Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Obama asked Pentagon to prepare Syria no-fly zone plans - report

Published time: May 28, 2013 22:25
AFP Photo / Joseph Eid
AFP Photo / Joseph Eid
Officials from the Obama administration have revealed that the White House asked the Pentagon to outline plans for a military no-fly zone over Syria, continuing strategy discussions that have been ongoing for more than a year.
If enacted, the no-fly zone would be enforced by the US military with help from France, Great Britain and other allies.
This update is the latest in President Obama’s strategy to publicly advocate for a negotiated peaceful solution while, after speculating that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons, he has reportedly been weighing the benefits of direct military aid to the country's insurgency. Two administration officials, speaking with The Daily Beast, stressed that no military decisions have been finalized.
“The White House is still in contemplation mode but the planning is moving forward and it’s more advanced than it’s ever been,” said one official, who remained anonymous. “All this effort to pressure the regime is part of the overall effort to find a political solution, but what happens if Geneva fails? It’s only prudent to plan for other options.”
More than 70,000 people have been killed in Syria as the conflict has continued for more than two years, and another three and a half million have been forced out of their homes and across the border into Jordan. 

A rebel fighter of the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) has a flower in his Russian made 'AK-47' kalashnikov gun as he holds a position in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo on May 9, 2013 (AFP Photo / Str)
A rebel fighter of the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) has a flower in his Russian made 'AK-47' kalashnikov gun as he holds a position in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo on May 9, 2013 (AFP Photo / Str)
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little denied the anonymous White House quotes, reminding the public that the US has closely monitored the unrest since the dawn of the Arab Spring. However, Richard Engel of NBC News reported that no-fly zone discussions had been ongoing for more than one year. 
“There is no new military planning effort underway with regard to Syria,” Little said. “The Joint Staff, along with the relevant combatant commanders, continue to conduct prudent planning for a range of possible military operations.” 
A no-fly zone is often enacted as a final precaution before military intervention. The no-fly zone in question, according to The Daily Beast, was requested shortly before US Secretary of State John Kerry traveled through the Middle East last week attempting to convince Syrian rebel forces and President Assad to negotiate the end of the Syrian civil war next month in Geneva, Switzerland. As a precondition for negotiation, the rebels have demanded Assad leave power, a scenario that is difficult to imagine. 
Before this news was made public lawmakers pushed Obama and his advisors to clarify the exact goals of any means of intervention, most notably those of a no-fly zone, which would be difficult to implement.  
“One thing about the Pentagon, if they don’t want to do something, they will tell you all sorts of reasons why they can’t do it,” Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) told The Daily Beast last week. “It’s going to take significant pressure for them to come up with realistic plans. They will invent ways for us not to do it until the president of the United States says we’ve got to do it.”

US Senator John McCain (C-L) posing for a picture with Syrian rebel leader General Salim Idris (C-R) and other members of the Syrian opposition in the Syrian border town of Bab al-Salam, near Turkey, on May 27, 2013 (AFP Photo / Mouaz Moustafa / HO / Syrian Emergency Task Force)
US Senator John McCain (C-L) posing for a picture with Syrian rebel leader General Salim Idris (C-R) and other members of the Syrian opposition in the Syrian border town of Bab al-Salam, near Turkey, on May 27, 2013 (AFP Photo / Mouaz Moustafa / HO / Syrian Emergency Task Force)
A previous, failed peace conference led to another year of bloodshed, while another administration official told The Daily Beast that the meeting in Geneva next month “is a Kerry initiative.” 
Government sources previously told the New Yorker that military action in Syria would likely constitute a “nightmare scenario” both tactically and on the home front, where Americans are “exhausted” from the seemingly endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
A no-fly zone would be perceived as the first step in getting bogged down in another, possibly unwinnable war. Gary Bass, a Princeton professor who has written about intervention overseas, warned that military action could be unnecessarily costly. 
“The political price is always heavily slanted against intervention when there is no core national-security interest involved,” he said.

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Anonymous Hacker Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty To Stratfor Hack, Could Face 10 Years In Prison

One by one, the Anonymous hackers who rampaged across the Internet in 2011 and early 2012 are confessing to their actions and asking for lenient sentences. The latest, Jeremy Hammond, may not be so lucky.
On Tuesday, Hammond pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court to one count of computer fraud and abuse in response to charges that he hacked into the network of the privacy intelligence firm Stratfor, stealing millions of emails that eventually were given to WikiLeaks and published over the course of 2012. The plea agreement could carry a sentence of as much as 10 years in prison, as well as millions of dollars in restitution payments, though Hammond’s official sentence won’t be handed down until September.
In a statement released on his supporters’ website, FreeJeremy.net, Hammond confessed to helping to penetrate a variety of corporate and government targets–albeit for ethical reasons, not for profit–as part of the LulzSec hacker group that split off from Anonymous in 2011 and went on a summer-long hacking spree that included the security firm HB Gary, Newscorp, Sony, and several military contractors. “Now that I have pleaded guilty it is a relief to be able to say that I did work with Anonymous to hack Stratfor, among other websites,” he writes. “Those others included military and police equipment suppliers, private intelligence and information security firms, and law enforcement agencies. I did this because I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors. I did what I believe is right.”
Hammond was one of several hackers caught in an FBI dragnet that penetrated LulzSec with the help of informant Hector Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, a 28-year-old New Yorker who doubled as one of Anonymous’ most active hackers and organizers. With Monsegur’s involvement, the stolen Stratfor documents were even stored for a time on a server owned by the FBI.
As part of his plea agreement, Hammond would not be asked to testify against any fellow hackers, according to Nathan Tempey, a supporter and communications coordinator for the National Lawyers Guild.”The terms include that he’s not asked to help the government to prosecute anyone else, and he’s not providing any new information about any crimes,” says Tempey.
In his statement, Hammond admits that he was likely to lose at trial and would face as much as 30 years in prison without a plea deal. Even if he were to win, he notes that the government has threatened to indict him on other charges. “If I had won this trial I would likely have been shipped across the country to face new but similar charges in a different district,” he writes. “The process might have repeated indefinitely. Ultimately I decided that the most practical route was to accept this plea with a maximum of a ten year sentence and immunity from prosecution in every federal court.”
Four other members of LulzSec were sentenced earlier this month in a London court, but received sentences of 32 months in prison at most and 300 hours of community service at least.
A petition posted to Change.org by Hammond’s brother Jason Hammond asks the judge in Hammond’s case, Loretta Preska, to sentence him to time served, given that he’s already spent 15 months in lockup. “Jeremy did nothing for personal gain and everything in hopes of making the world a better place,” reads Hammond’s brother’s petition. “Jeremy is facing a maximum sentence of ten years, but the minimum is zero. He has been in jail since March 2012 awaiting trial and now sentencing. It’s time for him to come home.”


 https://www.change.org/petitions/judge-loretta-preska-sentence-jeremy-hammond-to-time-served

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