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N. Korea: U.S. Plotting Pre-Emptive Nuclear War


Posted: 28 Jun 2009 11:16 PM PDT


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The rhetoric out of North Korea continues…


North Korea criticized the U.S. on Monday for positioning
missile defense systems around Hawaii, calling the deployment part of a
plot to attack the regime and saying it would bolster its nuclear arsenal
in retaliation.


U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he ordered the
deployment of a ground-based, mobile missile intercept system and radar
system to Hawaii amid concerns the North may fire a long-range missile
toward the islands, about 4,500 miles away.


“Through the U.S. forces’ clamorous movements, it has been
brought to light that the U.S. attempt to launch a pre-emptive strike on
our republic has become a brutal fact,” the North’s main Rodong Sinmun
newspaper said in a commentary.


The paper also accused the U.S. of deploying nuclear-powered
aircraft and atomic-armed submarines in waters near the Korean peninsula,
saying the moves prove “the U.S. pre-emptive nuclear war” on the North is
imminent.


The commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News
Agency, said the North will bolster its nuclear arsenal in
self-defense.


The North routinely accuses the U.S. of plotting to invade the
North. But the U.S., which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, has said it
has no such plan.


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Honduras President Ousted In Coup, Chavez Threatens To Invade


Posted: 28 Jun 2009 06:34 PM PDT


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Honduras was plunged into a political crisis that threatened to
spill across the region hours after President Manuel Zelaya was thrown out
by the army and exiled to Costa Rica prompting his leftist ally in
Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, to threaten military intervention.


In the first successful military coup in Central America since
the end of the Cold War, the army sent masked soldiers into the
presidential palace before dawn. The President, who was in dispute with
his military about a planned constitutional referendum, was then escorted
to a military plane which took him into exile.


Mr Chavez went on state television later in the day claiming
that the coup leaders had taken away the Cuban ambassador to Honduras and
left the Venezuelan ambassador by the road in the capital, Tegucigalpa,
after beating him. He said that if troops enter his embassy “that military
junta would be entering a de facto state of war,” and “we would have to
act militarily”.


The Congress in Honduras said later that it had received a
letter of resignation from Mr Zelaya, purportedly signed on Friday. In a
show of hands, representatives accepted that he had stepped down from
office.


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More…


Army ousts Honduras president in vote dispute…


President calls arrest ‘kidnapping’…


ASKS FOR ASYLUM IN COSTA RICA…


Troops surround presidential palace…


SHOWDOWN…


Chavez slams ‘coup’…


OBAMA
SAYS DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT DETENTION, EXPULSION…


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Iranian Regime Turns Tables On Protesters Using Social Media


Posted: 28 Jun 2009 06:21 PM PDT


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Millions of sympathizers around the world looked forward to
seeing Iran’s protest movement using the Internet for the first online
coup in history. Instead, the Iranian Islamic regime turned the tables:
Its Internet police, arguably the largest in the world, pushed “control,”
“halt,” “delete” and “send” buttons to activate a deadly weapon for
suppressing the movement, as soon as it took to the streets to protest the
June 12 election which was believed to have given Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a
false victory.


By Sunday, June 28, when the Guardian Council was to hand down
its final verdict on their complaints, the street rallies had petered
out.


Part of the reason, intelligence sources report, was their
organizers’ heavy reliance on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and other
social sites to orchestrate their protest movement. They did not at first
appreciate that Iranian intelligence Internet experts, operating from
secret headquarters established months ago, were using their
communications to shoot them down.


According to our sources, that headquarters is located at the
telecom center on Sepah (Khomenei) Square in Tehran. It was built for the
Shah in the 1970s by the Israel construction contractors Solel Boneh and
designed by Israeli intelligence and telecommunications experts.


The high-end apparatus, installed in late 2008 by the German
Siemens AG and Finnish Nokia Corp. cell phone giant, gave Iranian
intelligence the most advanced tools anywhere for controlling, inspecting,
censoring and altering Internet and cell phone messaging. Those tools were
being used weeks before the poll to identify penetrations by alien spy
services, their local agents and dissident activists.


This system is capable of conducting “deep packet inspection”
of every type of text and video communication in all parts of Iran on
three tracks:


1. Like other advanced electronic spy systems in the world,
this one uses such keywords as attack, weapons, cash, data, explosives,
meeting, demonstration, resistance, protest, etc. to alert Iran within
milliseconds to feeds of interest by computer or phone – mail, signals or
visuals.


In a flash, intelligence analysts get a fix on the sender and
the electronic addressee which are then placed on a surveillance list for
further monitoring. Once identified, the sender or receiver and their
connections are closely shadowed by field agents.


2. By “deep packet inspection,” the secret controllers can
cause delays in online data transfers, which surfers may attribute to
glitches connected with their providers. The more targets under
surveillance, the more online transfers are slowed down.


DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that the day after the
presidential poll and resulting street outbreaks, Iran’s Internet control
and tracking supervisors took over the 10 leading service providers in the
country. Their first action was to slow down incoming and outgoing cyber
traffic from 1,500 to 54 kilobytes to make sure that not a single byte by
Internet or cell phone to or from protest leaders escaped their
notice.


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