"This gross neglect continues despite jaw-dropping headlines about Russians accessing the emails of the State Department and the White House, recent arrests and expulsions of Russian spies from America and other Western countries, as well as from NATO headquarters. Kremlin espionage against the West now equals the highest levels of the Cold War, and they are as aggressive as ever in their targeting of our politics, governments, and economies, yet U.S. intelligence continues to pretend that counterintelligence is unimportant." - Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?

Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? by 20committee

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:47 AM

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For years I’ve warned the U.S. Intelligence Community to get serious about counterintelligence, the business of preventing penetrations of our side by hostile espionage services. Counterintelligence is actually a lot more than that — mastering its offensive side is the key to real espionage success — but Washington, DC, is still far off from mastering even the defensive part of this game. Ignoring CI, as we systematically do, has cost this country lives and treasure in abundance, and it will continue to right until the IC gets serious about counterintelligence.

However, what I’ve termedthe counterintelligence imperative just doesn’t seem all that imperative to IC bigwigs, who continue to regard CI as a nuisance and an afterthought. This reluctance seems an immutable law of the vast, sprawling, and expensive Intelligence Community, having long ago been institutionalized. A dozen years ago, a former NSA director bemoaned American CI’s “dismal performance,” noting that counterintelligence is fragmented, under-resourced, and neglected, and none of that has improved since. If anything, it’s gotten worse.

Counterintelligence continues to be regarded as something less than a full-time job by most IC leadership, who prefer not to think about it at all. Just how peripheral CI is to U.S. intelligence was made clear by an assessment done by the Congressional Research Service back in late April 2013. This detailed study, intended to be a primer on the Intelligence Community for Congress, was a walk-through of the entire IC, with analysis of which agencies do what as well as explanations of all the various -INTs. Yet, in this thirty-page study, the word “counterintelligence” never appears, not even once.

It’s perhaps fitting that this CRS study appeared just two months before Ed Snowden defected to Russia after stealing over 1.5 million classified documents, representing the greatest intelligence loss in the history of Western espionage. Such is the price of totally ignoring counterintelligence. One might have thought that the epic Snowden debacle would concentrate minds in the IC about the need to get finally serious about CI. Alas, one would be wrong.

The IC has belatedly promised to clean up its totally dysfunctional security clearance process, while a crackdown on suspected insider threats is underway. Having seen this show before, I am pessimistic about this having much effect beyond terrifying thousands of perfectly loyal IC employees. Jim Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, a few months ago announced the formation of a new, unified IC center to consolidate counterintelligence and security missions, which sounds promising but may just be another “reorg” designed to make things look better than they actually are, which is a venerable Beltway tradition.

Besides, how Clapper really feels about counterintelligence was made clear in his recent testimony before Congress about how the Intelligence Community views the world and what the spooks think really threatens America. Although the IC has been at pains lately to say counterintelligence is a high priority — after the Snowden disaster, how could they not? — Clapper never specifically addressed CI in his remarks, not even once. Perhaps worse, no Senators asked Clapper about the state of counterintelligence at all.

This gross neglect continues despite jaw-dropping headlines about Russians accessing the emails of the State Department and the White House, recent arrests and expulsions of Russian spies from America and other Western countries, as well as from NATO headquarters. Kremlin espionage against the West now equals the highest levels of the Cold War, and they are as aggressive as ever in their targeting of our politics, governments, and economies, yet U.S. intelligence continues to pretend that counterintelligence is unimportant.

Losing the SpyWar against the Russians will have grave consequences, not least because Putin’s forces are engaged in what I term Special War against us, and espionage constitutes the cornerstone of that campaign. Based on evidence available to date, it’s apparent that the Russians are winning the SpyWar and have attained what the Pentagon terms “information dominance” over NATO.

This was made clear by recent rather frank comments by General Phil Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Warning that more Russian aggression in Ukraine and beyond may be imminent, Breedlove added that NATO faces “critical” intelligence gaps. As SACEUR told Congress:

Russian military operations in Ukraine and the region more broadly have underscored that there are critical gaps in our [intelligence] collection and analysis … Some Russian military exercises have caught us by surprise, and our textured feel for Russia’s involvement on the ground in Ukraine has been quite limited.

In other words, he’s worried that the Russians have the drop on NATO and we might not detect a sudden Kremlin attack on Ukraine — or worse, on a NATO country. It’s not everyday that SACEUR is this blunt in his public language, and Breedlove’s words should be taken as a warning of how bad things have gotten in Western intelligence. Since the lion’s share of U.S. (and often NATO) intelligence comes from signals intelligence, i.e. from NSA and its partners, it’s clear that Western SIGINT has taken a big hit recently. That hit was named Edward Snowden.

As I predicted almost two years ago, the Snowden Operation has been a huge win for the Kremlin, and right now its special services have an edge in the SpyWar thanks to Ed’s betrayal. His treachery is at least the equal, strategically speaking, of William Weisband’s at the onset of the Cold War,Weisband being the worst of our SIGINT traitors … until Snowden.

While the damage inflicted by Snowden on Western intelligence will eventually be repaired, that will be years off. In the meantime, the Russians are playing a strong hand, espionage-wise, leaving NATO guessing what Putin’s next move will be — and where. This is a bad place for the Atlantic Alliance to be, as any strategist or military historian will tell you. While NATO dwarfs the Russians in conventional strength, good intelligence can compensate for that weakness, particularly when combined with strategic denial and deception of the sort that the Kremlin excels in.

We are entering a dangerous period for Europe and the West, now that Putin has completed his Victory Day public extravaganza, and the risk of being strategically surprised by the Kremlin is very real. Just this week, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned that the Russians have bolstered forces in and around Eastern Ukraine and now possess “the capability to launch new attacks with very little warning time.” There is little that the West can do right now to make good the intelligence losses caused by Snowden, that will take time, but getting serious about preventing the next Snowden and blunting the impact of rising Russian espionage against NATO is absolutely imperative. There may be little time left to waste. We must get in the counterspy game with vigor and without delay, or be prepared to lose the SpyWar, and much more.

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Putin’s Macedonian Gambit by 20committee

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:46 AM

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Macedonia, a small, impoverished Balkan state, has appeared in the newspapers lately, which it seldom does outside of Southeastern Europe. Macedonia was the only Yugoslav republic to escape the collapse of Tito’s federation in the early 1990’s without bloodshed, but its history since then has been a tale of woes. As everywhere in the Balkans, crime, corruption and ethnic politicking have rendered Macedonia a less than fully functional state, and all-out war between the Slavic Macedonian majority and the Albanian minority was narrowly averted in 2001. Diplomatic intervention by NATO and the EU cooled heads and a bloody conflagration was headed off, but only just.

Now Macedonia is in turmoil again. Earlier this month, a massive cross-border raid led to the deaths of eight policemen and fourteen terrorists, said by the government in Skopje to be Albanian radicals who infiltrated the border city of Kumanovo to perpetrate mass murder. The country’s fragile ethnic balance has been thrown into chaos by the spectacular raid, the actual events of which remain shrouded in a good deal of mystery, in best Balkan fashion.

Macedonia has a long history of such never-solved major crimes. Back in 1995, President Kiro Gligorov, who got his country independence without bloodshed, was seriously injured by a car bomb, yet nobody was ever charged in the spectacular crime, though most Balkan spy-watchers detected more than a whiff of shadowy networks controlled by UDBA, Tito’s nasty secret police, behind the assassination attempt.

Similarly, it seems safe to expect that the real story behind the Kumanovo raid will remain shrouded in mystery, as some wish. In the absence of evidence, rumors have spread like wildfire. Most Slavic Macedonians attribute the attack to Albanian radicals bent on creating Greater Albania to include western Macedonia — it doesn’t help that some Albanian politicians state their goal openly — while most Albanians believe the raid was a “false flag” operation by Skopje to discredit them. Since false flag terrorism really does happen in the Balkans, it’s difficult to say with any certainty what really transpired in Kumanovo.

It should be noted that the Kumanovo atrocity was exceptionally well timed for Skopje, where the beleaguered government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is facing mass protests against crime and corruption during his near-decade in power. Confronted with public outrage, Gruevski has retreated into ethnic politics, per standard Balkan practice. On cue, the Kremlin has backed Skopje, suddenly remembering that they represent Russia’s Slavic Orthodox “brothers,” with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov bluntly stating this week, “The events in Macedonia are blatantly controlled from the outside.”

According to the Kremlin, Macedonia is being lined up by the Americans and NATO to be the next “color revolution” which, like the alleged “coup” in Kyiv early last year, will install a pro-Western government in power against the (alleged) popular will. It must be said that, as in Ukraine, Moscow is lining itself up with a coalition of corrupt cronies that, if widespread Balkan rumors are to be believed, is tracking to fall from power, and soon. The recent resignation of top officials, including Macedonia’s interior minister and intelligence chief, over revelations of their deep corruption has been taken as a bad sign by most impartial observers.

Never wanting to miss a crisis that could be geopolitically useful, the Kremlin has dispatched numerous “diplomats” — in reality, Russian intelligence officers — to their embassy in little Skopje, and they have been busy disseminating disinformation aimed at maligning the West and Macedonians who want a less corrupt government. A popular Russian rumor is that the Kumanovo terrorists were, in reality, American and British special forces who infiltrated Macedonia from the NATO base in Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel. Of course there is no evidence for this fairytale but that only makes it more popular among Macedonians who like spooky conspiracies.

Upping the ante in Kremlin Active Measures, to use the proper Chekist term, is a new piece in the right-wing Macedonian outlet Fakti by the Russian political strategist Sergei Markov, which posits a grand conspiracy theory about Western manipulation of recent Macedonian events. The root issue, he explains, is pipeline politics being orchestrated by the Americans and the Europeans, and Western intelligence is pulling the strings behind anti-government protests in Skopje, while NATO spy agencies were behind the Kumanovo terrorist raid. There is no evidence for any of this, but Markov goes one step further and explicitly fingers the National Security Agency and its partner the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence service, as the culprits behind the nefarious destabilization of Macedonia. Thanks to the Snowden Operation that Moscow has orchestrated over the last couple years, NSA is now the all-purpose boogeyman for Kremlin agitprop, though as the former technical director for NSA’s Balkan operations, I’m confident in stating that nobody at Fort Meade is “really” behind Macedonia’s grave crisis.

The Kremlin’s hand behind this Active Measure is revealed by the author of this hit-piece. Sergei Markov is not, as one might suspect, a tinfoil-hatted conspiracy monger, some sort of Russian Alex Jones webcasting from his basement. Instead, he is a very prominent Moscow academic and politician who just happens to be the guy Putin drags out to sound scholarly when propagating absurd Kremlin lies. He has denied that Moscow had anything to do with the assassination of FSB defector Sasha Litvinenko in London, while Tallinn has fingered him as a suspect in the massive 2007 cyber-attacks on Estonia; as a result, he has been banned from that country, and Ukraine has done the same over Markov’s vicious anti-Ukrainian statements. He has recently warned of deep Russophobia in Stockholm, threatening that Russia may start World War III if Moscow feels “backed into a corner” — by Sweden.

Moscow’s equally outlandish talking points in Macedonia have been made clear by Professor Markov. I explained a few weeks ago that Putin’s Kremlin has initiated a secret offensive in the Balkans, in both Bosnia and Macedonia, using Special War to open up another front as Europe slides towards greater crisis and perhaps wider war. Appealing to Slavic Orthodox “brothers” in Southeastern Europe, while sending spies and cash to stir up trouble, is a surefire way to exacerbate ethnic tensions in already damaged societies, but Moscow does not care about consequences. Russia seeks to cause problems for NATO and the EU in the Balkans, and it is doing so successfully. Shattering the fragile settlements of the Wars of Yugoslav Succession in the 1990’s, maintained with difficulty by the West, will be easy for the Russians. That the cost of this dirty and unnecessary war will be borne by innocent people in Southeastern Europe is no concern of Vladimir Putin’s.

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America’s Top Five Mistakes in Iraq by 20committee

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:46 AM

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The fall of Ramadi to the fanatical forces of the Islamic State, a big strategic win for the insurgents, has concentrated minds about just how badly things have gone in Iraq for the last dozen years, since American forces annihilated Saddam Hussein’s Ba’thist regime. As at Mosul last year, small numbers of Da’ish mujahidin in Anbar have pushed away far greater numbers of Iraqi troops like a wet rag. An Islamic State drive on Baghdad now seems a question of when, not if.

President Obama continues to engage in public denial, and his incantation that he doesn’t “think” we’re losing in Iraq does not inspire confidence that a much-needed strategic reassessment is taking place inside the White House. To be fair, American policies towards Iraq since 2003 have been one huge trillion-dollar escapism, with many sub-varieties, but Obama’s unwillingness to admit there’s a big problem at hand smacks of his predecessor’s escapism in 2004-06 about just how badly things were going in that troubled country.

There seems little doubt that Who Lost Iraq? will feature prominently in the 2016 election cycle, and we’re already getting a taste of how nasty and a-historical that debate will be. Gotcha questions will feature prominently, as will completely unreality-based discussions that have nothing to do with how the 2003 invasion actually came to pass (for an antidote, read this). To aid any sort of meaningful — and very necessary — political dialogue about Iraq, allow me to present five issues that need dispassionate discussion.

These are the product of my own experiences, including working as an intelligence officer in the early stages of the Iraq war and later employment as a strategic consultant to the Pentagon on certain aspects of the post-Saddam disaster. These are jumping-off points for the discussion, not the final word on anything. But if they aid serious debating, not partisan shouting, that would be a good thing.

1. The Invasion: I fail to see how any serious person cannot now think that deposing Saddam Hussein was a terrible mistake. He was a genocidal monster, to be sure, but the essential wisdom of Bush 41 in 1991 — that throwing the Ba’thists out of Baghdad would only open the door to Iranian hegemony, a choice that got him much criticism at the time — seems fully justified by subsequent events. It must be kept in mind that, by 2001, Saddam felt — pretty much correctly, it must be said — that he had triumphed over a decade of onerous Western sanctions, and he was coming off his leash even before 9/11. Similarly, “regime change” in Iraq was the policy of the Clinton administration, in its second term, so starting history with hanging chads in Florida is deeply misguided. Given the strategic realities of the time, including the idées fixes of the Beltway smart set of the era, it’s frankly difficult to see how an Iraq invasion was avoidable in the hothouse atmosphere that swept the capital after 9/11: a President Gore would have very likely done the same thing, no matter what he says today.

2. That Phase IV: I can still half-defend getting rid of Saddam, who ruined his country well before U.S. troops reached Baghdad, but I cannot excuse, in any fashion, the appalling lack of Pentagon planning about what to do after his nasty regime fell. Simply put, there was hardly any serious planning done by Central Command for what was termed Phase IV of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Hence the chaos and catastrophic ad-hoccery that followed in the decisive weeks and months after Saddam fled his capital, the period when an insurgency could have been averted, but was not. While Donald Rumsfeld and his cronies bear a lot of blame for this, at least as much belongs on the shoulders of appallingly stupid CENTCOM leaders and planners who succumbed to wishful thinking of the highest order in 2003. The Royal Navy used to
shoot admirals for a lot less than Tommy Franks did, and the greatest mystery of all is how this all happened, since under Franks’ predecessor at CENTCOM, Tony Zinni, war plans for Iraq consisted mostly of Phase IV stuff, since it was commonly understood that overthrowing Saddam, who had never rebuilt his conventional military power after 1991, would be the easy part — cleaning up the mess after constituted the real challenge.

3. About That Surge: As we know, chaos and insurgency did follow Saddam’s fall. It was probably inevitable that nasty sectarian-cum-ethnic struggles would emerge in Saddam’s wake, given decades of Ba’thist policies that inflamed those passions, but a war that consumed much of Iraq was avoidable, yet it was not avoided. Here, again, Rumsfeld and his Pentagon deserve a lot of blame for their willful escapism — which means that buck ultimately stopped with Dubya — but a succession of idiot generals in Iraq should get blame too. The U.S. Army at its worst was on display in Iraq, 2003-06; history will not be kind, nor should it be. These failures were then saved by the miraculous Surge of hoary Beltway myth. David Petraeus, using brainpower and cunning, turned the tide in Iraq in 2006-07, or so his fans and FoxNews talking heads have said nonstop for years. The Surge is a half-truth, the true part being that by 2006, it represented the least-bad strategic option on the table; but it is a myth all the same, as I’ve explained before, and in some ways a pernicious one. In particular, it white-washes the reality that, under the guise of The Surge, Baghdad’s Sunnis got ethnically cleansed away by their Shia enemies, while Sunnis in Anbar, who sided with Americans, temporarily and decisively, against fanatical mujahidin during The Surge — for the right price, as always — would eventually realize that we were going to leave them in a Shia-run Iraq that hates them

4. Pulling Out At Any Cost: Political illiteracy has been the signature feature of our all-but-endless Iraq war. A basic unwillingness to see Iraq as Iraqis see it — a country profoundly divided by sectarianism and hatreds that run centuries-deep — has meant that America has pursued inherently contradictory policies that guarantee long-term failure. This is much like thefoolish hash Washington, DC, made of Bosnia, due to basic blindness about the country, but with far worse strategic consequences. Theadvice of Vice President (then Senator) Joe Biden in 2007 to divide up Iraq into self-governing Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish entities, while maintaining a notionally united country (in other words, to make it like Bosnia: dysfunctional but not totally failed) was the least-bad outcome at the time, and its not being pursued looks like a tragic what-if, in hindsight (as does Biden’s sage advice, early in Obama’s first term, to scale-down U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, which the president ignored in favor of his own Surge in that country, which predictably failed to deliver as advertised: one suspects history will look upon Joe Biden as the Last Wise Man in our capital). Obama wanted to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, and it’s hard to blame him for that, once he realized the full scale of the disaster he had inherited from his predecessor. That said, if you don’t want to make hard choices, don’t run for president, and by any fair accounting the list of Obama’s mistakes in Iraq — pulling out too quickly, not taming Shia abuses against Sunnis, leaving the Iraqi military unready to stand alone, and above all failing to secure a Status of Forces Agreement with Baghdad — is long and painful.

5. Not Defeating Da’ish: Given the political errors of both the Bush and Obama administrations in Iraq, some sort of Sunni revolt against the rampant Shia thuggery emanating from the top in Baghdad was inevitable. Yet the insurgency that has emerged with a vengeance, which now threatens the Iraqi state itself, was not preordained, and represents the outcome of many things, including mistakes inside the Beltway. When Da’ish burst on the scene in a big way in Iraq last summer, trouncing far greater numbers of Iraqi troops, diligent use of Western airpower and special operations forces could have blunted it — as I explained here and here, in detail —  through attrition. That was still a viable option early this year, as I elaborated, but the lack of willpower in the Obama White House to employ lethal force persistently has led to a terrible outcome. For want of reality-based planning and toughness in Washington, DC, Da’ish is on the march and airpower and SOF alone may not suffice to halt their genocidal advance now. Certainly Obama’s diffident application of force against the Islamic State to date has been grossly insufficient to attrit the enemy in anything less than decades, as has been evident for some time. By wanting to avoid war, Obama may have
helped cause a far greater one than anything yet seen in post-Saddam Iraq.

At this point, Obama’s Iraq war, which he tried and failed to get out of, has lasted longer than Bush’s Iraq war. Neither has been anything resembling a success. There is ample blame to go around. It is important now that our Iraq debates not become even more freighted down with partisan food-fighting than they already are, since the consequences of more Da’ish victories will be terrible. But we cannot assess what to do now if we cannot honestly reckon with the mistakes that we have already made in Iraq. Who Lost Iraq? We all did.

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EU summit pledges €1.8bn to Ukraine but Russia remains elephant in room - The Guardian

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:45 AM

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EU summit pledges €1.8bn to Ukraine but Russia remains elephant in room The Guardian There had been wrangling over the final text of the summit statement, with Belarus and Armenia not willing to sign up to a statement condemning the “annexation” of Crimea by Russia, and some European nations uneasy about liberalised visa regimes for ...

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Russia launches production of upgraded Mi-26, world's largest helicopter - RT

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Russia launches production of upgraded Mi-26, world's largest helicopter RT “We announce the start-up of production of the modernized heavy helicopter Mi-26T2 serial production. Helicopters of Mi-26 family have unequalled characteristics, and their modernization considerably expands the potential of this aircraft,” said ...

Russia Casts a Shadow Over European Meeting - New York Times

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'US hunts for Russians': Moscow warns citizens traveling abroad - RT

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:44 AM

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Russia to adopt tough position if Ukraine defaults: PM Medvedev - Reuters

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Russia to adopt tough position if Ukraine defaults - PM Medvedev - Reuters UK

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Military Deaths in ISIS Operations

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The Department of Defense has identified four American service members who have died supporting the operation to eliminate the Islamic State militant group.

U.S. Flies Over a Chinese Project at Sea, and Beijing Objectsby By HELENE COOPER and JANE PERLEZ

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:43 AM

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The Chinese are unhappy that the U.S. Navy is watching a huge reclamation project to turn reefs into islands in the Spratly Islands, a group of reefs in the South China Sea.

D.C. "mansion murders" suspect caught

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:42 AM

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Far-reaching manhunt for killer of wealthy couple, their son and housekeeper ends

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Obama defines a "good deal" with Iran

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:42 AM

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Speaking to a Jewish congregation, President Obama promises he will "not accept a bad deal" with Iran

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New Issue of ISIS Magazine: We Can Buy a Nuclear Weapon from Pakistan

Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at 9:39 AM

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The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claims it has access to nuclear weapons through the nation of Pakistan, according to an article by longtime ISIS captive John Cantlie in the latest issue of their official magazine, Dabiq.

In “The Perfect Storm,” allegedly penned by the British Cantlie, the group asserts that they possess billions, enough to buy a nuclear bomb “’from weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials’ in Pakistan.” If they cannot buy the weapon, Cantlie writes, the group would be satisfied with buying a “few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive.”

“Let me throw a hypothetical operation onto the table,” Cantlie allegedly writes. “The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilāyah in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region. It’s the sum of all fears for Western intelligence agencies and it’s infinitely more possible today than it was just one year ago.

“And if not a nuke, what about a few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosive? That’s easy enough to make.”

Analysts believe the black-market sales of artifacts and antiques have generated billions for the Islamic State. The militants have destroyed dozens of ancient shrines, churches, and museums, claiming that they promote idolatry. But people within cities tell media outlets these same militantsransack the places of their priceless items to sell on the black market. The terrorist group also forces people within their caliphate to pay enormous fines and taxes. When they captured Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, they told the Christians to leave, convert to Islam, or pay a protection tax (jizya).

“They’ll [Isis] be looking to do something big, something that would make any past operation look like a squirrel shoot, and the more groups that pledge allegiance the more possible it becomes to pull off something truly epic,” continued the article. “Remember, all of this has happened in less than a year. How more dangerous will be the lines of communication and supply a year on from today?”

There is no way to confirm that Cantlie wrote the text of the article. ISIS kidnapped the British photojournalist two years ago. He has appeared in many propaganda videos, mainly those intended to show Muslims in the West that life in the Islamic State is normal, if not better, than life for Muslims in the West. The latest video was about Aleppo, Syria, to portray the city “as functional and productive.” However, Cantlie said this video was the last in his series. The militant group did not comment on the video or release any information as to whether Cantlie is still alive.

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Tensions Persist at E.U. Meeting Focused on Ex-Soviet Landsby ANDREW HIGGINS

Friday May 22nd, 2015 at 9:22 PM

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A gathering in Latvia including leaders from six former Soviet territories was an affirmation of enduring aspirations, but not an invitation to join the European Union.

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Fighting Islamic State, Kurds Among Few Making Gainsby webdesk@voanews.com (Zana Omer)

Friday May 22nd, 2015 at 9:21 PM

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In a two-week offensive, Syrian Kurdish fighters of the YPG (People's Protection Units) recaptured dozens of villages and towns from Islamic State militants. It's one of the few successful anti-IS operations, as the militant group continues to take ground elsewhere in Syria and in neighboring Iraq. VOA Kurdish Service reporter Zana Omer is on the frontlines in Tal Shamiran, where the YPG are getting help from America, both in the air, and on the ground. Robert Raffaele narrates.

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Janine Gibson, Editor Who Led Team That Won Pulitzer, Leaves The Guardian by RAVI SOMAIYA

Friday May 22nd, 2015 at 9:19 PM

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The prize, shared with The Washington Post, was awarded for articles based on documents leaked by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden.

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White House: No Plans to Send US Ground Troops to Iraqby webdesk@voanews.com (Aru Pande)

Friday May 22nd, 2015 at 9:19 PM

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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Friday he could not corroborate Islamic State’s claims it was responsible for a blast at a Shi’ite mosque in the eastern Saudi Arabian governate of Qatif that killed at least 21 people. “We obviously mourn the loss of life and condemn this violence," said Earnest. "The attribution, the determination about who is responsible, is still under review.” A group describing itself as a newly-established IS affiliate claimed responsibility for the attack in Saudi Arabia. That attack and one at a mosque in the Yemeni capital Sana'a that wounded 13 Friday added to the growing number of casualties outside Islamic State's usual geographic targets in Syria and Iraq. No change in US strategy The attacks came on the heels of the Islamic State’s seizure of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, where some 1,300 U.S. service members were killed during the Iraq war. In neighboring Syria, the ancient city of Palmyra fell to IS militants Thursday. Despite the loss of territory, the White House stood firm, announcing no changes in its strategy against the militant group, which consists of thousands of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes to back Iraqi forces on the ground. “The president has clearly ruled out the use of U.S. military personnel in a ground combat role in Iraq," Earnest said. "And the reason for that is that we have an important lesson to learn from the previous invasion of Iraq.” Earnest said President Barack Obama has been candid that the fight against the Islamic State will require a long-term, sustained commitment. As for the goal of degrading the militant group, the White House spokesman said despite setbacks, based on the progress seen so far, the Islamic State will sustain additional losses in the next few years. US strategy = 'no strategy' Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Jordan Friday, Iraq's Vice President Ayad Allawi was critical of the U.S. air campaign, portraying it as "failed" in terms of controlling the spread of the Islamic State. "There are no good news from the international coalition, and there is no strategy, so I asked the Iraqi leaders to put a strategy together and to present it to the coalition." Allawi told reporters at Forum. "The international coalition meets but without any results, the airstrikes do not solve the problem." Coalition forces conducted five airstrikes in Syria from Thursday to Friday; another 15 coalition bombings in Iraq focused on the IS stronghold of Mosul and the newly-captured city of Ramadi. A spokesman for the Popular Mobilization units, the paramilitary group allied with Iraqi government troops, told AFP that a counter-offensive to retake the city will happen "in the coming days" with what he said would be "tens of thousands" of fighters. Islamic State made further inroads toward its goal of creating a transnational caliphate on Friday, seizing the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq that was held by the Damascus government, according to the Britain-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights [SOHR]. The SOHR says the Syrian government now controls less than half the country.

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Would-be IS Martyrs Arrested in Californiaby webdesk@voanews.com (Molly McKitterick)

Friday May 22nd, 2015 at 9:18 PM

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Two California men have been charged with conspiring to
travel to the Middle East to join the militant group Islamic State. Muhanad Budawi and Nader Elhuzayel, both 24,
appeared in federal court Friday, a day after they were taken into
custody, one at Los Angeles International Airport. According to a statement from Justice, the criminal complaint outlines a scheme in which Badawi and Elhuzayel "used social media to discuss Islamic State and terrorist attacks, expressed a desire to die as martyrs and made arrangements for Elhuzayel to leave the United States to join ISIL
(Islamic State)." The statement continues, "In recorded conversations last month, Badawi and Elhuzayel 'discussed how it would be a blessing to fight for the cause of Allah, and to die in the battlefield.'" Elhuzayel was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, planning to take a plane to Tel Aviv.  According to the allegations in the complaint, Elhuzayel admitted "that he planned to disembark in Istanbul to join ISIL and did not intend to travel on to Israel."
The judge ordered Badawi held without bond and Elhuzayel held until  a detention hearing next week. If convicted, Badawi and Elhuzayel each would face a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to ISIL.The pair join several other Americans facing federal charges of planning to join IS fighters on the ground.

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World Briefing: Ukraine: Report Finds War Crimesby THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Friday May 22nd, 2015 at 9:18 PM

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Both warring sides in eastern Ukraine are perpetrating war crimes almost daily, including torturing prisoners and summarily killing them, Amnesty International said in a report.

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Learning from Uncle Sam: to Russia's annoyance, US hones Ukrainian fighting ... - Reuters

Friday May 22nd, 2015 at 9:10 PM

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Macedonia, the New U.S.-Russia Battlefield Bloomberg View Macedonia is a poor, landlocked Balkan country of about 2 million. To the Kremlin, it's also the newest front in an ideological battle, with the U.S. fomenting regime change to counter Russia'sinfluence. As is often the case, that view is correct to ... Russia accuses west of stirring revolution in MacedoniaFinancial Times 'Macedonia unrest - another episode of West-Russia geopolitical battle'RT (blog) Russia must build strong Orthodox coalition in Europe to defeat the WestPravda

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mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Monitor: ISIS Controls More than Half of Syria. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) told Reuters that ISIS seized Palmyra’s military air base and prison after advan...

» Russia in Review
22/05/15 21:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. May 22, 2015 Russia in Review: a digest of useful news from U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nu...

» Chechnya's Leader Kadyrov Urges Men To Lock Up Their Wives, Ban Women From ... - Huffington Post
22/05/15 21:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Рамзан Кадыров - Google News. Business Insider Australia Chechnya's Leader Kadyrov Urges Men To Lock Up Their Wives, Ban Women From ... Huffington Post LONDON, May 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The lea...

» Chechen leader Kadyrov lashes out at criticism of the forced marriage of a 17 ... - Business Insider
22/05/15 21:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Ramzan Kadyrov - Google News. Business Insider Chechen leader Kadyrov lashes out at criticism of the forced marriage of a 17 ... Business Insider Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov responded to criticism of the...

» «Слишком мелко для падишаха» - Газета.Ru
22/05/15 21:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Рамзан Кадыров - Google News. Газета.Ru «Слишком мелко для падишаха» Газета.Ru Рамзан Кадыров устроил показательный разнос группе мужчин и женщин, которые в соцсетях и через мессенджер WhatsApp WatsApp раз...

» The Story Behind a Chechen Wedding That Transfixed Russia and Beyond - Newsweek
22/05/15 21:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Рамзан Кадыров - Google News. Newsweek The Story Behind a Chechen Wedding That Transfixed Russia and Beyond Newsweek A week later, on May 5, the story took an unexpected turn, when the president of the Che...

» Chechen Leader Scolds WhatsApp Users for Spreading 'Rumors' About Official's ... - New York Times
22/05/15 21:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Ramzan Kadyrov - Google News. New York Times Chechen Leader Scolds WhatsApp Users for Spreading 'Rumors' About Official's ... New York Times The Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov , scolded users of WhatsApp o...

» Chechen Leader's Advice on Women: Lock Them in - New York Times
22/05/15 21:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Рамзан Кадыров - Google News. New York Times Chechen Leader's Advice on Women: Lock Them in New York Times MOSCOW — Ramzan A. Kadyrov , the pugnacious president of the southern Republic of Chechnya and a c...

» Заявления Кадырова указывают на напряженность с Москвой - Радио Азаттык
22/05/15 21:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Рамзан Кадыров - Google News. Радио Азаттык Заявления Кадырова указывают на напряженность с Москвой Радио Азаттык На этой неделе Рамзан Кадыров высказался против пользователей мобильного приложения WhatsAp...

» Владимир Путин вручил Рамзану Кадырову орден Почета - Life News
22/05/15 21:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Рамзан Кадыров - Google News. Life News Владимир Путин вручил Рамзану Кадырову орден Почета Life News Глава Чечни непримиримо борется с боевиками на Северном Кавказе. 4 декабря 2014 года во время нападения...

» Inside Palmyra: IS Video Shows Group's Takeover
22/05/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The video shows the destruction caused during the battle for the city, as fears grow the group will destroy the ancient ruins.

» RFE/RL Closes Baku Bureau, Continues Azerbaijan Operation
22/05/15 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. RFE/RL has closed its Baku bureau, after Azerbaijani authorities sealed the office shut in December 2014 in connection with a government-led campaign against foreign orga...

» Obama Signs Iran Nuclear Bill
22/05/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law legislation giving Congress a say on any international nuclear agreement with Iran.

» Moscow issues travel warning over U.S. 'hunt' for Russians
22/05/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry has warned its citizens traveling abroad of the risks posed by U.S. law enforcement bodies and special services, which it said were hunting...

» Mexican Official: About 40 Dead in Shootout in Cartel Area - New York Times
22/05/15 19:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. The Guardian Mexican Official: About 40 Dead in Shootout in Cartel Area New York Times MEXICO CITY — A Mexican official says about 40 people have been killed in large-scale firef...

» 40 cartel members dead in Mexico shootout
22/05/15 19:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Government claims a victory over Jalisco New Generation

» U.S. Strategy Against Islamic State Under Scrutiny
22/05/15 19:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. President Barack Obama’s strategy against Islamic State is under increasing scrutiny after setbacks this week in Iraq and Syria.

» Authorities: Ex-con had help in slaying of D.C. family
22/05/15 19:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Court documents detail alleged lies by murdered man's assistant to investigators; suspect Daron Dylon Wint makes first court appearance

» You want hypotheticals? Here’s one.
22/05/15 19:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Charles Krauthammer: Most Recent Articles and Archives. Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz bridge near Baghdad while fleeing fighting. (Karim Kadim/Associated Press) Ramadi falls . The Iraqi arm...

» Suspect in 4 gruesome D.C. killings might not have acted alone, police say
22/05/15 19:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . D.C. police arrested Daron Dylon Wint near 10th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NE on the night of May 21. Wint was apprehended in connection with the killing of a Washington family and their housekeeper. (WUS...

» Police ‘barely missed’ arresting quadruple homicide suspect in N.Y. before he was captured in D.C.
22/05/15 13:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Video shows scene of Daron Dylon Wint arrest (0:53) D.C. police arrested Daron Dylon Wint near 10th Street and Rhode Island Avenue NE on the night of May 21. Wint was apprehended in connection with the killin...

» The Insiders: The Islamic State is entirely a creation of Obama’s policies
22/05/15 13:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . By Ed Rogers May 22 at 10:51 AM As reported by Robert Costa in The Washington Post , Republicans are blaming the president not only for allowing the Islamic State to develop as a terrorist organization in the...

» The Insiders: The Islamic State is entirely a creation of Obama's policies - Washington Post (blog)
22/05/15 13:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Washington Post (blog) The Insiders: The Islamic State is entirely a creation of Obama's policies Washington Post (blog) As reported by Robert Costa in The Washington Post, Republicans...

» Iranian cargo ship mystery deepens
22/05/15 13:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. The Shahed’s voyage follows months of suspicious shipping activity amid claims that point to Tehran’s complicity in the Yemeni war

» Obama: Iran agreement will help Israel - USA TODAY
22/05/15 13:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Obama: Iran agreement will help Israel USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Obama defended both his proposed nuclear agreement with Iran and his support for Israel during remarks Fri...

» Polish Court Adjourns Polanski Extradition Case
22/05/15 13:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A Polish court on Friday adjourned until mid-September a hearing on whether to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 child sex conviction. Polanski, who live...

» Obama Massacres Innocent Waco Bikers Over Putin Fears
22/05/15 13:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. A new Foreign Intelligence Service ( SVR ) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama regimes Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ...

» Eye Opener: Authorities apprehend suspect in D.C. mansion murders
22/05/15 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Daron Dylon Wint is now in custody. Also, flash flooding in Texas puts millions at risk over the Memorial Day weekend

» Yakuza Apocalypse review - berserk mess of a gangster-vampire hybrid
22/05/15 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Japanese genre master Takashi Miike comes to Cannes with a yakuza-meets-vampires-meets-monsters movie; no wonder, perhaps, that it’s just a mish-mash For all its berserk energ...

» U.N. panel adopts new rules on treatment of prisoners
22/05/15 12:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. VIENNA (Reuters) - A United Nations commission on Friday adopted revised rules on the treatment of prisoners in what human rights organizations hailed as a landmark deal to update 60-y...

» Demilitarizing the cops: States retool police training
22/05/15 12:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 11:33 a.m. EDT. BURIEN, Wash. (AP) -- When prosecutor Dan Satterberg used to visit Washington state's police academy, the seas would part before him. Recruits would snap to attention, b...

» California oil spill: cleanup crews work around the clock - video
22/05/15 12:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Crews clean up the California coast for a third day on Friday after an estimated 477 litres of oil leaked from a broken pipeline in the Pacific ocean off Santa Barbara. T...

» Migrants Find a Safer Route B Into Europe Via the Balkans
22/05/15 12:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. When Abu Hassan fled the Syrian city of Daraa two months ago he was determined to get his family to Europe. He considered putting his family in a boat in Libya to cross the central Mediterranean Sea....

» Cleveland braces for decisions in controversial killings by police
22/05/15 12:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. City awaits verdict in trial of cop in 137-shot deaths of 2 unarmed people and decision on possible charges in 12-year-old's death

» Moldova Eyes Russia’s Embrace as Flirtation With Europe Fades
22/05/15 10:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Russia. Moldova’s feuding pro-European politicians are so tainted by their failure to combat corruption and create a functioning state that, to many here, Russia looks appealing.

» Ukraine fears spread of separatist conflict amid hostility towards Kiev
22/05/15 10:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Attacks in Odessa and Kharkiv suggest instability is extending across the country, fuelled by rising inflation and rocketing utility prices On a bright Sunday morning in February, Ih...

» US Lawmakers Debate Strategy After IS Gains
22/05/15 10:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Islamic State militants have made significant gains in recent days, following temporary setbacks inflicted by coalition air strikes on their positions. The radical Islamist group seized t...

» Боевики "Исламского государства" установили полный контроль над границей между Сирией и Ираком - Первый канал
22/05/15 10:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Первый канал Боевики "Исламского государства" установили полный контроль над границей между Сирией и Ираком Первый канал Экстремисты захватили последний из удерживавшихся...

» Energia's Lopota Put Under House Arrest In Moscow
22/05/15 10:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The former head of famed Russian space company Energia, which launched the first satellite and manned space flights, was charged with abuse of power and placed under hous...

» Hollande's calculated turn on Russia - Politico
22/05/15 10:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Politico Hollande's calculated turn on Russia Politico “There are two camps in the French establishment: the so-called Gaullist line which sees Russia as a partner in an enlarged, con...

» U.S. Envoy In Israel To Discuss Nuclear-Free Middle East
22/05/15 10:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The United States has sent a top envoy to Israel to try to revive talks on a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons.

» Американский ракетный эсминец "Росс" зайдет в Черное море - Интерфакс
22/05/15 10:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. УНИАН Американский ракетный эсминец "Росс" зайдет в Черное море Интерфакс Москва. 22 мая. INTERFAX.RU - Эскадренный миноносец DDG 71 "Росс" войдет в субботу в а...

» IS Captures Another Town In Anbar Province
22/05/15 10:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Islamic State militants are reported to have seized another town in Iraq's western Anbar Province, less than a week after capturing the provincial capital, Ramadi.

» Op-Ed Contributor: A Victory for Pope Francis
22/05/15 10:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The beatification of an assassinated archbishop is an important marker in the routing of hard-line conservatives in the church.

» Obama Speaks About Anti-Semitism at Washington Synagogue
22/05/15 10:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. President Barack Obama will visit one of Washington's largest synagogues Friday and is expected to outline his administration's response to the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The ...

» Russia Now in ‘a State of War for Survival with the US,’ Russia Today Commentator Says
22/05/15 10:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble               Staunton, May 22 – Rostislav Ishchenko, a commentator for Russia Today who gained notor...

» Amnesty Says Torture Of Ukraine War Prisoners Widespread
22/05/15 10:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Amnesty International says both warring sides in eastern Ukraine are almost daily perpetrating war crimes, including torture and summary killings of prisoners.

» Wary of Russia, Europe now tiptoes when it comes to expansion
22/05/15 10:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News: News and Headlines from Europe - The Washington Post. RIGA, Latvia — The last time European leaders gathered to discuss the future of the nations that lie between E.U. borders and Russia, the ...

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» Feds: Accused ISIL recruit threatened to kill FBI agents
21/05/15 22:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . One of the Twin Cities men charged with supporting terrorism planned to kill FBI agents who were investigating their activities over the last 10-months, according to federal authorities who’ve reviewed ...

» Justice Department contradicts Attorney General Loretta Lynch's claims about Patriot Act
21/05/15 22:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Boing Boing. In the midst of the last-minute Congressional debate about whether to re-authorize Patriot Act Section 215, the Justice Department Inspector General (IG) released a long awaited report today o...

» See the Ancient Syrian City of Palmyra That Was Just Captured by ISIS
21/05/15 21:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. After months of fierce fighting, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) captured the town of Palmyra northeast of Syria’s capital Damascus on Thursday, leaving the group in control ...

» Iraq’Launches Review of ISIS Siege of Ramadi
21/05/15 21:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered a review of the circumstances that allowed Islamic State militants to seize the key city of Ramadi several days ago.

» Is Fall of Palmyra a Strategic Loss for Syria?
21/05/15 21:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The swift takeover of Palmyra—after only days of fighting—may have been a huge military victory for the Islamic State group but it may have also been, in part, a calculated strategic loss...

» Concern in Jerusalem over international decision against Israeli nuclear program - Haaretz
21/05/15 21:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Haaretz Concern in Jerusalem over international decision against Israeli nuclear program Haaretz Israeli officials worried Obama administration won't help foil creation of internationa...

» FBI used Patriot Act to obtain 'large collections' of Americans' data, DoJ finds
21/05/15 21:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Report by department’s inspector general found that the FBI received from the Fisa court 51 orders for such data between 2007 and 2009 As lawmakers and security agencies brace...

» 'This is the Chinese navy ... You go!' - NEWS.com.au
21/05/15 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NEWS.com.au 'This is the Chinese navy ... You go!' NEWS.com.au CHINA says it is entitled to keep watch over airspace and seas surrounding artificial islands it created in the dis...

» US admits children killed in airstrikes against Islamic State - Bangor Daily News
21/05/15 21:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. US admits children killed in airstrikes against Islamic State Bangor Daily News WASHINGTON — Two children were likely killed by a U.S. airstrike in Syria in November, the U.S. mi...

» Pentagon says US anti-armor weapons due in Iraq next week - Lynchburg News and Advance
21/05/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Pentagon says US anti-armor weapons due in Iraq next week Lynchburg News and Advance WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says an expedited shipment of 2,000 lightweight anti-armor weapons s...

» WorldViews: The splendors of Palmyra, the ancient Syrian city captured by the Islamic State
21/05/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. The Islamic State this week captured Palmyra, an ancient desert city in the heart of Syria and a UNESCO World Heritage site, ...

» Baltimore Grand Jury Indicts Officers in Freddie Gray's Death - ABC News
21/05/15 21:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. ABC News Baltimore Grand Jury Indicts Officers in Freddie Gray's Death ABC News Three weeks after Baltimore's top prosecutor announced initial charges against the six police offi...

» US admits killing two children in Syria air strikes - Telegraph.co.uk
21/05/15 21:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk US admits killing two children in Syria air strikes Telegraph.co.uk US air strikes against Islamist extremists in Syria killed two children by mistake, officials ...

» Despite Obama endorsement, U.S. concerns grow over Iraqi premier
21/05/15 21:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is publicly voicing confidence in Iraq’s prime minister in the fight against surging Islamic State militants, but privately some U.S. of...

» Op-Ed Contributor: Calm Down. ISIS Isn’t Winning.
21/05/15 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The fall of Ramadi and Palmyra isn’t a disaster. In Iraq, at least, there is hope.

» Islamic State Gains Ground as Palmyra Falls to Militants
21/05/15 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Observers say Islamic State has captured the last Syrian-controlled border crossing between Syria and Iraq. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian forces fled t...

» U.S. vets who took Ramadi in 2006 mourn its loss to ISIS
21/05/15 21:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. 1,300 American troops died to take the city during the Iraq war; now ISIS is gaining control

» Grand jury indictments in Freddie Gray case
21/05/15 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Baltimore's state attorney said all six police officers were indicted for the death of Gray, who died from injuries incurred in custody

» American solider killed in Iraq finally gets justice
21/05/15 21:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. A London cabbie was convicted Thursday for building roadside bombs used in Iraq, including one that killed a U.S. solider and wounded others

» Afghan Unity Government Split On Intelligence-Sharing Deal
21/05/15 21:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A controversial security deal with Pakistan has exposed deep divisions in Afghanistan's unity government.

» Swedish Fighter Jets Intercept Russian Bombers
21/05/15 21:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Sweden's military says its fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers flying in international air space over the Baltic Sea close to the Swedish border on May 21.

» Smoke rises over Palmyra as Isis take control of historic city - video
21/05/15 21:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Smoke is spotted over the the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra after Islamic State militants seized full control of the historic city in central Syria on Thursday, just day...

» Former royal aide to leave prison after serving 14 years for murder
21/05/15 21:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Jane Andrews, former dresser of Duchess of York, lost previous attempt to win release on grounds that she remained a threat A former aide to the Duchess of York who was jailed...

» Kim Jong-un orders more military top brass to be executed
21/05/15 21:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is believed to have continued his purge of senior military ranks after he ordered the execution of several top general who were previously central to t...

» kerry putin isis iran - Google Search
21/05/15 16:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Kerry Meets Putin in Russia for Talks on Iran , ISIS and Yemen <a href="http://NBCNews.com" rel="nofollow">NBCNews.com</a> - May 12, 2015 Secretary of State John Kerry had a rare direct meeting wi...

» Russia offers military aid to Iraq during PM visit
21/05/15 16:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MOSCOW Russia offered visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi military and other aid on Thursday to help push back Islamic State militants who have made further sweeping gains in both Iraq and Syria thi...

» abadi and putin - Google Search
21/05/15 16:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Search Results In the news Russia offers military aid to Iraq during PM visit Reuters ‎ - 1 hour ago ... Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the start of talks with Abadi in the Kremlin, hailing ...

» maliki iraq and isis - Google Search
21/05/15 16:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . The war against ISIS in Iraq just took a dark turn Business Insider - May 18, 2015 ISIS formed after the US occupation of Iraq , which toppled dictator ... of the authoritarian Iran-backed regime of Nouri al-...

» The war against ISIS in Iraq just took a dark turn
21/05/15 16:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Military & Defense. The Islamic State terrorist group just claimed a big victory in Iraq with the seizing of Ramadi, the provincial capital of Iraq's largest region. And Baghdad's actions before and af...

» Isis advance blows a hole in Obama’s Iraq strategy
21/05/15 15:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Ever since the Islamist militants of Isis swept into northern Iraq from Syria last June, the Obama administration has had a consistent response: the Syrian conflict may be complex and uncertain, officials wou...

» Isis blows hole in Obama’s Iraq strategy
21/05/15 15:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. The fall of Ramadi exposes four principal problems in the US campaign

» Eight Charged Over London Jewelry Heist
21/05/15 15:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Eight men have been charged with plotting a heist that prosecutors say involved the theft of more than £10 million of valuables from London’s jewelry district.

» Islamic State threatens ancient Syrian site with destruction - USA TODAY
21/05/15 15:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. USA TODAY Islamic State threatens ancient Syrian site with destruction USA TODAY Dread swept through the archaeological world Thursday with the Islamic State's capture of Palmyra in Sy...

» Obama: Netanyahu's anti-Arab remarks likely to have foreign policy consequences - Haaretz
21/05/15 15:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Haaretz Obama: Netanyahu's anti-Arab remarks likely to have foreign policy consequences Haaretz President says because U.S. is close to Israel, Oval Office had to speak up about Israel...

» ISIS execute a man with a BAZOOKA in shocking new video
21/05/15 15:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Shocking footage emerged today showing the captive exploding into a ball of flames after being shot with the rocket-propelled grenade after being accused of fighting ISIS in Syria.

» Lonely man finds a home in Islam, and then in Islamic State
21/05/15 15:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 2:41 p.m. EDT. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Before he left New Zealand, Mark Taylor spoke with a local television network. "I've been lonely all my life," he said. "Been rejected by ...

» Pentagon Rhetoric About Ramadi’s Fall Risks U.S. Credibility
21/05/15 15:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. When generals start playing with syntax, hold on to your wallets. “The ISF (Iraqi Security Forces) was not driven out of Ramadi,” Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, s...

» Destruction of Palmyra would be 'loss to humanity'
21/05/15 15:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AFP's YouTube Videos. From: AFP Duration: 01:14 Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe The destruction of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Palmyra would be a...

» Obama: 'I don't think we're losing' fight with Islamic State: Atlantic
21/05/15 15:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said the fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to Islamic State militants was a "tactical setback" but in an interview released on Thursda...

» Jeb Bush says brother should have been tougher on spending - USA TODAY
21/05/15 15:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. USA TODAY Jeb Bush says brother should have been tougher on spending USA TODAY Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks to a morning crowd at the Draft restaurant, Thursday, May 21, 2...

» Iraq’s PM seeks fresh support in Moscow talks
21/05/15 15:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from euronews. Perhaps sensing that his allies’ support for Iraq is weakening Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has flown to Moscow to try and renew the two countries previously warm relationship. Immediatel...

» After Novorossia
21/05/15 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. If and how the separatist-held territories of Donbas will be reintegrated into Ukraine will be the main battleground in the conflict's endgame. And for scenarios of how t...

» Iraq's PM seeks fresh support in Moscow talks - euronews
21/05/15 15:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. euronews Iraq's PM seeks fresh support in Moscow talks euronews Perhaps sensing that his allies' support for Iraq is weakening Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has flown to Moscow to try...

» Isis militants control half of Syria
21/05/15 15:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. City’s capture sparks antiquity fears but Assad opponents say jihadis ‘more merciful’ than president

» US Senate boosts Obama in trade fight
21/05/15 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Legislative dance highlights difficult balancing act president faces in Congress

» Obama says to designate Tunisia a major non-NATO ally
21/05/15 15:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he plans to designate Tunisia as a major non-NATO ally of the United States,

» Suspect in D.C. family's brutal murder may be in NYC
21/05/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. District police chief says slaying of four in Savopoulos mansion wasn't random, suspect once worked for one victim's construction company

» Daron Dylon Wint named suspect after Savvas Savopoulos, family found dead, Washington police say
21/05/15 14:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from National news from Newsday. WASHINGTON - Investigators believe a suspect in the mysterious slayings of a wealthy Washington family and their housekeeper is in the Brooklyn area, police said Thursday. D.C. ...

» Police name suspect in D.C. family's brutal murder
21/05/15 14:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Police have named a suspect in a harrowing quadruple murder in Washington, D.C., blocks away from the vice president's home, reports CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews. Police say Daron Dylon Wint was invol...

» Is your Takata air bag under recall?
21/05/15 14:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has created some online resources to help consumers whose vehicle may have a defective air bag made by Takata. The Japanese air bag maker announced o...

» Inside the Investigation into the Deaths of a CEO and His Family : People.com
21/05/15 13:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from People.com Latest News. Savvas and Amy Savopoulos were the toast of Washington society. Neighbors described the wealthy couple as "wonderful" people who were active donors to various charities and causes t...

» Can the Iraqi government stop ISIS from taking Baghdad?
21/05/15 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. CNN's Arwa Damon looks at the latest strategy for halting ISIS' advances.

» Will ISIS bulldoze ancient Syrian city?
21/05/15 12:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. Another world wonder is on the brink of destruction as ISIS continues its rampage through the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria.

» Imam kicked, pushed and dragged along a nine-year-old boy who forgot passage of the Koran during lessons
21/05/15 12:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Raza Ul-Mustafa Sabir, 30, turned on the young boy during a lesson at the Jamiz Nizamia mosque in Derby after he forgot a passage of the Koran, leaving the youngster with a bruised leg.

» Palmyra before the fall: Why ISIS destruction sickens me
21/05/15 12:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. Palmyra: a 2,000-year old city that's remarkably preserved in the middle of the Syrian desert. And now, it's in the hands of ISIS.

» Russians face ultimate test of loyalties
21/05/15 12:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. The educated and wealthy head the queue for a future abroad and away from the rule of Putin

» Was Picasso a misogynist?
21/05/15 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. The greatest artist of the 20th century has been characterised as a bully, a narcissist and a man who feared as well as desired women. But are the stories really true? Jonatha...

» Phone hacking: Celebrities win damages from Mirror Group - BBC Sport
21/05/15 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. BBC Sport Phone hacking: Celebrities win damages from Mirror Group BBC Sport Damages totalling nearly £1.25m have been awarded to eight people whose phones were hacked by Mirror Group ...

» How Much More Money Will Moscow Throw At Daghestan?
21/05/15 12:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Russian daily Kommersant has reported that the federal Ministry for the North Caucasus is mulling a separate program of financial support for Daghestan under which th...

» AP PHOTOS: Heritage sites under Islamic State control
21/05/15 12:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 10 a.m. EDT. When Islamic State fighters routed Syrian government forces and took control of the ruins of Palmyra Thursday morning, the ancient city became the latest archaeological sit...

» Another Spying Scandal Adds to Political Crisis for Merkel
21/05/15 12:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. After leaks to the news media, awkward correspondence and a parliamentary investigation, Berlin and Washington are at loggerheads over secret service activities, and not for the first time.

» Abadi Seeks Russian Help In Fight Against IS
21/05/15 12:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has met his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, during a visit to Moscow aimed at boosting cooperation in the fight against the Isl...

» Islamic State Claims Full Control of Palmyra
21/05/15 12:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Islamic State claimed full control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and a nearby military airport and prison, as a monitoring group said the militants had now captured 50% of the ...

» HRW Calls On Kyrgyz To Reject 'Foreign Agents' Bill
21/05/15 12:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Human Rights Watch has called on Kyrgyz deputies to reject a bill requiring domestic NGOs that receive foreign funding and engage in "political activities" to register as...

» Exclusive: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebel areas - court documents
21/05/15 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. ADANA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's state intelligence agency helped deliver arms to parts of Syria under Islamist rebel control during late 2013 and early 2014, according to a prosecut...

» Arrogant serial criminal wanted for killing CEO, his wife and their son in DC mansion
21/05/15 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. Suspect Daron Wint, 34, whose DNA was on a Domino’s pizza crust at the scene. The man suspected of torturing and killing a wealthy CEO, his wife,...

» Russia ready to help Iraq defeat Islamic State: Lavrov
21/05/15 12:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is ready to supply weapons to Iraq, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday, as the country struggles to halt advances by Islamic State militants.

» Chinese University Denies Involvement in 'Economic Espionage'
21/05/15 12:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. A Chinese state-run university named in a U.S. indictment as being linked to suspected economic espionage has denied being involved in inappropriate activity, calling the allegations a...

» Police: Washington officer shot men who tried to steal beer - Washington Post
21/05/15 12:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. KOMO News Police: Washington officer shot men who tried to steal beer Washington Post OLYMPIA, Washington — Police in the capital of Washington state say an officer shot two men ...

» Russia, Iraq expanding military cooperation: Putin
21/05/15 12:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow and Baghdad are expanding military cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday during talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in th...

» Mexico's Economy Slows Down in First Quarter
21/05/15 12:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Mexico’s economy slowed down in the first quarter, as faltering manufactured exports, affected by the severe winter in the U.S., offset an incipient recovery in domestic consumption.

» Air strikes kill 15 militants in northwest Pakistan: officials
21/05/15 12:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Air strikes killed at least 15 suspected militants in Pakistan's northwestern Shawal Valley on Thursday, intelligence officials said, a week after secu...

» IS affiliate in Egypt vows to attack judges over executions - Washington Post
21/05/15 12:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Philly.com Al-Bawaba IS affiliate in Egypt vows to attack judges over executions Washington Post CAIRO — The leader of an Islamic State affiliate in Egypt has vowed to kill judges and ...

» 'Suicide' student Jeremiah Duggan may have been pressured by cult, court hears
21/05/15 12:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Young British man found dead on a German motorway in 2003 may have suffered psychological violence, French expert tells inquest A British student who was thought to have kille...

» RFE/RL Video Roundup, May 21
21/05/15 12:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The EU begins a summit with six eastern countries in Latvia, Kyrgyzstan joins the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union, Azerbaijani workers tear down facades blamed for a ...

» Thailand’s Shame
21/05/15 12:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. Each april, Thailand celebrates its New Year, marking the onset of the monsoon rains and the bounty of the rice harvest. The festival is not just the playful dousing of family and friends with water,...

» Letter From Europe: British Labour Party Faces a Long Road Back
21/05/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The Labour Party will not elect a new leader until the autumn, giving candidates time to battle over the rubble of a party that had its worst showing in nearly 30 years.

» Saudi Airstrike Hits Aid Office, Killing 5
21/05/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding 10, a local official said. Artillery fire and airstri...

» Sir Gerald Kaufman calls SNP MPs 'goons' over their Commons behaviour
21/05/15 12:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Father of the house condemns parliamentary conduct of Scottish nationalists as infantile after attempt to take veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner’s seat Listen to our Politics W...

» Putin Says Russia, Iraq Expanding Military Cooperation
21/05/15 11:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russian President Vladimir Putin said during talks with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on May 21 that Moscow and Baghdad are expanding military cooperation.

» Briton Guilty Of Making IEDs To Kill US Troops
21/05/15 11:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. A British bomb-maker has been found guilty of building improvised explosive devices to kill American soldiers in Iraq.

» Eurozone Growth, Confidence Slide, Surveys Show
21/05/15 11:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The eurozone’s economy slowed and consumer confidence weakened for the second straight month in May, according to surveys.

» Polish candidate to claw back EU powers
21/05/15 11:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Andrzej Duda also wants to recalibrate the country’s relationship with neighbouring Germany

» U.S. sanctions two companies linked to Iran's plane purchases
21/05/15 11:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two firms based in Iraq and in the United Arab Emirates for helping Iran purchase second-hand civilian aircraft.

» China warns U.S. jet away from disputed islands
21/05/15 11:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Washington sends bold signal to Beijing by flying hi-tech surveillance jet over Spratly Islands, and gets an unwelcome response

» Obama Task Force Lays Out Plan to Save Honeybees
21/05/15 11:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . The White House laid out a strategy Tuesday to address a surge in honeybee deaths that includes scrutinizing the effect of pesticides on pollinators and planting more bee-friendly vegetation on federal land. ...

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» Former DEA agent, employee charged with secretly running strip club - Daily Mail
20/05/15 22:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Former DEA agent, employee charged with secretly running strip club Daily Mail NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities announced charges on Wednesday against a former Drug ...

» Isis seizes historic city of Palmyra
20/05/15 22:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Pro-government forces pull back leaving heritage site in danger

» Islamic State Seizes Syria's Ancient Town Of Palmyra
20/05/15 22:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Islamic State captured the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra after government defense lines there collapsed May 20, a stunning triumph for the group only days after it g...

» Plane carrying tonne of cocaine crashes during chase by Colombian air force
20/05/15 22:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Pilot’s body recovered from small Hawker jet that went into ocean when engine failed during escape attempt A plane from Venezuela with more than a tonne of cocaine on board ha...

» Sinaloa drug cartel leader 'Chino Antrax' pleads guilty
20/05/15 22:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A kingpin from Mexico's Sinaloa drugs cartel whose boasting on social media may have led to his arrest pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import tons of cocaine and ...

» Chechen Leader’s Advice on Women: Lock Them in
20/05/15 22:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. President Ramzan A. Kadyrov of Chechnya finally had enough Wednesday of social media users mocking him relentlessly for seeming to push polygamy. His solution? Keep women locked up at home.

» Legion of foreign fighters battles for Islamic State
20/05/15 22:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 9:18 p.m. EDT. PANKISI GORGE, Georgia (AP) -- One day this April, instead of coming home from school, two teenagers left their valley high in the Caucasus, and went off to war....

» Concern About Palmyra’s Ancient Riches
20/05/15 22:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Palmyra — whose rich, monumental ruins include the Temple of Ba’al; an ancient theater; and a famous 2000-year-old colonnade that is already scarred by mortar fire — is threatened by the ar...

» U.S. to Send Rockets to Iraq for ISIS Fight
20/05/15 22:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Obama administration officials have called the fall of Ramadi a huge setback, but they have sought to quell critics in the region with the deployment of weapons, expected to arrive in early...

» Rights group: Qatar making little progress on labor reforms
20/05/15 22:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 9:18 p.m. EDT. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Amnesty International said Thursday that Qatar is failing to deliver on reforms for its migrant workers a year after the wealthy Gulf ...

» Under Egypt’s Sissi, crackdown on human rights groups worsens
20/05/15 22:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington Post. CAIRO — A year ago, Mohamed Zarea ran a successful nonprofit in a sprawling office in central Cairo, with 50 employees provid...

» In rare admission of guilt, Wall St. banks say they rigged markets
20/05/15 22:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. Traders used private electronic chat rooms in colluding to set currency and interest rates

» Vladimir Putin's lover Alina Kabaeva renews rumours she has given birth
20/05/15 22:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Former Olympian Alina Kabaeva appeared in public for the first time in weeks, looking 'overweight' and 'older', according to Russian media, reigniting rumours of a child with the Russia...

» Islamic State's Egypt affiliate urges attacks on judges: recording
20/05/15 22:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State's Egypt affiliate on Wednesday urged followers to attack judges, declaring a new front in an Islamist militant insurgency in the world's most populous A...

» Exclusive: China warns US surveillance plane - CNN
20/05/15 22:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN Exclusive: China warns US surveillance plane CNN Above the South China Sea (CNN) The Chinese navy issued warnings eight times as a U.S. surveillance plane on Wednesday swoope...

» Police officer, Suspect Killed in Omaha Shooting - NBCNews.com
20/05/15 22:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Police officer, Suspect Killed in Omaha Shooting NBCNews.com OMAHA, Neb. — Omaha's police chief says an officer shot while helping serve an arrest warrant has died, a...

» Ющенко: От Украины Запад уже отбивается как от назойливой мухи - ИА REGNUM
20/05/15 22:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. СЕГОДНЯ Версии.сом Ющенко: От Украины Запад уже отбивается как от назойливой мухи ИА REGNUM От Украина западные страны начинают отбиваться как от назойливой мухи, заявил экс-презид...

» Deadly Blaze Reveals Ugly Truth Behind Baku Beautification
20/05/15 22:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. With less than three weeks until the start of the European Games in Baku, authorities are coming under criticism for shoddy construction practices believed to behind a Ma...

» Russia Says Ukraine Debt Repayment Law Amounts To Default
20/05/15 22:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia has demanded that Ukraine repays all debts on time and accused Kyiv of effectively setting the stage for default with a new law.

» BP ditched Arctic concerns for strategic deal with Russia
20/05/15 22:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. In wake of the Deepwater Horizon crisis, a bold share swap deal with Putin’s Rosneft allowed the stricken oil giant to reinvent itself with a new centre of gravity to the east As 201...

» Text of Remarks by President Obama at US Coast Guard Commencement
20/05/15 22:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT   United States Coast Guard Academy New London, Connecticut 11:42 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you!  (Appl...

» Vladimir Putin's 'girlfriend' sparks new pregnancy rumours
20/05/15 22:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Alina Kabayeva, the former gymnast linked to the Russian president, takes to the stage at Moscow festival wearing capacious red dress

» The underworld is going freelance: Why The Godfather's Mafia model is no longer viable
20/05/15 22:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. The term "organised crime" instantly conjures up brutal imagery of a crime family going about its day-to-day business to the tune of Coppola's The Godfather. Life began to imitate art, a...

» Дуров продолжил полемику с Кремлем о потере соцсети "ВКонтакте" - Росбалт.RU
20/05/15 22:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Комсомольская правда Дуров продолжил полемику с Кремлем о потере соцсети "ВКонтакте" Росбалт.RU МОСКВА, 20 мая. Основатель компании "ВКонтакте" Павел Дуров отре...

» Задержанных бойцов ГРУ РФ посетили сотрудники Красного Креста - ЛІГА.net
20/05/15 22:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. ЛІГА.net Задержанных бойцов ГРУ РФ посетили сотрудники Красного Креста ЛІГА.net Сотрудники международного комитета Красного Креста посетили двух задержанных в Украине россиян, кото...

» Escaping Islamic State Enslavement
20/05/15 22:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. “First, they took all the men...” Rakhda said, beginning a tale familiar to other victims of the Islamic State. In mid-August, Rakhda’s village, the Yazidi enclave Kocho in northern Iraq,...

» США заявили об отсутствии планов по размещению системы ПРО на Украине - РБК
20/05/15 22:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК США заявили об отсутствии планов по размещению системы ПРО на Украине РБК У Вашингтона и НАТО нет планов по размещению элементов системы ПРО на Украине, заверила официальный пр...

» Inside Bin Laden Papers: Targeting Americans, Missing Family
20/05/15 22:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. “Do you wish to execute a suicide mission?" "What objectives would you like to accomplish on your jihad path?" "Who should we contact in case you become a martyr?" "Do any of your family ...

» Ukraine says it wants a missile shield to protect against Russian aggression
20/05/15 22:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News: News and Headlines from Europe - The Washington Post. MOSCOW — Ukraine wants a nuclear missile shield, according to the country’s security chief, something that would almost certainly provoke ...

» Is Saudi Arabia seeking nuclear weapons from Pakistan?
20/05/15 21:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Story highlights Saudi defense official on Sunday Times report: "I don't understand what the story is" Report: Saudis have taken "strategic decision" to acquire atomic weapons from Pakistan (CNN) A Saudi defe...

» US Military's New Swarm of Mini-Drones
20/05/15 20:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Agence France-Presse 4:53 p.m. EDT May 17, 2015 A man holds a Cicada, a miniature drone invented by US military scientists, outside the Pentagon on May 14 in Arlington, Va. (Photo: Laurent Barthelemy/AFP) WAS...

» The founder of 'Russia's Facebook' explains how the Kremlin took his company ... - Business Insider
20/05/15 19:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider The founder of ' Russia's Facebook' explains how the Kremlin took his company ... Business Insider The founder of Russia's most popular social network recently descri...

» NATO meets Russians in Brussels, urges Ukraine withdrawal - Yahoo News
20/05/15 19:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Yahoo News NATO meets Russians in Brussels, urges Ukraine withdrawal Yahoo News BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Russia's foreign minister met Tuesday for t...

» Latvian Region Has Distinct Identity, and Allure for Russia - New York Times
20/05/15 19:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times Latvian Region Has Distinct Identity, and Allure for Russia New York Times While Mr. Locs insists that he has no desire to see the area break away from already tiny Lat...

» U.S. Weighing Punishments for Russia's Nuclear Violations - Bloomberg View
20/05/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Bloomberg View U.S. Weighing Punishments for Russia's Nuclear Violations Bloomberg View Admiral James “Sandy” Winnefeld, the outgoing vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ...

» White House Won’t Upend ISIS Strategy
20/05/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > United States Defense and Military Forces. Administration officials said President Obama’s strategy of conducting airstrikes while relying on Iraqi forces on the ground have yielded gains.

» Obama Recasts Climate Change as a More Far-Reaching Peril
20/05/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > United States Defense and Military Forces. In In planned remarks to graduating Coast Guard cadets, the president described describes climate change as an environmental issue with large economic an...

» German spies helped US find bin Laden, claims German newspaper
20/05/15 19:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. German intelligence gave the United States a tip of “fundamental importance” about the whereabouts of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, which helped the Americans locate him in Pakistan, acc...

» Al-Qaeda still a more serious threat than ISIS, says ex-CIA official
20/05/15 19:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. Al-Qaeda and its affiliates continue to pose the most serious unconventional threat to American security, despite the meteoric rise of ISIS, according to a former senior official in the CIA.

» Nazi letter to one of history’s greatest double spies found in Tokyo
20/05/15 19:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. A congratulatory letter sent by from a senior Nazi official to Richard Sorge, a German who spied for the USSR, and is sometimes credited with helping Moscow win World War II, has been found ...

» Obama to sound alarm on climate change
20/05/15 19:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - CBSNews.com. President will deliver a call to action during his commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy

» Inside Raytheon's Secret Cyber Push
20/05/15 19:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Defense News - Home. From the outside, the building is so nondescript that it wouldn't raise eyebrows in any business park in America. On the inside, though, Raytheon's Cyber Operations, Development & ...