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New Cuban Migrant Bottleneck Hits Panama During US Détenteby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
A new bottleneck of Cuban migrants bound for the United States has formed this month in Panama, threatening a fresh diplomatic headache in Central America after thousands were flown out of the region earlier this year. Just as Barack Obama was making the first visit to Cuba in 88 years by a U.S. president, 1,500 migrants from the communist island were bunched on Panama's border with Costa Rica, struggling to reach the United States to start new lives. The buildup followed the airlift of about 6,000 Cubans from Costa Rica and Panama, which ended last week. However, another knot of migrants has grouped in western Panama since Costa Rica stopped issuing Cubans transit visas in December to try to stem the human tide that clogged up its border with Nicaragua last year. "If I hadn't left Cuba, I would have ended up in prison because I love freedom and having options," said Halena Leiva, 31, who has worked as a cleaning lady in the Panamanian border town of Paso Canoas since she ran out of money on her way north. During his 48-hour visit this week, Obama challenged Cuba's government with calls for democracy and new economic reforms. Cuba has loosened restrictions on private enterprise in recent years, creating a growing middle class, but most people still earn tiny wages and many of the young wish to work abroad. 'Good change' "With the visit of Obama, this is the beginning of a good change," said Cuban welder Isbel Loriete, 45, who was confident he would find plenty of work in the United States once he got out of Panama. "Every change is good." Last year Cubans took advantage of an open-door policy in Ecuador to head northward, fearful that decades of preferential U.S. policy toward them could be ending. Running the gauntlet of corrupt police and people smugglers, Cuban migrants young and old made the long trek before Cuba stepped up pressure on its allies in the region, such as Nicaragua and Ecuador, to halt the surge. Nicaragua sealed its border in late November and Ecuador imposed visa requirements on the Cubans beginning in December. By then, many of the migrants were already in South America. Over 7,000 were trapped on the Nicaraguan border, and only after much diplomatic wrangling did Central American nations in late December agree to airlift most of the stranded Cubans out. Costa Rica said a final group of migrants left just last week. Still, seven to 10 migrants are still turning up at the Panamanian border every day, on average, local officials say. Luis Hincapie, Panama's deputy foreign minister, said Wednesday that Central American countries, as well as others including Ecuador, Colombia, the United States and maybe Cuba, aimed to schedule a summit to discuss the issue in Guatemala.
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Is Market Rally Overextended?by webdesk@voanews.com (Jill Malandrino)
The market has enjoyed a five-week rally on the back of a rebound in crude oil and financials and dovish commentary from the Federal Reserve to keep monetary policy easy. VOA's Jill Malandrino and Matthew Tuttle of Tuttle Tactical Management discuss whether the S&P 500 is overextended and whether the Fed should revisit its policy and raise interest rates.
Authorities repeatedly missed opportunities to detain Islamic State plotters.
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Intelligence and police agencies must cooperate, rail and air travel must be made secure, and authorities need to earn the trust of Muslims.
Ideal Recruits: As Siblings Again Unite to Unleash Terror, Experts Ask What Drives Themby JIM YARDLEY, RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and SCOTT SHANE
Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui join a list of brothers involved in nearly every major terror attack on Western soil since three sets of Saudi siblings helped carry out the 9/11 attacks.
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Former CIA officer says domestic attacks are imminent
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The Apple vs. FBI drama isn't close to over yet
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How the FBI might hack into an iPhone without Apple's help
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Technology|Apple Policy on Bugs May Explain Why Hackers Would Help FBI
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Reactions by U.S. presidential candidates to the horrific bomb attacks Tuesday in Brussels revealed a stark contrast in how the political parties respond to radical Islamic terrorism, as Democrats pledged resolve but offered few details for advancing the fight and Republicans laid out concrete plans for a security crackdown on ...
Columnist Charles Krauthammer blasted President Obama’s visit to Cuba and his handling of foreign policy in an appearance on Fox News’ Special Report on Tuesday.
First, Krauthammer talked about Obama’s response to the terror bombings in Brussels.
“Obama gave the terror bombing 51 seconds of his speech today in Havana. I thought the whole story of his presidency and its foreign policy was seen in a split screen,” Krauthammer said. “On one side, you had the video footage of the attack in Belguim, this is the real world. And on the other side was Obama in the fantasy he inhabits where Cuba is of some geopolitical significance, in his mind, but none in the real world.
“But Obama had to go, because its his legacy. This is settling the Cold War arguments of the academic left of Obama’s Columbia University Days, the people who worship the Cuban Revolution, the Sandinistas. Obama had his picture taken in front of a relief of Che Guevara, which sort of stated his world view of his adolescent days and now he does it as president.”
Krauthammer then referred to Obama’s response in handling ISIS.
“Obama calls it the JV team. He pretends it’s contained and controlled. It is not,” Krauthammer said. “Instead, he does his, sort of ideological holiday trip in Cuba, while the world burns. But he should never have been on the trip in the first place and he needs to make a speech about world terrorism and what he’s going to do.”
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After years of increasing comfort with their status in the U.S., illegal immigrants say they're being chased back into the shadows, and they blame Donald Trump.
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Belgian Intelligence Services 'Overwhelmed and Outnumbered’. Belgian intelligence service seen as weak link in Europe. Belgium feared tragedy was coming but couldn’t stop it. 
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Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said in a Facebook message that he had spoken with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Tuesday night to express his condolences to the Belgian people and offer counterterror assistance to the Belgian security and intelligence services following the attacks in Brussels earlier in the day.
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CIA Director's Email: 'Something Terrible, Dishonorable'
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The Belgian security and intelligence services on Wednesday continued their manhunt for terrorists who helped organize and carry out the attacks the previous day on Zaventem international airport and Maelbeek metro station, near EU headquarters in Brussels. Following the questioning of a cab driver who claimed that he drove the terrorists to the airport, and initial investigation of the crime scene, counterterror forces raided an apartment in the Schaerbeek neighborhood of northeast Brussels and confiscated explosives and an ISIS flag. The airport will remain closed until at least Thursday. The British government, meanwhile, issued a rare travel advisory for Belgium, warning its citizens to avoid crowded areas across the country. Thirty-five people were killed and more than 250 were wounded in Tuesday's attacks.
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CIA director's email: 'something terrible, dishonorable'
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Does Obama Have This Right? by By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The president seems so intent on avoiding any Mideast invasion that he is underestimating the cost of his passivity.
The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
The administration’s disclosure came in response to an inquiry launched in January by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), who was seeking further information about the Obama administration’s payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, which many viewed as a “ransom payment” for Iran’s release that month of several U.S. hostages.
The administration’s official response to Pompeo was sent earlier this week, just days after a Free Beacon report detailing a months-long State Department effort to stall the lawmaker’s inquiry.
“We apologize for the delay in responding,” Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs, states in the letter’s opening.
Obama administration officials first began talks to settle a number of outstanding legal claims leveled against the United States by Iran in 2014. The administration predicts that more taxpayer-funded payments are likely to be granted to the Islamic Republic in the future, according to the letter.
Frifield in her letter goes on to defend the $1.7 billion payment to Iran and discloses that the administration is open to providing Tehran with more money if it is willing to settle these decades-old legal disputes with the United States.
“We are confident that this was a good settlement for the American taxpayer,” the State Department said.
Iran’s legal row with the United States surrounds the breakdown of a massive arms deal that was nixed in the aftermath of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, which resulted in the capture of the U.S. embassy and American personnel stationed there.
Many of these claims remain unsettled and are still being litigated by the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at the Hague.
The Obama administration has been working behind the scenes since at least 2014 to reach settlement agreements with Iran to avoid court decisions, according to the letter, which identifies at least two separate discussions held in June 2014 and January 2015.
The administration anticipates that more settlements will come, meaning that the United States will likely be forced to pay Iran via a taxpayer legal fund operated by the Treasury Department.
“The United States is continuing to vigorously litigate these claims at the Tribunal, but is also open to discussing further settlements of claims with Iran, as we have done throughout the life of the Tribunal, with the aim of resolving them in furtherance of U.S. interests,” the letter states.
Iran’s “fact-intensive claims involve over 1,000 separate contracts between Iran and the United States,” according to the letter, which explains that January’s $1.7 billion payment settled just one of many outstanding disputes.
The Obama administration fails to directly address Pompeo’s questions seeking to determine if the legal settlement was finalized as part of an incentive package meant to motivate Tehran to free imprisoned Americans.
“It would not be in the interest of the United States to discuss further details of the settlement of these claims in an unclassified letter due to the ongoing litigation at the Tribunal,” the State Department writes. “However, we would be prepared to provide a closed briefing on such issues if it would be useful to there.”
“When Iran releases American hostages, and then, on that same day, President Obama announces he is paying Iran $1.7 billion, Congress of course has to ask the hard questions,” said one source familiar with the investigation. “And when the Obama administration admits that over $1 billion in taxpayer money is going to the Iranian regime, Congress is obligated to respond. The State Department has ducked and dodged–providing a history lesson on international tribunals, focused on actions decades ago, instead of addressing dangerous misdeeds that were potentially just committed. That is suspicious.”
Under the specific terms of January’s settlement, Iran was to be paid a $400 million balance and an additional $1.3 billion in interest from a taxpayer fund maintained by the Treasury Department, a State Department official confirmed to the Free Beacon at the time.
That settlement—along with additional settlements—was reached outside of the recently implemented nuclear deal and is separate from the $150 billion in unfrozen cash assets the United States is obligated to give to Iran under that agreement, the official said.
The $1.7 billion payment was announced just prior to the release of five U.S. prisoners who had been held in Iran, sparking accusations that the deal is tantamount to a ransom payment
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Paris, Copenhagen, Brussels. In just over a year three European capitals have been ravaged by bombs and gunfire.
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German president, in China, criticizes communist East Germany
Reuters BEIJING German President Joachim Gauck told students in China on Wednesday that communist East Germany lacked legitimacy, as he denounced "dictatorship" and called for academic freedom. China is in a midst of a renewed crackdown on civil society ... German president condemns communism on China visitThe Local.de A focus on human rights as Gauck meets writers in ChinaDeutsche Welle all 39 news articles » |
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Israeli firm helping FBI to open encrypted iPhone: report
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The Syrian government says its troops have seized highland around Palmyra and are now stationed on hills overlooking the ancient town controlled by the Islamic State group.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Moscow for talks on Ukraine and Syria as the attacks against Brussels underscored the urgency of fighting the Islamic State group.
Kerry departed Washington late Tuesday after accompanying President Barack Obama to Cuba and speaking by phone from Havana ...
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FBI Offers $100000 Reward for Syrian Electronic Army Hackers
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Here's How the FBI Might Unlock That iPhone Without Apple's Help
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In the hours after the blasts that killed at least 31 people in Brussels Tuesday, investigators began piecing together how the Islamic State managed to detonate three bombs in the span of roughly an hour across the city. One question is how the individuals managed to build the devices and if they would resemble or possibly even match the bombs used during the Paris attacks last fall.
The Islamic State’s European Front by By DANIEL BYMAN
The world’s most dangerous jihadist group is in retreat in the Middle East. That’s bad news for Europe.
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Israel's Cellebrite reportedly security company helping FBI, as McAfee claims he knows the method
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FBI adds Syrian Electronic Army hackers to most wanted list
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An Israeli company is reportedly helping the FBI crack the San Bernardino iPhone
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The Justice Department said an "outside party" recently showed the FBI a different way to access the data on the iPhone used by a known terrorist.
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As news emerged of explosions in Brussels on Tuesday morning, terror experts across Europe could mostly agree at least on one prediction: This will not be the last attack.
Energy investor Carter Page, one of Donald Trump’s handpicked foreign policy advisers, has heavily criticized what he considers American aggression toward Russia, even comparing U.S. policy to American slavery and high-profile police shootings.
American sanctions aimed at punishing Russia for its invasion and military occupation of Crimea “parallel an 1850 publication that offered guidance to slaveholders on how to produce the ‘ideal slave,’” Page wrote in one column.
Page is now advising the Republican presidential frontrunner, who finally announced his foreign policy advisory team in a Monday interview with the Washington Post.
Page’s appointment drew fire from experts who said his work sounded more like Internet conspiracy theories or foreign government propaganda than the counsel one would expect of a U.S. president’s top aides.
“The very fact that a senior adviser to the leading Republican candidate for president seems to truly believe that a few individuals in the U.S. government are responsible for certain international events puts him firmly in the realm of conspiracy theorists,” said Hannah Thoburn, a Russia policy expert with the Hudson Institute.
“Many of [Page’s] public remarks on Russia and Ukraine seem as though they have been lifted directly from the broadcast scripts of Russia Today,” the Kremlin’s U.S. propaganda arm, Thoburn said in an email.
Trump’s selection of Page may indicate the reality-star-cum-politician’s opposition to U.S. policies that counter Russian interests in key global theaters.
In his Post interview, Trump suggested that he would reduce U.S. involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the west’s foremost security alliance and the counterweight to Russian influence in Europe.
“Look, I see NATO as a good thing to have,” Trump told the Post. However, “Ukraine is a country that affects us far less than it affects other countries in NATO, and yet we are doing all of the lifting, they’re not doing anything.”
“We pay billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are in theory wealthier than we are,” he added. The State Department is currently asking Congress for $953 million “to support a democratic Ukraine.”
Page has criticized more than the cost of American involvement in the conflict; he considers American influence in the region to be fundamentally unfair towards the Kremlin.
Page has blasted NATO states’ “biased philosophies and draconian tactics,” their “targeted discrimination and interventionist policies,” and their “misguided and provocative actions” in columns for the Global Policy Journal.
He has also compared U.S. policy towards Russia to high-profile police killings of unarmed black men. “The deaths triggered by U.S. government officials in both the former Soviet Union and the streets of America in 2014 share a range of close similarities,” he wrote.
“While the loss of Michael Brown and Eric Garner has received intense media coverage and perfunctory federal government investigations, the economic injustice unleashed upon the millions of people residing in Russia, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union by misguided Western policies has met limited recognition.”
Page favorably quoted a propaganda arm of the People’s Republic of China, which wrote “After examining America’s staggering racial disparity, one cannot help wondering whether the U.S. accusation of the Chinese government this time was another political tactic of shunning criticism at itself.”
Page is a managing partner of Global Energy Capital, an energy services investment firm. He founded the firm after a stint at Merrill Lynch, where he advised Russian-state-owned energy company Gazprom on its acquisition of “the largest oil and gas export project in the world.” He lived in Moscow for three years before returning to New York.
Page has pushed for greater cooperation between the United States and Russia’s state-owned oil and gas companies.
“Some of the largest Russian companies including Lukoil and affiliates of Gazprom have been engaged in” Iraq, he wrote of the country’s recovering energy industry. Resistance to Russian influence in the Middle East reflects “a mere tendency toward Cold War thinking.”
President Barack Obama leveled similar criticism at 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. However, by 2015, Obama’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called Russia“the greatest threat to our national security.”
Trump has brushed off concerns about Russia as a threat, even praising the country’s strongman president Vladimir Putin and defending him against allegations of political violence.
“He’s running his country and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country,” Trump said in December. Asked about the killings of adversarial reporters in Russia, Trump added, “I think our country does plenty of killing also, so you know.”
That affinity for the Russian government, and Trump’s recent comments on NATO, have drawn criticism from Republican rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
“Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies. Donald Trump is wrong that America should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand Putin a major victory and while he’s at it hand ISIS a major victory,” Cruz said on Tuesday.
Page’s support for Russia is not the only position that places him outside of the Republican mainstream on foreign policy.
Page has also defended the Iranian government’s decision to appoint as its representative to the United Nations an individual who was involved in the 1979 taking of American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. He criticized efforts in Congress, spearheaded by Cruz, to deny a U.S. visa to any diplomat who previously engaged in terrorism against the United States or its interests.
The energy investor seemed concerned about the damage this might do to American businesses interested in the Iranian energy sector.
“The potential for future U.S.-Iranian energy ventures is substantial if moves forward in current diplomatic negotiations are indeed achieved,” Page wrote.
Page was also highly supportive of international climate talks in Paris last year, despite Republican concerns about international agreements that they say could hike energy prices and force American taxpayers to foot the bill for fossil fuel restrictions abroad.
“The political gathering has substantially raised attention to climate, environmental and future energy issues while leveraging the growing levels of concern amongst societies worldwide,” Page wrote. “But for both citizens and leaders alike, real action in the future will be a far more essential driver to the future direction of progress in comparison to the many words which will be spoken and to a lesser extent heard over the coming weeks.”
Neither Page nor the Trump campaign responded to requests for comment.
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Syrian government forces seized highland around Palmyra Wednesday, positioning themselves to recapture the ancient town held by Islamic State group.
European intelligence services must combine forces with the U.S. and with each other.
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Managing Intelligence by fredslibrary
Title: Managing Intelligence
Author: John Buckley
Buckley, John (2014). Managing Intelligence: A Guide for Law Enforcement Professionals. Boca Raton: CRC Press
LCCN: 2013014923
Contents
- The concept of managing intelligence — Intelligence in context — Understanding intelligence — Human rights, legislation and ethics — Psychology and intelligence management — The intelligence cycle (revisited) — Building an intelligence management system — Analysis — Intelligence originating from traditional law enforcement activities — Intelligence from covert operations — Using intelligence — Challenges and the way ahead — References.
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Date Posted: March 23, 2016
Reviewed by Joshua Sinai, Ph. D.[1]
Written by a veteran practitioner in intelligence and law enforcement in Britain, this authoritative and well-written handbook presents an overview of how intelligence is managed in law enforcement: the importance and relevance of various types of intelligence {ranging from law enforcement to military); the role of operational intelligence; the psychology of conducting intelligence analysis (such as cognitive and hindsight biases); the nature of the intelligence cycle, including setting operational and tactical priorities; formulating collection requirements from covert and open sources; the nature of intelligence analysis, including limitations and misconceptions in such analysis, the benefits of data visualization, conducting gap analysis, profiling targets, conducting social network, spatial, and financial analyses, and other types of threat analyses; and the way ahead in terms of standardizing and coordinating intelligence in fusion centers and other future challenges. Of particular interest to the counterterrorism community are the sections on terrorism, law enforcement and intelligence, in which the author writes that “Gathering intelligence on terrorism is similar to gathering intelligence on any other group,” except with “notable differences” such as the fact that the “psyche of a terrorist” differs from that of a criminal, that “Intelligence with regard to terrorism is more likely to be fragmentary and sparse,” (pp. 44-45) as well as “relatively short on specifics but full of generalities.” (p. 449)
[1] Sinai, Joshua in The Intelligencer: Journal of U. S. Intelligence Studies (20, 2, Fall/Winter, 2013, p. 120). These reviews present books which examine national security issues that need to be considered in terrorism and counterterrorism analysis. Joshua Sinai is a Washington, DC-based consultant on counterterrorism studies. He can be reached at: Joshua.sinai@ comcast.net.
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Wireless mice leave billions at risk of computer hack: cyber security firm
Reuters A hacker uses an antenna, a wireless chip called a dongle, both available for the less $20 (USD), and a simple line of code to trick the wireless chip connected to the target computer into accepting it as a mouse. "So the attacker can send data to the ... and more » |
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