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A BBC cita o Ministro dos Negócios Estrageiros britânico, William Hague, que terá informações sobre a saída do coronel Khadafi da Líbia.
Hague terá sabido que Khadafi prepara uma viagem para a Venezuela, mas a Reuters já citou fonte do governo de Hugo Chavez, que nega a viagem do presidente líbio.
segunda-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2011
Itália decreta alerta máximo para bases aéreas
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A Itália decretou esta segunda-feira o estado de alerta máximo em todas as suas bases aéreas. Em causa está a aterragem de dois aviões militares líbios e dois helicópteros civis no aeroporto de La Valeta, em Malta.
Fontes do Ministério da Defesa italiano, citadas pela agência ANSA, confirmaram a decisão de aumentar o nível para alerta máximo nas bases aéreas italianas, devido ao clima de tensão que se vive na Líbia.
Segundo as mesmas fontes, também ficou decidido o envio de um grande número de helicópteros da Força Aérea e da Marinha para o sul da península.
A «decisão foi tomada após a aterragem em Malta de dois aviões militares líbios e de dois helicópteros civis», explica a ANSA.
A Itália decretou esta segunda-feira o estado de alerta máximo em todas as suas bases aéreas. Em causa está a aterragem de dois aviões militares líbios e dois helicópteros civis no aeroporto de La Valeta, em Malta.
Fontes do Ministério da Defesa italiano, citadas pela agência ANSA, confirmaram a decisão de aumentar o nível para alerta máximo nas bases aéreas italianas, devido ao clima de tensão que se vive na Líbia.
Segundo as mesmas fontes, também ficou decidido o envio de um grande número de helicópteros da Força Aérea e da Marinha para o sul da península.
A «decisão foi tomada após a aterragem em Malta de dois aviões militares líbios e de dois helicópteros civis», explica a ANSA.
Militares abrem fogo aéreo em vários locais de Tripoli
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As forças de segurança estarão a atacar do ar os manifestantes na capital da Líbia, Tripoli. A estação de televisão Al Jazira adiantou que os protestos estão a ser reprimidos com ataques de aviões militares.
Um morador da capital disse à televisão que diversas áreas da capital estão a ser bombardeadas. «O que estamos a testemunhar hoje é inimaginável. Aviões de guerra e helicópteros estão a bombardear indiscriminadamente várias áreas, há muitos, muitos mortos», disse Adel Mohamed Saleh.
Pelo menos 61 pessoas morreram nos confrontos desta segunda-feira em Trípoli, de acordo com a Al Jazira.
O ministro da Justiça da Líbia, Mustapha Mohamad Abdeljalil, demitiu-se hoje em protesto contra esta repressão sobre os manifestantes.
As forças de segurança estarão a atacar do ar os manifestantes na capital da Líbia, Tripoli. A estação de televisão Al Jazira adiantou que os protestos estão a ser reprimidos com ataques de aviões militares.
Um morador da capital disse à televisão que diversas áreas da capital estão a ser bombardeadas. «O que estamos a testemunhar hoje é inimaginável. Aviões de guerra e helicópteros estão a bombardear indiscriminadamente várias áreas, há muitos, muitos mortos», disse Adel Mohamed Saleh.
Pelo menos 61 pessoas morreram nos confrontos desta segunda-feira em Trípoli, de acordo com a Al Jazira.
O ministro da Justiça da Líbia, Mustapha Mohamad Abdeljalil, demitiu-se hoje em protesto contra esta repressão sobre os manifestantes.
China's Great Firewall not secure enough, says creator
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Earlier this year he closed a microblog within days of opening it after thousands of Chinese users left comments on his account in just three hours – almost all of them critical. They attacked him as "a running dog for the government" and "the enemy of netizens".
"I regard the dirty abuse as a sacrifice for my country," he said.
"They can't get what they want so they need to blame someone emotionally: like if you fail to get a US visa and you slag off the US visa official afterwards."
He compared the firewall to traffic control: "Drivers just obey the rules and so citizens should just play with what they have."
Calls to expand access to information were a soft power threat from overseas, he said.
"Some countries hope North Korea will open up its internet. But if it really did so, other countries would get the upper hand."
Fang said most countries had some controls on internet access.
Asked about Clinton's speech, he said: "China objects to any country's interference with China's internal affairs under the banner of internet freedom".
Censors appear to be most concerned by video, Chinese language material and social media such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Human rights group sites and other sensitive material in English is also blocked. But while such measures are a source of frustration to a growing number of people, many users mostly go on the internet for shopping or entertainment, prefer Chinese sites and seem relatively indifferent to the constraints.
Fang revealed that he personally used more than six VPNs at home, but said he only used them "to test which side wins" in the battle between the firewall and VPNs.
"I am not interested in reading messy information like some of that anti-government stuff," he said.
Michael Anti, a well-known Beijing-based journalist and blogger, said Fang was living in a "parallel universe" to most people.
"Even the Chinese government hesitates to talk about censorship. The father of the great firewall thinks it's an honour [to have invented it]. To us, that attitude is worse than the censorship itself," he said.
"The Chinese government keeps strengthening censorship more and more, but information is growing. It's a cat and mouse game."
The architect of the Great Firewall – the censorship system blocking huge portions of the web for China's 450 million internet users – says further tightening is needed to halt attempts to overcome its controls.
Dr Fang Binxing told a Chinese newspaper there was a battle between the apparatus and technologies such as virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow users to "climb the wall" and look at banned sites.
"So far, the GFW [Great Firewall] is lagging behind and still needs improvement," said the man known as its father.The rare interview is published in the wake of Hillary Clinton's pledge that the US would spend $25m (£15m) this year helping online users to evade such controls and amid a debate on the role Facebook and Twitter played in uprisings in Egypt and other parts of the region.
China's censorship system – thought to be the most comprehensive and sophisticated in the world – was already under increased scrutiny after Google moved its Chinese search service to Hong Kong last year, citing tightened censorship and intrusions into its system.
Fang, the 50-year-old president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, confirmed he was head designer for key elements of the great firewall, which filters sensitive keywords and blocks other sites completely, but declined to discuss how it worked.Earlier this year he closed a microblog within days of opening it after thousands of Chinese users left comments on his account in just three hours – almost all of them critical. They attacked him as "a running dog for the government" and "the enemy of netizens".
"I regard the dirty abuse as a sacrifice for my country," he said.
"They can't get what they want so they need to blame someone emotionally: like if you fail to get a US visa and you slag off the US visa official afterwards."
He compared the firewall to traffic control: "Drivers just obey the rules and so citizens should just play with what they have."
Calls to expand access to information were a soft power threat from overseas, he said.
"Some countries hope North Korea will open up its internet. But if it really did so, other countries would get the upper hand."
Fang said most countries had some controls on internet access.
But Chinese bloggers argue that Beijing's wide-ranging controls on both domestic and overseas material go far beyond the blocks that many countries place on content such as child pornography or terrorist-related material. China not only censors much more content, but has a deliberately opaque system in which no one can be sure who is censoring what, or on what grounds. There is no transparency, still less any possibility of challenging such decisions, as happens in other countries.
Earlier this week, China's foreign ministry spokesman, Ma Zhaoxu, said again that internet users enjoyed freedom of speech "in accordance with the law".Asked about Clinton's speech, he said: "China objects to any country's interference with China's internal affairs under the banner of internet freedom".
Censors appear to be most concerned by video, Chinese language material and social media such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Human rights group sites and other sensitive material in English is also blocked. But while such measures are a source of frustration to a growing number of people, many users mostly go on the internet for shopping or entertainment, prefer Chinese sites and seem relatively indifferent to the constraints.
Fang revealed that he personally used more than six VPNs at home, but said he only used them "to test which side wins" in the battle between the firewall and VPNs.
"I am not interested in reading messy information like some of that anti-government stuff," he said.
Michael Anti, a well-known Beijing-based journalist and blogger, said Fang was living in a "parallel universe" to most people.
"Even the Chinese government hesitates to talk about censorship. The father of the great firewall thinks it's an honour [to have invented it]. To us, that attitude is worse than the censorship itself," he said.
"The Chinese government keeps strengthening censorship more and more, but information is growing. It's a cat and mouse game."
American who sparked diplomatic crisis over Lahore shooting was CIA spy
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Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an "administrative and technical official" attached to its Lahore consulate and has diplomatic immunity.
Based on interviews in the US and Pakistan, the Guardian can confirm that the 36-year-old former special forces soldier is employed by the CIA. "It's beyond a shadow of a doubt," said a senior Pakistani intelligence official. The revelation may complicate American efforts to free Davis, who insists he was acting in self-defence against a pair of suspected robbers, who were both carrying guns.
Pakistani prosecutors accuse the spy of excessive force, saying he fired 10 shots and got out of his car to shoot one man twice in the back as he fled. The man's body was found 30 feet from his motorbike.
"It went way beyond what we define as self-defence. It was not commensurate with the threat," a senior police official involved in the case told the Guardian.
The Pakistani government is aware of Davis's CIA status yet has kept quiet in the face of immense American pressure to free him under the Vienna convention. Last week President Barack Obama described Davis as "our diplomat" and dispatched his chief diplomatic troubleshooter, Senator John Kerry, to Islamabad. Kerry returned home empty-handed.
Many Pakistanis are outraged at the idea of an armed American rampaging through their second-largest city. Analysts have warned of Egyptian-style protests if Davis is released. The government, fearful of a backlash, says it needs until 14 March to decide whether Davis enjoys immunity.
A third man was crushed by an American vehicle as it rushed to Davis's aid. Pakistani officials believe its occupants were CIA because they came from the house where Davis lived and were armed.
The US refused Pakistani demands to interrogate the two men and on Sunday a senior Pakistani intelligence official said they had left the country. "They have flown the coop, they are already in America," he said.
ABC News reported that the men had the same diplomatic visas as Davis. It is not unusual for US intelligence officers, like their counterparts round the world, to carry diplomatic passports.
The US has accused Pakistan of illegally detaining him and riding roughshod over international treaties. Angry politicians have proposed slashing Islamabad's $1.5bn (£900m) annual aid.
But Washington's case is hobbled by its resounding silence on Davis's role. He served in the US special forces for 10 years before leaving in 2003 to become a security contractor. A senior Pakistani official said he believed Davis had worked with Xe, the firm formerly known as Blackwater.
Pakistani suspicions about Davis's role were stoked by the equipment police confiscated from his car: an unlicensed pistol, a long-range radio, a GPS device, an infrared torch and a camera with pictures of buildings around Lahore.
"This is not the work of a diplomat. He was doing espionage and surveillance activities," said the Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, adding he had "confirmation" that Davis was a CIA employee.
A number of US media outlets learned about Davis's CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration. A Colorado television station, 9NEWS, made a connection after speaking to Davis's wife. She referred its inquiries to a number in Washington which turned out to be the CIA. The station removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the US government.
Some reports, quoting Pakistani intelligence officials, have suggested that the men Davis killed, Faizan Haider, 21, and Muhammad Faheem, 19, were agents of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency (ISI) and had orders to shadow Davis because he crossed a "red line".
A senior police official confirmed US claims that the men were petty thieves – investigators found stolen mobiles, foreign currency and weapons on them – but did not rule out an intelligence link.
A senior ISI official denied the dead men worked for the spy agency but admitted the CIA relationship had been damaged. "We are a sovereign country and if they want to work with us, they need to develop a trusting relationship on the basis of equality. Being arrogant and demanding is not the way to do it," he said.
Tensions between the spy agencies have been growing. The CIA Islamabad station chief was forced to leave in December after being named in a civil lawsuit. The ISI was angered when its chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a New York lawsuit related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Although the two spy services co-operate in the CIA's drone campaign along the Afghan border, there has not been a drone strike since 23 January – the longest lull since June 2009. Experts are unsure whether both events are linked.
Davis awaits his fate in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore. Pakistani officials say they have taken exceptional measures to ensure his safety, including ringing the prison with paramilitary Punjab Rangers. The law minister, Sanaullah, said Davis was in a "high security zone" and was receiving food from visitors from the US consulate.
Sanaullah said 140 foreigners were in the facility, many on drug charges. Press reports have speculated that the authorities worry the US could try to spring Davis in a "Hollywood-style sting". "All measures for his security have been taken," said the ISI official. "He's as safe as can be."
The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time.
Raymond Davis has been the subject of widespread speculation since he opened fire with a semi-automatic Glock pistol on the two men who had pulled up in front of his car at a red light on 25 January.Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an "administrative and technical official" attached to its Lahore consulate and has diplomatic immunity.
Based on interviews in the US and Pakistan, the Guardian can confirm that the 36-year-old former special forces soldier is employed by the CIA. "It's beyond a shadow of a doubt," said a senior Pakistani intelligence official. The revelation may complicate American efforts to free Davis, who insists he was acting in self-defence against a pair of suspected robbers, who were both carrying guns.
Pakistani prosecutors accuse the spy of excessive force, saying he fired 10 shots and got out of his car to shoot one man twice in the back as he fled. The man's body was found 30 feet from his motorbike.
"It went way beyond what we define as self-defence. It was not commensurate with the threat," a senior police official involved in the case told the Guardian.
The Pakistani government is aware of Davis's CIA status yet has kept quiet in the face of immense American pressure to free him under the Vienna convention. Last week President Barack Obama described Davis as "our diplomat" and dispatched his chief diplomatic troubleshooter, Senator John Kerry, to Islamabad. Kerry returned home empty-handed.
Many Pakistanis are outraged at the idea of an armed American rampaging through their second-largest city. Analysts have warned of Egyptian-style protests if Davis is released. The government, fearful of a backlash, says it needs until 14 March to decide whether Davis enjoys immunity.
A third man was crushed by an American vehicle as it rushed to Davis's aid. Pakistani officials believe its occupants were CIA because they came from the house where Davis lived and were armed.
The US refused Pakistani demands to interrogate the two men and on Sunday a senior Pakistani intelligence official said they had left the country. "They have flown the coop, they are already in America," he said.
ABC News reported that the men had the same diplomatic visas as Davis. It is not unusual for US intelligence officers, like their counterparts round the world, to carry diplomatic passports.
The US has accused Pakistan of illegally detaining him and riding roughshod over international treaties. Angry politicians have proposed slashing Islamabad's $1.5bn (£900m) annual aid.
But Washington's case is hobbled by its resounding silence on Davis's role. He served in the US special forces for 10 years before leaving in 2003 to become a security contractor. A senior Pakistani official said he believed Davis had worked with Xe, the firm formerly known as Blackwater.
Pakistani suspicions about Davis's role were stoked by the equipment police confiscated from his car: an unlicensed pistol, a long-range radio, a GPS device, an infrared torch and a camera with pictures of buildings around Lahore.
"This is not the work of a diplomat. He was doing espionage and surveillance activities," said the Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, adding he had "confirmation" that Davis was a CIA employee.
A number of US media outlets learned about Davis's CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration. A Colorado television station, 9NEWS, made a connection after speaking to Davis's wife. She referred its inquiries to a number in Washington which turned out to be the CIA. The station removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the US government.
Some reports, quoting Pakistani intelligence officials, have suggested that the men Davis killed, Faizan Haider, 21, and Muhammad Faheem, 19, were agents of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency (ISI) and had orders to shadow Davis because he crossed a "red line".
A senior police official confirmed US claims that the men were petty thieves – investigators found stolen mobiles, foreign currency and weapons on them – but did not rule out an intelligence link.
A senior ISI official denied the dead men worked for the spy agency but admitted the CIA relationship had been damaged. "We are a sovereign country and if they want to work with us, they need to develop a trusting relationship on the basis of equality. Being arrogant and demanding is not the way to do it," he said.
Tensions between the spy agencies have been growing. The CIA Islamabad station chief was forced to leave in December after being named in a civil lawsuit. The ISI was angered when its chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a New York lawsuit related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Although the two spy services co-operate in the CIA's drone campaign along the Afghan border, there has not been a drone strike since 23 January – the longest lull since June 2009. Experts are unsure whether both events are linked.
Davis awaits his fate in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore. Pakistani officials say they have taken exceptional measures to ensure his safety, including ringing the prison with paramilitary Punjab Rangers. The law minister, Sanaullah, said Davis was in a "high security zone" and was receiving food from visitors from the US consulate.
Sanaullah said 140 foreigners were in the facility, many on drug charges. Press reports have speculated that the authorities worry the US could try to spring Davis in a "Hollywood-style sting". "All measures for his security have been taken," said the ISI official. "He's as safe as can be."
Iémen: milhares pedem demissão do presidente em Sanaa
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Milhares de iemenitas concentraram-se, esta segunda-feira, em frente à Universidade de Sanaa, capital do Iémen, exigindo o fim do regime do presidente Ali Abdullah Saleh.
O protesto teve início domingo à noite, quando estudantes e deputados da oposição começaram a chegar ao local, aonde se encontram sentados no chão. O local já é chamado de Praça Tahrir, numa referência à revolta egípcio que culminou na queda do presidente Hosni Mubarak.
Milhares de iemenitas concentraram-se, esta segunda-feira, em frente à Universidade de Sanaa, capital do Iémen, exigindo o fim do regime do presidente Ali Abdullah Saleh.
O protesto teve início domingo à noite, quando estudantes e deputados da oposição começaram a chegar ao local, aonde se encontram sentados no chão. O local já é chamado de Praça Tahrir, numa referência à revolta egípcio que culminou na queda do presidente Hosni Mubarak.
Filho de Kadafi diz que Líbia corre o risco de se «afundar» numa guerra civil
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Saif el-Islam Kadafi disse, domingo à noite, que a Líbia corre o risco de se «afundar numa guerra civil» e assegurou que o exército vai proteger o pai, o líder do país, até às últimas consequências.
Em entrevista à televisão estatal, o filho do presidente Muammar Kadafi afirmou temer que o país caia numa situação de guerra civil e dividir a Líbia em vários pequenos Estados, causando a destruição da riqueza do país. Saif disse, ainda, acreditar que existe uma conspiração contra o país, levada a cabo por vários pequenos Estados islâmicos vizinhos.
O filho do presidente adiantou que os manifestantes tomaram controlo de algumas bases militares. Admitiu, também, os erros do exército ao lidar com os protestos, mas rejeitou os relatos de centenas de mortos, os roubos de artilharia, armas e tanques.
Saif Kadafi garantiu que o regime pretende levar a cabo reformas para melhorar a situação no país, nomeadamente mudanças na Constituição bem como diversas leis.
Saif el-Islam Kadafi disse, domingo à noite, que a Líbia corre o risco de se «afundar numa guerra civil» e assegurou que o exército vai proteger o pai, o líder do país, até às últimas consequências.
Em entrevista à televisão estatal, o filho do presidente Muammar Kadafi afirmou temer que o país caia numa situação de guerra civil e dividir a Líbia em vários pequenos Estados, causando a destruição da riqueza do país. Saif disse, ainda, acreditar que existe uma conspiração contra o país, levada a cabo por vários pequenos Estados islâmicos vizinhos.
O filho do presidente adiantou que os manifestantes tomaram controlo de algumas bases militares. Admitiu, também, os erros do exército ao lidar com os protestos, mas rejeitou os relatos de centenas de mortos, os roubos de artilharia, armas e tanques.
Saif Kadafi garantiu que o regime pretende levar a cabo reformas para melhorar a situação no país, nomeadamente mudanças na Constituição bem como diversas leis.
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