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French security forces raided a Paris suburb Wednesday searching for the mastermind behind Friday's deadly terrorist attacks. At least two suspects were killed during the raid, including a woman who blew herself up, and police made several arrests. VOA's Daniel Schearf reports from the scene of the raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.
Obama promotes trade deal in Asia by Kathleen Hennessey | AP
When President Barack Obama gathered his partners in a new trade deal to celebrate finalizing the massive accord, the group posed for a fast photo, shook some hands and got back to work.
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Honduras Arrests 5 Syrians With Allegedly Stolen Passportsby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Police in Honduras have arrested five Syrians who officers say were carrying stolen Greek passports and planned to go to the United States. Police spokesman Anibal Baca said Wednesday the five are being held in a cell at Tocontin Airport in Tegucigalpa for questioning. It is unclear what the Syrians' intentions are or if they have any connection to last Friday's terror spree in Paris. According to Honduran media, the five Syrians planned to head from Tegucigalpa to the city of San Pedro Sula and make their way to the United States by land. Honduras, like many countries around the world, has boosted security since last week's Paris attacks.
Following the attacks in Paris, a look back at how the National Front party leader's language has evolved over the last five years on issues such as immigration and nationalism.
Pentagon: US Airstrikes on IS Oil Facilities 'Minimally Effective'by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The Pentagon has started bombing Islamic State (IS) oil trucks because it says airstrikes on militant-controlled oil facilities have been only "minimally effective." U.S.-led coalition spokesman Colonel Steve Warren on Wednesday said airstrikes destroyed 116 oil tankers in eastern Syria since Sunday. He said U.S. planes dropped leaflets warning the drivers to jump out of the trucks and run away. Warren said it is unlikely the drivers belong to IS. Watch: Related TV report by Carla Babb: "They're probably just civilians so we had to figure out a way around that. We're not in this business to kill civilians. We're in this business to stop the Islamic State group," he said. Warren said the airstrikes on IS oil facilities were not too successful because he said the militants quickly repaired the damage. IS uses millions of dollars in illicit oil revenue to help fund its operations. Warren also criticized Russian airstrikes in Syria as generally being unfocused and scattershot, saying it would be "no surprise" if they killed civilians. "Those are the type of tactics needed only if you don't possess the technology, the skills and the capabilities to conduct the type of precision strikes that our coalition conducts," he said.
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Child sex offenders make up the largest category of inmates in U.S. military prisons, yet a full accounting of their crimes and how much time they're actually locked up is shielded by an opaque system of justice, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Sen. John McCain on Wednesday dubbed Secretary of State John Kerry "the most inept secretary of state" of all time following Mr. Kerry's comments about this year's terror attacks in Paris.
Mr. McCain's claim comes after highly controversial comments from Mr. Kerry in which the secretary suggested there was a ...
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Investors charged in Bay Area bid-rigging case blast FBI bugs
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Senators gripe after FBI director skips Paris briefing
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Report: Suspected Paris Attacks Mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud Killed in Raid
Newsweek An undated photograph of a man described as Abdelhamid Abaaoud that was published in the Islamic State's online magazine Dabiq and posted on a social media website. Reuters. Filed Under: World, Paris Attacks, French police. The suspected mastermind ... Suspected architect of Paris attacks dead: Washington PostReuters Paris Attacks Mastermind Not Among Those Arrested In Morning RaidTimes Record Who is Abdelhamid Abaaoud? Get to Know the ISIS RingleaderFood World News Citizens for Legitimate Government -CNN -UPI.com all 48 news articles » |
Monitors say intensified air campaign has spread fear and paranoia through militants' ranks, causing them to send foreign jihadists and families to Mosul
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Italy’s state broadcaster is reporting that the FBI has passed on information to Italian authorities about possible targets for terror attacks, including St. Peter’s in Rome and Milan’s cathedral and La Scala opera house.
New Islamic State Video Threatens New Yorkby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Islamic State released a new video Wednesday evening, this one threatening New York City. It shows what appears to be an explosive device, which is then zipped inside someone’s leather jacket. Next, the video shows shots of New York’s famous Times Square. The New York Police Department (NYPD) was quick to point out that some of the footage used in the video was old. “There is no current threat to the city at this time,” tweeted NYPD Director of Communication J. Peter Donald....
New York's police say they are "aware" of threat to Times Square, two days after Washington was mentioned in an Isil video
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Small Canadian miner finds massive diamond in Botswana - the largest recovered in more than a century
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Three ISIS supporters stabbed a Jewish school teacher in France Wednesday, according to a French prosecutor.
The teacher was stabbed after being attacked in Marseilles by three people riding two scooters, prosecutor Bruce Robin told Reuters, but his life is not in danger. “The three people insulted, threatened and then stabbed their victim in the arm and leg. They were interrupted by the arrival of a car and fled,” said Robin.
According to Robin, one of the attackers was wearing an Islamic State t-shirt and another showed a picture of Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people during a 2012 rampage in southern France.
The stabbing comes as France is on high alert after a deadly terrorist attack in Paris last week and an early morning raid Wednesday that killed at least two suspects connected to the attacks.
Cybersecurity: F.B.I. Director Repeats Call That Ability to Read Encrypted Messages Is Crucialby NICOLE PERLROTH and DAVID E. SANGER
James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, warned Wednesday that "we're drifting to a place" where court orders to give investigators access to text messages or computer communications were not effective.
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US Offers $5M Reward for IS Leaderby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The United States is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the location or identification of Islamic State leader Abu-Muhammad al-Shimali. The U.S. State Department said al-Shimali is responsible for facilitating the travel of foreign fighters through Turkey to Syria to fight for the militant group. He is believed to have coordinated "smuggling activities, financial transfers, and the movement of supplies into Syria and Iraq from Europe, North...
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta contradicted President Obama’s claim the Islamic State is now contained, telling Neil Cavuto on Tuesday afternoon that containment should not be the goal—defeating the enemy should be.
Panetta called the terrorist organization’s coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people an act of war and called for the world to unify in fighting the caliphate.
“He’s [Obama] actually defined the right mission, to degrade, dismantle and defeat ISIS [the Islamic State]. That is the fundamental mission,” Panetta said. “It isn’t about containment. It is about defeating ISIS. I think if there’s anything that we ought to understand from these last events, it’s that we have to go to war against this brutal enemy.”
The statement refers to Obama’s assessment on the morning of the Paris attacks that he had contained ISIS, ignoring advances the organization has made in Sinai, Nigeria, Libya, and other regions. Panetta called for the president to lead the international community with a united resolve to destroy the terrorist group.
“One thing I’ve been concerned about in this country and I realize this is the political season, you know, there’s just an awful lot of divisions in this country right now,” Panetta said. “When you’re confronting an enemy like ISIS, I think we have to come together and the president is the commander in chief and I believe that it is very important for the president of the United States now to take leadership, have the United States exercise greater leadership here to bring the world together.”
Cavuto pressed Panetta to give his own assessment of how Obama has handled the Islamic State. The former Defense Secretary from 2011 to 2013 pushed back on Obama’s claim that his critics seek to drag the U.S. into another long, drawn-out, ground war in the Middle East. He called for the U.S. to do more to help defeat the terror group.
“I think that it is important not to just think this is about putting 140,000 U.S. troops on the ground. that isn’t the choice. Nobody supports that,” Panetta said. “But I do think at the same time that we have a responsibility to increase our effort in that part of the world, increase our intelligence presence, increase our special forces presence there as well and work with other countries in the region and work with NATO.”
Panetta, who has had a rough relationship with Obama, further explained that airstrikes alone would not be effective.
“I do think that the military understands that right now the best way to deal with this is to have additional special forces that can work with other countries, work withe ground forces of other countries to be able to identify targets, to conduct the kind of air attacks,” Panetta said.
“I mean, air attacks are great but at the same time if you don’t have good targets on the ground it doesn’t do much in terms of destabilizing the enemy. We’ve got to identify better targets on the ground and need to have special forces that can better coordinate ground operations. Ground operations by the Kurds, ground operations by the Sunnis. This is a war and we’re going to have to unify under one command to conduct this war.”
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Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) condemned President Obama’s strategy to combat the Islamic State Tuesday on the Senate floor, tearing apart the president’s statement Monday that America’s strategy would not change, even in the wake of the Paris attacks.
“We can defeat ISIL [the Islamic State], and we can wipe them off the face of the earth,” he said. “But we’ve got to have a strategy, and this president has never had a strategy.”
McCain criticized Obama for failing to grasp reality and change course, despite a growing terrorist threat.
“He fails to understand, even now, that wars do not end just because he says they are over, that our terrorist enemies are not defeated just because he says they are, that the threat posed by ISIL is not contained just because he desires it to be so,” he said.
McCain also criticized Obama, urging him to realize his mistakes, which include not arming moderate Syrian rebels, not intervening militarily in Iraq or Syria, and now, saying that “his strategy is working” and that “all it needs is time.”
McCain said that until Obama realizes that he has to lead “an international effort to end the conflict in Syria and Iraq,” the “costs of this conflict will continue to mount.”
“Now we see the latest manifestation of this threat: Global terrorist attacks directed and inspired by ISIL that has killed hundreds across the world,” he said. “The Paris attacks, obviously, should be a wake-up call for all Americans, most of all for the President. If we stay the course, if we don’t change our strategy now, we will be attacked.”
McCain suggested ramping up America’s air campaign and implementing ground troops.
“I am convinced that we can send in a force composed of Sunni Arabs, of Egyptians, of Turks, and Americans, about 10,000, establish the no-fly zone, allow the refugees a sanctuary, and make sure that no barrel bombing will be allowed in those areas,” he said.
Throughout his speech, McCain rejected Obama’s insistence that America’s “influence is limited” and that “there is no military solution.”
“We are the strongest nation on earth, and to say that we can’t defeat ISIL is a matter of will,” he said. “We can succeed. ISIL is not invincible.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Suspected architect of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is dead, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing two intelligence officials.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Military chiefs briefing Vladimir Putin on operations in Syria showed him a map with a reference to a unit in the center of the country that matches a Russian army artillery unit, suggesting the Kremlin's involvement may be deeper than previously thought.
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News Analysis: For France, an Alliance Against ISIS May Be Easier Said Than Doneby STEVEN ERLANGER and PETER BAKER
President François Hollande of France, center, with Prime Minister Manuel Valls at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday. Mr. Hollande is trying to show diplomatic initiative although he under pressure at home to act strongly against the Islamic State.
With Islamic State targeted, what happens to Syria’s Assad?by Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck | AP
The tide of global rage against the Islamic State group lends greater urgency to ending the jihadis’ ability to operate at will from a base in war-torn Syria. That momentum could also force a reevaluation of what to do about President Bashar Assad and puts a renewed focus on the position of his key patrons, Russia and Iran.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch seemed to fall out of step with the Obama administration's reported plans to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees to U.S. soil, saying Tuesday that such a move is prohibited under law.
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican, noted during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday that ...
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter is pushing major changes to the Pentagon's personnel systems that are intended to attract the next generation of service members and drag the often-antiquated bureaucracy into the 21st century.
The French Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier headed for the eastern Mediterranean to support operations in Iraq and Syria
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The Islamic State group said Wednesday that it has killed Norwegian and Chinese captives after earlier demanding ransoms for the two men.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani argued Monday that the Islamic State terror group has been able to thrive in the Middle East due to President Obama's "vacuous" foreign policy.
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The Israeli Air Force commander discussed Israeli activity over Syria and preventing unintended clashes with Russian planesft
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Russian aggression continues to pose a threat to a massive series of undersea cables that carry worldwide Internet communications, according to a leading senator who received a top-secret classified briefing on the matter on Wednesday.
Russian subs and spyships have been caught “aggressively operating” near these cables in the last month, prompting concern among lawmakers and others who have warned that Moscow could easily sever these cables and toss large portions of America and other nations off the web.
The matter was discussed on Wednesday in a closed-door top-secret briefing between senators, senior official from Naval Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. European Command, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Senators have been pushing the Obama administration to take the matter more seriously and work to prevent Russia from sabotaging these cables.
“Undersea cables are critical to our economy, our communications, and our national security,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) said in a statement following the briefing.
“The United States needs to take seriously the growing Russian threat to these cables,” said Wicker, who serves as chairman of the Senate’s Seapower Subcommittee and chair of its subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet.
Reports from intelligence officials indicate that “the ultimate Russian hack on the United States could involve severing the fiber-optic cables at some of their hardest-to-access locations to halt the instant communications on which the West’s governments, economies and citizens have grown dependent,” the New York Times reported in October.
Wicker maintains that these reports “are just the latest example of [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s true intentions—a return to the Cold War.”
“Moving forward, Congress has an obligation to assist the administration in protecting American interests from our adversaries,” Wicker said. “In the coming weeks, I will be working with my colleagues to help provide our military and intelligence agencies with the tools they need to fulfill that mission.”
Wicker, in a letter last month to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, requested that the administration provide lawmakers with a classified brief on the matter.
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Five suspects were detained Wednesday in Honduras trying to enter the United States on a stolen Syrian group passport.
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CIA Director John Brennan has admitted that the Islamic State terror group has grown by around 4,400 percent during President Barack Obama’s tenure in office, according to remarks delivered in a speech.
The Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) was “decimated” and had around “700 or so adherents left” during former president George W. Bush’s term in office, according to Brennan.
The CIA has found that the Islamic State currently has anywhere from 20,000 to 31,500 fighters operating across the Middle East.
The Islamic State “was, you know, pretty much decimated when US forces were there in Iraq. It had maybe 700-or-so adherents left. And then it grew quite a bit in the last several years, when it split then from al Qaeda in Syria, and set up its own organization,” Brennan said.
American Enterprise Institute scholar Marc Thiessen noted in a recent dispatch on Brennan’s remarks that this translates to around a 4,400 percent growth.
“This means that, by the CIA’s own estimate, ISIS has grown on President Obama’s watch from just 700 fighters to between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters,” Thiessen wrote on the organization’s website, citing figures from the CIA. “That is an increase of between 2,700 and 4,400%.”
Additionally, Brennan disclosed in his remarks “that the Obama administration had underestimated the ISIS threat,” according to Thiessen.
“The Obama administration failed to recognize that ISIS had developed the intent and capability to strike the West,” he wrote. “It built its anti-ISIS strategy on a false premise—that ISIS was focused on building a caliphate in Iraq and Syria and not on carrying out external attacks against the U.S., its interests and its allies.”
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Russian and US forces exchange military information over airstrikes against Isis by Ewen MacAskill and Ian Black in London and Dan Roberts in Washington
Pentagon official reveals first use of advance warning system during Russian long-range strikes in Syria to ensure no US planes put at risk
Russian and US forces have for the first time exchanged military information during airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria amid early signs of thawing relations between the two countries following the Paris terror attacks and the downing of a Russian airliner.
The contacts came after Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB, confirmed that a bomb had brought down the Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, as had been previously been claimed by Isis.
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Gunfire in Paris as France Hunts 2nd Fugitive Linked to Attacksby webdesk@voanews.com (Lisa Bryant)
Shooting broke out Wednesday in a Paris suburb as police hunted for more suspects linked to last Friday's attacks in French capital. There was no immediate comment on who police were seeking in the raid, but three officials, who spoke late Tuesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the ongoing investigation, said an analysis of the series of attacks on November 13 indicated one person directly involved was unaccounted for. French and Belgian authorities have issued a warrant for one person, Salah Abdeslam, whose brother was among the attackers. The officials said the second fugitive has not been identified. Seven attackers died that night, three around the national stadium, three inside the Bataclan concert venue, and one at a restaurant nearby during attacks that killed 129 people and injured more than 300 others. A team of gunmen also opened fire at a series of nightspots in one of Paris' trendiest neighborhoods, officialssaid. Combined efforts The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday the militants "will feel even greater pressure" in the coming weeks as the United States, France and other allies increase their efforts against them. Kerry spoke in Paris after meeting with French President Francois Hollande. The French leader is due to meet with President Barack Obama in Washington November 24 to discuss ways to ramp up the campaign targeting Islamic State. They will discuss U.S. efforts to assist in the investigation of the attacks and further cooperation among the U.S.-led, anti-IS coalition, the White House said, adding, "This visit will underscore the friendship and solidarity between the United States and France, our oldest ally." "We are absolutely committed to increasing our efforts in every degree possible, and thoughtfully, carefully," Kerry said. "My sense is that everybody understands that with Lebanon's attacks, with what's happened in Egypt, with Ankara, Turkey, with the attacks now in Paris, we have to step up our efforts to hit them at the core where they are planning these things, and also obviously to do more on borders and in terms of the movement of people," he added. French warplanes continued bombing Islamic State targets in Syria on Tuesday, hitting the group's de facto capital in Raqqa. The defense ministry said 10 of its jets took part in the latest airstrikes aimed at a command center and a recruiting site. Diverted flights Air France confirmed two of its flights from the U.S. to Paris were diverted and landed safely late Tuesday after being the subjects of anonymous threats. The airline did not describe the specific threats, which came in after the planes took off, but said it decided to have them land "as a precautionary measure and to conduct all security checks." One flight from Washington landed in Halifax, Canada, while a flight from Los Angeles landed in Salt Lake City, Utah. Arrests Paris police also said Tuesday 16 people have been arrested and detained in the region since Sunday in relation to the attacks, and six firearms have been seized since a state of emergency was declared on Saturday. Officials have identified the suspected mastermind behind Friday's deadly attacks: a Belgian national of Moroccan descent, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Belgian authorities had sought Abaaoud earlier this year for a foiled terror attack on police. Police also continue to search for the suspected “eighth” assailant, identified as Belgian-born Abdeslam. A third Abdeslam brother, Mohammed, was briefly detained over the weekend by police. Speaking with a French television station Tuesday, Mohammed Abdeslam said, "We're family, we're thinking of him, we're wondering where he is, whether he's scared, is he eating... The best outcome would be for him to turn himself in so that judicial processes can shed light on this story." Authorities believe that about 20 people were involved in planning and carrying out the attacks. Also Tuesday, investigators identified the voice of a French jihadi convert, Fabien Clain, 36, of Toulouse, on the Islamic State claim of responsibility for the Paris strike. Clain is suspected of having been behind a failed attack on a church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif early this year. EU response The French government invoked a never-before-used article of the EU's Lisbon Treaty obliging members of the 28-nation bloc to give "aid and assistance by all the means in their power" to a member country that is "the victim of armed aggression on its territory." French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said all 27 of France's EU partners responded positively. In Geneva, the United Nations urged European countries to refrain from blaming or demonizing refugees following the attacks in Paris. "We are concerned about reactions by some states to end the programs being put in place, backtracking from commitments made to manage the refugee crisis or proposing the erection of more barriers," U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said. Meanwhile, security in France has been sharply ramped up. Soldiers have been patrolling Paris streets for months, since the last set of terrorist attacks, in January. The government now says about 115,000 police, gendarmes and military are mobilized across the country. Chris Hannas contributed to this report from Washington.
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Dont Be So Quick to Believe Russia That ISIS Bombed Jet
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We accept that Russian bombs can provoke a terror backlash. Ours can too
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U.S. President Barack Obama has praised Russia's role in talks to end the Syria crisis and said he wants Moscow to shift from propping up Syria’s regime to battling Islamic State militants.
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Police Arrest 5 Near Paris; Woman Detonates Explosive Vestby LIZ ALDERMAN and AURELIEN BREEDEN
The early-morning raid in a northern suburb was aimed at detaining the Belgian militant suspected of organizing the attacks that killed 129 people.
Владимир Путин посетил Национальный центр управления обороной России
He had been believed to be in Syria - but is now thought to be the target of a major police raid in northern Paris
The sound of gunshots and explosions echoed on the streets of the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, as French special forces raided an apartment.
Originally published at - http://www.rferl.org/media/video/french-police-raid-paris-apartment/27372624.html
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Поездка продлится 5 дней. Члены российской делегации ознакомятся с подготовкой кубинского спецназа, обсудят со своими коллегами участие военнослужащих Кубы в Армейских международных играх 2016 года в России.
Russia and key members of the Western anti-Islamic State coalition appeared to be moving toward a unified approach in Syria this week, with U.S. and French leaders praising Moscow for what they referred to as a change of course.
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Parsing Putin: Russia Sends Signals To The West In Statement On Jet Attack by support@pangea-cms.com (Steve Gutterman)
When Russia announced that last month's Sinai airliner crash was indeed a terrorist attack, President Vladimir Putin was ready with a stern warning for the culprits -- and the West.
Reports quote source close to investigation saying device equipped with timer likely brought on board by service personnel
Russian media reports have said the terrorist bomb that downed an airliner in Egypt at the end of October was likely brought on board by personnel at Sharm el-Sheikh airport and set off by a timer.
On Tuesday, the Kremlin said a bomb had destroyed the plane and vowed to hunt down those responsible. Before then it had been reluctant to admit the likelihood of a terrorist attack against the St Petersburg-bound Airbus A321 that crashed, killing all 224 people on board.
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В последние годы Российская Федерация напряженно ведет работу по налаживанию взаимодействия с соотечественниками за рубежом. Зачем? Для чего? Какими методами? Что это дает? Подобные вопросы постоянно возникают в головах соотечественников...
Obama: US Rhetoric Against Syrian Refugees 'Needs to Stop'by webdesk@voanews.com (Mary Alice Salinas)
U.S. President Barack Obama has criticized American politicians for opposing the resettlement of Syrian refugees, saying their rhetoric could be used as a recruitment tool by terrorists. VOA White House correspondent Mary Alice Salinas has more from Manila, where the president is meeting with Asia-Pacific leaders.
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СМИ: самолет с президентом Эстонии на борту аварийно сел в Берлине
РИА Новости Самолет совершил аварийную посадку в Берлине по техническим причинам. С пассажирами, в том числе и с президентом Ильвесом, все в порядке, сообщил советник президента Тоомас Силдам. Логотип авиакомпании Lufthansa на корпусе самолета. Архивное фото. © AFP 2015/ ... Самолет с президентом Эстонии на борту аварийно приземлился в БерлинеРБК Самолет Lufthansa с президентом Эстонии на борту совершил экстренную посадку в БерлинеNEWSru.com У самолета с президентом Эстонии треснуло стекло во время полетаМосковский комсомолец Газета.Ru-Вести.Ru-Деловой Петербург Все похожие статьи: 91 » |
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In Paris Attacks, Echoes of Russian Tragedies Pastby webdesk@voanews.com (Charles Maynes)
The attacks in Paris have forced Russian officials to acknowledge what many in the West have long suspected: the downing of a Russian Metrojet airliner over the Sinai peninsula — killing all 224 people on board — was an act of terror. In a televised meeting at the Kremlin, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, informed Russian President Vladimir Putin that his investigation had determined the plane was destroyed by "traces of foreign explosives." Appearing shocked by the finding, Putin promised justice and declared those responsible would be hunted down wherever they might hide. "We will find them in any place on Earth and punish them," said the Russian leader. Putin's tough talk sounded familiar to Russians who have lived with terror over the years. Russian apartment building bombings in 1999 Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy with the liberal Yabloko party in St. Petersburg, where many of the Metrojet victims were from, notes that Putin made similar calls for vengeance back in 1999. Then, a series of mysterious late-night apartment building bombings in Moscow and other cities killed and injured hundreds — terrorizing the country. Putin, then a newly-appointed prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin, blamed Chechen guerrilla fighters for the attacks. "We will chase terrorists everywhere," Putin said at the time. "If we find them in the toilet, excuse me, we'll rub them out in the outhouse." The bold talk launched Putin's political career — and the second Chechen war. Vishnevsky argues, this time, Putin's reluctance to label the Metrojet crash an act of terror was again a question of political expediency — a reluctance by the Kremlin to admit that a well-managed military operation in Syria had gone awry, with Russian civilians paying the price. "To admit it was terrorism right away would mean giving a basis for questions of whether this was revenge for Russia's air campaign against ISIS in Syria," he says. The attacks in Paris effectively provide an opportunity to internationalize that mistake, adds Vishnevsky. Dubrovka to Bataclan Meanwhile, in the attacks in Paris and — in particular — the Bataclan music hall -- Russians see echoes of another tragedy: the Nord-Ost siege of 2002. On October 23 of that year, Chechen fighters stormed Moscow's Dubrovka Theater during a performance of the Russian musical Nord-Ost, taking more than 800 people hostage. Tatiana Karpova lost her son Alexander in the ensuing rescue, after Russian commandos pumped an aerosol gas into the theater, killing the Chechen attackers but also 130 spectators. In an interview with VOA, Karpova says she's been struck by the outpouring of grief for the Paris victims in Moscow — with Russians lining up to bring flowers and candles to the French Embassy. "It's wonderful to see people coming together and sharing their grief," said Karpova. Karpova, however, also questions promises from the Kremlin to never forget the victims of the downed Metrojet. In their moment of grief, Karpova says, the families of the Nord-Ost victims were all but abandoned. "We were on our own," says Karpova. "Our government never takes responsibility for anything. Back then, when we asked for help, they told us,'What can we do? Go to talk to the families of the Chechen terrorists. We're not going to do anything,'" she says. "It was hurtful — believe me." A global anti-terror coalition? These days, the Kremlin has a different message: we are all in this together. President Putin has called for Russia and the West to overcome their differences on Ukraine and Syria by joining in a grand coalition to defeat the Islamic State group. Already, Russia has expanded its attacks on ISIS targets in Syria and coordinated with French military operations in the region. Russian cooperation in the face of tragedy, too, is a familiar refrain. After the 9/11 attacks in the United States 14 years ago, Putin was quick to offer condolences and argued Russia and the West should overcome their differences to combat terror. It's an alliance that largely worked against al-Qaida — until, that is, the threat seemed to go away. Still, Boris Vishnevsky, the St. Petersburg lawmaker, says the Kremlin's new offers for an alliance with the West depend on whether it can wean itself off of anti-Western rhetoric that has ratcheted up Putin's popularity over the past two years. "If you watch Russian TV, it's not clear who's the bigger enemy — America or Islamic State," says Vishnevsky. "This political schizophrenia can't continue forever."
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Fate of Suspected Paris Attack 'Mastermind' Unknown After Raid by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The fate of the suspected "mastermind" of last week's Paris terrorist attacks was not immediately known Wednesday after heavily armed police raided a suburban Paris apartment building where they believed he was holed up. In the predawn hours, police stormed the apartment building in Saint-Denis where they believed the 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, was hiding. But when the raid ended, with two deaths and seven arrests, authorities said they could not immediately determine the militants' identities. Western intelligence agencies have been tracking Abaaoud for months, but he has proved elusive, bragging that he could move undetected between Syria and Europe. His own family has disowned him, with his older sister Yasmina saying she was "praying that Abdelhamid really is dead," when erroneous reports surfaced that he had been killed in Syria fighting for the Islamic State group a year ago. Bomb, gun attacks Earlier this week, French authorities identified him as the suspected chief planner of last Friday's bomb and gun attacks on a Paris concert hall, a soccer stadium, and restaurants and bars that killed 129 people and injured more than 300 others. Abaaoud is also suspected of involvement in two thwarted attacks, one in August against passengers on a Paris-bound high-speed train that was foiled by three young Americans on vacation and another against a French church. He once attended one of Brussels' most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d'Uccle, but either flunked out after a year or was dismissed for poor behavior. It is unclear when he became radicalized, but Abaaoud dedicated himself to a Muslim holy war to the extent that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him Syria. In a French-language Islamic State recruiting video made public a year ago, Abaaoud said, "All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow. I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them."
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Sorry, France — the US and Russia Aren't Joining Forces Against the Islamic ...
VICE News There are currently a whole lot of countries flying planes over Syria and bombing swaths of territory controlled by the Islamic State (IS). In the wake of the Paris attacks — and French President François Hollande's stated wish is to bring the US and ... Russian strikes on Islamic State in Syria could lead to US cooperationUSA TODAY Russia's warplanes in Syria start hunting Islamic State tanker trucks ...TASS Russia targets ISIS in Syria, notifies CENTCOM ops centerMilitary Times Yahoo News -Daily Mail -RT all 1,164 news articles » |
The Islamic State (IS) group's official magazine has posted a photo of what it says was the improvised bomb used to bring down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.
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