EU liquidates terrorists’ virtual platform

Filed under:Europe — posted by webmaster on April 19, 2008 @ 5:41 pm

European Union enters new restrictions in Internet. Ministers of Justice of community have approved introduction of punishment for instigation to terrorism in a world wide web.
According to new rules courts of the EU countries-participants can require Internet-providers to close web-sites, which contain terrorism instigation. As a whole, officials have been adjusted quite rigidly, having declared the Internet “virtual training platform for insurgents”, which is used for inspiration and mobilization of groups of people in the different countries.
Nevertheless, organization’s members and representatives of northern European countries have achieved such formulation of this rule of law, which specifies that the law will not be used for suppression of self-expression freedom.
However, ministers have also coordinated the plan of measures on restriction of illegal circulation of explosive, which can come into the hands of terrorists. Within the limits of this campaign it is planned to adjust an early warning system where data about the stolen explosives and detonators will act.


Al-Qaeda: Bush will hand down his failures to the new president

Filed under:Mid East — posted by webmaster on April 18, 2008 @ 7:36 am

War in Iraq has brought failure and defeat to the US President Georges Bush, which he will transfer to the future president. Such application was made by one of Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri.
On an audio record placed on one of Islamic web-sites, the terrorist approves, that the US President’s decision on suspension of withdrawal troops from Iraq since July 2008 is the attempt “to cover failures of the US policy” in this country.
In his message Ayman al-Zawahiri has again called all Moslems for sacred war against Americans and has supported “the Islamic state Iraq”, created by radicals several years ago.
The discontent of the terrorist was caused also with sunnit groups’ activity, which have expressed readiness to cooperate with the central government for the sake of peace in Iraq.
After that the terrorist has repeated Bin Laden’s application that after a victory over Iraq “mojaheds will start their campaign in Jerusalem”.
Let’s remind, that on March, 20th it will be 5 years from the moment of the beginning of war in Iraq. Since this moment, according to independent researches, up to 300 thousand people were killed. The quantity of the Iraqis, who have left the native land, has exceeded 2 million people, and the number of temporary displaced people inside of the country makes more than 2,5 million


Thousand flights are cancelled In the USA

Filed under:USA — posted by webmaster on April 10, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

Since Tuesday the largest US airline - American Airlines- has cancelled already over 2 thousand flights, 900 from them were planned for today. The reason of such actions became carrying out of off-schedule inspections of planes’ wiring systems.
Many of people have learned about a canceling of the flight only after the arrival in the airports.
Meanwhile the check, initiated by Federal aviation management of the USA, has revealed a lot of infringements; malfunctions in planes’ wiring are among them. According to experts, such defects can lead to the most unpleasant consequences and even up to explosion of the plane.
It is informed, that check goes on boards of MD-80 which are being used for flights on routes of average range and make almost the third part of park American Airlines.
As it has been informed, returning to the normal schedule of flights depends on how experts can quickly finish check and correct the found defects.
It is worth of mentioning that carrying out nearby 2,3 thousand flights a day, American Airlines has already apologized before the passengers, who are waiting for their flights at the airports. As representatives of airline approve, a feed and an opportunity to stop at hotel is being offered to all passengers.


Experts: US government has not come closer to leaving Iraq

Filed under:USA — posted by webmaster on April 7, 2008 @ 11:44 am

For the whole year the United States, owing to weak political progress in Iraq, did not manage to come nearer to opportunity of withdrawal troops from this country. Such conclusion has been made by the experts of the American Institute in their new report on situation in Iraq.
As they say in the report of the organization published on April, 6th, political progress in Iraq passes so slowly and superficially, and social and political dissociation in the country is designated so precisely, that the United States at the moment as are far from realization of the purpose completely to disengage armies from Iraq, as well as one year ago.
Experts from Washington Institute mark, that the central Iraq government still does not function as a unit authority; mutual distrust of political leaders of the country remains significant, and key bills though pass through parliament, are not put in action. In experts’ opinion, the governmental armed forces have become stronger, but they unable to support stability in the country independently.
In the report prospects of reduction of the American military presence at Iraq are also considered. One of variants assumes that scales of support of the Iraq authorities from Washington should be defined by success of performance of the certain political problems of the Iraq government.


Hamas insurgents have attacked own territory

Filed under:Mid East — posted by webmaster on April 6, 2008 @ 6:32 am

The next attempt of insurgents of the Palestinian grouping Hamas to attack territory of Israel has come to the end with that extremists have fired own areas.
As it was found out, the rockets forwarded by insurgents have not reached the purpose, and have fallen in northern part of Gaza Strip. As a result of this mistake the local resident, the Palestinian, was killed. Hamas has not make comments yet.
Meanwhile, the head of Palestinian government Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to meet Israeli leader Olmert on April, 7th. It is supposed, that the parties will discuss processes of peace settlement in the Near East


Somali pirates have grasped French luxury yacht

Filed under:Conflicts — posted by webmaster on April 5, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

On the specified data, there are 30 members of crew onboard of French cruise vessel, which has been grasped on the eve by pirates n the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast.
The majority of hostages of pirates are the citizens of France. The crew included 22 French citizens, including six women, French Defense Minister Herve Morin said. Military spokesman Cmdr. Christophe Prazuck said that other members included Ukrainians.
As it has become known, the pirates attacked the 288-foot Le Ponant on Friday, when it was returning without passengers from the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, toward the Mediterranean Sea.
France considers an opportunity of carrying out of operation on rescue of the citizens. In Gulf of Aden at present there are some French fighting ships, which usually accompany with transports with the humanitarian help.



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