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Herzliche Grüsse
Dr. Alexander von Paleske
Bulawayo / Simbabwe

Dr. Alexander von Paleske — 14.10. 2013 —–
Der Skandal um den Potz-Protz-Bischof Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst berührt mich, weil ich selbst in Limburg seinerzeit von 1979 bis 1981 als Arzt im St. Vincenz Krankenhaus auf dem Schafsberg gearbeitet habe, und Wilhelm Kempf, der Vor-Vorgaenger des jetzigen Bischofs, mein Patient war.

Wilhelm Kempf

Kontrast könnte nicht grösser sein
Der Kontrast zu diesem „Big Spender“ van Elst könnte nicht grösser sein. Kempf war nicht nur hochgebildet, sondern auch ausserordentlich bescheiden. Jede Visite auf der Intensivstation wurde zu einem intellektuellen Vergnügen.

Und natürlich habe ich nicht vergessen, dass ich in Limburg mehr Toleranz erlebt habe, als in Frankfurt.

Damals war die sozialdemokratische Regierung unter Ministerpräsident Holger Börner in Hessen am Ruder. Der Radikalenerlass wurde konsequent umgesetzt, überboten nur noch vom CSU-Bayern und dem sozialdemokratisch regierten Hamburg unter Klose.

Die mir vom Chefarzt des Heilig-Geist-Krankenhauses Frankfurt zugesagte Stelle konnte ich deshalb nicht antreten, die Verwaltung hatte sich beim Verfassungsschutz kundig gemacht.

Im erzkatholischen Limburg hatte man diese Bedenken nicht, obgleich einer meiner ehemaligen Kommilitonen dem Chefarzt sogleich meine „Vergangenheit“ steckte.
Kommentar des Chefarztes Becker: „Damit werden wir auch fertig.“

Katholisch, aber…
Natürlich war der grösste Teil der Belegschaft katholisch, was sie nicht daran hinderte, mich als „Ungläubigen“ und Gewerkschaftsmitglied in den Betriebsrat zu wählen.

Der katholische Krankenhauspfarrer gab nicht nur die letzte Ölung, sondern half auch fleissig bei Reanimationen auf der Intensivstation mit.

In kurzer Zeit habe ich nicht nur eine Menge Vorurteile verloren, sondern auch tolle Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter kennen- und schätzengelernt.

Hoffentlich hält er durch
Das gesamte hessische Kabinett einschliesslich Börner traf ich auch noch – auf der Abschiedsmesse 1981 für Bischhof Kempf im Limburger Dom. Kempf hatte aus Gesundheitsgründen sein Amt aufgegeben.

Dort sass ich mit dem Notarztkoffer direkt hinter der Landesregierung und hoffte inständig, dass der Bischof durchhält.

Einen derartigen Wunsch habe ich bei diesem Nach-Nachfolger allerdings nicht.

Skandalbischof Franz-Peter Tebartz van Elst

Im Gegensatz zu Kempf, dem der Dialog mit den Laien enorm wichtig war, hat van Elst offenbar unbequeme Laienvertreter systematisch aus den Ämtern gedrängt, autoritär eine erzkonservative Linie verfolgt, und nun 30 Millionen Euro auf den Kopf gehauen – für einen protzigen Bischofssitz.

30 Millionen Euro – schon 1% davon hätten ausgereicht, um im Mpilo-Zentralkrankenhaus in Bulawayo / Simbabwe, meiner Arbeitsstelle, dringend notwendige Reparaturen durchzuführen, 10 % für die notwendige Renovierung.

Denk ich an Limburg in der Nacht…………

Ex Ministerpräsident Kurt Beck an die SPD: Geld, davon kann man nie genug haben

Dr. Alexander von Paleske — 22.7. 2013 — Der neue Papst Franziskus I versprach bei seinem Amtsantritt aufzuräumen, gerade auch in der Vatikanbank.

Statt Aufräumen neue Skandale
Von Aufräumen kann bis jetzt jedoch keine Rede sein. Der Sumpf von Skandalen, in dem die Bank mit dem hochtrabenden Namen „Institut für religiöse Werke“ (IOR) versunken ist, und zu dem auch Morde, Unterstützung der kriminellen rechtsradikalen Loge P2, Geldwäsche für die Mafia und Grossbetrug gehörten, sollte nun endlich trockengelegt werden – nach Jahrzehnten.

Der erste Versuch bereits im Jahre 1978 schlug fehl, weil Papst Johannes Paul I schon nach 33 Tagen Amtszeit verstarb. An seinem Todestag hatte er noch verfügt, dass der Grossgangster in der Vatikanbank, Erzbischof Paul Casimir Marcinkus, sofort abgelöst werden müsse. Mit seinem Tod war die Anordnung hinfällig. Der Nachfolger, Papst Johannes Paul II, liess Marcinkus im Amt und damit alles beim Alten.

Vatikan ……..keinen guten Kaffee und keine Ehrlichkeit

Sein Nachfolger, Benedikt XVI, resignierte angesichts der mafiösen Zustande innerhalb und ausserhalb der Vatikanbank, insbesondere angesichts von Seilschaften, die sich jeder Änderung hartnäckig widersetzten.

Statt Reinemachen: Dreckwäsche
Nun versprach der neue Papst aus Argentinien erneut ein Grossreinemachen. Aber statt dem Reinemachen wurden zwei neue Pakete Dreckwäsche angespült.

Zunächst flog auf, dass der Prälat der päpstlichen Vermögensverwaltung, Monsignore Nunzio Scarano, 20 Millionen Euro in bar von einer schweizer Bank abheben lassen wollte, um sie vermutlich an die napolitanische Mafia weiterzuleiten, wir berichteten darüber.

Dann entpuppte sich der als Reiniger vom neuen Papst Franziskus am 15 Juni 2013 berufene Monsignore Battista Ricca als weiterer Skandalfall.

Battista Ricca (li) und Papst Franziskus (re) ….von Seilschaften geleimt?

Personeller Fehlgriff
Ricca, italienischer Priester und ehemaliger Diplomat des Vatikan, sollte die Oberaufsicht über das Direktorium der Vatikanbank, und über eine fünfköpfige Kardinalskommission führen, und als „Auge des Papstes“ ihm direkt berichten.

Ein schlimmer personeller Fehlgriff – jedenfalls aus der Denk- und Sichtweise der katholischen Kirche.
Battista Ricca trug ein nämlich einen für katholische Verhältnisse unerquicklichen Rucksack mit sich herum, dessen Inhalt entweder fahrlässig dem Papst nicht mitgeteilt worden war, oder vielmehr ganz bewusst unterschlagen wurde..

Der Reinigungs-Aufseher ist schwul, was gesellschaftlich gesehen, Gott sei Dank, in der aufgeklärten Zivilisation kein Problem mehr ist, wohl aber in der katholischen Kirche, die Homosexualität verdammt, allerdings ebenso deren Diskriminierung und Verfolgung.

Nicht nur ist Ricca schwul, er lebte dies auch offen aus. Gesellschaftlich gesehen jedermanns Privatangelegenheit, nicht jedoch für Amtsträger der katholischen Kirche.

Seilschaften in Aktion
Offenbar hatten aber im Vatikan bestimmte Seilschaften ein Interesse daran, diesen Herrn dorthin zu lotsen, denn nun war der Rucksackträger dank des Inhalts des Rucksacks erpressbar geworden. Wie schön. Und wenn nicht erpressbar, so doch in seinem Durchsetzungsvermögen behindert.

Das kann dann wieder zum Überlebensvorteil einiger Vatikanbediensteter führen, deren sich schon Benedikt der XVI vergeblich zu entledigen versucht hatte.

Ausserdem fällt die Fehl-Entscheidung für Ricca auf den Papst selbst zurück, und schwächst dessen Position, indem seine Urteilsfähigkeit bezweifelt wird.
Wie sagte doch schon der Reformpapst Johannes Paul I:

„Im Vatikan kann man alles bekommen, nur keine Ehrlichkeit und keine gute Tasse Kaffee“.

Er vergass offenbar hinzuzusetzen: Eine halbwegs anständige Vatikanbank und loyale Mitarbeiter.

Neuer Finanzskandal im Vatikan – oder: „Die ich rief die Geister, werd ich nun nicht los“

Neuer Skandal um die Vatikanbank – böse Erinnerungen werden wach
Papstwahl: Neuer Papst – wenig Neues
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Dr. Alexander von Paleske —— 11.4. 2013 —

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Basler Zeitung , Abt. Wirtschaft vorgestern:
So ticken die Scheichs von Katar.

Bewundernd wird aufgezählt, wie diese Herrschaften – vor allem dank reicher Erdgasvorkommen – sich in europäische Firmen einkaufen: Aktienpakete von VW, Porsche, Hochtief und Siemens lagen schon in ihrem Einkaufskorb.

Katar

50 Millarden US Dollar pro Jahr
50 Milliarden Dollar ist der Geldsack schwer, mit dem jedes Jahr zugeschlagen wird. Der katarische Staatsfond darf bereits Aktien im Wert von 200 Milliarden Dollar sein Eigen nennen.

Nicht nur Aktien, auch Immobilien und Anleihen vorausgesetzt die Rendite stimmt, sie soll bei deutlich über 10% liegen. Am besten nahe 20%, wie seinerzeit bei der Deutschen Bank in der Ära Ackermann.

Aber auch Spenden verteilen sie gerne, sofern es sich bei den Empfängern um Sunniten handelt, wie jetzt die Opposition in Syrien, oder die Palästinenser in Gaza..

Die Schiiten–Opposition im benachbarten Bahrain, die von einer kleinen Minderheit von Sunniten brutal unterdrückt wird, ist natürlich keine Unterstützung wert. Im Gegenteil, dort leisten vielmehr die Sunni-Saudis militärische Unterdrückungshilfe.

Da stört es auch keineswegs, dass derartige, von Katar unterstützte Aufstandsbewegungen, wie die in Syrien, auch eine Brutstätte für Al Qaida ist: Hauptsache: Sunniten.

Al Nusra,Teil der Rebellenarmee, mit Al Qaida verbunden. Screenshot: Dr. v. Paleske – Mehr zu Al Nusra siehe hier
und hier

Tiefschwarze Seite
Aber neben diesen selektiven Spenden gibt es noch eine lokale schwarze, eine tiefschwarze Seite, über die weder die lokale Presse schreibt, noch der sonst doch so investigative und ausführlich berichtende, staatlich finanzierte TV Kanal Al Jazeera: Die Gastarbeiter.

Wobei es nicht um die Gastarbeiter geht, die als Nachrichtensprecher bei Al Jazeera anschaffen, oder als Piloten für Qatar Airways fliegen, sondern um die Bauarbeiter, die Flughafenarbeiter in Doha und die Verladearbeiter in den Häfen, ebenso wie die Müllabfuhr.

Absolut angewiesen auf Gastarbeiter
Die Bevölkerung in den arabischen Emiraten ist auf diese Gastarbeiter, insbesondere im Bereich Bau, absolut angewiesen. Nicht nur ist die lokale Bevölkerung viel zu klein, um diese Menge an klotzigsten Bauwerken in Doha, der Hauptstadt Katars, hinzusetzen, und jetzt die Stadien für die Fussball-WM 2020 zu errichten. Vielmehr kommt eine Drecksarbeit wie auf dem Bau, noch dazu bei Temperarturen bis zu 50 Grad Celsius natürlich für sie gar nicht in Frage.

Dafür werden Arbeiter aus Ländern wie Nepal , Indien, Sri Lanka und den Philippinen angeheuert. Weniger beliebt sind allerdings Arbeiter aus moslemischen Ländern wie Pakistan und Bangladesch.

Wenn ein Staat so immens reich ist, dann könnte er ja auch seine Arbeiter anständig bezahlen. Sollte man meinen. Weit gefehlt, die Realität sieht ganz anders aus.

Bereits im November 2008 schrieben wir über die Gastarbeiter im benachbarten Dubai, deren Lage sich kaum von denen in Katar unterscheidet:

Fremdworte für sie sind: Streikrecht, Krankenversicherung, Unfallversicherung, regelmässige Lohnzahlung.

Wer krank wird, der wird in die Heimat zurückverfrachtet. Die Agenturen, welche die Lohnsklaven anheuern, machen bei der Anheuerung Versprechungen, die nicht eingehalten werden.

Die Pässe müssen sie nach der Ankunft gleich an den Arbeitsvermittler abgeben. Sklaverei im 21 Jahrhundert ein anderer Begriff dafür.
Diejenigen, welche illegal eingereist sind, leben darüber hinaus noch in ständiger Angst
Um fünf Uhr morgens wird aufgestanden, um neun Uhr abends kehren die Bauarbeiter zurück. Gearbeitet wird bei sengender Hitze. Wer nach /durch Dubai, und sei es auch nur zum Umsteigen auf dem Flughafen, gekommen ist, weiss, wovon ich rede.
Es existiert eine Pyramide, der Achtung, sozialen Anerkennung und Bezahlung, an deren Kopf die Einheimischen stehen, darunter kommen die Europäer und Nordamerikaner, die hier etwa das Doppelte verdienen, was sie ansonsten zu Hause verdienen würden, steuerfrei versteht sich. Darunter finden sich Araber, die aus anderen arabischen Ländern kommen, Palästinenser, Jordanier, Syrer, Ägypter.
Am Fusse der Pyramide stehen die Bauarbeiter, Kellner usw, die aus Indien, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Äthiopien und den Philippinen kommen. Sie spüren in vollem Umfang auch den Rassismus, der sich unter den Arabern ausbreitet, selbst wenn die asiatischen Gastarbeiter moslemische Glaubensbrüder sind..
Es herrschen Zustände, wie im 19. Jahrhundert. In jeder Hinsicht.

In Katar nicht anders
Dubai hat mittlerweile etwas seinen Glanz etwas verloren, dank der internationalen Finanzkrise, zumal es nur geringe eigene Erdölvorkommen besitzt, aber die Verhältnisse im benachbarten Katar stinken genauso zum Himmel.

Wie in Dubai:

– brutalste Ausbeutung und Arbeit unter sengender Sonne.

– selbst minimalen Arbeitsschutz sucht man dort vergeblich

– Monats-Mindestlohn: 200 Dollar, der nicht selten nur unregelmässig ausgezahlt wird..

– Völliges Streikverbot

– Unmöglichkeit der Ausreise dank Abgabe des Passes nach der Ankunft an den Arbeitsvermittler.

Die Herkunftsländer der Gastarbeiter versuchen mit Katar auf dem Verhandlungswege eine Erhöhung des Monatslohns auf wenigstens 300 US Dollar zu erreichen.

Sklaven für die Fussball-WM
Der Focus schrieb am am 27.3. 2013 .:

Katar ist ein „Sklavenhalter Staat“, für die WM sterben vier Nepalesen pro Woche.

Der Internationale Gewerkschaftsbund erwartet bis zur WM Hunderte von Toten wegen der vorherrschenden mörderischen Arbeitsbedingungen.

Der Nachbarstaat Abu Dhabi – auch dort herrschen selbstverständlich die gleichen unerträglichen Arbeitsbedingungen – hat darüber hinaus, um für alle Eventualitäten gerüstet zu sein, mit dem US-Radikalchristen Erik Prince, früherer Eigentümer der Söldnerfirma Blackwater – später in XE umbenannt, dann in Academi – einen Vertrag über die Etablierung einer Söldnertruppe abgeschlossen. Angeheuert wurden Söldner, die beste Erfahrungen im Abknallen von Zivilisten aus dem Irak- und Afghanistankrieg mitbrachten, „proven in combat“ sozusagen, wir berichteten darüber.

Wer mit Emirates, Qatar Airways oder Etihad fliegt, oder diese Länder besucht, der sollte das alles auch im Hinterkopf behalten.

Und der Weltfussballverband FIFA sollte endlich Druck machen, dass die Arbeitsbedingungen verbessert werden, oder will er mitschuldig werden am Tod und an den Verletzungen der Bauarbeiter??

Vereinigte Arabische Emirate: Eine Söldnertruppe gegen den arabischen Frühling
Dubai – Die einen stehn im Lichte….

Tzvi Friedman – It wasn’t too long ago that I was lurking in AnonOps’ IRC channel during Operation Payback, the Anonymous action that “took down” a few well-known financial companies’ landing pages, and generally stirred up a lot more media than they deserved. I remember the general chaos and script kiddie-like enthusiasm that pervaded the public chat areas and trying to make sense of the mystique and reverence that the channel operators enjoyed. I also remember a lot of people yelling about Amazon.com, that it was just as bad as the other financial companies that denied donations to Wikileaks, and that it should be “taken down” in turn.

Almost every time, someone a little more wizened and experienced would chime in and say that you don’t just “take down” Amazon.com; websites, especially the ones that are the veritable bastions of distributed cloud systems, scalability, and server infrastructure, aren’t really susceptible to script kiddies en masse. Distributed Denial of Service attacks are not new and it’s amusing to watch people drool over the piece of software that enables you participate in them (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) as if it’s some sophisticated and occult hacking device that magically “takes down websites.”

I keep putting “take down” in quotation marks for a reason.  The most damaging wound that Anonymous has ever inflicted on a website is temporarily taking down its homepage, which simply bars visitors from viewing it. This isn’t “taking down” a company. All you’ve done is piss off some sysadmins and alienated some users who needed the site. Putting up an alternate message on the homepage, sometimes embarrassing the site, doesn’t constitute taking down very much. As I’ve seen one comic strip put it, it’s the equivalent of defacing a poster in the lobby.

This is in stark contrast to the recent doings of LulzSec and the Antisec movement as a whole. Those groups are determined to actually do some damage, and damage they certainly do. They have distributed troves of personal and confidential information, swiped maliciously from government and law enforcement websites. While not causing downtime per se, these actions are for more harmful to an organization than simply defacing its landing page.

This is why Anonymous will never attack Facebook. Aside from the numerous other circumstantial evidence that point to yesterday’s announcement being a hoax to begin with (new YouTube account, non-standard Twitter account, non-Pastebin distribution, and none of the usual chatter), you can’t just “take down” Facebook. Facebook is not a website. It isn’t staffed by a few starving sysadmins without the resources to plan for, preempt, and defend from this kind of decidedly primitive attack.

According to Alexa, 44% of global Internet users visited Facebook.com yesterday. In 2010, Facebook was running more than 60,000 servers. 3 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook every month. These numbers are constantly growing. Think about the scale of that number for a moment and it’s quite obvious to see that trying to “take down” Facebook is about as foolhardy a fantasy as simply walking into Mordor. Furthermore, just to add another layer of disbelief, Anonymous is warning Facebook months ahead of time that this is happening!

If the FacebookOp announcement is not a hoax (and it most certainly is), then this is obviously a desperate grasp at some kind of publicity. Anonymous has been rightfully overshadowed by the much more harmful and inflammatory AntiSec groups, and is probably looking for a way to get their hacktivist agenda back on the media’s radar screen. Suffice it to say that it worked; they have the media’s rapt attention. The other possibility, albeit highly unlikely, is that Anonymous actually has the firepower and wherewithal to bring Facebook to its knees. If this really is the case, and Anonymous has evolved from the chaotic and leaderless group we know it to be, we’re obviously dealing with something much larger than hacktivism, and it’s a scenario in which 600 million or so of the world’s population would be victims. While it’s an interesting plot for a bad sci-fi movie, I’m not ready to acknowledge that Anonymous has anywhere near the capabilities required to pull off something as huge and nefarious as “killing Facebook,” and I think Facebook sysadmins would agree.

Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff – New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of “State Crimes Against Democracy” (SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University writes that SCADs involve highlevel government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities for political advantages and power.

Proven SCADs since World War II include McCarthyism (fabrication of evidence of a communist infiltration), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (President Johnson and Robert McNamara falsely claimed North Vietnam attacked a US ship), burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in effort to discredit Ellsberg, the Watergate break-in, Iran-Contra, Florida’s 2000 Election (felon disenfranchisement program), and fixed intelligence on WMDs to justify the Iraq War.

Other suspected SCADs include the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooting of George Wallace, the October Surprise near the end of the Carter presidency, military grade anthrax mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, Martin Luther King’s assassination, and the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. The proven SCADs have a long trail of congressional hearings, public records, and academic research establishing the truth of the activities. The suspected SCADs listed above have substantial evidence of covert actions with countervailing deniability that tend to leave the facts in dispute.

The term “conspiracy theory” is often used to denigrate and discredit inquiry into the veracity of suspected SCADs. Labeling SCAD research as “conspiracy theory” is an effective method of preventing ongoing investigations from being reported in the corporate media and keep them outside of broader public scrutiny. Psychologist Laurie Manwell, University of Guelph, addresses the psychological advantage that SCAD actors hold in the public sphere. Manwell, writing in American Behavioral Scientist (Sage 2010) states, “research shows that people are far less willing to examine information that disputes, rather than confirms, their beliefs . . . pre-existing beliefs can interfere with SCADs inquiry, especially in regards to September 11, 2001.”

Professor Steven Hoffman, visiting scholar at the University of Buffalo, recently acknowledged this phenomenon in a study “There Must Be a Reason: Osama, Saddam and Inferred Justification.” Hoffman concluded, “Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. In fact, for the most part people completely ignore contrary information.”

Sometimes even new academic research goes largely unreported when the work contradicts prevailing understandings of recent historical events. A specific case of unreported academic research is the peer reviewed journal article from Open Chemical Physics Journal (Volume 2, 2009), entitled “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust for the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe.” In the abstract the authors write, “We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples.

These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.” Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction and is used in controlled demolitions of buildings.

National Medal of Science recipient (1999) Professor Lynn Margulis from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is one of many academics who supports further open investigative research in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Margulis recently wrote in Rock Creek Free Press, “all three buildings were destroyed by carefully planned, orchestrated and executed controlled demolition.”6 Richard Gage, AIA, architect and founder of the non-profit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Inc. (AE911Truth), announced a decisive milestone February 19, 2010 at a press conference in San Francisco, CA. More than 1,000 architects and engineers worldwide now support the call for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center complex on September 11, 2001.

Credible scientific evidence brings into question the possibility that some aspects of the events of 9/11 involved State Crimes Against Democracy. Psychologically this is a very hard concept for Americans to even consider. However, ignoring the issue in the context of multiple proven SCADs since World War II seems far more dangerous for democracy than the consequences of future scientific inquiry and transparent, fact-based investigative reporting. Anything short of complete, open discourse based on all the evidence about these critical issues in our society relating to the possible continuation of SCADs is simply a matter of censorship.

Peter Phillips is professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, President of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored, former director of Project Censored, and coeditor of Censored 2010.

Mickey Huff is associate professor of history at Diablo Valley College, Director of Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation, and co-editor of Censored 2010.

Onlineredaktion – A nine-year-old Saudi girl who was kidnapped and raped by an unknown man in the Gulf Kingdom tearfully told police to catch the criminal and kill him. Her father, a police man, vowed that he would not rest before he catches the rapist.

Maha recounted to police how that man snatched her from a rest house late night, slapped her many times before bundling her in his car and took her to an apartment where he raped her. Her father nearly collapsed as he listened to his daughter telling police investigators about her ordeal.

“Kill him…kill him when you catch him,” the school girl told the police after recounting what she had been through and how she came back home.

Maha was with her family in a wedding at a rest house in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah when the outside door was knocked late night.

She went and opened the door to find a strange man who asked her to come with him and take a bag for the bride.

Scared by his looks, she refused and was about to rush back into the rest house when he grabbed her and dragged her to his car. He slapped her many times, bundled her in his car and sped away.

As he headed for an unknown area, Maha tried to scream but he slapped her again. After a while, he reached a two-level villa, pulled Maha out and told her to close her eyes and carry her shoes in her hand before pushing her up.

“Inside the flat, I tried to scream and he slapped me again and again…he then threatened to kill me and throw my body to the dogs,” Maha told the police as she glanced at her father, who was weeping.

“He kept me there until the next day…he then took me by his car and dumped me in a park….I started to cry until a man came to me and offered help…he looked a good man and I trusted him….I told him what happened to me and he immediately rented a limousine car and took me back home,” the girl said, according to the Saudi Arabic language daily Okaz.

The paper said Maha is one of several little Saudi girls believed to have been raped by who it described as “the human wolf.”

In a report this week, Okaz and other Saudi papers said police had launched a massive manhunt for the man believed to have raped several little girls after stalking them near shopping malls and wedding halls.

They quoted police as saying they had established that the same man was behind a series of rape crimes against girls aged between six and nine years in Jeddah over the past few months.

“I want to see this human wolf punished for what he had done to my daughter and other innocent girls…I will not rest before I catch him and hand him to justice,” Maha’s father said, quoted by Okaz.

The full text of resolution 1973 (2011) reads as follows:

“The Security Council,

“Recalling its resolution 1970 (2011) of 26 February 2011,

“Deploring the failure of the Libyan authorities to comply with resolution 1970 (2011),

“Expressing grave concern at the deteriorating situation, the escalation of violence, and the heavy civilian casualties,

“Reiterating the responsibility of the Libyan authorities to protect the Libyan population and reaffirming that parties to armed conflicts bear the primary responsibility to take all feasible steps to ensure the protection of civilians,

“Condemning the gross and systematic violation of human rights, including arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture and summary executions,

“Further condemning acts of violence and intimidation committed by the Libyan authorities against journalists, media professionals and associated personnel and urging these authorities to comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law as outlined in resolution 1738 (2006),

“Considering that the widespread and systematic attacks currently taking place in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya against the civilian population may amount to crimes against humanity,

“Recalling paragraph 26 of resolution 1970 (2011) in which the Council expressed its readiness to consider taking additional appropriate measures, as necessary, to facilitate and support the return of humanitarian agencies and make available humanitarian and related assistance in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,

“Expressing its determination to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian populated areas and the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian assistance and the safety of humanitarian personnel,

“Recalling the condemnation by the League of Arab States, the African Union and the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference of the serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law that have been and are being committed in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,

“Taking note of the final communiqué of the Organization of the Islamic Conference of 8 March 2011, and the communiqué of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union of 10 March 2011 which established an ad hoc High-Level Committee on Libya,

“Taking note also of the decision of the Council of the League of Arab States of 12 March 2011 to call for the imposition of a no-fly zone on Libyan military aviation, and to establish safe areas in places exposed to shelling as a precautionary measure that allows the protection of the Libyan people and foreign nationals residing in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,

“Taking note further of the Secretary-General’s call on 16 March 2011 for an immediate ceasefire,

“Recalling its decision to refer the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya since 15 February 2011 to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and stressing that those responsible for or complicit in attacks targeting the civilian population, including aerial and naval attacks, must be held to account,

“Reiterating its concern at the plight of refugees and foreign workers forced to flee the violence in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, welcoming the response of neighbouring States, in particular Tunisia and Egypt, to address the needs of those refugees and foreign workers, and calling on the international community to support those efforts,

“Deploring the continuing use of mercenaries by the Libyan authorities,

“Considering that the establishment of a ban on all flights in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya constitutes an important element for the protection of civilians as well as the safety of the delivery of humanitarian assistance and a decisive step for the cessation of hostilities in Libya,

“Expressing concern also for the safety of foreign nationals and their rights in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,

“Welcoming the appointment by the Secretary General of his Special Envoy to Libya, Mr. Abdul Ilah Mohamed Al-Khatib and supporting his efforts to find a sustainable and peaceful solution to the crisis in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,

“Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,

“Determining that the situation in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security,

“Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,

“1. Demands the immediate establishment of a ceasefire and a complete end to violence and all attacks against, and abuses of, civilians;

“2. Stresses the need to intensify efforts to find a solution to the crisis which responds to the legitimate demands of the Libyan people and notes the decisions of the Secretary-General to send his Special Envoy to Libya and of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union to send its ad hoc High-Level Committee to Libya with the aim of facilitating dialogue to lead to the political reforms necessary to find a peaceful and sustainable solution;

“3. Demands that the Libyan authorities comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, human rights and refugee law and take all measures to protect civilians and meet their basic needs, and to ensure the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian assistance;

“Protection of civilians

“4. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, and acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011), to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory, and requests the Member States concerned to inform the Secretary-General immediately of the measures they take pursuant to the authorization conferred by this paragraph which shall be immediately reported to the Security Council;

“5. Recognizes the important role of the League of Arab States in matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security in the region, and bearing in mind Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, requests the Member States of the League of Arab States to cooperate with other Member States in the implementation of paragraph 4;

“No-fly zone

“6. Decides to establish a ban on all flights in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in order to help protect civilians;

“7. Decides further that the ban imposed by paragraph 6 shall not apply to flights whose sole purpose is humanitarian, such as delivering or facilitating the delivery of assistance, including medical supplies, food, humanitarian workers and related assistance, or evacuating foreign nationals from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, nor shall it apply to flights authorised by paragraphs 4 or 8, nor other flights which are deemed necessary by States acting under the authorization conferred in paragraph 8 to be for the benefit of the Libyan people, and that these flights shall be coordinated with any mechanism established under paragraph 8;

“8. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to enforce compliance with the ban on flights imposed by paragraph 6 above, as necessary, and requests the States concerned in cooperation with the League of Arab States to coordinate closely with the Secretary General on the measures they are taking to implement this ban, including by establishing an appropriate mechanism for implementing the provisions of paragraphs 6 and 7 above,

“9. Calls upon all Member States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to provide assistance, including any necessary overflight approvals, for the purposes of implementing paragraphs 4, 6, 7 and 8 above;

“10. Requests the Member States concerned to coordinate closely with each other and the Secretary-General on the measures they are taking to implement paragraphs 4, 6, 7 and 8 above, including practical measures for the monitoring and approval of authorised humanitarian or evacuation flights;

“11. Decides that the Member States concerned shall inform the Secretary-General and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States immediately of measures taken in exercise of the authority conferred by paragraph 8 above, including to supply a concept of operations;

“12. Requests the Secretary-General to inform the Council immediately of any actions taken by the Member States concerned in exercise of the authority conferred by paragraph 8 above and to report to the Council within 7 days and every month thereafter on the implementation of this resolution, including information on any violations of the flight ban imposed by paragraph 6 above;

“Enforcement of the arms embargo

“13. Decides that paragraph 11 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall be replaced by the following paragraph : “Calls upon all Member States, in particular States of the region, acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, in order to ensure strict implementation of the arms embargo established by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011), to inspect in their territory, including seaports and airports, and on the high seas, vessels and aircraft bound to or from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, if the State concerned has information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo contains items the supply, sale, transfer or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 or 10 of resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, calls upon all flag States of such vessels and aircraft to cooperate with such inspections and authorises Member States to use all measures commensurate to the specific circumstances to carry out such inspections”;

“14. Requests Member States which are taking action under paragraph 13 above on the high seas to coordinate closely with each other and the Secretary-General and further requests the States concerned to inform the Secretary-General and the Committee established pursuant to paragraph 24 of resolution 1970 (2011) (“the Committee”) immediately of measures taken in the exercise of the authority conferred by paragraph 13 above;

“15. Requires any Member State whether acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, when it undertakes an inspection pursuant to paragraph 13 above, to submit promptly an initial written report to the Committee containing, in particular, explanation of the grounds for the inspection, the results of such inspection, and whether or not cooperation was provided, and, if prohibited items for transfer are found, further requires such Member States to submit to the Committee, at a later stage, a subsequent written report containing relevant details on the inspection, seizure, and disposal, and relevant details of the transfer, including a description of the items, their origin and intended destination, if this information is not in the initial report;

“16. Deplores the continuing flows of mercenaries into the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and calls upon all Member States to comply strictly with their obligations under paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011) to prevent the provision of armed mercenary personnel to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;

“Ban on flights

“17. Decides that all States shall deny permission to any aircraft registered in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or owned or operated by Libyan nationals or companies to take off from, land in or overfly their territory unless the particular flight has been approved in advance by the Committee, or in the case of an emergency landing;

“18. Decides that all States shall deny permission to any aircraft to take off from, land in or overfly their territory, if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the aircraft contains items the supply, sale, transfer, or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, except in the case of an emergency landing;

“Asset freeze

“19. Decides that the asset freeze imposed by paragraph 17, 19, 20 and 21 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall apply to all funds, other financial assets and economic resources which are on their territories, which are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Libyan authorities, as designated by the Committee, or by individuals or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or by entities owned or controlled by them, as designated by the Committee, and decides further that all States shall ensure that any funds, financial assets or economic resources are prevented from being made available by their nationals or by any individuals or entities within their territories, to or for the benefit of the Libyan authorities, as designated by the Committee, or individuals or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, or entities owned or controlled by them, as designated by the Committee, and directs the Committee to designate such Libyan authorities, individuals or entities within 30 days of the date of the adoption of this resolution and as appropriate thereafter;

“20. Affirms its determination to ensure that assets frozen pursuant to paragraph 17 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall, at a later stage, as soon as possible be made available to and for the benefit of the people of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;

“21. Decides that all States shall require their nationals, persons subject to their jurisdiction and firms incorporated in their territory or subject to their jurisdiction to exercise vigilance when doing business with entities incorporated in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or subject to its jurisdiction, and any individuals or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction, and entities owned or controlled by them, if the States have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that such business could contribute to violence and use of force against civilians;

“Designations

“22. Decides that the individuals listed in Annex I shall be subject to the travel restrictions imposed in paragraphs 15 and 16 of resolution 1970 (2011), and decides further that the individuals and entities listed in Annex II shall be subject to the asset freeze imposed in paragraphs 17, 19, 20 and 21 of resolution 1970 (2011);

“23. Decides that the measures specified in paragraphs 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 21 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall apply also to individuals and entities determined by the Council or the Committee to have violated the provisions of resolution 1970 (2011), particularly paragraphs 9 and 10 thereof, or to have assisted others in doing so;

“Panel of Experts

“24. Requests the Secretary-General to create for an initial period of one year, in consultation with the Committee, a group of up to eight experts (“Panel of Experts”), under the direction of the Committee to carry out the following tasks:

(a) Assist the Committee in carrying out its mandate as specified in paragraph 24 of resolution 1970 (2011) and this resolution;

(b) Gather, examine and analyse information from States, relevant United Nations bodies, regional organisations and other interested parties regarding the implementation of the measures decided in resolution 1970 (2011) and this resolution, in particular incidents of non-compliance;

(c) Make recommendations on actions the Council, or the Committee or State, may consider to improve implementation of the relevant measures;

(d) Provide to the Council an interim report on its work no later than 90 days after the Panel’s appointment, and a final report to the Council no later than 30 days prior to the termination of its mandate with its findings and recommendations;

“25. Urges all States, relevant United Nations bodies and other interested parties, to cooperate fully with the Committee and the Panel of Experts, in particular by supplying any information at their disposal on the implementation of the measures decided in resolution 1970 (2011) and this resolution, in particular incidents of non-compliance;

“26. Decides that the mandate of the Committee as set out in paragraph 24 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall also apply to the measures decided in this resolution;

“27. Decides that all States, including the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, shall take the necessary measures to ensure that no claim shall lie at the instance of the Libyan authorities, or of any person or body in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, or of any person claiming through or for the benefit of any such person or body, in connection with any contract or other transaction where its performance was affected by reason of the measures taken by the Security Council in resolution 1970 (2011), this resolution and related resolutions;

“28. Reaffirms its intention to keep the actions of the Libyan authorities under continuous review and underlines its readiness to review at any time the measures imposed by this resolution and resolution 1970 (2011), including by strengthening, suspending or lifting those measures, as appropriate, based on compliance by the Libyan authorities with this resolution and resolution 1970 (2011);

“29. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.”

Libya: United Nations Security Council proposed designations

Annex I: Travel Ban

QUREN SALIH QUREN AL QADHAFI
Libyan Ambassador to Chad. Has left Chad for Sabha. Involved directly in recruiting and coordinating mercenaries for the regime.

Colonel AMID HUSAIN AL KUNI
Governor of Ghat (South Libya). Directly involved in recruiting mercenaries.

Annex II: Asset Freeze

Dorda, Abu Zayd Umar
Position: Director, External Security Organisation

Jabir, Major General Abu Bakr Yunis
Position: Defence Minister
Title: Major General DOB: –/–/1952. POB: Jalo, Libya
Matuq, Matuq Mohamme
Position: Secretary for Utilities
DOB: –/–/1956. POB: Khoms

Qadhafi, Mohammed Muammar
Son of Muammar Qadhafi. Closeness of association with regime
DOB: –/–/1970. POB: Tripoli, Libya

Qadhafi, Saadi
Commander Special Forces. Son of Muammar Qadhafi. Closeness of association with regime. Command of military units involved in repression of demonstrations
DOB: 25/05/1973. POB: Tripoli, Libya

Qadhafi, Saif al‑Arab
Son of Muammar Qadhafi. Closeness of association with regime
DOB: –/–/1982. POB: Tripoli, Libya
Al‑Senussi, Colonel Abdullah
Position: Director Military Intelligence
Title: Colonel DOB: –/–/1949. POB: Sudan

Entities

Central Bank of Libya
Under control of Muammar Qadhafi and his family, and potential source of funding for his regime.

Libyan Investment Authority
Under control of Muammar Qadhafi and his family, and potential source of funding for his regime.

a.k.a: Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company (LAFICO) Address: 1 Fateh Tower Office, No 99 22nd Floor, Borgaida Street, Tripoli, Libya, 1103

Libyan Foreign Bank
Under control of Muammar Qadhafi and his family and a potential source of funding for his regime.

Libyan Africa Investment Portfolio

Under control of Muammar Qadhafi and his family, and potential source of funding for his regime.

Address: Jamahiriya Street, LAP Building, PO Box 91330, Tripoli, Libya

Libyan National Oil Corporation

Under control of Muammar Qadhafi and his family, and potential source of funding for his regime.

Address: Bashir Saadwi Street, Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya

Jay Solomon – A second suspected nuclear installation has been identified in Syria, according to commercial satellite photos, providing new evidence that Damascus may have been pursuing atomic weapons before a 2007 Israeli military strike.

The publishing Wednesday of the photos by Washington’s Institute for Science and International Security could increase pressure on the United Nations to demand expansive new inspections of suspect Syrian facilities during a March board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

IAEA inspectors visited eastern Syria in 2008 and reported that they recovered traces of processed uranium from a site called Dair Alzour, which the Bush administration alleged housed a nearly operational nuclear reactor. Israeli jets destroyed the facility nearly eight months before the IAEA’s visit.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government has rebuffed repeated IAEA requests to conduct additional inspections of the site as well as three other facilities the U.N. agency believes could be related to a covert Syrian nuclear program. Damascus’s rejection of IAEA inspections could result in Syria being declared noncompliant with its U.N. commitments and referred to the Security Council for formal censuring.

Mr. Assad denied in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last month that his government has pursued a nuclear program. He also said he wouldn’t allow the IAEA expansive powers to inspect his country.

The photos published by the ISIS think tank identifies what it says are one of the three additional sites the IAEA believes could be connected to the Dair Alzour facility. In a series of photos, ISIS displays what it alleges were apparent Syrian attempts to disguise the activities of site after the Israeli attack.
„Laying down a new foundation could be an attempt to defeat the environmental sampling the IAEA inspectors would like to carry out to see if uranium was present,“ the ISIS report reads.

ISIS says the location and contours of the building suggests it housed uranium-conversion equipment that is used to produce nuclear fuel. The facility, in a town called Marj as Sultan, is on the outskirts of Syria’s capital, Damascus.

ISIS said it located the site using commercial satellite images based on information provided by sour-ces at the IAEA as well as by a report in the German newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano has said in recent months that he’d consider calling for a so-called special inspection of Syrian sites if Damascus continues to deny U.N. staff entry. Syria could then be referred to the Security Council, if it again refused the IAEA’s request.

Diplomats at the IAEA said Mr. Amano is also considering releasing a report at the March meeting that would detail what the agency says is evidence that Syria was secretly developing a nuclear reactor. Such a move is viewed as less of a political risk than a call for a special inspection, but still could result in Security Council action at a later date.

onlineredaktion – Die britischen Behörden haben ein Schiff mit für Libyen bestimmten Geldern im Wert von umgerechnet 151 Millionen Franken /(£100) abgefangen. Das Boot sei am Mittwoch vom Grenzschutz in den englischen Hafen Harwich eskortiert und durchsucht worden.

Dabei sei eine grosse Menge Geld in libyscher Währung gefunden worden, teilte das Innenministerium am Freitag in London mit. Mehrere Kisten voller Banknoten seien «an einen sicheren Ort» gebracht worden. Das Schiff sei in Begleitung der Küstenwache freiwillig in den Hafen von Harwich zurückgekehrt, nachdem es zuvor die libysche Hauptstadt Tripolis angesteuert habe. Zur genauen Herkunft des Geldes wurden keine Angaben gemacht.

Britischen Medien zufolge war das Schiff mit dem Millionenbetrag den britischen Behörden aufgefallen, nachdem es am Wochenende vergeblich versucht habe, den Hafen von Tripolis anzulaufen. Es habe dann Kurs Richtung Grossbritannien genommen. Gemäss den von der UNO verhängten Sanktionen ist die Ausfuhr von libyschem Geld aus Grossbritannien verboten.