USA kvůli ICC zmrazily vojenskou pomoc 35 státům

Kvůli sporu o vydávání Američanů nově ustavenému Mezinárodnímu trestnímu soudu (ICC) zastavily USA od 1. července vojenskou pomoc 35 státům. Oznámil to podle agentury DPA mluvčí amerického ministerstva zahraniční Richard Boucher. Mezi zeměmi, jež zůstaly bez pomoci, je také všech šest východoevropských uchazečů o členství v NATO.

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http://www.novinky.cz/01/07/89.html

a dalsi DARPA projekt... falcon technology for global dominance

US-based missiles to have global reach

Allies to become less important as new generation of weapons enables America to strike anywhere from its own territory

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday July 1, 2003
The Guardian

The Pentagon is planning a new generation of weapons, including huge hypersonic drones and bombs dropped from space, that will allow the US to strike its enemies at lightning speed from its own territory.

Over the next 25 years, the new technology would free the US from dependence on forward bases and the cooperation of regional allies, part of the drive towards self-suffi ciency spurred by the difficulties of gaining international cooperation for the invasion of Iraq.

The new weapons are being developed under a programme codenamed Falcon (Force Application and Launch from the Continental US).

A US defence website has invited bids from contractors to develop the technology and the current edition of Jane\'s Defence Weekly reports that the first flight tests are scheduled to take place within three years.

According to the website run by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) the programme is aimed at fulfilling \"the government\'s vision of an ultimate prompt global reach capability (circa 2025 and beyond)\".

The Falcon technology would \"free the US military from reliance on forward basing to enable it to react promptly and decisively to destabilising or threatening actions by hostile countries and terrorist organisations\", according to the Darpa invitation for bids. The ultimate goal would be a \"reusable hypersonic cruise vehicle (HCV) ... capable of taking off from a conventional military runway and striking targets 9,000 nautical miles distant in less than two hours\".

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,988612,00.html

Americky gulag pro neposlusne deti

Bush \'Indicted\' Over War Crimes

7-1-3

A group of Japanese lawyers unveiled documents Monday \"indicting\" U.S. President George W. Bush for war crimes allegedly committed against the Afghan people since the United States-led coalition began its antiterrorism campaign in Afghanistan in October 2001.

\"This is an act that breaks international rules, such as the idea of (honoring) human rights, that have been formed over so many years,\" said Koken Tsuchiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and head of the 11-member prosecutors\' team in the tribunal. \"We decided this case has sufficient reason to be brought to court.\"

A civic tribunal will be held in Tokyo, with the first hearing scheduled for July 21.

The charges against Bush, according to the indictment, include aggression, attacks against civilians and nonmilitary facilities and the torturing and execution of prisoners.

They said the indictment will be handed to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo next week.

The tribunal is being organized by Tokyo Zokei University professor Akira Maeda and others.

© Copyright 2003 The Japan Times

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Michael Ledeen: The War Against the Terror Masters

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Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. Seeing America undo traditional societies, they fear us, for they do not wish to be undone. They cannot feel secure so long as we are there, for our very existence—our existence, not our politics—threatens their legitimacy. They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
This occasionally simplistic polemic calls for a \"revolutionary war\" on the \"coherent terror network\" organized by the governments of Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the \"driving force behind international terrorism,\" Iran. Ledeen, a member of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a former National Security Council consultant, persuasively details the links between these regimes and terrorist groups, and castigates previous presidents (particularly the \"corrupt\" and \"self-indulgent\" Bill Clinton) for discounting the terrorist threat and tolerating the complacency and bungling of U. S. intelligence agencies. His unnuanced theory of terrorism, however-the \"terror masters\" are \"tyrants\" who loathe America because of its mere \"existence\" as a symbol of freedom-downplays political complexities and ignores America\'s tarnished record in the Middle East. And while Ledeen urges the United States to help the citizens of terrorist states overthrow their despotic rulers, he warns that to do so-i.e., to be ready for war-Americans must give up their faith in \"radical egalitarianism\" and \"the perfectibility of man\" in favor of Machiavellian principles (\"The only important thing is winning\"; \"It is better to be feared than loved\"). Some readers will applaud Ledeen\'s hard-nosed demand to \"reconcile our democratic values with the necessity of imposing our will,\" but others may think the compromise too great.

Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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clanek o knize, autorovi a neokonzervatismu napsany konzervativcem:

Flirting with Fascism

Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right.

By John Laughland / Copyright © 2003 The American Conservative

http://amconmag.com/06_30_03/feature.html

UN ship \'carried child prostitutes\'

From correspondents in the United Nations
July 1, 2003

THE United Nations is investigating a report that a ship chartered for peacekeepers in East Timor is also being used to bring child prostitutes to the island nation, the organisation said today.

The allegations surfaced over the weekend in the Portuguese weekly Expresso. The Expresso report said UN personnel were involved in bringing girls from Thailand to East Timor as prostitutes.

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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6682018%255E1702,00.html

UN probes flesh trade in East Timor

July 2 2003
By Jill Jolliffe
Dili

A United Nations official has confirmed that an investigation is under way in East Timor into prostitution and allegations of human trafficking. The probe follows claims by the Portuguese newspaper Expresso of a growing problem involving UN staff.

\"We have places in Dili under surveillance and internal warnings have been issued to UN staff,\" spokesman Wilton Fonseca said. \"It is being taken very seriously.\"

But he said the Expresso report was exaggerated and claims that there was a \"growing problem with pedophilia\" were false.

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/01/1056825393665.html

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DARPA ma dalsi novinku...

U.S. Develops Urban Surveillance System



(AP Photo/George Nikitin)


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon is developing an urban surveillance system that would use computers and thousands of cameras to track, record and analyze the movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.

Dubbed \"Combat Zones That See,\" the project is designed to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities overseas.

Police, scientists and privacy experts say the unclassified technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.

The project\'s centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by face.

According to interviews and contracting documents, the software may also provide instant alerts after detecting a vehicle with a license plate on a watchlist, or search months of records to locate and compare vehicles spotted near terrorist activities.

The project is being overseen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is helping the Pentagon develop new technologies for combatting terrorism and fighting wars in the 21st century.

Its other projects include developing software that scans databases of everyday transactions and personal records worldwide to predict terrorist attacks and creating a computerized diary that would record and analyze everything a person says, sees, hears, reads or touches.

Scientists and privacy experts - who already have seen the use of face-recognition technologies at a Super Bowl and monitoring cameras in London - are concerned about the potential impact of the emerging DARPA technologies if they are applied to civilians by commercial or government agencies outside the Pentagon.

\"Government would have a reasonably good idea of where everyone is most of the time,\" said John Pike, a Global Security.org defense analyst.

DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker dismisses those concerns. She said the Combat Zones That See (CTS) technology isn\'t intended for homeland security or law enforcement and couldn\'t be used for \"other applications without extensive modifications.\"

But scientists envision nonmilitary uses. \"One can easily foresee pressure to adopt a similar approach to crime-ridden areas of American cities or to the Super Bowl or any site where crowds gather,\" said Steven Aftergood of the American Federation of Scientists.

Pike agreed.

\"Once DARPA demonstrates that it can be done, a number of companies would likely develop their own version in hope of getting contracts from local police, nuclear plant security, shopping centers, even people looking for deadbeat dads.\"

James Fyfe, a deputy New York police commissioner, believes police will be ready customers for such technologies.

\"Police executives are saying, `Shouldn\'t we just buy new technology if there\'s a chance it might help us?\'\" Fyfe said. \"That\'s the post-9-11 mentality.\"

Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said he sees law enforcement applications for DARPA\'s urban camera project \"in limited scenarios.\" But citywide surveillance would tax police manpower, Kerlikowske said. \"Who\'s going to validate and corroborate all those alerts?\"

According to contracting documents reviewed by The Associated Press, DARPA plans to award a three-year contract for up to $12 million by Sept. 1. In the first phase, at least 30 cameras would help protect troops at a fixed site. The project would use small $400 stick-on cameras, each linked to a $1,000 personal computer.

In the second phase, at least 100 cameras would be installed in 12 hours to support \"military operations in an urban terrain.\"

The second-phase software should be able to analyze the video footage and identify \"what is normal (behavior), what is not\" and discover \"links between places, subjects and times of activity,\" the contracting documents state.

The program \"aspires to build the world\'s first multi-camera surveillance system that uses automatic ... analysis of live video\" to study vehicle movement \"and significant events across an extremely large area,\" the documents state.

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http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=5457

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Mossad: Masterminds of Global Terrorism ?

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