Daily Archives: 9 July 2011
NRA — Hypocrites!
TSA Agent Caught With iPad Stuffed Down His Pants
Maybe now the TSA will go out of business . . . oh wait, that only happens in the private sector.
FRANCE: Israel extends a no fly ban to European activists. Airlines are denying boarding for European passengers. Mandatory interrogation prior embarking.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists have been refused permission to board a flight from Paris’ Charles De Gaulle airport bound for Israel where they were due to stage a protest.
The group were prevented from leaving for Tel Aviv following a request from authorities there.
In an unprecedented move, European airlines have been given the details of 300 blacklisted passengers who will be refused entry to Israel.
Dozens more protestors headed for the same fly-in demonstration were also prevented from leaving Brussels.
(Read more from euronews.net)
US extends drone strikes to Somalia
The US has conducted its first drone strike on Islamist militants in Somalia, marking the expansion of the pilotless war campaign to a sixth country.
The missile strike on a vehicle in the southern town of Kismayo, reported last week as a helicopter assault, wounded two senior militants with al-Shabab and several foreign fighters according to the Washington Post.
Armed Predator and Reaper drones already operate in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and Libya, where they are controlled by the US military or the CIA.
The CIA-run programmes are controversial. Although they provide the Obama administration with a low-risk weapon against Islamist militants, they stir intense anti-American hostility among the local population.
Opposition is most vociferous in Pakistan, where the government said on Wednesday it was shutting down a big CIA drone base, and had ordered US personnel based there to leave. (Read more from guardian.co.uk)