompetence of the United Nations.