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September 7, 2011
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II) Summary:
U.S./Top News
1) Some Haitians say that sexual relationships between UN "peacekeepers" and Haitian women – some of them underage under Haitian law – are commonplace, even though sexual relations are "strongly discouraged" and sexual relationships with minors are "prohibited" by the UN, Ansel Herz reports for Inter Press Service. Several women in Port Salut who have had children with the Uruguayan soldiers; some of the women are under 18, the age of consent in Haitian law. U.N. troops have immunity from the Haitian justice system.
2) Defense Secretary Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 U.S. troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year’s end, the New York Times reports. The recommendation would break a longstanding pledge by President Obama to withdraw all US forces from Iraq by the deadline and is hugely contentious in Iraq, the Times notes. But it would involve significantly fewer forces than favored by the Pentagon and hawks in the Senate, the Times notes
3) Egypt lobbied the more than 100 members of the Non-Aligned Movement to support Palestinian statehood at the UN this month, and said it believed a majority would do so, Reuters reports.
4) Senior White House envoys were pressing Palestinian leaders to abandon their UN bid for recognition, the Washington Post reports. But aides to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ruled out any change of plans to seek recognition of a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly session beginning Sept. 20. "From our point of view, it’s out of the question," said Nabil Shaath, a senior aide to Abbas. "It’s much too late for that." Shaath said that at this stage, it would be politically "suicidal" for Abbas to reverse himself.
Libya
5) A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya, CNN reports. Fighters aligned with the National Transitional Council and others swiped armaments from the storage facility, witnesses told Human Rights Watch. Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch said he has seen the same pattern in armories looted elsewhere in Libya, noting that "in every city we arrive, the first thing to disappear are the surface-to-air missiles." The lack of security at the weapons site raises concerns about stability in post-Gadhafi Libya and whether the new NTC leadership is doing enough to stop the weapons from getting into the wrong hands, CNN says.
Afghanistan
6) NATO has temporarily stopped transferring detainees to a number of Afghan jails after accusations of torture and abuse were uncovered in a UN report to be published soon, the New York Times reports. Human rights groups have long complained about abuse and appalling conditions in the Afghan prison network, the Times notes. Those concerns have grown as the prison population has exploded, from 600 prisoners in 2001 to about 19,000 now. Thousands of detainees captured by NATO forces each year and turned over to Afghan authorities.
Turkey
7) Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan said his government was "totally suspending" defense industry links after Israel refused to apologise for the killing of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound flotilla 15 months ago, The Independent reports. Erdogan said there would be an enhanced Turkish naval presence to ensure "freedom of navigation" in the eastern Mediterranean and confirmed he was considering a visit to Gaza. A visit to Gaza by Erdogan would guarantee the Turkish Prime Minister a hero’s welcome, The Independent says. Alon Liel, a former director general of Israel’s foreign ministry said Israel and the US would do "everything possible" to prevent Erdogan from visiting Gaza, where he would be treated "like a God."
Israel/Palestine
8) Palestinians are quoting Obama’s 2010 speech to the UN in support of their campaign for UN recognition, Reuters reports. "When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that can lead to a new member of the United Nations, an independent, sovereign state of Palestine living in peace with Israel," Obama said. The Palestinians feel Obama let them down, notably by failing to convince Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Reuters says.
Iran
9) 21st Century Speakers Inc., a Pennsylvania speakers bureau, is sending out invitations for a lucrative speaking opportunity on behalf of an officially designated terrorist organization, the MEK of Iran, Salon reports. The invitation from 21st Century Speakers describes the National Council of Resistance of Iran as "our client." NCRI is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department, and is described as the "political front" of the MEK. The language indicates Lourdes Swarts, managing director of 21st Century Speakers – as well as anyone who agrees to the speaking offer – is breaking the law that bars material support for terrorism, according to Georgetown Law School professor David Cole.
"This is clearly an invitation to provide a service to a designated group. This would be a clear violation of the law," says Cole. Cole has argued that the material support statute is too broad, but he says he is troubled by the selective application on the law. Prosecutions have been made against supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba in Pakistan, but not against any MEK supporters.
Contents:
U.S./Top News
1) U.N. Troops Accused of Exploiting Local Women
Ansel Herz, Inter Press Service, Sep 7
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105016
Port Salut – Seventeen-year-old Rose Mina Joseph says she is nine months pregnant. Her belly is swollen and she moves slowly, placing each step, as she walks around her family’s dusty yard.
The father, she says, is a Uruguayan soldier from the local U.N. peacekeeping battalion named Julio. She holds up a photo of him smiling and embracing her at her seventeenth birthday party, on Jan. 8 this year. IPS verified her birth date by looking at her birth certificate.
Joseph says that five days after her birthday, she became pregnant with the soldier’s child. "Nowadays, sometimes I feel anemic," she told IPS. "I’m afraid I won’t have the money to pay the hospital when I give birth."
A copy of a wire transfer receipt shows that Julio Cesar Posse Juncal sent her 150 dollars from Montevideo, Uruguay on Jul. 15. Joseph complained that he hadn’t sent more money for her in August.
"Sexual relations with minors (under 18 years old), whether consensual or not, are deemed to be sexual abuse and, therefore, prohibited," acting Deputy Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Eduardo del Buey said in a briefing Wednesday following a question by IPS about the allegations.
He did not address Joseph’s specific case. A U.N. peacekeeping mission spokesperson in Haiti said they are investigating all accusations of misconduct in Port Salut. She did not elaborate.
Under Haitian law, an individual must be 18 years old to give sexual consent.
[…] There are other women in Port Salut who have had children with the Uruguayan soldiers, despite a 2003 directive from the U.N. secretary- general to peacekeepers saying that, "Sexual relationships between United Nations staff and beneficiaries of assistance, since they are based on inherently unequal power dynamics, undermine the credibility and integrity of the work of the United Nations and are strongly discouraged."
Del Buey reiterated Wednesday that "consensual sexual relations are strongly discouraged".
"’Discouraged’ is not banning," said James Paul, executive director of the New York-based Global Policy Forum, an independent policy watchdog that monitors the United Nations.
"When you talk about consent or consensual, it is somewhat ambiguous," he told IPS, adding that the peacekeeper is in a position of power and money, so a relationship between a male peacekeeper and a local woman will almost always be imbalanced.
[…] Duperval and her sister both attended a protest Monday held by about 300 people against the United Nations peacekeeping mission outside the base. The crowd held aloft a banner reading, "Justice for Johnny Jean", the 18-year-old man allegedly raped by U.N. soldiers in Port Salut in a cell phone video that emerged last week.
One held a sign saying, "No to sex with 16-year-olds. No no no."
[…] Residents of Port Salut interviewed during the past week gave varying estimates of the number of children with Uruguayan fathers in the city, ranging from five to more than 10.
[…] Mario Joseph, a prominent Haitian lawyer, told IPS, "In Haiti, one is a minor until age 18. That means that if a foreign soldier has sex with a minor, he is breaking Haitian law and the Haitian judicial system should judge him."
Joseph and a human rights jurist told IPS that under Haitian law, if found guilty, the perpetrator would be sentenced to roughly 10-15 years of forced labour.
But under an agreement between MINUSTAH and the Haitian government, U.N. troops have immunity from the Haitian justice system and are supposed to be tried for transgressions in their home countries.
Five Uruguayan soldiers allegedly involved in the abuse of Jean, caught on video, have reportedly been repatriated. El Pais reports that Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has sent a letter to the Haitian government apologising for the abuse and pledging reparations to the victim’s family.
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2) Plan Would Keep Small Force In Iraq Past Deadline
Eric Schmitt and Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, September 6, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/world/middleeast/07military.html
Washington – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal at year’s end, but only to continue training security forces there, a senior military official said on Tuesday.
The recommendation would break a longstanding pledge by President Obama to withdraw all American forces from Iraq by the deadline. But it would still involve significantly fewer forces than proposals presented at the Pentagon in recent weeks by the senior American commander in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, to keep as many as 14,000 to 18,000 troops there.
The proposal for a smaller force – if approved by the White House and the Iraqi government, which is not yet certain – reflected the shifting political realities in both countries.
It also reflected the tension between Mr. Obama’s promise to bring all American forces home and the widely held view among commanders that Iraq is not yet able to provide for its own security. And it reflected the mounting pressures to reduce the costs of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, both wars that have become increasingly unpopular as the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, approaches.
Even as the military reduces its troop strength in Iraq, the C.I.A. will continue to have a major presence in the country, as will security contractors working for the State Department.
In Iraq, a lingering American military presence is hugely contentious, even though some political leaders, especially among the Kurds and Sunnis, would like some American troops to stay as a buffer against what they fear will be Shiite political dominance, coupled in turn with the rising influence of neighboring Iran.
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a Shiite, has also indicated he would consider allowing American trainers to stay beyond the deadline, negotiated by President George W. Bush. At the same time, he owes his position as prime minister to the political followers of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who vehemently opposes any Americans remaining.
The Iraqi cabinet authorized the beginning of talks over an American military presence, but insisted that they be limited to a training mission, a senior administration official said. Mr. Panetta’s recommendation fell "within the confines of what the Iraqis said they need," the official said.
Mr. Panetta himself, in comments to reporters as he traveled to New York for a Sept. 11 commemoration on Tuesday, said that no decisions had been made about how many American troops would remain in Iraq after the end of this year.
But despite the reluctance of several administration officials to publicly get out ahead of a formal recommendation and a presidential decision on such a delicate issue, as a practical matter Mr. Panetta has almost run out of time for the military to plan the logistics of a withdrawal by year’s end.
A recommendation to keep 3,000 American troops, first reported on Tuesday by Fox News, would leave in place a token force where many commanders had hoped to see a robust presence continue in a region that is viewed as strategic to American interests.
News of the plan was met with dismay by three senators who visited Iraq many times during the war: Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, and his Republican colleagues John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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3) Egypt rallies support for Palestinians at U.N.
Aleksandar Vasovic, Reuters, Tue, Sep 6 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/06/us-palestinians-israel-nam-idUSTRE78565520110906
Belgrade – Egypt lobbied the more than 100 members of the Non-Aligned Movement on Tuesday to support Palestinian statehood at the United Nations this month, and said it believed a majority would do so after a two-day meeting of the group in Serbia.
The Palestinians say they will push for recognition in some form when the U.N. General Assembly meets in New York, in a bid to strengthen their position before any resumption of frozen peace talks with Israel.
The United States is almost certain to use its Security Council veto against full U.N. membership, but the Palestinians could table a General Assembly resolution that would upgrade their status from "observer entity" to that of a "non-member state." That would require 129 votes.
A two-day meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, marking the 50th anniversary of its inception during the Cold War, ended without adoption of an official declaration.
But the Egyptian chair, Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr, said in concluding remarks that its members would "continue to support the Palestinian endeavors during the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly for the recognition of the State of Palestine based on the borders of the 4th of June 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital and to seek its admission as a full member in the United Nations."
Organizers said the remarks were on behalf of some 101 full members and observer states present. Amr later told a news conference: "There will be no official resolution coming from this meeting, but there’s a feeling that the majority of non-aligned countries will support the U.N. resolution."
Organizers of the Belgrade meeting said membership of the movement was now 120, mainly Asian, African and Latin American states.
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4) U.S. envoys press Palestinians to drop U.N. statehood bid
Joel Greenberg, Washington Post, September 6
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/us-envoys-press-palestinians-to-drop-un-statehood-bid/2011/09/06/gIQAQnlT7J_story.html
Jerusalem – Two senior White House envoys arrived Tuesday for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a last-ditch effort to head off a Palestinian bid for recognition of statehood at the United Nations this month.
David Hale, the Obama administration’s acting special envoy to the Middle East, and Dennis Ross, the president’s Middle East adviser on the National Security Council, are pressing for a resumption of peace negotiations that were broken off a year ago.
But their prospects for success appear dim, with aides to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ruling out any change of plans to seek recognition of a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly session beginning Sept. 20.
"From our point of view, it’s out of the question," said Nabil Shaath, a senior aide to Abbas. "It’s much too late for that."
Shaath said that at this stage, it would be politically "suicidal" for Abbas to reverse himself, after preparing the Palestinian public for months for the U.N. bid."How can we ask our people to believe that we are really serious?" he said.
The initiative at the United Nations "is definitely not a substitute for negotiations," Shaath added, saying that the Palestinians are prepared to resume talks if Israel freezes its settlement building in the West Bank and agrees to negotiate a solution based on Israel’s 1967 boundaries.
At a meeting with left-wing Israeli academics and writers on Monday, Abbas said that negotiations remained the only way to resolve the conflict, regardless of the outcome at the United Nations.
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Libya
5) Libyan missiles looted
Ben Wedeman and Ingrid Formanek, CNN,
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/07/exclusive-libyan-missiles-looted/
Tripoli, Libya – A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya.
They are Grinch SA-24 shoulder-launched missiles, also known as Igla-S missiles, the equivalent of U.S.-made Stinger missiles.
A CNN team and Human Rights Watch found dozens of empty crates marked with packing lists and inventory numbers that identified the items as Igla-S surface-to-air missiles.
The list for one box, for example, written in English and Russian, said it had contained two missiles, with inventory number "Missile 9M342," and a power source, inventory number "Article 9B238."
Grinch SA-24s are designed to target front-line aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles and drones. They can shoot down a plane flying as high as 11,000 feet and can travel 19,000 feet straight out.
Fighters aligned with the National Transitional Council and others swiped armaments from the storage facility, witnesses told Human Rights Watch. The warehouse is located near a base of the Khamis Brigade, a special forces unit in Gadhafi’s military, in the southeastern part of the capital.
The warehouse contains mortars and artillery rounds, but there are empty crates for those items as well. There are also empty boxes for another surface-to-air missile, the SA-7.
Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch emergencies director, told CNN he has seen the same pattern in armories looted elsewhere in Libya, noting that "in every city we arrive, the first thing to disappear are the surface-to-air missiles."
He said such missiles can fetch many thousands of dollars on the black market.
"We are talking about some 20,000 surface-to-air missiles in all of Libya, and I’ve seen cars packed with them." he said. "They could turn all of North Africa into a no-fly zone."
[…] The lack of security at the weapons site raises concerns about stability in post-Gadhafi Libya and whether the new NTC leadership is doing enough to stop the weapons from getting into the wrong hands.
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Afghanistan
6) Afghan Jails Accused Of Torture; NATO Limits Transfers
Ray Rivera, New York Times, September 6, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/world/asia/07kabul.html
Kabul, Afghanistan – NATO has temporarily stopped transferring detainees to a number of Afghan jails after accusations of torture and abuse were uncovered in a report to be published soon, NATO and United Nations officials said Tuesday.
The findings in the report, by the United Nations Assistance Mission Afghanistan, involve at least six detention centers run by the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency, and three jails operated by the Ministry of Justice. NATO officials, who would not discuss the specifics of the report, said they would investigate the findings, which have also been turned over to Afghan government officials.
"With appropriate caution, I.S.A.F. has taken the prudent measure to suspend detainee transfer to certain facilities until we can verify the observations in a pending Unama report," NATO said in a statement, referring to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
Human rights groups have long complained about abuse and appalling conditions in the Afghan prison network. Those concerns have grown as the prison population has exploded, from 600 prisoners in 2001 to about 19,000 now, according to figures in a United Nations report.
Adding to the strain are the thousands of detainees captured by NATO forces each year and turned over to Afghan authorities.
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Turkey
7) Turkish PM ‘totally suspends’ defence trade links with Israel
Donald Macintyre, Independent, Wednesday, 7 September 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkish-pm-totally-suspends-defence-trade-links-with-israel-2350381.html
Jerusalem – Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has threatened to widen sanctions against Israel – which he accused of behaving like a "spoiled boy" – and confirmed he was considering a politically highly sensitive visit to Gaza, possibly as early as next week.
The crisis in Israel-Turkish relations deepened as Mr Erdogan said his government was "totally suspending" defence industry links after Israel refused to apologise for the killing of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound flotilla 15 months ago.
Mr Erdogan said there would also be an enhanced Turkish naval presence to ensure "freedom of navigation" in the eastern Mediterranean and declared: "Trade ties, military ties, regarding defence industry ties, we are completely suspending them." He added without elaboration: "This process will be followed by different measures."
The moves follow Turkey’s expulsion of Israel’s ambassador last Friday in the wake of the publication of a UN report, which criticised Israel for using "excessive and unreasonable" force during the flotilla raid. The report also said Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza was legal and justified – a conclusion that Turkey rejects.
A visit to Gaza by Mr Erdogan, which would be the first by a head of government since Hamas seized full control of it in 2007, would guarantee the Turkish Prime Minister a hero’s welcome, and would further exacerbate the virtual breakdown of relations between Turkey and Israel.
Mr Erdogan, who is expected to visit Egypt next week to pursue a new strengthened alliance with Cairo, said: "We will make our final decision after consulting with our Egyptian friends. There may be a visit to Gaza or not. It is not certain." He has long been a leading critic of Israel’s policy towards Gaza, and would need Egyptian co-operation to enter the Palestinian territory through its southern Rafah crossing.
Mr Erdogan did not spell out exactly what trade ties he envisaged suspending, but an aide to the Turkish Prime Minister told The Wall Street Journal the government was envisaging not a general trade embargo, but one affecting defence industries, "for now".
[…] Meanwhile, Alon Liel, a former director general of Israel’s foreign ministry and a strong advocate of maintaining good Israel-Turkish relations, said Israel and the US would do "everything possible" to prevent Mr Erdogan from visiting Gaza, where he would be treated "like a God".
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Israel/Palestine
8) Palestinians deploy Obama speech in U.N. campaign
Tom Perry, Reuters, September 7, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/07/us-palestinians-israel-obama-idUSTRE7861LN20110907
Ramallah, West Bank – President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood — a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel.
But as part of an official media campaign begun this week, Palestinians have pulled from the archive some words spoken by Obama during the 2010 U.N. General Assembly, in which he alluded to the prospect of a Palestinian state joining the world body.
"When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that can lead to a new member of the United Nations, an independent, sovereign state of Palestine living in peace with Israel," Obama says in his 2010 speech.
Although described by U.S. officials as no more than an expression of hope, the Obama remarks are one factor cited by Palestinians when explaining their push for U.N. membership at this year’s General Assembly, due to convene in a few weeks.
"If he said it, he must have meant it," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says during a 36-second radio spot.
The ad is a reflection of Palestinian frustration with the Obama administration. The Palestinians feel Obama let them down, notably by failing to convince Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem — part of the territories where they seek an independent state.
Though the U.S. president’s remarks were hedged, Abbas has described the statement as the "Obama promise."
Obama spoke just a few weeks after his administration had brokered a resumption of peace talks, which then collapsed a few weeks later over the settlement issue.
[…] Western diplomats have pinned much of the blame for the moribund peace process on Israel, with Washington and European capitals roundly condemning a spurt of recent approvals for settlement building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
While the United States has said it will side with Israel in the impending showdown in the United Nations, a big majority of U.N. members are likely to back the Palestinians.
Iran
9) Speakers bureau works for Iranian terror group
Justin Elliott, Salon, Wednesday, Sep 7, 2011 09:02 ET
http://www.salon.com/news/terrorism/?story=/politics/war_room/2011/09/07/mek_speaking_offer
A Pennsylvania speakers bureau is sending out invitations for a lucrative speaking opportunity on behalf of an officially designated terrorist organization, the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) of Iran, according to an email obtained by Salon.
Last week, a person at a Washington think tank was emailed the $10,000-plus-expenses offer to speak at a Geneva event by Lourdes Swarts, managing director of 21st Century Speakers Inc., "on behalf of our client, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Foreign Affairs Committee."
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department, and is described as the "political front" of the MEK.
The language of the contract indicates Swarts — as well as anyone who agrees to the speaking offer — is breaking the law that bars material support for terrorism, according to Georgetown Law School professor David Cole.
"This is clearly an invitation to provide a service to a designated group. This would be a clear violation of the law," says Cole, who last year argued a major material support case before the Supreme Court. The material support law bars providing not only money and weapons to a foreign terrorist organization, but also "service," defined by the government as anything of benefit to the group performed in coordination with or at the direction of the group.
Cole adds that Swarts is "committing a crime because she’s providing a service to NCRI by arranging for this."
[…] While Cole, the Georgetown professor, has argued that the material support statute is too broad, he says he is troubled by the selective application on the law: Prosecutions have been made against supporters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey and, just last week, a young Virginia man who made a YouTube video in support of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistani jihadist group, but not against any MEK supporters.
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