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Iran's Rouhani may meet Obama at UN, would be first meeting of two countries' leaders since 1979

Julien Borger
The Guardian
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:06 UTC
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© Sasha Mordovets/GettyIran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, meeting Russia's President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, last week.
First meeting of US and Iranian leaders since 1979 revolution could open way to diplomatic end to Iranian nuclear standoff

An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between a US and Iranian leader since Iran's 1979 revolution.

Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague, is also due to meet his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the UN general assembly meeting in New York, adding to guarded optimism that the June election of Rouhani, a Glasgow-educated moderate, and his appointment of a largely pragmatic cabinet, has opened the door to a diplomatic solution to the 11-year international standoff over Iran's nuclear programme.

Tehran took the Foreign Office by surprise, tweeting on Rouhani's English-language feed that the president would also be prepared to meet Hague, something the UK had not even requested.
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MIB

Best of the Web: Team of three gunmen shoots up navy yard in Washington DC, 13 people dead

Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis & Spencer Ackerman
The Guardian
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:09 UTC
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© Tim Hogan/@timjhoganA Twitter user tweeted this photo showing an injured person in the area of the Washington Navy Yard.
A naval base in the heart of Washington DC was rocked by a mass shooting on Monday after at least one gunman opened fire and left 13 people dead, in the worst attack on a military base in the US since the Fort Hood killings in 2009.

As authorities struggled to piece together the details of what happened at the Washington navy yard, Barack Obama said the victims had faced "unimaginable violence".

Washington's police chief, Cathy Lanier, said one attacker died at the scene, and issued descriptions of two other gunmen suspected of being involved. But she was unable to say definitively whether anyone was responsible for the shooting beyond the gunman who had died.

It was unclear whether reports of further assailants came from early confusion at the scene or pointed to evidence of a planned and co-ordinated attack. Minutes after she spoke, police said one of the two remaining suspects had been ruled out of the investigation.

Vincent Gray, the Democratic mayor of Washington, said the motive for the shootings was unknown, but that he had no information to indicate that it was an act of terrorism.

Comment: Is the U.S. shadow government behind this one too?

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Obama downplaying fears that Putin is 'playing America' on Syria

Jake Miller
CBS News
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:34 UTC
Obama
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President Obama lent ample credence to skeptics who worry that Russia won't deal squarely in negotiations over Syrian chemical weapons during an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week," but he downplayed the fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "playing" America, insisting Russia has a vested interest in a stable Syria.

"I don't think that Mr. Putin has the same values that we do, and I think, obviously, by protecting Mr. Assad, he has a different attitude about the Assad regime," Mr. Obama said in the interview, which was conducted on Friday, before Washington and Moscow reached a tentative agreement to secure and destroy Syria's chemical stockpile..

"But what I've also said to him directly is that we both have an interest in preventing chaos, we both have an interest in preventing terrorism. The situation in Syria right now is untenable, as long as Mr. Assad's in power, there is gonna be some sort of conflict there," the president explained. "And I think there's a way for-- Mr. Putin, despite me and him having a whole lot of differences, to play an important role in that. And so I welcome him being involved. I welcome him saying, 'I will take responsibility for pushing my client, the Assad regime-- to deal with these chemical weapons.'"


Comment: More of the same tired narrative and hypocrisy. Claiming to be interested in "preventing terrorism", while funding and supporting the rebels that are bringing terror to the Syrian population. Claiming a wish to prevent chaos, while calling for a direct U.S. military strike the results of which are completely unpredictable.

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Stormtrooper

Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden says terrorists love using Gmail

Andrea Peterson
The Washington Post
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:02 UTC
Michael Hayden
© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesNational "Security"
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden stood on the pulpit of a church across from the White House on Sunday and declared Gmail the preferred online service of terrorists. As part of an adult education forum at St. John's Episcopal Church, Hayden gave a wide ranging speech on "the tension between security and liberty."

During the speech, he specifically defended Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA), which provides the legal basis for the PRISM program. In doing so, Hayden claimed "Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terrorists worldwide," presumably meaning online service rather than the actual provider of Internet service. He added: "I don't think you're going to see that in a Google commercial, but it's free, it's ubiquitous, so of course it is."


Comment: Given the broad definitions used to define "terrorists" and suspicious "terror related" keywords monitored by the NSA, it is increasingly difficult not to fall under suspicion. Naturally under those terms, the largest services providers will yield the most "terrorists"!

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Stormtrooper

Russian Navy is back 'forever' to the Arctic waters off Siberia


The Siberian Times
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:33 UTC
Permanent patrols commence led by the heavy nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy.
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© 'Pyotr Velikiy' cruiser, courtesy Western Military District Northern Fleet press serviceAn all-year military airfield on the Novosibirsk Islands is also planned, according to RIA Novosti.
The Arctic is seen by all Northern countries as strategically important with vast untapped oil and gas wealth. Recently, a naval task forces began exercises around the Novosibirsk Islands.

'We arrived there or, more accurately, we have returned there forever,' announced Deputy Defence Minister Arkady Bakhin after a teleconference chaired by Defenсe Minister Sergei Shoigu. As well as the Pyotr Velikiy, the task force comprises the large amphibious assault ships Olenegorsky Gornyak and Kondopoga plus support vessels.
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USA

Syria 'rebels' threaten to murder UN inspectors with weapons U.S. gave to them

Tony Carlucci
Land Destroyer Report
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:20 UTC
Syrian rebels rocket launcher
© UnknownSyrian rebel fighters look at a multi-rocket launcher in Tal Abyadh, a Syrian town close to the Turkish border.
Terrorists operating in Syria have threatened to "block" UN inspectors, any bloodshed will be on the hands of the US who is now openly arming them.

In Reuters' "Syrian Rebels Slam U.S.-Russia Deal, Say Assad Is Moving Chemical Weapons To Lebanon And Iraq," Qassim Saadeddine of the so-called "Free Syrian Army" rejected the recent Syrian-Russian proposal to turn over Syria's chemical weapons for independent verification and destruction, vowing to block UN inspectors should they enter Syria to carry out the task.

Reuters reported:
Qassim Saadeddine, said: "Let the Kerry-Lavrov plan go to hell. We reject it and we will not protect the inspectors or let them enter Syria."
In carrying out these overt threats, the terrorist front will be using US-provided arms, equipment and vehicles, as admitted by US officials in recent weeks. The Washington Post's article, "U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels," reported:
The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear - a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria's civil war.
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Stormtrooper

Western armed and sponsored 'rebels' in Syria admit killing 30 Alawites


Press TV
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:15 UTC
Syria mass killings
© Unknown
Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists in Syria say they are targeting members of the Alawite community in the country, adding that they massacred dozens of Alawites in three Homs villages last week.

On Sunday, terrorist group Al-Nusra Front claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attacks in which at least 30 Alawites, including several women, children and elderly men, were shot dead in cold blood.

Al-Nusra said in an internet statement that its militants entered the villages of Massudiyeh, Maksar al-Hissan and Jab al-Jerah in Homs province and carried out the massacre.

The group said one of its jurists asked them to slay Alawites whom he called "enemies of God".

"... this was the first time these villages were entered and such a high number was killed," it added.

Last month, Abu Mohammad al-Golani, a commander of al-Nusra, threatened to target Alawites with rockets.

"On top of that we will prepare a thousand rockets that will be fired on their towns in revenge for the Damascus Ghouta massacre," he said in an audio recording posted on YouTube on August 25.

Al-Nusra and other militant groups fighting against the Syrian government and people accuse Damascus of launching the August 21 chemical weapons attack which they claimed killed about 1400 people.


Comment: Killed just for belonging to a different religion.


Comment: War crimes and sectarian violence sponsored by the West

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Vader

UN inspectors confirm use of Chemical weapons in Syria


Press TV
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:00 UTC
Ake Sellstrom and Ban Ki-Moon
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The United Nations inspectors have confirmed the use of chemical weapons in an attack near the Syrian capital last month.

According to the inspectors' report, expected to be released by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon later on Monday, environmental, chemical and medical samples show that surface-to-surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus on August 21.
"The conclusion is that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic ... against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale," says the report by UN inspectors.
The detail was inadvertently leaked when the first page of the report was included in an official picture of head of the UN investigators, Ake Sellstrom, showing him handing over the report to the UN chief.

Ban was scheduled to brief the Security Council on the report on Monday. He is then expected to address the media.


Comment: The question is still who used it! No evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, but ample of evidence that points to the Syrian "rebels".

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Pistol

Unarmed man, possibly looking for help after wreck, shot by Charlotte, NC police


CBS News
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:22 UTC
Randall Kerrick
© Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Randall Kerrick
An unarmed man who may have been looking for help after a vehicle wreck was shot and killed by a police officer Saturday as he ran toward him, police said. The officer was later charged with voluntary manslaughter.

A statement issued by police said officers responded to a breaking and entering call on the city's east side around 2:30 a.m. Someone had knocked on the door of a residence, and the homeowner opened the door, thinking it was her husband. When she discovered it wasn't, she closed the door and called 911.

When officers arrived, they found Jonathan A. Ferrell, 24, a short distance from the home, and he matched a description given by the homeowner, police said.
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Pistol

Cops shoot two innocent female bystanders on Broadway

Elizabeth Ferguson and Erin Calabrese
New York Post
Sun, 15 Sep 2013 10:22 UTC
Cops trying to subdue an emotionally disturbed man with a long rap sheet accidentally shot two female bystanders outside Port Authority Bus Terminal on Saturday night, source said.

Theodora Ray, 54, was struck in her leg - breaking two bones in her calf - as she stood leaning on her four-wheeled walker across from the terminal; Sahara Khoshakhlagh, 35, was grazed in her buttocks.

Two cops pulled off a total of three shots in the mistaken belief that the deranged Glen Broadnax, 35, was armed after he reached into his pocket as they approached him, officials said.
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