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'No other place to take them': Devastated Mosul hospital struggling to treat injured patients


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:03 UTC
A doctor checks an Iraqi girl at a hospital in Qayyara, Iraq
© Suhaib Salem / ReutersA doctor checks an Iraqi girl at a hospital in Qayyara, Iraq.
A hospital near western Mosul is struggling to operate again after the devastation left behind by retreating Islamic State fighters. For many civilians hurt in the crossfire as Iraqi forces are fighting to take the city from the jihadists, it's the only place to come for treatment.

The Qayyara hospital is located in a small town some 60km south from Mosul. It was fully liberated from IS (formerly ISIS/ISIL) in August 2016, but the Islamists made sure to live nothing valuable behind.

"Unfortunately, as you saw, the hospital was completely destroyed. All the instruments, equipment and all their beds were stolen and the things they couldn't steal, such as the machine behind me, they broke it before they ran away," Dr. Mansour Maarouf told RT as he showed the camera crew around the premises.
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Passport

Journalist investigation finds suspected Stockholm truck attacker involved in 'extensive ID trade' in Sweden


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:55 UTC
Swedish security
© Bjorn Lindgren / Reuters
An Uzbek citizen who is the suspect in the recent Stockholm terrorist attack has allegedly come to Sweden with a purchased visa, local media reports, adding that "an extensive trade" of documents is happening in the country.

Fake ID cards, employment papers, marriage certificates and driving licenses can be bought in Sweden "right in the open," according to a report by radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio.

The Ekot show conducted their journalistic investigation in the wake of the truck attack in Stockholm, the alleged perpetrator in which has been identified by the Swedish police as a rejected asylum seeker and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sympathizer.
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Cell Phone

New leak exposes shady world of 'Stalkerware' surveillance software


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:06 UTC
people with smart phones
© Edgar Su / Reuters
Monitoring software FlexiSPY, marketed at paranoid partners attempting to catch their other halves cheating, may have been provided to governments in countries including Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain according to a new leak.

Documents leaked to Motherboard, allegedly sourced from inside the organization, show the extent of FlexiSPY's use and profitability.

The controversial software, built by a small company based in Thailand and described as "Stalkerware" may have been used in another piece of software built by British-German surveillance company Gamma, according to a 2011 document within the leak, cited by Motherboard.

The document described staff from FlexiSPY as assisting Gamma staff with the installation of the software 'Cyclops,' used on Gamma's own surveillance program known as FinSpy.
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Hourglass

Is a second American Civil War inevitable?

Daniel Lang
SHTFplan
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
civil war
America has always had its divisions, and Americans have never really been a monolith. We've always been a nation of many nations. The culture of New England is different from the culture of the Deep South, which is different from the cultures in the West Coast or the Midwest. People living in the cities have different beliefs than people who live in the countryside. Within those areas, there are ethnic, linguistic, and religious enclaves. It's always kind of been like that (probably to a lesser degree in the past), and somehow we've been able to find enough common ground to keep this country together for more than a century.

However, something has changed. You can feel it in the air. Our nation has clearly never been this divided since the Civil War. A lot of people noticed it after the last election, but the truth is that these divisions have been deepening for decades, and they're just now reaching a very noticeable breaking point. That's obvious enough when you look at how the left and the right have been going at each other. It used to be a war of words, but it's turning into something very dark.

Comment: And all this is just how the elites would have it - so that the oppressed 99% is at each other's throats instead of doing something about those who are creating the horrible conditions on the ground. But at the end of the day, this might change too. That is, a certain percentage of the civilian populace may wise up and go directly after the puppet masters and their state-run organs and personnel in an attempt to shut down those elements of the government most responsible for helping to create a hell on earth.

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Megaphone

Tear gas, smoke grenades & flares used at Paris protest ahead of presidential election


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:14 UTC
French policemen
Members of dozens of French unions and civil groups have taken to the streets of Paris ahead of Sunday's presidential vote, protesting what they call a "political masquerade." Police deployed tear gas after protesters used smoke grenades and flares.


While France is observing pre-election silence on Saturday ahead of the first round of the voting, crowds have been marching through the streets of Paris rejecting the policies of all the candidates leading in the polls.


Some 2,000 people took part in the protest, according to estimates from the organizers, which included some 70 groups and organizations, TASS reported.


The protesters demand that more attention be paid to the needs of French society's lower income people, TASS reported.
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Pirates

Convicted Egyptian terrorist stripped of US citizenship, ties to Bin Laden


RT
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:58 UTC
terrorist
The US government has revoked the citizenship of an Egyptian-born man who confessed to recruiting for Al-Qaeda while living in California for 12 years. The former Silicon Valley car salesman is serving a 15-year prison sentence for terrorism in Egypt.

Khaled Abu al-Dahab, 57, lost his naturalized citizenship and any rights related to it by order of Judge Beryl A. Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice said in a statement on Thursday.

Al-Dahab was arrested and convicted on terrorism charges in Egypt in 1998, and confessed to being a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), an affiliate of Al-Qaeda. He also confessed to running an "Al-Qaeda communications hub" from his apartment in Santa Clara, California and recruiting Americans for the terrorist group, with Osama Bin Laden personally praising his work.

Comment: As per Wikipedia:
An Egyptian medical student, Khaled Abu el-Dahab (Abul-Dahab) was arrested and convicted of terrorism. He is alleged to have been a right-hand man to Ali Mohamed, who had been an American CIA agent and Special Forces soldier.

Ali Mohamed travelled north from California with el-Dehab, who later told Egyptian interrogators he had withdrawn US$3,000 from a Californian bank account on orders of Osama bin Laden himself, to offer as bail money to lawyer Phil Rankin. The pair hoped to have Essam Marzouk released and possibly smuggle him into the United States.

In 2002, Abul-Dahab confessed to Egyptian interrogators that he had funded the 1995 attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan on orders from bin Laden, and had transferred money from a Californian bank account to Pakistan to finance the attack.


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Propaganda

'Honey traps' at bars and other Russian threats to Baltic states (according to them)


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:18 UTC
Woman drinking wine
© Getty Images
Danish intelligence services have warned Denmark's soldiers to beware of sexy Russian girls and rowdy Russkies in bars when deployed in Estonia, as they are just two of the myriad of threats Moscow supposedly poses to the Baltic countries.

Denmark is to send 200 of its troops to Estonia later this year as part of NATO's confidence-boosting mission in the Baltic republic. The Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS) has warned that the soldiers should be aware that Russian women could turn out to be spies who lure them into honey traps, while rowdy bar patrons could try to provoke them into a fight.

"DDIS evaluates that the threat from harassment and intimidation campaigns against the Danish forces will be high," according to Copenhagen Post.
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Handcuffs

Paris: Gare du Nord station evacuated; man arrested after alleged knife threat


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:06 UTC
gare du nord station
© Charles Platiau / ReutersGeneral view of Paris' Gare du Nord train station.
Passengers at one of the largest train stations in the French capital, Gare du Nord, were evacuated after a man threatened police with a knife. He has now been arrested.

People at the station have been kept at one of the platforms, while the rest of it has been cordoned off by police on Saturday afternoon, according to reports on social media.


Comment: UPDATES: Police officer killed, another injured in Champs-Elysees shooting in Paris

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Bad Guys

Man sentenced to death in Thailand for gruesome murder


RT
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 15:19 UTC
Artur Segarra
© Chaiwat SubprasomSpanish citizen Artur Segarra (L), escorted by a prison officer, May 4, 2016.
A Thai court has sentenced a Spanish man to death for murdering a fellow Spaniard for financial reasons. The accused reportedly choked his victim to death, put him in a freezer, and then dismembered the body parts and dumped them into a river in Bangkok.

On Friday, Thailand's Criminal Court convicted Artur Segarra, 38, of kidnapping, torture, premeditated murder, and concealing the body of David Bernat, 40 (41, according to some media reports). Segarra was also found guilty of theft.

According to prosecutors, Segarra forcibly detained Bernat in his room at the PG Rama IX condominium in Huay Khwang district of Bangkok in January of last year and tortured him into revealing his ATM pin number.
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Camcorder

Airlines gone wild: American Airlines suspends worker after altercation

Charles Ventura
USA Today
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 14:42 UTC
Americam Airlines
American Airlines opened an investigation after a video surfaced on social media late Friday night, showing an intense confrontation between passengers and a flight crew member on board one of its planes.

The video, uploaded by Facebook user Surain Adyanthaya, shows a woman holding a baby and seen crying in front of the plane, preparing to fly from San Francisco to Dallas-Forth Worth, WFAA-TV reported.

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