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    Pol: Accused Ft. Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan's e-mails to radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki were clues

     

    WASHINGTON - The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.

    Federal investigators say they intercepted the messages between the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric.

    They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss intelligence procedures.

    Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain Saturday says he has no doubt that "political correctness" played a role in preventing concerns about the alleged Fort Hood gunman from reaching the right people.

    The Arizona senator says it remains to be determined how big a role it may have had in causing military authorities to ignore warning signals about the shooting suspect.

    Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Friday after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other e-mails involving Hasan were handled and why the U.S. military was not made aware of them before the Nov. 5 shooting.

    Levin said his committee is focused on determining whether the Defense Department's representative on the terrorism task force acted appropriately and effectively. Levin also said he considers Hasan's shooting spree, which killed 13 and wounded more than 30, an act of terrorism.

    "There are some who are reluctant to call it terrorism but there is significant evidence that it is. I'm not at all uneasy saying it sure looks like that," he said. He said his committee will also look into whether military members have the ability to report suspicious behavior evinced by colleagues.

    The Washington Post, citing two anonymous sources, reported Saturday that in the months leading up to the attacks Hasan stepped up his contacts with al-Awlaki to discuss transferring money.

    One of the sources told the Post the two men considered how to transfer funds abroad without coming to the attention of law enforcers.

    FBI and military officials have provided differing versions of why Hasan's critical e-mails to al-Awlaki and others did not reach Army investigators before the shooting.

    FBI officials have said a military investigator on the task force saw the e-mails and looked up Hasan's record, but finding nothing particularly worrisome, the investigator neither sought nor got permission to pass the e-mails on to other military officials.

    But the senior defense official has countered that the rules of the task force prevented that military representative from passing the records on without approval from other members of the task force.

    The Pentagon may reconsider rules governing participation in extremist organizations that some lawmakers say appear outdated and too narrow in light of the shooting rampage at the Army base in Texas.

    The Pentagon wrote regulations on "dissident and protest activities" in response to soldier participation in skinhead and other racially motivated hate groups. The current rules were written in 1996 and last updated in 2003.

    The rules prohibit membership or participation in "organizations that espouse supremacist causes," seek to discriminate based on race, religion or other factors or advocate force or violence.

    Commanders can investigate and can discipline or fire people who "actively participate in such groups." The rules also cover the distribution and possession of "printed materials," and gatherings held outside military posts.

    The language appears to loosely cover some of the activity law enforcement sources have ascribed to Hasan.

    But it is geared toward racially motivated groups and toward preventing public espousal of hateful ideology, such as attendance at a rally or the recruitment of new members.

    The language also applies most directly to materials and communication in the pre-Internet age.

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    Queens man says he didn't kill wife, son - his split personality did: cops

    A Queens dad with a split personality was busted Saturday for slitting the throats of his wife and 14-year-old son - and then blaming the horrific crime on his alter ego, cops said.

    "Otto does not do these things, but Robert does," Otto Herrarte, 48, a cleaner at the Helmsley Hotel in Manhattan, told investigators, a source said.

    "Otto did not do it. Robert did it."

    The twisted confession came hours after cops found the bodies of Herrarte's wife, Edna, 55, and son Daniel, stuffed in a closet inside their Corona home.

    Investigators believe Herrarte slaughtered his family members Friday night.

    When the maniacal male housekeeper's other son, David, 15, returned home that night and asked about the whereabouts of his mom and brother, Herrarte concocted an elaborate lie.

    "He said they had been in a car accident and wouldn't be coming home," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. "The son was unaware the bodies were in the apartment," wrapped in black plastic bags.

    The next morning, Herrarte called a female co-worker he was dating and asked her to join him as he brought David to the home of a sister-in-law, sources said.

    Once inside the home, Herrarte delivered an ominous message to his boy.

    "This is going to be your new mother," Herrarte said, according to relatives.

    After Herrarte and his mistress returned to the apartment, she learned what he did and dialed 911, cops said.

    Herrarte, who was charged with two counts of murder, quickly confessed to the crime, cops said.

    He told detectives "he killed his wife and son by slashing their throats, and then hid their bodies in the closet overnight," Browne said.

    Edna Herrarte's loved ones said her husband ruled the home with an iron fist.

    "My sister-in-law was like a slave, physically and mentally," Jose Pur, 64, said. "Whatever he wants to do, she didn't say nothing."

    Pur said Otto Herrarte became especially abusive after he started dating his paramour.

    "He used to be [a] nice, nice guy, but he changed since starting to go out with this woman," Pur said. "For me, it's horrible ... [Edna] was a wonderful woman. She loved the kids, and she wanted the best for them."

    The gruesome slaying left Otto Herrarte's co-workers at the Helmsley stunned.

    "He's a good worker," cleaner Maria Urqui, 54, said. "He never talked about his marriage, but he always said his wife is a very sick lady. My hair is standing on end."

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    Michael Jackson's glove sells for shocking $350G at auction

    Updated: Saturday, November 21st 2009, 7:57 PM
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    The sparkly white glove Michael Jackson wore for his first moonwalk was the star of a rock auction Saturday, fetching an astounding $350,000.

    The winning bidder counted himself lucky to be taking home the prize.

    "It was a bargain - we were expecting to pay more," said Hoffman Ma, a Hong Kong hotel executive. "We're going to put it on display in our hotel. It will be free for everyone."

    Ma traveled to New York just for the auction but some of his staff bid on other items online - to round out their new King of Pop collection, set for display at his Ponte 16 hotel in Macau.

    Jackson had given the glove to Walter Orange of the Commodores after his 1983 moonwalk at Motown's 25th anniversary special.

    Other Jackson keepsakes included a fang tooth mold used in the "Thriller" video - which fetched $16,000 - and a black fedora the music icon wore to the 1995 MTV music awards - for which a Swiss collector paid $60,000.

    "I came because I wanted to be close to him, now that he's not here," said Anita Bailey, 43, of Jamaica, Queens.

    "I'm really interested in his outfit for 'Bad.' I want to get just a little piece of Michael to hold on to."

    One upper East Side resident, who declined to give his name, came dressed as the late King of Pop for the occasion - complete with his own replica of MJ's iconic white glove.

    "I don't have thousands and thousands of dollars. But it's as close as I'll ever get to [the glove]," he said.

    "The glove was the main thing ... his career exploded after that."

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    Denied Russian S-300 missiles, Iran cannot protect nuclear sites

    Iran launches its huge Modafean-e (Defenders) Aseman-e-Velayat air defense exercise Sunday, Nov. 22, to protect its nuclear sites, after failing to persuade Russia to deliver the linchpin of its air defenses, S-300 missiles. For two weeks, high-ranking Iranian politicians and generals bombarded Moscow to make good on its contract to supply the key weapon, to no avail. Saturday, Nov. 21, Iran's air force commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Mighani spoke at length about the highly sophisticated S-300, without which, DEBKAfile's military sources say, Iran has no real defense against US and Israeli aerial or missile strikes against its nuclear installations.

    Iran will hold its war games in the western and southern regions, which Iran estimates will be selected by the Americans and Israelis for attack, and cover an area of 600,000 sq. km. Iranian warplanes will simulate enemy jets zooming in to strike.

    Our sources report that, aside from the Russian-made Tor-M 1 short-range interceptor, Iran's air defense systems are outdated and pretty useless against US stealth bombers or the Israeli air force's electronic jamming instruments. Syria likewise lacked the weapons for stopping Israel attack its North-Korean-made nuclear reactor two years ago. The Iranian air force has nowhere near the capacity to take on US or Israeli air might.

    Lacking the crucial S-300, a senior Revolutionary Guards officer was reduced to threatening: "If Israel attacks Iran, Iranian missiles will explode in the heart of Tel Aviv!"

    Iranian strategists are trying to make do with four devices:

    1. As many nuclear installations as possible are being moved to secret subterranean sites - among them most of the research laboratories working on the development of nuclear weapons and missiles.

    2. Bogus installations have been planted not far from genuine plants to mislead assailants.

    3. Tehran's most powerful defense is the deterrent strength of its ballistic missiles and the missiles distributed to its Middle East allies, Syria, the Lebanese Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas. Therefore, Iran's first response to attack will not be to attack Israeli population centers as the Revolutionary Guards officer threatened, but to strike the home bases of its air force, missile and radar as well as the Israel-based US military facilities, so that Israeli warplanes will have no facilities to come back to and its missiles are knocked off their launch pads.

    4. Iran's means its air defense war game as a rejoinder for the joint US-Israel Juniper Cobra 10 anti-ballistic exercise which took place for two weeks earlier this month. Iran's leaders had to make good on their vow not to leave any American or Israeli military step in the region unanswered, although the anti-air exercise will expose the big hole in their defenses. Even if every last anti-air measure and device they possess is deployed, Iran's nuclear facilities will still be susceptible to attack, be they the uranium enrichment center at Natanz, the Isfahan fuel plants in Isfahan, the facilities in northern Tehran, or the reactors going up in Arak opposite the Straits of Hormuz.

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    Slain for his subway seat: Stranger stabs D train straphanger to death after seat scuffle

    Originally Published:Saturday, November 21st 2009, 10:46 AM
    Updated: Saturday, November 21st 2009, 6:37 PM

    A man was pronounced dead at the station after he was stabbed several times while riding the uptown D train.
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    A man was pronounced dead at the station after he was stabbed several times while riding the uptown D train.
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    If you were on this train or witnessed the incident and would like to share your story, please call the Daily News at: 212-210-6397.

    A bugged-out exterminator went berserk on the D-train early Saturday, fatally plunging a knife into a fellow straphanger's neck after they argued over a subway seat.

    Cops rushed to the train and nabbed the alleged killer thanks to a quick-thinking train conductor, who locked the doors and kept him inside the blood-spattered car.

    "He stabs him right in the neck, possibly the jugular," a police source told the Daily News.

    "Blood everywhere, complete mayhem."

    Bronx resident Jerry Sanchez, 37, got on the northbound train at Rockefeller Center about 2 a.m.

    He confronted the victim, who has not yet been identified, demanding he move a bag from the seat where the attacker wanted to sit.

    The 36-year-old victim refused, and Sanchez pulled out a knife and stabbed him several times in the neck and face, cops said.

    Terrified passengers rushed to the other side of the car, which arrived moments later at 53rd St. One of the passengers notified the crew via intercom.

    The motorman contacted workers at the rail control center who called cops.

    A police source said Sanchez tossed the knife on the tracks before cops boarded the train, while a transit official said it wasn't clear what happened to the weapon.

    Cops found the mad bugman sitting down. He shrugged.

    "'What? I didn't do nothing,'" he told cops. "Like nothing happened, like he's just another passenger." MTA officials praised the train crew.

    "They did a really good job not letting him out of the car," a spokesman said.

    The victim died on the train, where pools of blood were left along the length of the car.

    Co-workers at Terminate Control, the Manhattan exterminator service where Sanchez works, said the boss sent him home on Friday morning for showing up late.

    "But he took it in stride," one co-worker said. "Jerry's not someone to hold a grudge."

    The suspect's brother, Louis Sanchez, told the News that Jerry hurt himself on the job last week when he fell two floors after a floor buckled under him.

    "He was in pain because he fell," the brother said. "He was talking about headaches and backaches, and he was taking some kind of medication."

    Friends and neighbors said Sanchez had been acting strangely since his accident. They said he'd been abusing painkillers.

    Ferdar Ozel, 47, manager of My Place Family Pizza near Sanchez's home in Bedford Park, said the accused killer is a regular customer and does exterminating work for the pizza shop.

    "I don't know what's wrong with him, but he's been acting strange for the last two weeks," Ozel said.

    Sanchez was held at the Midtown North precinct yesterday awaiting charges.

    Cops said Sanchez was arrested in 2004 for selling drugs.

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    Soceite Generale - Get Ready For Global Collapse

    Soceite Generale - Get Ready
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    11-18-9

     
     
    Explosion of debt: Japan's public debt could reach as much as 270pc of GDP in the next two years. A bullet train is pictured speeding past Mount Fuji in Fuji city, west of Tokyo Photo: Reuters
     
     
    In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.
     
    Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of "deleveraging", for years.
     
    "As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse," said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast.
     
    Under the French bank's "Bear Case" scenario, the dollar would slide further and global equities would retest the March lows. Property prices would tumble again. Oil would fall back to $50 in 2010.
     
    Governments have already shot their fiscal bolts. Even without fresh spending, public debt would explode within two years to 105pc of GDP in the UK, 125pc in the US and the eurozone, and 270pc in Japan. Worldwide state debt would reach $45 trillion, up two-and-a-half times in a decade.
     
    (UK figures look low because debt started from a low base. Mr Ferman said the UK would converge with Europe at 130pc of GDP by 2015 under the bear case).
     
    The underlying debt burden is greater than it was after the Second World War, when nominal levels looked similar. Ageing populations will make it harder to erode debt through growth. "High public debt looks entirely unsustainable in the long run. We have almost reached a point of no return for government debt," it said.
     
    Inflating debt away might be seen by some governments as a lesser of evils.
     
    If so, gold would go "up, and up, and up" as the only safe haven from fiat paper money. Private debt is also crippling. Even if the US savings rate stabilises at 7pc, and all of it is used to pay down debt, it will still take nine years for households to reduce debt/income ratios to the safe levels of the 1980s.
     
    The bank said the current crisis displays "compelling similarities" with Japan during its Lost Decade (or two), with a big difference: Japan was able to stay afloat by exporting into a robust global economy and by letting the yen fall. It is not possible for half the world to pursue this strategy at the same time.
     
    SocGen advises bears to sell the dollar and to "short" cyclical equities such as technology, auto, and travel to avoid being caught in the "inherent deflationary spiral". Emerging markets would not be spared. Paradoxically, they are more leveraged to the US growth than Wall Street itself. Farm commodities would hold up well, led by sugar.
     
    Mr Fermon said junk bonds would lose 31pc of their value in 2010 alone. However, sovereign bonds would "generate turbo-charged returns" mimicking the secular slide in yields seen in Japan as the slump ground on. At one point Japan's 10-year yield dropped to 0.40pc. The Fed would hold down yields by purchasing more bonds. The European Central Bank would do less, for political reasons.
     
    SocGen's case for buying sovereign bonds is controversial. A number of funds doubt whether the Japan scenario will be repeated, not least because Tokyo itself may be on the cusp of a debt compound crisis.
     
    Mr Fermon said his report had electrified clients on both sides of the Atlantic. "Everybody wants to know what the impact will be. A lot of hedge funds and bankers are worried," he said.
     
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6599281/Societe-
    Generale-tells-clients-how-to-prepare-for-global-collapse.html
     
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    Soceite Generale - Get Ready For Global Collapse

    Soceite Generale - Get Ready
    For Global Collapse

    11-18-9

     
     
    Explosion of debt: Japan's public debt could reach as much as 270pc of GDP in the next two years. A bullet train is pictured speeding past Mount Fuji in Fuji city, west of Tokyo Photo: Reuters
     
     
    In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.
     
    Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of "deleveraging", for years.
     
    "As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse," said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast.
     
    Under the French bank's "Bear Case" scenario, the dollar would slide further and global equities would retest the March lows. Property prices would tumble again. Oil would fall back to $50 in 2010.
     
    Governments have already shot their fiscal bolts. Even without fresh spending, public debt would explode within two years to 105pc of GDP in the UK, 125pc in the US and the eurozone, and 270pc in Japan. Worldwide state debt would reach $45 trillion, up two-and-a-half times in a decade.
     
    (UK figures look low because debt started from a low base. Mr Ferman said the UK would converge with Europe at 130pc of GDP by 2015 under the bear case).
     
    The underlying debt burden is greater than it was after the Second World War, when nominal levels looked similar. Ageing populations will make it harder to erode debt through growth. "High public debt looks entirely unsustainable in the long run. We have almost reached a point of no return for government debt," it said.
     
    Inflating debt away might be seen by some governments as a lesser of evils.
     
    If so, gold would go "up, and up, and up" as the only safe haven from fiat paper money. Private debt is also crippling. Even if the US savings rate stabilises at 7pc, and all of it is used to pay down debt, it will still take nine years for households to reduce debt/income ratios to the safe levels of the 1980s.
     
    The bank said the current crisis displays "compelling similarities" with Japan during its Lost Decade (or two), with a big difference: Japan was able to stay afloat by exporting into a robust global economy and by letting the yen fall. It is not possible for half the world to pursue this strategy at the same time.
     
    SocGen advises bears to sell the dollar and to "short" cyclical equities such as technology, auto, and travel to avoid being caught in the "inherent deflationary spiral". Emerging markets would not be spared. Paradoxically, they are more leveraged to the US growth than Wall Street itself. Farm commodities would hold up well, led by sugar.
     
    Mr Fermon said junk bonds would lose 31pc of their value in 2010 alone. However, sovereign bonds would "generate turbo-charged returns" mimicking the secular slide in yields seen in Japan as the slump ground on. At one point Japan's 10-year yield dropped to 0.40pc. The Fed would hold down yields by purchasing more bonds. The European Central Bank would do less, for political reasons.
     
    SocGen's case for buying sovereign bonds is controversial. A number of funds doubt whether the Japan scenario will be repeated, not least because Tokyo itself may be on the cusp of a debt compound crisis.
     
    Mr Fermon said his report had electrified clients on both sides of the Atlantic. "Everybody wants to know what the impact will be. A lot of hedge funds and bankers are worried," he said.
     
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6599281/Societe-
    Generale-tells-clients-how-to-prepare-for-global-collapse.html
     
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