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Monday, January 12, 2015

3.7 MILLION PEOPLE UNITE IN FRANCE AGAINST ISLAMIC RADICAL TERRORISM

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AT THE GRANDE SYNAGOGUE IN FRANCE YESTERDAY-CNA
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) gives a speech during a ceremony at the Grand Synagogue in Paris, for all the victims of the attacks in Paris this week, which claimed 17 lives. (PHOTO: AFP/MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE)
5 DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD-CNA-PIC

UPDATE-JAN 12,2015-05:43PM
NOW THERE SAYING THAT THERE COULD BE 6 ACCOMPLICES STILL OUT THERE FROM THE PARIS ATTACK.AS WELL AS HAYAT IN SYRIA-BACK WITH HER ISIS PALS. LETS SEE.FIRST BACK IN 2001 WAS AL-QUIDA AND OSAMA BIN LADIN.THEN THEY CHANGED THEIR NAMES TO THE TALIBAN.THEN THE TERRORISTS WENT BACK TO THE TALIBAN.NOW THE NAME CHANGE TO AL-QUIDA AND ISIS.THE TERRORIST GROUPS NAMES ALWAYS CHANGE.BUT ITS THE SAME OLD THING.THE ONLY PEOPLE TO GET CONNED BY THE NAME CHANGES OF THE LEADING TERRORIST GROUPS.ARE THE INNOCENT PEOPLE THAT GET KILLED IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES.AND 1 MILLION COPIES OF THE CHARLIE HEBDO 8 PAGE MAGAZINE WILL BE COMING OUT WEDNEDAY WITH NEW MOHAMMID CARTOON PICTURES.I ALSO HEARD HAYAT BOUMEDDIENE THE WOMAN RADICAL WHO WENT TO SYRIA. IS WAY MORE RADICAL THEN HER KILLED HUSBAND AMEDY COULIBALY. ALL COULIBALY WANTED TO DO WAS PARTY AND HAVE FUN.WHILE HAYAT GOT RIGHT INTO THIS RADICAL HOGWASH NONSENSE.AND WANTED TO LIVE IN A MUSLIM COUNTRY.SO THEY COULD REALLY GET THE FULL RADICAL DOMINATION EFFECT. SO IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME IF WE HEAR THAT HAYAT BOUMEDDIENE IS THE FIRST RADICAL MUSLIM WOMAN TO LEAD THE AL- QUIDA- ISIS TEAM UP.AND I MIGHT GO AS FAR AS TO SAY.THAT HAYAT WILL BE CALLED THE LEADER OF THIS NEW ISIS-AL-QUIDA TERRORIST CELL.AND SHE WILL HAVE THE WESTERN GOVERN MENTS AFTER HER.LIKE OSAMA BIN LADIN. AND ANWAR AL-AWALKI.YOU BETTER GET USED TO THE NAME HAYAT BOUMED DIENE.I PREDICT SHE WILL BE THE NEXT LEADER THAT THE WEST WILL CLAIME TO BE ON THEIR TOP TEN LIST.TO CAPTURE FROM THIS ISIS-AL-QUIDA TEAM UP.NOW THE ONLY THING I WONDER WILL HAYAT CHANGE THE NAME OF HER TERRORIST GROUP FROM AL-QUIDA,ISIS MIXTURE.TO SAY WOMAN-AL- POWER- GRAB TERRORIST GROUP.AND THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD A TERRORIST GROUP AGAINST THE WEST.AND THE FIRST WOMAN TERRORIST TO BE PUT ON THE WESTERN COUNTRIES HIT LIST.THE LATEST NAME IS THE CYBER CALIPHATE.IF WERE GOING TO BE CONNECTED.WERE GOING TO HAVE TO BE PROTECTED.

AL-QUIDA-YEMEN LEAD THIS FRANCE ATTACKhttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/09/paris-terror-attack-suspects-reportedly-steal-car-take-hostage-in-northeast/

-PIC-365BORSA.COM-PICTURES OF YOUR NEW AL-QUEDA - ISIS LEADER THAT THE WEST HAS ON THE HIT LIST I PREDICT.THE NEW NAME OF HER LEAD TERRORIST GROUP WILL BE SOMETHING LIKE - WOMAN-AL-POWER-GRAB TERRORIST GROUP. bottom picture of Hayat new terrorist leader-express.co.uk

UPDATE-JAN 12,2015-11:35AM
10,000 TROOPS AND 8,000 POLICE OFFICERS DEPLOYED IN FRANCE.AND 9,000 OF THE POLICE WILL GO TO THE JEWISH AREA OF PARIS.TO PROTECT ISRAELIS FROM ANTI-SEMETIC ATTACKS. AND ALSO TERRORIST HAYAT BOUMEDDIENE HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN SYRIA.AND THE WIFE OF CHERIF KOUACHI SAID.SHES SHOCKED THAT HER HUSBAND WAS INVOLVED IN THESE TERRORIST ATTACKS.SURE YOU ARE.IS MY THOUGHT.YOU TALKED WITH HAYAT 500 DIFFERENT TIMES IN 2014.AND SUDDENLY YOUR SHOCKED THAT YOUR HUSBAND KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE.GET REAL-I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT LIE WOMAN.ONE BIT.

BOKO HARAM PUT SUICIDE BOMBS ON 1 10 YEAR OLD GIRL SATURDAY.FORCED ANOTHER 2 YOUNG GIRLS SUNDAY TO WEAR SUICIDE VESTS.AND 20 AT LEAST WERE KILLED IN THOSE 2 TERRORIST ATTACKS.BUT THEN BOKO HARAM KILLED AT LEAST 2,000 TO 3,000 SINCE JAN 1,15.AND AT LEAST 2,000 FROM THIS ONE TOWN ALONE.WERE IS THE MODERATE MUSLIMS COMPLAINING ABOUT BOKO HARAM PUTTING VEST BOMBS ON 10 YEAR OLD GIRLS.AND FORCING THEM TO BE KILLED. AND WERE IS THE MODERATES TALKING OUT ABOUT THE 2,000 KILLED IN THIS TOWN.IS MY QUESTION.

Corpses everywhere' as Boko Haram still 'control' Nigeria town-AFP-JAN 12,15-YAHOONEWS

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Boko Haram remains in control of the northeast Nigerian town of Baga more than a week after a massacre feared to be the worst since the insurgency began, a resident said on Monday."I entered Baga around 2:00 am (0100 GMT) today (Monday) and it was still occupied by Boko Haram," fisherman Borye Kime told AFP by telephone from Dubuwa village in neighbouring Chad."They have set up barricades in strategic locations in the town. It is corpses everywhere. The whole town smells of decomposing bodies."Boko Haram first attacked Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad in the far north of Borno State, on January 3 and subsequently razed it and at least 16 surrounding settlements.Local officials have cited huge numbers of dead in the attacks but confirming the figures is currently impossible. Some 20,000 people are said to have been forced to flee.Nigeria's military said on Saturday that the attack could be described as "the deadliest" in the six-year rebellion that has claimed more than 13,000 lives.Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said that a fight-back was being planned. On Friday, Mike Omeri, who speaks for the government on national security, said troops were "actively pursuing" the rebels.But Kime, who said he had returned to Baga to collect his life savings and money entrusted to him for safe-keeping, stashed away in his house, said he did not see any troops."There is not a single soldier in Baga," the 40-year-old added. "All the talk about soldiers fighting to take back Baga is not true."

Boko Haram suspected after girl, 10, blows herself up in NE Nigeria-AFP-By Bukar Hussain with Aminu Abubakar in Kano January 10, 2015 12:34 PM-YAHOONEWS

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - Two explosions rocked northeast Nigeria on Saturday, including one by a female suicide bomber thought to be just 10 years old who blew herself up in a crowded market, as the US condemned a bloody spike in Boko Haram violence.At least 19 people were killed at the Monday Market in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, at about 12:40 pm (1140 GMT) when it was packed with shoppers and traders.Hours later, a suspicious vehicle that had been stopped at a checkpoint outside the city of Potiskum, in neighbouring Yobe, exploded at a police station as its driver was being taken in for questioning.A police officer accompanying the car and the driver were killed, an officer said. Potiskum has been a repeated target for militant violence.Both blasts came a week after a major Boko Haram attack on the fishing town of Baga in northern Borno State, which is believed to be the worst in the bloody six-year insurgency.The town and at least 16 nearby settlements in and around Lake Chad were burnt to the ground and at least 20,000 people forced to flee their homes."For five kilometres (three miles), I kept stepping on dead bodies until I reached Malam Karanti village, which was also deserted and burnt," one survivor, fisherman Yanaye Grema, said.But there was no independent corroboration of the huge numbers of dead cited locally.The US State Department said Boko Haram's recent escalation of attacks on civilians "shows no regard for human life" and called for those responsible to be brought to justice."The United States abhors such violence, which continues to take a terrible toll on the people of Nigeria and the broader region, including Cameroon," it added.

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Boko Haram were seen as behind the attack in Maiduguri as it has increasingly used women and young girls as human bombs in their deadly campaign for a hardline Islamic state.Civilian vigilante Ashiru Mustapha said the blast happened as the girl was being searched at the entrance to the market."The girl was about 10 years old and I doubt if she actually knew what was strapped to her body," he told AFP.Witness Abubakar Bakura said: "The blast split the suicide bomber into two and flung one part across the road."Among the dead are two vigilantes who were searching the girl. I am pretty sure the bomb was remotely controlled."A Red Cross official, who declined to be named, warned: "Many people sustained life-threatening injuries." Borno State police spokesman Gideon Jubrin told reporters 19 people were killed and 18 others were injured but warned that the death toll could rise.The market in the Borno state capital was cordoned off as health officials began the grim task of sifting through the wreckage and collecting body parts.An attack at the same market on December 1 killed more than 10 people, and a week earlier more than 45 people lost their lives in an attack there.On July 1, at least 15 people were killed in another suicide attack there blamed on the militants.

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Boko Haram launched its first female suicide attack in June last year in the northern state of Gombe and there have been a spate of bombings since, including four in a week in the city of Kano in July.The same month a 10-year-old girl was found in Katsina state wearing a suicide vest, prompting fears that young girls were being forced into becoming human bombs rather than through ideological motivation.Forced conscription of young men and boys by Boko Haram has been well-documented. Last July, three women said to be "female recruiters" for Boko Haram were arrested.An alleged trainer of women bombers was also detained in Kano in August with up to 16 "trainees".Boko Haram, fighting for the creation of an Islamist state, is now said to be in control of all three borders of Borno state with Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as dozens of towns and villages in Borno and the neighbouring states of Yobe and Adamawa.Security analysts said the Baga attack was likely against civilian vigilantes assisting the military and was an ominous sign of increasing violence before general elections next month.On Friday, militants fought running battles with troops in the Yobe state capital, Damaturu, leading to the destruction of a mosque, shops and a market.The attack was said to be a reprisal for an offensive by civilian vigilantes and local hunters against a Boko Haram enclave in southern Yobe on Tuesday.

France mobilizes 10,000 troops at home after Paris shootings-Reuters-By Gregory Blachier and John Irish-JAN 12,15-YAHOONEWS

PARIS (Reuters) - France will deploy 10,000 soldiers on home soil by Tuesday and post almost 5,000 extra police officers to protect Jewish sites after the killing of 17 people by Islamist militants in Paris last week, officials said.Speaking a day after the biggest French public demonstration ever recorded, in honor of the victims, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the country remained at risk of further attacks. Soldiers would guard transport hubs, tourism sites and key buildings and mount general street patrols."The threats remain and we have to protect ourselves from them. It is an internal operation that will mobilize almost as many men as we have in our overseas operations," Le Drian told reporters after a cabinet meeting.The victims, including journalists and police, died in three days of violence that began on Wednesday with a shooting attack on the political weekly Charlie Hebdo, known for its satirical attacks on Islam and other religions. Many at Sunday's march wore badges and carried placards declaring "I Am Charlie".The Charlie Hebdo attackers, two French-born brothers of Algerian origin, singled out the weekly for its publication of cartoons depicting and ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad.Charlie Hebdo's remaining members are working on an eight page issue due to come out on Wednesday with a one-million copy print run. Its lawyer, Richard Malka, told France Info radio there would be caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad."We will not give in. The spirit of 'I am Charlie' means the right to blaspheme ," he said, adding that the front page would be released on Monday evening.The three days of bloodshed ended on Friday with a hostage-taking at a Jewish deli in Paris where four hostages and another gunman were killed. That gunman declared allegiance to Islamic State insurgents and said he was acting in response to French military deployments against militant Islamist groups overseas.Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 4,700 police officers would be placed at all 717 Jewish schools across the country in addition to some 4,100 gendarmes already deployed." Synagogues, Jewish schools, but also mosques will be protected because in the past few days there have been a number of attacks against mosques," Prime Minister Manuel Valls told BFM TV.France has Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish communities.The first two attackers, who had traveled to Yemen in 2011 for training, were killed on Friday after a siege north of the capital. Police said all three men were part of the same Paris-based militant Islamist cell.About 1.5 million people marched in Paris on Sunday and 2.5 million more in the provinces. The Paris march was led by dozens of foreign leaders. Some commentators said the last time crowds of this size were seen in the capital was at the Liberation of Paris from Nazi Germany in 1944.

SEARCH FOR ACCOMPLICES

The co-ordinated assaults amounted to the deadliest attack by militant Islamists on a European city since four suicide bombers killed 52 in attacks on London's transport system in 2005.Valls said police were searching for likely accomplices of the French cell. The Turkish government confirmed that the female companion of the supermarket attacker had entered Syria on Jan. 8 from Turkey, having arrived in Istanbul several days before the killings.After an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday to outline Britain's response to the attacks, British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to give security and intelligence services new powers to monitor Internet communications.German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Cameron were among 44 foreign leaders marching with French President Francois Hollande on Sunday.Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were also present and walked just a few steps from one another.Netanyahu visited the Jewish supermarket, scene of the hostage taking, on Monday with about 300 people shouting "BB" and singing the French and Israeli national anthems.His invitation to French Jews to migrate to Israel if they wanted irritated some. Valls scrambled to reassure the community it was safe and an integral part of France."It was essential he came to show that he was with us French, Jews of France," said Mauricette Abouchaya. "(But) we're in France, we want to stay in France. It is our country."With growing calls for a comprehensive investigation into whether there had been security failings given that the three gunmen were known to intelligence services, Valls and main opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on a bi-partisan parliamentary commission into the attacks.Valls also said the government had begun studying ways to strengthen the fight against "homegrown terrorism". France strengthened anti-terrorism legislation last year to prevent its nationals traveling to Syria and Iraq.The prime minister said one proposal being studied was to isolate radical Islamist inmates from others in the nation's prisons, as repeated cases showed individuals were susceptible to radicalization in jail."There is a lot of work to be done in the prisons. It's a priority," Valls said.(Additional reporting by Chine Labbe, Tom Heneghan, Pauline Mevel; writing by John Irish and Andrew Callus; editing by Ralph Boulton)

BBC Anchor Apologizes for 'Anti-Semitic' Comment at Paris Rally-Anti-hate group rejects 'half apology' from Tim Willcox after comment linking Paris attacks to 'Palestinians suffering at Jewish hands.'By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 1/12/2015, 5:06 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

A BBC news correspondent has apologized for his "poorly phrased question" during an interview Sunday night at the Paris "million-man march" against terror - comments which were slammed as anti-Semitic by Jewish rights groups.Tim Willcox was interviewing a French woman and daughter of holocaust survivors, who related fears held by many French Jews that anti-Semitism was reaching levels last witnessed in the 1930s, at which point he inexplicably chose to interrupt her by stating that "many critics though of Israel's policy would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well."When his interviewee attempted to respond he appeared to attempt to minimize the crisis felt by French Jews by asking: "you understand everything is seen from different perspectives?"Willcox was pilloried on social media, and the UK-based Campaign Against Antisemitism condemned his "disgraceful" comments, urging supporters to complain to the BBC. The Campaign also said it would be submitting a complaint through its legal team, citing a previous instance in which Willcox appeared to promote anti-Semitic stereotypes during another live interview.On Monday, Willcox took to Twitter to issue a public apology, saying he was "Really sorry for any offence caused by a poorly phrased question in a live interview in Paris yesterday - it was entirely unintentional."But reactions to his apology have been largely negative, with many suggesting he should make a public, on-air apology.The Campaign Against Antisemitism also rejected Willcox's "half apology."The grassroots activist group says it will continue pursuing its complaint regardless, and has also questioned the lack of reaction from the BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body.Media watchdog groups have also picked up the issue, with Honest Reporting - an outfit which seeks to combat anti-Israel bias in the international media - similarly rejecting the complaint and urging readers to lodge an official complaint with the BBC."Tim Willcox must be held accountable for his latest outrageous interview. The BBC must not be allowed to sweep this under the carpet. HonestReporting subscribers must make their voices heard by lodging complaints to the BBC," the group said in a statement.

Millions unite against terrorism in historic French demos-UPDATED: 12 Jan 2015 11:20-CNA

PARIS: Millions marched against terrorism Sunday (Jan 11)in the largest protests France has ever seen, led by world leaders in Paris uniting in tribute to the victims of terrorist attacks as the crowd cried "Not Afraid". The interior ministry said nearly four million people took to the streets across the country, with some estimates putting the number in Paris alone at 1.6 million. At the head of a vast and colourful procession in the capital, President Francois Hollande linked arms with world leaders, including the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president, in an historic display of unity.A sea of humanity flowed through the streets to mourn the victims of three days of terror that began with a slaughter at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday and ended with 17 dead. The vast crowd chanted "Charlie, Charlie", in honour of the cartoonists and journalists killed at Charlie Hebdo over its lampooning of the Prophet Mohammed. The crowd brandished banners saying "I'm French and I'm not scared" and, in tribute to the murdered cartoonists, "Make fun, not war" and "Ink should flow, not blood."Emotions ran high in the grieving City of Light, with many people in tears as they came together under the banner of freedom of speech after France's worst terrorist bloodbath in half a century. Isabelle Dahmani, a French Christian married to a Muslim, Mohamed, brought the couple's three young children to show them there is nothing to fear.Their nine-year-old daughter had burst into tears as she watched TV pictures of heavily armed brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacking the magazine's offices, Isabelle said, recalling she had asked if "the bad men are coming to our house?" The victims' mourning families played a prominent role in the march, alongside representatives from around 50 countries.In an emotional scene, Charlie Hebdo columnist Patrick Pelloux fell sobbing into the arms of Hollande. With so many world leaders present, security in the still jittery capital was tight, with police snipers stationed on rooftops and plain-clothes officers among the crowd. "Today, Paris is the capital of the world," Hollande said. "The entire country will rise up."Hundreds of thousands of people turned out in other French cities including Bordeaux and Lyon and marches were held in Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul and Madrid and in US and Canadian cities as well.The crowd in Paris was also mourning four Jews killed when a gunman stormed a kosher supermarket, after he had earlier gunned down a policewoman. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined Hollande at Paris' main synagogue after the march to honour the Jewish victims and praised the "very firm position" taken by French leaders against what he called "the new anti-Semitism and terrorism" in France.

'WE WILL WIN'

British Prime Minister David Cameron, who also marched, predicted Europe would face the threat of extremism "for many years to come", but his Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi pledged that the continent "will win the challenge against terrorism". Earlier Renzi had tweeted using the hashtag #jesuischarlie (I am Charlie), which has been used more than five million times.Before the march, interior and security ministers from the European Union and the United States held emergency talks to discuss Islamic extremism. They urged a strengthening of the EU external borders to limit the movement of extremists between Europe and the Middle East and said there was an "urgent need" to share air passenger information. All three of the gunmen in the Paris attacks had a history of extremism and were known to French intelligence services.Hollande has warned his traumatised nation to keep up its guard in the face of possible new assaults. The rampage by the gunmen who claimed to be members of the Al-Qaeda and Islamic State extremist groups was followed by a chilling new threat from the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that France faced more attacks. Hollande met representatives from the Jewish community who said authorities had agreed to deploy soldiers to protect Jewish schools and synagogues in France "if necessary."US Attorney General Eric Holder, also in Paris, said there was no "credible information" as yet that Al-Qaeda was behind the attacks in France. The White House, meanwhile, announced it was organising a February 18 summit on how to fight "violent extremism around the world." The summit would highlight US and international efforts to prevent the radicalisation and recruitment of followers in the United States and other countries by extremist groups, it said.

BURIALS IN ISRAEL

France's three days of terror started when the Kouachi brothers burst into Charlie Hebdo's offices in central Paris and sprayed bullets into an editorial meeting, killing some of France's best-known cartoonists.They then slaughtered a Muslim policeman as he lay helpless on the ground before fleeing in a car, sparking a manhunt that lasted more than 48 hours. A day later, a third gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, shot dead a policewoman in a Paris suburb.The massive hunt for the attackers culminated Friday in twin hostage dramas that gripped the world. Coulibaly stormed into a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris and seized terrified shoppers.After exchanging fire with police, the two brothers took an employee hostage in a printing firm northeast of Paris. After a tense stand-off police shot them dead as they charged out of the building all guns blazing.Moments later, security forces stormed the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, killing Coulibaly but making the grisly discovery that four innocent Jews had died during the hostage-taking. All four will be buried in Israel on Tuesday. In a video posted online Sunday, a man who appeared to be Coulibaly said the three gunmen had coordinated their attacks.Investigators have been trying to hunt down Coulibaly's partner, 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, but a security source in Turkey told AFP she arrived there on January 2, before the attacks, and has probably travelled on to Syria.

'CLEAR FAILINGS'

The shootings have raised questions about how the gunmen slipped through the net of the intelligence services. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls admitted there had been "clear failings" in intelligence after it emerged that the Kouachi brothers had been on a US terror watch list "for years".Coulibaly's mother and sisters condemned his actions, saying "we hope there will not be any confusion between these odious acts and the Muslim religion."- AFP/rw

Video of Paris gunman raises questions of affiliations-Associated Press-By BRIAN ROHAN, LORI HINNANT and DIAA HADID-jan 12,15-yahoonews

PARIS (AP) — Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida — a fiercely rival extremist organization.That seeming contradiction has raised questions about the connections among the three French attackers, whether they acted with the direct involvement or knowledge of the networks, and whether their friendship allowed them to put aside the rift between the groups.The Islamic State group does not cooperate with al-Qaida's militants and actually fights them for territory in a side conflict of Syria's civil war.In video verified by the SITE Intelligence Group, Amedy Coulibaly said he had worked in coordination with Said and Cherif Kouachi, the "brothers from our team," who carried out the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday."We did things a bit together and a bit apart, so that it'd have more impact," he said in fluent French, adding that he had helped the brothers financially with "a few thousand euros" for the operation. The video also showed him doing pushups, and featured automatic rifles, pistols and ammunition. He spoke beneath the black-and-white flag used by many Islamic militants.Coulibaly explained why the publication and his target — the kosher supermarket — were selected."What we are doing is completely legitimate, given what they are doing," he said.The video appeared Sunday on militant websites, and two men who dealt drugs with Coulibaly confirmed his identify to The Associated Press. Police said they were investigating the conditions under which the video was posted.Prosecutors said Coulibaly killed four hostages Friday in the supermarket, killed a policewoman, and shot and wounded a jogger. He died when police stormed the market, just minutes after security forces killed the Kouachi brothers.Survivors say the Charlie Hebdo attackers claimed they were from al-Qaida in Yemen, the group the U.S. considers the most dangerous offshoot of that network.But experts cast doubt over whether the attacks could have been coordinated by the rival groups. While Cherif Kouachi was convicted on terrorism charges in 2008, and his brother Said is believed to have trained and fought with al-Qaida forces while in Yemen, no evidence to date has emerged as to whether Coulibaly even went to Syria or Iraq, where IS holds territory. His widow was last traced to a town on the Turkey-Syria border a few days before the Paris attacks unfolded.Since IS broke with al-Qaida last year, militants from the two groups have been locked in a bloody struggle in Iraq and Syria, where IS claims leadership of a universal caliphate of all Muslims and leadership of global jihad. The two groups have fought each other in battles that have left hundreds dead on both sides."It would be a massive surprise," said Peter Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London. "The idea that (the two groups) would consciously collaborate on operations abroad seems far-fetched.""If anything, the most likely scenario is that there was some sort of playing off each other. Maybe — if there was synchronizing — it happened at the grassroots level," he said. Coulibaly's attack was far less professional, and appeared to be more spontaneous."He seems to be the prototype of the young, disengaged French Muslim who suffers from this sense of alienation, and then comes (to support an) ideology that makes him feel important, clear-cut and gives him purpose and orientation."Timothy Holman, a researcher at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore, said the attackers represented who they wish to be perceived as representing, and had personal ties that likely surpassed the rivalries between the core extremist leadership abroad.The Kouachis' link to Yemen also existed before the rift between IS and al-Qaida.The friendship among the gunmen "predates their militant engagement, and they are fighting as much for each other in some ways as the groups," Holman said."In my opinion, their loyalty is first to their friends and family in the jihadist environment and then to the group. If Coulibaly's primary loyalty was to (IS), it is unlikely he would have acted at the same time as the Kouachi brothers," he added.French police and judicial officials said they believed that while Coulibaly was committed to carrying out an attack, he was less of a strict ideologue or well-honed fighter than were the Kouachis — and could have found inspiration from either al-Qaida or IS.In their internationally aimed propaganda magazines, both extremist groups promote the idea that overseas attacks need not have organizational links to the main leadership, and that "mujahedeen," or holy warriors, should take matters into their own hands.Thousands of young people from Western Europe have headed to the war zones in Syria and Iraq to join extremists. Lawyers and family members of some of those who have gone say many have only a hazy sense of who will meet them when they arrive. But security officials fear that they will return home with new training in warfare, nursing old grievances.While a member of al-Qaida's branch in Yemen said anonymously Friday that the group had directed the Charlie Hebdo attack, the group has not issued an official statement on the matter. Its senior cleric praised the operation but also stopped short of claiming responsibility directly.Regardless, even if the al-Qaida group did not know about the attacks in advance, jihadi fighters in the Middle East have a natural interest to claim such violence and present a unified front to adversaries — even if it sometimes goes against local positioning.SITE reported late Sunday that Moktar Belmoktar, the head of the Mourabitoune group that split from al-Qaida's north Africa wing, had expressed praise in online jihadi forums for the Charlie Hebdo attack.Aymenn al-Tamimi, a Britain-based expert on militant groups in Iraq and Syria, suggested the claims of loyalty to the rival jihadi groups aimed to stir up fears of militants uniting to fight the West.Al-Qaida in Yemen may reject the Islamic State's declared caliphate, he said, "but they have stressed the necessity of supporting each other against the common enemy — which is, of course, the West."Perhaps, al-Tamimi said, it was "to play on a bigger fear that the West has: that al-Qaida and the IS would come together for an attack," he added.___Rohan reported from Cairo, and Hadid reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Joseph Krauss in Cairo contributed.

Pope slams 'deviant forms of religion' after Paris attacks-AFP-By Ella Ide-jan 12,15-yahoonews

Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Monday slammed "deviant forms of religion" following deadly attacks by Islamist militants in France last week and dubbed the "never-ending spread of conflicts" around the world a third world war."Losing their freedom, people become enslaved, whether to the latest fads, or to power, money, or even deviant forms of religion," he said, laying the blame on "a culture of rejection" which leads to "the breakdown of society and spawning violence and death.""We see painful evidence of this in the events reported daily in the news, not least the tragic slayings which took place in Paris a few days ago," he said in his yearly speech to the members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.The 78-year-old was speaking after France's bloodiest attacks in half a century, which left 17 people dead.He pointed to "chilling repercussions" from conflicts in the Middle East and "the spread of fundamentalist terrorism in Syria and Iraq.""Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext," he said.Not for the first time, Francis called for "a unanimous response... within the framework of international law" to the so-called Islamic State and also urged the Muslim community to "condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion."

- 'World war fought piecemeal' -

The pope has spoken before about the spread of conflicts around the globe being effectively a sort of third world war, and in this speech, known as his "State of the World" address, he repeated the claim of "a true world war fought piecemeal".He called on the world to remember August 6, 1945, the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the day "humanity witnessed one of the most horrendous catastrophes in its history."As Europe began a period of self-reflection on the roots and rise of home-grown terrorism, Francis touched on some of the possible social and cultural issues which may be driving the continent's disillusioned young to jihadism.He pointed to "a model of globalisation which levels out differences and even discards cultures, cutting them off from those factors which shape each people’s identity.""In a drab, anonymous world, it is easy to understand the difficulties and the discouragement felt by many people who have literally lost the sense of being alive," he said.He urged "a renewed spirit of respect for international law" in Ukraine, where Europe's worst conflict since the Balkan wars of the 1990s has left more than 4,700 people dead according to the UN.The pontiff looked to Africa, where he spoke of his sadness over kidnappings in Nigeria and civilian casualties in South Sudan, the Horn of Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo.But he said the year had seen some positive developments as well, from the historic rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, to efforts to close Guantanamo Bay.He was also upbeat about Iran, saying he hoped for a definitive agreement with the 5+1 Group "regarding the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."

EU ministers vow new counter-terrorism rules after Paris attack By Nikolaj Nielsen-BRUSSELS, Today, 09:13-jan 12,15-euobserver

Top officials at an international ministerial meeting in Paris on Sunday (11 January) vowed an immediate response to last week's Charlie Hebdo attack.As well over a million people attended a march in Paris, a handful of EU ministers along with US attorney general Eric Holder announced their intentions to step up counter-terrorism efforts."Only if we work together, through sharing of information, by pooling our resources, will we ultimately be able to defeat those who are in a struggle with us about our fundamental values," said Holder.The meeting, which was also attended by the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator and the EU commissioner for home affairs, laid out a list of policy priorities to tackle what is seen as the growing threat of foreign fighters returning home.The fear is that the some 2,500 EU nationals that have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight along Islamic militants may come back to the EU even more radicalised.The Jewish museum shootings in Brussels last year and now the Paris attack have led to intensified calls to shore up security at the EU’s external borders, increase Internet surveillance measures, and pass new laws that could criminalise foreign fighters.Ministers from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK attended Sunday’s meeting.Latvia, holding the EU presidency, has called for an EU-wide ministerial meeting of home affairs this week in Brussels to discuss new counter-terrorism measures."The fight against all forms of expression of terrorism is high on my agenda and Latvia as the current Presidency of the Council of the EU will definitely draw specific attention to this issue,” said Latvia's interior minister Rihards Kozlovskis.This includes making travelling for terrorism or related training a serious criminal offence.The idea stems from the legally binding UN security council resolution 2178, adopted last September, which calls upon national governments to insert the offence into their legal systems.EU home affairs ministers backed it in October and then again in December after Gilles de Kerchove, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator, proposed revising the so-called EU 2002 framework decision on combating terrorism.France inserted the new rules into national law in November. They impose sentences of up to ten years and fines of up to €150,000 on “anyone found to be simultaneously in possession of dangerous objects or substances (such as explosives and weapons), and consulting terrorist websites or receiving terrorist training.”According to transparency NGO La Quadrature du Net, the French government, in the immediate aftermath of the Paris attack, passed further decrees that allows authorities to shut down, without getting a court order, websites advocating or provoking terrorism.Other member states are also in the process of following the UN resolution demands, Spain's interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told the El Pais newspaper on Sunday.Proposals also include tightening the EU’s external borders by amending the Schengen Borders Code governing free movement.National governments already have the right, under strict conditions, to impose temporary internal border controls.Diaz hinted more border controls are needed to counter the jihadist threat.Countering radicalisation on the Internet, widely seen as a recruitment tool for potential jihadists, also figure on the counter-terrorism list.Major internet providers are being asked to help “combat terrorist propaganda” and stop the spread of “hatred and violence” on the web.Ministers also want Belgium to set up a so-called Syria strategic communication advisory team (SSCAT), bankrolled by the EU.The SSCAT would be tasked to help national governments "support messages countering terrorism". Sunday’s ministerial has also added to pressure on the European Parliament to sign off on a EU data-sharing bill that would require airlines to hand over customer details to the police.The bill has been stuck for the past three years, amid concerns by several MEPs that it will violate fundamental rights, like privacy.

Orban demonises immigrants at Paris march By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, Today, 09:29-jan 12,15-euobserver

A French press watchdog has highlighted the hypocrisy of some VIPs at Sunday’s (11 January) march in Paris, while Hungarian PM Viktor Orban used the event to call for a crackdown on immigration.Orban told Hungarian state TV in the margins of the rally, held in support of free speech and tolerance in Europe, that the Charlie Hebdo murders should make the EU restrict access to migrants with “different cultural characteristics”.Referring to the flow of African and Arab migrants to the EU, he said: “Economic immigration is a bad thing in Europe, it should not be seen as having any benefits, because it only brings trouble and danger to the peoples of Europe"."Immigration and cultural questions related to that must be discussed in a much more open, honest and straightforward manner than until now. I hope that a composed, calm analysis of the recent events will guide European leaders and Brussels towards a tough policy restricting immigration”, he added.“While I am PM, Hungary will definitely not become an immigration destination. We don't want to see significantly sized minorities with different cultural characteristics and backgrounds among us. We want to keep Hungary as Hungary".His remarks come amid concerns the Charlie Hebdo killings - carried out in the name of Islam after the magazine published cartoons of Mohammed - will increase the popularity of Europe’s far-right parties and movements.Members and associates of Orban’s Fidesz party have in recent years attracted notoriety for anti-Semitic and anti-Roma statements.Hungary also ranked at just 64 in the 2014 World Press Freedom index published by French NGO Reporters Without Borders - the fourth lowest in the EU after Croatia (65), Greece (99) and Bulgaria (100).In June last year, Hungary imposed a tax on media advertising revenue, hitting independent broadcasters such as RTL Klub, while granting exemptions to loyalist TV stations, such as TV2.The Croatian, Greek, and Bulgarian leaders also attended the Paris rally.Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov told Bulgarian media he might be willing to table new legislation on greater transparency of oligarch ownership of leading media.

But he denied his country has a serious problem.

“With our presence here we showed that we value this freedom and support it”, he said.The French NGO also singled out high-profile visitors from Algeria, Egypt, Gabon, Russia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for criticism.Algeria (ranked 121 in the press freedom ranking) has a blanket ban on public demonstrations, prompting the Algerie-Focus website to note the irony that its foreign minister, Ramtane Lamamra, was on the streets of the French capital.“Marches and public protests are banned in Algeria, but Algerian ministers have the right to march in the streets of ... Paris!”, it said.Gabon is ranked 98. Egypt (159), Russia (148), and Turkey (154) are among the world’s top jailers of critical reporters, while the UAE slipped backward three places to 118 in the French watchdog’s last assessment.“We should show solidarity with Charlie Hebdo without forgetting the world’s other ‘Charlies’,” Reporters Without Borders’ secretary general Christophe Deloire said on Sunday.“It would be intolerable [if] representatives from countries that reduce their journalists to silence profit from this emotional outpouring to … improve their international image”, he added.“We should not allow the predators of the press to spit on the graves of Charlie Hebdo”. Saudi Arabia also sent dignitaries to the Paris event.They attended despite the fact Saudi authorities, on Friday, flogged Raif Badawi, a blogger who writes in support of liberal democracy and free speech, in a public square in Jeddah.An Arabic cartoon published on Twitter on Sunday showed pencils being flayed by whips.One woman at the Paris event also carried a placard which said “I am Raif Badawi, the Saudi journalist who was flogged” in reference to the "I am Charlie" solidarity slogan, British daily The Guardian reports.

Millions march in France for freedom of speech By Peter Teffer-Brussels, Today, 09:29-jan 12,15-euobserver

Between 1.2 and 1.6 million people marched in Paris Sunday to show solidarity with the victims of last week's terror attacks.Many European government leaders were also present at the march, including German chancellor Angela Merkel, British prime minister David Cameron, Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy and Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi.The leaders came to Paris to demonstrate their support for values like freedom of speech.“When these values are threatened we can say only one thing: we have to stand united,” said Merkel.The march was also attended by government leaders of smaller EU nations, like Charles Michel (Belgium), Boyko Borisov (Bulgaria), Zoran Milanovic (Croatia), Bohuslav Sobotka (Czech Republic), Helle Thorning-Schmidt, (Denmark), Antonis Samaras (Greece), Viktor Orban (Hungary), Laimdota Straujuma (Latvia), Mark Rutte (The Netherlands), Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), Klaus Iohannis (Romania) and Alexander Stubb (Finland).The three European presidents were there - Jean-Claude Juncker (European commission), Martin Schulz (European parliament) and Donald Tusk (European council)- as was NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg.For at least one day, Paris was “capital of the world” French president Francois Hollande said.The crowd, which moved through Paris at very slow pace due to the enormous amount of people, chanted “Je suis Charlie”, sang the national anthem La Marseillaise, and carried banners reading slogans like “Make fun, not war”.Around 2,000 police officers and 1,350 soldiers were on duty in Paris on Sunday, according to France24.According to the French government, between 1.2 and 1.6 million people marched in Paris, and around 3.7 million people in the entire country. It called the numbers “without precedent”.Previous public manifestations of that magnitude in Paris took place for the liberation of the city in 1944, when 1 million people took to the streets, and the 1998 win of the football world championship, reported Le Monde.Elsewhere in Europe, people also marched in solidarity. Around 20,000 marched in Brussels, the seat of the EU institutions, while there were also protests in cities like Berlin and Vienna.

AIRASIA FLIGHT QZ 8501 MISSING ON WAY TO SINGAPORE AIRBUS A320-200-DAY 16

MISSING FLIGHT QZ 8501 AIR BUS A320-200-pic-Indianexpress.com

UPDATES-JAN 12,15-11:00PM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-9.09AM: Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan appointed six new officers this evening to head several of its civil aviation departments. They include the Director General of Civil Aviation and the Ministry's heads of Airport Operations in Jakarta, Surabaya and Makassar. 9.34AM: The USS Fort Worth has been scanning the seafloor using a pinger locator and a range of underwater sonar technology. Jack Board reports on its search operations from the vessel.The reshuffle took place following disciplinary actions taken against a number of officers charged with mismanaging airport operations. 10.06AM: As joint search and rescue operations shift gear with the recovery of the flight data recorder, the Search and Rescue chief will report to Parliament at 10.30am Jan 13 (Singapore time) on how the operation has progressed. He will then fly to Surabaya at 3pm to meet with families of passengers aboard #QZ8501, Detik.com reports. 11.51AM: Divers were deployed today to obtain “visual confirmation” of 2 large objects - suspected to be parts of the aircraft - about 4km from where #QZ8501’s tail was found, according to AirAsia's latest statement. 9.34PM: QZ8501's cockpit voice recorder has been found – a day after the flight data recorder was retrieved – and is now on an Indonesian navy ship, according to Indonesia's Transport Minister. 10.10PM: QZ8501 investigator in Pangkalan Bun tells our correspondent Jack Board that he's awaiting another "large piece of debris" in coming days.No bodies have been retrieved since Friday, with only 48 of 162 recovered so far, though that could change with reports that the fuselage has been located. 10.55PM: Suspected but unconfirmed sighting of QZ8501’s engine – Object 18 on the map below – based on the size and shape of underwater wreckage, an investigator tells our correspondent Jack Board.The map also shows the plane’s tail (12), possible stabiliser (18) and location of retrieved black boxes. A large piece of debris is also in the northwest sector.According to Malaysia’s Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar, day 17 of the search is focused on Most Probable Area 2, an area spanning 2.5 by 2.5 nautical miles.Divers are also said to have marked the spot where the plane’s main fuselage is believed to lie, 30m deep.

Suspected but unconfirmed sighting of QZ8501’s engine – Object 18 on the map below – based on the size and shape of underwater wreckage, an investigator tells our correspondent Jack Board.

The map also shows the plane’s tail (12), possible stabiliser (18) and location of retrieved black boxes. A large piece of debris is also in the northwest sector.-pic-cna

QZ8501: Suspected location of plane’s engine identified By Jack Board-POSTED: 13 Jan 2015 11:09-CNA

Divers are also believed to have marked out the likely location of the AirAsia aircraft’s fuselage, believed to lie at a depth of 30m
PANGKALAN BUN: The engine of the downed AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 may have been located, based on the shape and size of wreckage spotted underwater, an investigator said on Tuesday (Jan 13).The suspected location of the Airbus A320-200 engine could not be immediately confirmed, the investigator said. Channel NewsAsia also understands that search teams have also possibly identified the locations of the plane’s main fuselage and stabiliser, with divers reported to have marked out the spot the fuselage is believed to lie, 30m deep.Most of the efforts on Day 17 of search operations are focused on an area known as “Most Probable Area 2”, spanning a part of the Java Sea off southern Kalimantan 2.5 by 2.5 nautical miles in dimension, Malaysian Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar said on Twitter.The two parts of the airplane’s black box have been found, with the flight data recorder retrieved on Monday (Jan 12) and the cockpit voice recorder on Tuesday morning.The flight data recorder contains information on the plane’s technical data, such as its height, speed and radar information. The cockpit voice recorder records all communication between the pilot and his co-pilot, crew and Air Traffic Control.- CNA/es

I DO NOT THINK THE PLANE EXPLODED EITHER.I BELIEVE IT BROKE IN AT LEAST 5 PLACES.I BELIEVE WHEN IT CLIMED TO 36,000 FEET FROM 32,000 FEET.THERE WAS A TERRIBLE TURBULENCE.THE PLANE LITERALLY STALLED.AND WIITH THE WIND BLOWING SO HARD.THE PLANE STARTED GOING INTO A SPIN OR ROLL OR FLIP SUTUATION.AS IT FLIPS.WHO KNOWS HOW MANY TIMES BEFORE IT HIT THE WATER. BUT I BELIEVE WHEN IT HIT THE WATER.IT EITHER HIT AT THE TAIL BETWEEN ROWS 28-33.THE VERY BACK OF THE PLANE.WERE NO BODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED SO FAR.THEN IT BROKE OFF THERE.BETWEEN ROWS 17 AND 27.WHICH WILL BE THE MAIN PART OF THE PLANE WERE ALL THE BODIES WILL BE SEATED.WHEN THESE BACK PARTS SPLIT THE PLANE.THE WAY IT HIT THE WATER. THE LEFT WING WOULD BREAK OFF.AND POSSIBLY ON THE SPIN OF THE WATER HIT.THE RIGHT WING THEN MAY HAVE BROKE OFF ALSO.AND NOW SINCE QUITE A FEW BODIES ARE COMING FROM THE FIST ROWS ALSO.SOME THING HAPPENED AT THE FRONT OF THE PLANE THAT BROKE IT UP BY THE PILOTS CABIN.SINCE THE SECOND MOST BODIES SO FAR CAME FROM THE SEATS 1 TO 7.THE MOST DEAD CAME SO FAR FROM SEATS 21 TO 27 AT THE BACK OF THE PLANE.MAYBE THE PLANE BROKE INTO 7 PIECES AT LEAST.BY THE WAY THE BODIES ARE COMING OUT.WE WILL SEE.ONCE THE RECORDER DATA AND VOICE ARE REVEALED TO US IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS TO A WEEK.

No evidence that QZ8501 exploded before hitting water: Investigator-UPDATED: 12 Jan 2015 21:26-channelnewsasia

BASARNAS operations director Supriyadi says AirAsia flight QZ8501 likely "experienced an explosion" before crashing, but Indonesia’s Transport Safety Investigator says there is no data to support this theory.PANGKALAN BUN: Indonesian transport safety investigator Santoso Sayogo said there was no data to support a theory that AirAsia flight QZ8501 exploded before hitting the water, reports Reuters.This was in response to BASARNAS operations director Supriyadi's earlier comments that the plane had likely "experienced an explosion" due to a change in air pressure.According to Supriyadi, this was partly based on an analysis of the wreckage found.- CNA/by

UPDATES-JAN 12,15-08:50AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-Retrieving the AirAsia QZ8501-12.24AM: The flight data recorder was found under the debris of the plane's wing, and was loaded onto a ship at 7am, local time, reports Devianti Faridz. 1.02AM: Indonesia Armed Forces chief General Moeldoko has left Pangkalan Bun to the KRI Banda Aceh at the search area to retrieve the black box. 1.34AM: The cockpit voice recorder has been located 20m from the flight data recorder, says SAR Director of Operations Supriyadi. 4.14AM: A view of the search operations from a US Seahawk. 4.22AM: General Moeldoko congratulates TNI divers and BASARNAS for retrieving the plane's flight data recorder. 4.35AM: First glimpse of the plane's flight data recorder, now at Pangkalan Bun. It was brought to mainland from sea, and will be sent to Jakarta for analysis. The flight data recorder is believed to be in good enough condition to be properly read. Results could be out in two days. General Moeldoko confirms only the flight data recorder has been retrieved. The plane’s voice cockpit recorder has been detected and is still underwater.Indonesia military chief General Moeldoko has brought #QZ8501 black box recorder from crash site to Pangkalan Bun. 4.49AM: General Moeldoko says he expects more bodies can be found with the plane's fuselage, Sumisha Naidu reports. 4.59AM: The flight data recorder has been loaded onto an Indonesia Air Force plane bound for Jakarta, Jack Board reports. 5.09AM: The chief of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee says the data in the flight data recorder will be read in Jakarta as early as tonight or tomorrow. Investigators from Airbus, Indonesian Transport Ministry and TNI are among those involved. 5.50AM: Two more passengers have been identified: Elisabeth Youvita,(33) aged 20, female; and David Gunawan,(34) aged 37, male. Both were from Surabaya. 6.43AM: QZ8501 likely "experienced an explosion" before hitting the water due to a significant change in air pressure, Reuters quotes BASARNAS' operations director as saying. 7.10AM: Santoso Sayogo, an investigator at Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, told Reuters there is no evidence to support the theory that QZ8501 exploded before hitting water. 7.34AM: Giant balloons might be used to raise the plane's wing so the cockpit voice recorder can be retrieved, BASARNAS operations director Supriyadi said. 8.15AM: The main priority tomorrow is to find the plane's main fuselage and analyse the data flight recorder retrieved today, reports Jack Board from Pangkalan Bun. 8.50AM: The plane's flight data recorder arrived at the National Transportation Safety Committee's office in Jakarta this evening, reports Channel NewsAsia's Sujadi Siswo.

VIEW OF SEARCH OPERATIONhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksMhvQ9uWxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3jeWdxXyt4

The plane's cockpit voice recorder has not yet been found, says the Indonesia search and rescue chief. The black box consists of two pieces of equipment, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.-pic-cna

There is no change to the search sectors on Monday, said Malaysia Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar. The search focus will be on on Most Probable Area 2, where the black box was found and multiple objects were detected.-pc-cna

UPDATES-JAN 12,15-12:00AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-Retrieving the AirAsia QZ8501-8.23PM: The black box has been found, confirm Indonesia authorities. Retrieval of the data recorders will be attempted on Monday.8.45PM: There is no change to the search sectors on Monday, said Malaysia Chief of Navy Abdul Aziz Jaafar. The search focus will be on on Most Probable Area 2, where the black box was found and multiple objects were detected.No change to the Search Sectors. KD PERAK in Sector I and KD LEKIU in Sector III. 27 ships assigned. 10.44PM: The flight data recorder has been lifted from the sea, reports Reuters and AFP. 10.53PM: The plane's cockpit voice recorder has not yet been found, says the Indonesia search and rescue chief. 11.11PM: The authorities have cordoned off the black box search area from passing ships, and have applied radio silence so that they can hear the signal, reports Devianti Faridz.

Data unit of QZ8501 black box heads to Jakarta for analysis: Moeldoko By Jack Board and Sumisha Naidu-UPDATED: 12 Jan 2015 22:18-CNA

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: A flight data recorder recovered from near the crash site of AirAsia flight QZ8501 on Monday (Jan 12) is slated to arrive in Jakarta for analysis that could begin immediately and show initial results in two days, Indonesia military chief General Moeldoko told reporters here.Divers from Indonesia retrieved the flight data recorder near wreckage of the Airbus A320-200 that went down on Dec 28 in the Java Sea with 162 people on board. The companion voice data recorder has also been located, but it has not yet been retrieved from the sea. AP reports that the voice recorder was found just hours later, but remains lodged beneath heavy wreckage and divers are struggling to free it at a depth of 32 metres, according to Indonesia's search and rescue chief.Moeldoko confirmed that the flight data recorder, usually called a black box as a single unit, was brought to the surface early in the morning. In Pangkalan Bun, a media scrum surrounded the data recorder as it was loaded into an Indonesian Air Force plane en route to Jakarta.Moeldoko also added that he is confident that more of the 162 bodies can be found. AirAsia said on Sunday that 48 bodies have been recovered. More are believed to be trapped in a fuselage on the floor of the Java Sea that has been located in parts.A section of the tail of the aircraft was salvaged from the sea on Saturday and was taken by ship to land on Sunday. The data recorder was found under the wreckage of a wing. The data unit records airspeed and headings among other information, while the cockpit voice recorder stores radio transmissions and sounds in the cockpit. Both are usually located near the rear of the plane and designed to survive underwater.Experts from France's air safety agency BEA, and Airbus are expected to help with the analysis.- CNA/el

KL court issues warrant for couple who allegedly stole from MH370 victims-POSTED: 12 Jan 2015-15:58-UPDATED: 12 Jan 2015 16:05-cnannelnewsasia

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court has issued a warrant of arrest against a bank officer and her husband for failing to appear in court Monday (Jan 12), for mention of their case.The prosecution had applied for the order against Nur Shila Kanan, 33, and Basheer Ahmad Maula Sahul Hameed, 33, who are accused of transferring and withdrawing RM85,180 (S$31,872) belonging to four Malaysia Airlines MH370 victims.Judge Norsharidah Awang further issued a show cause notice to the sureties of both accused, and set Feb 4 for re-mention. On Aug 20, 2014, Nur Shila claimed trial to four charges of transferring RM40,000 belonging to Malaysian Hue Pui Heng into the account of a Chinese national Tian Jun Wei, and another RM35,000 into the account of Ali Faran Khan.She also faces four charges of using fake documents as genuine, two charges of cheating and two charges of stealing RM2,530 from the accounts of a Chinese national Ju Kun and flight steward Tan Size Hiang.The bank officer further claimed trial to four alternative charges of stealing cash belonging to the same four victims.She allegedly committed the offences at HSBC Bank, Lebuh Ampang branch, between May 14 and Jul 8, 2014. Meanwhile, her husband Basheer Ahmad Maula also claimed trial to four charges of using a debit card and ATM card belonging to Tian to withdraw RM7,650 from the victim's account through four separate transactions.He allegedly committed the offences at the HSBC Amanah ATM, Ampang Point, Ampang here between 10.02am on May 15, 2014 and 11.28pm on Jun 29, 2014. Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Fadhli Mahmud represented the prosecution.- Bernama/rw

Flight data recorder retrieved from crashed AirAsia QZ8501-UPDATED: 12 Jan 2015 11:27-CNA

JAKARTA: The flight data recorder was retrieved Monday (Jan 12) from the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea a fortnight ago with 162 people on board, Indonesia's national search and rescue chief said."I received information from the National Transport Safety Committee chief that at 7.11 am (8.11am, Singapore time), we succeeded in bringing up part of the black box that we call the flight data recorder," Bambang Soelistyo told reporters. "What we are still trying to find is the cockpit voice recorder."Flight QZ8501 crashed on Dec 28 en route from Indonesia's Surabaya to Singapore. Indonesia's meteorological agency has said that stormy weather likely caused the Airbus A320-200 to go down but a definitive answer is impossible without the data recorders.The black box consists of two pieces of equipment, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.- AFP/rw

Sunday, January 11, 2015

TORAH PORTION FROM JAN 11-17,2015

AIRASIA FLIGHT QZ 8501 MISSING ON WAY TO SINGAPORE AIRBUS A320-200-DAY 15

MISSING FLIGHT QZ 8501 AIR BUS A320-200-pic-Indianexpress.com

UPDATE-JAN 11,2015-08:25AM
THE AIRASIA PLANE BLACK BOXES HAVE BEEN FOUND UNDER THE DEBRIS FROM THE PLANE.BUT THEY HAVE NOT RECOVERED THE BLACK BOXES YET.THEY GOTTA GET THE DEBRIS OFF THE BLACK BOXES.INDONESIA SAYS THEY WANT TO LISTEN TO THE BLACK BOXES.SINCE THERE IN CONTROL OF THE FLIGHT QZ8501 INVESTIGATION.

AirAsia QZ8501 black box found, say Indonesia authorities-By Sumisha Naidu and Sujadi Siswo, Channel NewsAsia-UPDATED: 11 Jan 2015 20:46

The black box from the downed AirAsia QZ8501 flight will be retrieved on Monday morning, say authorities.SURABAYA: Indonesia's Directorate General of Marine Transport has confirmed that the black box has been found, Indonesia authorities said in a press release on Sunday (Jan 11). The black box is believed to be wedged between pieces of wreckage, and the search crew will attempt to retrieve it by moving parts of wreckage to loosen it from where it is currently stuck, they said. If that fails, the same balloon method used to lift the tail will be used.Retrieval will be attempted on Monday morning, said the authorities.- CNA/av

UPDATES-JAN 11,15-06:00AM
channelnewsasia updates in small type-06:00AM-BASARNAS also said a large piece of debris - believed to be fuselage from the aircraft - were detected near the area where the signals were emanating from. SURABAYA: The bodies of South Korean couple Park Seong-beom (30) and Lee Kyung-Hwa (31) have been identified, together with the body of 19-year-old Indonesian passenger Vera Chandra Kho,(32) announced Indonesia police in Surabaya at a press conference on Sunday (Jan 11).A total of 48 bodies have been recovered, with 32 bodies have been identified so far, said police. Another 16 bodies have not been identified.

Strong signals detected in AirAsia black box hunt-UPDATED: 11 Jan 2015 16:09-cna

PANGKALAN BUN: Indonesian authorities said Sunday (Jan 11) strong signals were emanating from the crucial black box recorders of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the sea two weeks ago with 162 people on board.Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS also said a large piece of debris - believed to be fuselage from the aircraft - were detected near the area where the signals were emanating from.Military divers were trying to follow the pings to the boxes, believed to be on the floor of the Java Sea about 30 metres underwater, S B Supriyadi, a director with the national search and rescue agency told AFP. The hunt came after the mangled tail of the Airbus jet was lifted from the sea on Saturday."The ping was detected about one kilometre east of the tail," Supriyadi told AFP at the search headquarters of Panglakun Bun.But AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes said it was "still not confirmed" that the black box has been found.The Indonesian meteorological agency has said stormy weather likely caused the Airbus A320-200 to crash. But a definitive answer is impossible without the black boxes, which should contain the pilots' final words as well as various flight data.Supriyadi and other officials involved in the search said they were confident the pings were from the black boxes, describing the signals as strong. Supriyadi said an object believed to be the main body of the plane had also been detected close to the area from where the pings were emanating. "We are now trying to check by sending our divers," he added.The search efforts, which have involved US, Chinese and other foreign naval ships, has recovered 48 bodies. Supriyadi said many of the bodies were believed to be trapped in the cabin, so reaching that part of the wreckage was also a top priority.All but seven of those on board were Indonesian. The non-Indonesians were three South Koreans, one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one Briton and a Frenchman - co-pilot Remi Plesel.The authorities have identified 29 of the bodies recovered so far. On Sunday, a South Korean couple and an Indonesian were identified. The police said they are in contact with the South Korean embassy, and that the couple's next-of-kin have not arrived in Indonesia.- AFP/CNA/xq

AirAsia QZ8501: Three more bodies identified-By Sumisha Naidu-UPDATED: 11 Jan 2015 17:06-cna

SURABAYA: The bodies of South Korean couple Park Seong-beom and Lee Kyung-Hwa have been identified, together with the body of 19-year-old Indonesian passenger Vera Chandra Kho, announced Indonesia police in Surabaya at a press conference on Sunday (Jan 11).However, the baby daughter of the South Koreans has not yet been identified, said police, adding that they have not received any bodies of a 1-year-old child - the age of the Korean baby.The bodies of the South Koreans are still at the hospital, and police said that they are in touch with the South Korean embassy, adding that the next-of-kin of the couple have yet to arrive. A Korean Disaster Victim Identification team said they will stay on in Surabaya to wait for the baby, as well as help identify other Indonesian victims.A total of 48 bodies have been recovered, with 32 bodies have been identified so far, said police. Another 16 bodies have not been identified.At the press conference, police urged families to provide information if their loved ones have ever been to a dentist. Authorities said dental records are very important at this stage of the identification process, adding that they have contacted dentists to try and get dental records to help where information is not complete.Korean Lee Kyung-Hwa was identified using data like dental records and also because she was wearing maternity bra, as she had an infant on board, said police.- CNA/av

Tail wreckage of QZ8501 retrieved but still no black boxes-By Jack Board-POSTED: 10 Jan 2015 20:59-UPDATED: 11 Jan 2015 00:06-cna

SURABAYA: Retrieving the tail wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 was a significant breakthrough for authorities on Saturday (Jan 10).Authorities had made a concerted effort during the last few days to lift the 10m piece of wreckage from the seabed using Navy lifting balloons and a crane, and they finally had some success on Saturday.But there was also a sense of disappointment - the tail was important as it usually contains the black boxes and it was clear that the black box was not within the wreckage once it was examined. Divers will need to continue their operation to locate the black boxes.However, the tail wreckage could still be an key element of this investigation. Mr Nurcahyo, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), said: "First of all, the tail section has two primary flap controls attached within the rudder and the elevators. The tail section also contains the actuators of those flap controls."We will be able to see how the flap controls deflected. By examining the tail section, we can identify what happened to the flap controls during the flight and particularly during the impact."The chief of Indonesia's military General Moeldoko and Supriyadi, the operational director of Indonesia's search and rescue agency BASARNAS, reiterated that while the black box is important, their main focus remains on finding bodies.That means the shift to locating the fuselage, the main structure of the plane where it is suspected that most of the bodies remain. Of the 162 people on board, only 48 bodies have been retrieved.- CNA/ac

THE PUTIN-RUSSIA AND ERDOGAN-TURKEY EU PROBLEMS FOR 2015

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

EZEKIEL 39:1-5
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Putin and Erdogan: A new year and new challenges in the EU neighbourhood-By Marc Pierini-BRUSSELS, 9. Jan, 08:52-euobserver

For decades, the European Union symbolised “liberal democracy” as a political project, one that would be disseminated through its enlargement and neighborhood policies.In 2014, the EU discovered two major hurdles in its near abroad.Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s assertiveness put a spanner in the works of the EU’s “Eastern Partnership”.Meanwhile, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly signaled that he doesn’t worry much about liberal democratic values – least of all when the EU is perceived as teaching “lessons” to his “New Turkey.”It doesn’t take a crystal ball to guess that 2015 will see more of the same.Despite many differences between these two important neighbours, it is quite obvious that, for their own reasons, both Putin and Erdogan will keep contradicting or chastising the EU as often as needed in their highly-charged populist political style, while engaging the EU for vital economic reasons.The EU’s style of liberal democracy was already vigorously challenged across the entire Arab world, where Europeans chose to co-operate with dictators in the name of fighting terrorism post-9/11.The wave of Arab revolutions didn’t improve the situation much, with the notable exception of Tunisia (although it was the Tunisians themselves, not the Europeans, who promoted liberal democracy).Then, Putin endeavored to recreate the marches of the defunct Soviet empire and to oppose “Western domination” of the world order.

Five Russian vehicles

Five main vehicles were used for this strategy: “Novorossia,” an ethnic Russian concept strong enough to justify the annexation of Crimea and the dispatching of heavily-armed Russian troops in eastern Ukraine; a renewed sense of nationalism, promoted through a massive public relations effort; the Eurasian Union, a loosely defined economic and political project; rebuilding the Russian army and emphasising its renewed confidence with an unprecedented number of harassment incidents of Western air forces and navies; and, finally, blaming any problem on a “foreign plot,” including depicting the EU as annexing Ukraine and the West more generally as attempting to extend Nato further eastward.In Turkey, the EU accession process has been showing its limits since 2011, as the ruling party, the AKP, increasingly sees the accession requirements (including public procurement, competition, and fundamental freedoms policies) as impediments to its lasting predominance.The Gezi protests in June 2013 highlighted the illiberal leanings of then prime minister Erdogan. Alleged corruption cases that dogged the Turkish government in December 2013 triggered a massive rollback of the rule of law architecture, under the justifications of both “foreign” and “terrorism” plots.With the “New Turkey” ushered in following the election of Erdogan as the country’s first directly-elected president last August, a distinct turn toward authoritarianism was taken, touching every segment of public life from the right of dissent to compulsory classic Ottoman language lessons and from women’s role in society to freedom of religion.In both Russia and Turkey, the EU and the liberal values it carries have been designated as contrary to national interests.

Potemkin modernity

In both countries, a modern-looking facade has been erected in front of authoritarian policies through a massive communication effort by government-controlled media and social media, even when it takes the form of outright faking of information (e.g. the Russian case on the downing of flight MH17) or embracing bold but shallow strategies (e.g. the “EU strategy” of Turkey).The challenge for the EU is not so much direct confrontation with Russia or the discarding of the accession request by Turkey.Moscow and Ankara are unlikely to move into such hazardous terrains. The challenge rather lies in the growing distance between rhetoric and reality, which translates into a rapid-fire dual discourse vis-a-vis the EU.For example, Russia keeps sending troops to eastern Ukraine, while seemingly favoring an ever-elusive ceasefire and telling EU leaders (e.g. France’s Hollande) that it has no intention to annex the Donbas region.At the same time, Russia, crippled by sanctions and low gas prices, has a vital need to remain the largest gas supplier to the EU.Similarly, the political survival of Turkey’s ruling party hinges on restraining fundamental liberties and halting corruption inquiries while the country’s economic prosperity, through exports and foreign direct investments, rests in large part on good relations with the EU and the pro forma continuation of accession negotiations.Their authoritarianism is loaded with contradictions.

EU reaction

In such an environment, the EU is faced with assertive political cultures, which are now entirely at odds with the concept of a “common European house” long used with Russia and indeed with the fundamentals of Turkey’s accession process.Good at principled statements and at sanctions, the EU is often divided over its economic interests in both Russia and Turkey. As a result, it may waver between protecting its values and its business needs.Yet, there is no real reason why it should disregard the liberal democratic aspirations of Ukrainian or Turkish people.The European brand of liberal democracy may have found its opponents in Moscow’s Kremlin and Ankara’s Ak Saray and it may be used as a scapegoat because of its support of free press, social media, and civil society.But in response the EU leadership has to fine-tune its foreign policy toolbox in order to stand firm as the major peace and democracy project in today’s world.Marc Pierini, a former EU ambassador to Turkey, is an analyst at Carnegie Europe, a think-tank in Brussels.

Paris attack prompts calls for greater security powers-By Nikolaj Nielsen-BRUSSELS, 9. Jan, 09:42-euobserver

A number of officials and ministers are calling for expanded surveillance and security powers in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.The head of the UK’s domestic intelligence service MI5, Andrew Parker, on Thursday (8 January) said it needs greater snooping powers to stop Islamist militants from carrying out attacks in Britain.Parker said some privacy rules need to be roll backed in order for the agency to properly conduct its operations, warning more attacks are “highly likely”, reports the Guardian newspaper.“My sharpest concern as director general of MI5 is the growing gap between the increasingly challenging threat and the decreasing availability of capabilities to address it.”For Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, it means stepping up investments in security and defence.“We have to invest in security, to invest in defence. Because we have to strengthen our ability, and adapt to the new security environment,” he said in statement.This includes tracking people who have left for Syria and Iraq to fight alongside ISIS.Estimates put forward by the EU police agency Europol suggest up to 2,500 fighters are EU nationals. The fear is that some who return may carry out terror attacks on EU soil."In Italy, we have counted 53 foreign fighters," Italian interior minister Angelino Alfano told RAI public broadcaster on Thursday.Alfano said this means police surveillance should be increased on the Internet where some potential jihadists are recruited.Other national measures seek to prevent people from fighting along Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria by tracking their flight passenger details or confiscating their passports.Meanwhile, the hunt for the Charlie Hebdo gunmen continues in the Picardy region of northern France. The two brothers were spotted on Thursday in the area after robbing a petrol station.The French government has deployed some 88,000 police officers in the effort.Twelve people died in Wednesday's gun attack, including a Muslim police officer Ahmed Merabet, who was shot in the head after attempting to stop the killers from fleeing the scene.Mosques across France are set to condemn the violence on Friday.

Debate intensifies on stuck EU counter-terrorism bill-By Nikolaj Nielsen-BRUSSELS, 9. Jan, 18:59-euobserver

Debate has intensified on the European Parliament's handling of a controversial bill on tracking terrorists following the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris earlier this week.Sceptical MEPs remain defiant, arguing the proposal - which collects people's flight details throughout the EU - risks eroding civil liberties without providing proof the system would stop terrorist attacks.“We need to talk about the problems investigators are having in connecting the dots and the information that is already there instead of passing new measures for the blanket collection of data from everyone,” German Green MEP Jan Phillip Albrecht told this website on Friday (9 January).The bill in question, the EU passenger name records (PNR) law, has been stuck in parliament for three years after MEPs in the civil liberties committee voted it down in 2011.But the Paris attack on the satirical magazine which left 12 people dead means parliament is under strong pressure to do move on the draft law.The European commission has said it will “put all its weight behind these negotiations” and reiterated its plan to present a raft of new counter-terrorism measures as part of a larger new internal security strategy.British conservative Timothy Kirkhope is the parliament’s lead negotiator. He is also one of its primary backers and is pushing to get his fellow MEPs to endorse it."We must put in place our own EU rules and standards ... as soon as possible," he said in November.But the EU PNR proposal is likely to face an uphill battle.Last year, the European Court of Justice invalidated the EU’s data retention directive – a different law meant to make identifying terrorists easier - on the grounds that blanket collection of personal data from people not suspected of any crime is disproportionate and a violation of fundamental rights.The EU PNR proposal would force air carriers to transfer travel dates, travel itinerary, ticket information, contact details, and other data from international flights to the police in the EU.Around 15 member states are already moving ahead with their own national PNR systems.Most are co-financed by the European Commission, which has forked out around €50 million for the schemes.The move has infuriated some MEPs who say the Brussels-executive is pre-empting the legislative process by creating a patch work of national PNR systems before the bill is even passed.What would it take for an EU PNR? “I am not against the retention of data. And most of us are not against the retention of data by police and security authorities,” said Albrecht.Instead, the MEP wants a new draft that limits scope and retention periods to up to six months. A judge would need to determine to either renew the six-month retention period or cancel it altogether.But Albrecht’s plan is unlikely to appease EU states who have been pushing the parliament to adopt the bill as is.National governments say the system is needed to track the around 2,500 EU national foreign fighters who might return to the EU from Islamic militant fronts in Syria and Iraq.

Brussels, Madrid, and London terrorist attacks

Similar calls for greater security were made in the wake of the shooting last year at the Brussels Jewish museum, as well as the terror bombings in Madrid in 2004 and in London a year later.The EU rushed through its data retention directive in record time after the incidents in the Spanish and British capitals on the promise that it would help prevent future attacks.The parliament’s legal service on Thursday (8 January) advised MEPs to make sure that other draft laws- which would include the PNR proposal – adhere to the court’s ruling on proportionality and protecting fundamental rights.

UK, Denmark back EU counter-propaganda plan-By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, 9. Jan, 11:46-euobserver

Four EU states have backed plans on how to combat Russian propaganda, including a regulatory crackdown on media which “incite hatred”.The two-page informal paper - endorsed by Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, and the UK and seen by EUobserver - was circulated to EU capitals on Friday (9 January).It describes Russia’s media campaign as “an asymmetric response to Western economic power” which poses “a real threat to security on the eastern edges of the EU”.It says “the objectives are to discredit EU narratives, erode support for legitimate governments in the region, demoralise local populations [and] disorient Western policymakers” in order to “widen the scope for its [Russia’s] military and political options”.It also says promoting the EU “as an idea” is important in eastern Europe because it “raise[s] public support for economic and political reforms, which in the long-term are the most effective guarantees of stability”.But it complains the EU “punches below its weight” by relying on “antiquated delivery channels such as one-off events or physical information centres” and by sending out messages which are “too technical, failing to connect emotionally”.The non-paper calls on EU states’ media regulators to hold Russian broadcasters accountable if they “manipulate, deceive, incite hatred, or propagate war”.RT, which has offices in several EU cities, has run anti-Ukrainian stories which were proven to be fake.Russia's Channel One ran a fake story that Ukrainian fighters crucified a Russian-speaking child in east Ukraine.The non-paper says media watchdogs must pay “due respect to freedom of expression”.But it urges EU countries to “bring together EU media regulators to consider how they might improve co-operating more effectively when following up complaints on reporting where rules on due impartiality have been breached”.It also calls on EU institutions to communicate more assertively.

EU propaganda?

“We should aim to influence behaviour and attitudes amongst key audiences. Not just to increase our ‘brand visibility’,” the paper says.It wants the EU foreign service to draw up an “action plan” for 2015 and 2016 on how to “actively de-construct … hostile propaganda”.It also says the EU Council, the commission, and the foreign service should pool communication funds and allocate money to “strategic communications teams in EU delegations” overseas.To raise awareness, the four states call for “regular political discussions on the issue of Russia’s disinformation campaign” by EU ambassadors and foreign ministers in Brussels and “a permanent platform, where the EU and Nato could exchange views on strategic communication”.The four states also call for EU support for independent or alternative Russian language media in Europe.At the small end of the scale, they say the European Endowment for Democracy, a Brussels-based foundation, can help investigative journalists.At the other end, it calls for EU aid for audiovisual broadcasters, on the model of US funding for former anti-communist broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which recently launched a new Russian language show - Nastojashcheje Vremia/Real time.With Russian channels using a mix of soap operas and gameshows as well as fake news to sell their message, the non-paper says EU states' “entertainment” programmes can also help.The EU should in future “encourage exchange of EU-countries TV production (entertainment programmes, movies, documentaries) in order to provide competitive alternatives to the Russian production available in the EU television market” it says.

Islamist threat

Europe is currently in shock over the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris, but the paper notes that the anti-Russian propaganda measures can also be used against Islamist radicalisation."Important to note, that this capacity is critical in repelling manipulations by radical extremists groups as well", it says.Speaking to EUobserver on Friday, Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkevicius noted that RT is increasing its budget by 40 percent.“It’s really time to take this seriously”, he said.The minister added that he doesn’t want an EU version of RT: “We don’t need another state-controlled propaganda machine … this is an effort to suppot genuine media pluralism, to make sure that free media can be more active”.Turning to media coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attack, he criticised some Western broadcasters for trying to demonise Muslims.“I saw one programme where the interviewer took a really confrontational approach with an imam”, he said.“We don’t need this, also in our approach to Russia. We should try to understand each other and to understand the roots of what’s happening, not to deepen wounds”.“The wounds are already deep enough”.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

IN REVELATION 17 & 18 IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BABYLONS.IF YOU CAN NOT DECERN BETWEEN THE 2 BABYLONS IN REV 17 & 18.YOU WILL JUST THINK THEIR BOTH THE SAME.BUT NO-THERES A RELIGIOUS BABYLON (THE VATICAN IN REV 17)(AND THE POLITICAL BABYLON IN REV 18 (AMERICA OR NEW YORK TO BE EXACT)

ISAIAH 34:10
10 It (AMERICA-POLITICAL BABYLON) shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JEREMIAH 51:29-32 (CYBER ATTACK 1ST)
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,(AMERICA-NEW YORK) to make the land of Babylon (AMERICA) a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon (AMERICA) have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon (NEW YORK) that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped,(THE WAR COMPUTERS HACKED OR EMP'D) and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.(DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

COMPLETE SILENCE AFTER AN EMP GOES OFF
REVELATION 8:1
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK CYBER,EMP ATTACK,THEN NUKE ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:3-6,19-21
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,(U.S.A) and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,(U.S.A) and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,(AMERICA) my people,(CHRISTIANS,JEWS) that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her (AMERICA-NEW YORK) even as she rewarded you,(WITH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM) and double unto her double according to her works:(DOUBLE-EMP 1ST,THEN RUSSIA NUKE ATTACKS U.S.A) in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.(PROBABLY A RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK WILL SET THE WHOLE SITUATION UP AS RUSSIA HACKS THE USA ARMY COMPUTERS.THEN THE EMP,THEN THE NUKE ATTACK)
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

US to close 15 military bases in EU despite Russia crisis-By Andrew Rettman-BRUSSELS, 9. Jan, 09:26-euobserver

The US plans to close 15 Cold War-era military bases in Europe despite the Russia crisis, but net troop numbers will remain more or less the same.The biggest shutdown is a US air base in Mildenhall, UK, which will see 2,000 military and civilian personnel go home.But the move will be offset by an extra 1,200 personnel at the Lakenheath air base, which will host two new squadrons of F-35 fighter jets from 2020.The UK will see US troops move from the Alconbury and Molesworth bases to a site in Croughton.Germany is to lose seven bases - Mainz Kastel, Barton Barracks, Weilimdorf, Baumholder, Wiesbaden, Pirmasens, and Illesheim/Sembach. But other changes will see a net increase in 500 US troops.The US will also: move troops from Brussels to Sterrebeek in Belgium; sell the Emma Mine site in the Netherlands; partly close the Pisa Ammo and Camp Darby facilities in Italy; and “streamline operations” at Lajes in Portugal.The Pentagon said net numbers will go up by 200 in Italy, but go down by 500 in Portugal. The overall figure in the EU - 64,000 personnel - will stay more or less the same.The restructuring is to cost $1.4 billion but save $500 million a year.Meanwhile, the Pentagon is due to ask Congress for a budget of $51 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations, also known as “war funding”, for the year starting 1 October.The figure is down from $64 billion for the current period.But total defence spending is to stay at over $600 billion - more than China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, the UK, Germany, Japan, and India put together.Congressmen have also approved a $985 million “European Reassurance Initiative” to build up militaries in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, among other states.US defence chief Chuck Hagel said on Thursday (8 January) the closure of the Cold War-era facilities doesn’t mean the US is letting down its EU allies.“This transformation of our infrastructure will help maximse our military capabilities in Europe and help strengthen our important European partnerships, so that we can best support our Nato allies and partners in the region”, he noted.His deputy, Derek Chollet, told press: “These decisions will produce savings that will enable us to maintain a robust force presence in Europe”.The US defence department added, following Hagel’s meeting with Slovak defence minister Martin Glvac in Washington the same day, that “the US and Slovakia continue to present a united front with Nato to deal with Russia's aggressive behaviour”.The US measures come amid new hopes of an end to the Russian crisis caused, for the main part, by Russia’s inability to pay for military adventures due to the rouble crash.International ratings agencies are expected to further downgrade Russian bonds in the coming days.But according to financial newswire Bloomberg, the cost of insuring Russian debt against non-repayment is already the fifth highest in the world, after countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, and Portugal.

Good cop, bad cop

For his part, French president Francois Hollande has set great hopes on a meeting of French, German, Russian, and Ukrainian leaders in Kazakhstan later this month.He said, earlier this week, that EU sanctions on Russia must “stop” if the summit agrees a Russian pull-back from east Ukraine.But German chancellor Angela Merkel took a tougher line following her meeting with Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Berlin also on Thursday.She told press the meeting is Astana is “possible” but not certain.She also said Russia must fully comply with the Minsk protocol - a set of 15 ceasefire measures agreed in Belarus last year - if there is to be any EU sanctions relief.“We have had road maps before and they weren’t adhered to”, she noted.“You can’t say, we will lift 10 percent of sanctions for the line of control, or 20 percent if some other point is met … I think we need to see the entire Minsk agreement implemented before we can say that sanctions will be lifted”.