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From The Daily Mail
FBI admits there’s no way to screen all the Syrian refugees the Obama administration plans to accept into the US
- Agency director James Comey tells House Committee on Homeland Security that the coming influx of 10,000 Syrian refugees cannot be thoroughly screened
- Obama administration has said it would accept that many refugees because of the deteriorating security situation in Syria
- Comey tells committee that Syrians who are not already in the FBI’s database cannot be checked
- More on the influx of Syrian refugees: www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis
FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday told Congress that the federal government cannot conduct thorough checks on all of the coming influx of 10,000 refugees from Syria.
Appearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Comey said Syrians who aren’t already in the FBI’s database are unknown to the agency, meaning their backgrounds cannot be adequately scoured for a risk of terrorism.
‘We can only query against that which we have collected,’ Comey told the committee under questioning.
‘So if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.
From Russia Today
US rejected Israeli request for hardware to raid Iranian nuclear facility – report
The episode, dating back to 2012, is part of a developing crisis of confidence that Israel and the US plunged into under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama. The Wall Street Journal says relations started deteriorating in 2009, when Netanyahu met Obama in the White House and started briefing reporters immediately without coordinating with the Americans.
Washington tried to reassure Israel of US support by expanding joint clandestine operations against Iran and boosting cooperation between the CIA and the Mossad. But they were reluctant to back more-radical plans suggested by Israel, like bringing down the Iranian financial system or instigating an all-out regime change in the Islamic Republic, the newspaper said.
One of such plans was a planned military raid on the nuclear facility in Fordow, which the Israelis briefed the Americans about in 2012. It came after the US inquired about an incursion of an Israeli aircraft into Iranian airspace, which the Americans learned by spying on Israeli military communications.
The plan was to use stealth to enter Iran, land a commando force and “go in through the porch entrance” of the fortified facility. Pentagon accessed the mission to be suicidal and pressed the Israelis to give an advance warning, to which the Israelis were noncommittal, the report said.
Israeli officials sought to acquire certain military equipment from the US that would be useful in the planned raid, including the V-22 Ospreys rotorcraft, which can land as helicopters and fly as fixed-wing aircraft do. They also wanted to obtain the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a bunker-penetrating ordinance that was designed to destroy facilities like Fordow. The Obama administration decided not to provide the equipment.
From Russia Today
Argentina’s Kirchner: ‘Putin is global leader in fighting terrorism’
The two presidents held a video conference to mark 130 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and discussed Russian-Argentinian partnership in a number of fields.
Having highlighted political and economic cooperation, as well as cultural exchange, Putin said that the countries’ current bilateral relations should help “develop the strategic partnership” further.
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From Russia Today
Hungary won’t open ‘corridors’ for refugees on its southern borders
“Hungary has made it abundantly clear…that it does not support any proposal to open corridors on the border sections closed in the south or to provide means of transport for migrants within the Schengen zone,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told a news conference after a meeting of Croatian, Slovenian, Austrian, and Hungarian police chiefs in Vienna, Reuters reports.
The statement from Hungary comes as the refugee crisis is worsening in neighboring Slovenia. Earlier on Wednesday the Slovenian parliament adopted a law allowing its army to help secure the nation’s borders.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
French high court confirms BDS activists’ discrimination convictions
(JTA) — France’s highest court of appeals confirmed earlier rulings that found promoters of a boycott against Israel guilty of inciting hate or discrimination.
The rulings passed on Tuesday by the Paris-based Court of Cassation confirmed the Nov. 27 convictions of 12 individuals by the Colmar Court of Appeals in connection with their 2009 and 2010 actions in supermarkets near the eastern city of Mulhouse.
The individuals arrived at the supermarket wearing shirts emblazoned with the words: “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel.” They also handed out flyers that said that “buying Israeli products means legitimizing crimes in Gaza.”
The court in Colmar imposed fines to the collective tune of $14,500 and court expenses on Laila Assakali, Yahya Assakali, Assya Ben Lakbir, Habiba Assakali, Sylviane Mure, Farida Sarr, Aline Parmentier, Mohammad Akbar, Jean-Michel Baldassi, Maxime Roll, Jacques Ballouey and Henry Eichholtzer.
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From PressTV
Video shows Israelis brutally beat Palestinian
An Israeli human rights group has released a video showing several Israelis brutally beating a Palestinian man.
The security camera footage released by B’Tselem on Thursday shows the Palestinian lying curled up on the floor of a storage room while the Israeli forces beat him with their rifles.
The rights group said the 25-year-old Ansar Aasi was at work in the storage room in Bireh in the occupied West Bank when the Israelis stormed the place and began beating him repeatedly.The young man was then wrongfully detained despite repeatedly pleading his innocence.
“I raised my hand and told them I didn’t do anything but they beat me everywhere,” Aasi said, adding that he was detained for five days and only released after his employer showed police the CCTV footage Israeli military said an initial inquiry into the CCTV footage shows Israeli forces “did not act in accordance with the standards.”
The Israeli regime had earlier said the young man was attacked on October 6 after the forces spotted him throwing stones just in front of the store. Aasi denied the charges and was freed on October 11 after Israelis accepted to see the video taken from the security cameras of the store.
From PressTV
Israel tightens security ahead of Palestinian rallies
The Israeli regime has adopted tight security measures in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip to confront planned rallies by the Palestinians, reports say.
According to Palestinian media reports, large numbers of Israeli troops were deployed to the streets in and around the al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Palestinian protesters prepare to stage huge rallies across the Israeli-occupied territories and Gaza after Friday prayers as part of their new Intifada (uprising) against Israel.
The rallies will be held in response to a call by Palestinian factions for large anti-Israel protests in another “Day of Rage.”
Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas issued a statement and urged “angry Palestinians to take part in the mass rallies at the Friday of rage and new confrontation against occupation (Israeli) soldiers.”
The planned mass rallies are also supported by Palestine’s Fatah movement.
From Russia Today
Russian Air Force cuts off ISIS supply lines by bombing bridge over Euphrates
“The bridge over the Euphrates River near [the Syrian city of] Deir ez-Zor was a key point of the logistics chain [of IS]. Today Russian pilots carried out a surgical strike against the object,” the deputy chief of the General Staff of Russia, Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov, said on Thursday during a news briefing, adding that the terrorist group’s armament and ammunition delivery route had been cut off.
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From Russia Today
War of Words: Russian Foreign Ministry calls out MSM reports on hospital strike in Syria
The Russian Foreign Ministry has disputed Western media reports accusing Russia of hitting a field hospital in northwestern Syria and killing 13 people. The reports cited “sources” provided by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, stressed that such reports show tremendous bias towards Russia’s military efforts in Syria.
“There are so-called mass media reports which allege that Russian aircraft bombed a field hospital in the Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria and reportedly killed 13 people. I cannot say that these reports are written by journalists but their ingenuity delights,” Zakharova, told reporters.
From Russia Today
Lenin pulled to the Dark Side: Revolutionary’s statue turns into Darth Vader
The monument, which is located on the premises of an Odessa factory, was modified by Aleksander Milov, a Ukrainian artist, designer, and animator, who took part in the Burning Man Festival in Nevada this year, local news website Dumskaya.net reports. Milov hopes that his new project will attract Star War fans, predicting that recreational zones around the monument won’t be long in coming.
From The Times of Israel
White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks
Obama spokesman says there’s no doubt Germany was behind Holocaust, calls for an end to statements that ‘can feed the violence’
October 22, 2015, 10:49 pm
The White House warned Benjamin Netanyahu against “inflammatory rhetoric” Thursday, in a sharp response to a statement by the Israeli prime minister to the effect that a Palestinian religious leader provoked the Holocaust.
Netanyahu on Tuesday suggested Adolf Hitler was not planning to exterminate the Jews until he met Jerusalem Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, a Palestinian nationalist, in 1941.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt here at the White House who is responsible for the Holocaust that killed six million Jews,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in his response to the controversial claim, which Netanyahu has since attempted to walk back.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Dutch chief rabbi: Refugees’ anti-gay abuse requires tolerance education
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Reported abuse of homosexuals at refugee centers shows the need for educating refugees to tolerance as soon as possible, Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said.
Jacobs’ statement Friday followed an expose aired the previous day by the Dutch broadcaster NOS. In it, the country’s main advocacy group for homosexuals, COC, revealed that over the past two weeks, it has received reports of 10 cases of harassment and intimidation of gays at the Netherlands’ dozen-odd facilities housing refugees from Syria and Iraq.
The report, which included interviews with gay refugees who said they feared they would be murdered by other refugees who were threatening them, came days after the Central Jewish Board of the Netherlands advised against a plan to open a refugee center in Amstelveen. Open a center in the southern suburb of the Dutch capital was deemed risky by the board because it is the only place in the Netherlands with a Jewish community infrastructure and a large number of recognizably Jewish community members.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Will Justin Trudeau win erode Canada’s support for Israel?
TORONTO (JTA) — The election of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau as prime minister represents the first change in Canadian government since Stephen Harper and his Conservatives assumed power in 2006.
What is unlikely to change, however, is Ottawa’s robust support for Israel — a policy cemented under Harper, whose forceful backing of the Jewish state earned him a reputation as one of world’s most pro-Israel political leaders.
When it comes to core Jewish issues, Trudeau has said all the right things since assuming the Liberal leadership in 2013. He continued to do so throughout the 78-day election campaign, which ended Monday with his center-left party’s crushing defeat of the Conservatives.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Berkeley commission rejects Israel divestment resolution
(JTA) — A Berkeley, California, commission rejected a resolution to divest from companies that do business with Israel.
The Berkeley City Human Welfare and Community Action Commission voted 5-2 against the resolution, with one abstention, on Wednesday night.
City Attorney Zach Cowan said the issue was not within the purview of the commission, which generally addresses issues of local poverty, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
In September, Berkeley City Councilman Darryl Moore removed commissioner Cheryl Davila, who he appointed, from her position over the divestment proposal. Davila was removed just before the panel took up the issue at its Sept. 16 meeting.
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