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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 29. August 2013 / Timeline August 29, 2013
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08/29/2013
U.K. leader David Cameron loses preliminary vote on action against Syria
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U.K. leader David Cameron loses preliminary vote on action against Syria
British Prime Minister David Cameron has lost a vote endorsing military action against Syria by 13 votes, a stunning defeat for a government which had seemed days away from joining the U.S. in possible attacks to punish Bashar al-Assad’s regime over an alleged chemical weapons attack.
Thursday evening’s vote was nonbinding, but in practice the rejection of military strikes means Cameron’s hands are tied. In a terse statement to Parliament, Cameron said it was clear to him that the British people did not want to see military action.
08/29/2013
ACLU Reveals FBI Hacking Contractors
By Pratap Chatterjee
- http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/aclu-reveals-fbi-hacking-contractors/
BERKELEY, California, Aug 25 2013 (IPS) - James Bimen Associates of Virginia
and Harris Corporation of Florida have contracts with the U.S. Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to hack into computers and phones of
surveillance targets, according to Chris Soghoian, principal technologist at
the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.
"Bimen and Harris employees actively hack into target computers for the
FBI," Soghoian told CorpWatch.
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