KGB kidnaps, disembowels and sells human organs of young men and women in Siberia

17 February 2012

According to news coming from Russian-occupied Siberian country of Baikalia, local residents in Irkutsk report on the Internet about mass disappearance of young people and local KGB men trafficking in human organs they extract from their living victims.

Since February 15, Irkutsk residents send SMS-messages about horrible crimes committed by money greedy KGB (FSB) men. One such message states that a dead body of a girl has been found with her internal organs missing.

Local residents write in social networks that young men and women are kidnapped by KGB officers and killed during the extraction of their organs from living bodies. Some bloggers give a detailed description of how the KGB operates in Irkutsk: two KGB officers armed with automatic rifles forcibly put people into their black "Gazel" vehicle and take them to an unknown destination. Afterwards, their dead bodies are sometimes found with removed internal organs.

Messages of bloggers are confirm by official local media. Thus, the local edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda writes about two missing school students in Novo-Lenino district, a missing 28-year-old woman, two "disappeared" local university students Daniel Semakov and Aleksey Butorin, a pregnant woman Irene Stroganova, and many other young men and women in the city.

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2012/02/17/15835.shtml.

Fierce fightings on border between Chechnya and Dagestan continue for 5th day

17 February 2012

On Friday morning, February 17, Mujahideen killed at least 2 puppets and wounded another one. These data has been reported by the media of Russian invader terrorists who always understate their casualties.

On the eve, Russian media distributed information on elimination of five and injury of six Russian puppets. The Russians say nothing about possible casualties among the Mujahideen.

The Russian media referring to the command of their invader terrorists reported on Friday that combat helicopters had conducted massive strikes on woodland in Khasavyurt district of Dagestan.

The enemy also uses heavy artillery. Local residents could see and hear powerful explosions from Russian shells and missiles.

There is a large-scale front warfare going on with participation of different armed forces. The number of enemy forces and facilities, as well as enemy casualties make the fightings on the internal border between two provinces of Caucasus Emirate unprecedented over the past few years.

And taking into account that the fightings are taking place in harsh winter and that the Mujahideen have actually no logistical support and places to evacuate their wounded fighters, the current battles could be regarded as a unique military event.

Russian invader terrorists say that one of the Mujahideen groups could have tried to leave the combat zone. However, no details were given.

The area of hostilities expanded. Battles are taking place in Nozhai-Yurt district of the Province of Nokhchicho, as well as in Kazbek and Khasavyurt districts of the Province of Dagestan.

It is to be recalled that the command of Russian invaders partly acknowledged on Thursday heavy losses among their puppets.

A KGB news agency, Interfax, reports that during the heavy fightings on Thursday, February 16, on the border between Chechnya and Dagestan, 5 members of the gang "special forces" were killed and at least 6 others seriously injured.

Russian aggressors reported that during the day the joint forces of invaders and minions entered two times in the contact battle with the Mujahideen, and both times were forced to retreat.

Thus, according to Russian sources, taking into account losses occurred on Friday, since February 13, 13 enemy elements have been killed and not less than 18 other Russians and puppets wounded. No casualties among the Mujahideen were reported by the Russians.

It is to be mentioned in this connection that, according to sources of the Kavkaz Center, on the morning of February 17, at least 15 puppets have been eliminated.

On the first day of the fightings on February 13, the KC sources reported about 5 killed and 6 injured puppets near the village of Sim-Sir. The Mujahideen trapped a minions' gang from "Vedeno police department". Once trapped, the puppets were attacked from two sides, taking them into a kettle.

In turn, Russian invaders reported on that day about 3 killed and 6 wounded Kadyrovites. It was stated that at the squad of the Mujahideen included 30 to 40 fighters and that they escaped from enemy encirclement.

Next day, February 14, the invaders reported that 2 more puppets were wounded. The number of Mujahideen was radically "reduced" to 5-7 fighters.

On February 15, the sources of Russian invaders said that another 4 Kadyrov's minions were eliminated in the battle. The invaders did not report about any losses among the Mujahideen.

According to Russian invader terrorists, the fightings were taking place in Kazbek district of Dagestan and Nozhai-Yurt district of the Province of Nokhchicho, or Chechnya.

On February 16, the command of the Russian invader terrorists suddenly announced that they confronted with as much as 3 three detachments of the Mujahideen, numbering a few dozen fighters, in the border area between Dagestan and Chechnya. Throughout the day of February 16, very scanty information was reported from the zone of fightings.

The Russian invader terrorists and minions lamented on bad weather, deep snow, fog and difficult terrain, which prevented them from using armoured military vehicles.

Joint gangs of Chechen and Dagestani minions and army formations of Russian invader terrorists have been fighting against the Mujahideen. The enemy is using aircraft.

The command of Russian invaders claim that the Mujahideen units are headed by Emirs Ruslan Temirkayev, Arslan Mamedov (call sign "Muaz", both natives of Dagestan), and a native of Nozhai-Yurt district of Chechnya, a 47-year-old Makharbi Timiraliyev (call sign "Makharbi").

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2012/02/17/15834.shtml.

Sri Lanka police fire tear gas during fuel price protest

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (BNO NEWS) -- Police fired tear gas and used water cannons on Friday to disperse a protest against fuel prices and the rising cost of living in Sri Lanka's capital of Colombo, local media reported on Saturday.

Thousands of people joined the protest which was organized by opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe and members of his United National Party (UNP) outside Colombo's main railway station. Police used tear gas and water cannons after barricading the road to disperse protesters who were trying to march towards the president's residence.

Protesters pelted stones at police officers in retaliation of the tear gas and water cannons and sat on the main road, the Colombo Page reported. Police closed the main road, affecting thousands of rush hour commuters.

Friday's protest came after one demonstrator was killed on Wednesday when police officers opened fire on fishermen who were protesting against fuel prices in the town of Chilaw in northwestern Sri Lanka. Thousands of fishermen in the region have been staging protests since the Sri Lanka government increased fuel prices on Saturday evening.

The government raised diesel prices by 35 percent and kerosene prices by 49 percent, both fuels used by the fishermen. Private bus owners also launched a strike but it was settled when the government allowed them to increase bus fares by 20 percent.

The government has pledged to spend 2 billion rupees ($17 million) a month to provide fuel subsidies to affected sectors such as the bus and rail service and fisheries. The government says the petroleum authority is losing billions of rupees from subsidizing fuel and the government has to follow global market trends.

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Source: Newstro.
Link: http://newstro.com/article/sri-lanka-police-fire-tear-gas-during-fuel-price-protest.html.

Alaska Bill Would Criminalize TSA Screening Procedures

Written by Raven Clabough
Friday, 17 February 2012

Alaska State Representative Sharon Cissna (left) has introduced a bill to criminalize TSA pat-downs and naked-body scans, adding The Last Frontier to a growing list of states battling the intrusive screening procedures of the Transportation Security Administration.

Cissna has suffered her own negative experience with the federal agency. Last year at the Seattle-area Sea-Tac International Airport, after a naked-body scan revealed her breast-cancer surgery scars, the TSA insisted on putting her through an intrusive pat-down. She refused.

“Facing the agent, I began to remember what my husband and I’d decided after the previous intensive physical search," she related. "That I never had to submit to that horror again! It would be difficult, we agreed, but I had the choice to say no; this twisted policy did not have to be the price of flying to Juneau.”

The TSA responded by barring her from her flight.

Cissna’s bill, HB 262, states:

A person commits the offense of interference with access to public buildings or transportation facilities if the person, as a condition for access to a public building or transportation facility, requires another person to consent or otherwise submit to

(1) physical contact by any person touching directly or through clothing the genitals, buttocks, or female breast of the person seeking access; or

(2) any electronic process that produces an electronic image of the genitals, anus, or female breast or otherwise creates an electronic image of the person seeking access that exposes or reveals a physical characteristic that is normally hidden by clothing and is not normally visible to the public.

Texas state lawmakers attempted last year to pass similar legislation called the Traveler Dignity Act, but federal government officials threatened to ground all flights into and out of the state — essentially creating a "no-fly zone" over The Lone Star State — if the bill was passed. Eventually the measure was defeated by a procedural move after a protracted battle in the state legislature.

But Cissna’s bill goes further than the Texas measure in that it outright bans the naked-body scanners. The X-ray machines drew negative attention once again this week after a Dallas woman was forced by TSA agents at DFW International Airport to go through the body scanner three times so, she alleges, the screeners could get a "good look" at her naked image.

According to the Associated Press, Cissna “told the [Alaska] House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that rights guaranteed in the constitutions of Alaska and the United States are violated by security measures that require unwanted physical contact or exposure of physical traits usually not visible in public.”

Utah is also among the states fighting back against the TSA. Lawmakers there have introduced a resolution that would eliminate pat-downs and launch a congressional investigation into the various reported abuses of the TSA.

“If they can do that [intrusive pat-downs], what can’t they do?” demanded Rep. Ken Ivory, the sponsor of the resolution. “Can you imagine George Washington or Thomas Jefferson going to the airport and saying, ‘Go ahead and stick your hand down my pants. I need to get where I’m going’?" Ivory contends that Americans are slowly being conditioned to “just submit” to the feds. “Our liberties are being conditioned away,” he told the Deseret News.

Meanwhile, Texas State Rep. David Simpson, who plans to run for reelection to the 2013 biennial session, is preparing to reintroduce his Traveler Dignity Act to criminalize the TSA pat-downs statewide. Likewise, lawmakers there are gearing up to consider a new measure that would allow airports to ban the TSA from the screening process altogether.

TSA controversies have been a constant source of news over the past few years.

Over the 2011 Christmas break, for example, TSA agents confiscated several holiday desserts but allowed a sword to go through security undetected.

Last April, former Miss USA Susie Castillo accused a TSA agent of molestation during her security screening at the Dallas-area DFW International Airport. Donna D’Errico, a former Baywatch actress who has posed for Playboy, made similar accusations against the TSA, contending that she was deliberately targeted for the naked-body scanner: “It is my personal belief that they pulled me aside because they thought I was attractive. After the search, I noticed that the male TSA agent who had pulled me out of line was smiling and whispering with two other TSA agents and glancing at me. I was outraged.”

The concerns voiced against the TSA's intrusive screening procedures with one group — children — have been confirmed by experts at Child Lures Prevention (CLP). According to the organization, in an effort to make youngsters cooperate with the TSA screenings, agents call the pat-downs a “game.” As a result, those who undergo the enhanced pat-downs may become desensitized to sexual molestation.

CLP's Ken Wooden explains that telling children they are participating in a game “is one of the most common ways” for sexual predators to engage them in inappropriate contact. Likewise, because children “don’t have the sophistication” to differentiate between the pat-down at the airports and sexual assault, the TSA procedures are setting a dangerous precedent for those who experience the procedures.

Perhaps the most significant criticism of the TSA’s screening procedures, in addition to the privacy intrusions, is the potential danger of radiation exposure.

A report filed by ProPublica on airport X-ray scanners reveals that despite evidence that the scanners could cause “anywhere from six to 100 U.S. airline passengers each year [to] get cancer,” a variety of expert testimonies on the dangers of the technology, and European policies that have actually banned the use of the scanners, the TSA has elected to continue the use of the TSA scanners nationwide. As noted by The New American’s Michael Tennant, “What’s worse, the TSA has other, safer types of scanners, known as millimeter-wave scanners, that the agency says are as effective as the backscatter scanners; but it has chosen to continue deploying the backscatter scanners even though they could adversely affect the health of the flying public.”

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration reneged on a promise to conduct further studies into the safety of radiation-firing body scanners used at airports nationwide. However, following reports of cancer clusters among TSA screeners at Boston-Logan Airport, the TSA is now obligated to test the operators of the naked-body scanners for radiation exposure. But the TSA still refuses to test the actual machines.

Texas Congressman and GOP presidential contender Ron Paul has adamantly opposed the TSA procedures from the start, having introduced the American Traveler Dignity Act to “protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse.” Dr. Paul and other constitutionalists across the country contend that the TSA's procedures are a violation of 4th Amendment rights.

Paul explains his solution:

What we need is real privatization of security, but not phony privatization with the same TSA screeners in private security firm uniforms still operating under the "guidance" of the federal government.

Real security will be achieved when the airlines are once again in charge of protecting their property and their passengers.

Source: The New American.
Link: http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/10896-alaska-bill-would-criminalize-tsa-screening-procedures.

Maine Caucuses Finish Closer Than Expected, Strange Recount

Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
Sunday, 19 February 2012

Washington County, Maine — Texas Congressman Ron Paul won strong victories in rural Maine caucuses February 18, but the Saturday caucuses do not quite appear to have lifted Paul to victory statewide over his chief rival, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. But there are new questions about some of the vote tallies in the updated Maine GOP count, especially where the results for the Portland caucus were reversed in favor of Romney.

The official tally for Washington County — a rural Maine county that had postponed its scheduled February 11 caucuses because of snow — showed 163 votes for Paul, 80 for Romney, 57 for Santorum, and three for Gingrich. Neither Gingrich nor Santorum had an official campaign presence at the caucuses in Maine.

The two-to-one Paul victory over Romney in Washington County alone won't put Paul over the top statewide, however. According to the Paul campaign, the Texas congressman and obstetrician also picked up 39 votes in caucuses in neighboring Hancock County and a handful of other area caucuses February 18. A number of other towns were caucusing February 18 as well, but by the Paul campaign's count at 5:00 p.m. they were still 84 votes short after counting Hancock and Washington Counties. The Bangor Daily News put Romney's margin of victory at 117 votes.

Paul campaign state chairman Paul B. Madore told The New American it was "unlikely" the Paul campaign would come out of the non-binding presidential preference poll with the most votes if current GOP numbers stand. The Republican Party declared Romney the winner after the February 11 caucuses by less than 200 votes, even though Washington, much of Hancock County, and a dozen or so other towns across the state had yet to caucus. Moreover, Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster ran into angry Paul campaign officials after they had found out that several towns that had voted in favor of Paul, such as Belfast, did not have their results published on the official party list. Webster vowed not to update the list, but bowed to a barrage of criticism from party leaders across the state and released updated numbers February 17. The revised results released by the Maine GOP before Saturday's caucuses showed a larger 229-vote margin of victory for Romney.

When The New American asked Madore about the revision in the Portland caucus numbers, Madore became upset. "This really disturbs me, when I see numbers like this," he said. In Portland, the state GOP reported February 11 that Paul had won the caucus by a vote of 106 to 91. But in the February 17 revision, Romney had won the state's largest city, by an identical 106 to 91 vote. Moreover, the revised numbers appear not to have taken any votes away from Romney in any town, except for a single vote from Hancock's Verona Island. (In the same county, Romney lost five votes in Bar Harbor, but it's possible that in the February 17 revision those "lost" votes were moved to nearby Trenton, where Romney gained five votes.) Paul, on the other hand, not only lost 15 votes in Portland, he also lost every single one of the 20 votes he had garnered in York County's Limington according to the results the state GOP initially reported on February 11.

The mood at the Washington County caucus Saturday was symbolized by the lapel sticker "You WILL count me" that members of all the campaigns were wearing. The stickers were a clear reaction to Webster's claim a week earlier that he would not update the results. "They're hurting themselves if they don't have Washington County counted," Madore told The New American.

Both the Paul and Romney campaigns touted the turnout in Washington County, which was a significant increase over the 2008 numbers. "The story is the record number of people here," Romney staffer Greg Gallivan told The New American. "There's a good turnout, a strong turnout," Madore agreed. "That's a job well done."

Source: The New American.
Link: http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10921-maine-caucuses-finish-closer-than-expected-strange-recount.

Over 57 puppet terrorists killed or wounded in one Chechen district alone

17 February 2012

As reported by Russian enemy sources, more than 21 Russian puppet terrorists were killed and over 36 other Kadyrov's thugs wounded in 5 days of continuous fightings in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district alone. The Russians always understate their fatalities and casualties. The figures of enemy casualties, according to enemy sources, are not yet final because some puppets missed in action and are probably dead. Sporadic clashes in Nozhai-Yurt district are still ongoing.

Meanwhile, residents of Sim-Sir village in Chechnya reported that 5 Mujahideen, including Emir Nozhai-Yurt sector Makharbi, martyred (Insha'Allah) during the five days of fightings in Nozhai-Yurt district.

Information about the martyrdom of five Mujahideen was confirmed by Kadyrov's puppets who showed dead bodies of 5 martyrs (Insha'Allah) on their propaganda TV on Friday night.

It is to be recalled that the ringleader of Chechen minions Kadyrov earlier claimed that seven Mujahideen had allegedly martyred.

It is to be mentioned in this context that the number of the Mujahideen detachment fighting the Russians troops and puppet troops in that district includes 30 to 40 warriors.

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2012/02/17/15836.shtml.

Jordan Set to Open First Refugee Camp for Syrians

Written by Abdullah Omar
Thursday, February 16, 2012

[Amman] Jordan is putting the final touches on a refugee camp being set up near the border with Syria to house its share of the thousands of Syrians fleeing their homes out of fear of being caught up in the ongoing violence between President Bashar Al-Asad’s troops and opposition forces.

In the northern city of Sarhan, near Mafraq, a large plot of land has been paved; and wiring for electricity and piping for water installed in anticipation of arriving refugees.

The camp, under round-the-clock police guard, is the first in the kingdom and in the Arab region since the uprising against the Al-Asad regime began eleven months ago. Neighbors Iraq and Lebanon remain undecided over the developing situation in Syria and are so far refusing to establish refugee camps inside their borders.

But Jordan has already allowed thousands of refugees to enter and has provided them with needed care. Until now, the burden of supporting the unexpected guests from Syria has fallen on local communities in the border areas that have provided food, shelter and medical care to the refugees. Children of the Syrian refugees have even been allowed to attend public schools for free. The new camps, set up with support from UNHCR -- the United Nations refugee agency -- will lift the burden from the locals.

According to Ahmed Emian, secretary general of the Hashemite Charity Foundation, the camp will be open and ready to receive its residents shortly. “We have set up the camp in terms of paving the ground, putting electricity and providing it with sanitation and water,” he told The Media Line. “We will be opening the camp next week, or at latest by the end of the month,” he added.

For nearly eleven months into the anti-Asad uprising, and despite the rising number of Syrians seeking the safety of its borders, pro-Western Jordan resisted the temptation of setting up camps. Observers and western diplomats say Jordan, possibly the most experienced in the region in terms of hosting refugees, waited for a political decision from higher authorities and its allies before erecting tents on the borders.

At the start of the uprising last year, Jordan imposed a media blackout on the presence of refugees in order to avoid angering Syria and its strong neighbors. But now, a number of philanthropic groups have been given the nod to provide for the needs of refugees in certain areas, including the border, Amman and as far south as the city of Ma’an.

Estimates of the actual number of asylum seekers vary. The government says nearly 5000 have entered the kingdom since the uprising began in Syria in March 2011, while estimates offered by the philanthropic groups put the number of asylum seekers in the tens of thousands. Yet, the UN-agency UNHCR pegs the number of registered refugees at about 3,000 – less than the government estimate but twice the number it reported only one month ago, according to Jamal Arafat, chief representative of UNHCR in Amman.

He told The Media Line that no camps have been set up yet, suggesting that such a move is more of a political choice than a logistical one. “We are ready to open refugee camps, but we do not see any need for that yet,” he said.

Abu Ahmed is a Syrian activist fleeing from the city of Harak, a hotbed of anti-Asad protests in Deraa. He arrived in Mafraq three weeks ago after a long chase by Syrian security forces. Abu Ahmed currently lives in a mosque in Mafraq, awaiting accommodations for his family. “I fled without my family or anybody. I crossed illegally into Jordan and now I live in this mosque,” he told The Media line in a telephone interview. Abu Ahmed said many Syrians want to flee but they are unable to do so because of the heavy security procedures and fear of arrest on the borders. Jordan has not broken-off relations with Damascus and has said it will not ask the Syrian ambassador leave even though Syrian ambassadors posted in the oil rich Gulf States have been expelled.

Privately, officials say the kingdom will be hurt in case it severs diplomatic ties with its much larger neighbor, and prefers to keep diplomatic channels open. In the meantime, residents of Deraa warn that the Syrian army has intensified its patrols along the long border in order to prevent a mass influx of refugees and to stop activists wanted by the regime in Syria from fleeing to Jordan.

But arriving refugees escaping the continued shelling in areas in the Huran region say it will be extremely difficult for Al-Asad’s forces to stop local residents from leaving.

Source: The Media Line.
Link: http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=34442.