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Pakistan is not co-operating with US over drones, ministry insists

newspaper regularly CIA drones consent to operate freely

Pakistan has rejected allegations that military aircraft deliberately erased in the sky of the U.S. border region to allow drones to operate freely.

"There can be no doubt Pakistan under such attacks," said Foreign Ministry in response to a report by the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States believes that the consent has regularly received.

According to the newspaper, the CIA sent a fax "about once a month" of the ISI, Pakistan's counterpart, on the fields and the objectives that the unmanned aircraft are operated .

ISI did not respond to faxes from a year ago, according to the newspaper. However, counsel for the U.S. government found that tacit approval, because Pakistan is responsible for so-called "conflict", its airspace -. Prevents aircraft flying in the affected areas

A government spokesman dismissed the suggestion made in the report and reiterated Pakistan's position on drone attacks. "Drone attacks are illegal, against-productive, in violation of international law and a violation of Pakistani sovereignty "

diplomats and security analysts believe that Pakistan continues to give its consent to the drone attacks.

confidential diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks have revealed that, in 2008, the Pakistani army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, has called on the United States for "Predator coverage continues [drones]" part of South Waziristan.

In the same year, the former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the U.S. ambassador did not mind the U.S. program "Until they get the right people."

Despite the history of cooperation with the United States, the drones are very unpopular in Pakistan, where politicians, including former cricketer Imran Khan have won the support of attack against what many consider the systematic violation of Pakistani sovereignty.
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Pakistan drone attacks are counterproductive, says report

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academic says U.S. drones kill large numbers of civilians and increase recruitment by militant groups

CIA program "targeted" assassinations with drones in Pakistan's tribal strongholds is politically against-productive, killing large numbers of civilians, undermines respect for international law, according to a report published by U.S. academics.

Schools and Colleges Stanford study in New York law, based on interviews with victims, witnesses and experts blame the U.S. president, Barack Obama, climbing by strikes "signature" in which groups are selected by the remote "lifestyle" analysis.

Families

afraid to attend weddings or funerals, said, in the case of terrestrial operators U.S. drone directors meetings misinterpret the Taliban or Al-Qaeda.

"The dominant discourse on the use of drones in Pakistan is an effective tool and surgical precision that allows the United States more secure by enabling" targeted killings "of terrorists, with minimal side effects or inconvenience. this story is false, "the report entitled Living on drones States.

The authors admit that it is difficult to obtain accurate data on victims "with U.S. efforts to protect the drone program of democratic accountability, compounded by barriers to independent research strikes North Waziristan. "

The "best available information", they say, is that between 2562 and 3325 people were killed in Pakistan between June 2004 and mid-September of this year - between 474 and 881 were civilians, including 176 children. The data were collected by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, said that 1,300 people were injured in the drone attacks in this period.

The report was commissioned by and written with the help of the organization Reprieve, based in London, which supports the work of British courts by Noor Khan, a Pakistani whose father was killed by a drone attack in the United States in March 2011. His legal challenge is based in the UK is complicit in U.S. airstrikes because the spy agency GCHQ, the intelligence CIA actions on targets for drone attacks.

"U.S. drones are approximately 24 hours per day in the localities of northwest Pakistan, remarkable houses, vehicles and public places, without notice," the report says law schools U.S..

"His presence terrifies men, women and children, causing psychological trauma and anxiety among the civilian population. Persons living in drones to cope with the constant worry of Deadly attack can not be dismissed at any time, and knowing that they are unable to protect themselves.

"These fears have affected behavior. U.S. training area has reached several times, and the evidence that has killed rescuers, makes community members and aid workers are afraid or unwilling to participate in injured victims. "

• The study goes on to say: "The evidence available to the public that the strikes were safe United States in general, is somewhat ambiguous ... The number of "high level" militant killed as a percentage of all victims is extremely low -. proof estimated at 2% [of death] suggests that U.S. attacks have facilitated the recruitment of non-state armed groups, violent, and most violent attacks motivated ... A major study shows that 74% of Pakistanis now consider the U.S. an enemy. "
• American lawyers come abroad rather than human rights, critics are probably more influence in national debates on the legality of U.S. war drone.

"targeted assassinations and practices of U.S. drone attacks undermine respect for the rule of law and the international legal protection and can create dangerous precedents," says the report, wondering if Pakistan consented to the attacks.

"The failure of the U.S. government to ensure transparency and accountability in their basic policy of targeted assassinations, to provide information on its program of targeted assassinations, or establish legal factors involved in decisions appropriate to strike prevents necessary democratic debate on a crucial aspect of U.S. foreign policy and national security.

"American practices can also facilitate the use of force in the world by dangerous precedents for other governments. As manufacturers of unmanned aircraft and officials succeed in reducing barriers export controls, and more countries develop deadly drone technology, these risks increase. "
The report supports the call by Ben Emmerson QC, Special Rapporteur on the fight against terrorism, independent investigations of deaths from airstrikes and demanded the release of the U.S. Justice Department memos describing the legal basis for U.S. targeted killings in Pakistan.

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George Osborne's deficit reduction plan: a blunt axe, blindly wielded

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Chancellor George Osborne that the economy is in trouble with a record deficit of £ 14 billion in August

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plans are divided into three categories. There are good plans that are poorly executed, as in the model developed by Count Alfred von Schlieffen for the invasion of France in 1914. There are strategic plans are executed well bad, as in the Russian campaign of Napoleon in 1812. And then there is the plan of the coalition government to reduce the deficit.

monthly update last Friday on public finances was bleak for George Osborne and his Liberal Democrat colleague Danny Alexander. Back in the heady days of 2010, spoke of how an ambitious plan to reduce red ink splashed all books Treasury could be combined with solid growth and protecting frontline services. None of these objectives was achieved.

quality of public services has decreased due to job losses, the economy has hit the wall and, perhaps most telling of all, the gap between what the government spends and it receives taxes getting bigger, not smaller.

deficit last month was more than $ 14 billion, a slight increase over the previous year and a record for the month of August. On budget day, the chancellor said he expects the deficit to fall by more than 4% in the current year, in the first five months of 2012-13 is 21% more than 'in 2011-12. It will take a quick - and totally unlikely - the accelerated growth in the coming months to Osborne have any chance of reaching their forecasts

Most likely you will need to use his autumn statement in early December to admit that will break at least one of the rules that he himself established to control public finances when became chancellor. The goal of reducing debt as a proportion of national income at the end of this Parliament seems extravagant and given the flatlining of the economy over the last 18 months, leaving Osborne with the possibility of creating a new challenge, less burdensome, or to announce new austerity plan.

be humiliating, however, the Chancellor is almost certain to take the first option. The deficit reduction plan and involves greater austerity in 2013-14 and 2014-15 compared to the year and would be a brave Chancellor would eliminate the additional demand for an already fragile economy. The idea of ??expansionary fiscal contraction - get tough with the budget stimulates growth by allowing monetary policy to work its magic - has been a fiasco. Why? Because the banking system is broken and the debt are not interested in taking on more debt, no matter how much interest rates fall. Osborne and the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) have significantly overestimated the power of monetary policy to continue to adjust fiscal policy would result in an even lower growth targets and state budget even more difficult achieve.

Osborne
• back into defense used by all Chancellor since time immemorial: the fault abroad. If it was not for the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area, rising oil prices and the weakness of the global economy, for example, everything would be wonderful for the moment. There was nothing wrong with this plan. It was a great plan. It was, indeed, the only plan that could save Britain from the dystopia of Greek debt. It was just that other complicated issues.
• Sir Mervyn King provides the chancellor with some political cover in turn. The Governor of the Bank of England says it will be ok for the government to miss its target, as long as the debt is the result of external factors and not because their deficit smooth death itself. Since the king had four-square behind the austerity Osborne from the beginning and used the same defense of bank records overestimate and underestimate the growth of inflation, their support is surprising but welcome if it prevents Osborne compose their own mistakes.
• While it is true that the administration of public finance work leaves much to be desired before the Great Depression of 2007 and that any government facing a budget deficit of 11% of the national production is necessary to take measures to balance the books, the truth is that the plan was ill-conceived Osborne, hastily prepared, based on optimistic forecasts and perform that amplify the pain felt by the public.

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deficiencies are explored by Brian A Reading from Lombard Street Research paper entitled Blunt Axe. The title is a reference to Geddes Axe called the program of deep spending cuts imposed in the 1920s, after a thorough analysis of the savings could be realized.

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Osborne was scathing, saying he has failed miserably to achieve the coalition "urgent priority to ensure economic stability in a period of continued uncertainty in the global economy . "In particular, the document says it has not sought to assess the impact on the growth of spending cuts, the government is hiding behind" optimistic forecasts "provided by the OBR, the" scorched earth " investment in more expensive prestige projects, it has not attempted to identify the whereabouts of the taxpayers' money to be saved, not to measure the actual resources provided to departments, taking into account different rates of inflation that s 'apply to services such as health, could not protect the front-line workers (or even identify what work they did), and it is intended for the inevitable cuts in the public sector, 372,000 that the first two years are nearly six times higher than the 66,000 estimated by the OBR.

Play concluded that there was no need for Plan A for wild growth. The coalition, he said, would have significantly increased capital expenditures without breaking its own fiscal rules. However, net capital expenditure in 2014-15 is forecast to be nearly 60% lower than it was five years ago. This is not a new phenomenon. Governments of all colors is always easier to reduce capital expenditures for current expenses, despite the long (and often short) term consequences for the economy.
is not convinced by reading the argument that everything that can be attributed to events across the Channel. "The deterioration of the global environment and the collapse of the euro night certainly the British economy, but it was predictable. OBR was complicit in the persistence of granting graduations despite darkening sky." Request new Geddes Commission, concludes: "The ax was blunt, blind guitarist."

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US 'supermax' prison is condemned internationally for its abusive regime | Sadhbh Walshe

boss BOP does not seem to notice as ADX Florence faces a class action lawsuit filed by inmates with mental disorders

In 1990, John Jay Powers was sentenced to prison for stealing a bank. Once there, he saw murder of another inmate and began to suffer from post-traumatic stress. In 2001, after a brief attempt to escape, was transferred to the administrative authority Maximum (ADX) Florence, only a maximum security federal prisons, where inmates are housed in conditions of extreme isolation that prison is known, not a lot of love, like Alcatraz "Rocky Mountain".

Before ADX, Powers had no history or symptoms of mental illness, but as it was installed, it became unbalanced and has participated in numerous acts of self-mutilation, including including the amputation of his testicle and scrotum, bite your finger and try to commit suicide several times.

To give you an idea of ??why a previously healthy person would fall into the madness of ADX, you do not look beyond the circumstances of their detention. ADX was designed to ensure complete isolation of all prisoners are held in cells the size of a normal bath. The cells have thick concrete walls, a soundproof door with bars and a steel door strong second. The only means of communication with other human beings is crying in the toilet bowl and hoping that someone would hear. Interns take place in the cell 24/7 for two days a week. In the other five days they can spend an hour in a cage of similar size in what is known as laughing "outdoor" recreation. By its own policy, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) excludes ADX mentally ill, but it seems that many mentally ill prisoners get there because of a poor selection process - and they are not always healthy for get tend to stay for long.

Powers is one of 11 prisoners of ADX Florence named in a federal lawsuit filed against the BOP on July 18 this year, alleging mistreatment and abuse of prisoners with mental disorders are often misdiagnosed (if diagnosed at all) and then denied appropriate care. It comes at a time of growing pressure from the international community, including the UN Commission for Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. However, the balance of payments, which would not comment on pending litigation, it has been demonstrated by its front and back, unconscious actions that are, at best, and at worst indifferent to the charges.

To give an idea of ??the kind to forget that I'm talking about, you need to look beyond a note with the line "Suicide Prevention" subject that has been sent by Charles Samuels, Director of Federal Prison Bureau, two days after the lawsuit was filed, all inmates in the federal system - including staying in solitary confinement in ADX. In the note, Samuels, sounding like a social worker in question, urged inmates who may feel suicidal to try to see the good side of things. Below is an excerpt:

• "Incarceration is difficult for many people Many people experience a range of emotions - .. Sadness, anxiety, fear, loneliness, anger or shame can sometimes feel hopeless about their future and their thoughts can turn. Suicide If you are unable to think of a solution other than suicide is not because the solutions do not exist. 'S because now we can not see them not to lose hope solutions can be found, the feelings change, unexpected positive. events. Looking for meaning and purpose in the education and treatment, faith, work, and family and friends. "
Samuels continues to urge suicidal inmates to use psychologists, counseling and other services seem to think are available to them. Now, it may be noted at their nominal value as a genuine attempt to boost the morale of prisoners who are in a bad mood. But if we consider that the note was addressed to prisoners, many of whom Samuel recognized in the last paragraph, "you can read this message for a special housing unit or special management unit cell" (all euphemisms containment only) and that prisoners are experiencing suicidal feelings are much more likely to be a direct consequence of the fact that they are housed in segregation units such as for existential reasons, it is difficult not to be cynical . It is even more difficult when one learns that Samuels himself seems to have a vague idea at best as to what type of advisory services to inmates have access, if necessary.

A month before the memorandum was published, Samuel said at a hearing of the Senate subcommittee on isolation, during which he said that "no negative effect" of isolation prisoners. He took his answer to a direct question by Senator Durbin on ADX prisoners access to psychologists.

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Libyan parliamentary speaker hints at military strike after consulate attack

Magariaf confirms U.S. authorities intercepted communications between Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb al-Ansar al Sharia brigade

Libyan Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Magariaf said that military action is planned against the militants blamed for the assassination of the U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens.

Magariaf also confirmed reports from Washington that the U.S. authorities intercepted communications discussing the plan of attack against the United Nations consulate in Benghazi, said Al-Qaeda Islamic Maghreb linked to a brigade, Ansar al-Sharia. "Yes, it happened," he said.

Magariaf told the Guardian the intersection point is other evidence showing members of the brigade attended the Tuesday night attack on the compound and a hosting site.

"There seems to be a division within Ansar al-Sharia on the attack, some involvement, others against," he said. "We are in the process of investigation."

These emissions would be strong evidence linking al-Sharia to attack, and Magariaf said Libya had sent information by the U.S. government. He confirmed that the intercepted communications program discussed the assault last week. But he urged the United States not to act unilaterally, fearing that it would oppose the public.

"not hesitate to act, to do what is our duty," said Magariaf. "Let's start with ourselves and if we can not then who can help us. My experience with the Americans, they know what they have to do. "

His comments came as the Libyan Ministry of Interior said that attacks the weekend led to the arrest of 50 suspects, but did not elaborate or say whether they were Islamic militants.

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built in Benghazi amid speculation that military action is imminent against Al-Sharia brigade, whose commanders have denied responsibility for the consulate attack.

Two U.S. warships equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles are stationed off the coast and a propeller plane without lights, it is believed that unmanned aircraft, spent several hours in the sky In town the past two nights.

The brigade is based in Benghazi, and his soldiers guard a hospital where medical authorities say two militants wounded are being treated. Sharia guards refused to allow access guardian or a comment on the attack.

• Magariaf said the attack on the U.S. mission, the fifth attack against diplomatic targets in Benghazi since April, was part of a wider campaign by militants to destabilize Libya, taking advantage of the disorder a country still without a government cohesion.
• "This is a turning point for the country. Confrontation is necessary and inevitable these elements, "he said. "[It is] one of them, and Libya are safe and united. Today, it is the Americans, Libyans tomorrow. "

Magariaf rose to fame in the 1980s when, after fleeing to Britain, led the anti-Gaddafi National Front for the Hi Libya. He won a seat in the new parliament in July, in an election in which tribal and liberal parties prevailed against the Muslim Brotherhood.

He said he had evidence "foreign countries" were involved in supporting the attack on the consulate, but declined to name them. "This is a deliberate calculated by a working group in collaboration with non-Libyan extremists. Would not be surprised if it's another country, but not Saudi Arabia or Qatar, I'm sure. "

in Benghazi evidence linking members of the team for sharia attack is increasing. The head of the Supreme Council of the city, security, gendarmerie Libya, witnesses and phone sequences showed members were involved.
This was confirmed by a witness who was among the spectators who came to see what had started as a protest against the United States on Tuesday night.

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How a Paul Ryan Wisconsin effect could alter the US political map | Harry J Enten

preliminary investigation indicates small bounce Mitt Romney VP selection. But if Ryan delivers Wisconsin, that could all change

selection for Vice-Chair Paul Ryan has produced little or no bounce in national polls Mitt Romney. Lack of movement so far is somewhat surprising given that the vice-presidents have produced an average of 4 hit points for the top of your ticket. Although a rebound finished product will be ephemeral.

Momentum is only a viable running mate usually offers in his home state of the order of 2-3 percentage points. This is why others and I think the selection of Ohio Senator Rob Portman makes more sense from the standpoint election. President Obama led in Wisconsin about 6 percentage points before choosing Ryan, who seemed too big for a boost to overcome vice.

There are indications, however, that perhaps underestimated call Ryan in Wisconsin. Public Policy Polling interviewed a hypothetical Romney-Ryan ticket last month and it showed behind Obama-Biden in just 1 percentage point (as opposed to a deficit of 6 points without Romney Ryan). A new Rasmussen poll has Romney picked up 4 points and move to a 1 point lead in the state of badger among potential voters. A new CNN / ORC poll of registered voters has Obama by 4 percentage points, a margin that could be expected to reduce the size of potential voters.

The importance of competition for Romney-Ryan Wisconsin can not be underestimated. If Obama wins Wisconsin, my calculations indicate that probably starts with a minimum of 247 of the 270 votes needed. He could win by simply taking Florida and its 29 electoral votes, or a combination of Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia.

Without

Wisconsin, Obama has 237 electoral votes. This may not seem like a big difference of 247, but consider the following four scenarios.

1. Romney-Ryan win without Ohio

Republican ticket has not always taken the White House without Ohio, but it is conceivable. All States awarded to Ryan-Romney are the ones where he is in a position as good or better than him in Ohio. No Wisconsin, Romney would only 263 electoral votes. With him, Romney 273 - and the White House

2. Romney-Ryan win without Florida

• Personally, I do not think that the situation in this map is going to happen, but say that Ryan and his Medicare reform scares the elderly in Florida. Romney could win with 272 electoral votes naked, taking all the other states that have a real chance to go red this time.
• 3. Romney-Ryan win without Colorado or Virginia
Part of the reason Obama has an advantage over John Kerry in the electoral college, it is because he paved the way Colorado / Virginia. Its 22 electoral votes combined is more than Ohio or Pennsylvania. A victory in Wisconsin means Romney could not afford to worry about Colorado or Virginia.

. The possibility of a tie in the electoral college is higher in Wisconsin in the game

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