Category: Regions

Israel: Police Question Netanyahu’s Son About His Relationship With Billionaire James Packer

Interrogation under caution takes place as questioning of suspects continues in other affair, involving the prime minister and media mogul Arnon Mozes. ‘Investigation won’t take too long,’ says Israel police chief.

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Police questioned Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for four hours on Tuesday in connection with the so-called Case 1000, involving suspicions that the Netanyahu family received perks from wealthy businessmen. Israel Police’s Lahav 433 fraud investigation unit questioned the younger Netanyahu under caution, meaning he could be considered a suspect in committing a crime.
According to a Channel 10 television report, the police asked Yair Netanyahu about money he ostensibly received from Australian billionaire James Packer, and about the latter’s relationship with his father. According to the report, Yair Netanyahu’s line of defense was expected to be that his father had no idea who gave him the funds.
Earlier on Tuesday, Arnon Mozes, publisher of the mass-circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth, was questioned once again with respect to the second affair connected to the prime minister, dubbed Case 2000. The police previously questioned Mozes for three hours Monday, and for eight hours on Sunday. The police’s fraud unit also brought in Amos Regev, editor-in-chief of the free newspaper Israel Hayom, to give testimony in the same case.

The affair dubbed Case 2000 focuses on suspicions that Netanyahu and Mozes discussed a deal whereby Mozes’ daily would give more favorable coverage of the prime minister in return for weakening Israel Hayom as a competitor of Yedioth.
Ron Yaron, the editor of Yedioth, gave testimony Monday in the Netanyahu-Mozes affair, as part of the police’s effort to determine whether Mozes had spoken to the editor at any time, in order to enlist him in the scheme the publisher and the premier allegedly cooked up.

The police believe that if Mozes had made such a request of Yaron – even if the latter didn’t know about the conversations with Netanyahu – that would constitute proof that the deal was actually being implemented, at least on the part of Mozes.

The police did not investigate Yaron under caution because at this point they do not believe that he was involved in executing the alleged plan.
For his part, Yair Netanyahu was to be interrogated in the context of Case 1000, which involves suspicions that he and members of his family received valuable gifts and other perks from wealthy businessmen in Israel and abroad.
About a month ago Channel 10 reported that the younger Netanyahu stayed last summer in a luxurious apartment belonging to Packer, at the Royal Beach Hotel in Tel Aviv. According to the report, a few months ago Packer’s attorney in Israel, Jacob Weinroth, met with Interior Minister Arye Dery and requested that Packer be awarded permanent residency status in the country. It was also reported that the favors Packer allegedly gave Yair Netanyahu were not limited to allowing him to use the Tel Aviv apartment, but also included vacations, private flights and a stay at a luxury hotel.
On Tuesday morning, during a tour of the Bedouin town of Rahat in southern Israel, Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich spoke about the two affairs involving Prime Minister Netanyahu, and suggested that “the investigation won’t be very long.” Alsheich spoke generally about corruption among elected officials, and said of the police that, “our job is not to collect information about them or to initiate efforts that will reveal such information – our job is to eliminate corruption and to guard the state coffers.”
He added that, “information inevitably surfaces in a democratic country. Everyone talks about everyone else, so the information arrives.”
Alsheich also spoke of the police’s role vis-a-vis Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, explaining that, “We have to be coordinated with the attorney general and to act according to his instructions. This is a subject in which the police have less freedom of action, and the real test lies in the results.”
The police commissioner also discussed the upcoming retirement of Maj. Gen. Meni Yitzhaki, head of the police investigations and intelligence division, noting that the rounds of appointments in the Israel Police are conducted in an organized fashion. He added that Yitzhaki has acceded to the request not to leave his job “before everything is over,” as Alscheich put it, saying, “He understands that it’s not proper to retire during the course of an investigation.”

January 18, 2017
Israel: Police Officer Killed as Bedouin Riot Against Demolitions

YERUSHALAYIM – A police officer was killed and several people were wounded – including Arab MK Ayman Odeh – in riots that broke out Wednesday morning in the Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev. Also killed was the terrorist who undertook the attack. One police officer was injured as well.

Police identified the officer as 1st Sgt. Erez Levi, 34, Hy”d.

The deaths were the result of an apparent attempted car-ramming attack against a group of police officers, who were trying to keep the peace in the face of riots by residents, as authorities sought to demolish illegal structures. A jeep sped in the direction of a group of police officers, whereupon officers opened fire on the vehicle, killing the driver and a second individual. One rioter was injured and taken to a Be’er Sheva hospital for treatment. Police said that the driver was a member of an Islamist group, but this was denied by family members.

January 18, 2017
Undercover Exposes Groups Plotting Criminal Activity at Trump Inauguration

[ZHE] In the latest undercover video from Project Veritas, investigators uncovered a group of protesters known as the DC Anti-fascist Coalition plotting to disrupt President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration by deploying butyric acid (aka “stink bombs”) at the National Press Club during the Deploraball event scheduled for January 19th.

In a dose of irony, the planning meeting for the attack was held at Com*t P*ng Pong, the DC pizza restaurant that recently gained infamy as the location of the P*zzagate controversy.

Apparently “Plan A” of the disaffected agitators was to set off “stink bombs” in the ventilation systems of the building hosting the “Deploraball.”

“I was thinking of things that ruin, that would ruin the evening, ruin their outfits or otherwise make it impossible to continue with their plans. Make sure they get nothing accomplished.”
“Yeah, if you had…a pint of butyric acid, I don’t care how big the building is, it’s closing…And this stuff is very efficient, it’s very very smelly, lasts a long time a little of it goes a long way.”
“If you get it into the HVAC system it will get into the whole building.”

Meanwhile, “Plan B” entailed an effort to simultaneously set off the sprinkler systems throughout the building which had the “added benefit” of sending party goers “outside in the freezing cold.”

“I’m trying to think through how to get all the sprinklers to go off at once. There’s usually a piece of like fusible metal or a piece of glass with liquid in it that will blow”
“And the added benefit, everybody is going to walk outside in the freezing cold.”

Because of the nature of the threats, Project Veritas notes that they notified the FBI, Secret Service and DC Metro Police of the content of this video prior to its release.

With that, here is the full video:

Project Veritas:

In this video, Project Veritas investigators uncover a group known as the DC Anti-fascist Coalition plotting to disrupt President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration by deploying butyric acid at the National Press Club during the Deploraball event scheduled for January 19th.
The meeting, captured on hidden camera, was held at Comet Ping Pong, a DC pizza restaurant that is better known as the location of the Pizzagate controversy. The coalition members discuss the steps they would need to take to halt the Deploraball event. Project Veritas notified the FBI, Secret Service and DC Metro Police of the content of this video prior to its release.

January 18, 2017
US poll hacking: Russia says MI6 ex-spy ‘runaway crook’ – BBC Reports
The UK ex-spy said to be behind accusations of Russian hacking in favour of Donald Trump in the US is “some runaway crook from the MI6”, Russia’s foreign minister says.

Sergei Lavrov said Russia did not have to prove it was not behind the hacking.

Ex-UK spy Christopher Steele is said to have prepared memos published last week alleging Mr Trump’s election team colluded with Russia which also had salacious videos of his private life.

Mr Trump says the claims are “fake”.

Mr Steele, who runs a London-based intelligence firm, was highly regarded by his bosses when he worked for the British foreign spy agency MI6, sources have told the BBC.

He has been widely named as the author of a series of memos – which have been published as a dossier in some US media.
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The allegations claim Russia has damaging information about the US president-elect’s business interests, and salacious video evidence of his private life, including claims of using prostitutes at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow.

US intelligence agencies considered the claims relevant enough to brief both Mr Trump and President Barack Obama.

Mr Trump accused US intelligence of leaking the content from a classified briefing – a claim denied by James Clapper, director of National Intelligence.

Asked by a German journalist during a news conference in Moscow, the Russian foreign minister said he was not going to prove why the allegations were “not true”.

“I thought that the presumption of innocence was in force in Germany as in other countries. So you prove it,” Mr Lavrov said.

“These are convulsions of those who realise that their time is running out,” Mr Lavrov said. “That is why various fakes are being fabricated.”

The hacking scandal dominated the US election campaign, with US spy agencies concluding Russia was behind the hacking and release of Democratic Party emails intended to damage the campaign of Hillary Clinton.

Russia has consistently denied it.
January 17, 2017
Shock Claim: British Politician Warns Trump ‘CIA Is Plotting Assassination’

British politician George Galloway has warned Donald Trump the American deep state is engaged in a “soft coup d’etat” and the CIA is planning to assassinate him.

The website of anonymous published a shocking claim here is the details of the claim.

“There is a clear and present danger on his life. If I were him, I wouldn’t be going near any grassy knolls.

I wouldn’t be on any motorcades in Dallas. I wouldn’t be traveling in an open-top car.

“I’d be very careful if I was Donald Trump about my personal security. I think I’d have to employ guards to guard the guards.“

Galloway, who has served 31 years as an elected British Member of Parliament, also dismissed claims that Russia was interfering in US politics – and instead pointed the finger at British intelligence services.

“It turns out it was Britain that was interfering in the US presidential elections – not Russia.

At least I’ve seen no evidence the Russians were, but there is plenty of evidence emerging about the British role.

“The press conference of Donald Trump in Washington yesterday was marked by a kind of hysteria about a dossier, a very interesting file, that had been compiled by a British intelligence official.

I can’t mention his name or else they’ll have to kill me, although it is easily accessible on the internet.“

Galloway pointed out that British intelligence services have a long history of producing forged documents to smear and bring down world leaders.

“In 1925 something called the Zinoviev letter helped to bring down the first ever Labour government in Britain. It purported to be a letter from the head of the Comintern, Gregory Zinoviev, to his lieutenants in British politics, giving them their marching orders and in particular inciting them to acts of sedition with the the British miliatry forces.

“This bought down the Labour Prime Minister even though it was quite quickly proved to be a forgery that had been produced by, you guessed it, British intelligence services. That bought down the Prime Ministership of Ramsey MacDonald – and this one is aimed at another Donald. Donald Trump.“

Toxic coalition

“The coalition that is assembling in Washington against him is not only the usual suspects. It is not only the military industrial complex that General Eisenhower, a Republican president of the past, warned us about. Its not only the spy agencies that have killed political opponents, from Patrice Lumumba, through Salvador Allende, Diệm in Vietnam and many others. Its not only the War Party, personified by Senator John McCain.

“They have been joined by a new element, that is very virulent indeed. That new element is people who at least until now would have been defining themselves as liberals, as on the left, as progressives. So hostile to Trump are they, that they have become embracing the worst people in the world. The David Frums, the John McCains. They have embraced the CIA, that once upon a time they would have known were their natural predators.

“And that bizarre coalition, the War Party, the liberals, the spy agencies, the military industrial complex – which stands to lose almost everything if tension in the world, war in the world, becomes a thing of the past. That’s a very toxic and dangerous coalition.”

January 16, 2017
Police say CIA head Brennan couldn’t even keep his emails safe from a 16 year old child

The 16-year-old boy was arrested in the East Midlands as part of an investigation into the data breach of John Brennan’s emails last year.

A British teenager is suspected of being a mystery hacker who infiltrated the personal email account of the director of the CIA and posting personal details online.

The 16-year-old boy was arrested in the East Midlands on Tuesday as part of an investigation in to the data breach of John Brennan’s emails last year.

He is suspected of being a hacker known as “Cracka” who has claimed responsibility for the incident and part of a wider group that calls itself “Crackas with Attitude”, which has been behind a series of high-profile attacks.

The youngster has been released on police bail and has since denied being “Cracka” to journalists.

In October Cracka is said to have posted details of the emails of Mr Brennan online including agency memos and notes.

A background clearance form which had information about Mr Brennan and his wife including addresses, birthdays and social security numbers was also released.

The spy boss was “outraged” and “concerned” by the embarrassing data breach.

It is alleged that Cracka called US Internet provider Verizon posing as a technician and persuaded them to hand over personal details of Mr Brennan’s AOL email address.

He then allegedly called AOL and convinced a representative to reset the password, using the personal details he obtained from Verizon to get through security.

The hacking group later gloated that it was so easy that a “five-year-old could do it” and rated the difficulty as “one out of ten”.

They also claimed that called Mr Brennan and taunted him by reciting his social security number.

The British youngster was arrested on three counts of suspicion to hack.

After his release on police bail, he allegedly communicated with Vice in the US in which he denied being Cracka adding: “’I’m not who you think I am 😉 😉 ;).”

He said he spent seven hours in a cell before being released on bail.

He allegedly added: “’I got ******* v&” (slang for “vanned” or arrested).

“They’re trying to ruin my life. ‘I’m innocent until proven guilty so I have nothing to be worried about.”

Police confirmed a boy had been arrested and bailed until June but refused to say whether the arrest was connected to the US hacking incident.

A spokesman for the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit said: “The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) can confirm we have arrested a 16-year-old boy on Tuesday in the East Midlands on suspicion of conspiracy to commit unauthorised access to computer material contrary to Section 1 Computer Misuse Act 1990, conspiracy to commit unauthorised access with intent to commit further offences contrary to Section 2 Computer Misuse Act 1990 and conspiracy to commit unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing operation of a computer contrary to Section 3 Computer Misuse Act 1990.”

Cracka is said to have carefully covered his tracks but taunted US law enforcement with posts from various online accounts.

On one Twitter account he is said to have controlled, the hacker posted a message on Wednesday which read: ‘Anyone got a good lawyer?!?!?’

Some members of the group described themselves as under 22, said they smoked marijuana and live in the US.

After hacking Mr Brennan the group are said to have hacked the email account of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

They also bragged about hacking the home phone of John Holdren, President Obama’s science and technology adviser.

Another target was Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and the hackers said they accessed his Internet provider account and listened to his voicemails.

For his most recent hack Cracka published the personal data of 20,000 FBI employees and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security agents on the Internet.

Cracka dedicated his hacks to the Free Palestine movement and called on the US government to cut its ties to Israel in order for the attacks to end.

AT A GLANCE

The four most popular cyber-crimes

Phishingis a way of tricking people into handing over their card details or their access to protected systems. Emails are sent out that contain either links or attachments that either take you to a website that looks like your bank’s, or installs malware on your system

A report by Verizon into data breach investigations has shown that 23% of people open phishing emails

Identity theftAccording to fraud protection agency Cifas, the number of victims rose by 31 per cent to 32,058 in the first three months of 2015. Criminals use online ‘fraud forums’ to buy and sell credit cards, email addresses and passports

HackingA 2008 Verizon study of security breaches counted 285 million data exposures, which works out to around nine pieces of personal data stolen every second.

Online harrassmentOver half of adolescents and teens have been bullied online. Meanwhile 73% of adult users have seen someone harassed in some way online and 40% have experienced it.

January 16, 2017