Anxiety is increasing about the prospect of a desperate Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his rapidly proliferating enemies. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Assad that such chemical weapons use would cross a U.S. red line: “I’m not going to telegraph in any specifics what we would do in the event of credible evidence […]

The government of Israel has sent Jordan at least two requests in the past two months to bomb targets in Syria, according to intelligence sources. The Atlantic magazine, which published the revelation on Monday, said Tel Aviv has been seeking Amman’s “permission” to move ahead with “a plan to take out many of Syria’s chemical […]

Teams of Israeli special forces are currently operating inside Syria in an effort to detect and sabotage the Syrian military’s chemical and biological arsenal. Citing an unnamed “Israeli source”, the London-based Sunday Times newspaper said yesterday that the operation is part of a wider “secret war” to track Damascus’ non-conventional weapons stockpiles and “sabotage their […]

Elbit Systems and , two Israeli arms companies thatassist Israel with the construction of its apartheid wall and supply drones to the Israeli military, have pulled out of a major international aerospace industry convention in Toulouse, in southern France, following a campaign led by BDS Sud-Ouest. The two military companies participated in the 2010 Aeromart […]

Student campaigners created stickers imitating G4S’ logo to raise awareness on campus. (Photo courtesey of Palestine Committee at the University of Oslo) In a major success for the campaign against Israeli prison contractor G4S, the University of Oslo has announced that it will terminate its contract with the company in July 2013. G4S is a […]

G4S will face its “next big test” of government support as early as next month after it was stripped of a key prison contract in the wake of the company’s Olympics security shambles. FTSE 100 security group is waiting to hear whether it will be reappointed on a contract to provide electronic tagging of offenders. […]

Another shambles as security giant leaves asylum seeker living in squalor An asylum seeker with a five-month-old baby claims she was placed in a property by the private contractor G4S that was infested with cockroaches and slugs. The woman, who was trafficked to the UK and sold into prostitution before seeking asylum, claims she and […]

Bob Rae: Interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Former Premier of Ontario OTTAWA – The RCMP spied on Bob Rae during his student activist days and likely amassed a personal dossier on the future Liberal leader, newly declassified documents reveal. Mountie security agents, wary of late-1960s campus turmoil, kept a close eye […]

A Canadian naval intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to spying for Russia, a public admission of an embarrassing espionage scandal that has damaged Canada’s reputation among allies and will likely reverberate for years. In a Halifax court Wednesday, Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle, 41, pleaded guilty to two charges under the Security of Information Act of “communicating […]

American intelligence officials supplied vital information in the early days of the investigation that climaxed with the arrest of an accused spy inside Canada’s top-secret naval signals centre, sources say. The involvement of the United States in building the case against Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle adds a key new detail to a story that Ottawa is […]

OTTAWA—The Harper government had a host of military and possibly commercial reasons for not blaming and shaming Russia in the aftermath of an embarrassing spy scandal involving a junior intelligence officer, a series of internal briefings suggest. The case of Sub-Lt. Jeffery Delisle, which exploded across the front pages in January, has largely disappeared into […]

Canadian government officials have refused to confirm or deny media reports that Ottawa expelled several Russian diplomats recently in connection with an alleged espionage affair. The alleged expulsions are reportedly connected with the case of Royal Canadian Navy Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Paul Delisle. Earlier this week, Delisle became the first person to be charged under Canada’s […]

Robert Baer is a former CIA case officer and the author of several books on the Middle East. In the new James Bond thriller, “Skyfall,” the villain is a cyberterrorist named Raoul Silva, a disgruntled former British agent who’s trying to crash the digital universe. It’s a nice touch, creating a very real, very terrifying […]

More than a year after French carmaker Renault found itself embroiled in an industrial espionage scandal, new documents show that the company had prepared statements in the event that the three employees blamed in the case committed suicide. More than one year ago, French carmaker Renault found itself embroiled in a high-profile industrial espionage scandal. […]

Kim Dotcom hat vor Gericht einen Sieg erstritten: Der Mitgründer des umstrittenen und stillgelegten Datenspeicherdienstes Megaupload darf die Geheimdienste in Neuseeland verklagen. Der Gründer der Internetplattform Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, darf die neuseeländischen Aufklärungsdienste verklagen. Das entschied eine Richterin am Donnerstag in Neuseeland. Dotcoms Anwalt Paul Davison sagte Reportern anschließend, der gebürtige Kieler wolle wegen illegaler […]

Kim Dotcom wins right to sue New Zealand’s spy agency for unlawful spying. Kim Dotcom maintains that Megaupload should not be held responsible for stored content [Reuters] Kim Dotcom, internet tycoon and Megaupload founder, has won the right to sue New Zealand’s foreign intelligence agency for unlawful spying by a US led probe on online […]

Tim Weiner, a former New York Times reporter, is the author of “Legacy of Ashes: the History of the C.I.A.,” and “Enemies: a History of the F.B.I.” The structure of the Central Intelligence Agency has remained essentially unchanged since the agency was created in 1947 to fight the cold war against the Soviet Union and […]

AMSTERDAM – Skype heeft illegaal persoonsgegevens verstrekt aan een bedrijf tijdens het onderzoek naar massale cyberaanvallen op PayPal. Het betalingsbedrijf werd aangevallen in reactie op blokkades van donaties aan Wikileaks. Foto: AFP Skype verstrekte persoonsgegevens van een 16-jarige jongen aan een bedrijf dat ermee naar de politie stapte. Dat blijkt uit het dossier van het […]

Skype faces accusations that it handed user data to a private company without a warrant Skype’s privacy credentials took a hit in July over a refusal to comment on whether it could eavesdrop on conversations. Now the Internet chat service is facing another privacy-related backlash—after allegedly handing over user data without a warrant to a […]

Say goodbye to online service providers protecting the identities of their users. With just a bit of begging, a Texas-based intelligence firm succeeded in convincing Skype to send over sensitive account data pertaining to a teenage WikiLeaks fan. Reports out of Amsterdam this week suggest that Microsoft-owned Skype didn’t wait for a court order or […]

Boys were targeted at close range witnesses claim, as defence secretary asked to launch urgent inquiry Defence secretary Philip Hammond has been asked to launch an inquiry. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, has been asked to launch an urgent inquiry into claims that British forces led a counter-insurgency operation in Afghanistan […]

Campaign seeks to accelerate work on case of 15-year-old Kevin Williams while his terminally ill mother is still alive Anne Williams in 2009. She campaigned relentlessly against the original Hillsborough inquest. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian More than 88,000 people have signed an online petition calling for a new inquest to be brought forward […]

The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of an ambitious plan to assemble an espionage network that rivals the CIA in size, U.S. officials said. The project is aimed at transforming the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has been dominated for the past decade by the demands of two wars, into a […]

More than 1,600 new Defense Department agents will collect intelligence and report findings to CIA, said to be overstretched The news is likely to heighten concerns about the accountability of the US military amid concerns about the CIA’s drone programme. Photograph: US navy/Reuters The US military plans to send hundreds more spies overseas as part […]

Suspect walked out of Swiss intelligence service NDB with stolen data after becoming ‘disgruntled’ with his job MI6 and CIA both warned secret information could have been compromised Switzerland’s NDB security procedures now under scrutiny MI6 intelligence on counter- terrorism operations may have been stolen by a rogue Swiss official, it emerged last night. Security […]

ZURICH (Reuters) – Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland’s intelligence service, European national security sources said. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Britain are among those who were warned by Swiss authorities that their […]

Swiss authorities have warned Western intelligence agencies that their secrets may have been compromised by a disgruntled intelligence employee who stole “thousands or even millions of pages of classified material”. Citing “European national security sources”, Reuters said the employee at the center of the case worked for the NDB, Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service. He had […]

Nachdem 1969 erstmals ein SPD-Politiker Bundeskanzler wurde, bauten CDU- und CSU-Anhänger einen eigenen Nachrichtendienst auf. Ein unglaublicher Spionagefall Dies ist die erstaunliche Geschichte einer Verschwörung. Sie begann im Herbst 1969 und endete Mitte der achtziger Jahre, sie spielt nicht irgendwo, sondern im Herzen der politischen Landschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, tief verankert in den konservativen Parteien […]

Conservative politicians in Cold-War West Germany set up an illegal domestic intelligence agency in order to spy on their political rivals, a forthcoming book claims. In Destroy After Reading: The Secret Intelligence Service of the CDU and CSU, German journalist Stefanie Waske exposes what she says was an elaborate plot to undermine West Germany’s rapprochement […]

West Germany’s Christian Democrats ran a intelligence service staffed by aristocrats and former Nazis during the 1970s, hoping to undermine Chancellor Willy Brandt’s policy of engagement with the communist East. Israeli premier arrives in Berlin for tense talks (5 Dec 12) Conservatives reject tax equality for gay couples (5 Dec 12) Merkel: only I can […]

De Franse socioloog Loïc Wacquant heeft enkele boeken geschreven over het ontstaan van getto’s en het neoliberale overheidsbeleid in de Westerse staten, die het ontstaan van deze gebieden eerder zou bevorderen dan tegengaan. Enkele van deze boeken zijn in het Nederlands vertaald bij uitgeverij EPO. Het boek dat enige maanden geleden bij deze uitgeverij verscheen […]

A police officer’s work is becoming ever more dangerous – at least that’s what politicians and many officers say – and they’re backed up by frightening images in the media. But statistics tell a different story. At first glance, federal police detective Sven Kaden looks like he barely needs the equipment he dons every day […]

German police have an outstanding reputation for incorruptibility. But the country lacks an independent body to monitor those allegations of police misconduct that do occur. Derege Wevelsiep was traveling with his fiancée in Frankfurt on the subway when he got caught by ticket inspectors. Because the German of Ethiopian origin did not have his ID […]

Während sich Berlins Innensenator Frank Henkel im Landtag in der V-Mann-Affäre rechtfertigt, tauchen neue Fragen zu seiner Informationspolitik auf: So bat das BKA nach SPIEGEL-Informationen bereits im Dezember 2011 um Informationen über den V-Mann. Und auch das Vorstrafenregister des Spitzels birgt Zündstoff. Berlin – In der Affäre um einen früheren Helfer der NSU-Terrorzelle, den das […]

Erneut geraten die Sicherheitsbehörden in der NSU-Affäre in Erklärungsnot: Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen war Thomas S., einer der 13 Beschuldigten im Verfahren, über zehn Jahre für das Berliner Landeskriminalamt als Informant tätig. Die brisanten Details hielt das LKA sehr lange zurück. Hamburg/Berlin – Der Mann, der die Ermittlungspannen zum “Nationalsozialistischen Untergrund” (NSU) zur Staatsaffäre machen könnte, lebt […]

Panne reiht sich an Panne, bei der Aufklärung der NSU-Mordserie versagen die Behörden auf ganzer Linie. Dabei steht die Kanzlerin im Wort: Sie hat den Angehörigen der Terroropfer versprochen, alles für die Aufarbeitung zu tun. Tatsächlich ist von einem Willen zu Transparenz nichts zu spüren. Berlin – Vielleicht muss man einfach noch mal daran erinnern, […]

Im Umfeld der Neonazi-Mörder Uwe Böhnhardt und Uwe Mundlos hat nach SPIEGEL-Informationen offenbar mindestens ein Polizist Geheimaktionen der Sicherheitsbehörden verraten. Konnten die untergetauchten Terroristen auch deshalb unentdeckt bleiben? Hamburg – Bei den Ermittlungen zur Zwickauer Neonazi-Zelle gibt es neue Erkenntnisse. Akten, die die Thüringer Verfassungsschützer in ihren Panzerschränken fanden, haben es in sich: Ein Beamter […]

Warum scheiterten Ermittler im Fall der Mordserie an Migranten durch das Terrortrio NSU? Die Behörden glichen Millionen Datensätze über Kreditkarten, Hotelübernachtungen, und Mobiltelefone ab – die Täter fassten sie dennoch nicht. Der Fall zeigt, dass Rasterfahndungen oft in die Irre führen. Berlin – Vor einem Jahr flog das Terrortrio Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (NSU) auf. 14 Jahre […]

Der Skandal um die rechtswidrige Vernichtung von Akten beim Berliner Verfassungsschutz weitet sich aus. Bereits 2010 wurde zahlreiche Unterlagen über die verbotene rechtsextreme Organisation “Blood & Honour” geschreddert. Die Behörde spricht von einem “bedauerlichen Versehen”. Berlin – Beim Berliner Verfassungsschutz gibt es einen neuen Fall von unrechtmäßiger Aktenvernichtung zum Thema Rechtsextremismus. Im Juli 2010 hätten […]

Der Berliner Verfassungsschutz hat noch im Juni 2012 mehrere Akten im Bereich Rechtsextremismus schreddern lassen – trotz der auf Hochtouren laufenden Aufarbeitung der NSU-Mordserie. Es ist nicht die erste Panne im Haus von Innensenator Henkel. Der spricht von “menschlichem Versagen”. Berlin – Der Berliner Verfassungsschutz hat Akten geschreddert, die möglicherweise für den NSU-Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestags […]