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Snowden Leaves Hong Kong: Wikileaks Has Assisted Mr. Snowden's

Political Asylum In A DemocraticCountry, Travel Papers And Safe Exit

From Hong KongJ une 23, 2013 By TE-PING CHEN, Wall Street J ournal

The U.S. government had previously requested that Hong Kong surrender Mr. Snowden,who has been charged with theft of government property as well as unauthorizedcommunication of national defense information and willful communication of classifiedcommunications intelligence information.
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Each crime carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison on conviction.

owever, Hong Kong's government has steadfastly refused to publicly comment on Mr.

n Sunday, Hong Kong's government additionally said that documents accompanying

law.

niversity of Hong Kong legal expert Simon Young said it was common for government

ess

ome Hong Kong lawmakers expressed mixed relief and disappointment on Sunday that

egislator Alan Leong noted that Mr. Snowden's presence in Hong Kong threatened to

or Hong Kong, this was the best option, said Regina Ip, the city's former securityny

he Hong Kong government said that as the city hadn't received sufficient information to

ough

he antisecrecy group WikiLeaks said it was aiding Mr. Snowden.

ikiLeaks has assisted Mr. Snowden's political asylum in a democratic country, travel

nother tweet said: Mr. Snowden is currently over Russian airspace accompanied by

HSnowden's case for days, until it announced Sunday that the former governmentcontractor had left the city, where he had been holed up in hiding since May 20.

Othe U.S. government's request that Mr. Snowden be detained under a provisionalwarrant of arrest did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong KongUlawyers to seek more information about surrender requests, a view that legislatorsechoed. Still, Mr. Young said it was likely that the U.S. government would nonethelbe irate with their Hong Kong counterparts for not doing more to hold Mr. Snowden assuch back-and-forth with American authorities proceeded.

SMr. Snowden had left the city as his presence had placed the city in a potential quandary

over how to best handle his case, given its high-profile nature and pressure from boththe U.S. and local activists calling for his protection.

Lembarrass China, as it would likely further intensify local debate over cyberspying byboth the U.S. and China. Handling it in this way really allows the two superpowers toavoid this kind of focus, he said. We've lost the opportunity for such a debate now.

Fsecretary and a current legislator. She also added that the city might not have had aother choice. He hasn't committed any offense here, we had no reason not to allow himgo, she said, noting that he had entered the city on a valid tourist visa and was entitled

to his own freedom of movement.

Tprocess a provisional warrant of arrest, it had no legal basis on which to stop Mr.Snowden from leaving Hong Kong. It added that Mr. Snowden had left the city thra lawful and normal channel, and that it had already notified U.S. authorities of hisdeparture.

TWpapers and safe exit from Hong Kong, a message on the group's Twitter feed said

Sunday.

AWikiLeaks legal advisers. The group repeated both tweets in Spanish. WikiLeaksrepresentatives didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. KristinnHrafnsson, a WikiLeaks spokesman, confirmed that the tweets were accurate.


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In a statement Sunday, WikiLeaks said Mr. Snowden was bound for a democraticnation via a safe route for the purposes of asylum, and is being escorted by diplomatsand legal advisors from WikiLeaks.

It added: Mr Snowden requested that WikiLeaks use its legal expertise and experienceto secure his safety. Once Mr Snowden arrives at his final destination his request will be

formally processed.

In the statement, Baltasar Garzon, legal director of Wikileaks and lawyer for WikiLeaksfounder J ulian Assange, compared Mr. Snowden's situation to that of Mr. Assange, whohas spent the last year living in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London in an effort to avoidextradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations that hesexually assaulted two women.

The WikiLeaks legal team and I are interested in preserving Mr Snowden's rights andprotecting him as a person.

What is being done to Mr Snowden and to Mr J ulian Assangefor making or facilitating

disclosures in the public interestis an assault against the people, Mr. Garzon said inthe statement, without elaborating.

Mr. Snowden and WikiLeaks share some mutual contacts.

One of the journalists to whom Mr. Snowden said he leaked many of his NSAdocuments Glenn Greenwald, a columnist and reporter for the Guardian hasdescribed himself as a strong supporter of WikiLeaks.

Another of the journalists who helped write stories about Mr. Snowden's leakeddocuments in the Guardian and The Washington PostLaura Poitrashas recentlyspent time interviewing WikiLeaks staffers for a documentary film about whistleblowers.

In Twitter postings Sunday, Mr. Greenwald said: The fact that a person flies to City Xdoes not mean that is their intended ultimate destination. He added: I hope the mediaexcitement over this White Bronco moment sustains and refocuses on what the U.S.government is doing in the dark.

WikiLeaks representatives in recent days have said they were attempting to help Mr.Snowden gain asylum in Iceland, which has strong legislation protecting whistleblowers.Iceland's government said that in order to apply for asylum, an applicant must be presentin the country.

During his t ime in Hong Kong, Mr. Snowden sparked a furor by leaking documents

to the South China Morning Post that suggested the U.S. government had hackednumerous targets in Hong Kong and in mainland China.

Over the weekend, the paper published further details about such hackingactivities from Mr. Snowden, who said that China's major mobile phone providersand one of i ts leading universi ties, Tsinghua, were among the U.S.'s targets.

Chinese media on Sunday in turn lambasted the U.S., with a commentary by theoffic ial Xinhua news agency saying the United States, which has long been trying


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to play innocent as a victim of cyberattacks, has turned out to be the biggestvillain in our age.

Hong Kong's government said it has formally written the U.S. government requestingclarification about Mr. Snowden's allegations, and pledged to continue to follow up onthe matter so as to protect the legal rights of the people of Hong Kong.

The U.S. consulate in Hong Kong didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Hong Kong Baptist University political analyst Michael DeGolyer said that Mr. Snowden'sactivities had undercut attempts by the U.S. to encourage China to take a harder stanceagainst cyberspying.

They've been great to insulate China against what looks like proof they've stolenhundreds of billions of dollars worth of intellectual property from American firms, hesaid. Now it looks like China is the wronged party, instead of the wronging party.

In a brief statement late Sunday, China's Foreign Ministry said that officials are

seriously concerned about the recently disclosed cyber attacks against China conductedby relevant U.S. government agencies. This once again proves that China is a victim ofcyber attacks. We have already made representations to the U.S. side on this matter.

The ministry reiterated China's call for talks with other governments about combatingcyber attacks. China opposes all forms of cyber attacks, it said.

Mr. Snowden has previously expressed interest in seeking refuge in Iceland,where his supporters have been lobbying the government to grant him citizenshipor asylum. Iceland's Minist ry of Interior reiterated Sunday that any individual mustbe present in the country in order to apply for asylum and must apply in his or herown name.

MORE:

Snowden Arrives In Moscow

J une 23, 2013 Alan Gomez and Zach Coleman, USA TODAY [Excerpts]

An Aeroflot flight from Hong Kong believed to be carrying Snowden landed in Moscow.Russia's state ITAR-Tass news agency cited an unnamed Aeroflot airline official assaying Snowden was on Flight SU213, which landed on Sunday afternoon.

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks also said that Snowden had landed in Moscow.

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National Security AgencyDiscloses In Secret Capitol Hill


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Briefing That Thousands OfAnalysts Can Listen To

Domestic Phone Calls:That Authorization Appears To

Extend To E-Mail And TextMessages Too;

Nadler's Initial Statement Appears

To Confirm Some Of The AllegationsMade By Edward Snowden The NSA Records The Phone Calls Of

500,000 To 1 Million People Who Are OnIts So-Called Target List, And Perhaps

Even More


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William Binney, a former NSA technical director who helped to modernize theagency's worldwide eavesdropp ing network, told the Daily Caller this week thatthe NSA records the phone calls of 500,000 to 1 mill ion people who are on its so-called target list, and perhaps even more.

J une 15, 2013 by Declan McCullagh, CNET [Excerpts]

The National Securi ty Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing thatit does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls, aparticipant in the briefing said.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed on Thursday that during asecret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phonecall could be accessed simply based on an analyst deciding that.

If the NSA wants to listen to the phone, an analyst's decision is sufficient,without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned.

I was rather startled, said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on theHouse J udiciary committee.

Not only does this disclosure shed more light on how the NSA's formidableeavesdropping apparatus works domestically, it also suggests the J ustice Departmenthas secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low-rankinganalysts to eavesdrop on phone calls.

Because the same legal standards that apply to phone calls also apply to e-mailmessages, text messages, and instant messages, being able to lis ten to phonecalls would mean the NSA analysts could also access the contents of Internetcommunications without going before a court and seeking approval.

Nadler's initial statement appears to confirm some of the allegations made by EdwardSnowden, a former NSA infrastructure analyst who leaked classified documents to theGuardian.

Snowden said in a video interview that, while not all NSA analysts had this ability, hecould from Hawaii wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge toeven the president.

The NSA declined to comment to CNET. (This is unrelated to the disclosure that theNSA is currently collecting records of the metadata of all domestic Verizon calls, but notthe actual contents of the conversations.)

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released a statement on Sundaysaying: The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domesticcommunications without proper legal authorization is incorrect and was notbriefed to Congress.

Clapper's statement did not elaborate, however, on what proper authorizationwould be.


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Some reports have suggested that permission from a shift supervisor wouldalso be required.

The Washington Post disclosed Saturday that the existence of a top-secret NSAprogram called NUCLEON, which intercepts telephone calls and routes the

spoken words to a database.

Top intelligence officials in the Obama administration, the Post said, have resolutelyrefused to offer an estimate of the number of Americans whose calls or e-mails havethus made their way into content databases such as -NUCLEON.

Earlier repor ts have indicated that the NSA has the ability to record nearly alldomestic and international phone calls -- in case an analyst needed to access therecordings in the future.

A Wired magazine article last year disclosed that the NSA has established listeningposts that allow the agency to collect and sift through billions of phone calls through a

massive new data center in Utah, whether they originate within the country oroverseas.

That includes not just metadata, but also the contents of the communications.

William Binney, a former NSA technical director who helped to modernize the agency'sworldwide eavesdropping network, told the Daily Caller this week that the NSA recordsthe phone calls of 500,000 to 1 million people who are on its so-called target list, andperhaps even more.

They look through these phone numbers and they target those and that's what theyrecord, Binney said.

Rep. Nadler's statement that NSA analysts can listen to calls without court orders cameduring a House J udiciary hearing on J une 13 that included FBI director Robert Muelleras a witness.

Mueller initially sought to downplay concerns about NSA surveillance by claimingthat, to listen to a phone call, the government would need to seek a special, aparticularized order from the FISA cour t directed at that particu lar phone of thatparticular individual.

Is information about that procedure classified in any way? Nadler asked.

I don't think so, Mueller replied.

Then I can say the following, Nadler said. We heard precisely the opposite atthe briefing the other day. We heard precisely that you could get the specificinformation from that telephone simply based on an analyst deciding that...Inother words, what you just said is incorrect. So there's a conflict .


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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the head of the Senate Intelligence committee,separately acknowledged that the agency's analysts have the ability to access the content of a call.

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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Australian Solider Killed And Another 2Wounded By Insurgents In Afghanistan

J une 22 Associated Press

CANBERRA, Australia An Australian special forces soldier has been killed and two ofhis fellow troops were wounded in a gun battle with insurgents in southern Afghanistan.

The soldier, whose name had not been released at the request of his family, was killed

on Saturday on his fifth tour of Afghanistan.

He was decorated member of the Sydney-based 2nd Commando Regiment who hadalso served in Iraq and East Timor, Australian Defense Force Chief Lt. Gen. DavidHurley said on Sunday.

He was the 40th Australian casualty of the campaign and the first since October.

A seriously wounded Australian soldier was flown to Kandahar for surgery to a gunshotwound. An Australian airman was treated for minor wounds at the Australian base at

Tarin Kowt, he said.

The Australian troops were supporting an operation by the elite Afghan troops of theUruzgan Provincial Response Company.

Dover Family Loses Son, A Casualty OfIED Attack In Afghanistan
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Warrant Officer Sean W. Mullen was assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 5th SpecialForces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Ky. / ARMY PHOTO

J un. 4, 2013 by William H. McMichael, The News Journal

The only son of a Dover family was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend, thePentagon announced Tuesday.

Army Special Forces Warrant Officer Sean W. Mullen, 39, died on Sunday in LashkarGah, in Helmand Province, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit withan improvised explosive device, the Army said.

No further details on the attack were available, according to Maj. Allison Aguilar of ArmySpecial Operations Command.

Mullen was the first service member either from the state or stationed here to be killed inthe war theater since 2010, when Army Sgt. Andrew Creighton died in OruzganProvince.

Gov. J ack Markell ordered U.S. and state flags lowered to half-staff through Friday inMullens honor.

Mullen, a medic, was assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group

(Airborne), Fort Campbell, Ky., and served as an assistant detachment commander for aSpecial Forces A-team. He and his wife, Nancy, lived near the base in Adams, Tenn.,according to his mother, Mariam Mullen, of Dover.

He was just loved so much, she said. J ust a great kid. He was a great brother. Heand his sister were very close. J ust a great kid.

He was an amazing person beyond just being a soldier, said his sister, ChristinaEilers, of Dover.


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Mariam Mullen said she received the news Sunday evening. She couldnt put herreaction into words.

Thats something that I couldnt describe, she said. But she was happy to recall hisformative years.

Mullen, who was born in Allentown, Pa., but moved to Dover as a child, was a prettynormal boy growing up and was active in Scouting along with his father, Bill, she said.

He loved sports; he loved his friends, she said. He just loved baseball.

School was a lot less fun. Mullen attended Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, andhis mother, a teacher, said with a chuckle, He was not a lover of the classroom. Herson did attend Delaware Technical Community College after graduation and considereda career in criminal justice.

But in 1993, he joined the Maryland National Guard, and when he was too old for us

to tell him no, she said he went full-time Army in 1995. An infantryman, he wasstationed in North Carolina, South Korea and Georgia. He subsequently volunteered forand, in April 2007, completed Special Forces training.

Mullen was assigned to 2nd Battalions Company A as a medical sergeant, promoted tosenior medical sergeant and spent two years on a Special Forces team until he wasselected as the company operations sergeant.

After a deployment to the Iraq war, he was assigned as a teams senior medic,according to Army Special Operations Command.

Mullen was chosen to attend the Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical

Certification course, graduating as a warrant officer in 2012.

We went to the graduation and Sean hadnt told us, but he had been chosen to receivethe leadership award by his peers that were in the class, Mariam Mullen said. It wasnamed, she said, for another fallen Army warrant officer.

Mullen was on his sixth deployment in support of an overseas contingency operationwhen he died, the Army said. He is survived by his wife, mother, father and sister.

POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THE

BLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWAR


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The Islamic Emirate does not wish to harm other countries from its soil and neither will itallow others use Afghan soil to pose a threat to the security of other nations! TheIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan wants to have cordial relations on basis of mutual respectwith all the countries of the world including its neighbors and desires security for itsnation as well as security and justice on international level.

Undoubtedly the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers it its religious and nationalobligation to free its country from occupation and has used every legitimate method forthis goal which it will keep on doing in the future.

Similarly, it considers the struggle of every oppressed nation working for their due rightsand independence to be their legitimate right because every nation deserves to securefreedom from imperialism and attain their rights.

It is due to these objectives that the Islamic Emirate considered it necessary to open apolitical office in the Islamic country of Qatar for the following reasons:

1. To talk and improve relations with the international community through mutual

understanding.

2. To back such a political and peaceful solution which ends the occupation ofAfghanistan, establishes an independent Islamic government and brings true securitywhich is the demand and genuine aspiration of the entire nation.

3. To have meetings with Afghans in due appropriate time.

4. To establish contact with the United Nations, international and regional organizationsand non-governmental institutions.

5. To give political statements to the media on the ongoing political situation.

We also thank the government of Qatar and its Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thanito have agreed with inaugurating the political office of Islamic Emirate and to have madeeverything easy in this regard.

IF YOU DONT LIKE THE RESISTANCEEND THE OCCUPATION

SOMALIA WAR REPORTS

Somalia Resistance Movement AttacksOccupation Headquarters


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Somali soldiers at the U.N. compound in Mogadishu that militants struck Wednesday.

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.

J une 19, 2013 By PATRICK MCGROARTY in J ohannesburg and IDIL ABSHIR inNairobi, Kenya, Wall Street J ournal [Excerpts]

Militants attacked a United Nations compound in Somalia's capital on Wednesday,leaving at least 15 people dead and as many injured in the latest attempt to undermine

the East African nation's new government [translation: government installed by U.S.backed foreign troops].

Seven gunmen wearing military uniforms detonated a pickup truck packed withexplosives and then stormed into the compound in Mogadishu's K4 district, home toupscale hotels and most international organizations operating in the city, according toAhmed Adan, a spokesman for Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon.

Somali and African Union [foreign occupation] troops soon arrived and fighting ended injust over an hour, said Ben Parker, a spokesman for the United Nations AssistanceMission in Somalia, who said he had been in a meeting down the street from thecompound when he heard multiple explosions and bursts of gunfire.

All seven militants were killed in the exchange, said Mr. Adan.

He declined to say how many of the dead were U.N. employees or foreigners. Butat least two of those ki lled were South African: A spokeswoman for South Africandefense contractor Denel Group said the attack had killed two of the company'semployees. The spokeswoman didn 't provide additional details.


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A Kenyan woman working for the U.N. was also ki lled in the at tack, said an off ic ialin Somalia's Interior Ministry. [Southern Somalia is occupied by the Kenyan

Army. T]

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack in a message from a Twitter account ithas used to make similar claims in the past.

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the abili ty, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not l ight that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlw ind, and the earthquake.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom theyoppose.

Frederick Douglass, 1852


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The past year every single day of it has had its consequences. In the obscuredepths of society, an imperceptible molecular process has been occurringirreversibly, like the flow of time, a process of accumulating discontent,bitterness, and revolutionary energy.-- Leon Trotsky, Up To The Ninth Of January

General McChrystal Gives Police AirtightAlibi In Rolling Stone Reporters

Mysterious Death

Stanley McChrystal

20 June 2013 by Courtney Massengale, The Duffel Blog

ALEXANDRIA, VA Retired General Stanley McChrystal has been questioned byauthorities in the mysterious death of journalist Michael Hastings, sources confirmedWednesday. Hastings was best known for a 2010 Rolling Stone article which led toMcChrystals resignation and retirement.

According to investigators, McChrystal was hosting a dinner party at his Alexandriahome when Hastings was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles. Attendees at the dinnerincluded prominent defense contractors, professors, and think-tank analysts.

We had just finished the pork loin when Wadsworth, the butler, came up to Stanley witha silver tray, said Lesley Scarlet, a graduate student of Yale University.

Stan read the note on the tray and rose to make an announcement. He looked somberand gave a gracious tribute to Mr. Hastings, then offered a toast. Things wereunderstandably awkward, but we continued.


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You could really tell Stan was all broken up over the whole thing, said Michael Green, adefense contractor with Boeing.

Hastings is the latest in a string of reporters who have gone missing or died undermysterious circumstances.

None of the incidents have been tied to McChrystal, despite his obvious motive andextensive background in special operations.

I can confirm that Gen. McChrystal was an individual of interest that we questioned inrelation to the death of Mr. Hastings, said Alexandria Police spokesman Col. AllenMustard. We responded to a request by the Los Angeles Police Department, but at notime was Gen. McChrystal a suspect.

Col. Mustard confirmed that multiple witnesses were able to corroborate McChrystalsalibi that the General was in the dining room, with Mr. Green, Professor Plum and Ms.Scarlet when the accident took place.

We have verified the alibi by peeking in the folder sent to us from Los Angeles and haveno reason to believe Gen. McChrystal was in any way involved in this incident. Ive donewhat you asked, please, just dont hurt my kids.

McChrystal gave a brief statement to the media outside his home. Reporters gatheredoutside were asked to move a little to the left, closer to the large X in the lawn prior tohim answering any questions.

Mikes untimely death was unfortunate. Im sure the entire world of journalism issaddened to see such a promising career end so suddenly. He was doing just fine andprobably had a lot more to give to the profession.

Now he cant do anything about the issues very important people may have told him inconfidence and off-the-record.

When asked about his well-timed dinner party, McChrystal, dressed in a Nehru jacketand holding a cat, thanked his guests for being honest with the authorities since we allknow what happens when we tell the wrong people the wrong things.

McChrystal ended the news conference by stating he was late for a meeting of his newventure capitol firm D.A.G.G.E.R.

As if on cue, a black helicopter piloted by J effrey Sinclair descended from the sky,

whisking McChrystal and his cat towards Crystal City.

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Palestinian Farmer Shot By ForeignOccupation Troops For Irrigating His

Land: The Whole Family Depends On TheProduction On This Land

Muhareb Abu Omar, 48 (Photo: Rosa Schiano)

(Photo by Rosa Schiano)

J une 17, 2013 International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano

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Friday afternoon, J une 14, 2013, Muhareb Abu Omar, a Palestinian farmer aged 48, waswounded by Israeli army fire in the Deir El Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip.

Omar was irrigating his land in the village of Wadi As-Salqa, 600 meters from the barrierthat separates Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Omar reported that Israeli jeeps moved along the border while he was working.Suddenly, after about 10 minutes into the job, at approximately 19:30, a bullet struck himin the right leg. The soldiers probably shot from a jeep hummer.

Omar was alone on his land while other farmers were working in adjacent lands.

I didnt hear any firing, the soldiers used silent bullets. Suddenly I found myselfwounded. I ran for 50 yards, then I crashed and I cried to my cousins that I waswounded, said Omar. His cousins transported him to Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital.

Omars family is composed of 14 members: Omar, his wife, 8 sons and 4 daughters.Five of his sons work with him on the family land. The whole family depends on the

production on this land.

Two of his sons, Nedal and Tareq, reported that Omar was reported to have anintermediate wound in the right tibia.

Dr. Saleman Al Attar, Department of Orthopaedics of Aqsa Martyrs hospital, reportedthat the general conditions of Omar are good.

The wound shot from a firearm always creates complications. The bullet hit the rightthigh and there is the presence of fragments, said Dr. Al Attar. In the emergency room,the doctors performed a cleansing of the wound, firstly a debridement followed bybandaging.

After 3 days or 72 hours, Omar will be subjected to a further removal of devitalizedtissue.

The doctors will not remove the bullet. It is dangerous to remove the bullet as it islocated in the neurovascular, where there are the arteries, said Dr. Al Attar.

The wound is closed. The patient will then be given antibiotics and analgesics for about4 weeks.

Dr. Al Attar stressed the psychological effect on patients who are aware of a bullet stillinside the body. The patient will always have the impression of experiencing pain in the

area where the bullet is, even if the pain is not real. There are social workers who canprovide psychological support for this. Every Palestinian suffering since birth sufferssome psychological problems, concluded Dr. Al Attar.

During the last military offensive of November 2012, the al-Aqsa hospital has receivedmany victims. The hospital was full, we were trying to save those who were in bettercondition while others were dying patients in serious condition, said Dr. Al Attar.


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The arrangements for the cease-fire of 21 November 2012 established that the Israelimilitary forces should refrain from hitting residents in areas along the border andcease hostilities in the Gaza Strip by land, by sea and by air, including raids andtargeted killings.

However, Israeli military attacks by land and sea have followed from the day after the

ceasefire, and Israeli warplanes are flying over the sky constantly in the Gaza Strip.

Four civilians were killed by the end of the military offensive Pillar of Defense and morethan 90 civilians have been wounded.

These attacks against the civilian population of Gaza continue to occur amidstinternational silence.

[To check out what life is like under a murderous mil itary occupation commandedby foreign terrorists, go to: www.rafahtoday.org The occupied nation is Palestine.The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli. ]

CLASS WAR REPORTS
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The Population Is RevoltingAgainst The Government Of

Brazil, Said Mr. Peppe The Inequality Is Very Sad, Even

Revolting. And Now, ThePopulation Of Brazil Is Waking Up On Friday, Demonstrators Returned

To The Streets In Nearly Sixty Cities Much Of The Ire Is Directed At APolitical System That Critics Say AffordsBroad Impunity To Engage In CorruptionWhile Mostly Ignoring The Demands Of

Ordinary Brazilians

J une 21, 2013 By J OHN LYONS, LORETTA CHAO and MATTHEW COWLEY, WallStreet J ournal. Luciana Magalhaes contributed to this article. [Excerpts]

SO PAULOFor Alexandre Peppe, the last decade has been great. The 29-year-oldfrom the poor outskirts of So Paulo got a good job in state government, bought a carand became the first in his family to go to college.

All the same, he took to the streets this week with a million other members of Brazil'snew middle class over a wide range of grievances, from high bus fares to corruption andcrime.

The population is revolting against the government of Brazil, said Mr. Peppe,

who jo ined others to cram the broad avenues of So Paulo.

This middle class had economic growth in a period of low in flation, and suddenlythey've unleashed a cauldron of complaints, on a range of issues like corruption,that have been accumulating for a decade, said Malson da Nbrega, a formerBrazilian finance minister.

On Friday, demonstrators returned to the streets in nearly sixty cities, with reports oflooting in Rio de J aneiro, where some of the protests have turned violent in recent days.


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Demonstrators march through during one of many protests around Brazil's major cities in Rio deJ aneiro J une 20, 2013, tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence andgovernment corruption. REUTERS/Luciana Whitaker (

The protests have continued despite decisions by So Paulo and Rio to give in to a keydemand for lower bus fares. But the protest movement has expanded beyond that issue

to a field of middle class grievances.The demonstrations couldn't come at a worse time for Brazil, which is hosting theConfederations Cup soccer tournament in new stadiums built for next year's World Cup.For this soccer-mad nation, hosting the tournament was meant to cap a national risetoward global prestige.

In recent days, soccer fans in cities like Salvador and other growing urban centers havehad to run for cover from police firing rubber bullets in order to get to games, raisingquestions about whether Brazil can handle hosting the Cup next year.

The tournament has become a catalyst for some of the protesters' complaints.

That is because even in this soccer-mad country , the birthplace of Pel, residentsare increasingly frustrated at the amount of money that is been put into two majorglobal events, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, compared with the lackof progress in the issues that impact people's daily lives.

No one in Brazil was caught more off guard than President Dilma Rousseff andher left-wing Workers Party, in power for the last decade.


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Before the protesters poured onto the streets, Ms. Rousseff appeared to be cruisingtoward an easy re-election bid next year as expanded welfare programs boosted livingstandards of the poor, and a growing economy brought greater prosperity to millionsmore.

Ms. Rousseff, the country's first female president, at first sought to align with the

protesters by reminding marchers that her own political career came from the opposition.

The strategy backfired after Workers Party officials sent their members to thestreets, where they were booed by the stridently anti-party marchers.

Ms. Rousseff held an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday, officials said.

Governor Cid Gomes, the governor of Cear state and a Rousseff ally, toldreporters Friday that Ms. Rousseff called him on Thursday night and was in astate of bewilderment.

Some say much of the explanation for why hundreds of thousands of Brazilians are on

the streets right now can be found in Mr. Peppe's experience in recent years and aschool of thought in development economics about why seemingly better-off middleclass populations have taken to the streets across the emerging world from Turkey toChile.

The idea is that populations begin to demand more of their leaders as their owneconomic conditions improve.

Citizens who are better off have the luxury to focus on social grievances that seem lesspressing to impoverished people whose biggest concern are earning enough to feedthemselves.

Mr. Peppe grew up in the sprawling nor thern outskirts of So Paulo, a poor andcrime-ridden maze of small concrete homes during the years of four- digit inflationand successive currency crashes.

His mother, who never learned to read, raised him on around $80 a month. His father, acop, was killed when Mr. Peppe was 11.

Amid Brazil's boom, Mr. Peppe was able to find work, take out loans to pay for a new carand apartment, and took a second job to pay for it. As he marched, he took photos offace-painted protesters with sleek a Sony Ericsson smartphone.

But Mr. Peppe's prosperity was matched by the bitterness for the injust ices that

he says came into focus as his life expanded beyond his neighborhood.

The inequality is very sad, even revolting, Mr. Peppe said. And now, the population ofBrazil is waking up.

Much of the ire is directed at a political system that critics say affords broad impunity toengage in corruption while mostly ignoring the demands of ordinary Brazilians.


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Demonstrators attend a protest against the Confederations Cup and the government ofBrazil in Recife City J une 20, 2013. Brazil's biggest protests in two decades intensifiedon Thursday despite government concessions meant to quell the demonstrations, as300,000 people took to the streets of Rio de J aneiro and hundreds of thousands moreflooded other cities. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

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Cities Like Rio Are Focusing TooMuch Energy On Turning Into A

Showcase For International EventsWhile Neglecting Areas Like

Schools And Public

Transportation Residents Of Rio's Poor, Historic,

Hillside Communities Called FavelasComplain Of Gentrification Ahead Of


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The Games With Rising CostsForcing Them To Move

A Bid To Clear The Poor Out And MakeWay For New Office Buildings And

Tourist Attractions In The City Center

A demonstrator holds a sign that reads, Brazil, a country of theft, during an anti-government protest in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, J une 20, 2013. Tens of thousandsof demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on Thursday in agrowing protest that is tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, policeviolence and government corruption. REUTERS/Gustavo Vara

J une 21, 2013 By LORETTA CHAO, Wall Street J ournal [Excerpts]

RIO DE J ANEIRO

When Rio de J aneiro Mayor Eduardo Paes set out to fix this decaying seaside city intime for the soccer World Cup next year and the Olympics in 2016, the last thing heexpected was to be negotiating with 300,000 angry protesters.

But in recent days, residents have taken to the streets here as part of a nationwideprotest movement that began over an increase in bus fares since rescinded in Rioand So Paulo but grew to include accusations that cities like Rio are focusing too


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much energy on turning into a showcase for international events while neglecting areaslike schools and public transportation.

Demonstrations in Rio on Thursday were the biggest of any city so far, with crowdssetting fire to a police post, police responding in force with tear gas and rubber bullets.At least 60 were injured in the chaos.

The tension in Rio has been brewing for years as Mr. Paes, at 43 years old the city'syoungest-ever mayor, turned to a classic strategy of using big sports events to help lurebig corporate investors to help pay for long-needed infrastructure and transportationupgrades.

Now, to Mr. Paes's surprise, the controversy over his corporate makeover is bubblingover among those who think it endangers the city's bohemian soul and placescorporate interests above those of the poor.

Residents of Rio's poor, historic, hillside communities called favelas complain ofgentrification ahead of the Games with rising costs forcing them to move.

The government has relocated 30,000 people from favelas in the name of various publicprojects, according to Renato Cosentino, spokesman for a local human-rights group, theWorld Cup and Olympics Popular Committee, members of whom turned up to protest inrecent days.

Moved residents are given the option to accept a cash payment or a new low-incomehousing unit built by the government.

Mr. Paes is working with the federal government to build 50,000 such units under aprogram called Minha Casa, Minha Vida, or My House, My Life.

But critics say the vast majority are being buil t on the far outskirts of the city in abid to clear the poor out and make way for new office buildings and touristattractions in the city center.

The city's long-neglected downtown port area, for instance, isn't being used forpubl ic housing but rather for big-ticket real-estate development, including a $2.5billion office complex by the Trump Organization.

Marcelo Freixo, Mr. Paes's chief political rival, echoed a complaint heard in cities fromNew York to Istanbul. a bid to clear the poor out and make way for new officebuildings and tourist attractions in the city center.

A state representative and well-known human-rights activist, he has supported protests,though condemned violence on both sides.

Tensions were flaring even before the recent protests.

On May 25, Rio musician Bernardo Botika Botkay and his girlfriend approachedMr. Paes outside a Japanese restaurant to complain about corporate tycoonsusing the Olympics to remake poor neighborhoods.


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In the argument that fol lowed, Mr. Paes punched Mr. Botkay in the face, addingfuel to crit ics that he doesn't care for the real Rio, and concern among supportersthat controversy over his strategy is getting to him. The mayor later apologized.

As he addressed protesters this past week, Mr. Paes tried to strike an empathetic tone,saying that fares were decreased out of respect for protesters, and that he was aware

transportation improvements were necessary.

Mr. Paes argues that making Rio more business-friendly is necessary to improveconditions for everyone, including the poor. At the end of the day, when you grow froman economic perspective, when things go well, the poor people [will] have jobs, he saidin an interview before the protests.

He said that drastic changes were needed in Rio, which went bankrupt after Brazilmoved its capital from Rio to Braslia in 1960.

Crumbling buildings, traffic and, most importantly, violence plagued the city, driving Rio'stalent to So Paulo and other cities, including Mr. Paes' own brother Guilherme, a

managing partner at investment bank BTG Pactual.

Rio's fortunes improved in recent years thanks partly to the offshore oil discoveries and amove by the state government to send in armed troops to begin to control violence in thefavelas.

But the city remained a bureaucratic nightmare, with its finances tied up in salaries anddebt, and funds for investment shrinking to just 2% of the city's budget by 2009.

One of the mayor's moves was to secure a $1 billion loan from the World Bank toconsolidate the city's debt and free up funds needed for investment.

But some of the moves have involved difficult trade-offs.

Mr. Paes worked with Rio's transportation companies to consolidate hundreds of buslines and build the Bus Rapid Transit system, which crisscrossed the city like dedicatedsubway lines.

But when costs went up for the companies, so did fares, making people believe he wasprotecting corporate interests instead of the interests of the people.

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DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

U.S. Government Seemingly Unaware Of

Irony In Accusing Snowden Of Spying

J une 22, 2013 The Borowitz Report

WASHINGTON The United States government charged former intelligence analyst

Edward Snowden with spying on Friday, apparently unaware that in doing so it hadcreated a situation dripping with irony.

At a press conference to discuss the accusations, an N.S.A. spokesman surprisedobservers by announcing the spying charges against Mr. Snowden with a totally straightface.

These charges send a clear message, the spokesman said. In the United States, youcant spy on people.

Seemingly not kidding, the spokesman went on to discuss another charge against Mr.Snowdenthe theft of government documents:

The American people have the right to assume that their private documents will remainprivate and wont be collected by someone in the government for his own purposes.

Only by bringing Mr. Snowden to justice can we safeguard the most precious ofAmerican rights: privacy, added the spokesman, apparently serious.


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