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		<title>USA: Freiheit f&#252;r Leonard Peltier!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Zur aktuellen Situation von Leonard Peltier Vom Netzwerk Freiheit f&#252;r alle pol. Gefangenen, 27.01.2012 08:29 Am 15. September 20011 wurde Leonard Peltier, mittlerweile 67 Jahre alt, in ein Gef&#228;ngnis in Florida, &#252;ber 3000 Meilen weit weg von seiner Familie, verlegt. Davor verbrachte er 6 Monate unter Isolationshaftbedingungen. Leonard Peltier, mittlerweile 67 Jahre alt, sitzt seit [...]]]></description>
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<p><small><em>Vom Netzwerk Freiheit f&#252;r alle pol. Gefangenen, 27.01.2012 08:29</em></small></p>
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<p>Am 15. September 20011 wurde Leonard Peltier, mittlerweile 67 Jahre alt, in ein Gef&#228;ngnis in Florida, &#252;ber 3000 Meilen weit weg von seiner Familie, verlegt. <br />Davor verbrachte er 6 Monate unter Isolationshaftbedingungen.</p>
<p>Leonard Peltier, mittlerweile 67 Jahre alt, sitzt seit 36 Jahren als politischer Gefangener in US- amerikanischen Gef&#228;ngnissen. Das American Indian Movement, eine Befreiungsbewegung der Native Americans, welcher Peltier angeh&#246;rte, war Ende der 70 er Jahre in der Pine Ridge Reservation aktiv und verteidigte die indianische Bev&#246;lkerung erfolgreich gegen paramilit&#228;rische Banden die diese unter Anleitung des FBI tyrannisierten und &#252;ber 60 Menschen ermordeten. 1975 wurde Leonard Peltier, unter dem f&#228;lschlichen Vorwurf zwei FBI Agenten erschossen zu haben, verhaftet. Es handelte sich um eine der damals, gegen&#252;ber B&#252;rgerrechtsaktivisten wie ihm, h&#228;ufigen durch das FBI, fingierten Aktionen, im Rahmen des staatlichen Counterintelligence (Aufstandsbek&#228;mpfungs-) Programmes. Verurteilt wurde er, nach einer Flucht nach Kanada und der Auslieferung in Folge der Aussage einer durch das FBI bedrohten Zeugin, zu einer zwei mal lebensl&#228;nglichen Freiheitsstrafe. </p>
<p>Am 27.Juni 2011 wurde er in Isolationshaft verlegt. Begr&#252;ndet wurde dies mit dem Fund von 20, ihm vorher offiziell zugeschickten, englischen Pfund in seiner ausgehenden Post, sowie einem offenen Stromkabel am Bett seines zeitweiligen Zellengenossen. Er lebte nun t&#228;glich 23 (am Wochenende 24) Stunden in einer 1,80 x 2,40 m gro&#223;en Stahlbeton – Zelle, ohne Fenster, ohne Wasser und mit lediglich minimaler Frischluftzufuhr und ohne frisches Wasser. Diese Art der Unterbringung, in Deutschland auch als sensorische Deprivation bekannt, bewirkt bei den Gefangenen, schon nach relativ kurzer Zeit, eine extreme k&#246;rperliche und psychische Beeintr&#228;chtigung. <br />Am 14. September fand seine Verlegung in ein Gef&#228;ngnis in Oklahoma City/Oklahoma statt und einen Tag sp&#228;ter weiter, in ein Hochsicherheitsgef&#228;ngnis in Coleman/Florida. Dort ist er mehr als 3.200 km Kilometer vom Wohnort seiner Familie entfernt, was Besuche extrem erschwert, teurer und somit seltener, macht. <br />Seine Gesundheit ist mittlerweile sehr angegriffen. </p>
<p><span style='text-decoration:underline;'>Um gegen diese menschenverachtenden Zust&#228;nde zu protestieren und seine Freiheit zu fordern findet am 4.Februar 2012, ab 14.00 Uhr, in Berlin vor der US Botschaft eine Protestkundgebung statt</span>. </p>
<p>Schreibt Leonard an seine neue Adresse: <br />LEONARD PELTIER #89637-132 <br />USP COLEMAN I <br />U.S. PENITENTIARY <br />P.O. BOX 1033 <br />COLEMAN, FL  33521 <br />USA<br />
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		<title>USA: Rendite muss sein</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;TOILET PAPER by Bonnie Urfer June 12, 2011 I really want to complain about every woman in this jail receiving one roll of toilet paper to last for the whole week but I can&#8217;t because the for-profit jail almost killed my friend Jackie in its &#8220;medical&#8221; unit. I really want to complain about the lack [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>by Bonnie Urfer June 12, 2011</em></p>
<p>I really want to complain about every woman in this jail receiving one roll of toilet paper to last for the whole week but I can&#8217;t because the for-profit jail almost killed my friend Jackie in its &#8220;medical&#8221; unit.</p>
<p>I really want to complain about the lack of toilet paper but I can&#8217;t because Doris walked around with a broken arm for a month before she was taken to the hospital to have it x-rayed and casted.</p>
<p>I want to complain about the toilet paper but I can&#8217;t because my friend Ardeth couldn&#8217;t eat for most of a month when she didn&#8217;t get her medication, neither did Leslie, and Misty who&#8217;s a diabetic never gets her sugar tested.</p>
<p>And then there&#8217;s the woman who broke her ankle and wasn&#8217;t taken to the hospital for a week, and the woman who had open heart surgery and three weeks later was dumped in here on a probation violation near the end of a 5 year term.</p>
<p>When really, I just want to complain because I don&#8217;t have enough toilet paper.</p>
<p><em>(Bonnie is awaiting sentencing for an action on July 5, 2010 at the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex in Tennessee.)&#8221;</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Drug War&#8217;s Invisible Victims By Laura Carlsen, January 27, 2012 There are many kinds of war. The classic image of a uniformed soldier kissing mom good-bye to risk his life on the battlefield has changed dramatically. In today&#8217;s wars, it&#8217;s more likely that mom will be the one killed. UNIFEM states that by the [...]]]></description>
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<p>By <a href='http://www.fpif.org/about/columnists#Laura+Carlsen'>Laura Carlsen</a>, January 27, 2012</p>
<p><img class="img-left" title="Laura Carlsen" src="http://www.fpif.org/files/4216/carlsen.jpg?width=250" alt="Laura Carlsen" width="104" height="127"/>There are many kinds of war. The classic image of a uniformed soldier kissing mom good-bye to risk his life on the battlefield has changed dramatically. In today&rsquo;s wars, it&rsquo;s more likely that mom will be the one killed.</p>
<p>UNIFEM states that by the mid-1990s, 90% of war casualties were civilians&#8211; mostly women and children.</p>
<p>Mexico&rsquo;s drug war is a good example of the new wars on civilian populations that blur the lines between combatants and place entire societies in the line of fire. Of the more than 50,000 people killed in drug war-related violence, the vast majority are civilians. President Felipe Calder&oacute;n claims that 90% of the victims were linked to drug cartels. But how does he know? In a country where only 2% of crimes are investigated, tried, and sentenced, the government pulled this figure out of its sleeve.</p>
<p>There is no official information on why these thousands were killed. When their bodies are found in unmarked mass graves, no one even knows who they were. With violence the norm, executions can&mdash;and do&#8211;target grassroots leaders, human rights defenders, indigenous peoples, and rebellious youth under the cloak of the drug war.</p>
<p><strong>Not Just Homicide</strong></p>
<p>There are also war tolls beyond the body counts. The homicide number misses the disappeared, the thousands whose bodies&#8211;dead or alive&#8211;are never found to be counted. And it hides the mutilation of lives caused by &ldquo;collateral damage&rdquo;: the loss of loved ones, families forced from their homes, permanent injury, orphans and widows, sexual abuse, lives lived in fear.</p>
<p>These costs fall primarily on the shoulders of women&#8211;the mothers, daughters, and sisters who are left with the nearly impossible task of seeking answers and redress in a justice system outpaced by the violence and overrun by the corruption. They are often re-victimized by government agencies that ignore, reject, or stifle their pleas for justice.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Families that demand that our children be found face all kinds of threats&hellip; the loss of our property, isolation, rejection by our own families,&rdquo; said Araceli Rodr&iacute;guez, a mother whose son, a young policeman, was disappeared on the job. His police unit refuses to give information on his disappearance.&nbsp; &ldquo;I wake up and find that it&rsquo;s not a nightmare, that his absense is real and the impunity is also real.&rdquo;</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s rare to hear the voices of the women who bear the brunt of the drug war. Their pain doesn&rsquo;t make headlines. Some need anonymity to remain alive. Many have been granted protective measures by the government or international human rights organizations because of the extreme threats they face.</p>
<p><strong>Telling Stories</strong></p>
<p>Despite all these difficulties, some 70 women told their stories amid tears and despite fear for their lives in Mexico City on January 22. The meeting called by the Nobel Women&rsquo;s Initiative brought an international delegation led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams together with Mexican women victims of the violence and women human rights defenders.</p>
<p>From the sketchy statistics available, women make up a relatively small proportion of the murdered in Mexico, but they are the majority of citizens who denounce disappearances, murders, and human rights violations in the drug war. They work on the front lines of defending communities and human rights. For their efforts, they become targets themselves. In Mexico, six prominent women human rights defenders have been murdered in the past two years.</p>
<p>The last report by the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/SRHRDefenders/Pages/SRHRDefendersIndex.aspx">UN Special Rapporteur</a> on the situation of human rights defenders recognized that threats and especially &ldquo;explicit death threats against women human rights defenders are one of the main forms of violence in the region, with more than half coming from Latin America, most of those (27) from Mexico.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Sometimes it&rsquo;s the drug cartels that seek to silence women activists. But a recent survey &nbsp;of Mexican women human rights defenders revealed that they cite the government (national, state, and local) and its security forces as responsible in 55% of cases of violence and threats of violence to women defenders. Among government officials charged with public saftey and justice, they encounter at best indifference and at worst death threats and attacks. A human rights defender from the state of Coahuila explained that searching for a disappeared loved one implies &ldquo;always having to be in the hell of the institutions, which are often infiltrated by crime.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gender-based violence including femicide has skyrocketed in the context of the overall violence. The <a href="http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/5731">number of femicides in Chihuahua</a> since sending the army in has risen to 837 for the period 2008-2011 June&mdash;nearly double the total femicides in 1993-2007. Women rights defenders report that the vast majority of threats and acts of violence against them include gender-based violence.</p>
<p><strong>Silent No More</strong></p>
<p>Olga Esparza, whose daughter Monica disappeared in Ciudad Juarez in 2009, explains through her tears that the government simply doesn&rsquo;t care. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re the ones who have to carry out the investigations, with our own resources.&rdquo; She adds that government officials often add insult to injury, &ldquo;They say she&rsquo;s probably just gone off with her boyfriend or she&rsquo;s a prostitute or drug addict.&rdquo; In her case, as with so many others, there&rsquo;s no investigation, no results, no justice.</p>
<p>Another woman described how her work with indigenous communities led to her rape and torture by police agents. She continues to live in terror due to threats against her life and her family.</p>
<p>Alma Gomez of the Center for the Human Rights of Women in Chihuahua summed up what she sees in the center, &ldquo;Women are the invisible victims, we are always at risk in this military and police occupation. We know of gang rapes by security forces that the women don&rsquo;t even report; arbitary arrests; women who make the rounds between army barracks and city morgues searching for their sons, fathers, or husbands&hellip; We are the spoils of war in a war we didn&rsquo;t ask for and we don&rsquo;t want.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Victim&rdquo; is really the wrong word for these women. The mother whose son disappeared more than two years ago said, &ldquo;In the struggle to find my son, I joined the peace movement. I learned that I can transform my pain into a collective force and together we can help more people to have a voice and to now be empowered to defend their rights.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Valentina Rosendo, a Me&rsquo;phaa indigenous woman from the State of Guerrero, was raped by soldiers and took her case all the way up to the Interamerican Court of Human Right. She sums up the reason for participating in the Nobel Women&rsquo;s forum, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s really hard to speak out, but it&rsquo;s more painful to keep quiet.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
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<div class='ar_summary' style='overflow:hidden;width:95%;border:1px solid #898989;padding:5px;margin-bottom:5px;'><a href="http://www.fpif.org/">Foreign Policy In Focus</a> columnist Laura Carlsen is director of the <a href="http://www.cipamericas.org/">Americas Program</a> for the <a href="http://www.ciponline.org/">Center for International Policy</a> in Mexico City.</div>
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<p>(Quelle: <a href="http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_drug_wars_invisible_victims">FPIF</a>.)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Blumeng&#252;tesiegel Flower Label Program (FLP) vor dem Aus K&#246;ln, Frankfurt, Osnabr&#252;ck, Stuttgart, Wien, Herne 3. Januar 2012. Mit Wirkung zum 31. Dezember 2011 sind FIAN Deutschland, FIAN &#214;sterreich, Brot f&#252;r die Welt, terre des hommes und das Eine Welt Zentrum Herne als Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NRO) und die IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (IG BAU) als Gewerkschaft aus dem Flower [...]]]></description>
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<p>K&#246;ln, Frankfurt, Osnabr&#252;ck, Stuttgart, Wien, Herne 3. Januar 2012. Mit Wirkung zum 31. Dezember 2011 sind FIAN Deutschland, FIAN &#214;sterreich, Brot f&#252;r die Welt, terre des hommes und das Eine Welt Zentrum Herne als Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NRO) und die IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (IG BAU) als Gewerkschaft aus dem Flower Label Program e.V. (FLP) ausgetreten. Die Organisationen sahen sich dazu durch die Entwicklungen im letzten Jahr und den Zustand des FLP e. V. am Jahresende 2011 gezwungen. Sie ziehen die erforderliche Konsequenz aus den inhaltlichen Ver&#228;nderungen des Vereins und dem finanziellen Zusammenbruch des G&#252;tesiegels.</p>
<p>FLP war im letzten Jahr wirtschaftlich nicht mehr tragf&#228;hig, die B&#252;ros in K&#246;ln und Quito (Ekuador) wurden bereits geschlossen. Grund daf&#252;r war eine gro&#223;e Zahl von Austritten und Dezertifizierungen von FLP-Betrieben. NROs und Gewerkschaften konnten sich gegen&#252;ber Produzenten und H&#228;ndlern nicht mit dem Vorschlag durchsetzen, FLP in Fairtrade zu &#252;berf&#252;hren. Bislang sind Fairtrade-Schnittblumen in Deutschland in verschiedenen Superm&#228;rkten zu kaufen und sollen im Laufe des Jahres auch bei Floristen angeboten werden. In &#214;sterreich bieten neben Superm&#228;rkten auch Floristen bereits Fairtrade-Schnittblumen an.</p>
<p>&#8220;Da FLP aufgrund fehlender Finanzen nicht mehr handlungsf&#228;hig ist, besteht die Gefahr, dass das Label missbraucht wird. Unternehmen k&#246;nnen damit werben, ohne dass tats&#228;chlich gepr&#252;ft wird, ob sie FLP-Standards einhalten.&#8221;, so Joachim Vorneweg von der Menschenrechtsorganisation FIAN. Die Zertifizierung durch FLP basiert auf dem internationalen Verhaltenskodex (ICC, International Code of Conduct) f&#252;r die Schnittblumenproduktion. Er war von den beteiligten NROs, Gewerkschaften, Produzenten und Handel gemeinsam entwickelt worden und setzt seit 1998 klare Ma&#223;st&#228;be. Der ICC enth&#228;lt Arbeits-, Sozial- und Umweltkriterien, die auf den UNO-Menschenrechtspakten, den relevanten Konventionen der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) und Umweltnormen beruhen. FLP hat damit f&#252;r rund 20.000 ArbeiterInnen in Schnittblumen-Plantagen in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika bessere Arbeitsbedingungen durchgesetzt, wie etwa feste Arbeitsvertr&#228;ge, Mutterschutz, Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz. Das ist ein klarer Verdienst derjenigen Organisationen, die mit Bedauern heute nicht mehr ihren Platz im FLP haben.</p>
<p>FIAN, Brot f&#252;r die Welt und terre des hommes werden sich weiterhin im Rahmen ihrer Arbeit f&#252;r soziale Rechte im Blumensektor stark machen. Auch die IG BAU unterst&#252;tzt in Zukunft die Siegelung durch den Fairen Handel. Die vier Organisationen fordern KonsumentInnen dazu auf, sich beim Kauf f&#252;r Fairtrade zertifizierte Blumen und Pflanzen zu entscheiden.</p>
<p><strong>Kontakt:</strong></p>
<p>FIAN Deutschland: Joachim Vorneweg, u.hausmann [at] fian.de, Telefon +49 172 8063877</p>
<p>FIAN &#214;sterreich: Sophie Ve&#223;el, sophie.vessel [at] fian.at, Telefon +43 01 235023912</p>
<p>IG BAU: Sylvia Honsberg, sylvia.honsberg [at] igbau.de, Telefon +49 171 7423450</p>
<p>terre des hommes: Michael Heuer, m.heuer [at] tdh.de, Telefon: +49 541 7101145</p>
<p>Eine Welt Zentrum Herne: Martin Domke ewz-info [at] kk-ekvw.de, Telefon +49 2323 994970</p>
<p><strong>Weitere Informationen:</strong></p>
<p>Ausf&#252;hrliche <a href="http://www.fian.de/online/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=406:stellungnahme-von-fian-deutschland-zum-austritt-aus-dem-flower-label-program&#038;catid=1:aktuelle-nachrichten&#038;Itemid=620">Stellungnahme von FIAN Deutschland zum Austritt aus dem Flower Label Program</a>&#8221;</p>
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<p>(Quelle: <a href="http://www.fian.de/online/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=407:blumenguetesiegel-flower-label-program-flp-vor-dem-aus&#038;catid=56:pressemitteilungen&#038;Itemid=59">FIAN Deutschland e.V.</a>)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;East Africa Is the New Epicenter of America’s Shadow War By Spencer Ackerman January 26, 2012 &#124; 6:30 am &#124; When Adm. Eric Olson, the former leader of U.S. Special Operations Command, wanted to explain where his forces were going, he would show audiences a photo that NASA took, titled &#8220;The World at Night.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>&#8220;East Africa Is the New Epicenter of America’s Shadow War</h3>
<p><em><small>By <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/author/spencer_ackerman/">Spencer Ackerman</a> January 26, 2012 |  6:30 am | </small></em></p>
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<p>When Adm. Eric Olson, the former leader of U.S. Special Operations Command, wanted to explain where his forces were going, he would show audiences a photo that NASA took, titled &#8220;<a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;biw=1184&amp;bih=683&amp;tbm=isch&amp;prmd=imvns&amp;tbnid=AGz3qVyUsAkaWM:&amp;imgrefurl=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html&amp;docid=CKvKbQVkZByivM&amp;imgurl=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg&amp;w=2400&amp;h=1200&amp;ei=6WQgT5msHOPE0AGdu60I&amp;zoom=1&amp;iact=hc&amp;vpx=293&amp;vpy=208&amp;dur=3107&amp;hovh=159&amp;hovw=318&amp;tx=143&amp;ty=93&amp;sig=112102930189810525014&amp;page=1&amp;tbnh=100&amp;tbnw=200&amp;start=0&amp;ndsp=15&amp;ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0">The World at Night</a>.&#8221; The lit areas showed the governed, stable, orderly parts of the planet. The areas without lights were the danger zones &#8212; the impoverished, the power vacuums, the places overrun with militants that prompted the attention of elite U.S. troops. And few places were darker, in Olson&#8217;s eyes, than East Africa.</p>
<p>Quietly, and especially over the last two to three years, special operations forces have focused on that very shadowy spot on NASA&#8217;s map (see below). The successful Tuesday night raid to free two humanitarian aid workers from <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/black-hawk-up-somalia/">captivity in Somalia</a> is only the most recent and high-profile example. More and more elite forces have transited through a mega-base in Djibouti that&#8217;s a staging ground for strikes on al-Qaida allies in the Horn of Africa, especially in Somalia.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not quite the new Pakistan, or even the new Yemen, but it&#8217;s close &#8212; especially as new bases for the U.S.&#8217;s Shadow Wars pop up and expand. The U.S. military sometimes seemed like it was casting about for a reason to set up shop in Africa. Counterterrorism has given it one.</p>
<p>Fighting Somalia&#8217;s pirates might get most of the media attention. But the U.S. is much more concerned about al-Shabab. The al-Qaida aligned movement seeks to depose the Somali government, recruits from <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/american-terrorist-proves-he-still-cant-rap/">radicalized American Muslims</a> and may have sought to <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/28/nation/la-na-portland-bomb-plot-20101128">bring terrorism back to U.S. shores</a>. Just across a very narrow Gulf of Aden is Yemen, the home of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which has repeatedly <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/its-official-printer-bombs-were-designed-to-be-undetectable/">tried to attack America</a>.</p>
<p>In 2009, the top U.S. intelligence official pointed to Yemen and &#8220;parts of Africa&#8221; where al-Qaida&#8217;s leadership might &#8220;relocate&#8221; if it lost its Pakistani safe haven, to &#8220;<a href=" www.dni.gov/testimonies/20090212_testimony.pdf">exploit a weak central government and close proximity to established recruitment, fundraising, and facilitation networks</a>.&#8221; His successor told Congress in 2011 that al-Shabab would &#8220;<a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/intel-chief-al-qaeda-affiliates-getting-stronger/">probably grow stronger&#8230; absent more effective and sustained activities to disrupt them</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s where the forces Olson used to run came in.</p>
<p><span id="more-70775"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/01/earth_lights_lrg.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-70837" title="earth_lights_lrg" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/01/earth_lights_lrg.jpg" alt="" width="448" height="224" /></a></p>
<p>Located northwest of Somalia is a former French Foreign Legion base in Djibouti called Camp Lemonnier. The U.S. military has been there for a decade. It&#8217;s a resupply point for U.S. ships passing by, as well as the home of a multinational, American-led counterterrorism team called the <a href="http://www.cnic.navy.mil/cldj/">Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa</a>.</p>
<p>Recently, more and more special operations forces have called it a temporary home. Camp Lemonnier was where the commando team took hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted for medical care after freeing them. But the camp is much more than just a big medical facility: it&#8217;s also a staging ground for the growing Shadow War in Somalia &#8212; and particularly a drone war over it.</p>
<p>Much of the day-to-day fight against al-Shabab is <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/power-struggle-threatens-u-s-outsourced-somalia-war/">outsourced to African peacekeepers</a>. But the raids and strikes that U.S. commandos have launched against specific Shabab targets are becoming <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/new-somalia-attack/">more frequent</a>. <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/11/senior_shabaab_leade.php">Cruise missiles</a> and even, apparently, <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/06/us_helicopters_strikes_shabaab.php">U.S. helicopter strikes</a> have also hit the group. Special operators even launch raids at sea: this spring, they captured captured one Shabab affiliate, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, offshore in the Gulf of Aden before <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/floating-gitmo/">detaining him for weeks aboard the U.S.S. <em>Boxer</em></a>.</p>
<p>Then comes the drone war. Lemonnier isn&#8217;t the only U.S. base near the Horn. Throughout the last decade, the military ran a <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/africacommand0707">smaller special-operations base in Kenya</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/world/africa/23somalia.html">another in Ethiopia</a>. Now an Ethiopian outpost <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/new-drone-bases">will become a launchpad for U.S. drones</a>, as will a facility nearby in the Seychelles, all to launch strikes against al-Qaida allies in East Africa. The most recent of them struck <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/22/british-al-qaida-suspect-drone-somalia">Sunday outside Mogadishu</a>, killing a British-born militant.</p>
<p>Nor is the military the only U.S. organization at work in east Africa. Somalia has attracted the CIA as well, which <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia">runs a secret prison attached to the Mogadishu airport</a>. During earlier iterations of the CIA&#8217;s post-9/11 involvement in Somalia, it blustered that its operations were protected by <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/new-somalia-attack/">drones that actually weren&#8217;t overhead</a> &#8212; all while it assembled a coalition of friendly warlords to help fight al-Qaida. Nor has the FBI been left out of the action: it worked with the special operations forces to free Buchanan and Thisted on Tuesday night, although Navy Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said no FBI personnel accompanied the raiding team.</p>
<p>Another dramatic expansion of U.S. power in Africa, however, may have been hiding in plain sight.</p>
<p>When President George W. Bush created the U.S. Africa Command in 2007, it wasn&#8217;t really clear what the organization <em>was</em>. Humanitarian aid dispensary? Laboratory for African troops to train with their U.S. counterparts? Vehicle for Americanization of Africa&#8217;s wars?</p>
<p>The question hasn&#8217;t totally been settled. But Africa Command has had a <em>very</em> busy year. In March, it led the initial phase of the U.S./NATO war on Moammar Gadhafi, launching a <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/drones-suicidal-cousins/">fusillade of Tomahawk missiles</a>, flew <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/secret-subs-rescue-ospreys-mil-tech-gets-remixed-for-libya/?pid=379">jamming jets</a> and operated <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/secret-subs-rescue-ospreys-mil-tech-gets-remixed-for-libya/?pid=378">conventional ships, subs and fighter jets</a> before handing the war off to a Canadian general. In October, it sent a <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/breaking-u-s-troops-to-battle-african-rape-cult-ready/">small advisory force to central Africa</a> to help combat the brutal Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army.</p>
<p>Its leader, Army Gen. Carter Ham, hasn&#8217;t been in charge for a full year yet, but his busy schedule thus far was capped by last night&#8217;s Somalia raid &#8212; for which he was the senior-most officer in command, according to the Pentagon. The raid is a sign that Africa Command places great emphasis on its relationship with the U.S.&#8217; elite forces, who, tacitly, help entrench the command&#8217;s relevance.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s going to remain the case as long as a <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/end-911-era/">decimated</a> al-Qaida relies on proxies like al-Shabab to retain its own relevance. And it&#8217;s going to remain the case as long as Obama leans on special operators and the CIA to prosecute his Shadow Wars, which <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/white-house-al-qaida-is-toast/">pursue terrorists indefinitely</a> even while Obama draws down the large land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When looking at where counterterrorism goes next, it helps to squint at the obscured places on Olson&#8217;s map.</p>
<p><em>Photos: David Axe, NASA&#8221;</em></p>
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<p>(Quelle: <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/battleground-africa/">Wired.com</a>)</p>
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		<title>BRD: Orden f&#252;r Felicia Langer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dankesrede von Felicia Langer bei der Entgegennahme des pal&#228;stinensischen Ordens f&#252;r besondere Verdienste aus der Hand von Pr&#228;sident Mahmoud Abbas am 17.1.2012 in Berlin. Eure Exzellenz, Herr Pr&#228;sident der Pal&#228;stinensischen Autorit&#228;t, Herr Mahmoud Abbas, Eure Exzellenz, Herr Generaldeligierter der Pal&#228;stinensischen Generaldirektion in Deutschland, Herr Salah Abdel Shafi; meine liebe Familie, mein Ehemann und mein &#228;ltester [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>&#8220;Dankesrede von Felicia Langer bei der Entgegennahme des pal&#228;stinensischen Ordens f&#252;r besondere Verdienste aus der Hand von Pr&#228;sident Mahmoud Abbas am 17.1.2012 in Berlin.</h3>
<p>Eure Exzellenz, Herr Pr&#228;sident der Pal&#228;stinensischen Autorit&#228;t, Herr Mahmoud Abbas, Eure Exzellenz, Herr Generaldeligierter der Pal&#228;stinensischen Generaldirektion in Deutschland, Herr Salah Abdel Shafi; meine liebe Familie, mein Ehemann und mein &#228;ltester Enkelsohn Dany mit seiner Partnerin Gini, meine Freunde Prof. Dr. Fanny Michaela Reisin, Pr&#228;sidentin der Internationalen Liga f&#252;r Menschenrechte,</p>
<p>Ich bin sehr gl&#252;cklich und tief bewegt von dieser wundervollen und inspirierenden Ehrung, welche ich mit tiefer Dankbarkeit annehme. Ich m&#246;chte meiner Familie danken, die mich all die langen Jahre unterst&#252;tzt hat, ganz besonders meinem geliebten Mann Mieciu und auch meinen Freunden.</p>
<p>Die Pal&#228;stinenser, enteignet und gequ&#228;lt durch Israel, haben mein Herz und meine Seele gewonnen und dies bis auf den heutigen Tag. So sehr ich konnte, habe ich versucht, den Opfern der israelischen kolonialen Besatzung in und au&#223;erhalb der Gef&#228;ngnisse zu helfen, damit die Wahrheit &#252;ber die israelische Unterdr&#252;ckung &#252;berall ans Licht kommt, um damit Frieden in Gerechtigkeit zwischen dem pal&#228;stinensischen und dem israelischen Volk voranzubringen.</p>
<p>Ich habe eins meiner ersten B&#252;cher &#252;ber die Folter an pal&#228;stinensischen Gefangenen in den fr&#252;hen 70-er Jahren betitelt mit „Dies sind meine Br&#252;der“ und so ist es geblieben. Lieber Herr Pr&#228;sident, liebe werte G&#228;ste und Freunde, Israel ist der einzige Staat in der Welt, der ununterbrochen seit 44 Jahren eine grausame, koloniale Besatzung entgegen den Maximen des internationalen Rechts aufrecht erh&#228;lt, und die Welt toleriert das. Wir sollten auch niemals die Verbrechen gegen das Volk von Gaza vergessen, die unter dem Namen „Gegossenes Blei“ vor zwei Jahren ver&#252;bt worden sind.</p>
<p>Ich bin sehr gl&#252;cklich, durch Sie in einer &#196;ra der arabischen Revolutionen ausgezeichnet zu werden, trotz all ihrer Schwierigkeiten und R&#252;ckschl&#228;ge. Dieser gesegnete Wind der Ver&#228;nderung wird die Pal&#228;stinenser nicht vergessen. Wir stehen noch am Anfang. Wir stehen auch am Beginn der pal&#228;stinensischen Einheit. Das pal&#228;stinensische Volk ist ein heroisches Volk, sowohl die pal&#228;stinensischen Kinder, die ich kenne, als auch seine M&#252;tter und V&#228;ter, die Gefangenen in den Gef&#228;ngnissen und au&#223;erhalb, und auch die Bauern, die zusammen mit mir gerichtlich gegen den Raub ihres Landes k&#228;mpften und dies heute gegen die Apartheidmauer tun. Auch sie demonstrieren f&#252;r Frieden in Gerechtigkeit. Wenn Israel sich nicht vollst&#228;ndig abwendet von seiner zerst&#246;renden und friedensfeindlichen Politik, wird es eine Insel der Apartheid im Mittleren Osten bleiben, ohne jede Zukunft. Dies ist auch die Meinung der israelischen Friedenskr&#228;fte. Die wahren Freunde Israels m&#252;ssen dies erkennen!</p>
<p>Mein Ehemann, ein Opfer des Holocaust und ich selbst haben daraus eine Lektion gelernt und die hei&#223;t: „Menschlichkeit“. Diejenigen, die das nicht wahrhaben wollen, wie die israelische Regierung, verraten unsere Opfer. Das pal&#228;stinensische Volk hat entsprechend internationalem Recht wie jedes andere Volk unter der Sonne das legitime Recht auf Selbstbestimmung und darauf, ein Mitglied der Vereinten Nationen zu werden. Das wird geschehen, genauso wie es in der UNESCO geschehen ist. </p>
<p>Der Tsunami des pal&#228;stinensischen Strebens nach Freiheit wird nicht enden, er ist unbesiegbar! Noch einmal, herzlichsten Dank aus der Tiefe meines Herzens.</p>
<p>Vereint im gerechtem Kampf!&#8221;</p>
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<p>(Quelle: <a href="http://www.freunde-palaestinas.de/12/0121_fl.html">Freunde Pal&#228;stinas</a>.)</p>
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