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Hannah Caspar-Johnson

Hague Court Opens War Crimes Inquiry at Request of Palestinians - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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war crimes hague UN Israel-Palestine

shared by Hannah Caspar-Johnson on 17 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court opened a preliminary examination on Friday into possible war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories,
  • the first formal step that could lead to charges against Israelis.
  • to raise the level of antipathy between Israel and the Palestinians
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  • use Palestine’s status as a nonmember observer state at the United Nations to join the International Criminal Court, which investigates war crimes and other atrocities
  • Israeli government had warned against taking such a step, and it froze Palestinian tax revenue after Mr. Abbas began the formal process of joining the court
  • Hannah Caspar-Johnson on 17 Jan 15
     
    After years of conflict between Israel and Palestine, Palestinians have taken their opportunity, as nonmember observers in the UN to initiate a investigation into Israeli war crimes against Palestinian territories.  
prendergastja

Charlie Hebdo cofounder blames slain editor for provoking attack - Yahoo News - 0 views

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shared by prendergastja on 16 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • one of the satirical French newspaper's founding members is blaming the publication’s slain editor for provoking the attacks,
  • one of five staff members killed in last week’s shootings, for his stubbornness after publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, which was followed by the 2011 firebombing of the newspaper’s offices.
  • What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it?”
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  • “I believe that we [were] fools who took an unnecessary risk,” Roussel, who writes under the pen name Delfeil de Ton, continued.
  • For years, decades even, it was a provocation, and then one day the provocation turns against us.
  • prendergastja on 16 Jan 15
     
    Henri Roussel, who is a cofounder, blames the editor who was killed during the shootings. He blames Stephane Charbonnier for the shootings saying that he overdid it.
qkirkpatrick

BBC News - Israel-Palestinian 'war crimes' probed by the ICC - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-middle-east-30851121

Israel Palestine politics history

shared by qkirkpatrick on 16 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • The International Criminal Court has begun considering whether to investigate alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.
  • Israel and the US have strongly criticised the Palestinians' move.
  • Israel has accused the Palestinians themselves of committing war crimes, including by firing missiles into civilian areas during the 50-day conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza last year.
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  • The Palestinians say Israel committed war crimes when it carried out air strikes and an invasion of Gaza, which left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead. The UN says most of those killed were civilians. Tens of thousands of homes in Gaza were also destroyed or badly damaged.
  • On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed by militant attacks in the conflict, which began in July and ended with a ceasefire in August.
qkirkpatrick

Terror plan was to kill Belgian police on the streets, in stations, prosecutor says - C... - 0 views

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terror politics

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  • (CNN)Two terror suspects killed in a shootout in eastern Belgium this week were among more than a dozen people rounded up in across-the-country raids designed to stop a group's allegedly imminent attack -- a plot to kill Belgian police in streets and stations -- the nation's federal prosecutor said Friday.
  • The alleged plotters -- including two people killed Thursday night in a battle with police in Verviers -- were confronted in 12 raids across Belgium from Thursday into Friday, federal prosecutor Eric van der Sypt said.
Hannah Caspar-Johnson

German Leaders Attend Muslim Rally In Berlin : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views

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german leaders rally

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  • "xenophobia, racism, and extremism have no place in this country."
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Jochaim Gauck were among political and religious leaders who attended
  • Germany has become more diverse through immigration - religiously, culturally and mentally,
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  • "xenophobia, racism, and extremism have no place in this country."
  • "we all mourn" with the victims' families and France
  • counter the growing support for the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West
  • 25,000 people
  • Hannah Caspar-Johnson on 16 Jan 15
     
    Shows how Germany's Nazi period of prejudice and persecution under Hitler extends into policies and culture today, especially in the actions of the Chancellor and President making a point to show up at the rally in support of Muslim groups.  
blaise_glowiak

Saudi Arabia Constructing 600-Mile Wall To Keep Out ISIS - 0 views

www.newsweek.com/long-wall-keep-isis-out-299664

saudi wall ISIS

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  • blaise_glowiak on 16 Jan 15
     
    Saudi Arabia takes action to defend against ISIS on it's northern border
blaise_glowiak

On Charlie Hebdo Pope Francis is using the wife-beater's defence | Polly Toynbee | Comm... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ncis-free-speech-charlie-hebdo

charlie pope free speech politics

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  • blaise_glowiak on 16 Jan 15
     
    Pope Francis speaks on free speech in relation to faith.
qkirkpatrick

U.S. Clears Iraq Arms Sales but Congress Could Block - WSJ - 0 views

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politics

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  • qkirkpatrick on 16 Jan 15
     
    US  approves sale of weapons to Iraq.
sgardner35

More Than a Dozen Detained as Europe Moves to Sweep Up Potential Terrorists - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by sgardner35 on 16 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • the Belgian police said on Friday that 13 people had been detained in Belgium and two in France after a shootout in which two men believed to be militants were kill
  • the authorities had conducted searches at a dozen locations where the police had found four weapons normally used by the military, including AK-47 assault rifles,
  • detainees belonged to the “entourage” of Amedy Coulibaly, one of the three gunmen involved in attacks in and near Paris last week.
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  • did not believe there was a direct connection between the events in Belgium and the carnage in France last week when gunmen conducted a three-day onslaught that left 17 people dead.
  • Mr. Coulibaly was accused of shooting dead a police officer on Jan. 8 and taking hostages at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris the next day, killing four of them.
  • As the waves of alarm spread, the only Orthodox Jewish school in the Netherlands was closed on Friday, Reuters reported, even though there was no specific threat against it.
  • In Germany, prosecutors said that 250 officers had raided 11 apartments after months of tracking a group that was said to support the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, with money and the recruitment of combatants.
  • Verviers is home to one of the biggest mosques in French-speaking Belgium, the newspaper report
  • The attacks last week provoked alarm, not simply about terrorism but also about a wider range of issues relating to the balance between liberty and security
  • The editorial director of Charlie Hebdo, Stéphane Charbonnier, who signed his drawings with the name “Charb,” was buried on Friday in Pontoise, near Paris, where he had lived as a child.
qkirkpatrick

ISIS video claims to show boy executing two men accused of being Russian spies - CNN.com - 0 views

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ISIS children psychology

shared by qkirkpatrick on 16 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • (CNN)A boy with a pistol appears to execute two men who are accused of being Russian spies in a new propaganda video released by the terror ISIS group.
  • In the video, the boy, who has been identified as Abdullah in prior ISIS videos, sports long hair and wears a black sweater and military fatigue pants.
  • ISIS has featured children as fighters before, calling them the "cubs of the caliphate," a play on words referring to how jihadis are called "lions." ISIS has encouraged foreign fighters to bring their families and has taken over schools to indoctrinate children.
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  • sian spiesBy Michael Martinez, CNNUpdated 8:55 AM ET, Thu January 15, 2015
  • qkirkpatrick on 16 Jan 15
     
    ISIS is using kids to perform dangerous tasks including executions and suicide bombings
qkirkpatrick

Parents of teen accused of ISIS support: 'He was brainwashed' - CNN.com - 0 views

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terrorism US

shared by qkirkpatrick on 16 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • "For the past few months, he was very quiet and he wanted isolation because he was watching or doing something on social media. And that's why he was brainwashed
  • Now Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, is accused of trying to support ISIS. This week he pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
  • In a letter he left behind for his parents, he wrote that he was leaving the United States and on his way to join ISIS, according to a criminal complaint. He invited them to join him in the "Islamic State," but he warned them not to tell anyone about his travel plans.
  • qkirkpatrick on 16 Jan 15
     
    A 19 year old male says 'he was brainwashed' by ISIS to join their cause.
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