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Sunday 8 November 2015

...the terrorists of the British SIS-Crown didi it!

The European Union Times


Posted: 07 Nov 2015 05:31 AM PST

The sound of an explosion can be heard on the black box recorder of the downed Russian jet, according to reports in the French media.
The sound of an explosion could be heard on the flight data recorders, French TV station France 2 reported.
An investigator with access to the devices ruled out the possibility it was the result of an engine failure, saying the noise was not consistent.
It came after an unnamed source reportedly linked to the investigation into the black boxes claimed the Metrojet flight was ‘definitely’ blown up by an explosive device.
The claims were reported by French news magazine Le Point, which said the findings emerged after analysis of the black boxes by Russian, French, German and Irish investigators in Cairo.
The Russian President’s U-turn came after a 10-minute phone call with Mr Cameron where he suggested Britain’s decision to ban flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh was premature.
Despite the tension between the two leaders, the Prime Minister still shared British intelligence he believes proves the disaster in Eqypt which killed 224 people on Saturday was caused by an explosion.
But Mr Cameron’s call may have worked as Russian President Vladimir Putin has now suspended all passenger flights to Egypt on the advice of his top spy.
Alexander Bortnikov, a former KGB official who is now head of the FSB security service said: ‘Until we know the real reasons for what happened, I consider it expedient to stop Russian flights to Egypt.
However, the claims by Le point also come amid reports that another source close to the investigation said the black boxes were yielding almost no useful information on establishing the cause of the disaster which claimed the lives of 224 people.
The insider said the flight data recorder ‘abruptly’ stopped working just over 20 minutes from takeoff, without giving any clue over the nature of the catastrophe which hit the plane.
And the voice recorder, including crucial conversations involving the pilots, is ‘badly damaged’ and ‘may also be useless’, according to Kommersant.
Meanwhile, it emerged that British spies were due to interrogate Egyptian baggage handlers after intercepted intelligence pointed to an ISIS mole smuggling a bomb into the hold of the doomed Russian jet.
MI5 heard ‘chatter’ from extremists in the Sinai Peninsula revealed there is a ‘high probability’ the disaster was caused by an explosion on board.
Spies also believe a ‘flash’ in the sky when the plane came down and the lack of a distress signal points to a bomb so attention is now being focussed on baggage handlers, a Downing Street source told MailOnline.
Tourists were also routinely offered the chance to avoid security altogether by paying £15 and passengers wereseen handing over cash in the long queues at Sharm today, according to the BBC.
British flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh have been suspended because it is feared the bomb was smuggled through security or planted by airport staff – leaving 20,000 Britons stranded and 130,000 who have booked winter sun trips in limbo.
British holidaymakers stranded in the Egyptian resort face chaos after being told yesterday they can board a plane home only if they leave their bags behind – again pointing to a bomb in the hold.
Baggage handlers at the Egyptian airport with links to ISIS or other terror networks could have used their high-level security clearance to wave an explosive device through pre-flight checks.
Downing Street said it is one of a ‘range of options’ being considered as part of investigations into how a bomb could have been smuggled on board the flight.
KLM have started telling passengers leaving the Egyptian capital of Cairo that they can only take hand luggage on the plane departing.
But a Foreign Office source said Britain’s security concerns are ‘purely isolated to Sharm’, adding there is ‘no reason to suggest there are any issues in Cairo’.
Ministers believe limiting passengers to hand luggage is the best way to get them home amid fears that the airport remains vulnerable to terrorist attack.
The developments come as it was revealed Britain and Russia have joined forces to track down those responsible for blowing Flight 9268 out of the sky.
In what is already said to be the largest counter-terror operation between the two powers since the September 11 attacks, military and intelligence experts from both sides have formed a coalition in what is now an international manhunt.
Despite that, Prime Minister David Cameron still faced a furious backlash from both Russia and Egypt over his own handling of the Sharm El Sheikh crisis, as it emerged British spies uncovered intelligence that the plane crash was caused by an Islamic State bomb.
Whitehall sources revealed that, in the days after the Russian airliner was downed last weekend, they trawled back through communications data intercepted on suspects in Syria and Egypt.
This led officials at GCHQ and MI5, and US counterparts, to conclude the disaster was highly unlikely to have been an accident.
But in a tense ten-minute phone call yesterday, Vladimir Putin rounded on the Prime Minister over his declaration that the Russian Airbus was downed by a terrorist bomb.
Such a development would be a political disaster for Moscow, which would face allegations it failed to protect its own citizens.
Egypt reacted angrily to Mr Cameron’s suspension of flights to and from Sharm – a move that could deal a shattering blow to the country’s tourism industry.
Mr Putin is desperate to avoid claims the tragedy, which killed 224 people on Saturday, was a revenge attack by ISIS terrorists angered by his military intervention in Syria.
Yesterday, as Russian airlines continued to operate flights in and out of Sharm, Mr Putin criticised Mr Cameron for pre-empting the outcome of a joint inquiry by Russia and Egypt into the disaster. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: ‘The President underlined that he thought all countries should wait for the investigation to be completed.
‘The Prime Minister was very clear that he will be driven by what is right for the safety of British citizens and that we were right to take the action that we did based on the information that we had … and our assessment of the situation.’
The Kremlin said in a statement: ‘Vladimir Putin stressed that assessment of the causes of the crash should be based on the data that would become available in the course of the official investigation.’
Russia’s foreign ministry said it would be ‘shocking’ if Britain had suspended flights based on intelligence not shared with Moscow.
Downing Street declined to comment directly on the claim, but stressed that Mr Cameron’s national security adviser, Sir Kim Darroch, has spoken to his Russian counterpart to share details of the intelligence that lay behind the PM’s decision to ground flights.
No 10 also played down the scale of the row with Mr Putin, saying the phone call was largely ‘cordial’, with the leaders voicing a shared determination to tackle terrorism.
Egypt’s foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, said he was very disappointed by the decision to suspend flights, accusing the UK government of making ‘a premature and unwarranted statement’ on the crash.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond risked further angering Egypt yesterday, suggesting there was a ‘significant possibility’ the attack was carried out by IS terrorists operating in the Sinai Peninsula, a claim Cairo dismissed as ‘propaganda’.
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, who held talks in Downing Street yesterday, later said he was prepared to ‘co-operate’ with Britain on improving security at Sharm airport to restore confidence among the one million British tourists who visit the resort each year.
On Wednesday, a team of British aviation security experts declared the airport unsafe after identifying a series of loopholes.
Within hours, Mr Cameron had ordered the suspension of all British flights in and out of Sharm. Sources said security concerns and the intercept intelligence, left the Prime Minister with ‘no choice’ but to act.
The US has also changed its travel advice to warn against travel to Sharm, and the German national carrier Lufthansa yesterday suspended flights.
But President Sisi yesterday rejected claims security at the airport was lax. He revealed a team of British experts examined procedures at the airport and recommended changes, which were then implemented, ten months ago.
Following the review, he said the UK was satisfied procedures were adequate. The revelation that Britain gave the airport the all-clear just ten months ago will spark questions about the thoroughness of the review – and prompt speculation about whether ministers decided to go easy on Egypt at the time because of its status as an ally.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman yesterday confirmed Britain had been ‘happy’ with security at the airport after the improvements were made at the start of this year.
But she said the ‘evolving nature of the threat’ – particularly the assessment that a bomb may have been smuggled on to the Russian Airbus – had prompted a rethink.
HOW SAFE IS YOUR RESORT?
At this time of year, many of us are tempted to escape the autumn gloom, lie in the sun and gloat about those stuck at home. However, lax security and a proximity to volatile countries means many resorts may be vulnerable to attack, says GUY WALTERS.
So which countries should we be wary of visiting?
EGYPT
With 900,000 of us flying there every year, Egypt is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Britons. However, as the suspected bombing of the Russian passenger jet has shown, Egypt is far from safe. Eighty-eight people, including 11 Britons, were massacred by Islamists at Sharm el-Sheikh in 2005. Six Britons were among the 62 murdered by Islamists at Luxor at 1997.
‘We need to see what proactive security steps the Egyptians are going to take,’ says Will Geddes, the managing director of International Corporate Protection, which advises businesses and individuals on travel security and counter-terrorism. ‘However, Sharm as a resort is reasonably well protected.’
Although the Foreign Office warns that there is a ‘high threat from terrorism’, it does not advise against travel to Red Sea resorts such as Sharm and Hurghada, as well as tourist areas along the Nile, such as Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Valley of the Kings.
MOROCCO
Although Morocco has been comparatively free of terrorism, it is feared that the country may soon become the victim of an attack in one of its popular tourist centres, such as Casablanca or Marrakesh. The Foreign Office warns that there is a ‘high threat from terrorism’, as an increasing number of Moroccans become sympathetic towards – or even join – organisations such as IS. ‘Morocco is also important for Islamists because it gives them a foothold to spring into Europe,’ says Mr Geddes. ‘However, at present there are no specific threats that I am aware of.’
In fact, along with 500,000 other Britons, Mr Geddes says that he will be visiting the country himself next year.
TUNISIA
Since the atrocity at the resort of Sousse in June, in which 30 Britons were killed, the Foreign Office has advised against all but essential travel to the country, which used to attract some one million Britons every year.
‘On balance, we do not believe the measures in place provide adequate protection for British tourists in Tunisia at the present time,’ the Foreign Office states.
‘The country has a lot of borders,’ says Mr Geddes, ‘they are mostly very weak and Tunisia simply isn’t able to provide the necessary level of security for holidaymakers.’ Nevertheless, companies such as Thomson still offer packages to resorts such as Sousse, where seven nights costs around £327 per person.
TURKEY
‘There are serious issues with Turkey at the moment,’ says Mr Geddes. ‘The Government is in a state of flux, and the borders with Syria and Iraq are permeable.’
In October, IS-backed suicide bombers killed 100 people in Ankara, although as yet there have been no attacks on tourist resorts, which are visited by 2.5million Britons a year.
The Foreign Office advises that the risk from terrorism is high, and cautions visitors to be vigilant. As Turkey is a gateway into continental Europe for the likes of IS, it is feasible resorts could be targeted. However, Turkey has a long history of dealing with terrorist organisations, and, coupled with its desire to protect revenue from tourism, it can only be hoped that its security services are doing all they can to protect their foreign visitors.
INDONESIA
When most of us think of terrorism in the Far East, our minds are cast back to 2002, when 202 people, including 27 Britons, were killed in the Bali bombings. Although there have been no comparable atrocities since, in July 2009 the JW Marriot and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta were bombed, and one Briton was killed.
The Indonesians appear to have been successful in thwarting several Islamist attacks, but as the old IRA adage goes, the terrorists only need to be lucky once. The Foreign Office says that the risk of terrorism is high, and that places such as tourist resorts are potential targets. The 250,000 of us who visit the country every year should be vigilant.
MALAYSIA
Nearly 500,000 Britons visit Malaysia every year, with many heading to islands such as Langkawi and Bunga Raya. But all is not rosy, as the Islamist Abu Sayyaf Group, based in the Philippines, has kidnapped foreigners on boat and diving trips off east Malaysia.
However, the Malaysians do seem to have met the challenge to keep their visitors safe. ‘The Malaysians have very sophisticated intelligence,’ says Mr Geddes. ‘And by and the large the resorts are safe.’ Meanwhile, the Foreign Office states that there is a ‘general threat’ from terrorism, and urges vigilance.
THAILAND
With many internal political problems, Thailand has been suffering from a great deal of violence. In August, a Briton was killed when a bomb exploded in Bangkok, while in April, a car bomb on the popular island resort of Koh Samui injured seven. As 850,000 of us visit the country every year, it is clear that any threats to Thailand should be taken seriously. The Foreign Office states there this a ‘high threat’ from terrorism, and urges vigilance.
MALDIVES
Long seen as the ultimate destination for anybody wishing for a dream holiday, the islands are nowhere near as tranquil as their idyllic beaches and waters would suggest. The president has recently declared a 30-day state of emergency after the arrest of the vice-president in connection with a supposed bomb blast on a boat. Although the Foreign Office says there is a ‘general threat’ from terrorism, it has told British tourists that resorts and airports are ‘unlikely to be significantly affected’ by the state of emergency.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2015 05:18 AM PST

President Vladimir Putin has agreed with the Federal Security Service to halt all Russian flights to Egypt following an October 31 passenger plane crash in Sinai that killed all 224 people on board.
“As long as we haven’t established the causes of the incident, I consider it appropriate to suspend the flights of Russian aircraft to Egypt. This primarily applies to the tourist flow,” FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov told a meeting of the Russian Anti-Terror Committee on Friday.
Egypt has provided Russian investigators with access to all the fragments of the crashed plane as well as the baggage, he said. There is need for “absolute objectivity” and “confirmed data” to establish the causes of the disaster, he added.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin agreed with the recommendations of the Federal Security Service (FSB). He added that Putin had instructed the government to ensure the safe return of Russian citizens from Egypt and to cooperate with the Egyptian authorities on establishing air traffic security.
The flights will be suspended until a “proper level of air communication security” is established, he said.
Peskov said that the decision to suspend flights was “solely connected with security” reasons, and doesn’t suggest that Moscow considers the A321 crash to be a terrorist attack.
Russia’s civil aviation regulator has started drawing up plans to suspend flights between Russia and Egypt, the agency’s chief, Alexander Neradko, said Friday.
Around 45,000 Russians are currently on holiday in Egypt, TASS cited figures provided by Russia’s tourism agency.
An operational HQ headed by deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich and under Russia’s tourism watchdog, Rostourism, will be resolving issues connected with the return of Russian citizens from Egypt, according to a statement by the Cabinet of Ministers.
Meanwhile, Dvorkovich said that up to 70,000 Russian citizens are currently in Egypt, adding that authorities are not planning an “immediate evacuation.”
“Swabs and scrapings from all fragments of the [crashed] plane, baggage and soil have been taken by Russian experts,” said the head of the Russian Emergencies Service, Vladimir Puchkov, during the meeting.
“I underline once more that the necessary samples have been taken from all the elements that can contain traces of explosives,” he added. “If there were explosives on the plane, we will be able to determine it.”
The Airbus A321 belonging to Russian Kogalymavia, which uses the brand name Metrojet, crashed in Egypt 20 minutes after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh airport on October 31. All 217 passengers and seven crewmembers on board died in the disaster, making it the deadliest incident of this kind in Russian aviation history. There was no distress call prior to the crash.
Following the disaster, the head of Russian aviation agency Rosaviatsia, Aleksandr Neradko, said that all the signs suggested that the destruction of the plane occurred “in the air and at a great altitude.” The evidence for that was the remains of the plane and the bodies, which have been scattered over an area measuring about 8 km by 4 km, he said.
The airline of the ill-fated passenger jet said on Monday that the plane must have been damaged by a force in flight and couldn’t have just broken apart.
On Tuesday, US media cited sources in the intelligence community saying that that a US infrared satellite had detected a heat flash in the same vicinity, indicating that an explosion may have occurred on board.
On Thursday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced that it was “more likely than not” that a bomb caused the crash. His comments were met with doubts from Moscow. During a telephone conversation between Cameron and Putin on Thursday, the PM was accused of “acting before he knows the facts,” according to tabloid paper the Sun.
On Wednesday, Britain halted flights from and to the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh over concerns that the Russian passenger jet was downed by a bomb on board.
Earlier in the week, a militant group associated with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) claimed to have shot down the Russian plane, but this claim has been deemed unreliable.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2015 05:10 AM PST

US Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has strongly condemned media reports questioning parts of his inspirational biography.
The soft-spoken former neurosurgeon, who has recently surged in the GOP race to the White House, had a fiery exchange with reporters on Friday about his past and whether he has made up some crucial episodes of his life story.
“There is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find ways to tarnish me because they’ve been looking through everything, they have been talking to everybody I’ve ever known, everybody I’ve ever seen,” Carson told reporters in Florida.
In his 1990 autobiography, “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story,” Carson delves into his life journey from a young black boy with a “pathological temper,” who stabbed his friend and once tried to “kill somebody,” to his spiritual redemption and transformation to a renowned Yale-educated brain doctor.
Observers say that Carson’s personal narrative has been central to his successful campaign and star power.
‘Bunch of lies’
However, friends, classmates and neighbors who grew up with Carson told CNN they were surprised to hear about the acts of violence the rising candidate has described.
“That person is unrecognizable to those whom CNN interviewed, who knew him during those formative years,” the network said on Friday.
“This is a bunch of lies, that is what it is,” Carson told a CNN reporter who asked him about the network’s reporting. “This is a bunch of lies attempting to say I’m lying about my history. I think it’s pathetic, and basically what the media does is they try to get you distracted.”
Appearing on FOX News, Carson again accused CNN of fabricating lies. “I would say to the people of America: Do you think I’m a pathological liar like CNN does? Or do you think I’m an honest person?”
West Point scholarship?
POLITICO added fuel to the fire Friday by a report about Carson fictionalizing another angle of his biography.
Carson claimed in his autobiography to have been offered a “full scholarship” to the taxpayer-funded military academy at West Point.
It turns out that Carson never actually applied for West Point and that there is no such thing as a “full scholarship” to the academy, POLITICO has learned. West Point also told the newspaper that it has no record of Carson applying.
When pressed by POLITICO, Carson’s campaign later acknowledged that he had never been admitted.
However, a spokesman for Carson told The Daily Caller that the candidate did not admit to “fabricating” his West Point story. “The POLITICO story is an outright lie,” Doug Watts said.
A recent national poll shows that Carson has surged past Donald Trump in the presidential race among Republican candidates. Carson has the support of 29 percent of likely Republican primary voters, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday. That’s the highest percentage any Republican candidate has obtained so far in the poll.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2015 04:19 AM PST

A handwritten manifesto found on the body of a California college student who went on a stabbing spree leaving four wounded on Wednesday involved an elaborate plan to ambush police, steal their guns, and kill – as well as breaks to “praise Allah”
Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said the two-page document found in Faisal Mohammad’s pocket by the county coroner featured a numeric list of his plans, including whom he wanted to kill and whether to behead or shoot them.
“No.27 was to ‘make sure people are tied down,’ No. 28 was ‘sit down and praise Allah,’” Warnke told Fox News. “I remember seeing four or five times, scribbled on the side of the two-page manifesto, where he wrote something like ‘praise Allah.’”
The manifesto has not been released, but Warnke said he expects that it will be within the next few days. The elaborate plan to kill his classmates was, in part, revenge for being kicked out of a study group.
According to the manifesto, the plan included binding students to their desks with zip-tie handcuffs, after which Mohammad was going to make a fake 911 distress call, ambush responding officers with a hunting knife, steal their guns, and shoot a list of targeted classmates, including those in his study group.
Warnke described the plan as “the delusions of an angry young man,” saying Mohammad wanted to do more harm than he did, but didn’t have the capacity to do so, according to the Associated Press.
There had been no outward warning that the 18-year-old, described by classmates as a loner, would burst into the university classroom and slash his fellow students. There had been no run-ins with police, officials said. No video had been posted to YouTube explaining his violent plans, like in the case of Elliot Rodger who killed six and injured 14 at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. Nor did Mohammad spend time in outpatient treatment prior to the attack, as was the case with Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech gunman who massacred 32 people in 2007.
“There was zero radar on this fellow,” Warnke said, according to the Associated Press.
Background checks conducted with help from the FBI and Homeland Security revealed no connections to organized hate or terror groups, the sheriff said. Moreover, there was nothing from Mohammad’s childhood pointing to violence, investigators said.
“There was nothing to indicate he was doing this because of Allah, or because he was going to be rewarded with 72 virgins, or because of ties to a terror group,” Warnke said. “He appeared to be a devout Muslim, on the strong side of the belief.”
Still, Mohammed stabbed two students, a university employee, and a construction contractor, who interrupted the attack before campus police shot Mohammad to death.
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Posted: 07 Nov 2015 03:51 AM PST

A group of North African migrants living in a tent city in Stockholm have been found guilty of brutally gang-raping a 23-year-old woman in yet another example of how Europe’s open border madness is exacerbating the sexual abuse of women.
The attack, which took place two months ago on the island of Södermalm, began when the migrants approached the young woman, who was crying, and attempted to console her.
The men took the woman to a viewpoint overlooking the city and all appeared to be calm before one of them, “gripped her neck, ripped her clothes off and raped her,” reports The Local.
Other boys then arrived and proceeded to take turns raping the woman before she managed to escape and board a night bus at 3am.
Two of the boys, who were all aged 15 to 18, were sentenced to six months in juvenile detention while another received nine months. They will all be back out on the streets by next summer.
The victim said she was “sick” that the rapists had been given such short sentences.
“All of the teenagers are from north Africa and had been living in a tent camp in Stockholm,” states the report, suggesting that they could have arrived recently as part of the wave of migrants flooding into Europe.
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, an 18-year-old girl claims she was gang raped by recently arrived Syrian migrants in an ordeal that lasted five hours.
The victim was staying at a care home in Gillingham, Kent with the young migrants, “who were housed under legal obligation by the local authority,” reports the Sun.
“They arrived in the country without documents claiming to be under 18 and from Syria,” one source said, adding that the culprits were likely to be older.
Sweden has been experiencing a rape epidemic ever since it threw its borders open to mass immigration in the 1970’s, although people who draw attention to it are labeled racist by leftists and some have even been hit with hate crime charges.
Rapes in Sweden have skyrocketed by a shocking 1,472% since the mid-70’s, with 6,620 sexual assaults being reported to police in 2014 compared to just 421 in 1975.
“77.6 percent of the country’s rapists are identified as “foreigners” (and that’s significant because in Sweden, “foreigner” is generally synonymous with “immigrant from Muslim country”), writes Selwyn Duke. “And even this likely understates the issue, since the Swedish government — in an effort to obscure the problem — records second-generation Muslim perpetrators simply as “Swedes.”
This is also just the latest example of migrants gang-raping children and young women in Scandinavia.
Last week we reported on the story of how three African immigrants who brutally raped a 14-year-old girl to the point where she wanted to kill herself were given extremely light sentences by a court in Norway, with one receiving community service and avoiding prison altogether.
WIth the deluge of migrants pouring into Europe, rapes in and around migrant camps in Germany are also soaring, with German police being accused of covering up the scandal so as to not legitimize critics of mass immigration.
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